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Name:	DavidRM
Date Posted:	Sep 27, 2002
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Paintball Net progress...grenades and a new team member.

Paintball Net didn't have as much progress as we had hoped in September, but we did have some!

Eric Segar has now joined the team as an artist/modeller. Eric is a paintball enthusiast and even was a player on the original Paintball Net. Eric has already tweaked our model of our "free paintball gun" to be a bit more "paintball-like". We're happy to welcome him to the team! =)

In related news, we've added grenades to the game now. You can throw 'em forward or backward (useful if you're being chased) with hot-keys, or even have a grenade as your active weapon (so you can use your mouse to aim and throw). They currently have a 2-second arming delay, after which they explode on contact. It's fun to watch them bounce around...and maybe roll downhill back at you if you didn't throw it far enough... ;-)

Work continues on the new map. Lars is texturing the buildings, and then we add vegetation and a variety of spawning points and we call it "done enough." Hopefully, soon...

Some new screen shots to help tide things over:

This shows the new gun, though it's hard to see the new details in the reduced size.

This one shows a grenade as an active weapon. I tried to get a shot of a grenade in-flight, but they were too small to see well once I had JPG-ed the screen shot...

..so here's a close-up of a player holding a grenade. It'll have to do.

Have fun!

-David
Samu Games

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Mikey Smith (Sep 27, 2002 at 18:43 GMT)

Thats great David! Every week or two I check to see if theres a new plan, It excites me :)
This is looking great! What type of weapons will you be putting in the game? A wide variety with kits/mods?
Can NOT wait.
Mikey

Master Evil Ace (Sep 28, 2002 at 02:44 GMT)

I think kits/mods would be weird.. The game seems to be moving away from the "get gren back" style of playing... IE: Text based.

Don't know if that's good or bad, but the style of gameplay sort of requires it to happen. Kits/mods would be cool.. But I guess if it was done within a GUI, while buying/selling items.

PS: I check it everyday :)

Sabot (Sep 28, 2002 at 08:49 GMT)

Does this mean I get my nade launcher and 9999 weightless high speed nades again? :)

Yo RM.

DavidRM (Sep 28, 2002 at 13:43 GMT)

Sabot! The past lives... And, to answer your question: No. ;-)

To answer the other questions: The plan at this time is to support modifying guns and other equipment with kits. We've done some of the groundwork for kits, but they are going to be fully implemented until probably the 3rd round demo. And, yes, we've moved away from the text commands.

-David

Josh Grimm (Sep 28, 2002 at 16:18 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

RM will there still be tournaments and bots and stuff like the old one?

John Sica (Sep 28, 2002 at 17:49 GMT)

Hey RM Have you decided how much this game might be to play it ? It looks like it's coming along really welL!

Nick "TopCat" Weary (Sep 29, 2002 at 00:17 GMT)

I can't wait to get back into paintball. Hurry up and let us in alpha/beta

Billy McElwee (Sep 29, 2002 at 01:07 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

Niiice. ;)
I can't wait!

Derek Hansen (Sep 29, 2002 at 02:52 GMT)

Looks great, good to see some former PBN'ers helping with design

Gavin Ng (Sep 30, 2002 at 20:59 GMT)

Whassup everyone...remember me...BOBLONG(DAVE YOUNGBLOOD)..heh original names huh..forgive me it was like 4-6 years ago when i picked those names...but anyway the new stuff looks good..i hope the game does save stats though and allows us to do cool stuff like before..u know refracto jacket (insulation (interference) type stuff..hopefully..anyway yeah looks good so far..keep up the good work guys..and i hope we get to see the final product soon..
Gavs

Jamie Hann (Oct 01, 2002 at 23:15 GMT)

Lookin good David... i can't wait to beta test it

CJ Ponzo (Oct 03, 2002 at 02:46 GMT)

Well i am on beta tester list and I canot WAIT OMG i wanna play sooo bad. good job RM

Chris Wuthrich (Oct 03, 2002 at 06:16 GMT)

hey guys I used to play a long time ago. Really looking forward to playing new one. Keep the updates coming.

Kurt "Klikit" Palshan (Oct 03, 2002 at 21:40 GMT)

well, i think it looking nice. but that model looks like gumby heh. once u get game up i am gonna play and pay and play and play. well hope this turns into my new addiction.

Kurt "Klikit" Palshan (Oct 03, 2002 at 21:42 GMT)

Oh ya als0 will thier be a map making program. were you would have a map judging contest (most like FLag contest in Artifact) and person would get a subscription for wining.)

DeltaBlast (Oct 05, 2002 at 22:45 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

Hey! i was once a PBN player (Pietje Puk) and i just went to see if it was going back up again sometime, when i found out you're making a new version! and it looks sweeeet!

only... PBN was/is unique... there are so many other 3D games, i think it would be better if you could just get PBN back up, instead of creating a new game...

oh and one other thing: is it still going to be free and let you buy levels and stuff?

keep up the good work!

Shawn "moldy" Nofziger (Oct 06, 2002 at 20:33 GMT)

Hi peoples, now you try...say "Hi moldy guy!" :) Ahhhh remembering the good ol days. I think i am the only person to have a bot and a weapon named after me and i also had a map too. Oh and i was an admin...LOL nuff bout me. By the way...is my bucket of paint going to be in the new pbn? The game is looking great David! I cant wait to test it! Well i am outta here. Buh bye peoples!
Edited on Oct 06, 2002 20:44 GMT

Chris "Raz" Reece (Oct 08, 2002 at 20:04 GMT)

Former player here, S Snake for those that remember me (I sucked at names back in the day.) This looks great, I'll miss the old text commands but I'll live. If any help is needed don't hesitate to ask! Can't wait to play!

COMEON (Oct 09, 2002 at 16:23 GMT)

OH MY GOD! Never thought this was gonna happen and now it apparently is!!! WOOHOOO. Since PBN I have been playing Ultima Online and a lot of EverQuest but still I think that PBN was the most entertaining of the 3. Can't wait for this to get started! Gonna be soo much fun!! Great work RM!

BTW if any of you old buddies from PBN got MSN or ICQ plz plz add me -> petervesti@hotmail.com and 2745489

Thx a bunch see you all around maybe for some Freegunning???

- COMEON

Scott (Oct 12, 2002 at 17:08 GMT)

Player Name(User Name) ID Level Team Accuracy Splats Bonus Bot Splats Player Splats Number of Games Percent Splatted Dollars

SnowPainter(Secondbase) 36767 12 twisted faith 32(1622) 5803(732) 5431500(697) 1468(867) 2375(707) 8318(515) 79(2728) 100828(443)

good times, good times....lol, i want 2d back!

Scott (Oct 12, 2002 at 17:09 GMT)

How do you get on the "Beta List" or whatever it is?

Justin Gospodarek (Oct 14, 2002 at 06:37 GMT)

Hey RM, long time no see - mad j from PBN, ya probably don't even remember it was so long ago lol... anyways, looking forward to PBN2... contact me if you need a tester.

Patrick Daivdson (Oct 16, 2002 at 17:23 GMT)

Hey! this is ke am sniper. PBN 2 is looking very nice. when can we expect a demo? and for those of you who want the 2d back just go to www.hvpb.com its a clone just like the original. And i was wondering when are we going to get a demo to get addicted to

Peyman "DiScO STuPiD" Ghorbani (Oct 19, 2002 at 19:07 GMT)

sup RM, im so glad to see this. DiScO sTuPiD(Stupid Morfani) here, i payed 40 bucks for PBN, id gladly double that for PBN 2. Keep up the excellent work/progress!

Matt "Modru" Coffelt (Oct 21, 2002 at 10:28 GMT)

ITS ABOUT TIME!!!! Heya RM .. so i see you moved to 3d. Last time we talked about this, hmmm musta been 2 years ago?? you said you were prob gonna stick to 2d why the change? not that i dont like it just wondering

John (Oct 21, 2002 at 17:16 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

woohoo! PBN2 is comin along great!...im an middle schooler heh :P i played during da last few years of PBN ya....hello to all u fellow PBN peeps.......Red Alert(all killer)
AIM--->CHiN990
hay RM

The Green Lantern (Oct 24, 2002 at 21:28 GMT)

Whats up all. Yo RM, do the old school PBN people get their eq back? I can't wait to rage everyone in my multi-down[jet][ref]. Graphics look killer by the way

-TGL

Matt \"RaptorRed\" Meyer (Oct 28, 2002 at 22:23 GMT)

It's been a month since the last .plan update. Hopefully you've been too busy making progress to post an update. :D

John Steele (Oct 29, 2002 at 05:18 GMT)

RaptorRed, check out http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=3391
for the latest update.

FlyinEmu (Oct 29, 2002 at 18:22 GMT)

if I don't get my 8-kit gps jacket back i will cry

Magyc (Nov 05, 2002 at 04:34 GMT)

quack

TaRqUin (Nov 09, 2002 at 13:31 GMT)

Did you misssssssssss me?
Who da Man? U da man!
Great to see quite a few old school Pbn players! Keep up the good work RM :)

Neo Deity (Nov 11, 2002 at 21:14 GMT)

Sweet, I've been checking samugames home page every so often waiting for this. I remember the old days(EXTREME PLAYER) It's great to see some of you oldies Tarquin, Sabot, Master Evil Ace, The Green Lantern, finally I get to return to the game that launched my addiction to Online Gaming....WOOT! Now all we need is SPUME and a few others and we'll be good.

Neo Deity(AKA EXTREME PLAYER)

Great to see so many of you oldies still play...Hey DavidRM, nice work so far....keep up the great work.

Jonathan Stone (Nov 13, 2002 at 18:24 GMT)

Lookin good david. I am already fearing the gernades as i run to can someone only to see everything around me and 5 miles off covered in paint. I hope they will not over take the game like in original pbn. O and when will beta come out. I did beta fact for ya and it would only be right to keep up the tradition(=

VerTigO (Nov 15, 2002 at 07:52 GMT)

Sup ppl, just checking in... Keep up the good work RM, you're still the only person who has ever made a game with that much impact on me, cya...

Ray MacCalla (Nov 22, 2002 at 03:04 GMT)

Hey Guys None of you probobly remember me but u can check on the Paintball-net.com History of players i had 2 acc's Pbpredator and Raymond MacCalla. I CANT WAIT TO PLAY THIS GAME! just one thing is there a mailing list to let us know things about this game... otherwise it would be cool.Ill check again tomarrow or so...

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