In an attempt to push some of the activity on Lovesow, and using it for what it’s intended (:P), let’s discuss the latest big news in Warsow land: The announcement of the Association of Gaming Professionals (AGP) Tour!
These Guys definitely deserve the Purple Heart of Warsow for true man kind and not ragequitting
Starting out on Friday, I sadly couldn’t make it on time. Shamefully having emailed all participants to be present at around 11 am, I managed to show up at 7.10 pm! Unfortunately, I didn’t miss much at all, because there were no PC’s available for Warsow! Can you imagine, people taking their fridays off, leaving their girlfriends sick at home, only to show up on the other side of Holland, at the border of the end of the world, to find out there was no possibility of actually playing matches! Sad times.
Anyway! I met up with the usual suspects (tourneys are beginning to feel like reunions, in a good way); 
h1o, marrk, scoobz, jannis, A_Spec and Rikku, with special-guest star, all the way from Germany – mister 
pillz - also known as pielz, pillemann, pillzemann, or anything in between. Potatoes and Poki are his best friends, more on that later.
Right, I think for a change, why not use this Blog for what it’s intended, instead of your average Warsow-community spam site 
. I’m going to jot down my thoughts on a subject which has recently received alot of attention. Mainly after our announcement concerning the recruiting of 3D artists, and maybe even earlier then that; the first announcements of the improved renderer features (bumpmapping, specularmapping, normalmapping, etc.) of the Qfusion engine, alot of people seemed to have reacted in fear, worried that Warsow’s concept might be forsaken, worried that Warsow will turn in a resource-hogging-plastified-a-la-doom3 version of the Warsow you know. I’ll start off by explaining why we even want the improved visuals;
First of all, looks do count, and I’m not saying current Warsow looks shit (however I know alot of people do), but it’s a fact that advanced renderer features will make Warsow more attractive to a larger part of the ‘casual gamer’ pool. This may be dismissed as ’selling out’ or whatever, and I know this will be a controversial point. But at this stage in Warsow’s development, with the gameplay becoming more and more stable, and more and more towards what we are looking for, we can really start to look at the exterior. Also the amount of talent we have in the artist department of our team demands some more flexibility and experimenting.
Just like the people using picmip now, these settings and features won’t be forced upon anyone. Where people can choose to flatten the textures, dismissing the visual style of Warsow, people can also turn off the advanced visual effects. Other, seemingly smaller things such as improved (player)models shouldn’t need any explanation.
Secondly, visual identity and personality. Warsow’s concept of being cartoony isn’t dismissed by bump and specularmapping textures in maps, by having realtime reflections and whatnot. The goal is still to combine having a ‘cartoony’ game with lots of contrast and good visibility. With the new textures and visuals, the contrast between the players, models and the ‘background’ - the map - will be even bigger. Think of cartoons, where you have handdrawn backgrounds combined with the animated characters and moving objects, ‘popping out’ of the screen. This is the characteristic of a cartoony style which is maintained, even emphasized with the new visuals.
Right now, ‘colorful’ maps like wdm2 have little contrast. While many people see a wdm2-style maps as the Warsow style, I have to disagree. Bright colors, bad visibility, bad contrast, and the cel shading (in maps) is exactly what we don’t want. Think of handdrawn backgrounds, without sharp edges, no cel shading, with poppy, vibrant, high-contrast models, think of maps like wdm3 and wdm7. This will be emphasized with 0.4’s graphical effects too, currently we are toying around with cartoonifying some of the effects, such as the smoketrails of the rockets. They all help in making the distinction between moving, active object and the passive background.
So, we basically do take alot of care in choosing how exactly to apply and use the advanced renderer features (even taking alot of care to choose to use it; the possibility was there, the decision in how to use it took us some time). We actually have a fairly clear idea to what Warsow should look like, and why it should. It is far from a set-in-stone design, it’s more of a number of guidelines which change and evolve over time, with the same points leading; the concepts and ideas of visibility, cartooniness and low specifications.
We are still maintaining our own quality standards, and our own visual style and identity. A big part of the decision to go with these advanced features was figuring out how to be able to apply these techniques in line with Warsow’s visuals. This includes keeping the focus on visibility, with contrast being the keyword. This is not about colors of textures. I read people complaining about maps being ‘brown’, yeah, we have brown textures, just like we have grey ones and other boring colors :P. The reference to Q2 is easily made, as Q2 was all-brown, but believe that’s about all there is to compare. And remember, if you don’t like it, you can simply turn it off. And if you do, I really don’t think there’s alot left to complain about, as the difference in mapstyle atleast won’t be mindblowing at all, the maps will just be a tiny bit less pretty. Anyway the easiest would be to say to just wait and see, but I know that’s not satisfying to most of you, so I guess I could better say; have faith in Warsow 
Feel free to comment.
Has anyone seen him recently? He’s been idle on IRC for 5 days and his nick is still ‘BRUNSisatCDC3′.. 
…and they have a plan.
Tons of gamers (the wannabee pro who want to make a gaming carrier) are waiting for big warsow tournaments before getting seriously into it. This could happen sooner than you can imagine. At least, we’re working on it =)
by SoLomoNK.
So, tons of wannabee pros who want to make a gaming carrier, message me anytime in #warsownews with 1v1 mid++high- got server, NOW!.
[13:31:46] -kntz@#warsow.pickup- Please !add up in #warsow.pickup !!! 1 more IDLER needed!
[13:31:54] <@CTF\micros> kntz, stop it …
[13:31:58] <@CTF\micros> !pickups
[13:31:58] * echbot8 changes topic to ”
[13:32:01] <@CTF\micros> damn
…
[13:37:41] * CTF\micros changes topic to ‘echbot broken … stay tuned’
This menu shot was leaked by kntz. Where is WarsowTV? All lies. Bad quality of the shot, tho. Maybe WarsowTV menu link somewhere in the middle of left-rightish.
But remember: You leak, you die.
Yes it was, plenty of games, a nice duelcup (gratz scoobz0r), a great afterparty in Amsterdam, where AgamemnonZ taught a random drunk dude bunnyhopping (isn’t the wsw.nl scene the most friendly community ever?).
Anyway, for more coverage, see the following links:
And ofcourse the video I made out of the footage marrk has shot of the drunk guy:
This is a very old TDM map layout dezje drew for me ages ago. My first semi-serious-attempt at mapping, which failed horribly due to:
a) Constant changing of architecture (the plans changed with every new test of running around we did 
), leaving me with the most messy technical state of a map ever.
b) Trying to improve visual details at a too early state in the mapping proces.
Which led to the map not being finished. Evar. It’s very old. Very, very old. Some day I might remake it completely otherwise dezje will be upset. BTW the map is orange. And unlit (I mean I added in temporary crap lights ;D). You can run around in it tho! It was a usefull experience.
;’D
Click on read more for some screenies!
A_Spec from QuadV will be shoutcasting (non-stream) two matches of the first round playoffs Clanbase EC 1v1. Those matches will be:
vinski vs. law
and
BoBel vs. LockdoG
which are played Tue 29 May 20:00 CET and Sun 03 Jun 22:00 CET respectively will have shoutcast on the following links:
Winamp
Window Media Player
Real Player
iTunes
Also n4bik from Headshot Media will have a live shoutcast and stream Saturdays Match between V!ct!M and Scoob.
Here is a link for the match and stream info: http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php … p;lid=3021
As some of you might know, last weekend, War§ow team’s marrk, hangy and ETR went to the Dutch ESWC Qualifier’s at WZZRD Gamecafé in enschede. Being invited by Qpad’s 
Tazz, we had the oppurtunity to show the ESWC visitors and attendants Warsow, on a Qpad PC, customized by Qpad|Snakez. It was a great day, where we spoke to alot of people, and were able to do a bit of promotion for Warsow. We met up with the Qpad guys, snakez, Tazz and Vlad. here follows an outtake of Tazz’ gallery.
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