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Welcome to the Outpost Universe! The Outpost Universe is a fan site devoted to the Sierra released games Outpost 1 and Outpost 2: Divided Destiny. Feel free to drop by our IRC channel for a few games of Outpost 2, or some realtime chat with other fans. Or perhaps drop by our forums and leave us a message or join in on one of the topics. Here we have extensive discussions of gameplay, storylines, modding, or the latest patches, releases and projects being worked on. The Outpost Universe has managed to attract both gamers and programmers alike. If you're a gamer, than join up with the other gamers for a few quick skirmishes over IRC, or perhaps discuss strategy on the forums. If you're a programmer, or looking to get into programming, then you are sure to find a few like minded people who can share what they know, or help you along. Or if you're a gamer who is looking for precise descriptions of how Outpost 2 works internally so you can perfectly optimize your next killer strategy, well, we have people that can probably help with that too. Currently, the Outpost Universe offers a NetFix patch to help people play Outpost 2 over the internet who are behind a home router. It's not a complete WON replacement, but it's a significant step in the right direction. We also have a Hamachi network setup for people who would prefer to play over a VPN. For level designers, we have a mission development kit and map editor if you want to try your hand at making new Outpost 2 levels, but be warned, you pretty much have to be a programmer to use these tools, and you'll need a C++ compiler. Bug fixes and enhancement patches are also provided for various issues that have cropped up over the years, such as the option button highlighting, screen resolution issues, network gameplay problems, or just wanting to build twice as many units. We also provide a patched version with the cheats disabled, so you'll never again have to worry about cheats ruining your next online game of Outpost 2. Please be advised that different versions of Outpost 2 are not compatible with each other in network games, and most people here choose to use the patched version from the download section. The list of bug fixes and enhancments included is too large to list here, but if you're curious to see what we've done with the game, then check out ChangeLog.txt included in the download package. So, why not stop by our forums to signup and say "Hello!", and see our current projects. News  Irc Server DownPosted by Freeza-CII on Sep 7 2011, 07:43 AM GMT | Comments: 1 Ok people dont fret. Black box and Galactic have made a solution be it temporary or not. http://www.outpostuniverse.net/xmpp.php its fairly simple to use and straight forward. Irc Server MigrationPosted by BlackBox on Sep 25 2010, 02:07 PM GMT | Comments: 1 Good afternoon everyone, We are moving our IRC server and related services to a new machine. This message is just to let everyone know that the migration is complete and currently an IRC server and Services are running on the new machine. This migration is for various reasons; the old IRC server machine is technically not ours (we have permission to use it but it is used for several other purposes in addition to IRC and a couple other OPU services) and as such we don't want to continue running an IRC server on it (this permission could get revoked at any time). The new machine is completely ours and IRC is the only thing running on it. The average user should see almost no difference; the new server has been linked to the old one so that no one should experience any connection issues or inability to talk to others on IRC during the DNS switchover phase. You may notice variations in pings; this is because the new server is located physically in a different location. If you are having connection issues, please make sure that you don't have an entry in your hosts file for the IRC server (I know this was an issue some time ago as we had screwed up DNS entries on our end). Failing that, let us know here and we will try to investigate. The old IRC server will be shut down completely in a few days from now (to allow time for DNS changes to propagate through the entire internet first). -- BlackBox Content ContestPosted by Sirbomber on Jul 1 2010, 11:55 AM GMT | Comments: 37 Hi everyone! I'm announcing the start of our Summer Content Contest, lasting from July 1st to August 15th! The idea of the Contest is simple: to see who can create the best new Outpost 2 content (see below for categories list). Please submit entries into the Content Submissions thread in the File Forums. Oh, and everyone's looking forward to some really interesting stuff, so don't just slap something together and call it "good enough." But some effort into it! VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Please, please, please check out the rules and submission criteria before you start working on your submissions.
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