Not a whole lot of stuff available for this week outside of our hosted sites so I'd betterget started...Title Fight Tragedy
Well our lead story today (as if we're actually important to HAVE a lead story) is in regards to the first round of the Gamespy "Ultimate Gaming Grudge" finals AKA the Mushroom Kingdom. If things had gone to plan, by now we should have either won or lost against Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time but apparently it wasn't meant to be. Not just one but BOTH sides were apparently cheating in this round as well as one of the other quarter finals (Halo vs Halflife) so Gamespy had no real option other than to restart both contents again under a more secure system of only allowing votes to people logged in using their unique Gamespy ID's. So in short get back out there and vote AGAIN people! Last time I looked, D2 was only leading the race by 600ish votes so everything is still to play for. May the best fictious character(s) win
Resident Rodent
Charsi's Forge once again completes its incubation and this time it's mouse's Escape from the Afterlife mod that graduates up to a Keep hosted site. You can check out his new forum by clicking here and his new and improved site here.
Alpha Beta
Now that's not some lame fraternity joke, it's actually a reference to the Dragon's Uprising mod finally completing it's alpha testing stage and the first beta is out! You can trace the updates of the mod in reiyo_oki's release announcements thread.
Descending Into Darkness
Kingpin and company have updated the Dark Alliance website to tease the mod community even more about the much anticipated unreleased mod. For details of updates, Kingpin has posted an update thread in our member announcements forum. One particularly interesting looking feature is the new "monster class" system
Beyond Infinity
In the interest of getting as much unreleased material out to the modding public as possible, we've started supersizing our updates with around 15 new and updated monster animations for use in D2.
Here's this week's round of material:
- BG2 Otyugh (New GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart
- BG2 Leopard (GIFs & Token Replacement) by Phrozen Heart & Pagan Rainfall
- BG2 Mindflayer (New GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart
- BG2 Umberhulk (New GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart
- BG2 Vampire - Female (New GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart
- BG2 Vampire - Male (New GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart
- BG2 Volo (New GIFs, DCCs & Token Replacement) by Phrozen Heart
- IWD2 Blue Myconid (New GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart
- IWD2 Mummy (New GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart
- IWD2 Neo-Orog Marauder (New GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart
- IWD2 Umberhulk (New GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart
- PS:T Evil Wizard Construct (GIFs & DCCs) by Phrozen Heart & Vegabond_635
- PS:T Fhjull Forked-Tongue (GIFs) by Phrozen Heart
- PS:T Gehreleth (GIFs) by Phrozen Heart
- PS:T Larval Worm (GIFs) by Phrozen Heart
Element-ary Viewing
After it's recent beta releases, Char's d2:elements mod website has been updated with some spanking new screenshots for your viewing pleasure. Check out the site by clicking here
Not Keen On D.I.Y.?
Here we go with another update of the combination modding tool D2ModderX by Phalzyr. You can grab yourself a copy of v1.15 from the appropriate file center page.
Share And Share Alike
Our resident IRC guy Kardon has kindly setup a file-sharing bot on our primary IRC channel which can be accessed by entering the channel and typing "'files" but without the quotes. If there's any files you want added to the server, please contact Kardon directly. You can find our channel information as well as the web-based clients on our IRC page.
Told ya there wasn't too much stuff this week