Official Xbox Live Arcade Thread
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Hitler Stole My Potato
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duckroll said:
*calls 911*
Crab Milk Mickey
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New DLC for Worms next Wednesday.
Summary:
- One new level: free of charge.
- Two more levels: 150 MS Points each.
- 22 sound banks: free of charge.
- Two desktop themes: 150 MS Points each.
- Two Gamer Picture packs: 5 Pack costs 100 MS Points, the 12 Pack 200 MS Points.
Team 17's forum has low-res screenshots of the above content.
Also, the specifics of the auto-update which went online last Wednesday:
Summary:
- One new level: free of charge.
- Two more levels: 150 MS Points each.
- 22 sound banks: free of charge.
- Two desktop themes: 150 MS Points each.
- Two Gamer Picture packs: 5 Pack costs 100 MS Points, the 12 Pack 200 MS Points.
Team 17's forum has low-res screenshots of the above content.
Also, the specifics of the auto-update which went online last Wednesday:
Spadge said:The update should be with us in a few days time, it is now out of certification and approved for release.
General Fixes
Jet Pack SFX will no longer loop when a worm dies by drowning.
The Wind indicator is now visible whenever the weapon panel is opened regardless of the equipped weapon.
Team health bars will now appear at the start of every turn and also when the weapon panel is open.
Various code improvements added to handle downloadable landscapes.
Fixed exploit allowing for deployment of 2 weapons in one turn while using the ninja rope.
Challenge 13 the last remaining enemy worm will no longer teleport out of the play area.
Fall damage will no longer be taken by a worm that started a Jet Pack flight in mid air.
AI/CPU worms will now make a decision and take action much quicker.
AI/CPU worms grenade accuracy has been tweaked to reduce the number of unfair shots.
SFX will now play to indicate a change in fuse time.
Removed inactive indication of fuse time settings on user placed mines
Various code tweaks to improve frontend stability.
Xbox Live
Fixed 4 Player Crash in lobby relating to multiple users attempting to join a game simultaneously.
Improvements made to the handling of users with strict NAT settings. Only one player with Strict NAT settings can be present in a game at a time the game will now inform of this and stop any other players with this setting joining the game.
The user will now select a Team before searching for a game. This speeds up the process of joining a game and reduces the amount of Game is unavailable messages.
Code improvements made for displaying and refreshing list of available Player Matches.
Added message and visual indication to notify Host that a downloaded landscape can not be used unless all current members of the game have also downloaded it.
Team names and colours will no longer be mixed up if a player drops out of the game between rounds.
Ranked Games
The Ranked Game scheme now contains random fuses for all mines placed on the landscape at the start of the game. Mines will now randomly detonate at any point between 0.01-3.00 seconds after activation. This is a balance improvement added to stop mine clearance at the start of each match. This setting can also be carried over into Local Play and Player Matches by using the Ranked scheme when setting up the match.
Leaderboards
Friends list scores will no longer be corrupted or displayed incorrectly when a user has reached a limit of 100 friends.
Challenge time Leaderboards will now display times in excess of 20:00 minutes for completion.
Fixed exploit allowing for times of 0.00 to be reported when playing through the Single Player Challenges.
Leaderboard Resets
Unfortunately, after conversations with the server folks at Microsoft, we are having to reset the leaderboards due to exploitations. We understand that this is disappointing for many people and apologise for the need to do this. With the changes in the update, it should prove a much better field of play and look forward to the update going out and people getting hotly competitive again. No awards or gamerpoints will be lost.
However we will be displaying the current leaders of all boards on our site for historical purposes and are currently looking at doing something special for those that have led the boards (with an authentic score). A URL of these will be released in the meantime.
We thank you for your patience, your business, enthusiasm and understanding. We hope you enjoy Worms even more when the update arrives and the first batch of DLC that will follow in the coming weeks - which includes some free content as promised
Uno Ill Nino
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I don't know about you guys, but I am PUMPED for Quake III: Team Arena on XBLA. That is SO AWESOME I can't even put it into words. I put so many hours into Q3 on the Dreamcast that I lost count. Anybody remember the DC Ladder? I got up to the top 10 for Quake III when I was at my peak. Having this on LIVE would be a dream come true. I hope its a port of the DC version. The soundtrack was SOOOO much better.
Hitler Stole My Potato
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methodman said:
Catan is awesome sauce poured over a huge slab of kick ass. As far as modes are concerned, there aren't that many but you can fiddle with the rules to make it more to your liking.
FrenchMovieTheme
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wait what? Quake 3 arena is coming to XBLA??
Hitler Stole My Potato
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FrenchMovieTheme said:
Yep but it'll be a top down 2D card game. Fergie is doing the music as well.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Eh I dunno the DC version of Q3A was 30 fps....wasn't it?
Watching some youtube vids trying to get a bead on it.
Watching some youtube vids trying to get a bead on it.
SapientWolf
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The DC version supported KB&M so why would you be using a gamepad?Bowen_B said:
goldenpp72
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As a former 'pro(ish)' quake 3 player, id just like to specify that every mention of quake 3 in rumors has been for team arena, which was generally frowned on..
If they do put quake 3 on 360, id hope its the pc quake 3 original, gold, or even the DC version.
And yes the dc version ran at a bit less then 30fps, and was only 4 players, I know quake 3 probably more then any game ever <3 The only positive aspect of the DC version on a literal scale was the new maps and music, but graphically and such, pc version wins and it had mod support.
If they do put quake 3 on 360, id hope its the pc quake 3 original, gold, or even the DC version.
And yes the dc version ran at a bit less then 30fps, and was only 4 players, I know quake 3 probably more then any game ever <3 The only positive aspect of the DC version on a literal scale was the new maps and music, but graphically and such, pc version wins and it had mod support.
I had a keyboard for PSO but my family didn't have credit cards! WHERE COULD I BUY A MOUSE FOR THE DREAMCAST IN EUROPE?!SapientWolf said:
I think I've still got the same PC now as I did then, I've stopped playing FPS on the PC because of Q3A on the DC I prefered the pad controls to KB+M.
Woooo!!
TMNT ARCADE
On the Australian OFLC. Australia, as well as Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore or Taiwan never got the game on XBLA. Looks like they found a way around not using "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989" like the other versions.
It's on the German USK under "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" too, seems to have popped p late last month. Awesome.
TMNT ARCADE
On the Australian OFLC. Australia, as well as Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore or Taiwan never got the game on XBLA. Looks like they found a way around not using "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989" like the other versions.
It's on the German USK under "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" too, seems to have popped p late last month. Awesome.
Uno Ill Nino
Banned
I wore out 3 Panther XL's on Quake III DC. They were awesome while they worked, but being as they were Mad Catz product, they broke hella fast. And the mouse for DC sucked. I decided to stick to the pad after returning 2 mice for poor performance.
Rocky_Balboa
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Tomorrow's XBLA release is Worms DLC? Anything else?
It's great that they've decided to make the Worms Soundbanks free, since they were missed purely because of the limit on size, and now with the new memory card size, are now free to expand on it. I'm a bit annoyed that there is no additional music, since the game has one track and it got tiresome after a while.
Should get me back to playing for a bit
Should get me back to playing for a bit
Speaking of the DLC, Xboxic also recently revealed the initial extra content slated for the upcoming Mad Tracks.
http://www.xboxic.com/news/2970
As far as what is coming out this week, nothing is officially official yet but given all the information that has come out over the past week Mad Tracks seems to be a mortal lock for tomorrow, as fas a the second game goes, it could anything from Spyglass Board Games to Missile Command, no one concrete lead there. Indeed the Worms DLC stuff could even be the second game, they have done lame stuff like that before.
http://www.xboxic.com/news/2970
As far as what is coming out this week, nothing is officially official yet but given all the information that has come out over the past week Mad Tracks seems to be a mortal lock for tomorrow, as fas a the second game goes, it could anything from Spyglass Board Games to Missile Command, no one concrete lead there. Indeed the Worms DLC stuff could even be the second game, they have done lame stuff like that before.
Phoenix Fang
Banned
Its hard to get excited for XBLA games when most of them are vaporware.
Diablohead
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Not touched worms for a few weeks and just read those patch notes a few posts up, sounds like a good fix. I'll have to get them before playing with friends offline again etc.
MirageDwarf
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http://www.xblarcade.com/node/628
ESRB has rated four titles which means we might see them in near future unless they get lost in MS certification process.
- Fatal Fury Special
- Tempest
- Mutant Storm Empire
- Streets of Rage 2
ESRB has rated four titles which means we might see them in near future unless they get lost in MS certification process.
- Fatal Fury Special
- Tempest
- Mutant Storm Empire
- Streets of Rage 2
goldenpp72
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I think this week is mad tracks and new worms content.
"God's Beard!"
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McDragon said:This is the only thing i want for XBLA:
Agreed. I still play this game.
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