Achievements

Monday September 19, 2011 | by IncaWarrior

Unlocked: Read the news

Ok, there isn’t actually one for reading the news, but there are around a hundred other achievements that are now unlockable. Achievements are unlocked for performing certain actions or reaching milestones. For example, the achievement "Master Assassin" is given to a player who has killed 50+ shamans in a single game, and "Part of the Tribe" is given to players with 10+ ranked games (advanced from wildman).

Once unlocked in the matchmaker, the achievement will appear listed in your profile page with the medal (Bronze, Silver or Gold) for all the world to see. A description is shown by hovering over the title.

Some that require multiple games to unlock such as "Conquerer" will only include games from now on, but others that are accumulative stats will count all previous games in the new system.

Map of the Day

A new map of the day has been added that’s visible in the daily matchmaker message. Today’s map is Devil Worlds 2: Grass Worlds - Three Cats. Any wins on the map will receive double the traditional points for the game, and the player with the most wins will be announced Player of the Day (there’s even an achievement for your bragging rights).

Website Update

Sunday September 4, 2011 | by IncaWarrior

New Design

As most regulars will have noticed by now, the website has received a complete redesign. A big thanks to Apnea for designing the new graphics. The new design separates the website into six main categories and provides useful stats to logged in users on the left sidebar.

New Backend

In upgrading the website, a big portion was to move from the 8 year old phpBB 2 forum to the recently released (and updated) phpBB 3 software. The entire site is now integrated with this software which should provide better consistency and better working pages. As there are a lot of pages on the site, some not commonly used, there may be some missing pages that were not converted. If you see any missing or broken pages, report them to IncaWarrior so I can get those fixed up.

More pages and features will be rolled out as they are completed and tested.

New Statistics

Aside from the basics on the left side bar, there are many more statistics available. User profiles will give many nifty tidbits of information such as the player’s favorite map, Nemesis, total time played, and more.

Every map now has a page with similar information specific to the map, as well as a new league based on games just played on the level. For those that missed it on the old site, there is an interactive preview of every level that shows the land and information on any monument found in the world.

Matchmaker Tweaks and Disasters

Wednesday August 24, 2011 | by IncaWarrior

Matchmaker 1.6.6.8 and Mappack Update:

The latest matchmaker version has a few bug fixes in it (best teams show up for Yellow and Green, longer messages allowed, AutoHut is nicer, PM colors) and some changes to the way hosting is detected so hopefully there will be less false positives and more hosts.

'The Beginning' mappack has also been updated to include the most commonly used restrictions, so everyone will need to update.

Earthquakes, Tornados, Wars:

A 5.8 earthquake in the capital, tornadoes ripping up trees and houses, and of course the on going war that's lasted over 1 year and 2 months that's so far claimed the lives of over 2,551,831 brave men. It's a very dangerous world out there, so I hope everyone will keep the survivors in their thoughts as they go about their day.

The world I'm talking about is of course Pressure Point, which has in the last couple months surpassed Face Off as the most played map for the first time since records have been kept!