[THERE WE GO !!!][Monday 24 June 2002] posted by Psyguy

Welcome to the new website : http://www.lasthopemod.com/

[New nice forum][Monday 24 June 2002] posted by Psyguy

The new website is on the way, plz be patient :)p I'll make a very big post about our progress when the new website will be online.

[Some news][Friday 14 June 2002] posted by Psyguy

We have a couple of new team members but I'll talk about them on our new website when it will be online. I regret to announce that Freak, one of our good mappers, has left the project because of lack of freetime. We understand but we will regret you Freak :(

The new website is on its way, thx to salvatore bonavita, one of our new team members. He's the HTML/PHP layout designer of our new website. Maniac is working on the FLASH version. The address will be http://www.lasthope.com. Thx to salvatore to give us the server for free se we just have to pay for the domain name. I'll post a redirect here when the website will be completed.

Now we need some talent, mainly because I failed to contact some of our original mappers and 2D artists. So we really need more talented mappers and texture makers. If you got skills in that or anything else, we are employing :)p Just e-mail me at psyguy@videotron.ca and send me some samples of any work you had done in the past to show me your skills. Thx.

[X-COM LAST HOPE IS BACK !!!][Friday 7 June 2002] posted by Psyguy

For the news : We are slowly recovering from the death. Re-organisation will take some time. To help that, you can contact me on

ICQ : 70826304

MSN : psyguy2002@hotmail.com

E-MAIL : psyguy@videotron.ca (this one is the best way to get in touch with me)

AND on mIRC of course, on our old lasthope channel. I created it again. Its on gamesnet server (Check in the menu bar). Although you can contact me on these, I wont be online that often because I'm currently working at fulltime so I'm very busy. I'm trying to find another job to have a bit of more freetime.

Another thing to fix is our website. One thing is sure, we are moving :) The webmaster, Maniac, is currently working on a new website and we will change our host because we can't use the FTP feature anymore with FreeServers.

Thats it for now.

[THE PROJECT MAY RESTART][Tuesday 4 June 2002] posted by Psyguy

Finally after one year, there is a big chance the project may get back to life. This is not official at the moment but keep your eyes on our website for further updates very soon, I promess. Many may ask why I waited so long to update the website, well thats because we lost control over the ftp of our website. We still got an ftp problem and we are currently trying to fix it. Beside, the mod was dead and I didn't feel like posting a dead news but I should have done it. I apologize. Even now, I'm posting this news with our host main editor, that was the only way I could post something here.

[Infograme news][Tuesday 5 June 2001] posted by Psyguy

We received a letter from the vice-president of Infograme it-self, Evan Gsell. And he was speaking in a friendly positive manner as Jazza told me. This is looking good so far. Keep fingers crossed :)

[False shutdown?][Saturday 19 May 2001] posted by Psyguy

Hahaha, this may seem crazyyyyy. Still waiting for the other Infogrames e-mail to have confirmation of the permission to opening up the project again.

[Petition][Saturday 5 May 2001] posted by Psyguy

Plz go here http://www.PetitionOnline.com/hlxc/
and sign our petition. The objective is to convince Infograme to let us continue.

Thx !

[Unskinned interceptor and HWP][Tuesday 1 May 2001] posted by Psyguy

There is much work from Nod these days :) Here is some previews of the interceptor and the HWP cannon model. They are still in refining state and are unskinned.

[Unskinned skyranger model][Sunday 29 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

Here is some previews of the skyranger model Nod is working on. It is unskinned and it is not sure that we will use it in multiplayer map. But its looking very good anyway, and we could always use it in our singleplayer version. By the way, the tank you see in the skyranger is also in development.

Also, animating on the sectoid model has begun. I got our first animation on it (walking animation) and I was very excited to see that it was very good.

We welcome a new member on the XCOM LH team : Manic, an animator. He is working on the sectoid model right now.

[Plasma pistol, Sectoid model][Friday 27 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

Here is a picture that shows some of Ninja's progress on the plasma pistol.

Also, Nod is still working on some models for mapping purpose. Our .wad file have grow up again today, as Jazza have finished more UFO textures. Animation should begin on the sectoid model soon. For now, have a look at what the model look in-game (isin't he cute?)

[Nod's work][Wednesday 25 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

As I said Monday, Nod is working on many models that will be use in maps. Here are some screenshots.

The small alien scout :

Implementation : (PS : Yes, what you see in the hands is the rocket launcher but these hands and the skin on the rocket launcher are in development state, these are just been implemented for testing purpose).

I'll post some other pictures of Nod's work in the next days. Neale (director of the programing department) is currently working on a .fgd file for mappers. Ninja is still working on his plasma pistol and I'll post a picture of what he made so far.

[Message board, Nod's work][Monday 23 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

I dont know why the message board is so lonely these days. Dont be shy to drop us your ideas, comments, anything. You dont need to register to post a message and answers are garantid.

Nod have been working on many models these days. He finished the hand model and the small alien scout model. Wednesday I'll post some pictures of his work.

[The other x-com mod][Saturday 21 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

You probably heard of the other x-com mod, x-com end of days. Go check them out !

[IRC channel][Thursday 19 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

Leech just set up an IRC channel for us. Because we got members from all over the world on this project, this channel will be rarely empty. Come and drop us your ideas :)

Server : irc.gamesnet.net
Channel : #lasthope

Also : the model and map page have been updated with recent pictures.

Nod finished the hand model but it need more work on the skin itself before we can begin animation on weapons. Ninja is working on the plasma pistol model, Lord Danil started the small launcher model and Blaz is still working on the pistol and rifle model. Burgess is still working on the laser rifle. We should have pictures to show soon. Thats it for weapon news.

[Sectoid model][Tuesday 17 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

Our incredible model maker, Nod, finished an other model : The sectoid model. He had already made this model but the original model needed some more work on it and now it look better than ever !!!

Nod also started our hand model for the x-com side. Lord Danil is too occupied to do them for now. Animation on the sectoid will begin soon.

[Chryssalid model][Sunday 15 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

Here is the chryssalid model I talked a week ago. The model and skin, made by the talented model maker : Nod, are completely finished. We can now start animation on this model.

Also, Telefragged accepted to host us so we are beginning to think about moving on this server because Telefragged is renowned to be a good host and we will have unlimited space so this will give us much more freedom than our actual server. Maniac also want to redesign our website so when he will be done with that, we will move to Telefragged.

[New member, weapon implantation][Friday 13 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

Welcome to Jazza from Australia, a new 2D artist in our team. Our texture library is beginning to grow slowly but surely.

Today is a great day as we have, for the first time, implanted one of our weapon model in Half-Life : the rocket launcher from Lord Danil. Of course it needs many fixes and we are still waiting after the hand model but it was pretty exciting anyway.

[Alien base map][Wednesday 11 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

Elvis made some progress on his map : alien base. He ended up with an impressive alien hangar that we didn't see in the original game but it looks pretty x-com anyway. Dont forget Elvis work without the official textures too.

Hangar : fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffSmall alien scout ready to go :

[Website][Monday 9 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

The concept page has been updated with the concept of the single player version of our mod. This page is still in development.

We welcome a new member today : Leech. He will work with us as a webmaster assistant.

We finally have a very nice title banner for our website. This is a creation of DrippieTH which by the way, got a website about you know what? X-COM games !!!! Go check it out at http://www.llamalicious.com/xcom/

[Chryssalid, 2D artist][Saturday 7 April 2001] posted by Psyguy

The chryssalid model (by Nod) is in final development. The model is finished and the skin is almost finished. Nod sent me a picture of the skinned model and it looks fantastic !! It looks very close to the original one which is our objective. As soon as the model is completed, I will post a picture of it here.

Stressful time for the whole team these days as we are waiting for the answer of Infogrames (the company that presently own x-com copyrights). There is a good chance that they do not give us the authorization so we will need to change our name and alter the game a bit by changing the name of some weapons and aliens.

We are still in need of 2D artists. If you got some talent in that and would like to help us, e-mail me.