Newbiesplayground

on 25th of june, it'll be already 2 years since OldSparky passed away. we still keep him in mind and pay our tribute to him and his passion to the game Unreal. to honor him, we'd like to invite everyone to join open playing (this is not a contest, just some "meet & greet + fun") of OldSparky's favorite gamemode. this year we offer 3 servers (DM/Team-DM/KOTH) to welcome you at Newbiesplayground on 25th of june (there's no starting time, would be nice to see activity during the whole day):

- SICKPUPPYS DOGHOUSE K.O.T.H. (Gamemode: Pure King Of The Hill)
- OLDSPARKY's MEMORIAL DM INF (Gamemode: DeathMatch / Infiltration Weapons)
- ENHANCED TEAM-DeathMatch (Gamemode: Team-DM)

would be nice, if you'd stop by and join for a few matches!
WOOF!

I should have day off, so I hope I can get there for sure and play with you guys

Woof woof

June 25, count with me.
Great Memorial!!

Regards

counting on you! WOOF!

I will for sure be putting in an appearance for this on the 25th. It was a blast last time!
Great day to host it on as well, a Saturday, which gives me (and presumably others) a much better chance of being able to play that day! So no excuses, enjoy the camaraderie and the good feelings it brought last year fellow fraggers!

Old people smell funny...

OldSparky-(DOG)-

WooF wOOf !

yeah! it'll be great fun! great to see you participating!
WOOF! WOOF!

I sure wish I could be there.

I plan on being there and hope to bring a couple of friends with me if they are available. Last year's event was a lot of fun.

Beemo wrote:I sure wish I could be there.

yeah! - i'll frag some for you too

.:vVv:.Darkwolf wrote:I plan on being there and hope to bring a couple of friends with me if they are available. Last year's event was a lot of fun.

would be great to see you and your friends then!
WOOF!

Is anyone capable of streaming to Twitch or similar ?
Tribute events more than any are worth promoting and also nice to record.

It crosses my mind that it would be kinda cool to invite J, and perhaps take occasional breaks and go for guided tours around some of his maps.
Many of his clan maps have meeting places, and interactive things to do or sub-quests (which many may never notice).

Strategy, did you ever test my updated version of Dogtown on-line ?
I am curious to know if it is too much for an on-line map.

recording and promoting of the event would be cool indeed!

it would be nice to invite map-authors and learn about their maps, but i would not like to mingle up events. on sparky's memorial day players shall come together and actually play. i know sparky was always interested in examing maps, discovering secrets and all places where items/weapons can be found. yet he was very excited whenever he saw the server crowded with enthusiastic players enjoying some awesome sessions by use of sparky's favorite map-rotation
so, of course we can do events with map-authors to promote their maps, but on different occasions in my opinion. i have never been in touch with j nor other dm-map-authors outisde newbies - if you got contact-information, feel free to plan/organize such events! the server will be available.

yes, at least the last one you sent me - and i thought it to be great fun! - since it has been some time, i'm not sure if i got that information correct but i think you mentioned your map requires clients to use 227j...?

Beemo wrote:I sure wish I could be there.

Find a way Beemo.

Yes most of my edits are 227 only or in UT require the new audio renderers.
I prefer to add high quality stereo music as OGG, rather than low quality WAVs, and I use the new EFX settings so sounds are more natural.

Smirftsch has changed the way audio EFX is used, so in the new renderers it is separate and will fail nicely if you don't have support.
I need to redo all my edits with this newer method.

The music can be swapped think I gave you a second version with WAV music), and the EFX zoneinfo actor removed. Then it should work in 226.
However, most of the windows would no longer fit the holes properly when viewed in 226 or UT
227 lets you scale decos with X-Y-Z, but 226 and UT have only basic scaling of a whole object. This makes fitting a whole town or city with windows into a nightmare.

This edit of another one of J's maps has hundreds of windows and destroyable decos added, and once you have wasted a row of windows with a machine gun, it is hard to get the grin off your face.
It also helps to hear incoming near-misses.

cool
ah, that's good! i thought you included 227j content, but if 227i clients can join the server when the map is on, it is ok with me. by this time most players should have patched to 227i and i don't see a need to keep the servers compatible to 226 clients or even 225!

Today was a hoot. It has been a long time since I have had this much fun online. Thank you everyone. I am sure that Old Sparky would be proud of you.