New Featured Arcade Game: Build Battle!
Hypixelians! Prepare yourself for a PvP experience like no other that has ever come to Hypixel!!!
You’ve already battled with your swords, fireballs and mouse clicking prowess, now you must battle with your mind!
Build Battle is a brand new arcade game that is LIVE on the network RIGHT NOW!
- Face off against 11 others, creating a build based on a theme in just 5 minutes!
- Vote on which of the builds you think is the best with ratings ranging from “Super-Poop” to “Legendary”
- Leave your foes crying in the corner as the winner is subjectively decided!
We hope you enjoy this new Featured Arcade game!
Galaxy Wars Release
A brand new Arcade game has been added to the server!
Galaxy Wars is available for play right now!
Two teams face off with 3 classes each, The Attackers must escort their robot through the city , fighting through waves of defending players and NPCs, each checkpoint they reach adds more time for them to complete their objective.
Please be aware that 1.8 is required for this game due to the usage of a resource pack!
The Class Kits are as follows,
Knight / Marauder - Beamsword, Beamsword Throw, Blaster Reflection, Speed, Pistol
Soldier / Trooper - Blaster Rifle, Portable Turret, Rocket Launcher, Flashbang
Brawler / Bountyhunter - Bowcaster, Scattergun, HE Grenade, Slam or Electroblast
Featured Arcade is a new style of game we are doing, It’s not quite as expansive as something like Warlords or BSG but also not as simplistic as something like EnderSpleef. You can join them directly from the compass menu in main lobbies.
Playing Tips
- You can throw your Beamsword with Q (Minecraft drop), check out the gif below! It will execute players under 30 health immediately.
- Defenders preventing you from moving the Droid by standing too close? Use the rocket launcher to blast them out of the way!
- You can block (right click!) with the beamsword to reflect incoming blaster shots! Try reflecting them back at enemy troopers!
- Having trouble against Beamsword users? Bounty Hunters and Brawlers are specialists in dealing with beamsword users.
Blitz Survival Games Update
A new "Team" mode has been added to the game to allow for teamers to play together in a fair environment.
You can join these special team maps via the lobby signs as normal.
To begin with, we are trying out the team mode with 2 maps and, if team mode proves to be popular, we will add more maps to the rotation for Team mode.
Egypt - 2 Player Teams - 12 Teams
Winter - 3 Player Teams - 8 Teams
The win coin bonus on team maps is lower than solo, but all players on the team get the winning rewards - even if they died.
In team mode, players cannot damage teammates.
The staff will be enforcing rules to prevent teamers in solo mode, and cross teamers in team mode - punishments will be exponentially get harsher on players as the players get acquainted with the new rules.
More details about the new rules will be posted within the next few hours.
You can get more context on the lead up to this change at the following two threads.
http://hypixel.net/threads/team-update-information.288114/
http://hypixel.net/threads/yes-or-no-new-teaming-rules-mode.288326/
The main headline is that over 90% of the community desired these new changes, and here they are
Deathmatch Arena Revamp
Out with the old, in with the new! All deathmatch arenas have been replaced with much more PvP friendly ones. Things like grass, half slabs etc - are not used in the new ones. This should result in a much more fun and fair deathmatch arena! Check out the pics of the new DM arena's below!
New Map - Greece
A new map has been added!
Chest Buffs
All too often on blitz, the chests don't matter - this is particularly harsh on players without decent kits - so chests have been buffed to be slightly stronger.
- Chain Chestplates may now spawn in chests
- More Iron Chestplates Spawn
- Chain Leggings have had their spawn rate modified.
- No chests have predefined items anymore.
This weekend we hope to release a new arcade game mode called Galaxy Wars and potentially some other new features. We have been working on a lot of content and we are hitting the point where they are all getting finished up at the same time.
As always we will be watching the forum and making changes based on your feedback.
We hope you enjoy the new changes!
Data Center Issues
Hey guys
This brief news post is to let you know that unfortunately the data center the Hypixel server is hosted at is having issues. Resulting in drops of service to our players
We are assisting with their problem as much as we can, and they have been in touch with us to inform us that they are working on restoring stability as a top priority.
When the issue is solved, this news post will disappear, we don't anticipate this problem will last much longer - but we wanted to keep you updated.
Many thanks for your patience in this matter
Edit: This issue appears to be ongoing, I've reposted this status for now - we will remove again when its fixed.
Edit2: They have a team of engineers working on site to fix the issues.
Continue reading...
This brief news post is to let you know that unfortunately the data center the Hypixel server is hosted at is having issues. Resulting in drops of service to our players
We are assisting with their problem as much as we can, and they have been in touch with us to inform us that they are working on restoring stability as a top priority.
When the issue is solved, this news post will disappear, we don't anticipate this problem will last much longer - but we wanted to keep you updated.
Many thanks for your patience in this matter
Edit: This issue appears to be ongoing, I've reposted this status for now - we will remove again when its fixed.
Edit2: They have a team of engineers working on site to fix the issues.
Hypixel Mini Squad - Ep 1 & New Job Openings!
Hey guys! Check out the series premiere of Hypixel Mini Squad!
This machinima series is being made in conjuction with lopsideful , you can check out more of his work here at https://www.youtube.com/user/ProperSteeze
Leave any ideas you have for funny situations that Marc, Jason and Kenneth can get up to! We will be reading them all and might include them in the next episode!
Let us know what you think!
Hypixel is Recruiting!
The Hypixel team is expanding! We are currently hiring Developers for our Minecraft server and our future unannounced projects
Requirements
Able to work 40+ hours a week
Self Motivated (This is a work from home role)
Proven History of delivering projects
Desirable Skills
Experience working on Bungee Based Minecraft Servers
Creation of Minecraft Minigames via plugins
Java or C# Knowledge
MongoDB
SQL
OpenGL Rendering / GLSL
Artificial Intelligence
Please send an email to [email protected] if you are interested!
Advice: Please note that emails which do not include things like Github Links / Youtubes Links or any other "viewable" work typically never get invited to interview. If you apply do not use phrases such as "contact me if you'd like to see any of my work" include it in your email!
Best of luck in your application!
Continue reading...
This machinima series is being made in conjuction with lopsideful , you can check out more of his work here at https://www.youtube.com/user/ProperSteeze
Leave any ideas you have for funny situations that Marc, Jason and Kenneth can get up to! We will be reading them all and might include them in the next episode!
Let us know what you think!
Hypixel is Recruiting!
The Hypixel team is expanding! We are currently hiring Developers for our Minecraft server and our future unannounced projects
Requirements
Able to work 40+ hours a week
Self Motivated (This is a work from home role)
Proven History of delivering projects
Desirable Skills
Experience working on Bungee Based Minecraft Servers
Creation of Minecraft Minigames via plugins
Java or C# Knowledge
MongoDB
SQL
OpenGL Rendering / GLSL
Artificial Intelligence
Please send an email to [email protected] if you are interested!
Advice: Please note that emails which do not include things like Github Links / Youtubes Links or any other "viewable" work typically never get invited to interview. If you apply do not use phrases such as "contact me if you'd like to see any of my work" include it in your email!
Best of luck in your application!
Warlords Open Beta - Live Now.
Warlords has now entered the full open beta phase!
The entire staff have been busy fixing the initial bugs found during the 3 hour Early Access Window. Most of them have been fixed so we are happy to go ahead and open the flood gates!
Please remember however, this is a beta - expect some bugs, balance changes and other things to happen without any notice from us! Please post your feedback on the gameplay, and any bugs you find on the Warlords forum!
Unless anything unforeseen happens, we will allow you to keep all your progress into release!
If you encounter a problem with the resource pack, type /resourcehelp!
We heavily recommend usage of Minecraft 1.8.1 and above when playing Warlords
Final Note: The initial reaction to the game has been overwhelmingly positive, thanks to all of you for providing the entire team with motivation!
See you on the battlefield!
For further information on the Warlords Open Beta - please visit this thread
http://hypixel.net/threads/warlords-upcoming-beta-information.264724/