Show me the money!
Finally I have a chance to bring you up to date on all the happenings. First off, I knocked the two interviewers dead with my cool responses. Maybe it helped they were female, no matter. I found out yesterday I successfully passed the interview and have been promoted to management. “About damn time!” Hell, I kept saying I was going to go look for a new job, but after 6 years it becomes very difficult to go out looking something new. This will not effect the work on The 6th Floor or Urban Terror.
Thanks to the coding team for completely the third build of Urban Terror Beta 2. A few of us got together last night and “tested” the build. Okay it was all fun….we really didn’t do much in terms of debugging. But the latest update and build has Urban Terror looking and feeling outstanding. Of course there are a few things to get comfortable with, not to mention rebinding all my damn keys since things have changed. Even had it up on the The SniperCAM while we were playing around.
Speaking of testing, thanks to BattleCow for giving me the guided tour of his latest creation for Urban Terror, Uptown. The map is a large city block layout, reminiscent of Action Quake 2. The design is large enough to offer a few different game play modes, such as search and destroy and capture and hold, along with the standard modes of play. BattleCow has really spent a good deal of time developing this level. I really to think the gamers will take to it, like they did Urban by Gerbil! but Uptown has much better play-ability.
Also with blessings of Silicon Ice Development, there are six new screen shots of the Athena model posted in the Urban Terror Forums. These pictures show off some of the amazing detail which the models have, including viable weapons, and attachable items, depending on what the player has selected, such as a helmet, kevlar vest or night vision goggles.
