July 2000
Siege Updates Posted by Demolisher on Monday, July 31, 2000
The Shadowlord brings two pieces of Heretic II Siege news. First, -MONSTER- has put Siege 1.1 into a self-extracting zip file which makes installation of Siege much easier, and also doesnt require the previous version of Siege. Second, a How To section has been added to show how to use the ballistas, the catapults, plus a few other things. So be sure to check out the Siege site for all the details.
The Quest Update Posted by Demolisher on Friday, July 28, 2000
The Saint has updated the The Quest site with the new features in The Quest single player and coop mod. • New spells include -Flamering -Summon Werewolf -Summon Insect -Summon Hexen2 Golem -Summon Yakman -Light.
• Gladiator mod available if using new variable +set gladiator 1.
• Added the Yakman from Hexen2.
• Monsters will spawn money when you kill them.
• New items: pick-locks| when comming to a locked door you can use your picklocks to open it, the succes depends on your Dexterity.
• Might increase your blade impact and maximum health, Wisdom influence damage given by spells and Maximum of Mana, Dexterity is needed to use some weapons and picklocks.
JET's Latest Level Posted by Demolisher on Thursday, July 27, 2000
Our buddy JET, one of the best mappers in Heretic II, has made a great new deathmatch level that you can get here.
Update: Grin has created a bot route for Jet's level which you can get here.
Cosmos on Heretic II and Hexen II Posted by Demolisher on Wednesday, July 26, 2000
In a thread on Raven's Voyager forums, Mike "Cosmos" Gummelt, Raven programmer and creator of the original Hexenworld Siege, mentions Hexen II and Heretic II:Hexen II's puzzles did tend to get kind of hard (especially Egypt). The mission pack was a lot of fun to work on and concentrated much more on action than puzzles. And it still has (in my view) one of the best snow models in a FPS ever.... the snow flurries around, each flake is different, it can fly through windows, stick to surfaces and melt! Woo! (can you tell who programmed the snow?)
Heretic II is the one Raven game I still load up and play just because it was so much fun. The control and combat is so good it makes me feel like an action film star- and ass-kicking acrobatic hero who slices enemies to pieces or makes them explode into flaming gibs!
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Mike Gummelt
Game Programmer/Writer
Star Trek Voyager - Elite Force
Grinbots v0.4b Released! Posted by wmull on Tuesday, July 25, 2000
Grin has just released v0.4b of her wonderful Grinbots for Heretic II, featuring lots of new goodies this time around:- A dedicated melee AI for blade only combat !!!
- Added support for custom names, skins and models.
- Bots will automatically re-join after map changes.
- Improved compatibility with dedicated servers (still not recommended though !!).
- Teamplay is now fully implemented.
- Added a kick command to remove bots from the game
- The bots have had some swimming lessons !!
- They will occasionally use their blades in DM (mostly against a player with reflection)
- The bots will now drop the tornado spell at strategic spots but they don't know how to avoid them yet
- Chicken bots now actually do something. (Beware of the Monster Chicken Bot!).
- Changed the movement code and tinkered with the AI to make them more realistic. Head to Grin's Place for the download!
FAKK2Central.com Goes Live! Posted by utopia on Monday, July 24, 2000
Our very own Mindless Games Network has just finished up the latest site in our network. FAKK2Central.com has gone live! Be sure to make it your first-stop for any news related to Ritual Entertainment's Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.˛.
Touch of Heretic II In Elite Force (Cont,) Posted by Demolisher on Monday, July 24, 2000
A while ago there was a discussion on the VoyagerEliteForce.com forums about using Heretic II textures in Elite Force. Here's a screenshot showing the use of the textures from the Andorian levels. 
Siege Installation & Configuration Guide by Demolisher [1:10 pm PT - Jul. 24, 2000]![]() |
The Shadowlord brings great news for anyone having trouble installing and configuring Heretic II Siege:I just added a new Installation section. This section provides information on how to install Siege. The section also includes information on how to configure Siege, which was provided by HellRaiser. If I have more time I will try to add more details.
I hope this is useful for you new players who are installing Siege for the first time. Be sure to head to the Heretic II Siege Site for details.
Amiga Port Of Heretic II Siege Released!!! Posted by Demolisher on Saturday, July 22, 2000
The Shadowlord brings this great news for Amiga users:Heretic II Siege Amiga port is released! You can get the files at http://www.hyperion-software.com/. A big thanks goes to Hyperion-software for helping with the port. You will also need to download the client and server files from the Heretic II Siege site.
Heretic II Linux News Posted by Demolisher on Friday, July 21, 2000
Blue's has this great news for Linux Heretic II users: Loki has also released a multiplayer map pack for their port of Heretic II, although it's not entirely clear if this is the Heretic II enhancement pack released by Raven for the Windows version of the game. Likewise, 3D Downloads has a mirror of the file available.
Siege Server Update Files Posted by Demolisher on Thursday, July 20, 2000
The Shadowlord brings this newsI just finished updating the server files to include a new server variable to disable the precache of the player models. This update only adds the new server variable and nothing more. You don't have to update your client files. You can download the server files in the Files section. This update is mainly for the benefit of Amiga players and players with low RAM. Also note this is the PC version.
Get Your -MONSTER- Skin Pack #1 Today Posted by Demolisher on Thursday, July 20, 2000
The talented -MONSTER- has put together all of his great Heretic II skins in one zip file. Be sure to get it here.
Heretic II Siege Amiga News Posted by Demolisher on Thursday, July 20, 2000
The Shadowlord brings this great news on the Raven-Games forums:Good news on the Amiga front. Today we tested the Amiga Heretic II Siege files. An Amiga client connect to MONSTER-'s server and everything worked great. Just incase you don't know, Amiga players can play on PC servers and vice versa. So Expect the Amiga version to be released very soon.
New Gameplay Mode For THF In Progress Posted by Demolisher on Thursday, July 20, 2000
Wankeroo, one of the primary creators and heads of the popular THF teamplay mod for Heretic II, brings this news in his Raven-games plan file:Ummm, q3THF is nearing completion but, I just got a job and Cyb is going on vacation - I think it'll be 2 weeks before it comes out. I wanted to put it out a while ago but, life is a bunch of distractions, no? I will definately get into moding for SoF after q3THF and I have a cool idea for a new kind of gameplay that will I think I might throw into Her2THF first.
The Quest Team Looking For Some Help Posted by Demolisher on Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Jax has informed me that the The Quest Team is looking for a skin artist and texture artist to join their team working on this great mod! Contact The Saint if youre interested. Check for more Quest information and news at the Quest Site and be sure to check out this great Heretic II mod.
MindlessGames.com Needs News Helpers! Posted by wmull on Monday, July 17, 2000
As some of you may have noticed, our new, in-progress Mindless Games Network has been growing at a phenomenal rate! We'd like to take the MindlessGames.com site itself to the next logical step, and begin covering general gaming news -- but we can't do it without you!
If you'd like to join our very talented and passionate staff, now's your chance! Be sure to let us know any info about yourself you think may be relevant, including any previous experience you may have! Quite honestly, we are addicted to this online gaming stuff, and we love the experience of doing something meaningful and fun online!
Does this sound like you? Interested in joining our team? Get in touch!
Update On The Grinbots Posted by Demolisher on Monday, July 17, 2000
Grin has updated her awesome bots. Go to her site to get it.
Community News - MONSTERS Quest Server Posted by Demolisher on Monday, July 17, 2000
MONSTER has put up a server running the awesome Quest Mod at 24.9.52.241:28910.
Touch Of Heretic II In Elite Force Posted by wmull on Monday, July 17, 2000
Raven's Project Admin. Kenn Hoekstra responded to a thread on the VEF forums asking where are the curves, giving this insight into what we can look forward to in some of the later levels, which should give Heretic II fans at least some consolation:There are tons of curves in the game. Just look at the hallways and the round stuff on the ceiling of the bridge. Later in the game, there are "Stasis" levels that are composed almost entirely of curves. Rest assured, we put the curve tech to the test...
Not all of the levels are high-tech themes. We have some organic levels and other "looks" as well.
If you want the fantasy look, there's a level or two for holomatch that use the Heretic II textures and architecture style.
Amiga Heretic II Update Posted by Demolisher on Monday, July 17, 2000
The Hyperion Software Page has an update for their version of Heretic II for the Amiga.This update fixes some annoying bugs in the original release of Heretic II. The following things changed:
In the original version saving the game did cause a crash at some places under certain circumstances (for example Andoria Plaza), this is now fixed.
Some people had problems with the CD-ROM code. This is fixed.
Some people could only start the game every second time. This is fixed.
Some people experienced delays having to do with the CD-ROM code sometimes. This is fixed.
In the ref_gl.dll a debug output was remaining, which caused slowdowns in some scenes. This was removed.
Updated Heretic II Troubleshooting and Tweaking document. For more detailed information please refer to the documentation included in the download.
At this place we also want to announce, that a port of the Multiplayer-Addon "The Siege" of Heretic II is in progress. At this place we want to thank the author of The Siege (The ShadowLord) for doing an Amiga Version. You can find more information on the Siege Homepage.
Have fun with the update!
Outworlds Project News Posted by Demolisher on Monday, July 17, 2000
DraX brings us this really great news in his hosted site plan file onThe OuterWorlds Project for Heretic II:Some good news on the Outerworlds front! I'm sure many of you know that Grin has just released the beta version of her Heretic II bots. Oh, you didn't know? Well what are you waiting for? Go get them!!!
Anyway, This may possibly overcome a major hurdle which Outerworlds had to, well... overcome. (which isn't the half of it with my limited coding knowledge, but hey, sue me) One of the additions that I felt was necessary in Outerworlds was bots.. not as enemies, but as allies. As you may know, I have held back on releasing several player models simply because I had built them for Outerworlds. These were of several Sidhe and the like, with a few dozen skins made for spawning NPCs. It was my intention that not only would these new characters be playable in DM, but also that they be able to "Join your party" With Grins' new bots this may be possible.
So there I was, wondering How this would get incorporated into Outerworlds, and guess who's name shows up on my Contact List? GRIN!! "Hi, Grin, how're you doing, nice bots, can you please, please, please, please, please, please, please......(you get the picture) ...work with me on Outerworlds?"
(Okay, that's not QUITE how it went, but I have to make it sound good) Anyway she accepted, I dusted off my files and got back to work on this endless project.
Community News - Gladiator Server Needed Posted by Demolisher on Saturday, July 15, 2000
Vagabond, of Vagabond's Models posted this request on the forums:We need someone to run a gladiator server Because the only one we have access to isnt great and it cant be
run very often
Anyone want to run a server? This mod is a lot like blading with some extra features and everyone that has
played it so far had liked it alot! Its only 1.8 megs fot the client fiels and the server dlls arent too big.
So if anyone wil be kind enough to put our mod on their server please e-mail me with with the address in my
sig or icq me at #62982837
Thanks,
Vagabond The Gladiator mod is a great mod, so some community support would be great.
More Info On The GrinBots Posted by Demolisher on Saturday, July 15, 2000
The talented Grin gives us this great update on our sister site's forums:Firstly - this is just a beta test release, to check that the AI i've written is enough to keep people on their toes, and to check that my babies are gonna be able to stand up for themselves against some of the hardened DM'ers out there. They will definately be tweaked a lot.
Crashes- I have yet to figure out what is causing this. I do not have this problem, so it must be something to do with peoples systems/setups. I'm working on it.
Chickens - The bots at the moment do not know that they are chickens, and get really confused by the whole chicken deal. I'm gonna write some AI to deal with this after I've got other stuff worked out.
Blade - Strange that I've left this out, as I'm a blader and hardly ever play DM. But, I've not been able to come up with a way of getting them to use it intelligently in DM. I'd be glad to hear your ideas on this, and code them in if they are workable.
Swimming - Very poor. I know why they are so bad at it, and think I can fix it fairly easily.
Ropes - bah. I hate them.
Whirlwind - Good idea about planting them on top of shrines and important items. As I don't play DM, I didn't know a good use for it. The only problem that will cause is that I will have to make the bots see the dropped whirwinds and avoid them.
Ring of repulsion - At the moment they use this if they have it and if they see a pbow arrow coming at them. I'm not sure if this is the right way to use it.
Rolling - yep, if they are on fire, they will roll to try and put out the flames.
Teleport - At the moment, they will use the teleport if they are under attack, and have less than 20% health. Did not want them being really annoying and teleporting all the time. I could make them use it if they are stuck - good idea.
Reflection - They do not know when the enemy is reflecting. The AI is not advanced enough to deal with that yet, but I do plan to include it.
Saving routes - Will be possible. Left it out of the beta for simplicity.
Model/skins - Again, I have this working right now, but left this out of the beta to make things more simple. You will be able to spawn a bot using sv bot spawn name skin to spawn custom bots.
secret doors and breakable brushes - They don't know about these things yet. Will try to include it.
Gladiator BladeMatch! Posted by wmull on Friday, July 14, 2000
Check out The Quest, newly hosted by our sister site, Raven-Games.com! The Quest is a single player expansion by an ambitious team that's working hard to breathe new life into Heretic II! Once you're at the site, be sure to download The Quest's just-released multiplayer element, Gladiator, which is a really interesting twist on BladeMatch, with RPG elements thrown in! Here's a screenshot. Sounds like fun, looks like a blast? Check it out!
GrinBots Released!!!!!! Posted by Demolisher on Friday, July 14, 2000
Grin has created & released the first ever working Heretic II deathmatch bot!!! Get it at her site and be sure to read installation instructions, known bugs, and a list of supported maps. All maps are available at the Atlas.
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