I DID actually paint you. The bird was just a brief distraction! HONEST!! 

...for a moment there I thought CZG was going to stay on his rather annoying "I'm annoyed" kick... but the hate is back and all can rest easy.

Smabler may be pissed but the *rolls teeth* gag was a-plomb

Kinn: that comment (#7938), a social conscience and a job at Raven will make you scampie

Now for a moment of reason:
IF the fleshlike bits are eyes then they are surely useless as optical senors because THERE ARE HORNS GROWING OUT OF THEM. So,

If the fiends don't have eyes then they don't have eyes.
If the fiends do have eyes they don't have eyes.
Therefore, fiends don't have eyes.

So, how do they find their prey?

By smell of course, notice the highly evolved nasal receptors just above the mouth.

N.B. They are hard to identify because they are camouflaged by a thin epidermal layer that makes it look like they don't have a nose. 

What people always mistake for horns on the fiends are in fact organs that fiends senses their sorroundings with.

In prehistoric times fiends indeed had eyes but since they live in the dark elder world they lost their ability to see and developed the "horns" for their new sensory organs.
What is left of the eyes is just a flap of skin tat covers the eyesocket!

The proto fiend is still around in various maps. Ex. in some of necros maps you meet the proto fiend. They are at a stage in evolution where they not yet have developed the sensory organs. These proto fiends have indeed eyes! 

I remember that in some early beta release Chton had big big eyes!! 

I'm still undecided on this.
If Adrian or Kevin would show some concept art... 

have some original concept art, including the fiend, up on his site. I checked before posting, but the site was coming up. 

sheesh 

and very sketchy too:
http://www.planetquake.com/underworld/fiend3.jpg 

 

http://www.planetquake.com/underworld/fiend2.jpg 

that's not fan art? 

 

I was thinking of -- but I thought UWF had some information in a caption regarding its origins. 

about fiends being based on 'ghasts' of lovecraft writings. This again is only opinion and after reading up on these 'ghasts' there are some similarities in the descriptions, but then there are some other discrepancies so I'm inclined to throw out this theory all together. Also just because ghasts have eyes, does not mean a creature based on them will have them as well.

actually if we were to take the rest of the description of a 'ghast' and apply it to a fiend there is more evidence that says they are different, such as being venomous, being hooved, and having an almost human like face.

scrags, yeh, totally, ex-humans they happen to have eyes left over (but again being demonic, they have no use for them) ^_^ 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHAIN_SAW_BORDER?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Although this is a Canadian guy. 

fiends and scrags both have eyes 

don't mention that chainsaw oil... looks a lot like blood. (red and thick)
very likely this was part of his story at the border. 

He looks to be totally sane, someone whom you would have no hesitation in letting into your home. 

Site
http://outofhell.net/

Downloads 152MB
http://www.fileplanet.com/154287/150000/fileinfo/UT2004---Out-of-Hell-Demo

For the Fileplanet Challenged
http://files.filefront.com/UT2004_Out_of_Hell_Demo/;3871399;;/fileinfo.html

I was looking forward to this, however as Unreal ended up making me feel nauseous when ever I seen it in any of it's incarnations, [causing me to throw everything I owned pertaining to Unreal in the bin some months back], I won't be able to check it unless I go out and buy another copy of UT2004.

However it may or may not be of interest to some of you, so there it is. 

fuck all those stupid javascript / all images kiddies 

the css isnt even working correctly with opera.. 

Annoying. Works with IE6 but even so, why?

Doesn't encourage me to find more info, and thus try the download. 

I decided to make a small 1v1 just to find out about the Nexuiz engine. The result is Central Processing (kaznexdm1), and, in addition to the generic name, it sports some pretty textures and nifty lighting. Go out and get it!

Download: http://www.infosprite.com/members/Kaziganthe/kaznexdm1.zip


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Sigh, every such news update must contain screenshots. Kaziganthe, please re-submit news with screenshots links... 

the Nexuiz engine

DarkPlaces for Quake, yes? Or has there been some customisations? 

Nexuiuiuz contains over 400% more light bloom than DarkPlaces. In fact, if you stare at a health pack long enough, it actually results in minor optical corrective surgery.