CGO has posted some more Soldier of Fortune tips, this time giving level and some multiplayer tips for Raven's recently released first person shooter.

CGO has posted a couple of tips for Raven's violent FPS Soldier of Fortune. Today's tip page is a "Shooters 101" and they promise level and multiplayer tips next.

SOF Operations has modeling plugints for Soldier of Fortune for use with 3D Studio MAX. They also have the mesh file of the shotgun.

As mentioned in Raven programmer Jake Simpson's .plan updates, there were some sounds problems caused by missing or old files in Soldier of Fortune. SOF Operations has the correct files, for A3D or EAX. Also word on Stomped @ E3 is that the game will be ported to the Dreamcast console, will include some new levels and will be multiplayer ready although it's not sure yet whether Dreamcast players will be able to play against PC players.

3DSpotlight has a Soldier of Fortune framerate tweaking guide for those of you looking to squeeze a little more performance out of the game.

SOFOperations has a whole bunch of Soldier of Fortune editing guides. They have a skinning tutorial, Bolt-On's Tutorial (for models), effects guide and a SOFRadiant setup guide.

Raven programmer Rick Johnson hit the Soldier of Fortune forums (thanks VE), saying that he is working on a 1.5 patch for SOF, which will have the pure server option in the menus, adresses a CTF scoring bug and there will be a new SDK release with the game source code.

Gamespot has a game guide for Raven's Soldier of Fortune, giving the lowdown on weapons, items, enemies, offering general strategies, a walkthrough, multiplayer tactics and cheats.

There are two interviews with two of the guys behind the upcoming Soldier of Fortune mod SoF Fortress. There's one on Soldier-of-fortune.com and one on FGN Online.

SOFOperations' hosted site Modcentral has some pics of the Soldier of Fortune Fortress mod.

There are some screenshots of the Soldier of Fortune multiplayer mod Operation Overlord on its website. It shows the City Warzone level.

If you just can't get through the Kosovo mission in Raven's Soldier of Fortune, Soldier-of-Fortune.com now has a walkthrough of it.

The v104 patch for Soldier of Fortune has been released. Thanks to SoFNews.com for the word, you can grab the file from the Fileshack server here. If you're wondering what's new check Rick Johnson's .plan update.

Rick Johnson made a post on the Soldier of Fortune forums, saying that the 1.04 SOF patch will be released today, in the afternoon. Thanks VE.

Yet another interview, this time one with Raven consultant on Soldier of Fortune, John Mullins. They talk about what he thinks of the job Raven did with Soldier of Fortune including the level of violence in the game.

There's an interview with Raven programmer Nathan McKenzie on Chick's Hardware, talking himself about Raven's current hit Soldier of Fortune.

SOF Operations has some SDK info for Soldier of Fortune, if not all utils were totally clear to you. The new SDK will be out in 2 weeks, after the new patch (which will include a pure server option).

Raven programmer Rick Johnson made a post to the SOF forums with details on the Soldier of Fortune 1.04 patch. Here's the list

* Fixed crash in EAX sound code when playing old sounds
* Fixed crash in DM when getting killed by standing over a flaming body
* Fixed crash in DM for Arsenal caused by weapon switching / inventory bug
* Added a check for invalided saved game files in the menu code
* Changed the "Error during Initialization" dialog to report the specific error
* Added view height change for MOF
* Fixed a bug in detection of remote IP address for systems with multiple IPs
* Circumvented W2K bug in SetProcessWorkingSetSize(). This call would basically not allow various GL implementations to initialize under W2K. Removed the call to that function.
* Re-organized CD copy protection
* Made it so that the winsock error WSAECONNRESET doesn't drop you to the console during DM server browsing
* Fixed problem where people had difficulty connecting to servers
* Fixed an issue with spectator mode
* Fixed an overflow issue with demo playback
* Fixed CTF issue with force join
* Added "ainame" worldspawn over-ride to specify the enemy set for user mods
* Added a "-nostart" command line option, so that dedicated servers won't automatically start dedicated.cfg
* Added GameSpy server registration support
* Fixed irqctf1 where players could get in bad spots

On Clanworld there's a quick Q&A with Kenn Hoekstra of Raven asking about a possible Soldier of Fortune sequel or mission pack, to which he replied

Kenn Hoekstra: We have to determine the financial viability of Soldier of Fortune before committing to a mission pack and/or a sequel. We certainly have a plenty of ideas for both, but we're going to sit back and gauge the response to the core game before pressing forward with the game's future.

However, Brian Raffel updated his .plan, which gives you the feeling they are actively looking into doing a sequel to the game (it debuted at a very strong 3rd position in last week's sales list)

John Mullins is at Raven Today!
We are in the process of proposing SOF2 and wanted Johns input on the mission/weapons ect.
If you have any solid suggestions for SOF2 send us an email.

The Oxygentank has an interview with the team behind the Operation Overlord mod that’s in development for Soldier of Fortune. It’s a mod which kind of combines TF classes with the Assault mode from Unreal Tournament, should be pretty cool.