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So finally the beta is here, last week i refreshed my xbox live gold account and bought this “commandos 3″ remake (which is not bad, tough i prefer shock troopers on mame and voila i got into the closed beta.

The Beta just have 2 Fighters Ryu and Ken and i am really disappointed that i cant play with more characters. But well the graphics are superb, crisp backgrounds, detailed characters and a nice remixed soundtrack by the creator of the “Blood on the Asphalt” OcRemix Album make you feel home right from the beginning. The only drawback: the xbox controller sucks big time >_>. Maybe all this years of mugen spoiled me but honestly i prefer a keyboard for beat’em’ups.

The remix mode seems to be well balanced so far and it still feels true to the original.

The online mode kicks ass, its fluid, mostly lag free and you always find an opponent. Sadly this is all i can say so far since its pretty limited with 1 stage, 2 nearly identical chars (tough the remixed versions of em differs more then back on my snes). So more soon (i hope)

Download “Blood on the Asphalt”

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In the next days we update Sieghardt and Bartz to the state of our testserver. So whats new ?

Hellbound Island:
Climatic - If you are visiting the Island during day you get damage every few ticks, this damn desert sun :). Its possible to obtain a item preventing your skin for 1 hour from the sun.
Trust System - Every monster you kill gives you trust points every native you kills takes them away from you. Some npcs require a certain trust level befor they even speak with you!
Native Transformation - Since the mobs on hellbound look through silent move you cant wander around unnoticed until.. you exchange darion´s badges for a full native dress. If you equip it you gain a new transformation skill which disguises you as a native. This way you can wander around the Island without any Monster harming you.
The Monsters on Hellbound Island are the strongest ingame so dont go there alone!

Isle of Prayer / Chromatic Highlands:
Now a solo level area the mobs are not so hard like on Hellbound, still if they team up they can easily pull big parties down. All mobs drops different coloured “seeds of evil” which you can exchange for s80 armor recipes and keymats at the Blacksmith of Power. Till we finished Crystal Caverns you can find him on the floating mansion (Parnassus). The Black and White Seeds you can obtain from Raidbosses which we add in the next days (the fact that you need around 20k yellow ones for a full set should keep you busy in the meantime)

Castles:
Chamberlain got a major rework so besides ClanHall like Teleport and Support Magic functions you also can rent hp recovery and alot more Also the Castle Magicians got added which give you all kind of usefull items for Knight´s Epaulette which normaly drops from Siege Guards (Castle and Fortresses) we are not sure how we make em avaible just be sure you can obtain em soon.

Pet Managers:
New Improved Baby Pets and proper evolve. Also the Fenrir Wolf is new and he is the only wolf you can mount (besides the Snow Fenrir and Snow Great Wolf which you can obtain soon in a castle or clanhall).
They also sell the new armors now and some new pet skills work
Thats all for today i make some more indepth posts of the upcoming update in the next days…

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What a great event, vitals scripting skills are really impressive and the players aswell as me enjoyed every bit off it
Nuff said here some screenshots

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It started as a nice wedding ceremony with a pretty funny priest followed by a rat hunt in the four sepulchurs which lead to Frintezza and the boss of this event: Scarlet van Halisha.

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Hi all the ragezone client is now also avaible as torrent, please help us seed it

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4210608

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Hi all, i guess you checked our svn and are in a state of shock, what happened ? Let me explain what we try to accomplish. Till now we had a GameServer trunk which we worked on and often left in a nonfunctional state sometimes by accident, sometimes cause rewrites takes more then 1 commit.

Now there is a new package called “l2jfree-core” which is basically a copy of the last gameserver version and you can use it like the old gameserver, but we wont support this anymore. From now on we mark stable versions of the core by versioning (first is 1.0.1, ct2 gonna be 2.0.x, ct3 3.0.x and so on) and just use maven to distribute it with the L2_GamerServer which is just a classloader/starter now.

If you check out the L2_GameServer_CT1.5 it just contains the gameserver.java and the dependency to l2jfree-core. So on “mvn assembly:assembly” it will download the latest core we marked as stable and all other libraries you need to run it. That is the recommended way for stable versions and the only version we support and accept bug reports! If you wanna check the latest developments and you know what you are doing you can use the core directly or just use “mvn install” in the core svn directory to install the latest version in your local maven repository (%User%/.m2). This gives us the freedom to make bigger rewrites/changes to the core itself without breaking it for you, the users. I also switch the Datapack soon to maven so by checking out the latest gameserver you get a stable core and datapack :).

For the devs:
If you have a customized version of l2jfree switch the gameserver to the core before checking out! In Eclipse (Team/Switch Branch/Taget -> svn://l2jfree.com/repo/l2j-free/trunk/l2jfree-core ). You can also overwrite core files in the gameserver itself or extend em which should give you alot more freedom modding it. You can use “mvn install” to install a dev version of the core to your local repository.

Feel free to contact me for further information.

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Removed clan quest items from Louie, quests are working fine there is no reason to sell em any longer.
Removed portal stones/floating stones from caska. If you wanna raid do the quest :).
Updated the “wall of argos” spawnlist.
For Sieges clan lvl 6 is minimum now to make the sieges a bit more challenging, furthermore only registered clans and there ally are able to attack on siege ground during a siege.

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shortnews: i got a new logo for my l2 server

big thx dom/shao

http://shaodom.deviantart.com/

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Soooo. a new throne is coming and rumours are spreading it contains a new continent. Well this is not true, at least not for “the first part” of appereantly 3 in which this new chronicle gets delivered.

So after a first glance no new continent and no server changes at all needed to connect. Just removing GameGuard which is just a pain anyways and youre ready to go. Since i just wanted to check for packet changes i didnt paid much attention to armors / weapons but the dat files are bit larger so i guess we get some new ones (more in the next days).

Few screenshots of already known locations with all graphic options enabled.

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Hi all, this is the second try of a l2 dev related blog

So what am i working on… besides the l2jfree core i make a nifty webtool for my gms to edit mobs/drops and skills. Developed in Python/Zope i made a working proto-type quite fast (ask fyyre :).

Few screens of v0.1 =)

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