Mario here with a quick update and a double Server Spotlight!
First of all, I'm sorry about the massive big pause between Christmas and now. I didn't expect to be off of the Minecraftia for this long, but I got tied up with school and lots of other personal stuff, but we should be back in business now! And with the recent 1.5 update, you cab guarantee that you will be getting both YouTube videos and website updates again!
But for now, I'm going to do a double Server Spotlight, with two servers that are pretty new and I think need a bit of attention.
The first one is called MC Zombie Escape, and if you play Black Ops 2 and recently bought the Revolution DLC, you may notice that this server is just like the Turned gamemode, except a lot more consistent and fun. If you are waiting in the lobby, there will be a choice of 5 maps that you can vote for. Once the voting has ended, all players will be teleported to the winning map. There will be 15 seconds when the map will be in 'Slo-Mo Mode', where you will be able to walk whilst crouching. Once the timer has ended, you will be able to walk and run normally. You must make your way to the first door, and after around 15 seconds the first zombie will be chosen.
The zombie's aim is to hit the humans in order to infect them and make them a zombie as well. Zombies get an Ender Pearl which teleports them to the latest-activated Checkpoint, and a fist to infect humans. Humans, however, get a bow, which can vary depending on the class they chose, 6 snowballs which count as a pistol, an Explosive Egg (gives zombies Blindness and Slowness for about 5 seconds) and up to 2 Perks, or Add-ons. There are also different zombie classes to choose from, in case you're getting tired of the regular zombie!
As a human, your goal is to survive and get to the Nuke Room before everyone becomes a zombie. To survive, you must open doors by hitting the buttons on Pink Wool Blocks. This activates a timer before some sort of door (ranging from a regular Iron Door to a complex Piston Door) opens up and lets you run to the next door. However, the time limits for each door increases, meaning you will have to fend off the zombies that are coming after you for longer each time. Finally, you will reach a button on a Red Wool Block, which is the button to open the Nuke Room. This one has a 90 second timer on it, meaning you will have to be ready at all costs. Once the Nuke Room opens, you must step inside one of the Contaminent Pods, and all the Iron Doors around you should close. You have now survived successfully.
To play on the above server, type in the IP: a.mczombieescape.com
The second server is a Super Craft Brothers server. However, it isn't like most of the servers you've probably seen where you just play games repetitively against random people in no particular order. This one is an actual tournament server, and consists of a sort of heat system. There are 4 matches to start with, then it goes down to 2, or the semi-finals, and then it goes down to the final! There are two classes you can choose at first, called Blink (default) and Toshi (/kit toshi), which are supposedly spin-offs to Link and Yoshi, but they didn't want to copyright. There are also 3 Premium classes, called Pika, Metoo and Jiggly (Pikachu, Mewtwo and Jigglypuff). Once there are enough people online, the tournament will begin to start. Once the tournament successfully starts, you will be teleported into the arena.
At time of posting, there are 32 hand-built arenas on this server, which is good considering this is quite new. You will be in a lobby of (usually) around 5-8 players for the 1st heat in the tournament. The countdown will start at around 15 seconds and then the game will begin.
There are two items you will always spawn with, and then two class-related items as well. The two items everyone spawns with are a Sword (left click to attack, right click to shield) and a Double-Jump Rocket. Switching to the Double Jump Rocket makes you jump in midair, meaning you can jump back onto the map if you are quick enough. There are then two class-related items, and I will list all of them below:
- Blink (default) - Bow and and a Grappling Hook (Fishing Rod, right click to reel enemies towards you
- Toshi (free) - A Toshi Egg (Right click to launch an egg which explodes, and knocks any enemy it hits off) and a Ground Pound (Brick, not quite figured out how it works yet).
- Pika (premium) - Lunge (Golden Carrot, right click to leap forward, you get this as well as Double Jump) and Thunder Jolt (Wooden Axe, right click to bring down a thunder bolt).
- Metoo (premium) - Teleporter (Ender Pearl, right click to throw) and Psychic Orb (Snowball, right click to launch a psychic blast!)
- Jiggly (premium) - Doesn't have any items, but you get five mini-jumps and if you crouch, you'll receive 2 units of health every second. Also is lighter than other classes, meaning you'll get knocked back further than other classes do.
After this, it's kind of like a Free-For-All, except there are a couple of twists. The first twist is that there is a scoreboard on the right-hand side of the screen. Knocking someone off gets you 1 point, and being knocked off loses you 1 point.
The next twist is that there will be different items which you can pick up, and they spawn on Stone Slabs. These items are:
- Maxim Apple (red apple) - Right click whilst holding the Maxim Apple and you will regenerate 100 health!
- Golden Maxim Apple (golden apple) - Right click whilst holding the Golden Maxim Apple and you will regenerate full health, even if you have gone above 100!
- TNT (TNT) - Right click with the TNT and you'll launch an explosive, which can knock players far off the map
- Hammer (Iron Axe) - This is a weapon, and music will play when you have this weapon. If you hit someone with it, it knocks them back very far and they lose 50-100 health!
- Monster Egg (Egg) - Throw down a Monster Egg and it will spawn a random monster which will stay on the map for about 30-60 seconds. This can range from a Silverfish to a Zombie Pigman to even the Enderdragon and the Wither. Each mob will spawn with your nametag, and they will not harm you like in the other Super Craft Brothers servers (not trying to put down the rest of the servers, just noting it :D).
- Metal Block (Iron Block) - Right clicking this will give you some iron armor, which makes you heavier, thus you do not get hit back as easy
- Swift Feather (Feather) - Right-clicking this will give you Jump Boost III and Speed II for 20 seconds.
- Land Mine (Stone Pressure Plate) - Place this on the ground and if an enemy steps on it, it'll explode and hopefully send them flying off the map!
- Fire Flower (Rose) - Right-clicking one of these launches 3 fireballs into the direction you clicked in. You get 5 of these in a bunch, so use them wisely!
- Home-Run Bat (Stick) - Hitting someone who has a high knockback-ability with this will send them flying!
The third and final twist is that each player has a percentage below their nametag. This represents how vulnerable they are to knockback. If the number is low, it means you probably won't be one-hitting them off the map. However, if the number is 100% or above, it means you make the first half-human half-bird Minecraftian in the world!
There are 3 rounds: there are 8 games in Round 1, 4 games in the Semi-Finals and 1 game in the final. From each of these games, 2-3 and sometimes more will progress to the next stage. 1st and 2nd from each game go through, but if there are any ties than both will go through, not just one.
So that's the double Server Spotlight. There's also a new server by Super Gaming (the awesome developers of MCInfected) that I'll be reviewing immediately after these two!
-Mariobros980
Obsidian Miner...
...and back in business
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