Well, another week goes by and it's time for this week's update..

The first big news of the week is that we have found ourselves an animator, we will introduce him officially shortly, hopefully with a newspost showing off some of his work.  What this means for the game is that we should be able to get some nice animation and improved playermodel rigs into beta 2.0 as planned.

Work wise this week a couple more playermodels have gone ingame, taking the current count to 8 SF models, 4 terr models and 1 hostage.  Both teams now have a female model.  We hope that for beta 2.0 we could be looking at around 8-10 distinct characters per team with 2 or 3 different hostages.

Taunt anims have been added into the game, including 'Team Action' motions (eg: halt, left, right).

Further work has been ongoing with finetuning the weapons, no dramatic changes but enough to give greater distinction and worth to certain guns we feel aren't fitting too well right now.

Rayden has once again put on his coding hat and made some improvements to the server browser and kill descriptions.

With the corner bug fixed we are currently considering whether to bring out a small hotfix patch incuding just a few improvements before beta 2.0, we would like your feedback on this...we don't want to overload with patches for new players, but I know alot of people want the corner bug fixed asap.

Thats it for this week, thanks for reading.

Well, the blogs are working again thanks to Levi's hard work, thanks again fella.

 This week has been a good one for TOC's developement, the main thing to report is that we have nailed the corner bug at last.  Last night we ran a test session to look at the impact of this fix and were really pleased to see that it doesn't negatively affect online play.  In fact it makes it better still.

 A pleasant side effect of the fixes applied is that several other minor bugs were fixed at the same time, but more importantly it leads to a smoother feeling when firing on enemies.  This is particularly noticable when sniping.

 This week the number of ingame characters went up to 11, some of the new new models still need work and all of the old models will be improved also.  The news I think that most people will like is that we now have a female character on each team :)  We can't show these off yet as they are still going through skinning/final model and rigging tweaks.

Internally we are working towards a set of milestones which aim to fix the major bugs remaining in the game, improve some minor annoyances and glitches, add some improved features and close down more exploits.  Currently we have crossed off 5 out of 28 milestones as complete.

Thanks for your support and we'll see you on the servers.