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1/24/00--RavenFire and Dog Biscuit
The Members Only page is now finished, 100% : )
Everything is there, except one or
two missing info that I still cannot get hold of. : (
The "Progress" page is also coming along nicely, guys,
but I am afraid there is gonna be a couple of days wait. : (
There has been quite a lot of updates recently : D, so to the
regular passer-bys, who might have missed some important news, it
would be quite a good idea for you lot to scroll down now and
read some of the [not at all] old updates. People just because we
got over 470+ hits in one week doesn't mean we have to do a
update frenzy to celebrate...calm down.
Thanks RavenFire, I've found the
progress title, also downloaded the pic from the FTP. : )
I took out the eyecandy thing as it wasn't working, and I can't
find any eyecandy pics in the images folder. Maybe you can fix
the problem later.
--Dog Biscuit
JAWS!
Ok, ok, I thought I'd put some 'all
other copyrights are property of their legal owners' line in
there to cover that--oh well... Thanks for fixing that, Medstorm--but
shoot me later, k? 
I tested the first working build of the Shark Alien last night, on Polyp Fields (it's a CC map), and went downtown with a fleet of cruisers / destroyers to see what the AI was up to.
Next thing I saw was these tooth-jawed creatures rearing up out of the water, then chomping on and thrashing my ships to bits. Scared the crap out of me.
Good news of the day: After Don Megel insisted that simply giving the USMC 5 of the lifting-body style dropships--one of which will be completely unarmed anyway--would not give them sufficient air-superiority units, he presented a concept sketch and preliminary model for a fighter that would serve as a dedicated air-to-air-combatant. Much deliberation follows...
AND IT ROCKS!! We hereby christen the F-112 as the USMC's air-to-air superiority fighter. We all bow low to Don Megel.
Overall, looking good...
Your favorite bird-of-prey-arsonist,
--RavenFire
1/23/00--General Medstorm
New page up and running
Its' up, just click the "Aliens vs Predator" button above to go to it, at the moment it only has a prototype storyline. Check later for updates.
"Thats' it, man, game over,
it's game over man!"
-Private Hundson, Aliens
-General Medstorm out
Fixed dodgy copyright
As you may have noticed, the copyright at the bottom of the page only included copyright of Total Annihilation itself and the AvP TC team. If I had not noticed that when I did we could have had a serious law suit on our hands. Who is responsible? Come on, own up like a man. I'll be adding my own page soon, with quotes, shots and general info etc from the Aliens and Predator films, as well as a lot of information about the 3 races of the game. Check back later to see it.
To members: I added to the "Leader's Orders" of the members-only page, go check out and do your duty.
-General Medstorm out
1/22/00--Dog Biscuit
More NEW pages coming
We now have a members only page (password protected) on the site, it can be found at the bottem of this page, they should be a password going around if not, ask me for one [of course, only members will be given one : ) ]. Then go to the page and see the hidden contents. I will give a hint for the poor being who's going "This must be it!" 1000 times and rising, the fact is that the password can be quite easily cracked, providing that you know where to look for it.
There's also a EyeCandy page coming along, plus a progress page. Watch this space.
2 new beta units for download
RavenFire has uploaded another 2 units to the growing collection, go to the Units page and see for yourself. They are still AOL links though...: (
--Dog Biscuit
1/21/00--RavenFire
Grr... Okay, that was fun. Some of you might notice that the site was down for a while today / last night, as the main page disappeared for unknown reasons off of the server. Sorry about that, we were doing our best to get it back up. Dogbiscut (I'm guessing it was him, anyway--he's the one I emailed after he made the updates) saved us by whipping out the file he'd kept on his harddrive. Bow low to him, folks... : )
Been working on the Shark Alien. Script is basicly done, and I'll start building a Thrashing Death script for it. It'll look pretty cool. Once that unit is finished, we'll have out own resident 'Jaws'. :)
Added the Units page. I'll see if it works here in a minute.
/me bows low to whoever it was on our team that got the site back up. "I was Medstorm who fixed it, not me. : )"--Dog Biz.
--RavenFire
1/20/00--General Medstorm
The General's back, baby!
Hey, me again, back in action. For the record, I'd just like to say that I was NOT abandoning the TC or anything else. I went away for three weeks to try and get this site a hosting at UnitUniverse. After three weeks of consecutive fails (no one at UU seems to care) I came back to report my failure and I found this: Brand new site, (my efforts were wasted, plus 3 weeks of my time) new units and stuff. It's all sorted out now. Anyway, this is what this TC is actually about. RavenFire made it just the Aliens TC, which is what it set out to be. But that has changed, and it now is the Aliens versus Predator TC. RavenFire did this because he knows absolutely nothing about the Predators "I'm not completely clueless, Medstorm, but I don't pretend to know enough to do that half of the TC"--RavenFire. I have read up and I know everything there is to know about them. Therefore, from this moment I will officially take charge of the Predator section of the TC.
Later
-General Medstorm out
1/18/00--Dog Biscuit
Fixed
broken links
You might have noticed already
that the members page is no longer just text, I think I have
corrected every link on the site. After checking the site for
daily updates by RavenFire I realised that I just cannot tolerate
the broken links and missing files anymore, so I decided to tweak
the site and try to make it better, and RavenFire, calm down, I've
fixed that problem with the CorAlien pic for you. :-) I also
found the 2 extra links to ACUT & MBW [Gengis Khan].
The
Return of General Medstorm...?
I had a chat with Medstorm
today, he said that he is still interested in the TC and that he might
be coming back to lead the TC again. He also hinted he would like
to make the Predators for this TC, if he comes back, I think he
will.
--Dog Biscuit
1/17/00--RavenFire
ARGGHH!!! I just tested the downloads for the two units below (I have no idea why the Arm Warrior pic won't show, and no idea how to fix it--and yes, I know it's labeled as a core unit pic), and apparently Freeservers' MIME doesn't have UFO or HPI extension compatabillity yet, so you folks will have to do with two evil AOL server links... : /
http://members.aol.com/armnraven/ARMUA571C.ufo
http://members.aol.com/armnraven/ArmWarrior.ufo
Sorry about this, guys.
--RavenFire
1/17/00--RavenFire
Okay, we're off to a relatively rolling start. Right now, we've got the Alien Warrior running, and it looks awesome, so I've put that and the UA 571-C Sentry Gun up for download (the big gun and the big bug). The Sentry Gun's weapon is only a temp (until I can tweak it too look relatively similar while keeping the original essence of the weapon), because the multiplayer EMG-style lag SUCKS SO BAD [[bows to John Carmack]] that I wouldn't DREAM of putting it in a multiplayer game in its current state. The Warrior, however, shouldn't be a HUGE problem--although its speed could cause some definitely strange stuff. Other than that, they ought to be bug-proof.
1/16/00--RavenFire
Unlike the first post I put up below (at 2 am PST), THIS is the first actual 'update', I guess... So here goes:
We've gotten two more responses from old team members that are going to stay with the TC and finish it--including one from... SLAYA!!! Yes, the TA master is going to help us finish this the right way. The other new member is Dogbiscut, an old faithful from the previous TC team.
We're still getting everything organzied, so not much yet--I've added a temporary / rudimentary Team Member page, as well as some more links. Other than that, new stuff will go up as we have it.
--RavenFire
1/16/00 --RavenFire
I hereby officially declare this site open. From now on, we will be steadily adding links to pages where you can download the latest builds of the TC, add-in units, and other twisted paraphenilia. Expect a Team Members page, Story page, Info page, and Progress Update page soon--ie, within the next day and a half.
Also, the units in beta so far are:
From left to right:
UA 571-C and D Sentry Guns--UD-4 Cheyenne--M-40 Ridgeway--M112
HIMAT--
USS Sulaco (if you behave yourselves)
Not pictured: Alien Warrior, CS-14 Briaeros Heavy Shuttle, Shark Alien, Alien Queen, Egg Sac, M-22 Jackson, Pulse Rifle infantryman, Combat Medic, Sniper, Facehugger, M240 Flamethrower infantryman
When we get relatively stable builds of these units set and working, I'll upload them as soon as I can. At the moment, VULCAN is taking a crash course in unit making, as his specialty to this point has been maps. Don Megel is building 3DOs of the Medic, Sniper, and Flamethrower infantryman. I'm busy scripting the Shark Alien, and trying to pull my Math 3 grade out of the toliet (from where it was so inconvieniently put by one Mr. Pxxxxxx). Other than that, still waiting for a response from previous leader General Medstrom, as to where the heck he went.
--RavenFire