Yayyyyy

shistorm inc

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[+] whore :(

Oh look another FPS title getting promoted.

guess the situation in SM scene is REALLY BAD when it's come to this. :D

buying ql players, part 2.

The game isn't even out yet.

why would u aim to buy quajke players??? :D quake dont have them :DDD

finally someone who sees this

really? >D

I hope so :)

no i mean people really dont get that quakes playerbase not very solid? :D

After reading countless of "they try to buy over quake playerbase" posts - yes I assume people really think that Quake still means anything qua size in the gaming world.

only things killed quake playerbase is old age and id software :l

negro pls, get a clue.

You might be on to something. Given that q3 is now 12 years old, most vq3 veterans should be in their late 20ies if not 30 and up.

Gaining new players is a bit hard with all the CoD/xbox live alternatives. (and an obviously non-existent marketing, PR and beginner unfriendly platform)

thanks for explaining my own point to me, doesnt make me feel retarded at all

Always there for you hun <3

its more like donating to ql players

wow, what a weird announcement. went from very few (low prize pool) tournament to this? O.o

boopboop inb4 still not having 1k viewers

I guess the promotion money hasn't drained yet.

i guess that's not bad for colwn

Haha, exactly what I was going to post when I read the title.

Go live on planetmania instead.

ffs

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blimey, 100.000...
get 10% of that cash to organise a ql event, pls

"Join quick-fire matches and epic battles, where only your talent will distinguish you from the crowd "

Yeah.
Ok.

the announce deserves a special case in court

Our game doesn't seem to be gaining interest.

THROW AWAY MORE MONEY!

It didn't work before. It won't work n-

MORE MONEY, DAMN YOU!

I'm giving her all she's got, captain!

nice :)

really?

I play it so why not?

CA voice

LAST MAN STANDING

rofl

go strenx, get the 100'000 bucks and invest it in QL-tournaments :D

would be hilarious if he left QL again for SM now

of course he will

I certainly would

same. he was finishing third before...if he puts in more time then maybe top 2 and make some decent money (compared to QL at least)

what happened with his fundraiser? I think there was like $400 donated like a month ago and we have no info whatsoever lol

He puts info on his facebook. Last he mentioned, it'd be end of Sept/start of Oct.

Announcement should follow soon.

this will fund his trip to SM tourney

the only probem is that he couldn't win is simplemania.... winz regularly beating him

kaboom

I wish the game was more enjoyable to watch

I wish the game was enjoyable fullstop

*to play

100k for sc2 and then 100k for both lol and shootmania. that makes me pretty fucking sad.

you mean $2,000,000 for LoL. Tournament is on 2 weeks.

MID AIR RAILzzZZ

you've gotta be shitting me..

Just let the game companies throw money the way they want. Either way it doesn't make any difference to us, the quake fans.

It's been very quiet on the Shootmania front during the last month or so.
I was already kind of hoping it was already dead ... but cancer is tough to beat.

desperate quakers are the funniest ones

Desperate .... what not? How, who, why, where?

Haven't been following the shootmania scene, what Quake Live (ex?)pros are playing it (and presumably winning everything)?

damn that game must be really bad

http://www.wordans.com.au/wvc-1341355034/word...90_340.jpg

what if it was..A MILLION DOLLARS?!

why there is no so interesting prize like that on QUAKE ???????

rethink pls.

I would remove the "re" part tbh

.....

this game must be good

damn, time to reactivate my shootmania filter.

This post made me remember about something, hows strenx quake stream and tournament going?

Scroll up ^

Painkiller part 6346346

fuck you

painkiller was glorious to watch

Yeah, I mean they were pushing a dead game with million$ tournaments

I know, I just don't like it being compared to SM.

the worst thing about this is, its 4 na, and 2 european, why have a huge tournie, where essentially barely anyone has actually played the game, and its only open to a small number of people, thats like if id software had a 100 k toruney, but only i was allowed to enter haha, also this couldnt come at a worse time for quake with the new weekly cup happening as well asa couple lans

you mean like doom3 in which fatality was the only person in the world that tried the game before the tournament?

well i dont know much about anything that isnt ql but that sounds bs to me :>

doom 3 release - August 3, 2004
quakecon 2004 - August 12–15 2004

not sure if fata could play it before the release

nice to see so many bitter ppl :-)

SM's historic peak viewers is 51 (not hundreds or thousands, just 51).

Lets see if they can get 52 to tune in.

i've had more in instagib streams c:

Isn't it almost the same as instagib?

I have had more in my targetquake events also and that was last week!

I did a CSN event with wonko and I had 8x more))

Zoot did one with TotalBiscuit that allegedly had 1300 viewers though :o

That was NA Quake. I did a stream with some CS guy called Rizc and we got about 850 or so (dont really remember).

$800,000 prize money?

fo

im not mad cos i know every single dollar from that 100k will land at quake players. go stermy!

positive thoughts, I like it!

Something that was brought up by multiple people like carmac and 2gd etc is that it's alot more sustainable for a game to have such a huge prize pool broken down into more smaller events throughout the year so teams and players can have more regular income rather than risk a whole years practise to not win anything at all. I mean if they can do money like this all the time then good on them :P But chances are it will be just another Painkiller where it has big prizes but a small community.

i think the money is for kickstart the game. but of course carmac and 2gd are right.

Funny thing is, David Ting from IPL said the same thing. Now he does this.

Guess eSport really is just a marketing show :(

In other news I got the speed cap world record on iron works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVOe62X0hxk

major this shit

this has to be a joke. you may as well light 100,000 dollars on fire and cook shit stained marshmallows with it.

Some people just want to see the world burn.

Yeah its funny how when the first time I played SM I had three or four guys ask me what game I played before playing SM and I would tell them QUAKE and they would not be surprised! LOL... I just wish I had that kinda money to blow on QL cause if I did I would do events all the time with cash payouts! "Its not about the money with quake its about the love of playing the game! If you enjoy playing quake, then play quake"(rapha)

Sif $100,000 would make this game skilled and interesting...

It'll just be a colwn rape party if they decide to participate and they should imo.

Why are there only 2 euro qualifiers but 4 NA? Aren't the top teams europeans? Their only team at the paris event finished last.

LOL the Paris event had no NA quake players on it!

They had one NA team from CS. Merc ops.
Gillz predicted they finish first but finished last instead.

Well there you go I rest my case!

gillz failing hard? cmon i cant believe that :D

Never said that.

you did

I never said I expected them to win the whole event.

http://esreality.com/post/2323364/100-000-sho...pid2323723

Are you going to prove anything or just link useless urls.

http://www.esreality.com/post/2279516/cybersu...edictions/

You hinted it lots, since basically you said everyone sucked and were amateurs against professionals, but they ended up getting roflstomped in every match. History didn't change.
Also you said Merc Ops (americunts) was going to beat fazz/fox/noctis and strenx/avek/cypher lol.

Merc Ops is the American team that contains professional CS players on them, they've been practicing and preparing a lot for this tournament. They've been playing at a ping disadvantage against European teams, but their chemistry is where it should be. They know what they're doing right and what they're doing wrong, they're smart on attack, and their defense is tight. This leads me to Millenium.

Don't be surprised if these Quake "dream teams" don't do as well as you'd think the would, Shootmania is a different game, and it shows.

I expect Merc Ops to advance first out of their group, and either ADK or Cowln for the other group (it's just too close to call for me).

The game is different from Quake. Both CS and Quake share similarities with Shootmania. I'm not saying they're going to beat them, just don't be surprised if they do. Merc Ops plays very well, Millenium is composed of good players, but that doesn't mean it makes them a good team. Positioning is huge in SM, and CS focuses on that a lot. Maybe time to change history?

So you can't read. Like I mentioned before I never said they were going to win the event.

http://esreality.com/post/2323742/re-100-000-...pid2323742

you obviously can't read.

http://esreality.com/post/2323364/100-000-sho...pid2323541

can't read.

http://esreality.com/post/2323364/100-000-sho...pid2323673

if i was as dumb as you id probably kill myself.

I've got a spare rope.

then hang yourself

K I'll try

cause the NA is full of self entitled wannabe-pro shitters who this kind of shit is aimed at

sounds like... gillz

That's because there hasn't been a reason for any top or experience NA FPS players to start playing the game....

Remember when CPL announced the million dollar Pain Killer world tour? Everyone and their mother started to play despite most strongly disliking the game.

I haven't played in a couple months and unless there have been drastic changes I can't imagine it's any better to spectate...that had always held my attention span for less than a minute. From my understanding this was the general opinion of people from other genres of games as well. When it came to playing it, I had a bit of fun for 20-30 minute sessions over a few different attempts at enjoying the game, but always asked myself why am I wasting my time playing this instead of quake? I don't foresee this tournament producing any sort of large spectator base, but I guess we shall see.

They should be careful with that prize pool, if SM fans will be motivated to go and play, stream could be left with no viewers at all.

waste of money, just stupid

lol SM

not dead yet? *facepalm* why so long

You know this will end up helping quake!

surely the team with stermy will win this so he can keep throwing his yearly lan party, and make a nice $ tourney again along with it.

I understood Painkiller for such amount of money... but this game? WHAT THE FUCK? This is like playing Quake Live instagib for 100.000$, and even QL instagib is more interesting than this shit game with Crysis game size maps and shit movement.

instagib crysis is one of the better definitions I've heard about SM

I was talking about Crysis maps which are huge as fuck. You need 3 fucking hours to arrive on the other side / corner. So its in shotmania, maps are huge as fuck and game is boring as fuck. I would enjoy more Quake Live instagib (team / ctf) than this shit.

$100,000 QuakeLIVE TOURNAMENT AT IPL5

imho angry birds is more skillful than shitmania, no jokes

SM, the LoL of FPS gaming.

...wait ... aren't you the guy promoting it?

I'm confused and sleepy.
Mostly sleepy.
But also confused.

I run a website for it, yes. Doesn't mean I think it's the best game in the world.

Always thought you're more involved with it.

Nope, have just been trying to promote my website. I enjoy running a website. I saw a chance with SM to become a major site for it, so I took it. Doesn't take away that I'd watch SM over any of the current top esports title though.

inb4 faceit ql cup gets replaced by sm! ;D

Don't worry, hehe! All money I get from my site has gone back in QL so far :)

As a quake lover I'm sad SM gets promoted so much and all.

Still, I think it's possible that Quakers play both games, QL for money and QL for the challenge. If they have enough money with SM they can pay their trip to Quake events :p :p. I've always been a dreamer, npnp.

Quakemania players.

Hopefully toxjq/k1llsen/stermy just enter and rape every single fucking thing that moves, take all the money and then put half into a quake tournament so we can see some real shit.

fuck

haha...you use "fuck" like "period" <3

I just want to see colwn go there and practise well beforehand and not lose a single map, that'd be funny.

unmajor this

Wanted to try that beta shit, but that 1 gb maniaplanet shit does not extract... 0% constantly, seems like a sign to drop the idea

people crying because a fresh new game replaces the fossil that is quake lmfao! like really....

btw colwn is not very good, they only won the 1st tournament because of natural skill but they would need plenty of practice if they wanted to compete with the top teams now as tactics have evolved heaps, however im not saying they couldn't.

Hm, railing and spaming rockets isn't a viable tactic anymore?

Gotta check the streams!

dont get me wrong but you could say the same sentence about ql :P

sg-at point blank range,pg/rl at close range, lg at mid range and rail at mid-long range
shit seems a bit more diverse

Forgot the easiest one - ammo.

Like maza said, don't you guys think in ql duel there is too much spam? I think there should be either weapon s respawn in 5 seconds or lots of ammos (for instance 25 rockets max like it's now), not both.

I do know that spam is a part of the game because is useful in a lot of situations but I don't like at all when there is spam abusing every second of the game...

I mean, just for the sake of example, at last quakecon dahang played in very smart way but was painful to watch imho

Nope. I've never thought that.

Obviously quake is a fossil, because somehow people keep coming back to it, maybe that could change if something fresh and new came along.

tour a cockhead hey, ur saying that as if sm is a good agme.. which it isnt, wouldnt expect a baddie like you to realise what was good in a game and what was bad though.. tactics cant evolve much in a game like this, because they are not in depth or complex at all, tldr siil is a shit cunt and sm can sm dick haha

aussie rage?

rofl you havn't even played shootmania... therefore your just like every other fag who wants to knock a game before they even try it.

well durrr, yes the tactics are not to the same extent you see in quake but that is not the point.... the point is that its fun to play and its simpler gameplay contributes to that. People need to stop being gaycunts and stop comparing the two games.

I do think quake is the better game in its own sense but get more enjoyment out of sm tbh

ps: calls me a cockhead and then tries to make a point by attempting to bag my quake skillz, not surprised coming from an egotistic twat like urself lawl!

i have played it you idiot haha there was absolutely no enjoyment for me in the game at all, and no why should we when we can only in reality play one to a good level, and sm is fucking trash, you would get more enjoyment out of sm, cause ur trash at quake haha also i meant the term baddie as a negative term similar to noob( same as when i called you a shit cunt at the end), not said anything about your quake skill, but now u mention it, your horrible haha

im better than most and you know it

haha im just trolling ya m8, but sm is rat shit game. haha

what? for example quake tdm is a tactical game. i can understand when people say counter strike is also tactical: as in the sense of the possible variations of 2x5 players taking different positions, roles etc... but SM?? its 3v1 with restricted weapon roles.

heres SM tactics for you:
A 2 coming in front - 1 flank
B 1 coming in front - 2 flank

for the railgun player:

A, charge
B, hide

therefore variations:

AA
AB
BB
BA

it could hardly get any more simple

often CA beats it

"Fresh" and "new" is "fresh" and "new", not "good" and "interesting".

which one has more players, this game or ql?

Neither.

inb4 fatal1ty's comeback

shitmania is shit, i bet on deadmania for next year

unless of course nadeo/ubisoft/whoever finds another 100.000$ laying around.

the most disastrous decision ever made (marketing wise)

if the shootmania scene is like it was last time i logged on then i will have no problem beating the 5 french guys who play for the 100,000$

stermy should go win this.. then invest into into UGC prizepool

\o\
/o/

What was that $100,000 quake 3 tourney back in 2000/2001 that Fat won? It wasn't Babbages was it? It's a shame the prizes for quake events didn't rise or at least stay on par with the prizes from back in the early 2000's.

Nowadays prizes are higher than before on popular games, and most probably they are paid more often and in time (cpl and esl are good examples. Didn't pay and pays more than a year after respectively).

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Better than $0 for any FPS game.

not for quakers, apparently

esreality=quake !

it is interesting... how esr is a "e-sport" site... ... well, ...where are all the sc2 and lol and dota stuff then? :}}

historically speaking, esreality despises team-liquid, where those peasants reside ( :DD )

but TL has proven time and time again that they are able to respect other games, namely quake.

But there is absolutely no reason for this relation to be symmetric.

it would be only fair though

sure you have a point, but the nazi regime administrators, shitty outdated design, horrible forum layout and a mass of mongoloids is how TL has been seen here in the past

things might have changed over the years, WHO KNOWS

I'm sorry bruder but this is beyond ironic.

Ok, ESR mods are only seldom following the nazi regime.
As for the outdated design and horrible forum layout, I think ESR takes the cake.

not true ... like quake community ... community of ESR site took on its shoulders, to make new designs:
http://esreality.com/post/2150219/userscript-nicky-esr-theme-mod/
so atleast the design is somewhat new. :DDD

jaja, but for ~100comment threads esr has the best forum layout !

i post sc2 stuff.

this site has had the best platform for news content for probably 10 years. the community focused on quake, and as a result there's rabid quake retards that bitch whenever someone posts news unrelated to quake despite the ability to block such posts.

tl;dr

sm;dr

so mad

so sad

will never be payed out.

As far as I'm aware NADEO have paid out all current prizemoney, including that of Gamescom right after the grand finals to eclypsia and team-dignitas via cheque. I cannot think of another sponsor that has done this at an event that I've personally been involved with for a long time. So in that respect I've had no bad experience with NADEO, they've treated me and other players extremely well and if the money is coming directly from them, i see no reason to believe that it would not be paid.

They lie :/

Would be suicide for IPL and Nadeo not to pay out. We got paid very fast, and were treated incredibly well. So I approve of nvc's message ^^

Are you going to try to go with Three Old Men?

Nope

what is id software doing wrong??

Pretty much everything they touch?

they took a 10 year vacation

Quite disgusting. :S

Who is actually sponsoring this prize purse and what do they get out of it?

I find it deeply concerning that people don't understand that it's coming from Ubisoft and that they probably paid at least twice this amount to get it into IPL. And it's not one bit concerning that they do this(except for Ubisoft ofc ^^) Considering the game has no players and NO stream viewers.. It scares me that people have to ask this question. That is what concerns me.

The game will obviously not take of.. There were alot of promises about feedback getting implemented, but NONE of these things ever got into the game and much worse, they started going in the opposite direction. They have no clue what they are doing, and that the game was decently fun to play for 2 weeks was obviously nothing but a fluke.

However I suggest anyone that wants free cash and a trip to play it. With some dedication you can easily catch up in 2 weeks..

it is your job to win this and use the earnings in a 2gd studio quake tournament

REALLY cba. Even if I knew I would win it wouldn't be worth my time atm.

pretty please?

Having a hard time to just respect peoples opinions and decisions?

and now? It'll be fun for you and us

Sense, you make none.

They have no clue what they are doing

Shit son, I got flamed for proving that 4 months ago, what took you so long to understand it ?

You didnt prove anything. They proved it by not listening to feedback AT all. You didn't even try to give them any.

The guy they sent on a suicide mission over here had absolutely no clue about half of the shit he said.
Being able to outdumb me = proved.

Someone from Nadeo told me it all comes from IPL and their partners.

I guess you should read up on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_criticism

Edit: And even if it was true, it would just mean that IPL is doomed to fail in the long run to.

I'll read through the article every time I make a comment from now on!

If you were just saying, maybe you should have pointed out that yourself, mr Journalist. :)

Damn, you were too quick for my edit!

Anyways, I don't know why I should add anything to what I said. People can conclude from it what they want. If you want to believe the guy, go ahead. If you don't want to believe him, go ahead.

I personally find his word more trustworthy than spectulation.

All guys at nadeo told me they would implement our feedback :o)

Then feel free to believe in your speculations

Either way. I feel that its better that some friends win this money than that they actually used the money for proper marketing for the game. So by all means, everyone that can should go grab the cash!

1.3b and 1.3c have changes with input from others, rail kills rockets, walljumping, etc. I'm not saying you're wrong stating that they didn't take the input, but maybe your opinion will change seeing the updates. changelogs are on the forums

We took the input and some were surprised of the output at the moment they were doing the inputs.

We have reduced many things at start in order to stabilize many parameters that were not optimal for further grow. The sooner was the better for us, in order to avoid too many players to adopt visibly positive things that would be a threaten the lifetime of the game. For example, you have to take into account that many competition or qualifier are happening online, and have to reduce some dependencies on the ping in order to open door to netcode improvement for later.

In fact, we can go in deeper, richer and more fast paced directions, but we need to go carefully since we have to build a solid game that have as much strength as possible, even for competition. We went toward other direction than some first feedback for good reasons, but it does not mean that we will not be able to take them into account at some point. Patience is required to build something solid and ready for a long time.

To say it simply to Fazz: we will implement your feedback, but with the respect of other constraints. And there are no constraint directly opposed to skilled players desire. Many people make the mistake between easy and accessible. Football is not easy, but it is accessible. We want the game to be like that. So, the goal is to find the best way to implement pro players desires without preventing to hurt some key points for the game. And they are much more numerous than only accessibility.

Making a game is complex and making a game for eSport is even more full of constraints: spectator, ecosystem of amateur/pro, cheating, online competitions, offline competitions, matchmaking, level evaluation, fairness in all cases, team management etc.

I went to international competitions, saw tournaments, had discussions with team managers, event organizers, news sites etc. But the game developer also have a knowledge, and listening to them as pro can be profitable as well. If you don't, you can still do feedback, since feedback is always real, but you can't judge them without knowing more. And if people want to judge, they better wait the release. Until then, we will open up the game slowly but surely, and make moves in the direction required to make the competition the most interesting as possible at the highest level as possible.

We are less than in the middle of the beta of a new FPS. When it will be ready, the Elite mode will be open to everyone for free and both gameplay and rules shall be deep enough to have years of FPS eSport at the best level as possible. It means paying attention of having a constant stream of new amateur spectators, players and pros.

I can't say we will succeed, but I can say that we will try, and with the contribution of constructive people that are deeply involved into eSport. We have released the Elite Exp title that is the laboratory to help to do it and it will soon evolve with additional things. If you want to know more about it, the 1.3 changelog can help
http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13665

As an example of consequences, we are making a transfer of toss system, goal average on decider map and checkpoints option for rules and rockets vs laser (with half sized hit radius and better feedback) as option for gameplay in the official Elite mode today. But I am also looking after removing the speed reduction that is too big on direction move at average speed and higher. It is already done in Elite Exp, but before doing it, I have to work on keeping the new speed of Elite Exp but with dealing with some inertia issues on lower speed strafe etc. In fact, there are 200 mathematical functions or parameters to the gameplay. Moving them require time and precision. So it requires patience and constructiveness.

. In fact, there are 200 mathematical functions or parameters to the gameplay.

And then you will be wondering why the hell all the math checks out, but people aren't playing the game???????

I don't even...

I have to admit that i have been quite out of the FPS loop lately though and have only watched some vids of the game. Thanks for enlightening me though. :)

This.

Yea Las Vegas gogo ^^

i dont really know why dont they invest this money to develeop the game itslef and mechanics furthermore...and why do i have to pay money to play this. i can play fastpaced games like ql wsw tf2 tribes, and you can get keycodes to painkiller at the developers site for frree. its just...i donno.

you can play the game for free, http://go.ign.com/iplshootmania for keys

and upon full release the game will allow free2play for royal and elite modes

Siilva, No.1 shootmania player in Australia has spoken.

I do like Vegas...

some good quake players should gather together to win every cup there and bring the 100,000 $ to quake cups : D

Why we already have fatal1ty.

who?

the one who'd tuck orphan quake players in cozy beds

anyone need a beta key? i dont have time to test or play.

Don't bother, we've all been trying to get rid of ours on irc or stream chats for a few days, nobody wants them :D

feels like it.

Shitmania isn't even good enough to shove up my ass.

i really don't understand fanboys..

it's not quake.. you're completely right! but you know what else it's not??? shitty fucking CS:GO or a COD game.

it's a fast paced shooter with a development team that ACTUALLY LISTENS TO PEOPLE. it's as easy as playing the sims to make your own maps and you can make any type of game mode you want.

keep crossing your fingers for a quake or doom that will get the attention of casual gamers and major tournaments because it's not going to happen.. and if it did you would still bitch about it for whatever minuscule reason.

uhhh esr users want to watch high level quake live 1v1 games. We gave SM a shot, and it's boring as shit to watch. We here know progress, and this game is not it. Goodluck on making that shit money

I honestly think ESR never gave SM a shot.

development team that ACTUALLY LISTENS TO PEOPLE

Many top players would disagree.

Colwn qualifies, GJ

any idea how many teams can qualify? or how many teams can enter this tournament? wanna see mill.int ~_~

Mill.int got knocked out in quarter finals or so by colwn. I think only 2 european teams can qualify. Next week is the last qualifier.. I think only 2 European teams can go.

Don't quote me on that, but I think that's all :X

2 can qualify. there's one open spot at the lan event, winner of that gets into the group stage.