heh heh.. i'll let you guys stew a bit longer!

Yep. Definitely an infernal pencil sharpener.

It reminded me of the Bombing Run ball, a Rollermine, and Apocalymon.

Tell me if I'm getting close.

Yeah. You're close. You're standing on my foot.

Damnit Shadowblade, could you have posted a more cryptic announcement?

Oh well, good to know you guys are working on something


Man, I haven't posted here in ages...

EDIT: why can't we post in the announcements page?

Because it's meant for announcements, not discussions.

Rollermine?

Wait,could this be something similar to that Skrith buzzball suggestion a little ways back?
(can't be arsed to find it myself)

LOL, you guys love that, don't you ?

Could it be a stress ball ?

The small holes seem oddly reminiscent of barrels. Kinda reminds me of this pop up mine thing that fired bullets like a crazy bitch on C&C shockwave.

But the numbered holes have arrows pointing in.
Maybe some kind of demonic childs toy. hmmm.

you are all wrong...it's a tenpin bolling ball
or was it pinball...I forget now...damn...

Good guess Cyberax

Maybe it can be used for a special future pool too ? And the holes are where you can enter your stick (nothing sexual though, sorry, mean no offence or whatever)

well, whatever the hell that thing is, it is not for Ut2004, because has bloom, and other details...

methink UT3.

But what can a Ball with holes indicated by arrows be of use in UT3?

...
It's a new Gametype, and this is something we have to put stuff in, like the Powercore.
^^

its a clown egg!
ya know, the evil sewage clowns that may one day rise out of the sewers, sorta like the locust horde.

Yeah, I heard about those. I heard Drain-O is good at keeping them at bay.

Death Star MK3 ?
Now it can shoot from main weapons in multiple directions.

lol

I actually just saw the picture of the normal UT3 orb.
In Warfare (new name for Onslaught), it is just like onslaught with powernodes and powercores. In most maps, there are special powernodes which cause an interresting event when controlled such as counting down a hit against the enemy powercore.

Aside from that difference between Warfare and Onslaught, there is also the Orb.
It is like a flag, you can pick it up and carry it around. You cannot enter a vehicle with the orb, you must hoverboard or walk to a powernode.
While holding the Orb, touch a powernode of any kind to capture it instantly. This speeds up the game ALOT.
Orb will respawn at a respawn spot in the most usefull place.

But, that orb looks ALOT like the Runestorm Orb. So I think they're redesigning Warfare for Runestorm use.

Oooh Bulska, that one was a serious guess

Crazy guess are much better

Like uuuh, I don't know, some kind of bomb that sticks to players everytime they respawn and float around them, if you don't succeed at shooting in the hole, it explodes after a time and you die.

Could make an interesting new gameplay filled with stress

oh god!!!! I cant take it any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LtCliff, there is no need to add hundreds of exclamation marks to a single line. It will stretch the page insanely. So I took the liberty of removing around 99% of them.

Okay, now that has got to be the most possible idea yet.

It's ammo

OMG.

Ammo? Ammo for what? Or is it an ammo package? ANSWERS! ANSWERS NAO!

*grabs a HAMR*
AMMO FOR WHAT??

My guess, a raygun, from hell.

It's probably ammo for a Rollermine deployer, or ammo for an energy weapon.

Ammo for a new rendition of the VIPER?
Or probably a energy weapon of a different sort...

Huuuh, Ammo for grenades ? LOL

why would ammo have holes in it?