XJ WEEKLY RELOADED #8

By A3TIUS·
Hello XJ!!!

With the advent of the autumn, XJ seems to have buckled up with a lot of energy and enthusiasm to introduce long-awaiting changes and modifications in order to steadily progress towards the far-awaited goal of excellence. With quite a lot of amazing World Records, the kreedzers continue to prove that the "striving" has not been slow and sluggish, instead its rocketing towards its goal. And here we are, trying to capture some glimpse of the advancement in a concise form of your beloved "Weekly Reloaded". So, its time to relax and enjoy...

To start with, it came to the notice of weekly team that a new web-page named Counter Strike Mapping Forum entirely dedicated to mappers,has been created by cC|PsYxOpAt under the domain of cosy-climbing. This page mainly consists of a forum and it provides great help to beginners at mapping and even advanced level of mappers. You should give it a definite shot, even if you are remotely interested in mapping.

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17/10/2010 20:52:00

gj! =)

17/10/2010 20:56:00

plz make a f***ing spacebar after flag and player name. ty! btw gj!

17/10/2010 21:01:00

superb run in templebhop_h? LOL i love the quote of teh week HAHAHAH, crazy pizza :DD is a cool weekly in general. and +1 skizo

17/10/2010 21:05:00

yo gj!

17/10/2010 21:14:00

[i]@ Skizo_ Something didn't look right to me either. But somehow I couldn't figure it out. Thnx for pointing it out. Its been taken care of :) @ kyser It had fails (like I said "Instead of a few fails....) but it certainly was a superb run if you consider the difficulty level of the map. I mean to say, take the example of kz_synergy_x. It had many many fails but it still happens to be brilliant run. Ever wondered why ?? @ flamers I mean no disrespect to hel^_x and I am not comparing the 2 maps or the 2 runs or the 2 kreedzers in the literary meaning. Its a more figurative way of saying. So just save yourself some trouble posting comments on that note :P[/i]

17/10/2010 21:19:00

gj A3TIUS

17/10/2010 21:19:00

pizza^: stop eating me? XD!!!!!!! +1

17/10/2010 21:21:00

so much better! ty.

17/10/2010 21:28:00

brilliant for you A3TIUS, not for me and i tell you that i enjoyed much more zhady or zefix run than koukouz run in templebhop_h, those were superb runs, because they had very very few fails.. i mean, i just dont consider a run with some fails like those, a good run... even i consider it pretty bad... thats why FOR ME, synergy_x run is pretty bad. :D

17/10/2010 21:32:00

quote of the week wins +1000 internetz.

17/10/2010 21:43:00

n1 run and nice quote of the week :D

17/10/2010 21:45:00

[i]@ kyser Another example is the kzru_pharaonrun by KeltA. It had fails, some pretty stupid fails. But he still managed to beat the previous WR. If you see a battle movie of the two runs, you'd observe that he gains a lot in the normal course of the run and that's what made the run look nice overall. In case of the templebhop_h run, I agree zhady or zefix's run might have looked way better, but the thing is kkz improved the normal parts in such a manner that it made up for the fails. So even if the fails are bad to look at, the normal course (without fails) of the run are pretty much watchable. And this in particular was the reason I recommend this run to be watched. Again, I think its just a matter of personal choice and I really shouldn't be forcing mine on you. Even if I didnt mention but still shNz's runs were awesome too..[/i]

17/10/2010 21:47:00

nice idea psyxo :)

17/10/2010 21:56:00

yea, its my way of think, i didnt like pharaonrun's run. it was bad for me, considering what can kelta do. i think that if you had put "... a very fast run..." instead of superb, it would be better XD, because he won thanks to his speed. and its true, i can see you didnt mention shnzs runs

17/10/2010 22:17:00

fail idea psyxopat :]

17/10/2010 22:53:00

quote of the week rox <3

17/10/2010 22:57:00

Rumors by faker... lol... Nice source

17/10/2010 23:08:00

gj PsYxOpAt&cosy for that forum, it`s very useful, esp for noob mappers :) my honest opinion regarding demos of the week is that templebhop_h should have been replaced by demos like kzcn_shanghai_museum, risk_factory, kz_cargo or kzarg_bhopcircuit which are much more beautiful than that noob run(even though it`s very hard to do such a good time). i hope too see in the next xj weekly some screenshots from ndR`s map :)

17/10/2010 23:37:00

good job everyone esp psyxopat

17/10/2010 23:40:00

gj psy

17/10/2010 23:45:00

shNz - Untouchable i'm waiting !!! gj

17/10/2010 23:52:00

New XJ Plugin- is about to be released i'm waiting !!! gj

18/10/2010 00:03:00

ITS LIKE PIZZAAA ( PI AI ZEE ZEE EI)

18/10/2010 00:36:00

Once again a good weekly. Says it all about KKZ comeback... Astonishing.

18/10/2010 00:38:00

Its nice psyxo, youre trying to create mapping forum, it says you really want bring something other, positive into mapping, but still i think, its not the best idea to create lot of websites. it should all be here, at xj imo, cause this is official kz site and anyone, who is trying to create kz map visit this site. the second thing is, that the forum is currently completely empty, there is nothing at the moment, so it will take long time to make that forum popular. anyway gl with this.

18/10/2010 01:56:00

<3

18/10/2010 03:04:00

just can wait to see the new movie. i hope it would be released very soon!

18/10/2010 03:20:00

want to see the new map

18/10/2010 04:44:00

edit: i just registered there and now i see its not that empty as i thought it is. maybe it would be good to type on index page something like Registration required to see topics :) Gj for it, really useful and good explained tutorials.

18/10/2010 04:46:00

.. ah, its there. sorry about that, its 5 am.

18/10/2010 09:32:00

pizza^: stop eating me? XD!!!!!!! xaxhhxhah

18/10/2010 11:35:00

I guess a single XJ plugin is not going to be released until there's anything revolutionary as decimal time... It's "XJ-Policy" (trademark). Never expect some really nice and useful things - that's how it's made.

18/10/2010 12:21:00

can't wait for "shNz - Untouchable" faster please can't waitt ! +D

18/10/2010 14:41:00

Such a delight to see someone as postive as you I RUSSIA! Great weekly this week :-) Loved the quote.

18/10/2010 14:45:00

kz_sandblock2 for top1

18/10/2010 16:58:00

omg gj psyxopat

18/10/2010 17:15:00

i too can't wait for shnz untouchable

18/10/2010 19:18:00

[quote] [b][center]RUMORS [/center][/b] [i]1. Rumors say the New XJ Plugin (for all of the XJ gameservers) is about to be released...[/i] [/quote] mhh like the 'new' theme for the XJ website who should be ready for January 2010? D:

18/10/2010 19:24:00

I RUSSIA!: What? Sorry, I didn't understand your sentence. If you want to bring some criticism please elaborate and formulate it in a way we can understand it (and try to improve stuff).

19/10/2010 12:28:00

I meant that there wont be any new plugin released until there is something that REQUIRES the official update. About criticism: admins are saying that big changes are coming soon. But really nothing BIG happened. The things done recently are: the revive of the weekly series(for the last time I bet), voting for BDOW, KZ search. They are all good, but I don't think they are really big and turns the community in different way. I have already suggested this, but still: prepare the big update, really big. Like releasing a new XJ plugin, new theme, new plugins and top15 system on servers, fixed ajax-chat, maybe some other stuff. Believe me - this would make REAL impression and motivate people. Updating step-by-step doesn't really make the sense that admins are really WORKING. Hope that what I wrote is understandable. p.s. also i'm starting to suspect that release plugin and install plugin are the same things for weekly writers ^^

19/10/2010 13:18:00

Okay, now I do understand what you're talking about, but I'm still having a hard time to understand your perspective and arguments tbh: About the plugins (XJ plugin pack for lan-games): Well, the old/original plugin pretty much had all the functions that are needed to record demos, hadn't it? An update only was necessary when the new timersystem got introduced to XJ; and after that it happend pretty fast. What other update(s) do you expect? Why should we update it and what do you want us to add to it? About the XJ plugins (XJ's dedicated servers): I think you're mixing things up, because the information in the ROTW was about XJ's dedicated kreedz climbserver plugin, which is paid work (XJ paid a few 100€ for it) and was solely developed to be used on XJ's kreedz servers and to give the users the best climb-experience and top15 system possible; it was never - not at any time - meant to be released into the public as a download (there are enough other free top15/serverplugins for your kz servers out there btw). About the "big things": You need to understand that admins are normal guys that work for the community because they like to, all of us have a normal life where we have to go to university or to our jobs, so if we work for XJ we do it on our spare time - working on XJ is not our fulltime job. The more time we have (or the more people want to help XJ/the community) the more projects can be presented and held. Usually all the projects that are planned are happening (sooner or later). In regard of the new theme, yeah, I have to admit it takes a lot longer than expected... The designer was a professional one and we paid quite a money to him (and he finished it in a few months), but the website/html/php staff we have is not a professional one, the theme (big and complicated) is giving them a hard time, that's why it takes that long to make it come true. What I said in the "chapter" before applies for our website coders as well, they give as much of their spare time as possible, but XJ is not the priority in their life, so it happens that they do nothing XJ related for a few days or even weeks. Anyway, we're working on it and we're always searching for new and motivated people, so things might change in the future.

19/10/2010 15:48:00

Once again I (and probably much of the community) hear this - about normal life et cetera. I have nothing against this. I just suggest the staff to prepare it altogether and make one big "reincarnation" of XJ (don't like this word really, though it covers the main idea). It will take a piece of time but I hope the price will be covered by the work (if ever). About the plugin: ok, I got the point, then I have nothing against and I'm really glad to hear that everything is gonna be up and working. GJ goes to Exolent and everybody else who contributed in.

19/10/2010 18:57:00

Yeah, that's exactly what we did, that's why I mentioned the outcome in the text above. Current admins don't have time (or don't want to, or both) for more projects in the future, so if you guys want to see new things you gotta step forward and come with some ideas, help to make them come true (probably hand in hand with an admin application) etc. After all YOU guys are the communtiy, we (the XJ managment) are just helping to host a platform for the community to going on (and coordinating projects, with some advice etc. ofc). That's my point ;)

02/11/2010 19:44:00

[quote]After all YOU guys are the communtiy, we (the XJ managment) are just helping to host a platform for the community to going on (and coordinating projects, with some advice etc. ofc). That's my point[/quote] Hah, that made me laugh. Those are probably just words right? Or did you suddenly drastically change because of something/someone?