Kanon Ball Interview...
Posted by Ceglarski 11:19 EST, Friday November 26
The KanonZone has posted the first part of an interview conducted with John Holmes, Biz director from Primal Clarity Productions. Josh goes into a lot of detail surrounding the issues they faced in the development of KanonBall. This interview will be of notable interest to those developing games and mods with the HalfLife engine as he makes many pros and cons about its use. Here's a snip:

"Unlike a lot of the Half-Life Mods I have seen (not all) KanonBall incorporates almost completely new textures, skybox artwork, models, animations and sounds, but more significantly it really is a completely new kind of game. It is not Deathmatch in any incarnation. There are no guns, no killing and this really is unique to the first person genre. Creating it has presented more challenges than I think a DM mod would because the lessons learnt are almost always unique"

RS "R" debug key...
Posted by Ceglarski 11:12 EST, Friday November 26
Here's some interesting about pressing "R" during debug mode from the RS Retreat:

Thanks to Ron Grapevine for pointing out this undocumented debug key in RS that is very interesting. If you hit "R" on your keyboard during debug mode, it will bring up a heads-up display (HUD) that gives quite a lot of information about your character's position and properties relative to the environment around you - likely very helpful if you are doing weapon mods. To try it out, follow the following steps:

The following must be done in the action phase of Rogue Spear:
1) Hit the Enter key to bring up the text box at the bottom of the screen
2) In the text box, type in the word debugkeys, then press Enter
3) Hit F10 to switch from Normal mode to Debug mode
4) Hit "R" on your keyboard to bring up the HUD that will be at the center of your screen
5) Hit F10 again to switch Debug mode back to Normal mode to continue playing with the HUD

Team Fortress 2 Interviews...
Posted by Ceglarski 11:07 EST, Friday November 26
TF2 Center has posted three new interviews that they conducted with Robin Walker, Gabe Newell and John Cook. Here's a snip from the Robin Walker interview:

Q: How realistic will the damage system be? (ie: hit locations, one-shot-kills, etc.).
A: Valve is not going all out on the realism factor -- they will make the game realistic only if it adds to the gameplay. For example, if you shoot a guy in the leg, he might limp away, but the player himself isn't actually affected, because it isn't much fun to move at a crawl, to bleed to death, or to get killed by one lucky shot to the head.

OpFor Review...
Posted by Ceglarski 11:03 EST, Friday November 26
TF2 Center has reviewed the recently released Half-Life expansion pack, Opposing Force. Check it out HERE.

Roller Coaster Tycoon review...
Posted by Ceglarski 15:31 EST, Thursday November 25
Sniper's Alley has reviewed Roller Coaster Tycoon. Here's a little snip:

"This game seems to me to be a lot like Theme Park only better! Not only can
you place the roller coaster wherever you want to but you can build it step
by step in your own unique design. You can have loops, s-bends, boosters,
rises, dips, photo points then end it in a steep slope and make it fly
backwards if you want."

GameSpy 2.18 released!...
Posted by Ceglarski 11:47 EST, Thursday November 25
Version 2,18 of GameSpy has been released with new support added for Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear! The current download is only available registered users but the shareware version will be available for downloaded in a few days time. Registered users can download 2.18 HERE

Gallaleo's RS Stats 2.5 released!...
Posted by Ceglarski 11:27 EST, Thursday November 25
Gallaleo has released version 2.5 of his Rogue Spear statistics program. For more information about this program check out the RS Stats website. Download the latest version from HERE.

TAOW: Nihon enhancement pack...
Posted by Ceglarski 11:25 EST, Thursday November 25
Mother.May.I has put up some information about an ehancement pack that is planned to ve released sometime, late next week. Here's the scoop:

Team TAOW is hard at work on the first Enhancement Pack for Nihon. At this point, we are shooting for release by end of next week, although that is by no means set in stone. This Enhancement Pack is going to be indicative of all future Enhancement Packs in that it isn't a mandatory download -- people that don't download it will still be able to play with those that do.
Nihon: Enhancement Pack #1 will consist of several minor but desired changes such as bloody weapons slashes, interface enhancements, additional sounds, etc.

Update Packs are going to be the patches that significantly change many parts of Nihon such as the inclusion of maps, new classes, new weapons, etc. and will absolutely be required downloading by everyone. Look for such a pack in the not too distant future.

OpFor walkthroughs...
Posted by Ceglarski 11:18 EST, Thursday November 25
I.AM/Half-Life has posted a walkthrough for the newly released Half-Life expansion pack, Opposing Force. Check it out HERE.

GameProWorld have also done a complete wlakthrough of the expansion pack. Check theirs out HERE.

News Source: Planet Half-Life

Gooseman Interview...
Posted by Ceglarski 11:12 EST, Thursday November 25
3D Action Counter-Strike has interviewed Gooseman from the popular Half-Life Counter-Strike MOD. Here's a snip:

Q: So, beta4 has been out now, quite a wile, are you
satisfied with the result of it?

A: Yeah, I'm quite happy with the results. I think it's been better
received than BETA3 was. I'm working to fix the major complaints.
The money issue and the accuracy of the rifles.