KZmod is not dead. Read why in here.

I had to concentrate on learning my work. Get my life in order. I was practically on the street for the game. I spent years living off the government to develop it. I had no more money...and the domain auto-extend function tried to cash in on my yearly payment and there was no money for it...so the domain got bought out.

I would like to take this opportunity to explain how XJ survives and does not require DEVELOPERS to develop the game. The same would apply to KZmod wether we continue developing or not.

XJ survives on having a Admin staff taking care of demos, movies, records, and events. The admins shift a lot but they are created from the players themselves. The players WANT to support it. The dont wish for it.....they DO it because its necessary to keep it alive.

I screamed for years for people to assist us with a admin staff.
I had one angry demo admin.

enough of that.

KZmod for me.....is my life, people. It is my Baby. I care for it. I want it to work. But if we spend all this energy creating and making it better and doing everything we can to make all of you happy and all you do is notice a little difference and just LEAVE....and dont support us.......we fuckin lose interest. It is like a rubberband. WHY......should we continue.....to get slapped in the face again?

We MIGHT have a solution for the demo lag.
We thought of a map filter selection thingy to make it easier for people to find the kind of map they want.
We want to restructure Tag Arena.
The list literally goes on.......BUT

Why should we if all you do is leave us? not all of you....but most of you.
1.0
2.0
3.0
3.1
4.0
4.1
4.2
1.0
1.2

Every fuckin time you had a main reason to leave it collectively.
I never gave up.
1.2 nearly perfected 1.6 movement dowen to 0.00001 on air acceleration and 2 people noticed it and told everyone else so no one tries it now. Those that did give it a chance liked it but still left it cuz everyone else did.

I STILL.......like a fuckin STONE WALL......am not going to give up.

But what I do request......is some back up.... cuz im taking fire and need assistance.

cs1.6 will die soon
kz based on 1.6 will die soon, too
source engine is popular nowadays
kz based on source (kzmod) is the only thing we can choose

Hello there Soulfather! I'm definitely one of those guys that downloaded it upon release, played 3-4 days and then bailed.

Am I to blame for this? Because thats how you make it sound. Is it my obligation to like the game you've created?

You and your co-workers have definitely created something spectacular, but does that mean you have the right to become upset when people don't drop the already (in my eyes) perfected 1.6?

I believe you've got a great possibility to make KZ-MOD become active, but in order to make something successful you must try and see the entire picture, you can't just release a game and then hope for everyone to take part and become interested on their own, you have to set it up so that people become eager, they become more hungry for it and feel that the staff behind KZ-MOD is not only competent and reliable but also incredibly active to support the cause.

I wish you the best! And I will definitely show up for some more tag-arena action since I actually really enjoyed that!

I guess people could play it, if web wasn't so inactive, when kayne stoped to do releases, kz mod died, and people like kropeq who did comeback with kzmod went back to 1.6 again.As for me KZmod is good, but i hate some fps problems there, but now i lil updated my pc, tbh didnt tried after that, tag arena is strange :( I prefer 1.6 HidenSeek more

Hey Tim, i'm very glad to see you back. Even happier to see that you got your life in order (if you actually managed to do so).

And i know what you mean by (1.2 nearly perfected 1.6 movement down to 0.00001 on air acceleration and 2 people noticed it and told everyone else so no one tries it now).

Cuz i for one enjoyed KZMOD alot.
I'm offering my help too (may not be much but still) if you need it.

Still, glad to see you're still out there and going "stronk"!

Hey there! Got to say, I tottaly love KZMOD.. But how can I not leave it if there is no servers? Also some thing that makes me not play that as much as I did with 1.6 is maps.. it needs more maps badly:) Btw happy to see you writing about this.. Hope to see some servers in it that I could play. I wish you all the best luck

wtf happened to kzmod.com domain..? Do you own it? Some weird stuff there..

Hey wtf noel? "nobody liked it" Its only your opinion, the game is cool. Just needs more maps.

@NOEL

(I'm the guy who programmed the majority of the mod)

I don't blame someone for taking exception to something, everyone's opinion is completely valid, but you are being very harsh on KZMod here and I feel this is very unfair.

I admit KZMod isn't perfect, and the movement isn't exactly the same as 1.6. I'm not skilled enough to personally detect a difference, and many of the people who tested the mod who are highly skilled told us that the movement was well done. There may be minor differences that the most elite can detect - this can still be fixed and improved on. I remember comments from some saying that the difference was minor enough to not erode their skills in 1.6, which is what we were aiming for.

Some people don't like the bungee or the other new gameplay elements that were added. That's fair enough, I don't expect everyone to like everything that was added, that's why none of it is mandatory (apart from mix maps, which were meant to be extra challenging. There are still pure kreedz maps). You are arguing about the faults of Tag Arena (I agree that Tag Arena is not fantastic) and bungee, but you are not forced to do any of this in KZMod. I know of some people from the past who really liked the bungee, and became very skilled with it - the same pursuit of skill is what led this community to become so good at kreedz in the first place.

The reason KZMod tries to be like 1.6 so much is not because it's trying to be a boring clone, it's because we are trying to create a game that still inspires our nostalgia and does not deviate from our established skills. Trying to make a jumping game that is completely different to 1.6 would simply cause us to have to ignore years of building these skills which is completely unnecessary. Part of what makes us kreedzers is our dedication and desire to be the best and to refine our skills to perfection, I admire this and at the same time want to give everyone here a game that has had just as much effort put into it. I admit my efforts haven't been flawless, I pride myself on how bugfree the game is, but if there are criticisms and problems, I want to hear them and improve the game based on it.

Something Cobrex was talking about earlier was how annoyingly fast the movement on the weapon models ingame was. This is the type of thing that would have been gladly fixed if it had been asked for. I remember spending at least an hour before the 1.2 release of the game perfecting the FOVs on the weapon models for Acrasia - the whole purpose of this game is for it to be shaped and designed for the community who plays it. We aren't trying to get this community for KZMod, we are trying to make KZMod for this community.

I understand that you (NOEL) were offended so I won't make an argument out of these criticisms. Remade maps and the ability to use CS 1.6 models and sounds (which I put a lot of effort into programming) were added to try and create a sense of nostalgia coupled with the excitement of something that is being improved on. What I've been trying to say is that however flawed KZMod is, we have been trying for a long time to design this game in a way that would provide the entertainment of old, coupled with the possibility of the new. We want to keep updating this game, and adding new features (tangible features that improve KZ, like better scoreboards, better timers, records, competition modes, better coop etc), as well as new disciplines that you might choose to add to your skillset (like the bungee, powerjump and so on). We want to hear what this community wants in a game, and to do it. To give the excitement of a game that is alive and growing.

I don't personally believe that KZMod has failed as a game, but irrespective of that, the arguing and fighting is damaging to this community. Perhaps the demise of kzmod.com (which was taken over by domain grabbers) will give us the chance to repair the distance that seems to have grown between us. I'm sorry if we have come across as cocky or overconfident, our reasons for making this game have always been positive ones.

kzmod is perfect except i cant bhop normaly:D even with high stable fps, random slow downs like 10 good bhops max, but others doing it like in 1.6..:>>> EDIT just run a game now since last time 2013-09 and feels my problem gone:}