Hello everyone,
Today we have some good news to share with you about the Gamers Assembly !
Let’s start with the ManiaPlanet tournaments: there will be six tournaments during the Gamers Assembly 2013, taking place in Poitiers, France from March 30th to April 1st.
Hello everyone,
It’s the big day, the ShootMania beta is now opened to everyone!
Talk about it around you: everyone can now download the ShootMania Storm client, create an account without the need of a key, and join the game right away.
The Open Beta give access to most of the game modes (except Heroes, Royal Exp and Elite Exp), servers and maps. Some features will remain limited for the players on free accounts. You can unlock all of the features by pre-ordering the game at a discount on the official website.
Hi everyone,
Today is an eventful day for ManiaPlanet, with the launch of the ShootMania Storm Open Beta. Before we unleash the hordes on the servers, we wanted to introduce you another change coming today: a change of skin, and this time, it’s the websites and logos that are getting a facelift !
Let us introduce you the new ShootMania look:
As ShootMania grows bigger and reaches new territories, this new identity will help us introduce the spirit of competition of the game to more gamers around the world.
You can already download the early version of the fankit to create your own content with those visuals! >> https://blog.maniaplanet.com/assets/
We hope you’ll like it, and see you in game !
Hello everyone,
This week, in addition to the start of Open Beta today, it is also the Week of Love!
To celebrate, we will be holding a small contest* from now until February 19th, 2013. The goal is simple: Immortalize your love for ManiaPlanet via a screenshot. Three winners will receive a free ShootMania Storm key and a swag bag valued at $20. Send your participation to shootmania@ubisoft.com with the subject “ManiaPlanet Love – YourName”, you can send as many screenshots you want. Remember to give us in the mail your name and your full address please.
Hello everyone,
A new patch for ShootMania is out now, the Beta 3! And there will be big changes.
Firstly a new gamemode is available is in ShootMania Storm : Realm. Realm is a team-based mode where the goal where the goal is to control the most part of the poles on the map to activate the timer (and to keep it activated). A team where his time reach 0 go to the finalist mode. If the team has the major part of the poles without one being contested, the team wins the round.
At the beginning of the next round, the spawns are inverted, the team having win the last round must win this one to earn a point. If both team win a round, then it starts all again but with a half timed timer. Take note that the respawns are more slower with the time.
Here is the others majors changes:
On the Elite mode side, there is a major change, the defenders can now select their weapon between the rocket-launcher, the Nucleus and the Laser. If a defender chooses the Laser, the attacker will always locates him.
Following these changes, a new server option for the Elite Title is available for playing with the Beta 2.1 gameplay for the current competitions: Elite B2.
To read the complete changelog, please check the forum.
Enjoy this new patch and have fun!
Hello everyone,
As stated yesterday by Hylis, the Beta 2.1 is now out! As usual you only need to start ManiaPlanet to update it.
The Beta 2.1 update featured:
A detailed changelog is visible on this image:
Have fun!
Hi everyone,
We know many of you are eagerly awaiting the official release of ShootMania, and that is why we are sorry to announce that we have decided to postpone this release until the 10th of April 2013, allowing us more time to polish the game and open it to even more players during the beta phase.
We want ShootMania to be a huge success for all of you who believe and support this project since the very beginning, and we want to take the time and resources required to reach this level of success. For this, we have decided to go to the players all over the world, and invite them in a grand open beta phase starting on the 12th of February and lasting up until the release date in April.
This extra time, as well as the feedback of even more players, will give us the opportunity to work more on the tweaks and innovative updates in the planning for the game. During this additional time, we will work hard on delivering the best gaming experience to the passionated ShootMania and TrackMania communities.
I would like to particularly thank all the players who support the project since the very first alpha and beta phases, and hope that you will understand this difficult and important decision that we have taken.
More is coming on ManiaPlanet, but first, see you tomorrow on ManiaPlanet for the update to version 2.1 !
Hylis
IPL has announced their IPL6 event in Las Vegas, Nevada taking place end of March and they are hosting a $100,000 Cash Prize tournament this time again!
All info and sign-ups are to be found here >> http://ubi.li/mAwh5
Enjoy!!
Congratulations to all participants!
We received a ton of really nice and fun visuals for this contest!
We made a tough choice and here are the winners:
EUROPE:
1st Place: Ronald from Netherlands for his wonderful Christmas Tree and sockets
2nd Place: Nicolas from Germany for his cars in his garden
3rd Place: Anton from Sweden for his poem:
Put on your Christmas suite, drive that dangerous route. When you crash with that car, it might leave you a scar or even worse, you might just say.. Au Revoir.
It doesn’t matter anymore, because I just did my choir. I cleaned my room then stepped on the gas, and everything became totally bad ass.
I put on my helmet it all went so fast; my wreck in the canyon wasn’t my last.
I pressed spacebar and started it over, this time with a Land Rover.
After countless of tries; I couldn’t believe my eyes.
There it was, the finish line, the trophy was all mine!
I want to end this silly poem by saying thank you, you guys at Maniaplanet will always be my ground crew!
Happy holiday’s dear friends, after all those crashes, I hope that I can make amends.
Best wishes,
Anton
NCSA / AUSTRALIA
1st Place: Paul from Florida for his maps edited “Happy Holidays”
2nd Place: Evan from Minnesota for his ingame Santa Car
3rd Place: DanoDude from Australia for his Christmas screenshots
You’ll receive your swag bags worth of $50 and your free game copy in the coming weeks! Congratulations and we hope you had the best holidays!
Hello Everyone,
We hope that you had a good holiday. We wish you all the best in 2013 (2012 was not the end of the world)!
For ManiaPlanet®, 2013 ushers in the release of ShootMania®: Storm followed by two upcoming TrackMania2 titles.
To celebrate the New Year, we will be sending out ShootMania: Storm Beta 2 invitations to everyone who signed up via the official website before 7 pm GMT yesterday at www.shootmania.com!
Those who signed up after the deadline will be invited to participate in the final beta! If you’re interested in registering for the final beta, you have until 1/16/2013 to sign up at www.shootmania.com.
This will not affect TrackMania² BETA signups. TrackMania² Stadium and TrackMania² Valley BETA sign ups will still be open.
Remember, it’s still possible to pre-order ShootMania: Storm with a discount through this link.
Welcome, new beta testers!