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2 September

Modding Update & More!

Update Highlights

Ability to mod KV6 weapon & class skins
Vote kick improvements
Auto-balance adjustment to allow flexibility to join the same team when playing with friends in public matches
A lot of balancing changes throughout the game as requested by the community, including a nerf to the overall Marksman class & a buff to the Engineer class.
Map improvements
Menu improvements
Reintroduction of the colour palette throughout the game

Modding
Restrictions on KV6 modding have been lifted & so modifying your local weapon and class appearance is now possible. The only limit is the maximum dimensions: x = 48; y = 68; z = 38.
The official guide to modding can be found here.

Vote Kick Improvements
- Kicks can no longer be initiated if the target player is in a team with 2 or less players.
- Spectators can no longer initiate a vote kick.
- If the kicker is on the opposite team to the target player, the kicker’s vote is no longer counted.
- The pass threshold for a vote now takes into account half of the players in the team, rather than the entire game.
- Vote kicks are now anonymous.
Known Issues
- There are a few cases where your name will be revealed rather than remaining anonymous
Balancing Notes
- The Pickaxe has had its player damage reduced.
- The Pickaxe is also less powerful against blocks.
- The Pickaxe now swings slower.
- The Combat knife has had its damage dramatically increased.
- The Combat knife is now slower.
- Pistol headshot damage has been slightly reduced.
- The shoot interval of a Pistol has been increased.
- The recoil on a pistol has been significantly increased.
- The Pistol has had its range reduced.
- The Triple Barrelled RPG now has a larger blast radius.
- The Triple Barrelled RPG now does twice as much block damage.
- The Triple Barrelled RPG now deals slightly less damage to players
- Regular grenades now deal higher damage to blocks.
- The Bolt-action sniper has had its maximum ammo reduced to 7.
- The Semi-Auto rifle has had its maximum ammo reduced to 15.
- The regular RPG now causes less damage to blocks.
- The pistol now has a slightly slower reload speed.
- The Marksman can now fall a maximum of 30 blocks before death from full health.
- The Marksman and Commando have had their speeds slightly reduced.
- The Engineer’s speed has been slightly increased.
- The Miner now starts with 0 blocks.
- The Commando’s Shovel now digs at a slower rate.
- Dynamite now has a maximum ammo of 1.
- Dynamite now does more damage to player-placed blocks.
- Dynamite now has an expanded blast radius.
- Reduced the Torso damage of the Semi-Automatic Sniper.
- Slightly reduced the Arms Damage of the Semi-Automatic Sniper.
- Slightly reduced the Legs Damage of the Semi-Automatic Sniper.
- Slightly reduced the Headshot Damage of the Semi-Automatic Sniper to balance it more with regards to the Bolt-Action Sniper.
- Slightly increased the shoot interval of the Semi-Automatic Sniper.
- Slightly increased the speed of the Crowbar.
- The Commando now has access to the Fort Wall prefab.
- The Scout now as access to the Caltrop prefab.
- The Engineer now has access to the Bridge prefab.
- The Engineer now has access to the “Super Pole” prefab.
- The Pickaxe has been removed from the Miner’s loadout.
- The Pistol now recoils upwards.
- The Prefab lag should have been reduced.

We hope you enjoy this update as well as the recent dedicated servers update, and that it allows you to create even more amazing things!

Ace of Spades Team

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18 August

(Almost) Everything You Asked For Preview!

Soldiers.

We are excited to inform you that the “(almost) everything you asked for” update has just been released onto the Community Beta Preview!

This includes a host of changes, including re-enabling Kv6 Modding, Balancing Changes and changes to maps!

If you want to check this out, head to your Steam Library, and right-click Ace of Spades. From there, click “Betas”, and change the dropdown option from “NONE – Opt out of all beta programs” to “community – Pre-Release Preview”.
For more information on the changes, head over to the forum post here : http://www.aceofspades.com/community/page/articles.html/_/official-news/new-community-beta-preview-r75

Enjoy!
Tom (TauOmicronMu) and the Ace of Spades team.

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Key Features

CONSTRUCTION, COMBAT AND CREATIVITY - Complete strategic and creative freedom is at your disposal to annihilate the enemy however you like.

MULTIPLAYER MAP CREATION - Ace of Spades: Battle Builder includes a map creator mode, which allows you to collaborate with up to 23 friends and make your very own Ace of Spades battleground! Custom tools and over 400 prefabricated structures will help you build the ultimate multiplayer maps, which you can upload and share via Steam Workshop.

CUSTOM GAME MODES - Play the way YOU want to play! Host your own match or create your own mode using the wide selection of settings available to you. From fine tuning your favourite mode & classes, to turning TDM into a Spade-only grudge match with predefined teams, as a lobby host you can:

Set your lobby to invite only, friends, or open, and also have full control over who joins with the host ‘kick’ function

Sort players into specific teams – great for clan matches, or for playing on the same team as your friends

Choose the map you want to play, official or player made

Set the size of the match, and it’s duration

Set up vanilla game modes or tweak them to suit by using an extensive set of customisable game rules

Tons Of Insane Game Modes

Team Deathmatch - The Grandaddy of them all. Kill the enemy; try not to die doing it.
Zombie Mode - Survive the onslaught of the living dead. Failing that, join them.
Classic CTF – Back to basics, one class, one loadout, the classic rifle. You know what to do.
Capture the Flag – No FPS is complete without CTF. Protect your flag, take the enemies’.
Demolition - Demolish the enemy’s base before your own is decimated.
Diamond Mine - Dig up precious diamonds & defend the diamond carrier as they attempt to cash in their discovery at your team’s base for points.
Occupation - A game mode that pits offence against defence. The defensive team must protect their teams based in the green occupied area of the map while the attacking Blue team try to destroy the enemy position by successfully detonating bombs.
VIP – Play in 1930’s era Chicago or LA’s Alcatraz and protect your mob boss from the opposing Mafioso.
Territory Control - Claim key tactical areas of the map for your team, gain a majority territory control of the map to win, or even better go for glory and take over the entire map!

System Requirements

Mac

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP with SP3 / Vista / 7
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor or AMD equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 500 MB free
Graphics: 800 x 600 Minimum Resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support or better.
Video Card: Recommend use of dedicated graphics card (GeForce 6800 GT or higher, Radeon X1600 or higher, Intel Graphics version GMA 4500 or higher with 128 MB of dedicated RAM. Laptop/Mobility cards will vary.
DirectX: 9.0
Other Requirements: Broadband Internet connection

Recommended:

OS: Windows XP with SP3 / Vista / 7
Processor: 2.6+ GHz Intel Quad Core Processor or AMD equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 500 MB free
Graphics: 800 x 600 Minimum Resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support or better.
Video Card: GeForce GTX460 dedicated graphics card or AMD equivalent
DirectX: 9.0
Other Requirements: Broadband Internet connection

Minimum:

OS:OSX version 10.6 or above
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor or AMD equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Open GL: Open GL 1.5 Support
Graphics: 800 x 600 Minimum Resolution.
DirectX®: 9.0
Hard Drive: 500 MB HD space
Graphics Card: Radeon X1600 dedicated RAM, Recommend use of dedicated graphics card
Other Requirements:Laptop/Mobility cards will vary

Interface

Full audio

Subtitles

English

German

French

Italian

Spanish

Reviews

"It’s Team Fortress with a spade, Call of Duty with a trowel, Battlefield with a powerdrill."
– IGN

“There’s just no equivalent of it in any other FPS game we’ve ever played”
–Now Gamer

“The natural successor to the title of King of Lunchbreak LAN”
– FPSGURU

hi_friend

155 products in account

5 reviews

Not Recommended

1.5 hrs on record

This game is the result of Jagex taking a dump on the face of a promising indie title.
0/10, I'd rather play the classic version.

Posted: 23 June

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Lord Kenny

68 products in account

8 reviews

0.9 hrs on record

THANKS JAGEX, YOU RUINED ANOTHER GAME!

Posted: 18 May

V.Nova

150 products in account

16 reviews

26.3 hrs on record

This game used to be so fun....but then these "updates" ruined it.

Posted: 18 June

Jakob!

92 products in account

27 reviews

2.7 hrs on record

About as fun as masturbating with sandpaper.
10/10
edit: since some people can't take a joke, then I will do a serious reveiw.
Ace of Spades used to be fun, untill all of these fancy updates and whatnot. And then battlebuilder comes around and botches the operation.

Posted: 23 July

I like your style, Dude

73 products in account

2 reviews

747.2 hrs on record

Not anymore.

Play the old version instead, it's free, and way better than this one
www.buildandshoot.com

Posted: 30 June

superevilmunchkin :3

183 products in account

1 review

70.2 hrs on record

Ah, Ace of Spades, where to start. This game used to be the ♥♥♥♥. I played it before it came to Steam, and it was a simple, yet addicting mix if Team Fortress and Minecraft, and had touches of Battlefield and Roblox. So when it came to Steam, I was understandibly excited. They had greatly improved the gameplay, and had added a plethera of maps, gamemodes, weapons, and 4 classes. The gameplay was tight, the graphics greatly improved, and each class was pretty balanced (Except for the Sniper).

And then came the updates. First they added a new DLC, which was 1930's Chicago themed, (No idea why they chose that theme), and for me and many other people, the game would crash instantly when you played it for the next few months. That was the begiining of the end. People could only play the DLC maps if you owned the DLC, and the gamemodes were exclusive to those 2 maps. (People can probably agree with me that City of Chicago would have been an awesome Zombie map.

Then they changed the skin of the commando to look more "Rambo-y", which looked awful, then they nerfed the Rocketeer class, and turned it into the "Engineer". I actually stopped playing then, 'cause everything that was fun about the Rocketeer (verstile, hit-and-run tactics, great in zombies), and nerfed it. Instead, the Enginner had very low health, a ♥♥♥♥ty jetpack that ran out of fuel almost instantly, weaker weapons, and weaker items. About half the community, said "♥♥♥♥ this" and walked away. This just left the new players, and the whiny 12 year olds who spammed sniper. This completly ruined the game. Then as if they hadn't done enough damage, they removed the ability to browse servers, and added a lazer module to the Sniper, so whenever you zoomed in, your position would be revealed to everyone on the map. Then they just went ahead and added the Chicago DLC to the game, so people had essentaily wasted 5 dollars on buying it before-hand. The final straw was when they added the "Battle Builder" element. Sounds pretty fun right? No. No it wasn't. The game would lag when ever you tried to put down a larger model, and often the maps were so big that the game would crash. Also nobody played the user-made content. People can't even host their own games.

Right now I can unfortunetly not reccomend Ace of Spades to you. If Jagex (who has a long history of runing games) decides to patch the game, and remove all of these mistakes, then play it again. But right now, the game is broken, the achivements are unattainable, the community is awful, and filled with griefers and hackers, and the gameplay has been completely ruined. So, with great sadness, I say that this game is unplayable currently, and I would not advise buying it.

Posted: 16 April

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