Greetings!
Carlton Stevens, from the site Rabbit-Robot.com, has written a great article on PVKII. Using in-depth story telling techniques and incorporating an interview with me, Carlton has put together an amazing feature on our mod, detailing his first impressions and experiences.
I unsheathed my cutlass and the two of us circled on the top of a giant waterfall. Slipping in and out, parrying, blocking, both our swords flew back and forth. Below us all three teams clashed in a rain of sparks and gunfire. But this little dance was just between me and this huge lumbering gaggle of armor. I parried perfectly, stunning him, and with a strong swipe he fell in a heap off the top of the waterfall and into the shallow water below.
I picked up the chest while laughing maniacally. I just had a sword fight that could have been straight out of a movie. And I won.
And then I was hit in the back of the head with a throwing axe.
Altogether the article is a great read and definitely worth checking out.
Beta 2.2 is well underway and very close to release! We're expecting to release within the next week or two.
To give you an idea of what to expect, Jahhur has been hard at work editting pvk_arena and pvk_saints to fit the flow of gameplay better. Arena has a very new look:
There are plenty of new features as well, including some new grail effects for the HUD:
Those of you who haven't been following the Dev Journals may also enjoy reading about the new Parrot Naming Feature.
A changelog will be available soon enough, we don't want to spoil everything!
On another note, the new Gestir class is underway for 2.3. You may have seen a picture in one of the forum threads of the first person spear! If not, you should join the community at Forums.pvkii.com
Ferretking has recently joined the team as a concept artist. He's already working on the new classes and has provided us with two colored poses:
That's all for now, I look forward to our next news post which should include download links!
Neat
Bring back the spear viking! Please....
The worst in PVKII is people jumping like idiots and attacking. I hope something be done about this :< , because the mod is great
I love this mod, can't wait for the next release.
Still one of my favorite mods although i haven't played much recently.
I'll get another pvkII addiction soon though :)
Keep up the great work team!
looking good, as always ;)
Looks like were gonna have to fire up our LAN cannons for this update.
Excellent update guys, looking forward to seeing the new maps and characters in game... how is the faceposer character morphs going? Am going to produce a full tutorial from beginning to end of the long and complicated process soon, should help out a lot of people wanting to get custom characters working well with the phonemes and would work well for vicious taunts and heckles. ;)
i read the parrot thing on your forum
and this made me laugh
"red rocket - soon to be dinah"
nice touch
also is sharpshooter guy a pirate?
also the spear guy looks like more of a knight to me from that concept art
Yeah, he looks like an English soldier, not a Viking.
That's the Man-At-Arm. According to the forum, the spear viking model is already done (not skinned yet) and in-game with one of the weapon working.
Eh keep the scope off that musket. That is, if you we're going to make one with it.
what?
cool. now this is original.