Another Halloween Mod Screenshot

This one taken by Lil Blade.

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2022 Complete Map Pack

I have put together a map-pack of all the maps released at Kingpin.info in 2022.

This is all the Death Match, Bagman, and all other mod maps released.

22 maps in total.

You can download the 2022 map-pack from here.

Download and open the zipfile, then just unzip/extract the files to your Kingpin folder and they will be placed in the correct locations.

You can check the other yearly map-packs here.

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Pro Killer Thug Skin

Here is an good looking, older skin for the thug model called Professional Killer. It was made by Shizo back in the early days of Kingpin.

You can download Professional Killer from here.

Just extract/unzip the skin files to your Kingpin folder and they will be placed in the correct locations.

Easiest way to select this skin is to:-

Pull down the console (tilde key ~)

type in :-
skin "male_thug/890 890 890"

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Screens From Thursday's Halloween Mod Game

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Killerz Mod Screens

A couple of screenshots showing off the new Mobster and Killer HUD displays.

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Thursday Game Of Halloween Mod 12th October

The Thursday Game this week will be the Halloween mod. The first hour or so will be Halloween Death Match then the remainder of the night will be Halloween CTF.

Game starts:-

9.30pm UK time
1.30pm USA PST/4.30pm EST
10.30pm Western Europe/11.30pm Central Europe/00.30am Eastern Europe.

Server Details:-

Server : Newskool Halloween Mod Server IP : 45.147.54.153:31537
Date : Thursday 12th October
Time : 9.30pm UK time/4.30pm EST time
Server : Newskool Halloween CTF Server IP : 45.147.54.153:31538
Time : 10.30pm UK time/5.30pm EST time

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Killerz Mod Being Updated

Hypov8 is currently updating the old Killerz mod.
Killerz is a mod made in the early days of Kingpin by the Atrophy Mod Team.

It a simple enough mod, the game starts like normal death match. Everyone races to be the first to reach a set number of frags (2 - 5 set by server option). The first player to reach the required number of frags becomes the Killer.

The killer regains full health and gets full armour.

He also has a ooloured glow (another server option and can be red, yellow, blue, pink, aqua) All the other players (now called Mobsters) have to gang up on the Killer and take him down.

During the Killer phase all the Mobsters can only kill the Killer and have a white glow around their weapons to distinguish them from the Killer. Once he is killed the DM round restarts and the race is on to become the next Killer.
There are server options that can be set to determine how many frags the Killer gets for fragging a Mobster, for suiciding and how many frags a Mobster gets for fragging the Killer.

The Killer shows up as red in the scoreboard, there are regular screen messages displaying who the current Killer is and, during the Killer phase the Killer sees 'Killer' on the lower right of his HUD and the Mobsters see 'Mobster'. Once the Killer is killed the Killer and Mobster displays disappear from the HUD indicating the DM round has restarted.

Hypov8 has added Monkey Mod 2.0 support, fixed any bugs in the mod and added a few features to make the mod more playable.

Hopefully the revised mod will be ready for testing soon.

Here are some early screenshots (before some of the features had been added)

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Hi Res Skins For Thug, Runt & Bitch

Fredz has created hires versions of all the standard skins for the thug, runt and bitch models (and also the dog, rat and shrimp!).

Every texture is upscaled with 4x. Until maximum 1028 pixels.
All the textures were done with Topaz Gigapixel AI v5.4.
The zipfile is 542.5 mb

Please make sure you have MH's Kingpin Patch v9 and the lastest test version here.

You can grab the hires skin pack from here.

Just extract/unzip the skin files to your Kingpin folder and they will be placed in the correct locations (main/hires/models/actors/*.*).

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Central Hotel Death Match Map

Recently when playing on the Luschen Botmatch server I saw I map I don't think I had seen before. The map is called Central Hotel (hotel.bsp) and was made by WhoopAss back in December of 2001.

Central Hotel is a smallish death match map set in and around a hotel. There is only one of each weapon but nearly every room has one, plus ammo etc.

You can download Central Hotel from here.

Just extract/unzip the files to your Kingpin folder and they will be placed in the correct locations.

If you want to check out the map join the Luschen Botmatch server, open the console (tilde key) and type - changemap hotel.

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New Test Version Of The MH Kingpin Patch

Monkey Harris has released a new test version of his MH Kingpin patch.
This new version adds support for hi-res images of any type.

Here's a patch update for you lot to try. It should add support for hi-res images of any type (not only map textures) under a "hires" folder, eg.
you may have:
"main/hires/textures",
"main/hires/env",
"main/hires/models",
"main/hires/players",
"main/hires/pics".

As the hi-res files don't replace the originals, it's possible to switch them on/off, which can be done with a new "r_hires" cvar (enter "vid_restart" to apply changes).
Hopefully someone can create some nice hi-res images to make use of this.

Here's another patch update to add support for PNG images in the "hires" folder (it'll look for TGA first and then PNG), as well as fixing the path search order so that mod-specific customisations still have priority. It also re-enables the "gl_maxtexsize" cvar for setting the image size limit (larger will be downsampled), with a default value of 4096 (not that I think it'd be a good idea to make them that big!).

Yu can grab the new patch from here.

Just extract the file to your Kingpin folder and overwrite the existing file.

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