Drafted by Henper / Edited by Juxta and izzy
Table of contents:- Happy Second Birthday, Build and Shoot
- LINESPQR Signature Competition Winner
- LINESPQR Challenges YOU
- aloha.pk Halloween BuildCon Event
- TIE! German Spades Event
- New Maps
- Important Bug Fixes For Servers
- VoxelWar Interview
Happy Second Birthday, Build and Shoot
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Build and Shoot, happy birthday to you! (and many more, on channel four...)
Build and Shoot officially turned a big two years old on November 5. Happy birthday everyone!
LINESPQR Signature Competition Winner
After a long voting process, the winner of the signature competition is: MushieWarden [1, 2, 3]
...winning him a prize worth £20.00 (GBP) for Steam games.
Good job to all participants!
http://buildandshoot.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=11964
LINESPQR Challenges YOU
LINESPQR is hosting open challenges to any team/clan that wishes to compete against them. Sign up at the link below to show them who's boss!
http://buildandshoot.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=12120
aloha.pk Halloween BuildCon Event
aloha.pk hosted a spooOOooky build-only competition for Halloween and the votes are in! Henper's group won first place, FerrariFlunker took second, and crumpet got third. There were many interesting creations - thanks to all who participated!
Henper's group's creations:
FerrariFlunker's creations:
crumpet's creations:
More photos and information available at http://aloha.pk/index.php?topic=5892.0
TIE! German Spades Event
It's a tie! Even though it was their night, the Zombies couldn't defeat the Humans during The German Spades' Halloween event.
http://buildandshoot.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=12198
New Maps
Holiday Resort
Coco, ZeroXy, IAmYourFriend, and others made this island map using the build game mode at http://hosting.buildandshoot.com. It was designed for the Arena game mode and offers a nice balance of structural cover and open-air combat areas, which encourages hide-and-seek-like gameplay.
http://buildandshoot.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12184
Castle War
Capt_G33k3's first map! The castle and pillboxes serve as the main points of defense and offense. The team that holds the castle has an offensive advantage. Recommended for babel or CTF.
http://buildandshoot.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12138
Important Bug Fixes For Servers
izzy officialized some important bug fixes for all pyspades/PySnip servers to prevent abuse by malicious players. For more information and how-to install instructions, please click here.
http://buildandshoot.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12167
VoxelWar Interview
Jdrew's interview with LeCom:
Spoiler:
VoxelWar is a new AoS-inspired voxel FPS being developed by LeCom. It's based on the Voxlap engine and relies on PySnip as the server software. The game supports .kv6 and .vxl files for mods and maps, so it's compatible with existing modding software that's commonly used for AoS. Although it's not as polished as OpenSpades or even the current Voxlap versions, it does have some interesting changes and improvements, such as:
-Fully different weapon behaviour and balanced weapons
-Smooth gun models
-Voxlap tilting also known as "Drunken camera", and different scoping
-A maximum of 64 players (can be increased later)
-Mortars
-Binoculars for mortars
-Stationary HMGs
-Airstrikes aren't improvised grenades dropping from the sky any more. Now there are actual bombers dropping bombs!
video by frocs - a bit outdated, the latest version of the game has sound