PoE News #122

DrunkenPirate · 05-11-2008, 07:08 PM

Welcome to our 122nd POE news update.

We would like to start by talking about some development in POE's Staff. First off, we would like to congratulate Michi.be for his win in the Crysis mapping contest for his map Borderline. Michi.be is leaving POE to continue his work in the Crysis Modding scene. We would like to thank him for his hard work for PoE and wish him the best of luck in the future.

Additionally we welcome a few new members to our team. Gab has joined us as a vehicle modeler and we already have him on his first project. Also joining the team is Dr. Destructo who's work you might have noticed posted in our forums. Dr. Destructo will be joining us as a mapper and static modeler.

Moving on to the fan map pack, we will be releasing it on Wednesday May 14th. The pack contains 7 fan made maps and PoE conversions of BF2 maps.

Velikiye_Luki.
By Slaughter:

Tuchola_Trails
By Outlaw:

Berlin_Streets
By Outlaw:

Fall_of_Frankfurt
By Outlaw:

Wintershield
By Outlaw:

Frost Village
By Outlaw:

Woodland
By Running:

BF2 Maps

Dalian_Plant
Daqing_Oilfields
Gulf_of_Oman
Highway_Tampa
Mashtuur_City
Road_to_Jalalabad
Sharqi_Peninsula
Songhua_Stalemate
Strike_at_Karkland
Wake_Island_2007

That is all for today but stay tuned for more info on the map pack and the progress of PoE2.

**khaerus** · 05-11-2008, 07:31 PM

So much happiness. Thank your local devs, gents!

**Dirtboy** · 05-11-2008, 07:35 PM

Awesome, can't wait to play these badboys!

**Namebot** · 05-11-2008, 08:45 PM

Nice!

**jb4** · 05-11-2008, 09:40 PM

All warm and fuzzy.

**Iamthefallen** · 05-11-2008, 11:50 PM

Nice.

Fall of frankfurt looks...somewhat familiar

DrunkenPirate · 05-12-2008, 01:42 AM

It's Mashtuur with poe2 stuff apparently.

**ProjectNA** · 05-12-2008, 08:52 AM

Wow, fan maps and "vanilla" maps. Yummy.

**Bernout** · 05-12-2008, 12:00 PM

I love the idea of new POE2 maps but to be honest I am sick to death of the vanilla maps. Imagine my chagrin when GC plays AIX for the first time and what's the first map we play? Zatar. Go figure.

Bernout

ThaGoat · 05-12-2008, 12:31 PM

Very nice maps and I can't wait to play them. Also noted the BF2 maps at the bottom. If the Strike At Karkand is anything like the Karkand map from the AIX mod it'll be worth playing. They did such a good upgrade on the cosmetics on that map made it very enjoyable to play a "redux". Devs and the map builders are doing such a fantastic job keeping the flavor of combat going for us addicts. **kudos** to all of you.

**[tR]Greasy_mullet** · 05-12-2008, 12:50 PM

Only the fan maps that were tweaked like Frankfurt are vanilla maps with PoE stuff on them. The others are just straight up ports with PoE equipment. The nice thing about them is it gives us more maps with rare equipment such as the Tomahawk etc. So now we got a whole slew of PoE2 USMC maps with the carrier and all that jazz as well as some Urban maps to hold us over until we can finish up this patch we are working on which will also have a ton of new and original maps.

**Bernout** · 05-12-2008, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [tR]Greasy_mullet

Only the fan maps that were tweaked like Frankfurt are vanilla maps with PoE stuff on them. The others are just straight up ports with PoE equipment. The nice thing about them is it gives us more maps with rare equipment such as the Tomahawk etc. So now we got a whole slew of PoE2 USMC maps with the carrier and all that jazz as well as some Urban maps to hold us over until we can finish up this patch we are working on which will also have a ton of new and original maps.

Sweet! Can't wait!

Bernout

Real_CaGeD · 05-12-2008, 04:10 PM

Oh noes, Songhua_Stalemate 8(

**WhiskeySix** · 05-12-2008, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Real_CaGeD

Oh noes, Songhua_Stalemate 8(

really? I think songuah will play great here... kind of like a flooded fallen - all the trees and cover = fun (especially without vanilla's CO spoilers [uav+scan])

**[tR]Greasy_mullet** · 05-12-2008, 04:24 PM

Yea ours was made much more inf friendly. In fact the version that we released last time had a slightly smaller play area to focus more on the inf combat.