Thanks to FaultCheck for this issue's cover photo. Be sure to submit your artwork for next issue's cover photo below
Build and Shoot Badges
Congratulations to FaultCheck for winning the BnS badges competition. Big thanks to those who submitted entries and everyone who voted.
Here are samples of FaultCheck's winning style:
Build and Shoot Launcher
To be fully introduced and released in the near future, the Build and Shoot launcher is a new and exciting utility that will allow you to have multiple versions of Ace of Spades Classic installed on your computer. Click here to see more previews.
Aloha BuildCon 2013
The turnout for BuildCon 2013 was great! Many familiar and fresh faces showed up to express their creativity through in-game building. Thanks to Thelionmaster for planning the event, aloha.pk staff for keeping it playable, and all who participated. Here's the final result after about 10 hours:
Click here to view more images of the map. Video overview from Seal:
Download the map:
http://aloha.pk/files/aos/maps/buildcon2013.vxl
http://aloha.pk/files/aos/maps/buildcon2013.txt
Blood Shot
Blood Shot is a script written by BR, which shows blood splatter on the map when players get shot. Click here to view in-game screen shots. Try it out on a live server here: [url=aos://1379434439:37887]aos://1379434439:37887[/url].
Push Map Competition
There is a map-making competition underway for the Push game mode! Make sure you submit your maps by the 17th of March. We setup a server with all the submissions so far up and running at [aos]aos://2686459584:32887[/aos]
At the time of this writing we have had two submissions, one from Gibbs3333 and one from STRIKE081:
Central Towers by STRIKE081: Hardcore Ruins by Gibbs3333:
Fun Facts
- The Iceball Project is our most discussed topic on the site and recently surpassed 1,000 posts.
- We gained 1,000 more members since the last newsletter. Now have over 13,000 members!
- The 0.75 vs. 1.0 player count gap is narrowing and 0.75 has surpassed 1.0 on occasion:
Thanks again to everyone that helped write this. And don't forget to submit your cover art for the fourth newletter below