Hi everyone welcome to the first installment of the AOS news and announcements sticky. We plan to update the community regularly with news regarding the game and highlight any new AOS related software, websites, mods, maps, and updates we notice.

A new site was created for our french speaking AOS fans.
French aos forums - http://ace-spade-france.forumgratuit.fr/

Lexsym released a new version of her chat logger
Chatlog v1.1 - http://ace-spades-community.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=81

Lexsym also created a new game mode called Elimination, which is incorporated into the ServerBot administration tool. In this mode, players are split into two teams and have one life per timed round. The team that kills all players on the other team before the timer is up wins!
http://ace-spades-community.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=94

nothings released a multi-level parking garage map generator that can import custom objects (e.g. cars) into random stalls around the map. It is a very interesting concept. You can read about it here.

The pyspades team has released an updated win32 build, compatible with 0.54.
pyspades is an open, cross-platform scriptable server, loaded with features
that aren't available in the normal server, including new game modes and
commands. Issues should be reported here.

In an effort to keep the forums more organized, we added two new categories ('Clans' and 'Suggestions') and disabled the timer that prevented post edits after an hour, meaning now you can edit your posts at any time.

Last but not least we asked bcoolface himself to give us some juicy insights about beta 0.55

another beta is down the line but for 0.55 i want to fix the
drunken camera movement, add dynamic crosshairs, and implement a new
weapon - a poll should be up soon about this.

Sweeeet.

He's finally fixing the camera? Oh hell yes.

awesome

A new weapon? Awesome!

Glad to finally have an update about .55.

Not entirely sure what is meant by "dynamic crosshairs" - my best guess would be different crosshairs for the spade/pickaxe/grenade, although I may be completely off the mark.

I was thinking a swaying motion of some sorts. Like breathing inaccuracy. That would allow the rifle to be dead on accurate but still require a little skill to shoot.

I can haz sniper?

Also, the win32 build of pyspades has been 'released', so please try it out :)

Can you add this as an entry please?

@Dan

That's what I was thinking as well. I wasn't expecting a new weapon so soon, but I'm excited. Also, I hope we get the rifle's old accuracy back or at least a lowered cone of fire.

@mat^2:
Added.
Any further news we see shall be added to next week's edition.
Head over to #AoS.forums if you want to suggest something.

another weapon already? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoW9czgQBqE

I haven't finished Spadille in time :(

Next week Stack 7 more days to finish

Kewl :3

I nerded all over the floor.

>and implement a new weapon - a poll should be up soon about this

Neat, but I'm not sure where we can go from here. We already have a long range weapon and one for close combat. A mortar perhaps?

A shotgun.

Okay but are we talking a typical video game shotgun (extremely close range) or a shotgun shotgun (a medium range deal)?

A shotgun with spread.. very deadly close up, and injuring from range.

>with spread.. very deadly close up, and injuring from range

You just described the SMG.

What I'm trying to say is that if a new gun is implemented it needs to be different from the other guns. Not to mention that it also needs to be good enough that people choose it over a rifle.

Well, either that or nerf the rifle. Why not make it a single shot deal? Very slow to shoot, slow to reload, but deadly accurate.

COUNTER STRIKEEEEEEEE. lol just kidding.
Sniper Rifle?

*Sonic Stage Finish Tune*
YEEEESSSSSSSSSS
YESSSSSSS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

Thankyou 'AoS management' for starting these news posts and polls. The AoS Google moderate showed that this was one of the most popular requests.
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=6f3a1&t=6f3a1.40&f=6f3a1.2b128b&q=6f3a1.2b128b&v=4

Tick in the box, good stuff!

i heard that ben will add mines in an older thread, so maybe it will be mines?

Sounds great. Hoping for shotgun or a melee weapon.

woot a new weapon

Well, Ben just shat on our (our = the 5 people who actually cared/noticed) dreams in his Reddit AMA session:

Besides, as I move more of the game physics serverside where it's secure, it'll only get harder to accurately simulate on a 3rd-party server.

Specifically:

Besides, as I move more of the game physics serverside where it's secure

I ain't gonna lie; this pisses me off. We're never going to see the pre-0.53 fluidity and stability of combat again. I'll deal with it though. I'll look at the new weapons as compensation for this.

What? I'm confused. How will that ruin stability?