Introduction
Hello everyone! It has been sometime since I have written one of our updates. This will be an “intermediate” update, with FL Dark releasing the second part in the weeks to come.

This update will cover:
Community Highlights
Developer/Staff
Ascension Updates
Beta Spot Contest News

Community Highlights
Hot Topics
Player/Server Statistics have been mentioned in two threads now http://forums.renwerx.com/showthread.php?t=3700
http://forums.renwerx.com/showthread.php?t=3701

Danderson started an under appreciated thread about server options. Community feedback on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Introduce Yourself
We have had more gameplay threads than we have room to mention, especially from some of our new community members. We want to encourage our new members to take the time to introduce themselves in our "Introduce Yourself" thread.

Live Discussion
We encourage all our community members to chat with us via IRC. Many of the threads on our forums start from IRC discussions. IRC is the quickest way to ask a question and get a response from the RenWerX team. More information can be found here.


RenWerX Developer Updates
Back to Work
We have some good news from Germany! For those of you that remember our April Update, you know that Lead Modeler Fleeky left us for Germany. German customs have released his laptop and he is back to work!

I also have the pleasure of welcoming back Sullx. Sullx has been a longtime modeler for RenWerX. We are very glad to have him back on the team.

Two other developers that had been occupied with work and school - Zaxx (skinning) and Himura (Level Design) – have recently been able to contribute more time to Ascension. We are glad to have them back as well.

Staff Promotions
I have the honor of publicly congratulating Badazz on her promotion to Lead Recruiter. We apologize for overlooking this in the last update. Her successful work as a talent scout/human resources manager has been a great boost to the project.

New Staff
I also have the honor of welcoming Beggin-Strips to the team. Beggin’ will be helping Badazz in her recruitment efforts, and preparing and exporting our documentation.

Inside Ascension
This is a brief highlight of some of the things going on inside Ascension.

Engine Coding and Scripting
Byte (engine coding) and keen (scripting) have just finished fixing explosions in game. What does this mean for you? One more piece of art necessary for beta is now working in game.

Level Design
Calsa has begun testing of his work in progress (WIP) map Ios. Ios is a gigantic cavern map, featuring giant dams at either end of a canyon. More information will be released as the map is completed.

Modeling and Skinning
The blaster and grenade launcher have both been put in game. I'll give you a screenshots of the grenade launcher.  Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2

Beta Spot Contest News
BlindOldMan pointed out here that we need to give away a beta spot. We thank him for keeping us on our toes ;)We are going to have a contest soon. The winner gets a spot. FL Dark will be giving you the details in his next update.

If you wish to discuss this update, you may do so here .

 - Teratos