Ok, Gathering jumped the gun...and released an early and incomplete bit of info before it was time, so, until the actual, official press release comes out explaining everything, let us give you a few details about what is really going on with Halls of Valhalla.

First What the hell is it?

Rune- Halls of Valhalla is the expansion pack we've been hinting at for several weeks now. It's a hybrid package that is both a stand alone AND an expansion game for Rune. If you have Rune, it adds lots of new maps, characters and new modes to the game. If you don't have Rune, you get to take part in all multiplayer action from the expansion and the original game.

What's the cost?

$19.99 is the MSRP- that's what's suggested, but your street price will vary.

What's included?

Lots of new characters- all the original sark characters (including Conrack and Ragnar- but no worries- they will be non-cheater versions), the Dwarf, Swashbuckler, Mongol Warrior, Syrian Warrior, two Roman Gladiators, a Snake Beserker, and three new female warriors. That's 15 new characters if you're keeping score, plus all the old ones you could play in the original game.

Lots of new maps- 33 in all, including the 7 contest winners. There are new maps in all modes.

New modes-
Arena- Which is not just your basic honor match. We created all new code for this that makes arena a blast, even for hard core ffa players. First, you can play 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 matches (4v4 rules!), there's a cue system so that you can explore around and play with the interactive gems we've placed around the arena edges, and you can spectate the matches themselves. If that isn't enough, a couple of the maps allow you to interact with the combatants from the cue zone.

HeadBall- This is a wicked game where up to four teams compete to take trophies from their opponents and toss them into goals for points. The team at the end of the game with the most points wins, but it's not that simple. You simply have to see it to believe it.

We also improved the netcode so that you can play in high-ping situations (no more jiggy players).

There are more little details, lots of shots of characters and levels that we will be releasing in the coming weeks, but those are the basics for now. For $20 you get a lot of extra hardcore action, or new hardcore action for your system.

We'll be doing the patch- before- the expansion comes out, and it will be free, as always. It will include the net code improvements, as well as the combat improvements we mentioned in the patch update, as well as one of the female characters from the expansion, Jun the Viking.

Rune- Halls of Valhalla will hit shelves in April for the PC, with a Mac port coming a few weeks later via Westlake. The PC version will be in stores everywhere, while the Mac version will be available via online Mac outlets. No word yet on translated versions (we're still working out details with our publisher) but the US version WILL work with all foreign versions of the game.

Hopefully that will keep you going for now. We wanted to fill you in on the basics and stop the speculation based on 1 shot of a box cover with few supporting details.

drool...
gurgle, gurgle

ahhhhhggggg

Are there not going to be any new wepons?
Im not sure if new models means new player models or new wepon models

Or BOTH?!?!?!?!

[Edited by Biohazard on 03-19-2001 at 08:25 PM]

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hmmm, for some reason I thought you would be more interested in the HeadBall

Sounds cool all around. I can't wait to play it. I don't think that it can be said that Human Head doesn't listen to their community.

but ... um ... where is the Funkateer skin

I love you.... no... really... I LOVE you...

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/me is drowning in his own drool.

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HONOR PLZ DAMMIT.

33 new maps!!!!! wow...the mappers must've been hard at work for that one...15 new models....*drool*....arena and headball...*/me fails to notice that he wets his pants and creates a huge puddle the size of lake Michigan that's full of drool*...and new net code!!!! EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Note to self - Order it when it becomes available...

[Edited by Mithander on 03-19-2001 at 09:28 PM]

New netcode...maybe I can finally play on-line.

Perhaps I'll start playing Rune again after all:0

note to self:

tell everyone that you can preorder at electronics boutique

sweeeeeeeeet!

Sounds cool, the office is getting tired of team DM. (We programmers regularly and consistently wipe the floor with the IS/IT wimps...hehehe

sweet daddy, can't wait to get the one models to skin.

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Damn... no goblin model....

[in homer simpson voice]

*hmmmmmm.....new models....maps......playing
styles......ohhhhh*

woohoo!!!! cant wait..very very very excited....

*Thud* *Jaw drops in amazements*

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I can kiss that $20 goodbye -- sounds kickass

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Laurie comes in and seeing the forum awash in various shades and textures of *Drool*. Starts grabbing empty barrels, cuts them in half, grabs some errant vikings who have come in and sticks mops in their clumsy, hamfisted mitts to wipe the mess up with. Those here and already gone retro into baby mode at the news...she sets itty, bitty "horned" viking caps on their heads and forms bowties under their jaws to clamp them shut....after wiping the drool off. Others have pacifiers stuck in their mouths....after pulling out their thumbs.

And some, she has to put back into their cages to let them pace for abit in anticipation.

It's almost like reading the "Ragnarok" forums all over again.

This sounds so kick-ass.

I want it, i need it, I'AM ADDICTED TO RUNE.


Bye .. [BK]Maledicus.

Stupid ****!

Why don't they understand that the only way to make this thing work is to insert some BOTS into the pack damn' it !
Without bots:
a. Rune _still_ won't sell
b. Rune _still_ isn't the game is could be and
c. Rune will never be as popular as Unreal or Quake, which it definitly could be...

Stupid ph00lz!

For Rune too have bots, it would take an extreme amount of work, jacking up the price of the add on most likely. You seem too forget, that from a bot stand point, Rune is much more difficult to write a successful bot for, then UT. Its not a fps after all.

Play online. No high-speed connection? That's OK, Tim said patch will improve net play for high pings. Still not satisfied? Get broadband, and if they don't have it where you live ... MOVE

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Cool bots would be nice, but a living opponent is better - we live in the days of goin' online -

Thank you, TGerr for your team, your work and for our pleasure AT ALL HERE

hey Laurie, think ya better order more barrels and hire a few extra cleaneruppers cause heres some more mess...

!!!dah-freakin-rool!!!

15 models PLUS 33 new maps PLUS the net code fix all for under $20!!! ("getting out his handy international monetary translator, Thunder comes to the realisation that $20 american is actually $87 in his kanadian kurrency. he grits his teeth and makes the decision not to purchase any refreshments for the week").

there u go kids, all the stuff thats been whinned about in 2 handy packages for real cheap. woohoo!

u know, wzzrd's right. rune will never be as popular as ut, but then again, the quarter pound burger with the fresh cut fries made by a guy named gus at my local pub will never be as popular as the quarter pound burger u get at the place thats on everystreet corner who have a clown as a spokesperson.

my kandian kurrency kalculator kalkulates the kanadian ekwivalent of your US$20 to be $943.23 KDN.

But i dont care...
thats money well spent.
Bots or no Bots.

besides, get some of those great Mod developers that we have out there to work their asses off on the AI!

There's no better resume for game developers than the projects you do towards a game.
and im sure tgerr or dave or ted or kazi or any of these guys would write you a GLOWING letter or recomendation if you pull off some of the stuff ive seen done so far!

just my opinion.
these HHguys are busy eith rune 2 now. so leave them alone.

No... but they've given us Dwarfs, who needs goblins then - woohoo

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no but you could always play "insult the horde"

like this
"you chaos folks are poopy heads!"
while in their server...

just an example

(JK)

Sure, that is fun.

but it gets old.. Just imagine smashing their runestone to tiny bits!

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More Rune goodness for the Mac.

I am happy!

:8:Q

Damn I'm about to piss my pants lol

33 new maps include 7 HH contest winners, 15 new models... damn thats a lot to be syked about man plus 2 new modes!!

The Rune community will be blessed with New NetCode and a **** load of fun stuff to play with...... I'm giddy

parden the language

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but we still need bots!!

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Yeah, but it's just not the same... oh, well... I'll have to stick to my old skin... or maybe I could be a Mongol?... hmmm.

The other stuff looks great, btw...

Hehe... wouldn't it be possible to make a (much) fatter and (somewhat) bigger goblin making a skin using the Dwarf as model???

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Are we going to get any new weapons or what?
As some one sayed here befor:
New player models or weapon models?

Wait... where's the damn CTF? Argh.

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once again groan is correct, twice even! my translator must be on the fritz cause the kanadian equivelent is $943.23. thats a lot of krupkas! (just in case any of our friends south of the border do not know, krupkas are our kurrency here in kanada. we call them krupes or kruppies for short). i, for one, am more than happy to give up my $943.23 krupes for all the new goodies.

ill admit that i was gona jump ship and wait for other games to come out...but now...i want my sword back laurie!!!

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and that damn american dollar just keeps making our k's drop even further!
now 20 of your American "dollars"(hehe, silly name, dollars)are worth 1844.21 KrU.

Im saddened, because that is close to my lifes savings...

sad

Yeah, see, I don't want a (much) fatter and (somewhat) bigger goblin... I want those skinny little guys with their incoherent grumbling... a REAL goblin, not some poseur dwarf!