marcus welz

Fallen Empire: Legions is a strategic FPS+Z shooter, the spiritual successor to the Starsiege: Tribes series, and a blast to play.
Although the full game is (at least currently) located at instantaction.com, the new playlegions.com site offers a brief single player tutorial, in a very Portal'esque fashion to teach basic movement skills, which are all but; […]

Sound effects can make or break a game. I played around with replacing the Legions jetpack sound, and the results are actually quite aweful and disturbing.
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So, how would it hold up if were to replace that sound with, say, the Hampster Dance, Bananaphone, […]

A few days ago I decided to have fraps run in the background to see if I can't capture a few decent moments of me playing Legions.
I got lucky and managed to get a decent last-second shot on Ultima112. The rocket jumping was horrible though, and I had a bad feeling about it right as […]

For the longest time I've used the Plantronics .Audio 70 "Behind-the-headset". It's lightweight, has clear sound, and has an almost 10 foot long cord. And perhaps that's part of the problem. I keep rolling over it with my chair every so often, and eventually, after 6 months of use or so, the chord will short […]

A good friend of mine alerted me to a spiritual successor of the Tribes series. Tribes, Tribes 2, and Tribes:Vengeance were games that I've wasted enjoyed countless hours playing, modding, scripting, and participating in tournament games with.
The Fallen Empire: Legions open beta started just a few days ago. It's a Torque based game developed by […]