October 14, 2002

X3MAPS RELEASED by Mr. White

The Alliance scene has been quiet for a while but I've just received word that the X3map pack has been released. This pack contains 8 highly polished CTF levels that are compatible with all types of Q3CTF, including Alliance and 3Wave. Check out the X3maps official website for more info and download links.

March 11, 2002

ALLIANCE 3.3 RELEASED by Mr. White

We've just released what will be the final version of Alliance for Quake 3, Alliance 3.3. This new version fixes a few bugs and adds a couple of requested features. Here's what's inside: - Added support for 2 new game modes; Rail n' Rune and LMCTF - Fixed g_allianceFree(weapon) bugs to make Rail n' Rune possible - Fixed uneven heath in bases on actf19 - Fixed spawnpoints stuck in the wall on actf24 - Fixed grapple sounds on actf17 and actf24 Note: Using the Ref and CallVote menus to change game mode will now result in changing the pogo as well. By default, pogo is off for every mode except for Rail 'n Rune and Instagib. The upgrade is about 2 MB and comes in exe and zip versions. Grab it from the downloads page.

March 9, 2002

INTERVIEW WITH FREDO by Mr. White

planetquake3.net has posted an interview with id software's Fred "Fredo" Nilsson. In it he talks about his favorite mod among other things. Here's a quote: RogeR: What is your favorite mod for Quake3 Arena and why? Fred: For Quake3. it would have to be Alliance and OSP being a close second. I love Alliance because of it's speed and general craziness it brings to the game. You can grapple all around with an offhand grapple, and pogo off walls and the floor all while firing your favorite weapons.. There is nothing as fast/furious as that mod.. So.. If that sounds like something you'd dig.... Give it a whirl. That mod needs more players.. In case you didn't know, Fredo is the co-author of one of the most kick-ass Alliance maps ever; actf29, Deviant. Thanks for the lovin' Fredo.

February 11, 2002

MOD WEEK AT GAMESPY by Mr. White

It's mod week at gamespy and Alliance will be one of the featured mods. Tuesday is the day we get the spotlight. There will be an in-depth overview of the mod plus an interview with yours truely. Head over to gamespy and check it out.

January 30, 2002

ALLIANCE IN PC GAMER UK by Mr. White

(click image to read the review) Evidently Alliance was on the CD and reviewed in the latest UK edition of PC Gamer. The review was kind of mediocre, stating that the mod has nothing new to offer the CTF experience but I don't think the reviewer played it for more than 5 minutes. I'm guessing he didn't try the combat mode or hold the flag. Maybe he didn't notice the radar or team camera options. He probably didn't play long enough to see how kick-ass the bots really are. I'm sure he didn't realize that, although fairly common in multiplayer games now days, Alliance and its predecessor LMCTF were among the first games to have team radio sounds. Do I sound bitter? It's really not that bad. Thanks to Darren Tabor for sending me the review and thanks to PC Gamer for putting us on their disc.

January 3, 2002

ALLIANCE TAKES THE SILVER by Mr. White

I'm proud to announce that Alliance took home the silver medal in the Quake catagory of the Plan te Mods mod competition. We even got this cool prize.

December 22, 2001

YET ANOTHER DIV-X MOVIE by Mr. White

This time WarMachine from clan Federated has put together a div-x promotional movie for Alliance. This movie features more rockin' tunes, plus all sorts of in-game action. Head over to the extras page and check it out.

December 21, 2001

1.31 POINT RELEASE INFO by Jaboby

We have been testing the new 1.31 point release and Alliance seems to run smooth. You can download it here or run the updater.exe in your quake3 folder. The protocol has changed from 66 to 67 so you will not be able to watch old demos or join servers running PR 1.30 after upgrading.

December 14, 2001

NEW ALLIANCE MOVIE by Mr. White

Slappy from clan Federated has put together a cool DivX movie that shows some amazing Alliance action to some pretty rockin' tunes. Head over to the extras page and check out all the movies and other goodies we have for you there. If you haven't done so already, don't forget to upgrade your version of Alliance to 3.21. You can grab the patch from the downloads page.

December 12, 2001

ALLIANCE REVIEW AT 3D ACTION PLANET by Mr. White

Dr. Foxy over at 3D Action Planet has done a very in-depth review of Alliance. Although the article is generally favourable, there are a few negative points. Of course there's nothing wrong with negative feedback. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, although there are a few points I feel need to be cleared up that the author may not have been aware of. First of all, Dr. Foxy was quite criticle of the radio menu, stating that we should have spent the time to enable player movement while it was on screen, like RTCW. Actually this is something we tried to do. Wolf uses a cl_bypassmouseinput cvar to do this which Q3 doesn't have. We asked Robert Duffy for it, he said "NO!" The author also mentions the "blocky terrain" in some of the maps and wonders why we didn't use the terrain builder that was added to the Q3 tools when Team Arena came out. The answer is simple. Most of these maps were made long before TA was released. These minor points aside, it's a very good article and well worth checking out. QUAKE SHIT MIRRORS FOR EXTRAS by Mr. White

Our friends at Quake Shit have mirrored all the files on our extras page. If you haven't checked out the extras page you should. It's got all sorts of Alliance movies, screen savers and wall paper. I should also mention that Quake Shit runs some pretty kick-ass Alliance servers. Thanks for the wub guys.

December 8, 2001

ALLIANCE 3.21 PATCH RELEASED by Mr. White

If you just downloaded the 3.2 patch, you will have to download the 3.21 patch. We caught a small bug a few minutes after releasing. The 3.21 patch is out. It's under 2 megs in size and fixes all the remaining issues with the 3.0 release, for real this time (we hope ;-). Head over to the downloads page and grab it. People installing Alliance 3.x for the first time will need the full version of 3.0, the 3.21 patch, plus any map paks they wish to download. If you're having problems running Alliance, check out this important info. What's new in 3.21 Fixed in-game overflows bug. This freed up a lot of bandwidth in the process. Forced a minimum of :45 seconds for g_warmup. Smaller values were causing overflow problems at map-start. We still recommend all servers run with g_dowarmup 0. This does not affect matchmode countdown. Fixed dropping items bug when cheat protection is enabled. Fixed health and armor values in team camera. Fixed radar image for actf35. Added com_hunkmegs promt to Server Launcher and Alliance shortcut.

December 4, 2001

ALLIANCE 3.1 PATCH RELEASED by Mr. White

The 3.1 patch is out. It's about a meg in size and fixes all the issus with the 3.0 release (we hope ;-). Head over to the downloads page and grab it. People installing Alliance 3.x for the first time will need the full version of 3.0, the 3.1 patch, plus any map paks they wish to download. If you're having problems running Alliance, check out this important info. What's new in 3.1 FFA server, then ref change to a team game; players spawn on 'Free Team' instead of red or blue, fixed. Runefx2, resist shader broken, fixed. Broken auto hud switching between insta and other game modes, fixed. HTF scoring bug, fixed. Flag returns in fog on actf41 even if you don't die, fixed. Actf39 2D radar pic / bases switched, fixed. 2x flag/rune bug, fixed. Many issues involved with loading of models and bots, fixed. Lagometer covers scores on HUD, fixed. Pickup icons/name missing, fixed. Pause message not always displaying when game paused, fixed. Shredder sound not playing when carrying flag, fixed. Added OSP Anti cheat protection. Added g_allowvote 2, enables all voting except for game mode. Added Q3 models back into team games. Added cg_forcemodels 2 & 3. 1=Selected (fixed from always being default model.) 2=Quake 3 models only. 3=Alliance models only. Improved client memory usage for sounds. Added 'Listen Server' option to Server Launcher util. Added 2 new head models / bots, Fett and Solid. Made '2D radar' and 'Team Camera Off' by default.

November 29, 2001

ARCHIVED AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH MR. WHITE by Mr. White

The voice interview I did with Paligap at X-treme Gaming Radio the night of the 3.0 release has been archived. The interview is in mp3 format and devided into three parts. Check it out if you're interested.

3.1 PATCH ON THE WAY by Mr. White

We'd like to thank everybody who helped make the release of Alliance3.0 such a success. As with all releases, it seems there are a few bugs we neglected to squash. Most are pretty minor but rest assured, we're working hard to get the 3.1 patch out the door. I suspect it will be released later this week or early next week. I'd also like to remind people, if they are having problems running 3.0, check out this important info.

November 27, 2001

ALLIANCE 3.0 REVIEW & INTERVIEW WITH JABOBY by Mr. White

There's a review of the new version over at the Gaming Eye. As well as a favourable description of the mod, there' also a bit of a Q&A with our own, Jaboby. Check it out! We've got even more mirrors up on the downloads page today. If you haven't downloaded Alliance 3.0 yet, what the hell are you waiting for?

November 26, 2001

ALLIANCE 3.0 RELEASED! by Mr. White

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It's out! Go get it! While you're waiting for your download, you can check out the Alliance 3.0 preview at PlanetQuake. Thanks to Pappy-R for the kind words. The Alliance Dev Team are hosting an IRC party at actf.org server - irc.quakenet.eu.org channel - #actf.org Come on in, the party starts now! There will also be a voice interview with me, Mr. White tonight @ 9:30pm EST on X-Treme Gaming Radio. Please note - Alliance 3.0 installs into a new game folder, /alliance. Players with previous versions may wish to copy client configs from the /alliance20 folder and then delete that folder. Admins must not copy old server configs from the /alliance20 folder. It is important to start fresh with the new server configs found in the /alliance folder. In addition, please check out this important item on the help page on memory and framerate.

November 25, 2001

ONE MORE DAY! by Mr. White

Alliance 3.0 will be released a mere 24 hours from now. I can hardly wait. There will lots of stuff to keep you busy while you download the new files. Planetquake is planning a big feature on 3.0. I will be interviewed on X-treme Gaming Radio (voice interview). We're also planning an IRC party of sorts. We'll have all the details for you tomorrow.

November 24, 2001

INTERVIEW WITH MR. WHITE by Mr. White

That's right, John Callaham over at HomeLan was kind enough to scribble a few questions together for me to answer. In the interview I talk about the making of Alliance 3.0 and all the juicy goodness that's inside. Alliance 3.0 will be released in 2 days. Woohoo, I'm pumped!

MORE 3.0 WALLPAPER by Mr. White

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This time Jaboby has outdone himself. He's made a wallpaper pic for each of the 14 new maps. Grab the zip here. Did I say 14 maps? Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. We have a last minute addition to the new map pack. Check out actf41 on the maps page for more screenshots. Only 2 days until Alliance 3.0 is released on the 26th of November! We'll have some more pre-release goodies later today and tomorrow so stay tuned to this site.

November 22, 2001

ALLIANCE 3.0 WALLPAPER by Jaboby

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If you need something new to look at while waiting for Alliance 3.0 to be released Monday the 26th, go grab the new wallpaper. The wallpaper shows one of the new Titan models and actf38 - Feel The Base. Only 4 days untill 3.0 is released - 26th of November!

November 21, 2001

ALLIANCE 3.0 MOVIE by Mr. White

To wet your appetites, Jaboby has put together an awesome DivX movie to help promote the upcoming release. DivX installer is included. Although a few sequences in this flick were made before some features were implimented, it shows many of the new features plus the amazing gameplay you'll find in Alliance 3.0. You can grab the movie from File Planet or head to the Download Extras page for a list of mirrors.. Don't forget, Alliance 3.0 will be released this coming Monday. We've also got lots more goodies in store for you all week so keep your eyes on this site.

November 19, 2001

ALLIANCE 3.0 IN ONE WEEK by Mr. White

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We've been working our butts off over the past several months and it's finally paid off. Alliance 3.0 will be released on November 26th. This new version is truly the ultimate Teamplay and DM experience for Quake III Arena. There are three modes of play, new gametypes, new weapons, new player models, new maps and much, much more. Not to mention the AI for the bots is simply amazing. We've put together an in-depth preview of Alliance 3.0 over on the features page. If you want all the goods on this new version, check it out. We'll also be bringing you various items of interest all week so stay tuned to this site. Right now we're just putting the finishing touches on Alliance 3.0. Then we'll be packaging it up and getting ready for the Monday release. See you on the servers soon!

November 17, 2001

ALLIANCE GETS A BRAND NEW LOOK by Mr. White In the past few months we've been working really hard on Alliance 3.0. The new version will have a completely new look that I think you guys are going to like. We thought the website ought to reflect the new look of the new Alliance so we've totally redesigned it. All the tutorials have been converted plus we've completely redesigned the features and help pages. Alliance 3.0 is coming soon. For now, enjoy the site.

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