The MoA-Squad

NEW SITE!!!

Our new site is up and running, get yourselfs to www.moa-squad.com and get registered, we wont be using this site much longer, so pass the word around and see you soon on the new site.

Battlefield Heroes

Battlefield Heroes Trailer Released! Feb 29

We’ve finally filled in the “Video” page above with our official preview release. Check it out and come back to leave us a comment!
Nailing the Look Feb 14

Ben returns this week to talk about the visual style which inspired Battlefield Heroes and how it began its evolution. Read the article and get a peek at the origins of our characters and environments!
The First Step Feb 4

In most game developer blogs, they tend to talk about what the team is doing in the ‘here and now’. For this one, we’ll be a little bit different and instead take you right back to the beginning of development and introduce you to how a project like this gets off the ground.
Hello Heroes! Jan 25

It’s been an exciting week for the Battlefield Heroes™ team as we announced our game to the world on Monday. It’s been great to see such a large amount of interest and passion from the existing Battlefield community as well as people new to the series. Read on for our plans for this site and a quick rumor squash!
Introducing Battlefield Heroes™ Jan 24

Looking for more info on the game? The team is proud to announce that Battlefield Heroes™ is the cover story for Games for Windows magazine’s upcoming March issue (on sale February 12 in the US). Pick it up for the first exclusive details on the game!
Battlefield Heroes™ Press Release Jan 15

We are very excited to introduce Battlefield Heroes. It offers fun, accessible action gameplay but with a twist — because it’s free, anyone can try it and because it is proven Battlefield gameplay, we know people will love it. Now, you don’t have to be a hardcore gamer or buy a high-end gaming machine to have fun on the battlefield.

Teamspeak 3

TeamSpeak 3 is currently in development and is the future product to carry on the legacy of the original TeamSpeak communication system software previously offered in versions 1.5 and 2.

TeamSpeak 3 is not merely an extension of TeamSpeak 2 but rather a complete re-write from the ground up in C++. TeamSpeak 3's foundation and focus is to provide a highly scalable, diverse, cross-platform Software Development Kit (SDK) to meet the demands of today's cutting edge integrated VoIP solutions.

What's New In TeamSpeak 3?

Full-featured, cross-platform client and server software for Windows (32-Bit and 64-Bit) and Linux (32-Bit and 64-Bit), plus full support for Macintosh platforms (both Intel and PPC)
Completely redesigned SDK based architecture, for 100% integration capabilities into existing products or services
Fully integrated 3D Sound support for both Client and SDK, enabling spacial placement of sound from multiple directions
All new licensing system for commercial hosting and Authorized TeamSpeak Host Providers (ATHPs)
Scripting capabilities for the client, allowing endless possibilities for client customization
Dramatically improved scalability particularly for corporate, large-scale, integrated VoIP solutions
Fully redesigned database module supporting even the most complex SQLite or MySQL integrated solutions
All new, fully customizable user groups with powerful, new permission sets
Improved text chat capabilities much like today's popular Instant Messenger applications
BBCode formatting in welcome messages, channel descriptions, etc.
Tabbed voice connectivity, allowing you to simultaneously connect to multiple servers
Powerful, new Server Query module (formerly known as "TCP query") with new command-line capabilities
All new, PHP-based web administration application allowing full control of multiple server instances at once
All new key bindings module with additional support for joysticks, mouse buttons, and other hardware
All new "Bookmarks Manager", allowing users to store their favorite servers similar to storing favorites within your web browser
All new Speex and GSM codecs, providing capabilities for dramatically improved voice quality
Improved latency and response times so there is less delay in the time between someone speaking and actually hearing the user's voice on the other end
Multi-headset support allowing you to for example plug in two USB headsets to your PC and have each headset connect to a different server at the same time
Sound packs, allowing users to create and distribute their own custom sounds within TeamSpeak such as "Player joined" or "Player kicked"
... and MUCH MORE!

Please note features listed above may change and new features may be added upon the final release of TeamSpeak 3.

Far Cry 2 Key Features

Far Cry® 2, the next-generation first-person shooter from Ubisoft, will take you deep into the most beautiful but also most hostile environments in the world: Africa! More than just a visual and technological achievement, Far Cry® 2, the true sequel to the award-winning PC game, will provide you with an unprecedented gaming experience.

Caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa, you are sent to take out "The Jackal", a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the warlords, jeopardizing thousands of lives. In order to fulfil your mission you will have to play the factions against each other, identify and exploit their weaknesses, and neutralise their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and, of course, brute force.

OPEN WORLD

The extensive artistic research combined with the next-gen engine will allow you to explore over 50Km2 of seamlessly rendered African landscape. No game has ever provided such freedom of movement!

DUNIA ENGINE

The Dunia Engine was built specifically for Far Cry® 2 by the award-winning Ubisoft Montr�al development team. It delivers the most realistic destructible environments, amazing special effects such as dynamic fire propagation and storm effects, real-time night-and-day cycle, dynamic music system, non-scripted enemy A.I. and so much more…

REAL-TIME IMMERSION

Real-time story telling, systemic auto-healing, minimal in-game interface are just few of the features that will make you feel the tension of being alone against barbarous warlords that threaten thousands of innocent lives.

WEAPONS OF CHOICE

Choose from a wide range of weapons to make your way to your primary target. Meet the fight head-on with your machine-gun, go berserk with your machete or make stealth kills as a Sniper. If you feel that the atmosphere is not warm enough, light up your flamethrower and let your enemies and everything around them feel the heat.

VEHICLES

Fly, Drive, Run, slide and hover over the huge open world with your glider, trucks, cars, boats and much more.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. Official announcement. 11 July 2007

GSC Game World announces S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky for PC, the official prequel to the most atmospheric game of 2007 – Survival FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

The story of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky brings the players one year prior to the events of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 2011.

Game features:

Atmosphere of the Exclusion Zone
Research of new depths of the Zone – Red Forest, Limansk, Pripyat Undergrounds and more.
A-Life-driven War of the Factions
Possibility to play and lead any faction to victory
Advanced A-Life system
Varied behaviour of NPC stalkers in the A-Life world

Advanced spectacular storyline scenes
Improved AI of computer-controlled characters
Skirting around dynamic obstacles by NPCs
Use of grenades by NPCs

Fast Travel
Improved concept of detectors, artifacts and anomalies
New system of upgrades for weapons and armor
Weapons and armor repair
Reworked HUD and PDA

New version of the game engine - X-Ray 1.5.
DirectX 10 renderer
Improved DirectX 9 renderer - parallax bump, soft particles, depth of field, motion blur, eye adaptation effect.
Cutting-edge and detailed game graphics (normal map)
Inverse kinematics
New animation engine

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Fallout 3
After years of secrecy, we finally get a first look at the next big role-playing game from the makers of Morrowind and Oblivion.

After being canceled at Interplay, this sequel to the cult post-apocalyptic role-playing game was resurrected by Bethesda, where it is currently in development.

Don't know if any of you have played the original Fallout games but they were quality and this S.T.A.L.K.E.R cross Oblivion game looking incredible. It is RPG based with guns, similar to Dues Ex but much much bigger.. i can't wait for this one, supposed to be out Fall of 2008.

Half Life 2: Insurgency Mod
Insurgency (INS) is a total conversion mod for Valve Software's Half-Life 2, powered by the Source Engine. INS immerses the player in an intense online combat experience. Set on the modern battlefields, Insurgency simulates infantry combat that encourages the use of teamwork and tactics to close with and destroy the enemy.

Intel Targets Cheaters
C|Net brings to light an article in which Intel details its research into anti-cheat hardware it would like to implement into future PCs.

Cheats such as aimbots or "wall hacks" that expose players lying in wait send data to online gaming servers in unnatural patterns that could be detected by other PCs connected to the same server, Schluessler said. PCs equipped with this technology would notify a server that someone in the game is using a cheat, and then the game administrator could set a policy of kicking the cheat offline or some high-tech method of saying "nyeh, nyeh, cheater cheater," shaming the cheater and warning other gamers not to enter into sessions with that particular player.

source: http://www.beyondunreal.com/

ET:QW Beta Demo
Activision revealed that next week it is going to launch a Public Beta with 60,000 slots available. The Public Beta build will consist of a single map named "Sewer", which is part of ETQW's Pacific Campaign. Set in Japan, the map revolves around a Strogg base hidden in, well, a sewer. It's an interesting mix of outdoor and indoor, vehicle and infantry combat, deployables and counter-deployables and good old-fashioned FPS combat.

The MoA-Squad

NEW SITE!!!

Battlefield Heroes

Battlefield Heroes Trailer Released! Feb 29

Nailing the Look Feb 14

The First Step Feb 4

Hello Heroes! Jan 25

Introducing Battlefield Heroes™ Jan 24

Battlefield Heroes™ Press Release Jan 15

Teamspeak 3

Far Cry 2 Key Features

S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Fallout 3

Half Life 2: Insurgency Mod

Intel Targets Cheaters

ET:QW Beta Demo