Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all are doing well. Recently, I have been tracking the forum stats, and I have noticed a depressing trend in the fact that the number of posts has fallen again from 2016 to 2017 for the lowest number of posts since 2006. I will not stand by and watch my favorite forum crumble from old age. Let's make this a good year on here!
Hell yes.
Really it comes from a lack of things to do. There's only so may times a person can play through XML2 or MUA, no matter how many mods there are, and pretty much all the major characters are represented with many custom skins to choose from as well. It's a strange place where we need a major overhaul mod (I.E. 100% custom levels or things like that) but we don't have the tools to do such.
I've toyed with the idea of seeing whether the custom character models that work on the Wii will work on original Xbox or 360, but in the end I've probably played through MUA 15 times, and my motivation is pretty low.
Still, I wish everyone the best -- just being a realist I guess
Quote from: Teancum on January 01, 2018, 07:00PM
Really it comes from a lack of things to do. There's only so may times a person can play through XML2 or MUA, no matter how many mods there are, and pretty much all the major characters are represented with many custom skins to choose from as well. It's a strange place where we need a major overhaul mod (I.E. 100% custom levels or things like that) but we don't have the tools to do such.
My thoughts exactly.
As many mods as I've done and have been doing, I know that interest in this classic game will continue to diminish as time goes on. Something innovative or ground-breaking would need to happen to spark interest again. Nikita did refuel some fire by finding an experimental way to expand the roster to 33, but it had problems. I've managed to increase the roster to 28 without serious problems. But, 1 more character on the roster is not enough to prevent the freefall of interest. I hope a monumental discovery is found in 2018.
Perhaps the rumors of a new MUA game will come true, and it will have a moddable PC version.
Holy shakabooie, it was really exhausted on patching “Remaster” Unofficial Patch while waiting for Non-Steam Controllers works until December 2017 update solves everything via Global Settings on the MUA games’ controller option & re-configure the recommended configs, especially spreading across the existence of this site & making petition for MUA Remaster Patch 3 (which adds PSP/unused Wii exclusives & lost files) & JP Voice Set for MvC:I (for both sides unlike in UMvC3, & no individual voice settings due to Ultron Sigma).
I hope this year will have everything better, including some help from another.
Well gentlemen, we've surpassed the post counts for the past two Januaries (390 in 2016, 392 in 2017) with 399 posts and counting, and we still have 3 days left. There's still hope for this year.
If we average 11 posts per day in February, we can surpass the past two Februaries as well
As January wraps up, we finished with 434 posts. That's 14 posts per day, which is pretty solid. We beat January 2016 by 44 posts, and January 2017 by 42. Like I said above, we have to average 11 posts a day to surpass February 2016 and 2017 (302 posts and 303 posts, respectively). I think that's entirely doable as long as everyone contributes in the same capacity. March on!
We've surpassed the past two Februaries
Awesome! Proud of everyone for keeping this community alive :applause:
Quote from: nickjustint on February 23, 2018, 09:53PM
Awesome! Proud of everyone for keeping this community alive :applause:
Me too. I love this place and if people stopped it would bum me out, so I'm so proud of everyone one on here for continuing too. :applause:
Quote from: X-Men 55 on February 24, 2018, 06:52AM
Me too. I love this place and if people stopped it would bum me out, so I'm so proud of everyone one on here for continuing too. :applause:
Me too! We've still got so much more to do with this game, and there's no reason to give up now
Quote from: BaconWizard17 on February 24, 2018, 07:01AM
Me too! We've still got so much more to do with this game, and there's no reason to give up now
Exactly I love our community! I would try to do some modding myself, and I really want to but I'd want do things like converting and I feel overwhelmed by it. I'm happy how everything is and how so many people still care! :)
Quote from: X-Men 55 on February 24, 2018, 09:02AM
Exactly I love our community! I would try to do some modding myself, and I really want to but I'd want do things like converting and I feel overwhelmed by it. I'm happy how everything is and how so many people still care! :)
Feeling overwhelmed is part of the learning process. Don't be afraid to try something out!
I wonder if we can catch up with February 2015's 369 posts. We'd have to have 14 posts per day for the next 4 days, which may be tough
Quote from: BaconWizard17 on February 24, 2018, 09:45AM
Feeling overwhelmed is part of the learning process. Don't be afraid to try something out!
I wonder if we can catch up with February 2015's 369 posts. We'd have to have 14 posts per day for the next 4 days, which may be tough
I would need help with where to start and what to use and a basic guide on what to do.
Hopefully we can, you know I think we can, bud.
Quote from: X-Men 55 on February 24, 2018, 06:33PM
I would need help with where to start and what to use and a basic guide on what to do.
I wish I could help, but I'm a novice myself
Quote from: BaconWizard17 on February 24, 2018, 06:41PM
I wish I could help, but I'm a novice myself
Dang, maybe we could try to figure it out together.
Quote from: X-Men 55 on February 24, 2018, 07:07PM
Dang, maybe we could try to figure it out together.
Let's do it
Quote from: BaconWizard17 on February 24, 2018, 07:34PM
Let's do it
Where do we start? My best idea is from watching andersonbrasil's videos, but I don't speak whatever his language is.
Quote from: X-Men 55 on February 24, 2018, 07:39PM
Where do we start? My best idea is from watching andersonbrasil's videos, but I don't speak whatever his language is.
It's Portuguese. The thing is, I currently don't have the free time to actually attempt modding. I'm going to do that this summer, although I've toyed with it before. My suggestion to you is to look at the mods of others, look into what files they use, extract engbs and look into those, etc. The best way to learn is by doing.
We got February 2015 as well. Good job everyone!
With February in the books, we set our sights on March. 2017's March was fairly low, so I think we can go for March 2016 and 2015, which are both at 371. Shouldn't be hard to get, it's only 12 posts per day.
We could try to go for March 2014's post count of 500, but that might prove difficult, as it would take 16 posts per day. We're averaging 13.8 posts per day this year.
We'll aim to beat March 2014, but even if we beat 2017, 2016, 2015 that is still amazing! :wiggle:
Quote from: nickjustint on March 04, 2018, 08:25AM
We'll aim to beat March 2014, but even if we beat 2017, 2016, 2015 that is still amazing! :wiggle:
That's the spirit!
We need 12 posts a day for the next 6 days to beat March 2014. Shouldn't be hard
Once I learn how to put huds in the game I will have them up for download, and then we'd probably get some more posts. :thumbsup:
Nice!
With this post, we tie March 2014 for post count. Great job everyone!
Quote from: X-Men 55 on March 25, 2018, 09:38PM
Once I learn how to put huds in the game I will have them up for download, and then we'd probably get some more posts. :thumbsup:
I started writing the script for the hud video tutorial, I'll see if I can get it done by Sunday...
Quote from: Maegawa on March 29, 2018, 03:11PM
I started writing the script for the hud video tutorial, I'll see if I can get it done by Sunday...
Cool! Can't wait.
April 2014 was 437 posts. Should be easy for us now
Last month was kinda slow. Let's try to pick up the pace for this month
Just so long as the posts actually have some meaning. That's what matters. I'd say we're on par for that, but don't want anyone getting spammy just to up the numbers. :D
That's a given. I'm just hoping there's some more quality contributions this month
Quote from: BaconWizard17 on May 02, 2018, 10:32AM
That's a given. I'm just hoping there's some more quality contributions this month
I'm slowly trying to come back with my releases (nothing can keep me away from MUA), the latest skins are just the tip of the iceberg; I'll probably release at least one mod this month...
Gonna knock out some releases this month, been a mixture of being busy and recovering from a (minor) accident, but I'm back and excited to see what everyone's up to!
Quote from: Maegawa on May 02, 2018, 12:28PM
I'm slowly trying to come back with my releases (nothing can keep me away from MUA), the latest skins are just the tip of the iceberg; I'll probably release at least one mod this month...
Good to hear! I'm excited!
Quote from: nickjustint on May 02, 2018, 03:39PM
Gonna knock out some releases this month, been a mixture of being busy and recovering from a (minor) accident, but I'm back and excited to see what everyone's up to!
Yikes I hope you're alright. Good to hear that you'll be working on stuff this month
After may 15th, I'll be done with all of my testing, so I'll be able to return to skinning and hopefully work on some modding over the summer
I started this topic at the beginning of 2018 because I was worried about this site dying out. In 2017, we had posted less than any other year before that. However, I'm very glad to say that this year we were more active than the past 3 years. While the numbers are certainly an improvement, we also had so many major developments throughout this year. We even have a new Ultimate Alliance game on the way! Thank you to everyone for your contributions this year and for continuing to keep this site amazing.
Thank you for starting this topic. Your determine and enthusiasm to keep this site alive has inspired me and I'm sure others as well. Sometimes life gets in the way but we all find our way back to this great community.
As many mods as I've done and have been doing, I know that interest in this classic game will continue to diminish as time goes on. Something innovative or ground-breaking would need to happen to spark interest again. Nikita did refuel some fire by finding an experimental way to expand the roster to 33, but it had problems.