Hi everyone

After a rather extended break (about a year *cough*), the Element 83 gaming group is beginning to get going again!

We are looking to take on some multi-player games as an unstoppable* team and are hoping to meet up with some of our old gaming buddies for some laughs!


*maybe




7 Days To Die

ARMA 3 Exile/Epoch (it wouldn't be E83 without ARMA would it!)

Escape From Tarkov

Miscreated

Next Day: Survival

Rocket League

Unreal Tournament 2017


And any others we fancy!


If you'd like to come and have a game with us again, relive some old memories and make some new ones, come and join us on our Discord!

The link is - https://discord.gg/p5jzwz6


There have been a couple of changes since a year ago:

We aren't running any servers now, so we are looking for other hosts servers to game in.

Mosquto has stepped down as co-owner, so it's like it's back to mid 2015 with just Dusk and I running things again!

Hi E83'ers

For those of you who play Clash Royale on mobile, you'll be pleased to hear there is an E83 clan up and running!

It's being run by "Wave After Wave" and "XT" (I'm not involved in this one), so if you would be interested in joining and have any questions, please speak to them.

You can find them on Discord and the forum.

https://discord.gg/AuB8HqD


http://element83gaming.com/forum/


They are keen to get an active group up and running so are looking for any new members, regardless of experience.


Cheers all!


Moon

This is a duplicate of our forum post, you can see the original here - http://element83gaming.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=654



Hi everyone

As some of you many know, the Exile server has been down since the 1.0 update came out. Unfortunately one of the mods updated (and we didn't realise straight away) so that delayed being able to connect to it.

In the meantime we have been having a chat amongst ourselves (Moon, Dusk, Mosquto) and put a thread on the forum with a vote option for which mod/map we should be looking at next if we changed things up, you may have seen it.

The results were quite surprising, with a clear lead for Epoch and a fairly even split between Altis and Tanoa map.

There were some really good points made against going back to Epoch (lack of mod support, still in the early stages, zombies/sappers etc., not the game style everyone wants).

We've taken those things into consideration and have also thought, what do we (Moon, Dusk, Mosquto) want to play on? We've realised that while Exile has been stable for a good while now, it's not really interested any of us so we haven't played it, we've just been servicing a server and paying all the associated expenses for other peoples fun. And not many peoples fun at that, the server numbers have been dropping slowly again. We've had a peak of 10 players and apart from that it's been less than that for months. We really appreciate our core player base who have stuck with us for a long time (you guys know who you are!), but it's not sustainable the way it's going.


Well, all three of us want to play again. So we're going with Tanoa. It's an interesting new map to explore, we've not really looked at it yet except in streams and screenshots so it's something exciting and new to work through.

We're also going back to Epoch. They have just released a new version 0.3.9, they are now open source which means more people can work on the project and some really interesting new things have been released in this latest version.

Traders all over the map, not just in three cities with a player driven economy - you can buy what is sold at the trader.
A trader city will come soon with a new update
There are lots more missions from traders to earn money etc.
Supernatural elements - cultists, sappers, invisible Predator type enemies and the drones summoning kill squads.
A new feature is when you are killed, you can detonate your body or respawn as a sapper! Should be a bit of a laugh.


We are also going to put the zombie mod back in, it's far improved since the disaster of last September with the Esseker map so that should be good fun.


We have a few brilliant streamers who we know that are interested in trying another zombie related survival game so we will be inviting them along. They may bring their friends / viewers with them which could lead to a fairly populated server quite quickly. And of course, we will also be streaming from Tanoa!


This time, we're not as interested in the numbers of players in the game. Epoch can give an interesting experience without other players, so this time it's for us to play, and you are all invited to join us, we'd love to have you! You should find us in the server quite often.


We know it's not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, so apologies if anyone is disappointed.

Lets hope Epoch 0.3.9 can deliver some excitement and adventures in Tanoa!


Hope to see you there.

Moon, Dusk & Mosquto.

Greetings Armaholics!

I'm wanting to get a bit of feedback from you…

Exile has just released the 1.0 update, so they are effectively 'gold' now as they have previously stated that once they reach 1.0 they won't be releasing new features (that may have changed though).

So, we can now…

Update the Altis map to Exile 1.0

Scrap the Altis map and move over to Tanoa with Exile 1.0

Or...for a bit of a change…

Epoch have released a new version, 0.3.9, they are working on the project again!
With Epoch we can have:
CUP mods as we do with Exile
Ryans Zombies and Demons Mod – it's compatible
Have the sappers, cultists and other assorted nasties that the Epoch mod throws at us.
If you remember, Epoch also has traders dotted around the map for buying and selling with a proper market economy and they are going to be introducing a new trader city as well.
We CAN'T have all the AI patrols and missions we currently do because the mod makers have moved over to Exile.

However Epoch on a jungle island filled with zombies might be an interesting change of pace! Or of course, Altis again.

Here's a video with a bit of what the new Epoch has to offer on the Tanoa map (warning - the video is over-saturated):

youtu.be/8UMXC70eTjE


I'm interested to know your thoughts on how we should move forward so please do let me know. The options again are:
Altis – Exile 1.0
Tanoa – Exile 1.0
Tanoa – Epoch 0.3.9 – Zombies
Altis - Epoch 0.3.9 - Zombies

http://element83gaming.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=651


Thanks all!


Moon

Hi everyone

Just to let you know the Element83 server is now running the latest Exile, version 0.9.8 codename “Kiwi”.

There has been huge changes to Exile in this version including:
Currency is now physical, you will drop a bag of money when you die so store it carefully!
Concrete is now a building material so you can make stronger bases
Radiation is now an environmental threat!

We have a couple of changes of our own as well…

There are now AI helicopters in game, they WON'T fire at you, but they do add an additional source of tension...is it an AI chopper flying or is it another player...who knows?

All the CUP mods are still present (weapons, vehicles and uniforms), however uniforms is still bugged (you can pick the clothing up), so at the moment that has been disabled, however you STILL NEED CUP uniforms to connect to the server!

You can find all the mods you need by subscribing to Mosqutos Steam workshop list here - http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=686396830


The server has been completely wiped so everyone is starting fresh. This has been recommended by the Exile devs, they said “...we strongly recommend to start all over, as we have literally touched everything. This update had changes to more than 1.800 files in our internal project.

As usual, if you find any problems, don't tell us on sidechat, we may miss it. Please report any problems in the forum – element83gaming.com/forum then they can be addressed one by one.


Happy Exiling everyone! :D