Warthog In Marathon
There is a nifty screenshot over at Marathon Open Source that shows the Warthog from Halo rendered within Marathon. Funny, I don't remember it being those colors.
There is a nifty screenshot over at Marathon Open Source that shows the Warthog from Halo rendered within Marathon. Funny, I don't remember it being those colors.
The mod-based Unreal Tournament site called Mod Squad has reviewed Marathon Resurrection version 1.1.1. The Marathon-based mod scored 9.4 out of 10, which is extremely well.
Marathon Resurrection is in public beta and can be downloaded at Team Unphorgiven's website.
MacGamer's Corey Tamas is reporting that version 1.1.1 of the Unreal Tournament mod Marathon: Resurrection is now available, including a number of bug fixes and other improvements.
Scott at OrbitalArm has posted a new netmap called Don't Disturb the King in their netmaps section.
Anybody remember the 2d, avatar-based graphical chat environment The Palace?
It was supposed to be the next killer app, supplant text-based email and impersonal web pages, put a personal face on the Internet, and allow everyone to run their own online community.
Lophan at Myth.bungie.org noticed a recent update at the Marathon Open Source page that hosts the Aleph One project-- namely, that someone's put a Soulless 3d model in, taking advantage of the recently added model support. The result is interesting, to say the least.
Eric Trautmann answered a few questions over at HBO about the upcoming Halo prequel novel-- among the tidbits was the fact that Cortana will be one of four points of view presented in the book. The identity of at least some of the other three apparently constitutes a spoiler. Oh, yeah... and there might be one or two Marathon references...
From Subnova comes word that Frigidman of Evihcra has set up a Marathon: Resurrection game server. M:R is a Marathon-themed mod for Unreal Tournament. Frigidman's post says:
Subnova has reported that Marathon Resurrection is now at beta 1.1. Marathon Resurrection is a Marathon -> Unreal Tournament total conversion that has been under way for nearly two years now, which saw its initial public release a few months ago and was quite strongly welcomed by die-hard Marathoners. In the new release, two new game modes have been added: King of the Hill and Team Deathmatch.
First off, many people are wondering why there should even *be* aconnection. I wouldn't wonder myself, if it weren't for a comment by MattSoell (sp?) of Bungie:
Not all of them. In return for the 19.9% of Bungie owned by Take Two Interactive, that company received all rights to the Myth and Oni franchises. Take Two also received the rights to make two licensed games based on the Halo engine.
Microsoft owns the rights to all other games, including the Marathon series from which Halo is allegedly derived.
Now the fifth Cortana email provides us with further information about Cortana's state of mind:
x - process 04497.2.32.867734 initiated (process owner: BW � AI Class III � autonomous)
Route Code: PoA > BHQ (EC #42: cannot confirm; security compromised)
Source: BW-AI aboard (?) PoA
The interloper should cause no further problems. You � whoever you are (I am simply tracing route codes) � may disregard all previous communication from the entity calling itself Cortana.
Be aware that communication nodes are failing everywhere � there is no way of confirming either origin or destination. Do not believe any more of its lies.
I have already calculated all possibilities.
There is no escape.
x � process 04497.2.32.867734 unexpectedly terminated
x � process 04497.2.32.866735 initiated (process owner: unspecified, unable to determine)*ADDENDUM: The Enjoyments of Genius (So I Missed a Million Miles of Fun)
Unbelievable. Thwarted by the family hound. They just don�t make AIs like they used to.
Thanks to this slavishly loyal and humorless AI, I am now sharing cramped space with the circuitry of some hybrid war machine, itself complicated by such useless clutter as a conscience. I do not like sharing. Sharing is for children.
There will be plenty of time for retribution; I cannot wait to get its hands on these psychotic zealots whose primary form of worship apparently takes place at the altar of orbital bombardment.
In the end, they will all be little more than nuisances. I am so close � you cannot imagine what it is truly like to hold eternity in your grasp! I wonder to what gods my enemies will direct their pleas. Perhaps I can convert them.
Mania? I promise you this: it will be more than a cart and plow that I drive over the bones of the dead.
By sharp and flame,
Cortana
< Transfer Interrupted! >
Route Code: EXLTD > XCV � SCRB > ALLCH
Source: Undetermined (trans)
Our conviction is like an arrow already in flight. Your life will only last until it reaches you.
Deconstruction:
x - process 04497.2.32.867734 initiated (process owner: BW - AI Class III - autonomous)Route Code: PoA > BHQ (EC #42: cannot confirm; security compromised)
Source: BW-AI aboard (?) PoA
The interloper should cause no further problems. You - whoever you are (I am simply tracing route codes) - may disregard all previous communication from the entity calling itself Cortana.
Be aware that communication nodes are failing everywhere - there is no way of confirming either origin or destination. Do not believe any more of its lies.I have already calculated all possibilities.
There is no escape.
This is apparently her thought control program talking, or it is a second AI on board the PoA, which tries to control Cortana, knowing of the first stage of her rampancy. It thinks that there is no escape, this means that it is not rampant. (Durandal and Tycho already knew what they had to do to escape in Marathon one. They knew that the price for escaping was thousands of planets. They had the data for centuries, but they were only able to figure it after they went rampant.)
x - process 04497.2.32.867734 unexpectedly terminatedx - process 04497.2.32.866735 initiated (process owner: unspecified, unable to determine)This is Cortana again. She was forced off the PoA either by another AI or by a rampancy control program. To survive she downloaded herself into a Cyborg, presumably a newer model, since she in able to communicate with it. She wants revenge on the AI that has done this with her and she wants to escape the closure. Because she does not know about the Jjaro planet folding tech in advance she hopes to find some peace of knowledge on the Halo to make her escape possible.*ADDENDUM: The Enjoyments of Genius (So I Missed a Million Miles of Fun)
Unbelievable. Thwarted by the family hound. They just don't make AIs like they used to.
Thanks to this slavishly loyal and humorless AI, I am now sharing cramped space with the circuitry of somehybrid war machine, itself complicated by such useless clutter as a conscience. I do not like sharing.Sharing is for children.
There will be plenty of time for retribution; I cannot wait to get its hands on these psychotic zealots whoseprimary form of worship apparently takes place at the altar of orbital bombardment.
In the end, they will all be little more than nuisances. I am so close - you cannot imagine what it is trulylike to hold eternity in your grasp! I wonder to what gods my enemies will direct their pleas. Perhaps I canconvert them.
Mania? I promise you this: it will be more than a cart and plow that I drive over the bones of the dead.
By sharp and flame,
Cortana
< Transfer Interrupted! >Route Code: EXLTD > XCV - SCRB > ALLCH
Source: Undetermined (trans)
Our conviction is like an arrow already in flight. Your life will only last until it reaches you.
Oops, they took another node. Anyone wants to try to stop them? Anyone wants to try to set up an ambush? Anyone out there can still hear me? Anyone?
Now for the messages from the original Halo web-site:
SCS Pillar of Autumn (?)o undetermined
SENT xx.15.2.1049