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Soldier of Fortune News

Apr 12, 2000 11:20am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Soldier-of-fortune.com has posted a QuickFAQ, with the most often asked questions about certain levels in Soldier of Fortune where people get stuck.

Kenn Hoekstra Interview

Apr 11, 2000 12:34pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
GameGirlz has short Q&A with Raven project administrator Kenn Hoekstra, in which he explains wtf a project admin does, how he feels about the reaction to Soldier of Fortune and couple of other subjects.

SOF Designer Diary

Apr 11, 2000 6:58am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
SOF Center has a new Soldier of Fortune designer diary by programmer Keith Fuller, this time talking about his start at Raven and the project.

SOF Tweaking

Apr 11, 2000 6:24am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Reverend has posted a preliminary video tweak guide for Raven's Soldier of Fortune, with possibly a full blown tweak guide later if time permits. For now though, he's posted a few settings that you might wanna play with to get more fps out of the game.

SOF German Blood Patch

Apr 09, 2000 7:34am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Magixx.de (who apparently have a time traveling machine as it's already Monday there, while I live next to Germany and it's pretty much Sunday here) has a blood patch for the German version of Soldier of Fortune, which is the tactical version there because the German government don't like bloody games too much.

Soldier of Fortune News

Apr 07, 2000 6:53pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Two Soldier of Fortune .plan updates today, and since it's a cool game I figured I'd might as well give it a full item, yes? Programm John Scott updated his .plan talking about multiplayer map lists that you can make for the game and also seperating users so that savegames, screenshots and such will go in different dirs depending on the user playing the game.

A word on maplists in Sof. The four used in the released version are at -
http://www2.ravensoft.com/users/jscott/sof/ravdm.lst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external http://www2.ravensoft.com/users/jscott/sof/ravrl.lst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external http://www2.ravensoft.com/users/jscott/sof/ravctf.lst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external http://www2.ravensoft.com/users/jscott/sof/ravassn.lst" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external

It should be quite easy to work out how to create one of your own =)

If you put them in "user/maplists", then the menus will auto detect them and make them selectable. The ones in the user folder will override the ones in the pak file.

Meanwhile, Kenn Hoekstra updated his .plan with news that the Aussie release of Soldier of Fortune is delayed until April 15, due to "unforseen issues".

Kenn Hoekstra Interview

Apr 06, 2000 11:24am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
Raven project administrator is interviewed over at GA-Source, talking about the past, present, and future, specifically related to Soldier of Fortune.

SOF Diary

Apr 06, 2000 5:26am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Part 9 of the Soldier of Fortune Designers Diary is now up at SOF Center, with Raven programmer Keith Fuller talking about bugs.

On SOF Patch

Apr 05, 2000 10:23am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Rick Johnson made a post on the Soldier of Fortune forums with some info on the 1.04 patch he is working on.

Kenn Hoekstra Interview

Apr 03, 2000 1:57pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
A new interview on the legit section of The Mushroom, with Kevin Weiser talking to Raven project administrator Kenn Hoekstra.

Soldier of Fortune Cheats

Apr 03, 2000 5:45am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
If you're some kind of lame putz who can't finish games without cheating, About Video Game Strategies has cheat codes for Raven's Soldier of Fortune.

Win Soldier of Fortune

Apr 02, 2000 9:26am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
SOFNews is giving away a free copie of Soldier of Fortune (a signed one at that). All you have to do is fill your email adress.

SOF SpaceOrb Config

Apr 02, 2000 9:23am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Birdman's Lair has an updated SpaceOrb config for Soldier of Fortune, for those of you actually using this controller.

Raven Interview

Apr 01, 2000 12:18pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
More Soldier of Fortune interviews on NGNetwork, today with them talking to Raven's Dan Kramer & Keith Fuller about the game.

Soldier of Fortune Stuff

Apr 01, 2000 4:55am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
SOFCenter has an edited chat log of a Soldier of Fortune IRC chat that was held last night with consultant John F. Mullins. They also have a fix for the missing project file.

SOF Interviews

Mar 31, 2000 8:09am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
NGNetwork has a new interview with Raven programmer Gil Gribb, in which he talks about the Ghoul rendering system that's used in Soldier of Fortune. Also, yesterday they posted an interview with project admin Kenn Hoekstra.

SOF Files

Mar 31, 2000 7:50am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Looking for anything Soldier of Fortune file related? Then maybe you should head over to SoFFiles.com, which supposedly already has over 300mb worth of files.

SoF SDK Released

Mar 28, 2000 5:42pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
SoFNews.com sends word that the SDK for Soldier of Fortune has been released by Raven Software. You can check out the .plan update here and of course download the file here.

This SDK contains a version of Radiant for SoF, the BSP utilities, scripting compiler, ghoul exporter, documentation, and the original map and script files for the first level of the game (the New York Subway).

SoF On Shelves

Mar 28, 2000 12:33pm CST tags: Soldier of Fortune
Just a quick note for you guys, Soldier of Fortune has been showing up on a few retail shelves. You might want to stop by your local store or give them a call and see if it's available in you area. You can check out the playable demo or a bunch of screenshots of the game if you're forgotten what it looks like.

Kenn Hoekstra Interview

Mar 28, 2000 10:38am CST tags: Soldier of Fortune, Interview
Soldier-of-Fortune's Raven interview continued today, talking to project administrator Kenn Hoekstra about the FPS which should be appearing in some US stores today.