Hello Soldat Community,
I am here to unveil a project MM and I have been working on for several months now: The Official Soldat Web Gather.
This is much like current IRC gathers, such as the ones in #sna.gather and #soldat.mapping, except instead of relying on IRC, this gather is in your web browser utilizing AJAX and Javascript.
For those who are unfamiliar with the concept of gathering: a gather is where a game with a certain number of rounds of Soldat is organized and prepared on the fly, as opposed to pubs. This is sort of like clanwars, except without the clans.
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Post written on 01/12/11
For the first time in history you can put a poster with your favorite game on your wall. It uses the famous Rambo kill'em all dude from the frontpage. You can take a look at it here. Do you want this in your room NOW?
Thanks to the guys at gameposter.net you can now preorder your SOLDAT POSTER for only 9.99EU. The regular price will be 14.95EU. You've got only about 21 days to do this (this is until the posters get printed).
GamePoster is a new German based company that licenses, produces and sells high quality game posters to gamers. Once you preorder they will print your poster, roll it and foil-wrap it. They guarantee the highest quality print and packaging delivered at your door step. So don't hesitate, I know you want it.
Post written on 12/21/10
The servers themselves are hosted on FLAB's server located in Chicago, IL, USA.
http://soldat.thd.vg/en/gather
The in-game commands are:
!p/!pause - Pause the game
!up/!unpause - Unpause a paused game
!map MAPNAME - Change the map of the current round
!r/!restart - Restart the current round
!unbanlast - unban last banned player
How it works:
- Make sure you're logged in. (look at the top right corner of the site)
- At all times there is a queue for non-running gathers.
- When you join a queue, you are not allowed to join a queue for any other gather.
- When the queue you are in fills up, the web browser of each member of the party emits a beep followed by a join game link.
- The game lasts for the number of rounds specified by the website.
- When the gather ends, you are all kicked, the server shuts down, and the queue for this gather is then emptied and ready to be filled up again.
Additionally:
- If you are in a queue that has not yet filled up and close your browser window/tab, in 30 seconds of not returning to the page you will be removed from the queue.
- http://soldat.thd.vg has a friends system where you can add people to your buddy list (assuming they accept your request). When one of your friends are in a gather, their name turns cyan.
- In order to use the gather, you must be logged in. http://soldat.thd.vg uses the exact same accounts that the SoldatForums use so just use your normal username and password
What will be added in the near future:
- Player statistics (largely just involves me copying over code from my U13 rentals panel and tweaking it slightly)
- Possibly more in-game commands
- More gather servers, such as ones like Realistic Inf, HTF, Rambo, and others. The way I have the logic set up, adding more gather servers is extremely easy.
- IE support. It should currently work great in Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, etc
Thanks to:
- Myself for writing all the code
- MM for the idea and development encouragement
- Furai (aka Wookash) for really useful suggestions on the gather's usability and pascal scripting logic
- FliesLikeABrick for hosting and suggestions on the efficient way of doing things behind the scenes
- The people/organizations behind PHP, Ruby, Python, Apache, Bash, MySQL, Javascript, DOM, & JSON since they are the tools I'm using
Talk to us:
- The discussion and alpha/beta testing for the gather has been in #jrgp @ quakenet. Join the channel to chat with us live
- Please post suggestions/ideas/bugs/etc in the Soldat Forums thread.
-jrgp
Post written on 07/05/10
Soldat 1.5.1 Release Candidate version will be out any moment now. Because of this I would like to introduce a kind of promotion.
For a limited time before the full Soldat 1.5.1 version is out - the Soldat registration and bonus features that come with it will cost you... whatever you feel you should pay for it. Yes this means that all the hidden features available for registered players like higher resolution, minimap, custom interfaces and so on can be yours for the price you think of.
Pay whatever you feel this game is worth for you. Whatever the hours of online fun you think should cost you. Please remember that I am an independent developer and this is my only source of income. So the money I get from registration means my survival.
But more importantly it means more and better games from me. I am passionate about what I do and making new games and making Soldat better is all I care about. The lobby server which allows you to connect to the hundreds of servers and until recent times Battleye anti-cheat protection was all sponsored from my own pocket. This is a lot for a free game. Not to mention all the hard work that was put into this game and all the ongoing work that comes from all the good people involved in this project.
So please think how much you should pay for becoming a registered member of the Soldat community and getting all the game features related with that. Remember that what you pay will come back to you multiplied in the form of more blood, action and online mayhem!
In case you don't know what features will get unlocked after registering here is a quick rundown:
- Custom Profiles for saving different settings
- Custom Interfaces / New Interface Skins
- Built-in MP3 Player
- Changing Resolution to a higher one like 1280x1025 or WideScreen Resolutions
- No nag screen or banners before start of game
- Becoming an Honored Member of the Soldat Community for all to see (you get a Star associated with your Nick)
- Minimap that shows positions of your teammates
- Custom Colored Jet Flames
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Money-Back Guarantee!
If you still decide this wasn't worth it, or just something doesn't work you can get your money back no problem within 30 days. - Registration is for lifetime. Pay once and you get this for all future versions of Soldat!
Oh and did I mention that I add Soldat registered members to my Facebook friends list :).
Please go to this page.
Enter the amount you wish to transfer in the "Unit Price" box and within a couple minutes you will get your registration key and instructions on how to use it.
Thanks and have fun!
Enter the amount you wish to transfer in the "Unit Price" box and within a couple minutes you will get your registration key and instructions on how to use it.
Thanks and have fun!
Michal Marcinkowski
michal.marcinkowski <at> gmail.com
Post written on 04/30/10
The beta version is available here: http://enesce.com/?dl_id=10
or just start your older beta version for an auto-update.
Changes:
- Added aim lag
This beta is mainly a test for a new aiming system called :aim lag". It is an effort to make aiming more realistic and challenging. Instead of the start-up-time in weapons like M79 and Barret this will be used. Aim lag can be described intuitively as having two aim cursors - one which is your mouse position and the second one, which lags behind depending on weapon is your real gun aim position. It should feel as if carrying a real weapon, the heavier the weapon the harder it is to aim it quickly. Tell your opinions about this on Soldat Forums.
This version might suffer from a known bug which causes FPS to drop significantly. If you experience these problems please write down your system specifications (OS, video card, ram) in this topic.
