Greetings Massassians,

It is my honor to present- EAH Christmas Mod 2: XMAS Reloaded.

It is a Christmas themed MOD designed to pass checksum, and remain 'playable' with nonmod users. Official Massassi submission forth coming shortly.

This mod is designed for multiplayer, however you can demo XMAS2 on the first single player level. *

Screenshots:
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Download:
EAH XMAS 2: XMAS Reloaded - xmas2.zip (~1800k)

Features:
-XMAS level effects for BGJ, CO, VotJT
-Slow motion death camera
-Automatic Bacta use
-Player has all forces/guns at startup.
-Various XMAS 3do's

Weapons:

Fists - Fists of Holiday Rage
Putting up with all that family crap has driven this jedi over the edge. For 30 seconds you lose control, running and punching like a madman.

Bryar - Snowblower of Doom
You got tired of shovelling the driveway by hand, so you purchased a snowblower. Now you can move things with ease.

Strifle - Deck the Halls
Decorating for the holidays has never been easier, paint the walls festive colors.

Thermdet - SnowBall Fight
Classic XMAS fun, peg someone with a snowball.

Crossbow - Christmas Star Gun
Creates a Christmas Star with an explosive punch. Red, Green, or White.

Repeater - Christmas Flamethrower
Car door frozen shut? Just give it a quick blast with a flamethrower... Solves soo many holiday problems.

Raildet - Christmas Bunny Rampage
It's Christmas and Max the Christmas Bunny is on a RAMPAGE! Look through the Christmas Bunny's eyes as Max goes on a rampage.

SeqCharges - Santa's Sleigh Ride
With this technological wonder there is no need for Rudolph. Secondary fire controls Sleigh speed and primary fires Sleigh turbolasers.

Concrifle - Standard Concrifle
Why mess with something this good? Kept for playability with nonmod users.

Lightsaber - Christmas Lightsaber
Tweeked out with a holiday look. Slightly Faster and more powerful.


Items:

Bacta - Force Saber Throw
Wait a minute whats XMAS about this?

Irgoggles - Walk on Walls
So thats how Santa gets up and down those Chimneys

Fieldlight - Player Identifier
Easily tell apart people in multiplayer.


Force Powers:

Jump - Standard Force Jump
Kept for playability with nonmod users.

Speed - Standard Force Speed
Kept for playability with nonmod users.

Seeing - Badass Snowball Thrower
Throws an explosive snowball when a person is detected infront of you.

Pull - Have a WHITE CHRISTMAS
You shouldnt go outside in a blizzard...

Absorb - Ice Shield
Similar to normal absorb. Reduces damage, additonal protection.

Blinding - Snow Toggle
On by default in BGJ, CO, VotJT

Force Heal - Distance Monitor
Helps you prevent those pesky surprise attacks.

Persuasion - Power of Christmas Spirit
Flying for ALL!

Protection - Santa, my friends need better guns.
Upgrades the power of all nonMOD users guns. Toggable.

Throw - Toy Morph
Turn victims into cute xmas toys.

Lightning - Santa's Spy Cam
So this is how Santa knows if you have been bad or good.

Destruction - Lets sing a Christmas Carol!
I hope everyone enjoys xmas jingles.

Grip - Super Force Grip!
Similar to JO style grip, drag and throw people around.

Deadlysight - Snowball Dodger
Assists you to evade incoming fire.

Authors: Heretik, Triscuit, CL0wN

* Single Player gaming with this mod is not fully supported. The game will crash once the first level ends, if you attempt to skip level, or load a saved game.

Merry Christmas.

Wow. Acutally looks like a pretty good mod. Hope it becomes popular when a few people start playing around Christmas.

Oh, fancy, a hack with a christmas theme!

There can't be snow on the bottom of the pool in Canyon Oasis... it'd melt when falling on the water. :o... not to mention it'd probably float before/while melting.

holly ****ezen, It's EAH_TRISCUIT!!!! The guy from The Zone who made all those cool EAH hacks back in 1998. I remember you! Anyways, awesome stuff

[QUOTE=Pedro T Hutt]There can't be snow on the bottom of the pool in Canyon Oasis... it'd melt when falling on the water. :o... not to mention it'd probably float before/while melting.[/QUOTE]
Dissolve is a much better term than melting since heat is not applied and it changes state of matter though if it'd all dissolve away before reaching k *shrugs*, and it would float while it was reaching equilibrium b/c of the lattace structure of solid H2O. :p Enough with the chemistry I love so much. I agree with Jedi_Kirby, seems alot like a hack than a full mod.

the mod is fun trust me i know

Technically it is a collection of hacks, but unlike most hacks which exist to give the user an advantage these were designed with fair gameplay in mind. Although fairness is extremely difficult to judge I believe nonmod users actaully have a gaming advantage over Christmas Mod users.

I am hopeful that public opinion towards checksum passing mods is changing due to other popular projects like Jedi Knight : Rebirth.

There's a world of difference between a mod that changes only the visual aspects of the game, and a mod that could potentially allow anyone to disrupt the flow of legitimate gameplay. See, even if it's "balancing" what if we don't WANT a bunch of christmas decorations in our deathmatch level? Plus, I personally think this is a hack, and really shouldn't be called anything different. This coming from the founder of JKR.

JediKirby

Hey guys, that makes his post legit lolz

Bah Humbug! Well different strokes for different folks. I suppose if Massassi rejects the submission based on its ability to pass checksum, thats an easy fix.

Have I told you how emo MBeggar is? Emobeggar!

Nyet!

I'm not the one calling names.

I'm sure the editing community of 0 users can't wait to see your newest wasted effort of a failed attempt of bring "life" to the editing community.

That's a whole lot of nobody.

i don't post a whole lot on here, but i check the showcase almost three times a day. kirby, you're saying "what if we don't WANT a bunch of christmas decorations..." etc... well, these days, i doubt someone with that CHECKSUM-PASSING SEASONAL ->MOD<- is going to randomly join your game of JK. you're going to play with the people you set it up with, people you talked to on IRC or whatever....

this shouldn't even be a big deal. if you don't like it and don't want it, don't download it, don't play with people you think will use it. at least he is doing something and completed it. you said yourself that new types of gameplay are needed, rather than "pretty" things.

i played it and thought it was fun, something different. i liked being able to make things look like they were covered with snow and fly a TIE Fighter around the maps. i found you can even turn most of the skyboxes in to snowy clouds and they scroll across the sky, pretty cool if you ask me.

it may be a collection of hacks, but like he said, most of these hacks arent beneficial to the player, maybe you should play it yourself before commenting. you should also read some info on EAH, such as this - "We frown upon hacking non-hack games." straight from their website.

I'm with everyone else here Kirby.. if someone "don't want christmas decorations" then they can simply play the regular version, right? I don't see why you are making such a big deal out of this.

Intentions are good and all, but with the future release of programs that network JKers like the Zone did, as well as public games like JKServer and #JKGames, I don't really appreciate hack mods being made, intentions asside.

JediKirby

This looks interesting. It's been a while since EAH was around. I still remember playing Clown's Kill Osama Bin Laden mod. That was fun.

Kirby, a mod is a mod, whether or not it passes checksum. I haven't played it yet, but it sounds cool.

Because anyone with the mod can join "regular" games, as all the cogs pass checksum, and spread a little TOO much Christmas cheer.

Anyways, that said, I have had much fun in games which specifically permit and encourage hacking, using Triscuit's cogs.

If anyone has been playing Wolfenstein: ET lately, then you notice a whole lot of Christmas mods being played with.

The fact that the player who uses it starts with all weapons, all force powers, and automatic bactic use does give them an unfair advantage, and does qualify this as a hack. If it were just decorations, it would be fine, but it's not.

That being said, it's a fun idea, and I don't really see it as being much of a problem, as most JK games are private these days.

I can see why you might come to this thread , give it a quick glance, and think that - but 10 of the cogs are noncombative. In fact one of them provides an advantage to nonmod users. Im not completely disagreeing, in certain gametypes like NF sabers, XMAS Mod users would probably have an advantage.
In all my testing I got beat by nonmod users, but I do suck at Jedi Knight.

That said - it seems people enjoy posting about the hack vs mod controversy and arent actaully trying it.

[QUOTE=The Mega-ZZTer]
Anyways, that said, I have had much fun in games which specifically permit and encourage hacking, using Triscuit's cogs. :)[/QUOTE]

I concur. Triscuit goes right up there among the JK Editing Gods, I remember using some of his cogs from wayyyyyyy back in the day that I downloaded from his website to use on the MSN Gaming Zone in hacking games, or even in build games (man were those fun).

:p ... yeah i loved the build games. even more when triscuit was the one doing it

Because when you concur you are agreeing.

I remember playing a game MANY moons ago, where some guy was building crates incessantly! Triscuit sounds familiar... that was a fun game tho

Son u trippin? triscuit is teh l33tstaff

I argue that thsi hack compares to Hitler!

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I invoke Godwins Law upon myself!

I LOSE!

yayy!

I love people who know how to biuld using thoes cogs, they rock! IN tower when you make a massive slide from the very top of the skybox, all I can say is 1337 d47 b3 d4 b0mb!

I *loved* build games. I'd always have the copy gun and accurate delete gun handy in every game I want to. I'd laugh alloud if someone said "Oh, copy gun. That's harmless" and I found a sequencer charge lying around, or a rail det zooming towards me.

I'd always use it in RP games as well, make a new bedroom in ceasers palace where the elevator went. There's 3d0 lights outside so you can even light the place up. 'Was always interesting


I'll try this 'mod' in a bit when I find my JK cd

Every day I pray to my fiendish overlords that he doesn't learn that we're out of sprinkles.

[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]I'll try this 'mod' in a bit when I find my JK cd :([/QUOTE]
Can you believe that a while back I [read that warez is still illegal]? my JK disks are so scratched.
Good luck on finding yours.

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Back to the actual topic...

Glad to see some holiday spirit! Great idea, and I'm sure lots of fun. (Me no have JK... )

Interesting. Although having snow in a canyon level doesn't seem very realistic, I'm glad that you're getting into the holiday spirit. But with only 5 days until XMAS, we don't have much of a choice.

I tried to load the mod, but JK patch commander couldn't find it even when I was looking in the dir that I unzipped to.

Also, how do oyu write cogs to pass checksum? I could never figure out how to do it.