13 teams took part in this year's MWC tournament. As mentioned in the previous news, the rules were quite different this year. League was the first round, after that we had 3 Double Elimination rounds and then the finals. Bulls went through the tournament without any loss, though they drawed one match playing against Blard in the League round. All results, standings, statistics, achievements, films and many more can be found at the MWC 2011 website:
http://mwc11.webs.com/

Films from the finals can be found here:
http://mwc11.freeforums.org/finals-t1115.html

The rules are quite different this year, so don't forget to check them out on the site. The tournament has already started, I'm sorry for not posting anything about it earlier :( Anyway, even if you haven't registered your team, you can still watch other players in action, because as always, all films from the matches are available on the MWC website. Oh, and here's the link to the MWC forums:
http://mwc11.freeforums.org/

According to the official announcement, the newest update made by Project Magma team brings massive (I mean REALLY massive ;) performance improvements, numerous bug fixes and some new features to the game. You can find a list of all changes here:
http://projectmagma.net/downloads/myth2_172/Readme_1.7.2.pdf

Don't hesitate then, download 1.7.2 and go play some Myth!

You can see a full list of changes from previous version here:
http://www.projectmagma.net/projects/myth2_beta/1.7.2/beta2/1.7.2-Changes-Brief.txt

Improvements include a faster savegame load, a new autosave films preference and improved OpenGL rendering.
You can read a list of almost all improvements at http://www.projectmagma.net/projects/myth2_beta/1.7.2/beta1/1.7.2-Changes-Brief.txt

Although not much has happened for those who just play myth, there certainly have been some interesting developments in the world of myth. For example, there are the Myth Total War project (check out the trailer) and The WWII 1944 Normandy project
Finally, if you'd like to see a new feature implemented in myth 1.8, don't hesitate to post.

Enjoy the rest of your vacation!

In the first SD game, Flag Rally on The Desert Between Your Ears, TBC uses a strategy never seen before: rushing mid with thrall and dwarves while warriors rush on the flanks. Unfortunately for them, this doesn't work out quite as well as they wanted. 1-0 NC.
The second pick is Last Man on the Hill on The Barrens. This map has been played before during the MWC. After some heavy artillery battles TBC manages to win the game and tie the score. 1-1.
The third map pick is a classic one: Territories on If I had a Trow... Both teams split up into 3 flanks. After the southern TBC flank rushes things start to go downward for TBC. NC slowly gets the upper hand and manages to win the game. 2-1 NC.
The fourth game is a Flag Rally on Caer Cadarn (trow). NC quickly gets a lead in both % and flags and decides to let TBC take the initiative. A wise decision; NC manages to keep it's lead. A few minutes later it's clear that they will win the game and that they are the new Myth World Champions!

On behalf of the soulblighter.net team I'd like to congratulate NC!
-Killerking

There is a new MWC website - www.mythers.com, but it isn't finished yet, there are some problems with database, so until it is working fine, http://mwc10.webs.com/ is still the official site of the tournament.

After some struggles, it's finally here: the MWC10 website. Check it out HERE. If you don't know what the myth world cup is, check out our previous news post.

Registration will end at June 12th, so from this day you'll have 2 weeks to get a team together - but this is probably going to be extended to 3 weeks.

MWC10 is different from the past MWC's, because there's a new rule: players are allowed to play on 2 teams! Also, matches will be scored in a bit other way. More information about these rules can be found HERE. The tournament structure remains the same: Qualifying Rounds followed by Double Elimination.

The tournament officials hope that 12-16 teams with a maximum roster size of 12 players will join in the fun. We hope to see YOU on the MWC10 battlefield!

Players from all over the world once again join together to form teams to compete in this most eminent Myth tournament ever. This is the news by Om from the Mariusnet website (I hope you don't mind Om ;)):

"According to some posts on the NationalMythLeague 2010 tournament site, an organizer and website developer have been found to run the next installment of Myth's oldest and largest 2 team tournament:

the 2010 Myth World Cup !!!

If you've never played in the MWC, the Myth World Cup is always a fun time for all, full of epic battles, good sportsmanship and congenial good will, where everyone puts aside their petty differences and grudges and drama and the community gets together and bonds over the one thing we all have in common - our shared love of the game of Myth, so make sure you are a part of MWC:2010 this summer!

After months of tournament matches, the finals were played at april 11th. That sunday, 7 official tournament games were played on the only server that's left for us mythers: mariusnet. After 7 games it was clear that NC had crushed their challengers, TVR. The final score was NC:55-TVR:9 (NC:7-TVR:0 in games), and NC has won a tournament once more. It's a fact that NC hasn't lost a single match this tournament, and although they tied 2 matches, they've won the rest. And so they deserved their victory. Rumors are going on about a rematch for the second place between TVR and PJU, but nothing has been confirmed yet.

The winner of the 1vs1 mini-tournament, that was hosted by Aki, is GiantKillerGeneral. He came out on top during the finals, after giving his competitor, Ghengis Khan, a 2 victory head start, but next he wins 4 games in a row. That makes the final score 4-2 for Giant Killer General, and thus he wins the 1vs1 tournament.

You can find more info at http://myth2tournament.webs.com and http://absolut87.websitetoolbox.com, replays of the finals are available at http://absolut87.websitetoolbox.com/file?id=965328

The Battle for Urbarahz is a plugin that gives you the chance to stop the Goblins seemingly endless armies from invading the Dwarven homeland. You will not only get to fight in the outskirts of the Dwarven territories, but also on the slopes of their mountains and in the sacred Dwarven halls inside the mountains.

This plugin looks gorgeous, but that's certainly not all. It features a huge challenge for anyone that will take it, and once you've started playing this plugin you will not be able to stop for quite some time.

Remember to invite your friends for a game, or you might die horribly!

Some of the improvements that were made in version 1.1:
-Some balance tweaks for the wimps out there that couldn't win
-The game-stopping Barri bug on 'On the Shoulders of Urbarahz' has been fixed

You can now download the newest version of Myth II: Soulblighter at http://projectmagma.net/downloads/myth2_171/. This new version includes an installer, so Mac OS X users can install Myth easily now!

Myth II version 1.7.1 is a bug fix update to Myth II 1.7, containing over 100 individual fixes and improvements.

A few examples of fixes:
-Units will no longer get permanently stuck in clump
-Heron guards will no longer turn before healing
-The 'bridge not collapsing' bug on 'The Forge' has been fixed
-Several serious issues fixed on Windows Vista / Windows 7
-OpenGL performance has been improved

http://tain.totalcodex.net/items/show/myth-ii-1-7-1-public-beta

If you find some bugs you can report them in THIS thread on Project Magma forums.

It seems that Paris is going to host The Winter Series tournament for the third time. Here is some info from the Mariusnet forums:

"it's been a work in progress. no special date ill just drop it.

to prepare:
if you want to captain/make a team:
have 2 other 'think' permanent alternatives that will be co-captains with you.
you will need at least one player to show up for the draft, which will be posted at a later date. there might be a large number of teams, which may or may not be so great and will have an impact on how the tournament is executed and run. registration is a vital process to begin any tournament, and all players who register as captains must be dedicated to keeping in touch with their team.
General Info:

• 3 Per team core
• Only players who can stay consistent, reliable and available throughout the tournament should sign up as a captain.
• We are aiming for at least 16 teams, which will be healthy. More than that will result in circumstances changing as well.

if you want to participate:
make sure you have your name and login ready. any participants in the tournament that have been investigated, caught, and sentenced will most likely be thrown out of the tournament, no questions asked. All members, from ancient fart veterans to noobs to egotistical badass mythers are welcome to play in this tournament. This is a 'no hard feelings' tournament and would be run best if you did not squirm with who you teamed with and instead dealed with it (and imagine the popular review of your team chat emulsion in the forums). Myth is fun once again, so get pumped up!


Get ready to register soon! I'm sure if I see you talking here I'll see you around for the tournament. Spread the news and tell others. If you feel responsible and confident enough perhaps you should get your own squad of redneck mythers together to start practicing and get others involved.

If you're interested in helping out during this tournament please contact me. I am also looking for one more "wiseman" to help me throughout the tournament, especially during the begging stages. There will probably be only one more spot open for this but all are welcome to apply to that as well."

We are proud to announce, that we've got another language version of our website done. It is a Dutch version, which main author/translator is Killerking from ULMS clan. Enjoy!

In the final match, the bottom bracket winners - Butterflies Flying in Formation (better known simply as Name Changers, since they change their team's name every 3 matches or something like that) beat top bracket winners - ThunderCox 4-1 in the finals and 3-1 in sudden death. Congratulations BFF! Films from the match can be found here (one of the films is missing).

The top 3 finishing teams of the 2009 Myth World Cup tournament are:

1) Butterflies Flying in Formation (BFF)
2) ThunderCox (Tcox)
3) 12 elephriend goblins in tirri's house (EG)

Players from all over the world once again join together to form teams to compete in this most eminent Myth tournament ever. Will the 11th World Cup be as good as the previous ones? We'll see it soon.

Because we were working on updating our site and my router burned on Wednesday and I lost my Internet connection, there wasn't any information about this year's Myth World Cup yet, but it has already started. Anyway, there are 24 teams in the tournament and Qualifying Round has already come to an end. Double Elimination round started this weekend. Rosters are already closed, so the only thing left to do is either to play (if you registered) or watch the games (if you didn't sign up).

For more information, visit MWC 2009 site:

We have already finished our work on the English version of the site and at present Soulblighter.net is entirely completed in two language versions: Polish and English. Pamphagus, one of our "The Nine" clan members has helped us a lot in this process, thanks Pamp!

In 1.7 a lot of annoying bugs have been removed and many useful features have been implemented. Among those are support for hi-res quicktime cutscenes which can be found here, a resizeable overhead map and a new detail texturing system. Maps in game look now much better, they use high resolution 24-bit detail textures! Check it out, it's really amazing!

Bungie Map Textrures, which is a plugin featuring detail textures for all the original Myth II solo and multi-player maps can be found here.

Moreover, if you don't own the full version of Myth II, you can download a free demo of the latest version of this game, which includes 4 solo levels and 2 netmaps! Download the demo version here.

The Myth II 1.7 Read Me, including the full list of changes, can be seen here (PDF).

You can download Myth II 1.7 Public Beta 2 from here:

http://tain.totalcodex.net/items/show/myth-ii-1-7-public-beta-2

Note (from The Tain): This is not an installer! You must manually move the new app to your Myth II folder.

If you find some bugs you can report them in this thread on Project Magma forums:

For now, there are only Polish and English versions and according to the fact that the admins are Polish, English version may be a little bit incomplete, but everything will be fully updated soon. Also, the next news is already on it's way. Still, please look around and you will find something interesting for sure. Enjoy!

Here are the links to our site:

English version: http://soulblighter.net/

Polish version: http://soulblighter.net/indexpl

We hope that Soulbighter.net will last many years in glory and all Myth players shall remember it forever :D