October 2000
Mindless Games Hiring Posted by DraX on Sunday, October 29, 2000
Are you a gaming fanatic? Do you eat, sleep, and breathe gaming news? Are you looking to give something back to the gaming community? If your answer to these questions is yes, then we need you at the Mindless Games Network.
We are looking for a few good men (and women) to volunteer to help us with news updates. Benefits include special offers, T-Shirts, being part of a great team, and getting involved in a fast-growing gaming network.
Job requirements include a basic working knowledge of HTML, a love of gaming, and a commitment to at least one hour per day researching gaming news and making updates.
Please drop us a line at Jobs@MindlessGames.com containing links to other sites you've worked on (if applicable), and a brief summary of what you feel you can offer to the gaming community. This is a great resume builder, as well, (worked for me) so don't delay. Apply now to become part of a winning team.
SoF Linux Patch Posted by wmull on Friday, October 27, 2000
As Blue's reported earlier today, Loki Software released v1.06a of their Soldier of Fortune for Linux port. We've mirrored the file here, so you can find it in our files section. Have at it, penguin lovers!
Skin-x-tures Is Here! Posted by EvilGreg on Wednesday, October 25, 2000
We're proud to announce our newest hosted site, Skin-x-tures. You'll find new skins, themes, different weapon looks, and a lot more to fit your needs. If you're looking to customize SoF to your liking, then head on over to Skin-x-tures now!
1.07 Patch Posted by EvilGreg on Tuesday, October 24, 2000
Rick Johnson updated his .plan with news concerning the 1.07 patch. Here's what he had to say:It is going to take us a bit longer to release this patch. Originally, we were just goingto add support for Global Rankings, but due to a mutual decision between Activisionand WON, we will be removing WON from SoF. We will be adding GameSpy support, tocontinue to allow consumers to easily find live games.
S3TC Fix for Soldier of Fortune Posted by ExitWound on Monday, October 23, 2000
Seems as the guys at Reactor Critical have posted a fix for the autocompression of the textures in Soldier of Fortune. You can grab the file here or right from our files section here if you are a GeForce owner.The "Battle of Titans" article mentioned the Quake3 sky texture banding, an old-aged problem of GeForce. Our colleagues from russian site NVidia World have created a patch for Quake3 and Soldier Of Fortune. The patch fixes the aforementioned problem. It proved to be possible to improve the compressed texture quality for the GeForce series by switching from the DXT1 texture compression algorithm to DXT2 - DXT5. The method is only applicable to games that do not contain precompressed S3TC textures and use the autocompression only.
UPDATE:I have installed the S3TC patch and have posted a before and after picture HERE. Screenshot taken on a GeForce SDR at 800x600x32bits, all settings maximum.
EAX Enhancement Files Posted by EvilGreg on Sunday, October 22, 2000
Those of you who have EAX support on your sound card definitely want to download our two latest files. They are both EAX enhancements that greatly improve the sound quality. You can grab the Deathmatch enhancements here and the Capture The Flag enhancements here.
New Links Page! Posted by EvilGreg on Thursday, October 19, 2000
If you're looking for all the latest and greatest Soldier of Fortune links, look no further than our links page! If you think you have a link worthy enough of a spot on the page, let us know and we'll be sure to put it up.
Get Personal: Kenn Hoekstra Posted by EvilGreg on Monday, October 16, 2000
SharkyGames has put up a feature interview with Kenn Hoekstra, Project Administrator for Ravensoft. They ask him all about what it's like to be in his position and have such highly praised games released by Raven. Whet your appetite with this clip:Sharky Extreme: A Project Admin at a game company really seems to be jack-of-all trades. Do you have a real job description you can share?Kenn Hoekstra: My job description leans heavily on the phrase "other duties as assigned by management." I do a lot of the things that no one has time to do. I serve as the company's office manager, Webmaster and tech support guru, both for our games and our company's equipment. In addition, I monitor our message boards and online public relations as well as some marketing and promotional duties. I also do a good deal of technical writing, coordinating and, like I said, just about anything else the company sees fit to drop on me in any given week.
"Jack-of-all-trades" is a great summary of the position.
Dangerous Assault Mod! Posted by EvilGreg on Saturday, October 14, 2000
A new mod has hit the scene. This one, entitled Dangerous Assault, plans to bring the excitement that Counter-Strike brought to Half-Life, to Soldier of Fortune. The site is still under some work and they are looking for coders/mappers/skinners/modelers/etc. Drop on over to Dangerous Assault and give it a look!
Gold Linux Patch Posted by EvilGreg on Friday, October 13, 2000
LokiGames has released the 1.06 Gold patch for Linux. The patch is available for download on their ftp server here.
Developer's Diary #24 Posted by EvilGreg on Wednesday, October 11, 2000
SoFCenter has put up part 24 of their Developer's Diary feature with Keith Fuller. He talks about the underappreciated programmer and what it would be like without them.
Soldier Of Fortune GOLD Released!! Posted by Demolisher on Thursday, October 5, 2000
Raven Software has released Soldier Of Fortune Gold! The 26.5 Mb Gold patch adds some great features with bug fixes, bots, and skins. Also 18 new maps and 2 new deathmatch modes for multiplay are included. You can get it right here! There are also mirrors at FilePlanet, Stomped, 3D Downloads, Blue's, and Gameaholic.
Soldier of Fortune GOLD Update! Posted by ExitWound on Thursday, October 5, 2000
This from the Ravensoft message boards:
Just a little longer. QA has finished with the patch, now we need to get it to the appropriate parties.
Hang in there...
Today looks like the day!
1.06 Gold Patch Tomorrow!! Posted by ExitWound on Wednesday, October 4, 2000
This from the Ravensoft message board:
The SOF Gold patch is in its last round of Activision QA testing. What this means is that the masters just need to be verified before the patch can go live.
Without stating it "officially," and provided that nothing major occurs to delay the release, the 1.06 Gold patch should be available for download sometime tomorrow (10/6), hopefully before noon PST.
Thank you all for you patience.
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Steve Rosenthal
Associate Producer
Activision
EAX Sound Enhancements for SOF Posted by ExitWound on Monday, October 2, 2000
Head on over HERE to download a package of enhanced EAX sounds for your copy of Soldier of Fortune.
We've added effects like dynamically changing reverbs, obstruction & occlusion filtering, and adjusted sound source parameters to many of the multiplayer and single player levels. NOTE:This is only to be used with the 1.06 version (GOLD) of Soldier of Fortune.
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