I am acid_rain. I’ve been gaming all my life. I started out playing Quake Clan Arena in 1996, and moved to Quake II CTF a few years later. Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament shortly after became my specialty. I’ve been in various leagues, including Cevo, TWL, OGL, and more. I develop GUI’s, scripts, and program. I’m helping internally test an upcoming Indie RTS/FPS called Natural Selection 2, and I host multiple websites as well as produce electronic music as a solo artist called First Sun.
More Diablo III Delays. Expect July for Release.
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As a tester for many indie and mainstream games, I often get a chance to speak with employees or ex employees who keep in touch with their current and previous game companies. Five minutes ago I was given a confirmation from a very reliable source whose identity must remain private. I know what you’re thinking already, I’m just a random blogger who has no idea of what Blizzard is doing and my sources are whack. However, As John Pinette would say — “Nay-nay!” This source is a highly respected one, and as a hardcore Diablo fan, that source gives me the benefit of knowing about certain things flowing around Blizzard.
Well, I can’t just tell you that the game has been delayed without giving some valid reason, right? Apparently, Blizzard are having some problems determining how the newly implemented Battle.net Tag feature will function in conjunction with the Battle.net system in general. There are other underlying issues that are causing the release date to be pushed back until what was said to be “late July”.
Why should anyone believe this at all? Honestly, I can’t blame anyone for assuming this entire post is completely falsified. It’s been done before and will probably be done again up until Diablo III’s official release announcement. I highly urge all the Diablo fans around the world to remember one thing that will give this information some solid weight, and it’s that Blizzard will not release a product until it is finished. I don’t mean, “Hey, it’s a small bug! We can fix it later, right?” No. I mean completely done. Diablo III’s Game Director would not have described it any better himself.
While all the information you’re reading is accurate, please don’t make the mistake of taking this information and sharing it with the rest of the world all the way up until July. If you’ve ever known or spoke with a video-game developer, they would tell you that one day a game can be set to be released in a month, then the next day it could change to six months, and vice-versa. This is just how the industry works.
All we can hope for at this point, is that Blizzard will work things out quickly, but not so quick to devastate Diablo III’s reputation on release. Either way, I’ll see you Sanctuary!
Bashiok Bashes Claims of Diablo 3 February Release
Filed under Games, Uncategorized
On January 7th, rumors and photos of Diablo fans from around the US emerged quickly all over the internet, including a blog entry released from Joystiq. Threads and posts all over the Diablo forums began showing up with this picture:
This photo was later to be confirmed real by a Best Buy employee stating that the store did indeed have an apparent midnight release for Diablo III. This is great news, except… what does Blizzard have to say about their own game announcement? The answer was absolutely nothing — until now. Just moments ago, Bashiok announced via Twitter that “Diablo III does not have a release date. Any store or person claiming otherwise is guessing.”
It is still unclear when Diablo III will be released, although Soon™ is always a good estimate for Blizzard games. No official response from Jay Wilson on the Diablo III launch has emerged either, leaving Diablo fans in the dark. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a company like Best Buy doing something like this in order to get pre-orders. Gamestop did the same thing over a year ago, and thousands attempted to pre-order the game. That promotion has since been taken down by Gamestop, but Best Buy doesn’t seem to be the only one announcing the February release. Target has also jumped aboard this idea of a February release.
As for all the hardcore fans of the Diablo series, we all knew better than to believe such shenanigans but the light of a possible Diablo III release was just what many of us wanted to hear. After all the rumors of Diablo III’s delays being blamed on the delayed release into Korea, we needed something. The wait continues…
“First Sun – Fire on a Stick” Goes Viral
It appears that the new track I did ended up getting lots of views on YouTube! I’m really excited about this. It’s been a long time since I’ve taken the time to make an update here, but I wanted to make sure that when I did update it was worth it. Well I’ve got to say that this one is totally worth it. Please take a look at my newest free track called “Fire on a Stick”. If you like Dubstep and Glitch Electronic music, then this is the track for you!
First Sun – Fire on a Stick by First Sun
Feel free to share this with everyone you know, and if you’re feeling extra cool, you can take the time to subscribe to me on YouTube , click that “Follow Me” button to your top-left to get my Twitter updates, and like First Sun on Facebook! Thank you, everyone, for all the support you’ve given me thus far. I hope the music you hear makes your day better!
My EP goes free!
You can now download the First Sun album Recalling Life for free via Torrent, or get it through SoundCloud and YouTube. Keep in mind that if you would like to help support my music, you can always purchase the album by heading over to the First Sun website at the First Sun website.
Torrent: http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2677106/33649716/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/firstsunmusic
SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/first-sun
And don’t forget to like the Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/firstsun
Consider it as a “Thank You” for supporting what I’ve done in the past and in the present. I could not have done it without you all. Much love.
Minecraft Server Moved!
The Minecraft server has moved hosts over to n00bfest’s main server box! This is great, because this means that once I’m gone, the server will remain up so everyone can play on it. This also means I can focus more processing power to the Natural Selection 2 dedicated server.
Head over to the Minecraft project page to get the new address or simply use: minecraft.n00bfest.com as the new host. It is no longer minecraft.electricimpulse.net. This also means there’ll be much less lag on the server. Hope you guys enjoy it. We’re also working on getting iConomy running full speed, and updating the bukkit build. I’ve been keeping a close eye on the plugin versions to update them, but there’s no updates so far. I’ll update them as soon as I see a new version come out. Once we get bukkit updated, new plugin versions updated, and iConomy working, we’ll start looking into new plugins or mods that seem feasible to the server. I’ll have another update soon.
Fresh Start on Minecraft
Sometime this coming week, I’ll be resetting the entire map on the Minecraft server. I know many of you will be sad that your creations won’t be there, but I’ve got some good news. I’m actually saving the old map, and I’ll send it to any of you who want it. You will be able to continue work in single player if you choose to. However, I’m giving us a brand new start on the multiplayer server. The reason behind this is that with the 1.6 patch, working biomes were introduced, and unfortunately, after the fact that we’ve built our entire cities and structures and what-have-you all around have turned to snow and ice areas. This is really a pain in the ass, but it gives us a chance to start fresh with a much cooler map with more features! I’d like everyone to at least acknowledge somehow that they’ve read this so I can be sure everyone is aware that I can send them the old map so they can view what we’ve done at any time! I plan on doing this for any map reset. If you’re eager to have the reset as I am, then note that the faster I get acknowledgement from you guys, the faster I’ll reset the server. I want to make sure everyone who plays on the server knows before it happens, that’s really the only fair thing to do.
Minecraft Server Updated to 1.6.6
Tonight I updated the Minecraft server to 1.6.6. It’s using the newest version of the minecraft_server.jar, bukkit mod, and essentials dev build plugin. The rest of the plugins seem to be working fine, however, you may still experience bugs along the way. In an effort to make sure the server is playable, I’m asking you all report bugs by responding to this post. If something doesn’t work right, is completely broken or a feature doesn’t work correctly, please report it. As new versions of the current plugins are developed, I’ll be adding them instantly on day of their availability. The server is up and running, and does appear to be pretty stable as I’ve tested some basic commands out. It’s now safe to update your Minecraft clients to 1.6.6. In the event that a server instability issue comes up, and the need to downgrade is necessary, I’ll inform you all before-hand. In previous posts I’ve provided tools to help you downgrade Minecraft to 1.5 so you aren’t lost. As always, I’ll always respond to emails or posts here. Have fun, and let’s hope she stays stable!
Things I already know:
Instabreak is currently broken.
MagicCarpet “jump” is hitchy.
Downgrade Minecraft From 1.6 to 1.5_01
Yes, many of you did it. You know who you are! If you updated your Minecraft to 1.6.x then you probably aren’t too happy to notice some of your multiplayer features aren’t working or that your server administrator hasn’t updated. While this download I’m about to give you doesn’t fix or revert your server back to 1.5, it will revert your client back to 1.5_01 to work with any Minecraft 1.5_01 server. Here’s how to fix your Minecarftz’:
(Note: You’ll need WinRAR to extract this file. You can get it here: www.rarlabs.com)
Step 1:
Download the Minecraft-1.5_01 RAR file
Step 2:
Extract the folder to your desktop.
Step 3:
Navigate to your “appdata” folder. You can find this folder by hitting Start, Run, and typing %appdata% into the search box. This should open the appdata folder. Inside that folder look for another folder called .minecraft. Open this folder up.
Step 4:
Cut and paste the bin folder on your desktop inside of the .minecraft folder. Be sure to overwrite the old file when prompted, and that you don’t place the new bin folder inside the old bin folder, otherwise your client will not revert. In that case, you’ll have two bin folders inside your .minecraft folder, and it’ll just be taking up space on your drive.
Step 5:
Profit. Go play and enjoy a working, fully-featured Minecraft again!
Minecraft 1.6 Releases Tomorrow Morning!
Changes: 5/25/11
I just upgraded the machine from 6GB to 12GB RAM. You should be seeing a great performance increase, and less down-time due to the fact that I can run the server without any interference with other work! Today should be the release date for Minecraft 1.6, but it looks like it may be Thursday now according to Notch’s tweet:
notch Markus Persson
“1.6 is aimed at Wednesday. Which means we’ll probably release it late Thursday.
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EDIT: No later than five minutes after writing this post, an update came through Twitter from notch:
notch Markus Persson
1.6 releases early tomorrow morning! I got some help testing it via irc. Thanks!
So, indeed, early morning will be the release for 1.6. If you’re a Minecraft host, keep an eye on those plugin updates!
As for my server, once the patch is live, you’ll need to give me some time to adjust the plugins that work from the ones that don’t. There may or may not be new releases that work with 1.6, but this is a huge patch, and I’m expecting the server to be down for quite some time… maybe even a full day due to all the plugin adjustments, updates, removals, etc. I will test the server in its current state after the patch, but there’s a good possibility that I’ll have to wait to start the server up at all until the new bukkit mod is released. I’ll keep you all informed.
