Conversion Complete - The New HUD

On the 25th of this month Nexon introduced a redesign of the in-game Heads Up Display (HUD) in order to match the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Much rage was had.

The Community Outreach Program

For the past year Nexon has stepped up its communication with its players. They have introduced Facebook fan pages, surveys, polls, new community liasons and other communications to try and really connect with their customers.

We will be looking at the Combat Arms efforts...

EXP & GP

EXP & GP, short for 'experience' and an acronym for 'Gear Points' are awarded after each game to all players that stuck it out to the bitter end.

This article will discuss the varying amounts soldiers have been receiving for their efforts over the years...

Combat Arms Brazil - Closed Beta

On June 29th 2010, Level Up! Interactive first announced that Combat Arms Command will reestablish at a new location for Brazillian soldiers to battle for the United Alliance Forces and against Warcorp and whatever. I don't think anyone pays attention to the storyline, Nexon included (Nemesis Research Lab? - that's what you're parodying with "Nemexis", Nexon), so let's get on with the article...

Bounty Hunter

The predecessor to Spy Hunt, the Bounty Hunter mode was planned for release sometime around October 2008. However, due to complications it was delayed and eventually scrapped in favor of what we now know as Spy Hunt.

M67 Frag Grenades

Once upon a time every soldier was issued with two default grenades. This came with advantages and disadvantages. Firstly, most of the maps were small so it was easy to randomly throw one grenade in the air and keep one for strategic purposes.

But then it seemed Junk Flea was raining grenades...

Wanted: New Topics!

Have you ever gone "Ooh, I remember a time when..."? I did, and I decided to create this blog.

However, I would like to be reminded or made aware of other events / topics in Combat Arms' history that I may have forgotten (ie, haven't featured in the blog yet).

It may be the case that I have covered all the major aspects so far in CA's lifetime but it's always good to get another opinion.

I've created a forum thread about the blog here: http://forum.nexon.net/CombatArms/forums/thread/5242854.aspx

Thanks!

Major Game and Web Service Upgrades

On Sunday, December 6th, 2009 Nexon performed major game and web service upgrades "to handle the current and future traffic of players to our website and games". This maintenance went for 24 hours and none of the Nexon America services could be accessible.

TeamViewer

TeamViewer is an application designed for customer support and remote system management for organisations. It allow users to take control of another user's computer (with their consent of course) over the Internet.

In Combat Arms though, it has another use...

Supply Cases

Supply Cases are special cases that contain a specific type of item, in varying duration. They are a gamble item, as you never know what you're going to get and for how long (just like a box of chocolates!). Open it up for GP or NX and get a randomised item from a specified list.

Nowadays there aren't many supply cases but there used to be supply cases for each type of weapon...

Turrets, oh Turrets.

The weapon with in-built wall hacker and aimbotter has recently been nerfed so that now it acts as a support weapon as it should - and not the main source of kills for a specialist.