Soldiers of the Wasteland

Another patch for Hellgate: Revival has been released, fixing a number of bugs from 1.0.1. Originally this patch was to be numbered 1.0.2 but due to the large number of changes the revision number was stepped up.

Full patch notes are available on the Revival forums. It should also be noted that the Zomper zombie skin option has been moved from the patch file and into the optional packages mod. So if you would like to continue using the Zomper zombie skin you will need to download the updated optional packages mod as well as the new patch file.

Maeyan has also stated that this patch will be the last for Revival, at least for a while, to allow himself more time to work on other projects. So a big ‘cheers and thanks!’ to Maeyan for all he has done on the project so far!

As always, the patch is available to download from our downloads page or from the Revival forums.

A minor update has been released for PC owners of Borderlands. The update fixes a number of issues including:

- Characters that have lost skill points will have the lost points refunded
- Item cards now display the intended five lines of detail text
- Lilith’s Phase strike and melee attacks from Phase Walk now function as intended
- Voicechat: users can now control volume and individually mute players

The entire list of update notes can be found on our forums.

Unfortunately the highly desired fix for multiplayer issues was disappointingly absent from the update. However ennui from the Gearbox forums has stated that-

The problems some users are experiencing with connectivity will be addressed in an upcoming update. A fix has been found and we’ll deploy it as soon as possible.

Hopefully this update gets pushed out to us very soon.

In the meantime, if you bought a physical copy of Borderlands from the store, you may download this update from the Gearbox Software site. If you bought the game via digital distribution (such as through Steam) then the patch will be applied automatically next time you log in.

A minor patch has been released for Hellgate: Revival, fixing some issues that arose during the Fawkes Event that began on November 5.

In a post on the Revival forums, Maeyan explained what had happened-

I had borrowed addresses from various ‘unused’ Fawkes items to fix the sell values for the Retrainers. This is why your goods are selling for copious amounts of Palladium.

Along with fixing the Fawkes related problems, minor tweaks have been made to the game including fixing bugged quests, implementing the level 55 cap correctly, increasing amount of palladium within treasure passageways and introducing the optional ‘Elite for Normal mode’ and ‘Superior Quests’ modifications. Full patch notes can be found on the Revival forums.

The optional ‘Elite for Normal mode’ inclusion reduces the difficulty of Elite mode back to normal mode standards, but retains the bonuses of playing in Elite mode such as increased mob density and a higher spawn rate of champion mobs. The ‘Superior Quests’ modification increases the objective targets of quests by up to 100 and increases experience & palladium gained from completing quests.

The Revival 1.0.1 patch, as well as the two optional modifications, are available to download from our downloads page or from the Revival forums.

Apologies for today’s downtime. It appears our server and cPanel (the software the runs the back end of the website) had a misunderstanding and decided to cause an Internal Server Error which effectively stopped everyone from being able to access the site.

My hosting providers were unable to fix the problem directly so had to contact cPanel support to get the problem fixed, hence the delay in getting the site back up.

Apologies again for the downtime, however I will take this opportunity to remind everyone that in the event of our site being inaccessible, to keep an eye on our twitter account as it is used to post updates as they come to hand.

A number of Soldiers have purchased Borderlands, the 4 player cooperative role playing shooter, and have been playing it for the past few days. The combined FPS and RPG elements of Borderlands are ideally suited for the guild as our favoured games are generally either RPG’s/MMO’s or FPS’s.

We have set up a Borderlands forum for discussion about the game including a thread dedicated to sharing GameSpy Arcade usernames to make it easier to find each other in game.

So if you are looking for a friendly guild to join and play Borderlands with, feel free to register on our forums and organise to meet up with some of our members online.