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Fighting for a Xbox

HaHaHa look at them fight for a Xbox + guitar hero at some wierdprice.
this was at 5:00 A.M at a wallmart.even the guy holding the cam/phone cant stop laughing.

More Left for Dead Playermade Campaigns

looks like more and more people are creating drafts for left 4 dead campaigns.

On L4dmods.com are a few listed.

To start off there is  the map salmar theatre witch is created by Ajax:

This map was being built for Zombie Panic as an objective map. It is based on a section of street near my home. It was meant to be played in 15min rounds. I’m currently giving it an overhaul for L4D. Most of the models and textures in the screens are from ZPS, so they have been removed and are being replaced with L4D content. Lighting is still WIP..well, everyhting is really…it’s my first map with Hammer. The story/objectives are set up like this (I may tweak them if they don’t work with L4D):

Since the SDK hasnt been fully released but there are hacks out there that allow for play the final of the map might take some time before it comes out  but that are just my 2 cents.
Ajax  also created a small story for the map to get you in the “mood”

You have just finished a weekend zombie movie marathon at the old Salmar Classic theater. As you exit the theater on Sunday afternoon, you find the movie surround sound had drowned out the infection outbreak in the streets outside. You must first find a radio to call for help (I used a logic case to spawn it in a random location). From the radio, you are instructed to get to the roof of the apartment across the street for evac. The apartments are on back-up power with only emergency/natural lighting. The door to the roof is electronically locked and must be over-ridden…you are sent to the security sever in the basement. Damn thing needs a keycard before you can get access (another case logic randomly spawns the card in one of the apartments). Once you have the card, the server must reboot…wait 2 minutes for a randomly generated 3 digit code (more logic fun here) to be displayed on the screen (figured this would keep you from knowing what to use to open the door every round). Get up to the roof and punch the code in to open the door. I was thinking on having the helicopter only wait for a couple minutes…if you are not there in time…well, then you are “left 4 dead”.

As you can see from the text there is going to be some scripted events in there that should make it intresting but sadly also static. here are some images to complete the view of the map.
for More info about the map click Here.

And there is the second one by Yama  he has produced some shots and a rough storyline on what happands in the campaign.

1 – tourist centre. The players start at the bottom of the mountain, and move up into a tourist centre, which will have a museum, cafes, shops etc, which leads into a hiking trail. There’ll be a few cabins along the way, otherwise the 2nd half is mostly just woodland, before a road leading to…

2 – the temple complex. Not much to say other than there’ll be temples. Survivors just follow the paths, with a few shops or other enterable buildings along the way. When they get to the main shine (the huge temple in the screenshots), I want a crescendo event but can’t think of anything yet. After that, they go into the woods and find a tunnel leading to a cablecar station, and take the cable car up the mountain, but it breaks down near a maintenance station, which doubles as a saferoom.

3 – The power has cut out, so someone needs to go down the lift and through the dark tunnels to get to the generator room, while the other 3 stay and defend against a hoard of zombies (if I put the saferoom after this, then that can be map #2’s crescendo event). I’m also not sure if this would work if bots are on your team (they seem to teleport over to you if you get too far away), and the lone-player might get swarmed, so I might have to have all 4 go down the lift.

Anyway, once the power’s back on, they carry on up to the top ropeway station, and after more woodland, they come to a small mining village (also in the screens) which has been derelict for a few decades. Humans have to go through a school, and then into a few mine buildings/shacks. I might include another crescendo event here where the survivors go into the mine itself, and alert the zombies by calling the lift back to the surface.

4 – Once out of the mine, the survivors follow a road to a decaying spa/hotel. This is more closed-quarters, with narrow corridors, bars, hotel rooms, baths etc, but some bigger areas like halls and dining areas.

5 – I’m not sure yet what the finale will be. It’ll either be the roof of the hotel, where the survivors finally get above the trees and have to hold off until they’re rescued, or a construction site that was abandoned years ago and has the empty foundations of another hotel. I’ll decided which one I go with when the map is closer to being finished.

So that’s the plan I’ve got so far, and I have parts of all the maps done, but I need the SDK to get the maps playing properly ingame before I can put everything together and see how the map plays.

seems that Yama his campaign is going to be quite intresting  it seems to have a asian theme witch becomes clear when looking at the screenshots. eventough most of these screens are in early development it looks promising. for more info about the campaign click here.

l4dmods.com is the owner of these images that is why the watermark is in there.

Goldfarmers Evil ? Part deux

ok as you can probably see in a post a couple of days ago i was wondering if goldfarmers are evil or not ?

today i’ve come to the conclusion that its not the actual goldfarmer that bothers us its mainly the gold seller who pisses everybody off royaly with his selling spam just to get higher in his google search. If he is making that much money to justify spammage why doesnt he just buy advertising space.

when you look at the problem there is only 1 problem. Most of the MMO company’s out there don’t give out gold for money. if a MMO company would do something allong the lines of CCP’s Eve online then the goldseller could be out of a job fast. what CCP does is they allow players to sell time codes for ISK(ingame currency) that way you can “buy” your isk with real money by just offering a gametimecard for sale.

the Hiigaran War sees the end.

At 00:04 eve time (GMT) the war with the Royal Hiigaran Navy comes to a end.
this war has been one of the sadder wars i’ve been  a part off.

the score of the Royal Hiigaran Navy is pitifull at best…. no actualy it’s just bad.
they got beaten by a bunch of newplayers. I wouldnt say the advertising for a merc corperation.

one of the things that i noticed is that they dont post their losses on their killboard.
i remeber from old wars that usualy only griefers did this to hide how much they actualy stink.
I’ve never seen a merc corp doing it to me it seems like deception of potential clients.

but to cut a long story short here is the score guys.

	Start date:	2008-11-12	End date:	Active
	Kills:	28	Losses:	24
	Damage done (ISK):	728.86M	Damage received (ISK):	87.91M
	Runtime:	15 days	Efficiency:	89.24%

28 Ships killed (728.86M ISK) 24 Ships lost (87.91M ISK)

28 Ships killed (728.86M ISK) 24 Ships lost (87.91M ISK)

Yeah we won…. to bad they didnt realy show up or post their losses.

Goldfarmers,Evil or just Proffesional Gamers ?

goldfarmers the scourge of gaming or are they just poor people that are trying to get the best out of their possiblity’s in life? watch the video and you decide.

Are goldfarmers hurting MMO economy’s ? in some games the evidence is clear eve for example gets hurt by goldfarmers. but what about games like World of Warcraft and other games where there isn’t a player run economy and where astroids dont run out  but a new mob just respawns.

i personaly dont see the goldfarmer hurting that much there since he is just providing a service for the people who dont have the time to grind out items. If people wouldnt have a RL and only no social life computer nerds would play mmo’s then the goldfarmer would not get his sales to justify his work. but since the reality is that there are always people willing to spend real currency for virtual goods the market will be there for the gold farmers.

The downside is that in eve-online and other player run economy games the goldfarmer/seller can have a massive effect on the game. the goldfarmer can cause massive inflation by just grinding out the ISK like there is no tommorrow. Miners are without a doubt the most shafted by macroers or goldfarmers/sellers since they are going for a resource that is depletable and the amount on the market is often in direct correlation with the prices of the minerals.

Personaly i dont mind the goldseller/farmer since he is just playing the game aswell it just sucks that those characters play 24/7 if they didnt im sure we wouldnt even notice them.

War with castle grayskull, ending.

the war with castle grayskull (sabre a’s corp) is ending.

Sabre is getting busy with his shiva character so he canceled the dec.
like he said before and he just did again his war wasnt personal but he announced it when he left the uni.
only thing is we where like “yeah right sabre go ATM Baby”

now only the Royal Hiigaran Navy war with those mercs.
They are quite lame they dont show up for battles and they dont post their losses…. typical look at me im a merc corp without any status and im deccing a school to get on the map …. then they get their asses kicked in by newbies.

New left for dead Campaign

Dead before Dawn

l4dmods.com just announced that they are making the first new  campaign/scenario in left 4 dead for the PC. They are Remaking the Crossroads Mall map into a full campaign.

the scenario/campaign is about the movie Dawn of the dead. and it will include the shopping mall from the movie. the campaign is going to feature 4 maps.

• The City
• Crossroads Mall
• Consumer World
• The Escape

They already made a campaign poster and are working hard at it by the looks of it.

Their also looking for some scripters Here.

They are running a contest to fill the rest of the mall with stores
you can design your own stores. if your submission is good enough your store gets added to left for dead so if your good with the valve hammer editor you can get your own store designed. Click here for the contest rules.

they are well underway…. only 1 show stopper. Valve hasnt released the SDK (software development kit) for left 4 dead yet.

Getting Email working.

Its been another nice Ride already to get this thing fully operational.
permalinks arent working propperly yet. email doesnt do anything yet. eventough there are enough help threads on permalinks but on getting mail working with wordpress there is little to no info available.

Hope to find some help on the subject soon so i can get that part of the site fully operational.

Edit : yeah just got some help setting it up what it turned out to be is that my sendmail was fighting with postfix eventough i uninstalled sendmail there where still enough parts of the software in there to screw with the postfix enough not to send out mails at all. now it does so its only the permalinks and them im ready to go

Its about damn time.

Hey guys, it was about time i found the time to get my site up and running. still no idea what do blog about tough.

yeah its a difficult choice what  to write about. I’m not going to write about me since i want some readers not my family and friends only. i also don’t want to be one of the bunch of blogs about X Y Z. so getting a topic
is a difficult choice…. especialy since its the biggest  choice that i can make on this site at the moment.

but for now i better be happy with just my blog and ill continue setting it up so i can get some readers going.

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