The official Liero Community G3A Magazine | Nex7+ | Report | Wurmz Diaries ISSUE #3 - 2006 Come to the capital of Europe! LIERO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The success continues GUSANOS WEAPON TUTORIAL, PART 2 Plus comics, Olympics and the perfect machine Most recent ComSer Column ComSer Polls What is ComSer? JasonB stops LieroX develop- ComSer means “Community Ser- ment, will you stop playing vice” and refers to the Liero Com- LieroX now? munty. The full name is therefor No ......................................................220 “The Liero Community Service”. Yes .......................................................91 I dont play anyhow ..............................60 What does it do? Dunno ..................................................52 ComSer’s main function is to ap- Total votes: 423 pear as a sidebar or box in a web- site in which it displays the ComSer Liero should be an Olympic newsfeed. The newsfeed comes event? from the ComSer Forum, and Yes, in summer olympics ..................135 the news are posted by admins. Yes, in winter olympics ........................74 Therefor the webmasters that use No, not at all ........................................68 ComSer on their sites do not need Total votes: 277 to update news on their own. Its all centralized. Plus, it is completely CPU skinnable to fit any website. Intel ......................................................76 AMD .....................................................76 Other ...................................................16 Total votes: 168 ComSer is one of the pillars on which the Liero Community rests. Since its Best way to take a castle birth in 2001 it has worked to become A huge rabbit .......................................47 the main newsfeed in the community, Bombardment .....................................43 and currently, no other site offers Dynamite .............................................31 anything alike it. A huge horse .......................................17 Ladders ...............................................13 The ComSer team is therefor proud to Diplomacy .............................................5 present the POWER MAGAZINE Total votes: 156 which is just one of many products from ComSer. We hope it will extend Have you ever played Molez? the width and reach of ComSer and No ......................................................179 bring deeper understanding of the Yes .......................................................96 complexities of Liero. Total votes: 275 Regards The ComSer crew 2 Power Magazine Table of contents Chief Editor: .......Wei-Zhi-Hui ComSer pages .................... 2 Mail: ................. [email protected] Editors note ........................ 3 Date of issue: ....Mar. 1, 2006 G3A - the new game ........... 4 Powered by: ............ComSer Gusanos report - workers ... 6 HYPERMEET BRUSSELS! ... 8 Nex7+ history ................... 12 Gusanos tutorial ............... 14 Novel ................................18 The perfect machine ......... 22 Fun and joy page! ............. 23 a word from the editor! Once more, Power comes to you This is the third ever issue of POWER The Liero World Championships in MAGAZINE. Once more it grows in Brussels which will hopefully take page number. This is only because of place during the latter half of 2006. increased demand and access to more We expect guests from all of Europe, material. In this issue we have several plus Australia. I will arrange this event contributors. Durandal, old overseer of myself and i really hope as many as the community returns to us with a rear possible will take the time and make view into the Liero like clone, Nex7+. the effort in order to get there. Setrodox once more provides a tutorial This is a once in a lifetime event, so for beginners, continuing the success dont miss it. from the previous POWER MAGAZINE. There is once more a novel. This time Guth and WSh have contributed with a real classic: Wurmz Diaries - Episode an article regarding their own Gusanos 1 by Rumbler. Its the novel that started modding adventure. They attempt to the whole novel writing culture in rebuild Gusanos into Quake III Arena. Liero. Read more on the next page! I also wrote a little thing about a As for myself, I didn’t do any interviews perfect Liero computer, and added this time. Instead of focused on some- some extra fun to the fun page. thing which i think is very important right now. The biggest Liero event ever. We also sport 2 extra ads this issue. 3 WSh (left) and Guth (right) Some words about Gusanos 3 Arena By Guth movement in the world with strafejumping Since I started modding Liero and clones and other Q3 tricks. (Wurmz! and Gusanos now) I always wanted to do a Quake 3 Arena mod. The next feature is the ammo system Now, when Gusanos .9 is released, with (based on “UT mod” ammo system by the help of WSh I tried one more time to TTFTCUTS) modified by WSh so it that make my dream real and started to make looks and works like Quake 3. There are a Quake 3 mod for Gusanos. few differences between Q3 and G3 now. For example, you must pick up a weapon to The mod is intended to be a high playability refill your ammo. mod which will be the ultimate copy of Quake 3 platform in 2D possible, and by Objects on maps now it is closer than ever to be like so. work like the Either the quakeish mod is going to be one objects in Q3 and of the main platforms for Gusanos engine. there are medals Now all is going very well and it is quite for special kills too possible to the mod will reach the intentions (for example when of its authors. you’ve pummeled the enemy you get a What is done... and what is not? Humiliation!! pummeling medal). By now the G3 engine is fully developed! The most important thing - The Q3 physics The timer is in place are very well mapped. It is very similar to to take care of timed objects, the maps the original and includes such things as favour fast movements as well as classic Q3 rocket jumps, plasma climbings and the best tricks. The main things are finished. Now, 4 the only need is to make some good maps. The mod is based on the Gusanos “dark mode” with textures and sounds extracted from Q3. The engine by itself is rather useless. Maps are very important. They are like a soul for the body - without it you can’t live and the same is with the mod which needs the maps to complete the experience. There must be very balanced maps and it takes a lot of Guth attacks a bot with the railgun on a time to make such (eg. where playability is beta testing map. equal to ztn’n maps or “q3dm6/pro-t4” for Q3). This is the hardest and the nicest part of the process because there is a lot of fun involved. Awesome play, tests etc. The deadline Why are there no betas? The G3 mod is more like its own game, rather than a Gusanos mod. The first release is intended to be some kind of base for another mods for G3 (like Challenge ProMode arena, Defrag and Rocket Arena) and maps (to enhance project). As mentioned before, the project is now in mapmaking stage and the The rocket launcher! A yellow jump-pad is official release is unspecified until G3 is visible to the left. Also a teleporter on right. quite near 100% completed. Who? This project is carried out by two compan- ions instead of just one: (alike Gusanos). WSh is the main coder of Gusanos engine, graphics maker and LUA scripter. Guth is the mapmaker. Jerrec as an extra unobjective betatester. Modders: .............................. WSh, Guth Real name: .......... Łukasz ‘WSh’ Pietrzak Real name: .. Mateusz ‘Guth’ Jastrzebski , All the Quake III Arena weapons are here. Location: ................... Trzcianka, Poland 5 Gusanos report - who does what? To get an overview over who does what in Gusanos right now, Uthar made a little inquiry among the people present in the Liero chat channel on IRC (Quakenet). At the moment there is no real overview regarding who does what and it is often a coincidence that you find out that someone makes something you are interested in. Many people make mods, some make improvements on the game itself. Some do both. List by: Uthar Basara: Might start porting Alpha Ghost mod from Added ping list in game score table. LieroX. deguix: Ragzouken: Hosting a dedicated server. Made Garrisons map. Working on syncing Liero missile. Working on sequel to Section19A map Will make a Liero HUD for Gusanos. (both normal and UT assault). Dflies: setrodox: Made ctf_meh map. Working on LFDS - Liero File Distribution Working on select mod button. System. Will start a dedicated server. Hosting and updating file depot. Gliptic: Uthar: Improved server listing. Updating Map list. Made minor bugfixes. Made a couple weapons for default mod. Fixed for chargeup weapons. Contacting old contributors of LieroX Working on fixing persistence table. trying to make them move to Gusanos. Working on Mod/Map versioning. Trying to come up with cool map object Working on updater. ideas. Trying to fix fmodex. Making this list, data collected from the chat (if you want in, join it). Jonny: Remaking COG mod for .9. TTFTCUTS: Finished some new weapons for the UT Mauganra99: mod. Updated Lightsaber Arena mod to 1.3. Working on static player controlled turrets, Working on next version of Lightsaber which will eventually become vehicles. Arena with a lot of HUD changes. Weapon pickups and maps are planned for Might start a Aliens versus Predator mod. the future. 6 Advertisement The awesomest Liero party ever! Words by: Wei-Zhi-Hui European Union. Either way, the offers The time has come. For many years, in aviation are greater for Brussels that people have dreamed ever so slightly other more geographically central cities. about playing some good old Liero In addition, it is well connected with Paris, against eachother, across the community. which in turn is a direct link to Britain via Now it is time to realise this dream. the Eurotunnel. The city is just as easily accessed from the north and east, via Dutch The whole idea started when Nym, long and German state of the art railroads.