| |
| Surfing the Ban Wave: Round 2 |
|
Posted by: Hypernoma - 30-05-2013, 09:57 PM - Forum: News & Updates
- Replies (8)
|
 |
Good evening,
I have been staggered by the amount of players that we have had to warn, reset and ban over the past 4 days. I am sick and tired of the idiocy of some players and from this point forward there will be a zero tolerance policy for trolling, glitching and general rule breaking. It stuns us that despite catching players breaking the rules on almost a daily basis, players continue to do so.
It is genuinely disheartening to see players abuse our work especially after the huge amounts of time the development team have invested into 0.5.0 and continue to do so on a daily basis implemented new items, crafting recipes, running competitions and planning the House tournament beyond the commitments of their real lives. I personally have very little spare time for the next two months and the sheer volume of time I am having to devote to punishing players and reading through log files is unacceptable. I do not want to come home and have to sit and filter through the same amount of stupidity that I have had to for the past four days.
Please think before you act; if you are conducting yourself in a manner that causes you or any reasonable person to stop and think "is this right?", I suggest you think long and hard before carrying on in such a manner.
Cordially,
The Development team
|
|
|
| Donator event - Project respec |
|
Posted by: Hypernoma - 27-05-2013, 11:11 PM - Forum: News & Updates
- Replies (6)
|
|
Goooooooood evening!
Wanted to try out that Pikeman tree? Feel like pew-pew-pewing some nords in the face?
As a way to say a MASSIVE thank you to all our donators who have supported us for the past 18 months, all of our donators will have unlimited respec's for the next week! I don't post enough at how much help your donations have been and continue to be, and they really help to alleviate the financial burden (and stress!) involved with running and hosting NordInvasion.
Thank you again for your continuing support!
Love,
The NI Family
[countdown=06,4,2013,00,00][/countdown]
|
|
|
|
| Client Release: 0.5.0 'Ragnarok!' |
|
Posted by: Hypernoma - 27-05-2013, 05:05 PM - Forum: News & Updates
- Replies (202)
|
|
[anchor=top]Dear NI Community,
Its finally here, the first part of the 0.5.0 release. Each of the 0.5.0 releases will come in phases, within this phase you will find many new features, over a dozen new maps, many new items, classes and a new mode.
Installation
This patch has a very different installation procedure than our previous releases. In order to install the patch, please download the auto-updater. Once you access this, check for an update, the latest version will automatically be downloaded if your game is out of date. This new process will make it significantly easier for us to make incremental changes. All future releases will automatically be available through the auto-updater.
The latest build will also be available through the website, for those people who cannot get the auto-updater to work for them.
New Major Features
[anchor=RK]Ragnarok Mode Back to the top.
To introduce a challenge for the already established house/players while still allowing for reasonably sane progression for newer players, the current hard mode will be renamed "Ragnarok Mode", and a third mode will take its place in allowing progression between level 32-52 with barebones equipment, and 52 with reasonably high end craftable equipment. This new middle difficulty will hopefully give the middle ranked houses and players a more even progression.
You might have noticed the sheer difficulty of hard mode at the moment, this occurred so that we could begin the slow transformation of NI into a three stage difficulty. No doubt this mode will continue to be refined through the constant efforts of the dev team and new challenges will be developed. We do hope now that some level of understanding will occur as to why we made the present hard mode so difficult.
The theme of the third mode will be that it is King Ragnar's army, is out to seek vengeance for the Nord Prince's death. The difficulty will range, approximately, from the Nord Commander wave in wave one to slightly above the old Thor wave for King Ragnar. We hope players will embrace this new challenge and enjoy the work we are doing.
As for Ragnarok Mode, we've already unveiled some of the changes that were originally planned for it (Multi-projectile weapons, Explosive Mjolnir, increase in overall difficulty, adding crushthrough, etc), but the general change is that the enemies encountered are no longer ordinary "Nords", and are as strong as one would expect immortal gods to be, (with some aspects seeming like blatant cheating) with the intention being that only the most organized, well equipped, and lucky players will be able to defeat them.
Additional servers have been added in order to make Ragnarok mode as available as possible. As we go forward, we will be continuing this effort.
[anchor=CL]Hero Classes Back to the top.
These classes take all of the class points that you accumulate between levels 39 to 52. As a result, you forgo being a hybrid in exchange for a very powerful specialisation. The stats of these classes have been designed so that you get the most if not all of the hybrid benefits plus extra. These characters are very powerful and each of these classes have been assigned special weapons, items and armours. Many new items have been added to these classes and additional items are also forthcoming.
Commando:
Zwei-hander - Commando specialises in two-handed weapons.
Royal Guard - Commando specialises in shielding.
Duelist - Commando specialises in one-handed weapons.
Sharpshooter:
Chosen Marksman - Sharpshooter specialises in crossbows.
Aventurier- Sharpshooter specialises in one-handed weapons.
Pavise Champion - Sharpshooter specialises in shielding.
Skirmisher:
Halberdier - Skirmisher can wear heavier armours and lasts longer in a fight.
Master Peltast - Skirmisher specialises in throwing weapons.
Marauder - Skirmisher gets a bonus to power strike and polearms.
Sniper:
Warden - Sniper gets a bonus to archery proficiency.
Ranger - Sniper gets a bonus to iron flesh and better armour.
Sentinel - Sniper gets a proficiency bonus to one-handed weapons and power strike.
[anchor=AU]The Auto-Updater Back to the top.
We would like to introduce the NI Updater - the purpose of which is to compare the latest online version of NI with the local files and then download any new files if required. At present, the auto-updater will only work for windows 32/64 operating systems (sorry Apple users!). The auto-updater will be updated ( ;D ) in the future so please bear with us while we work on it.
Updates to the NI Updater will be delivered separately to the main mod and will bring extra features such as the ability to launch the game regardless of install location and method (eg Steam) as well as being platform independent.
To use the auto-updater please place it in your modules folder of Warband and run it from there. Your antivirus may block the app so you may have to allow it.
[anchor=UK]General Changes Back to the top.- Only people who are alive, or have died at least once in the server contribute to bot count, instead of just counting all players (Work in progress!) (Working!)
- Map updates & 7 new maps + Release of Hyper's Hell
- Donator enemies added
- New Nord faces!!
- Changes to Nord AI
- Banners updated
- Everything in place for our first House Tournament
- More bug fixes and general gameplay changes than we could list...
- Moar Nord Rangers
We hope you enjoy this release, it took us a lot of work.
The NordInvasion updater is available here
The full patch is available here
Love,
The NI Family
|
|
|
|
| Modelling Contest I - Results are in! |
|
Posted by: Senni - 23-04-2013, 06:49 PM - Forum: News & Updates
- Replies (65)
|
 |
Modelling contest I
The Winners!
1st place: Griz!!! 19.75 points
2nd place: Thatsmybanana!! 17.75 points
3rd place: Perception! 15.25 points
Runners up:
Badarith 14.75
Harith 14.75
Aledor97 14.5
Hablam 14.25
Éòdan 14.25
Winthorpe 13.25
Maroon 12.25
Withdrawn
Niezdara 16.5
First off,
I just want to say how surprised I was on the quality of every single model entered, my jaw was quite literally dropping throughout.
Everyone was above 60% (out of 20), which is more than impressive!
Thank you to everyone who took the time and effort to take part, I hope you all feel it was well worth it.
And last but not least, Congratulations to the winners!
I hope to see you all continue to model, as I look forward to what you all make next!
The rules:
1) One Model/submission per person.
2) Suitable for all ages.
3) Never seen before (You are allowed to use known images as guides for your creations).
4) It belongs to you.
5) Must fit the timeframe and theme (no guns, arabic items, khergit items and 'realistic'*).
*'realistic' means limited or no fantasy elements. Everything on the model must serve a functional purpose.
Good example = Swadian Hope, Royal shield, Durendal.
Bad example = Aurora blade, Sun pike, sword of kings.
How do I enter?
Submit your model along[sup](see below for format)[/sup] with a screenshot of it ingame to me via pm (senni).
Deadline: [countdown=6,7,2013,10]has ended.[/countdown]
How will it be decided?
The models will be marked out of 20 by a panel of judges.
Judges
-Hypernoma
-Senni
-Hande
-Yurithered
-Sphinx
Points will be awarded for:
- Overall quality of the model. (Does it look good?)
- How the quality compares to the number of faces. (try to stick below 2k triangles, armours can go higher)
- How well it fits the theme and setting.
- Originality.
Extra points for:
- LODs (levels of detail). /1
- A model in demand (see list)[sup]@[/sup] /1
- An animated model (Bow and crossbow). /1
- A rigged body armour. /2
[sup]@[/sup]Models in demand!
-Crossbows
-Bows
-Bolts
-Arrows
-Pierce weapons
-Blunt weapons
-Gloves
-Boots
-Throwing weapons
The Spoils!
1st place: 1 x your model ingame added to your inventory. (subject to next patch)
2nd place: 500k cash.
3rd place: 100k cash.
All submissions have the chance to make it ingame (subject to quality), regardless of place. Submissions may need to be tweaked post-contest in order to make it ingame.
Format of Model
The model will need to be made in your program of choice (Blender and Wings3d are free, 3dsmax is free for students- make sure your country is applicable).
It will need to be exported as a .obj (wavefront).
Textures will need to be .dds files DXT 1 with mipmaps. Create the textures in your program of choice, commonly Photoshop and GIMP, then save as .dds with DXT 1 compression and mipmaps.
You will then need openbrf. Use it to create a brf of the the model and textures, adjusting the settings to your preference.
Submission must include the .brf file, textures (textures must be seperate .dds files) and a screenshot from ingame.
For a basic guide click here
Love,
NI Team
Please do not send me any info on your model, until you are ready to submit it!
You are allowed to submit revisions of your model until the deadline.
Make sure you put "Version 2/3/4.... or Ver or V." in the pm title.
|
|
|
|
| Resolving a donating issue |
|
Posted by: Hypernoma - 14-04-2013, 12:49 PM - Forum: News & Updates
- Replies (32)
|
|
Hey guys,
Over the past week I have received far too many emails and PM's from players asking me if they can buy legendaries by donating and one player even telling me that they deserved "nice items" for donating. I really don't think our donations page can be clearer about what you receive for donating and I have always made it very clear that NI will never be pay to win. I really am getting tired of these messages so stop it please.
Love,
Hypernoma
|
|
|
|
| Forum Downtime |
|
Posted by: Hande - 02-03-2013, 04:13 PM - Forum: News & Updates
- Replies (15)
|
 |
Hey community!
Sorry about forum downtime today.
I had some problems with server but I found the reason and fixed it.
Sorry if this caused some problems.
Regards,
Hande
|
|
|
|
| Website Stats Reports |
|
Posted by: Barristan - 28-02-2013, 06:19 PM - Forum: News & Updates
- No Replies
|
|
Dear NordInvasion Community,
As part of his role Senni is taking care of a full review of the website stats. As many of you know some of the weapons has incorrect stats on the site and some also do not have any stats at all. If you could please report any discrepancies you fine here http://forum.nordinvasion.com/index.php?...55.15.html so that Senni can see to them. He is attempting to be as comprehensive as possible but it is likely that things will be missed. Please remember that you can also make a report if an item is missing stats.
He has already fixed the vast majority of errors and once he gets in front of the wave, life will become a good deal easier.
We appreciate the help of the community in our work.
Love,
The Devs
|
|
|
|
| New Logo |
|
Posted by: Naozumi - 27-02-2013, 06:06 PM - Forum: News & Updates
- Replies (2)
|
 |
Calling all artistically inspired members of the NI community,
We need a new logo! That's right, as part of the big oh-five-oh, we want a new logo. The eventual logo will be used on the website, the favicon (the little image in the address bar), and even the upcoming auto-updater.
We are looking for your submissions and will be holding a competition to select the final image and offering prizes as well as your name on the website as a contributor! |
|
For full details and to post your submissions please see this topic.
Good luck to all and we look forward to seeing what you can create!
Love,
The NI Family
|
|
|
|
|
| Welcome, Guest |
You have to register before you can post on our site.
|
| Forum Statistics |
» Members: 10,394
» Latest member: teka
» Forum threads: 72,395
» Forum posts: 310,937
Full Statistics
|
|
