HMW Admin Maximus Prime has posted the following notice in the HMW discussion forum. Please let us know what you think! "I'd like to ask you all, as the players of the game, feel about how things are going so ...
When you log into your HMW account today, you may notice a new [Options] link on your registry and other team pages. This page lets you set your default choice for either manual or automatic CR in the missions and ...
As of today new functionality has been adeed to SIEBERTRON.com's online game Heavy Metal War. All players now have ability to choose between Manual and Automatic CR Chamber after missions! As a result, some people have expressed that they would ...
That's right! For those who don't know, Heavy Metal War was born just over 3 years ago (actually about the 28th June?). So in celebration the alt-mode of ever bot and every con has temporarily transformed into a delicious little ...
Well, after some trawling through the automated scripts, both missions and arena battles are working again! I've also made changes on every single HMW page to bring the game in line with a change made to the rest of the ...
Just a friendly reminder that this site is rated PG-13 and therefore some words are not appropriate for use in mottos, or as team names. We ask that team leaders remove or edit any profanity from their mottos/team names immediately. ...
As some folks have already noticed, I've added a couple of new mission types today. From now on, if you want armour - you have to get out there and win it! These missions are the first step into a ...
By popular demand, I've added a search tool that you can use to find characters, teams and players by name. Later this will likely be expanded to allow more options and integrated into the next generation of the high score ...
The hugely popular XP calculator has now been integrated into HMW's own Help section! You can use this great tool to experiment with different configurations and plan out your upgrades, so why not give it a try? Also, the alt-mode ...
For those that missed it on the sign up page here is a friendly reminder to use the F.A.Q./Help section so you can understand how the game works.If you have read it through and still don't quite have all the ...
Hey folks, with the new server upgrade we've put HMW back online! Hopefully the switch to a new database server will finally eliminate the problems we've been having. Please login and play! A few pages are still down as they're ...
From the following thread Seibertron posted this: Please play until your heart's content today. I modified HMW so I would be the only one who could access it to help me isolate areas that were of concern to me. The ...
Seibertron is working on some things: I installed something on the server that will allow me to (hopefully) catch some slow queries on the site. I turned the game on temporarily so that I can see what crashes the server ...
Some sections are down again but Glyph has reported the following: I've put the arena back online for the moment to see how the load bears up. The performance record stuff has been temporarily disabled - this should let me ...
Glyph and meetoblivion have been busy working on the game and have been successful in getting the registry back up for your team. But that's not all that's been reactivated! Everything is back except for Missions and the Arena. CR ...
I posted an update regarding the current status of the game in the Heavy Metal War Forum: Ryan is testing things but the game will come back down if the server locks up again. Use it, but don't be disappointed ...
Please stay in the arena as much as possible. I realize that not everyone is going to see this and stay out of the missions but if we could please get as little traffic as possible going through the missions ...
In case you haven't looked at the tournament page, the Shards of Six warm-up tournament is on now! Head over to the Heavy Metal War missions page to join tournament missions and help secure the prizes for your faction!
Well, we needed to test the new automatic tournament code ahead of Dark Emissary, and the folks at Pax Cybertronia have kindly created a mini tournament for us! The tournament starts at 5pm CST on Monday 7th November and will ...
Hey Autobots, Blaster here with the latest news and views and not a hint of snooze! Our sensors just picked up those Decepticon critters Ravage and Ratbat prowlin' around near Wheeljack's lab. They were gone by the time we got ...
Soundwave to Megatron. Ravage and Ratbat have returned from Autobot headquarters. Operation Appropriation successful. Scans of new Autobot alternate modes now in our possession. Information relayed to technical teams as you commanded, Megatron.
If you haven't been around all day then you are probably quite shocked to see the changes that have taken place to Heavy Metal War. Some of the immediate changes are the new look of the Registry page and the ...
We believe that the repair function is -for lack of a better word- repaired now so we will be re-implementing the tactic shortly. UPDATE: Due to v1.8 being released so soon repair will be returned in that version.
From the Focus Spotlight on the main page: Glyph has been hard at work making many changes and improvements to the very popular Heavy Metal War game. These changes will be unveiled in early November along with a brand new ...
A heads-up for those that have repairers in their teams: they don't do their jobs anymore. It is believed that repairers were the reason behind the recent site slow down and subsequently the game going offline so that function has ...
As some folks have noticed, the weapons bug has now been fixed, so equip your guns and join the fight! The rankings box on the character profile page has also been updated to use and link to the new high ...
The High Scores page is now back online, and has a new feature too! Enjoy!
Soundburn has announced in this thread that the team names function is operational again. After testing it myself I can confirm this to be correct.
Posted by Seibertron: I will NOT tolerate a small group of people taking advantage of the situation with the game. Glyph and I are working to resolve the programming issues with the game. The people whose characters I banned tonight ...
Seibertron posted this little note and I thought I'd put it here for you: I just resolved a major server issue yesterday that I will be making sure to keep an eye on. This "change" made a huge improvement in ...
I have sent several private messages as well as e-mails to various players regarding innapropriate names. And these names are very innapropriate for a PG-13 site. I have given plenty of warning both on the message board and on this ...
Seibertron has activated Missions again and posted the following: Hey guys, Since the site seems to be loading significantly faster with the new site design, I thought I'd give the missions a whirl again to see how the server handles ...
We're sorry to announce that due to server issues we had to clear out the Mission and Arena logs. Hopefully this helps us figure out what has been happening with the recent Arena battles and the lack of battle logs. ...
There have been a couple of reports about the "F" word being used as bots' names, or variations of). I want to remind everyone that this is a PG-13 site, yet young people do look at the site and may ...
I may be a bit premature in posting this, but for now I'd say that the game is working again. Please don't get too excited though, this may just be a phase while things get worked out. As far as ...
We are aware of the current bug that is in the game where you seem to have your bots always active. I have reported this to Glyph and Seibertron and it should be corrected shortly. Right now I have found ...
The assault on Agorahex was a shambles! You, supposedly the finest of my Decepticon warriors, allowed yourselves to be crushed by mere Autobots! And now the data from the Core is in Prime's hands... We must hope that the weaklings ...
Perceptor has completed his work on one of the datatracks recovered from Agorahex. His report follows: "The recovered datatracks, which we presume to be direct copies of data held in the Core, are fascinating in the extreme. Much of the ...
As much as several missions have been already fought (sorry, I was at work) the Dark Tidings tournament is a go. Unfortunately it was delayed by some apparent down time to the site but since everything's going now we'd suggest ...
Despite our best efforts we have been forced to push back the tournament one last time. The battle for Agorahex will now begin on Monday 25th April. Check out this thread for full details about the new start date. Sorry ...
I'm officially putting the tournament on hold for the time being until we can work out a few issues with the game until we have enough time to work out the bugs that came out of the upgrades today. We're ...
Starting at 3:00pm PST HMW: Dark Tidings begins. Now, I'm sure that I heard Alpha Strike say it started at 4:00PST, but that may have changed. Be sure to check into the HMW - General Discussion" often around 3:00PST (5:00 ...
In preparation for the big Dark Tidings tournament that starts next week a few of our players have created a Warm-up Tournament to get people in the mood. Check out this thread for the missions that are being used and ...
We changed up a couple of alts (one per side) in preparation for the upcoming tournament. Do these alts have anything to do with the tournament? They may; they may not. We're not saying. Check out the thread created by ...
Originally posted by Seibertron: "I did backup the character and tactics database table before I reset everyone's stats. I put a temporary link on the bottom of the character.php page that links to the backup file (character_backup.php). This information will ...
Seibertron posted this message on the message boards: "Hey guys, The Autobots outnumber the Decepticons in the game. I don't like the idea of people switching sides, but with the lopsidedness of the Autobots right now, I think we should ...
Due to an error last week that allowed some players to max out the tactics of their characters, I reset the experience of all of the characters to equal their score and reset all of the stats back to 0. ...
Okay, so I'm away this weekend but I checked in and notice that the tournament is going to be delayed. See this thread for details and place any comments in the Dark Tidings: Speculations thread. We will keep you informed ...
It's HMW Tournament time again players, so get your bots warmed up for another big battle between our two favorite factions. Starting March 22nd at 4:00pm Pacific Standard Time and concluding on Saturday, March 26th. For those that haven't seen ...
Well, after spending about three hours on the alts Glyph, Alpha Strike and myself have made some significant changes to the rotation. Check out the thread here that was started by some eagle-eye observers. Let us know what you think, ...
