Are Custom Maps Any Good?

   This is the question I asked my self when I started Ace of Spades the other day, so I figured I might as well find out. I joined and tried out a few servers running custom maps. First off something I already disliked is how the server browser does not tell you if maps are running a custom map or not. So I had to just try joining servers until one had a custom map. Once I was in, it was great! The Urban Map    The first custom map I tried was the Urban Map. This map takes place in a large city like area. It gets it's point across with a quite a few detail less buildings that are mostly different size rectangular prisms with holes blown into corners and sides of walls. In between the building was just a relatively flat...

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This Poll in Review (What you would like to see)

   I created this poll with the original intentions of showing Ben what his community would like to see added to the game. In the end I was surprised by the outcome of the votes. I expected most to be relatively even, nothing too far ahead. Boy was I wrong. Weapons dwarfed all others coming in at first place with 236 votes. Thats more than 3 times the amount of votes for maps. Now, In my own opinion I must say.... I am worried about the implementation of new guns. The smallest mistake can unbalance the entire gmae and ruin the experience.Maps 76 (14%)Gamemodes 73 (13%)Blocks 25 (4%)Weapons 236 (44%)Classes 70 (13%)Mod Support 42 (7%)Nothing 7 (1%)     What kind of weapon would you want to see added first...

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I'm back! Updates 0.45, 0.46, and 0.47

  While I was busy I missed out on some awesome Ace of Spades info like the minimap and the higher resolution player weapons. This may mean the current weapon mods on the blog may no longer work, however most likely they are still compatible.  Nope, the update broke old model compatibility, looks like all the of the mods section needs to be redone! Along with 0.45 comes rifle block damage again. It was interesting playing with it off though, it seemed like bunkers and forts were more useful when someone couldn't just shoot a hole in it with ease. Although 0.45 was riddled with fixes and a little content 0.46 and 0.47 bring little to the table besides a few albeit important bug fixes. Ace of Spades Beta 0.47-floating block fix-unexposed map edge fix Ace of Spades Beta 0.46-fixed...

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Faster than the speed of light! Beta 0.42

   This is great! Sure, having to to update your game multiple times for bug fixes might seem like a bad thing but it isn't! This shows Ben is able to quickly respond to bugs and tackle them efficiently! Within an hour the game went from 0.36 to 0.4 to 0.41 and now 0.42. Ace of Spades Beta 0.42-fixed map radar bug-fixed image tearing on fast rotation (may fix potential crash)So, not too many fixes and no new features but still a worthy update. In other news, people have already started working on maps! Here is a WIP image showing the map grid and a small custom map! By Tark Version 0.42 is available from the official website and our F.A.Q...

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Quick update Beta 0.41

After Ben made a mistake of not including a folder with the install called vxl he has quickly released another update. Ace of Spades Beta 0.41 -vxl folder added to installer -version fix test Also wanted to mention a few more new things. Maps should now have a useful grid on them for cooridnstio with team mates. Also map editing is supposed to be relativley complex. Not as simple as Weapon and player editing anyway. Do you think you are going to try and create maps for AoS? I know I wi...

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Beta 0.4 Custom Maps!

   Within the last few minutes Ben has released a major update with multiple bug fixes and support for custom maps! Yes you read that right! The newest version will come with a "VOXED map editor". So far I don't know much about it but will report back when I do. So far we know maps are constrained to 512 x 512x 64 which is the current map dimensions.  Map Format Requirements     Also great news is rifle block destruction "should" be added back in in this version as with new fixes like live grenades dropped on death. As in if you have pulled the pin on a grenade but not thrown it and you die, a grenade will be dropped. Along with that some fixes in map loading and lag kills were implemented! Ace of Spades Beta 0.4 -added...

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Exclusive Interview with Ace of Spades Creator, Ben Aksoy.

We all know and love Ace of Spades but we are yet to hear about the future and even more so about Ben himself. Recently I contact Ben with a few question I knew and hoped the community were dieing to hear. So, without further ado. 1. What inspired you to make Ace of Spades? Is it designed after a specific war? I just wanted to make a game that I would want to play. I quit gaming a long time ago because I was sick of static environments and rinse and repeat gameplay. I wanted a game that rewarded creativity over reflexes so I developed Ace of Spades. It's not modelled after a specific war although there are some Vietnam influences (the namesake of the game). I'm keeping things a little abstract because it gives me more freedom when adding features, and gives players more freedom with their...

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This Poll in Review (Where did you hear about AoS)

So for this weekly poll I asked everyone, "Where did it hear about Ace of Spades?" I added the websites I heard most people were coming from and figured the poll would easily shift to them, but I was wrong! Although about a quarter of voter said they first heard about the game on 4chan, where Ben first pushed for the games fame. A good deal of people were also from the Facepunch forum which has an active megathread on the game. Only a few votes trickled through for Penny Arcade, Something Awful, and Facebook. With five percent stating they heard about it online. Close to 50 percent however heard about it from a different site! Facepunch 87 4Chan 105 Penny Arcade 3 Something Awful 8 Facebook 3 Not Online 23 Other Website 183 What is Ace of Spades? 8 So everyone that voted for another site,...

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