Despite my best efforts i wont be able to release Mephisto 2.1 as announced in the reseller group, because i will be afk during the weekend. So the release date was moved to wednesday, 1st september.

Because of some changes in the emerald viewer, we are going to shoot an update for the Mephisto HUD. This will also be an advantage for people using the official SL Viewer 2.0, because the interface of the new Mephisto is screwed through alignment mistakes caused by LL. As a result, we will issue 1.5 until we have the time to finish the 2.0 and waiting for the bugfix by LL.

But there will be also a new important change in the ShellShock product range. We noticed that certain sims are becoming popular for content theft and scammers in general. In order to protect our customers against these individuals we are implementing a warning system and a protection unit for the products. The first phase will be a notification system. The second phase is in the planning stages and will involve a failsafe system for the products to even protect them. When sim owners are affected it will be their responsibility to provide proof to ShellShock that they are taking action against scammers in order to get removed from the new system.

Resellers who are located in these regions may wish to work closely with the sim owners to prevent scamming to avoid loosing their reseller status.

As you noticed, there were some reasons for not updating the manual..

The latest update to version 1.4 brought some new unseen stuff (crusher,mlb) and a better performance. However good performance is not enough. I’d like to introduce the Mephisto 2.0 which will be released within a month.

First, it was time to improve the interface, so it was completly reworked to save prims and scripts. Besides that, information output was replaced through a neat glyph system indicating you the avatar status, the height compared to your position and of course the direction.

The new interface saved, in total 33 prims and 33 scripts. A real rocket improvement from what you know!

Another big change will be the new dialog system bringing you more intuitive usage as well. Furthermore, Mephisto 2.0 will have new unseen modules improving your fighting experience at its best!

Summary:

• a new lightweight interface
• real performance
• less lag
• fantastic new modules
• and of course new attacks

Take a view on the new Mephisto 2.0!

Stay tuned for the new Mephisto..

Come down to the ShellShock store and get the latest version of Mephisto from the update terminal.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dolphins%20Archipel/46/89/24

Because of the heavy product theft, we have to provide a security update for the ATP – Avatar Teleport System. However we’ve been working on the update anyways, but weren’t able to implement all features which were planned. So we were only able to add a speed improvement. That means, that you appear within a second on the chosen avatar even on longer distances beyond 1000m.

When you should experience issues with your licence, contact “Natok Dryke” in SecondLife ™.

Because we experienced a heavy case of product theft through the last days, we’ve been forced to release a new version of Mephisto which contains some security fixes. However we even added a lot of performance tweaks and added support for the so called chat radar of the Emerald Viewer.

When you should experience problems with your licence of your Mephisto, contact “Natok Dryke” in SecondLife ™.

After the successfull update of Mephisto HUD, we will start over now with updating following products

1. H4 – Ownage
2. ATP – Teleport System
3. Zero-Tolerance

The first two updates will come quickly within the next two weeks but the update for Zero-Tolerance will take some time, because we plan on reworking it from scratch bringing it on the latest level on sl weapons. Suggestions and feedback are welcome and can be given over the contact application.

We finished a fine working bugfix for breaking the autoreturn again and made it a lot easier for making selfmade graffitis. However we are banging hard to apply the bugfix on all premade graffitis and writing a new handbook which will be published on the website here.

The update for Taggers Delight will be given on sunday, the 26.04.2009.

UPDATE
update is delayed because of a broken sl weekend. keep patient for the final notice.

*** UPDATE ***

the update for taggers delight is finally released!

Right now we cannot give an exact date when the update for Mephisto will be available, however we can give a preview on what will be new.

Bugfixes

• Trasher Object missing within Mephisto
  • Comment: Seems SL ate it when updating from 1.0 to 1.1

New stuff

• Different modules like the Simscan will get an information within the dialog textfield in order to show which settings are currently set. Especially important for the attack modes because people cannot see right now which settings are chosen.

• Chat support for starting attacks.
  • Comment: For now we are wondering about the way the chat support shall work.Feel free to use the comment function to tell us your opinion. There are 2 possible ways:
    • Select the target by clicking on the target bars and just saying attack name in chat with a prefix in front of the name. Sample: Click on “Natok Dryke” and saying “!orbiter”.
    • Full chat selection of target and attack by saying in chat “!orbiter Natok Dryke” or “!orbiter nat”.

• Chat support for settings and defense devices.
  • Sample: “!npv” to rez a nonphys.

• Adding new defense devices.
  • a no-push avatar disruptor. Seems to be quiet helpfull.
  • a new shield device. Mix of regular prim shield and interceptor, so it will only appear when necessary.

• Addings new attack mode.
  • PickUp: Enables traps for picking up after the target got trapped for animating over and over again by just wearing the picked up trap.

• There will be also new attacks, but we do not give out any information about them preventing idea theft before we released them.

Feel free to contact us when you have additional wishes by using the contact form or leave a comment inworld to “Natok Dryke” or use the comment function within the blog entry.

The anti-autoreturn of Taggers Delight is broken but a working solution is allready done. Right now we are implementing the new technology and an update will be soon available.