Huge sound release and stuff

The following is written by a crazed madman, read with care, - Rastabon

So Eskil released the latest client, giving the sound system a major overhaul. The most notable change is that sounds for weapons are generated at the place where your projectile stops. To check it out, shoot your blaster at the ground, then at a far away location. You'll see what I mean. It's kinda like he gave us all silencers. Which could be cool. Let's see where this takes us. BFGs are a lot quieter. No more bleeding eardrums for the headphone users.
Oh my god. The bases have wind chimes. Perhaps they're signaling that "The windmills are coming." It was so pleasent to listen to, those wind chimes, while I got blown up by a Rocket Pit. Can't forget that the water has a new sound too. There's probably plenty more, so go check them out. Then get killed by a rocket pit. It truly is better to have Loved and lost then to have NEVER HAVE LOVED AT ALL.

EDIT: The R pyrosphere music is good. I want more of it.

Troubled Times Ahead

Speaking of not Loving at all, Eskil told me some unfortunate news; that he was going to be increasing his price for full release to 10 Euros/month. What. The. Fuck. Isn't that close to what Blizard charges for WoW?!?! A guy's gotta make money, I understand, but 3.33 x more money? I know I wouldn't pay 10 euros for the current state of the game. Pretty sure Eskil's getting ahead of himself here. 10 Euros for a game with no end-game? No lunar exploration? No Monitor Lizards? Nothing to do after a base is up and running for 4-5 hours? No permanent show of achievement? No more rhetorical questions? Please?
All jokes aside, with all forseeable updates before the release (Eskil will be doing GDC things March 1st - 20th) the game isn't going to be worth 10 euros per month to me. I could understand 5 euros, if a payment increase is really necessary at all. In coherence with the Alpha --> Beta era, Eskil plans to close the voucher purchasing service, move back to closed beta, and give all of us awesome beta testers free play time until full release. This way we don't have to pay while Eskil is busy with GDC and less focused on bug fixes. I'll ask Eskil for a definite date and update this article. In the meantime, all you awesome Monitor Lizard-riding beta testers, I suggest that you stock up on play time (buy vouchers at 3 euros now isntead of 10 later) if you plan to play the full release. We'll see how this all boils down.
With Love,

~Old Man Samakon, Master of News Articles