We've posted the news about the Rune Expansion pack on themain site:

http://www.runegame.com/index.php

There is a picture of the box art, including two of the NEW player models here.

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That box art looks sweet. Is that "Rune not required to play" for real? So it's a stand alone, and not an add on?

Screw the Patch, just get us the Add-on. Woohooo!

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Duh! Read the article Astro...Wow, that sounds soooo sweet!
It is a stand alone. I din't see a tentative release date, or else I missed it.

[Edited by Astro Zombie on 03-16-2001 at 08:44 PM]

I see a "Hun" or another Asian looking skin. Does that mean you have an "Asian" skin? Cooooool. Also...yeah...what does that mean? "Original Rune not required for play."

um, im afraid...
if this is not an add on, and that you are buying the game all over again, what are the ppl going to do that already own it?
are we ging to have to buy another full version at full version price?

i mean i will if thats the case...but.....maybe you should have 2 versions out there...add on and new full version.

Holy Shiat! Looks SVEEET!

Finally a good girl skin.
*Quote:Arena pits players against one another in 1-on-1 combat, and some maps and servers will allow for larger teams. You equip yourself with weapons and shields, then take you place in a queue until it’s your turn to get it on. A number floating above your head indicates your place in the queue and, after a countdown, you’ll be transported into the arena. Survive your battle and you’ll walk away with full health and all your weapons for the next bloodbath.
HeadBall could best be described as ‘basketball for Vikings’. Once an opponent’s head has been severed, any player on your team can pick it up and make a mad dash for goals strategically placed around the maps. Some goals are open to any player; others are team-specific. Variant maps contain multiple goals where each scores a different number of points per head, with tricky or distant goals worth more. *End quote
Isn't this what were already doing with arena's and the close to finished Sarkball?

can't wait to frag that little bastard...

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Headball, baby, headball! Man, I can't *wait* to make some maps for that!

But just for the record, I am also confused by the "Original Rune not req'd" thing. And why did they not use the original Rune logo-type for the game name?

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Nooooo! Your just temting me with a box pic!! You can't do this!! Aggggghhhhhhhhhh!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!! Ahem.

Nice new models there, and cool box cover, can't wait for it to come out.

FINALLY!!!! HAHA!!!! Man I cant wait till it comes out!!!

The original Rune is NOT required to install and use Halls of Valhalla. If you already have the original Rune, HOV will install on top of Rune and give you all the new functionality of the add-on.

The patch WILL be coming very soon, once we get HOV out the door. The underlying code in HOV is the same as the up-coming patch (meaning that the new patch will include bug fixes, gameplay tweaks, as well as the network enhancements we've done for HOV).

I think you guys are going to love Halls of Valhalla. Lots of cool new skins/models and a ton of great maps and some very fun new gameplay modes.

I'm sure there will be more information as well some in-game screenshots released pretty soon.


Chris Rhinehart

OOOOoooooo, Love the box art and the descriptons of the additions! And finally a real Valkyrie to play with and this one does not look like a bouncing bunny babe either! Oh, I bet the skinners will be having fun with this one.

Sounds like a winner all around!

I'm interested in how headball will be. It sounds interesting, but it does not sound like SarkBall. It sounds like a hunt for trophies as a posed to a street hockey game gone bad. For runerugby, I have heard bits and pieces that it was going to be worked on, but we just could not wait any more.

Hey, the guys who were working on RuneRugby, if you read this e-mail me. How far have you gotten? Perhaps we should focus our efforts together.

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Is this going to be backward compatable? If you install the expansion can you still play on regular servers (with regular models, obviously)?

whats a snake berserker?!

C'MON!!!!!!

stop bein such freakin teases!!! on the edge of my seat here!!!!

gimmegimmegimmegimmegimme......

after second look at box art, was , um, new battlebabes swords relation to new gengis khans guys anatomy done on purpose?

Hmmmmm ... does this mean that a slider for friendly fire in team games is out for both patch and HOV? DHalsted said it was too late in the game, for the patch anyway. Just curious, cuz I think 100% friendly fire in team games is WAY better than the weak NFF (no friendly fire - yuck). Maybe not for pick-up games (where losers might come in and punk their own mates) but definitely for any real (competitive) horde vs. horde matches, ladder matches, tourneys or whatever. Skilled players should have to avoid hitting their own side and not just mob attack with immunity (and it discourages popping that lightning without giving a warning: "sayteam Eat your heart out, California!!!" )

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after third look at box art have decided to abandon SarkSword and go out for fun and frolic as new battlebabe (does battlebabe have name?)

There will be many new wepons for me to frag, with right?
*GULP*I sure hope so, im kinda gettin tired of the looks and same ol' moves of the present wepons

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Is that box art final? Cuz I don't think that tagline is very good...

All I ask for is to be able to import my own animated player models...that's all.

Oh and maybe a glass of water...and a strudle while your up!

Heey! A REAL valkyrie!

And what's up with Ragnar? He's just standing there .. not as badass as he used to be.. just like.. "Hey, what's up?"

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I wonder if Gengis Khan can use a shield to snowboard on. It would be great for the Headmatches

Now that I think of it.... It looks like Ragnar is wearing a pair of snowboarding boots as well!

[Edited by MrCrusher on 03-17-2001 at 08:59 AM]

I dont mind a new expansion, I look forward to it but guys at HUMAN HEAD need to address another issue thats quite overlooked.

They should incorporate unrealed 2.0 as the rune editor.
and if thats what they did, they need to fix it correctly before releasing it (Tired of being a guinea pig)

Tire of releases that are not functioning, this only makes people who want to map in rune, and cant discouraged and avoid it.

RUNEED BLOWS.

More general protection errors than I have encountered in my whole time using windows or any other editor for that fact.

Thats Why I use UNREALED 1.0 for my rune mappinG.

The fix was crap - 3 machines and it didnt run on either of them fine, and mine you all systems are p3's with 384 megs of ram.

No update to fix the editor was made other than the useless fix, an updated [working] runeed would be nice as an extra.

something hassle free without the million and one bugs.

as well as what groan said.
>---- um, im afraid...
if this is not an add on, and that you are buying the game all over again, what are the ppl going to do that already own it?
are we ging to have to buy another full version at full version price?

i mean i will if thats the case...but.....maybe you should have 2 versions out there...add on and new full version.

I dont feel like paying twice the same price for something I fear will be buggy .

So dont rush it! Do it right! and save us from these Damn GP Errors cause they suck bad...especially if you forget to save..good work has vanished oh too many times due to CrasholA!

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man that Mongol skin looks too tight

i will be fo sure gettin the add-on

The Mongol can also whip up a mean barbeque i hear.

I have to say this...um...AZN PRIDE!!!!

Are there going to be new SP maps?
New weapons?
NEw shields?
Tell us more!
I think the China man should have A samri sword and one of the sticks with a big blade on the end weapons. I sure hope there are going to be more weapons. I agree wit groan about the two verson thing, people who own it should have to pay less than those who don't.

they should cut us a break, we the people who show so much love fer the game, and do what we can to keep communities and the game striving....


happy people means happy gamers!

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I might get it .. Well I'll probably get it. But I'm going to wait this time. Unless it's really cheap (which I doubt), I'll wait till both the price goes down and the brand new bugs are fumigated.

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Hey Crimson! I agree 100 percent!

A "RuneEd 2" would be great, but I think this is a license/right thing, if Epic wants to have 1xxxxxxx$ for the copyright etc, HH won't get unrealed2!

I think it's good as it is! Sure, unrealed1 doesn't have tess cubes (my babes) and it's not quit as user-friendly, but it's okay, I like it! (SHIFT+click on a brush in 3dwindow = select brush, that's one owning thing in unrealed2!)

I just worked 5 hours + with unrealed1 for my upcoming, and I only had some crashes when testing the whole thing, but I think I can't blame unrealed1 for that, only me or rune

I'm looking forward to HOV, if "Rune required" or not, I just want more mapfest!!!

/level editing's my life

HEADBALL LMAO

nothing beats a game involving bloody limbs.I mean if basketball replaced the ball with a severed head i would watch it lol

Well, I dunno if this is still the case, but when they first announced it, they said it would be around $20. I think it looks great so far.

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The chinese warrior... What is he doing here ? This is supposed to be a game based on Norse legends ! He has nothing to do with Rune, IMO.

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I think it's great that they're adding some variety for selectin playable characters. You already got a dozen+ Vikings with the original game, did you really want more?