Darth_Linux
04-01-2003, 11:38 PM
Hi everyone
I must say first that Rich pulled quite a good joke on all of us. I didn't even get to see the page when it was up due to a long day at school and work, but judging by the number of threads and responses, it got a lot of peoples attention.
I'm really grateful for this because this means there are so many of you anxiously waiting for this MOD to get finished!
So, I felt obliged to let everyone know where we are with things and to reassure everyone that we are on track.
Obviously, as has been mentioned in other threads, things are moving slowly due to myself and half the team being involved in school and other real life duties. BUT, we are making steady progress. The new textures continue to come in at the rate of about 15 per week. We are busy skinning and making the effects for the new weapons, player models are all still in progress, maps are stalled, but I have 2 new mappers that may be joining the team very soon, and finally the code work is about to begin again.
We have a large number of assets finished, and it's mostly up to the mappers now to start giving us a place to put all those assets into game play before we can really start to make it all look "put together."
All in all, things are really "playable" yet, but we have a ton of resources finished, and once we get some maps completed and some codework done we'll probably be able put together an alpha test by mid-summer.
Honestly at this point I'm pretty sure the release version of the MOD won't be done until Christmas 2003 - quite a bit later than what I wanted - but that's just the way things go in this type of endeavor. Luckily I have a great team of guys and gals that are really dedicated and donate all their time for free, so I can't complain.
Anyway, thanks for the continued interest and support. Rich pulled a terrific publicity stunt today and surely garnered us lots of attention - there's no such thing as bad press - and perhaps we can attract some more people to the team from all of this.
thanks again to all of you!~~
Darth Linux
I must say first that Rich pulled quite a good joke on all of us. I didn't even get to see the page when it was up due to a long day at school and work, but judging by the number of threads and responses, it got a lot of peoples attention.
I'm really grateful for this because this means there are so many of you anxiously waiting for this MOD to get finished!
So, I felt obliged to let everyone know where we are with things and to reassure everyone that we are on track.
Obviously, as has been mentioned in other threads, things are moving slowly due to myself and half the team being involved in school and other real life duties. BUT, we are making steady progress. The new textures continue to come in at the rate of about 15 per week. We are busy skinning and making the effects for the new weapons, player models are all still in progress, maps are stalled, but I have 2 new mappers that may be joining the team very soon, and finally the code work is about to begin again.
We have a large number of assets finished, and it's mostly up to the mappers now to start giving us a place to put all those assets into game play before we can really start to make it all look "put together."
All in all, things are really "playable" yet, but we have a ton of resources finished, and once we get some maps completed and some codework done we'll probably be able put together an alpha test by mid-summer.
Honestly at this point I'm pretty sure the release version of the MOD won't be done until Christmas 2003 - quite a bit later than what I wanted - but that's just the way things go in this type of endeavor. Luckily I have a great team of guys and gals that are really dedicated and donate all their time for free, so I can't complain.
Anyway, thanks for the continued interest and support. Rich pulled a terrific publicity stunt today and surely garnered us lots of attention - there's no such thing as bad press - and perhaps we can attract some more people to the team from all of this.
thanks again to all of you!~~
Darth Linux