PlanetJailbreak

Wormbo sends word that he's implemented a feature that was requested on our development forum, by none other than Spoondog. Quite simply, the suggestion was to have some sort of visual effect on arena combattants.

An arena match can actually take place anywhere in the map, even within the main game area. It's just Jailbreak tradition and habit to have the arena as a separate area. Naturally, arena players can't harm regular players and vice versa, but just so you save your ammo, the suggestion was to mark them in some way. After considering funky transparency effects (that would fry your graphics card and be a bit glitchy) we settled on the nice and simple but effective solution of using custom beacons, as you can see in the screenshot.

Naturally, this will be in the next release of Jailbreak 2004... which is coming.

I'll leave it to Wormbo to describe this screenshot from today's action at the fun cup:

We had to try out new ideas after getting locked down three times in a row.

So maybe not much honour, but plenty of fun anyway.

PS. You may have noticed in the last 24 hours that our site appeared to be down. All is back to normal and our domain name has been renewed!

The German UT community site inUnreal.de is having fun cup season, and coming up is the Jailbreak 2004 cup. Check-in will start this Sunday at 3pm CET (2pm GMT).

Post in this forum thread to let us know if you're taking part, and remember to send us screenshots.

While obviously it's an honour to be included as one of the gametypes, that still means we have to sign up and kick everybody else's ass... in a fun way, okay?

(Thanks for the reminder Wormbo!)

G.Lecter has released his map Fragtion-2, available right now from all good Nali Cities. Is it a conversion? Is it an original? Well, a bit of both. The layout and the theme are from a CTF map by Mercen@ry, CTF-Fragtion, but G.Lecter calls this an almost total remake.

I'd call it a great map for some fun Jailbreak fragging. Enjoy, and Happy New Year!