More maintenance.

Posted by: Charles 'grey wolf' Banas at 8:49 PM 

We had to do some emergency maintenance on the site, and a few things might have broke. We apologize for the forums being down for so long, but we've got a more powerful home now, and we're ready to rock.

Due to the maintenance, however, we noticed some minor glitches. Please report any problems you have viewing the site in the comments.

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 Server Maintenance

Posted by: Mhaddy at 3:16 PM 

Please bear with us over the next few days as we perform some server maintenance. If you notice anything out of place, please let us know in the comments thread below.

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 Tribes 1 Master Server Goes the Way of Starsiege's

Posted by: Mhaddy at 4:38 PM 

Well, it was inevitable. Sierra announced earlier this week that it would end multiplayer support for 20 of its "heritage" titles, including Tribes 1, on August 16th. While this news, to some, may seem like the end of playing Tribes 1 online, Starsiege vets will remember the community fix that was put in place when Sierra ended Starsiege multiplayer support. To that end, Bloodyboots from our forums pointed out that a community run Tribes 1 multiplayer master server is already in the works, care of Tribes One.

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 Third Tournament Open for Registration

Posted by: Mhaddy at 8:04 AM 

So you've been in our forum arcade and you think you're pretty good. You may have even been in one of our previous tournaments. Want to prove you've got the biggest kahuna's? Register for our Ball Breaker tournament - our first 8 player hub-bub that is sure to raise more than a few eye brows. Spots are limited, so get in while you can.

Update 06/13: The ball break tournament has been replaced with the Glop:Melee tournament, see this announcement for details.

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 The Last of SS:2845 Media

Posted by: Mhaddy at 8:47 PM 

The crowd has spoken and Trajan has answered, delivering a bunch of previously unreleased media. There's a little under a dozen new screenshots, and several handfuls of (mostly) unreleased development art. You can find them all by using our Quick Search Tool and the Gallery keywords, "The Last of 2845 Media", as well. Enjoy folks, that's all she wrote.

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 Cyberstorm PVP games begin

Posted by: IVIaedhros at 11:30 PM 

Crow! has officially started the first Cyberstorm game on the forums...or if not the first, then the first in really, really long time.

Click here to view the thread.

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 New Poll: 2845 Closure Shocking?

Posted by: Mhaddy at 3:47 PM 

We've got a new poll up today asking the question, "Did you find the SS:2845 project closure shocking?" Vote now!

And results are in from our previous poll, which asked what your favourite 2845 map is. Not surprisingly, it was Tycho Base.

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 Where Clancore is Headed and Why 2845 Failed

Posted by: Mhaddy at 12:36 PM 

An interesting blurb on why Starsiege:2845 was ultimately canned has been posted on our forums by BDUAres, originally posted by Vyper on the NTDF forums. Here's a snippet:

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The project was cancelled because of a collection of events that totally derailed our ability to produce anything of significance. First, Vivendi forced us to drop our initial development on UT2004 to and take up development on Tribes: Vengeance. Even though we were very close to an ATR on the UT2004 engine, this made sense; they wanted to sell more copies of T:V. But Irrational Games totally hosed the Unreal engine to the point it was unmoddable. In addition, Vivendi's agreement with IG gave IG the exclusive rights to the T:V source code, so we couldn't fix what they broke.

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So, if you want to know where Clancore is going from here, imagine Tribes 2 combined with Mechwarrior in a unique Universe created by us. We'll finally be free to create freely without all the chains that have held us down for four years.

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 Detritus

Posted by: IVIaedhros at 9:35 PM 

I emailed Trajan regarding the release of any previously unseen 2845 assets and here's the summary response:

Everything that was not directly ported from StarSiege is being revamped to be used in their previously mentioned MOD project. This includes all of the music and other art assets. Sometime in the future, any artwork that will not be used will be released to the public. Unfortunately however, no details on the story that had been created for 2845 will be released to the public due to their legal contract with VUG.

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 SS:2845 Crew: Welcome!

Posted by: Mhaddy at 3:30 PM 

Well, I've been so caught up with my career that I only just found out the bad news. While I can't say that I'm completely surprised, it does come as a shock and I am deeply sadened. So let me be the first, second, third, whatever number to welcome those first post posters, long time lurkers, or existing members to our humble community.

We've been around since the very beginning and remain the source for your SS Universe content, and we'd like to keep it that way. Please join us in our General Discussion Forums for your every day run of the muck chatter, or scroll down to our cleverly labeled Starsiege Forums to gorge yourself on insatiable Starsiege ramblings. Or if there's something that you can't find here, please feel free to drop me a line via email, Personal Message, or by posting a thread on the forums.

While SS:2845 may be dead, that doesn't mean that the community has to go with it. Welcome!