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


Mr.Damage | Thursday 12 October 2023 - 07:06 | News | No comments

Killerz Mod Being Updated

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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Mr.Damage | Thursday 12 October 2023 - 06:25 | Mod, News | No comments
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Hi Res Skins For Thug, Runt & Bitch

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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Mr.Damage | Wednesday 11 October 2023 - 17:13 | Skin, News | No comments
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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 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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Mr.Damage | Wednesday 11 October 2023 - 06:57 | Map, News | No comments
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New Test Version Of The MH Kingpin Patch

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.


Mr.Damage | Wednesday 11 October 2023 - 02:35 | News | No comments
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High Resolution Textures

is currently creating new Hires textures for Kingpin. These will be all the standard Kingpin textures and the final product will probably be in png format. These new textures will reside in a new folder in main called hires (Kingpin/main/hires).

Dagon is very experienced at creating upscaled textures. There are still some challenges, but work is progressing well.

Monkey Harris is in the process of updating his Monkey Harris Kingpin patch to support the new high resolution textures.

Here are some screens of the WIP.

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Mr.Damage | Monday 09 October 2023 - 21:22 | News | No comments
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Stream From Sunday's Halloween Mod Game

THEBaratusII streamed about an hour of Sundays game of Halloween Hitmen.


Mr.Damage | Monday 09 October 2023 - 06:40 | News, Video | No comments

Sunday Game Of Halloween Mod 8th October

The Sunday Game this week will be the Halloween mod. The night will be split between Halloween Hitmen and Halloween Bagman.

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.

Game details:-

Server : Newskool Halloween Mod Server
IP : 51.195.217.126
Date : Sunday 8th Oct.
Time : 9.30pm UK time/4.30pm EST time


Mr.Damage | Sunday 08 October 2023 - 05:32 | News | No comments

Halloween Mod Files

The Halloween mod games are about to start.

You can download all the files from the server, or you can grab them beforehand from here.

The client files contain the required Halloween files and also most of the Halloween mod maps.

You can download the Halloween client files from here.

You can also get the Halloween CTF files from here.

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


Mr.Damage | Sunday 08 October 2023 - 05:25 | News, Mod | No comments

The Five Most Recent Death Match Maps

In case you missed any of the latest death match maps here is a summary of the five most recent releases.

Tropical Heat

Warehouse

Rankin Beta

Smash Pit Island 2023

Kill City

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

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Mr.Damage | Saturday 07 October 2023 - 23:49 | News, Map | No comments