December 1st, 1998New MonthYay... Christmas is coming soon! It's already December, sheesh. Too bad this CGI thing I made isn't totally done :} Oh well, you didn't want to look at that old news anyway, did you? ;) Clan ListTimberWolf has put together a Clan List with all the latest and greatest Digital Paint Paintball II Clans. Check it out here. November 29th, 1998Siege ModeI am currently working on a Siege Mode map. Look tomorrow for a screenshot of this new map. Siege mode is an exciting new mode of play that Calrathan is working on for Beta5. The mode basically entails one team playing defense on a highly defensible base. And the other larger team storming the base and trying to get to the flag. More news to come about this exciting addition to Digital Paint once we figure out all of the specifics. Paintball Massacre Results!The first Paintball Massacre tournament was held this weekend. The team submitted by BOS emerged victorious over GD. The date for the next tournament has not yet been set. Head on over to the Massacre page for a full account of the tournament. More new 3rd party maps!The Paintball Massacre Tournament has inspired a few map makers to create Deathmatch maps. Goldbond has completed Conquest which you can download here. Fryth has also completed his map "Fryth's Frag Fest" which you can download here. Thankyou to Fembot from Clan Smurf for offering 3rd party maps on his server. Great job Goldbond and Fryth, we look forward to seeing your next creations. November 28th, 1998Brainstorm Final CompileBrainstorm should be off on its final compile tonight (hopefully), and will be included in beta5 for sure. I might also get Splatterhouse and Dark Forrest done for beta5 as well. New Spyder SE ModelYay! I finally got it done! Check out the POTD on Nov 29th to see a pic of it. I think it looks pretty darn good ;) I don't know how many of the other models I will be able to finish for Beta5, but the Spyder SE will be there! November 26th, 1998New ServerThis evening I placed a new server online, Digital Paint #4. #3 and #4 are both running off of my machine, but I have reduced the client limit to 8 and it is a 400 mhz running on an oc3 so I expect it will be able to handle it. Digital Paint #3 will be running standard DP maps. Digital Paint #4 will be runnning 3rd party maps only. Also this evening I noticed a new server running called TPO Digital Paintball 1. All of the new servers have been added to the qplug page here and to the Servers.txt that you can use as a servers list on Gamspy, here. Enjoy. Beta 5 UpdateAs you can see from the POTD, the new HUD is finished and working beautifully. This is one of many new features to be implemented in Beta 5 as well as fixes of previous errors (that is why we have the public Beta test). Grenade code has been restructured and the Paint grenade bug has been squashed. The new grenades also create no lag or ping spikes. Work on Splatterhouse is progressing and it seems like Jitspoe has figured out how to port it to Quake2. Crossfire is in the testing stage right now and will also be included. Brainstorm is very near completion and it also should be included. And ofcourse we will keep a few secrets for suspense =). Jitspoe has also been working hard on his new Spyder SE model and it looks great. Check for a screenshot of it within the next few days. So for all you who wonder when Beta 5 will be ready, we still have no firm date set, but atleast you know that we ARE making progress. In the meantime enjoy Beta 4 and keep up the good work map makers. Happy Thanksgiving!Happy Thanksgiving to the Digital Paint community. Enjoy your day and spend it with family! November 24th, 1998New Maps!Woah! It looks like the Digital Paint 3rd party map makers have been working over time. Today I have 3 more new maps to tell you about. First is Arctic made by Fryth, you can download it here. Next is PaintWorld by a newbie to the DP map making scene Own3d. You can download paintworld here. And finally Zimbu has released his map Warzone. You can download Warzone here. All of these new maps will be added to the files section once Smokeya or I have a chance. Great work on the maps guys and keep it up!