Ok, I lied. Sorta undead right now.

Posted by: EVA-251 on Nov 04 2008 03:45 am

Star Strike 0.6x Build 2

Posted by: EVA-251 on Apr 06 2008 03:50 am

Star Strike 0.6X T-Beta Patch 1

Posted by: EVA-251 on Feb 27 2008 01:07 pm

Star Strike 0.6X Transitional Beta!!!

Posted by: EVA-251 on Feb 24 2008 10:49 am

It has been almost a year since Star Strike saw a beta release, and it has never seen a release with great attention given to balance, fun factor and gameplay! Today, February 25th, 2008, when Star Strike 0.6X Transitional Beta is released to the public! The biggest changes of this release include: -Radically enhanced balance and gameplay -5 new Invader units -3 Infantry -1 Aircraft -1 Ship -Enhanced AI -A majority of the SSIA land voxels redesigned -The first GUI modifications -New VOs for Invader infantry -New movement and weapons sound effects Voxel previews! Voxel previews and screenshots! Future Release Details and Cameo previews! Download! (25MB) Something to waste some of that download time Star Strike was originally an "on paper" RPG a friend of mine made 7 years ago. Another friend, him and I made up characters, and we drew scenarios they were in. Back in that day, I played Quake 1/2 a lot, so of course, things had a Quakish spin when possible. A lot of it was centered around drawing firearms and vehicles. Some of my first were the Ionic Cannon (I picked up on CNC only 4 years ago) and a variety of Shotguns with more than two barrels. I believe I have a sketch of a quintuple barreled shotgun. It progressed into a Quake mod- I had become very, very adept with QuakeC. It featured the following weapons: Blaster (alt fire triple shot) Shotgun Super Shotgun Laser Gun Super Laser Gun Nuclear Grenade Launcher (alt fire energy beam) Energy Cannon (alt fire energy ball) Plasma Beam BFG Railgun (worked like Q2 one as well) Hyperblaster Ionic Cannon (alt fire similar the RTS version) Magnum Rocket Launcher (fired two rockets, very similar to the Quake 2: Reckoning Phalanx) Now that was all good, but it did not satisfy me, so eventually the mod turned into a testing ground where I implemented things like Flashlights, a mission system, a map-dependent sprite similar to Quake 2's objectives menu and eventually airstrikes. Thus it spiraled downwards and I moved onto better things... When I started playing CNC on the N64, I got hooked. My brother bought RA2 for the PC in late 2004, and that was it. CNC became my favorite game, and I began to expand my interests from there. I eventually picked up the Conquerors Collection (IDK the name), which came with TS, FS, YR, Renegade and another copy of RA2. After indulging in a failed project that some of you may know as "Stalemate", I began thinking of other ideas. Sketches from Summer of '03 reminded me of Star Strike- I did several vehicle sketches you see ingame. Among these, the SS MBT and Juggernaut. I decided to create Star Strike for a CNC game- I was divided between putting it on TS, RA2 or YR. I looked at TS- it had almost no good logic/tags that I could use, same with RA2 but not as severe. All it had was a more suiting environment. However, the Juggernaut in the sketches was detailed to have a troop bunker- something that only YR could do. Boom, decision made. It started simple, with the Defender, SS MBT and Fighter being my very first voxels. However, one hurdle remained for my newbie mind to overcome- 3 factions. I was not sure if you could have only two in YR, so I came up with an idea- to put the futuristic conflicts of SS (what I envisioned) in a more modern setting. The third faction would be the EDF, which at the time was originally going to just be a big mash-in of the Soviets and Allies. (my voxelling skills at this point were very poor, so I could not see far past that). On 2/18/2005, I started Star Strike officially, adding several units into standard Yuri's Revenge in an unbalanced mess. During one test, I put a garrison of Ionic Cannon Troopers into a building on The Alamo, and while I was eating dinner and left it unpaused while facing off against a Soviet hard AI. My base was destroyed, but the single building I loaded up with 10 Ionic Cannon Troopers was still standing, and pretty much unharmed. (at this point, Ionic Cannon Troopers could destroy Rhinos in 5 shots and shoot at aircraft) Things progressed slowly, and nothing I made really seemed to have an impact, none of my ideas were very innovative. And the major thorn in my side was still aircraft- due to non-stop bashing I got when making Stalemate, I had become very hesitant to use any public resources, something that has carried with me through these years. I never could and still can't design aircraft, so I needed help. I had added Yurisarmy (creator of the mod Yuri's New Terror and a placer in several voxel competitions) to my AIM list only a little while back. I eventually started to talk to him, found out he was a pretty cool guy. We began testing each other's mods, and he offered to lend a hand with aircraft. The answer was obvious. The mod continued on, with eventually an early beta that was quite terrible. A few more poor voxels, a few more sloppy additions later, I had released another. I think I was killing my potential fan-base right there. SS 0.54 marked the turning point for how I treated the mod. When 0.54 was released, the Cold War was my main focus. Some of you may be disturbed by the fact I never once tested 0.54 once- the closest I got to it was changing numbers. When I got around to playing it, I realized how poorly prepared it was for release. The defining release up to this point was 0.57, which comes next. I began giving serious thought to improving gameplay, voxel quality and fun factor. Due to poor promotion however and under-testing, it never caught on. Nevertheless, I soldiered on, determined on making a version of the mod that would literally render the previous versions obselete. This is the mod released today.

Why Star Strike 0.57 is not available.

Posted by: EVA-251 on Jan 12 2008 06:45 pm

Hope you guys are enjoying the holidays. I sure am! And for those actually on the internets this day, I hope you will enjoy my present to you guys- the initial release of Z-Mod! Please keep feedback in the Shoutbox or at the topic in 'Mod Announcements' at PPM. I can't encourage feedback more. Z-Mod 0.2 Alpha And if it crashes, that is something definitely good to tell me

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Posted by: EVA-251 on Nov 21 2007 11:05 am

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