Ginnunga news

As the seasons slowly change a long winter has finally given way to spring. While some enjoy the warm rays of the sun a lot of Ginnungans seem to prefer the cold harsh backlight of a monitor. How surprising. To help keep us indoors we've recently found a new little game which has us mesmerized, Neverwinter. A good chunk of DDO, a half pint of WAR and a sprinkle of TERA results in a quite enjoyable experience, and it's all free.



We're playing on the server BEHOLDER, so if you're looking for an excuse to stay out of the sun feel free to hit us up and take part in epic dungeon crawls, roleplaying and PvP!

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Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter

As the roaring warp drive engine flung his Machariel through space Fenix Skjem found himself missing the old days. He missed piloting the 1500 meter long metal behemot with an actual stick. He missed resting his hand on the throttle knowing that 95.000 tons responded to his every twitch.
”Nowdays it’s all shiny screens and touch buttons. Bloody things don't feel right if you ask me, not a proper way to pilot.”, he muttered as the blue star Zhilshinou rushed ever closer.
They had been battling the Sansha pirates for almost a full week. Their leader, Sansha Kuvakei, had led his hoard into high security space in search for colonies to lay waste and stations to ransack.
Fenix had seen the tapes of their approach, as had anyone else catching a glimpse of a news broadcast the last couple days. The wormhole ripping space apart and through the portal of searing light a seemingly endless flood of bulbous metallic vessels, covered in spines, poured out. Like a plague they spread in all directions and the last thing the satelite camera captured was the golden flash of a laser before white noise filled the screen.
But the Sanshas had come to pay for their insolence in blood. Together with other volunteers in "The Valhalla Project" Fenix had slain hundreds, if not thousands, of pirates during the course of the battle. His Machariel, the H.M.S. Niflheim, had gotten its fair share of nicks and dents. ”Bah, they remind me of the good times. Of the times I got away” he had told his friend Heliann when he asked why he didn’t have them fixed.
The furious fighting had led them up to this moment. One of the Sanshas Motherships, a Kundalini Manifest, had earlier that day been warped in by the pirates to give their wavering forces something to rally around. CONCORD, the law and order of high security space, issued an immediate command that it’d be destroyed at all costs. Little did Fenix and his comrades care about what CONCORD actually wanted, but as long as they payed in millions of cold hard ISK their wishes was worth fulfilling.
As the Machariel suddenly dropped him out of warp speed the searing light of the nearby star was almost blinding. Fenix payed no attention to it, nor to his radar which suddenly filled up with a myriad of blinking blips. Instead he looked out. It didn’t matter how many times he saw it, the sight of an armada silently floating in space never failed to awe him. He saw the close range Vindicators ready to tear hulls asunder with their blasters, terrifying Nightmares born of the Sansha pirates themselves, the sleek Machariels with their massive artillery cannons and inbetween the gigantic battleships smaller logistic vessels darting back and forth.
Suddenly his radio receiver crackled and a brief static was followed by Relic Amatins firm voice.
”Calling all wings, align to the Kundalini Manifest. We engage warp in 30 seconds. It’s time we end this.”
Fenix reached towards the big flat screen infront of him. ”It might not be a stick, but gets the job done”, he thought to himself as he slid his fingers across the blank surface. The Machariel started turning and as he looked out he could see the armada turning with him.
Relic was right, it was time to end this.



Those of us still flying around in EVE have started doing Incursions, which is basically the space equivalent of raids. This is the end of a week long such Incursion where a fleet of about 80 people take down a mothership.
It might not seem too impressing, but keep in mind that fleet in the video has a rough value of 250 billion ISK, which translates to about 12500$, and it can all be lost. There's a certain excitement while flying around in something valuable that can be taken away any moment.

We'll keep you posted on our coming adventures as we conquer the universe.

o7
Sinful, aka Fenix Skjem.

P.S. At the end you can, in a ingame mail, see the Top-9 pilots during the week long battle. Note that Fenix is, among hundreds of players participating, the 6th biggest nerd of all. OF ALL! D.S.

For most Ginnungans Diablo 3 was a passionate, but short lasting, romance. We charged in, kicked copious amounts of ass, and were out the door like a barbarian whirlwind.
But some lingered. Some refused to give up the carnage. Some wanted more blood, more items, more experience and more trophies. Some were not satisfied. One of those was our Belgium Brawler, Eaglix.
Early on he set a goal for himself, to not only beat Hardcore, where your character is lost when you die, but to completely and utterly dominate it. During the months he has posted regular updates of his progress. We congratulated him when he hit Paragon level 60. Then 70, And then 80, AND THEN 90!

But Eaglix wasn't satisfied. Eaglix didn't settle for anything but perfection.

So he kept on fighting. Kept on leaping into monsters. Kept on slaying and pillaging the darkest corners of the Diablo universe. Kept on pushing and pushing, until finally the 11th of april it happened.



Eaglix became the 435th hardcore paragon level 100 character in the world and 138th in Europe. For a game that has sold over 12 000 000 copies (that's twelve MILLION children!) world wide, that's certainly something to take pride in.

Eaglix Barbarian in all its glory.

We of course caught up with our legendary barbarian for a few questions:

When were you the closest to dying?
I was close to dying more than once, but it's hard to say when the closest time was. In certain situations you can be close to dying with 100% hit points. It only takes getting stuck when you shouldn't. I remember getting stuck a few times when I was in the Paragon level 90s. I was lucky to get out each time, but it was only a matter of seconds.
I am still mortal and always will be. Death really lurks around every corner. I learned never to make plans on hardcore, as I can be dead the very next click.

Did you ever feel like giving up?
The road was very long. Where you need about 2 million experience for the first Paragon level, you need 320 million for the last. If it wasn't for all the people I met and played with I would never have had the courage to go on.
Therefore I also want to thank everyone who supported me during this long journey. I met a lof of nice people from different countries all over Europe.

What is the next goal?
As I said before, I learned not to make goals when playing Hardcore. I will still play this character to try my luck in finding more awesome items, but I also got a Monk ready to be leveled.
In the end I'd like to get all 5 Diablo classes going on Hardcore, but I don't know yet if it would be for casual leveling or to try another Paragon 100. Only time will tell.

Any shout-outs?
I want to give a shout-out to SickChicken for being the first Ginnungan I played with on Hardcore. We went from 0 to 60 together. We did die on the way, but we both eventually got there.
I also want to thank Dakiestu for the many Paragon hunts we did together. Qanelar also, who joined us for a quick 30 Paragon levels. Both very nice Ginnungans to play with.
I also want to greet my two closest followers on the softcore side, TheJudge, who is currently Paragon level 99, and Shades, who is 96.
Foxdies, for being my inspiration when I started playing Hardcore (he had already quit though).
Trenix, Aganom, Swiftpwns, Zyphi, Archantos, Dendil and the many other Ginnungans (can't name you all guys) who sent me encouraging chat messages along the way!
Last but not least (not Ginnungans this time) the many players I encountered on this long journey. Specially the Lithuanian people and co on skype and more recently the Germans on TeamSpeak! Definitely a nice community out there.

There you have it, the words of a true beast. Once again, congratulations from us all!

This years guild gathering will be held in Bordeaux, France and the main events will take place 26-28th of July.

Garta and Llew are planning the activities during the gathering.

Information about travel alternatives and accommodations can be found in the private thread in "The Gathering" on the forum.

Insert images of cheese, wine, and naked women running through the burning streets of Paris.

Picked up this one from steam, it's still in "alpha" stage but already I've played it for like 19 hours in two days.

The game has no plot or goals (and no achievements dear god) or missions yes, although a career mode is coming. Now it's just a big sandbox where you can build your own spaceships, capable of interplanetary flight, landing and taking off from foreign planets and moons, docking ships in space and all the sweet space awesomeness that NASA can only dream of now.

The game has somewhat deep learning curve, I spent almost 4 hours only building ships and failing by exploding them before even escaping orbit but boy did I have fun designing more and more complicated ships.

Here's a shortish story of my adventures in past few days.

After successfully getting my very first Gagarin moment when my Kerbal 1 reached orbit at 100km, I decided immediately that I was gonna be the first nation to land a Kerbal in the Mun.

I hastily created Kerbal 2 with a stock model lunar lander (I didn't wanna go trough yet more hours of trial and error with a lander) and in no time I had 2 shuttles in space.

The cunning plan was to refuel Kerbal 1 with Kerbal 2 and attach the lander into Kerbal 1 before leaving orbit. I found that plan stupid quickly enough, apparently some engineer didn't find it necessary for Kerbal 1 to have retrograde boosters to maneuver so I ditched it and headed for the moon with Kerbal 2. I'm sorry I don't have pics from the earlier stages of the operation but everything went smoothly (odd enough), I landed successfully on the Mun! Behold!



Everything went well, my Kerbal climbed back in the lander, boosted back into orbit and docked with the command module. At this point the Kerbanauts found out that (allegedly) the same engineer had miscalculated the amount of fuel required to get back... Kerbal 2 barely had enough fuel to escape Mun orbit but nowhere near enough to decelerate in Kerbal orbit. They would only slingshot themselves in to the void.

I spent good deal of yesterday trying to come up a with an escape plan. After many many fails (and crashes), I came into conclusion that I needed a bigger rocket (duh) and that I would have to refuel it before sending it to the Mun.

Here you can see the rescue craft Kerbal XB on the left docked into the stellar gas station Kerbal XI.

Alas, I found out again that even Kerbal XB wasn't going to be enough to go around the Mun and come back hauling yet another craft with it. At this point I was frustrated at engineering yet another rocket and it suddenly came clear to me! The gas hauling
fuel truck Kerbal XI had more than enough resources to pull off the rescue mission. I only needed to refuel it before leaving off so just like in Armageddon I built another just like one and met them in low orbit.

Docking 2 beasts of this size was no easy feat. I sure learned how to move around in 3 dimensions in this operation...



Before heading off I just needed to spread the fuel cargo evenly among the tanks so that my vessel wont spin out of control when I hit the thrusters... Of course! Everyone knows that!



And here we are! Another Kerbal vessel in Mun orbit!


Succesful capture! Notice the ditched lunar lander in upper left corner, goodbye. Now it's time to head home.


But we were not out of the woods yet. I had had to use so much fuel in aligning the orbit of my rescue craft that even though I had more than enough for return flight, I wasn't sure I had enough to retroboost 2 vessels back into atmosphere. So back in the orbit of Kerbal the most daring space maneuver was about to happen.

I used all the fuel I had left to brake in order to just barely hit the atmosphere and ditched the heroic fuel barge. Now I had 2 command modules bolted to each other facing each other with no fuel left to do anything else but roll around. The joint crafts used the heat shield of Kerbal 1 to enter atmosphere and as soon as our speeds were low enough, both command modules launched their parachutes simultaneously as they undocked each other. I wasn't even nearly sure that the docking ports were gonna hold the G-forces.

But they did and in the end both vessels ended coming down just 150 meters from each other!



As they were so close each other the 2 crew decided to meet after such a daredevil mission to celebrate and here they are. The heroes of Kerbal!


The courageous rescuers of Kerbal XI on top of their own command module, the legendary heroes of Kerbal 2 on the ground with Jebediah, the first Kerbal to step on the Mun on the right. Notice the broken docking port leaning against the module that finally broke off when touching down.

After this whole ordeal I've really learned something about designing a spacecraft and commandeering them. Next stop is the second moon of Kerbla, Minmus!

What's you character name and how did you come up with it?

Back in the early 90's my friends started calling me Lynx because I loved climbing and sneaking up on people to give them a scare. So I used that as a gaming nick untill I started playing online games and found it had usualy always been taken. So I changed it to Lyngs. A old family name on my mothers side. Since then my main character has always carried the name.


How old are you?

I turned 37 last week. As long as I stay away from teenagers I dont feel old at all. *cough*


Where do you live?

I live in Silkeborg, the most beautiful city in Denmark. It is surrounded by large (by Danish standards) lakes and forrest.


What MMO do you play at the moment?

Trying hard to find time to play EVE. "Someone" keeps sending me invites for Hello Kitty Online but I just dont have the time.


Any other games currently?

Sadly not. It has been a long time since I played anything that could keep my interest for more than a few hours.


What was your first computer game ever?

I think it was an early version of pong on a Atari 2600, but to be sure I would have to tab into parts of my brain that hasnt been active for decades.


What was your first multiplayer online experience?

If by online you mean the general term that indicates a state of connectivity. Then it was Stunt Car Racer on two Amiga 500's via a null modem cable. If you mean the Internet then it was either Doom or Warcraft.

What was your first MMO?

I was a bit late to the MMO genre, considering my age. My first was Jumpgate (twitch based cross between X-wing and Elite/X), followed by EVE and Lineage 2.


What is your favorite snack while gaming?

When ever my GF wants to spoil me she lets me play games without disturbing other than to give me a big bag of Katjes - Salty Herrings (salmiac Liquorice). I could stuff my face with those till my gums start bleeding.



When/How did you join Ginnunga?

I am a relatively new member. I joined early 2011 as my old community didnt have much interest in RIFT. Some of them joined Ginnunga in WAR and Kunasha told me you guys were awesome. Back then i thought of Kunasha as a person with high standards so I applied.








Tell us your most memorable MMO moment?

That is a realy tough question. Jumpgate gave me my first coordinated PvP experience. We were a small group of 8 friends who desided to try and deny anyone passage through a busy system. After spending over a month gathering supplies. We moved all our computers to one of the guys workplace to be able to all be in the same room (for fast communication) and still have great connectivity by that times standards lol. We basicly broke the game for everyone else by killing anyone who entered the system for most of a weekend. Only after the server crashed several times late Sunday evening due to everybody wanting a piece of the action we gave up. I had open blisters in my hand from holding my trusty sidewinder joystick almost non stop for more than 40 hours.


Tell us something nobody in the guild knows about you.

At the age of 17, three friends and I went on a weekend mini-cruise. I was so hyped and looked forward to the trip for weeks. Partying, drinking and getting laid was the plan. Before the ship had undocked I got sea sick and spent the whole trip puking and cock blocking my friends by insisting I would jump ship if they left me alone.



Mr & Mrs Lyngs.

A lot has happened since we have started "officially" playing EVE, and many of our veterans and newer players are still active on a daily basis. We are now part of an alliance, which in turn is part of a bigger coalition, and we are preparing to set up our first Player-Owned Starbase, transition into null sec, and tackle more exciting fleet ops.

We are looking for both new players as well as EVE veterans!

About us:

• Located in Amarr high-sec
  
• Part of a null-sec alliance
  
• Consist of a bunch of highly active players who have known each other for years
  
• We have brand new players as well as veterans
  

What we do:

• Missions, often in small fleets where everybody is welcome
  
• Exploration
  
• Mining, with fleet bosts almost 24/7
  
• PvP fleets as part of our alliance
  
• Soon: our own POS, incursions and wormhole OPs (all of these already available through our alliance)

Who we are looking for:

• Veterans looking for a new home and willing to help out our newer players
  
• New players, no skill point requirements but you should have a full account (no trials)
  
• Be active! We have a very high activity during EU hours, and are looking for people to fit in.

If you are interested, contact one of our recruiters ingame: Leih Roq, Kalin Kasodi, Cogency Ginnunga

Yes it is true, some Ginnungans have started playing Eve. We have even decided to make our own little corp, Ginnunga Inc. [Ginn].

Everytime I see a trailer or some ingame combat from Eve I get excited, because it looks awesome! But then I try it and die of boredom or get confused.



The start of Eve can be quite overwhelming, there is so much to do and even more to learn. Thankfully us new guys are being carried by some old Eve vets who have been playing this on and off for the past few years. So once you get through this clueless noob start, you start to see the universe that is Eve, and it is awesome...and you can piss off anyone you want!

It will be glorious!


To boldly go where no Ginnungan has gone before!

University Star League finals played February 9--10 at KTH, Stockholm. http://www.unisl.se/

Check out our final trailer and join in on our seed for the final event.

The green awesome demon lady in the video is Ginnungas very own Meddan. Enjoy!

Parody of "Nightwish - Amaranth"

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Quote:

Music: Mats Lexell Vocals and Zerg Queen: Elin Ambrosiani Gamer: Madeleine Leander Terran: Vide Richter Protoss & gang: Staffan Obel, Andreas Torbiörnsson, Robert Häggström, Victoria Gustafsson Camera: Johan Weinl Wardrobe, tentacle-sculpting and make up: Susanna Johansson Make up and administrative assistance: Lisa Carensiö Lyrics, editing and directing: Petter Sjöstrand MP3: http://unisl.se/landofthezerg.mp3

What's you character name and how did you come up with it?

My character name is Meilink, it was the nickname from a friend that now is with the angels. I used this name for first time in Lineage 2, before that my name was Ramzon or Mehrunes Dagon (my real name in elvish). Since L2 I used Meilink and created her sister Yurico and her bro Ramzon and I used Himura as last name. Then I have 3 characters in every game now.

I have a facebook profile for Meilink https://www.facebook.com/Meilink04 with ingame pictures.






How old are you?

Im 30 years old.

Where do you live?

I live in Terrassa, Barcelona SPAIN.

What MMO do you play at the moment?

Guild Wars 2

Any other games currently?

Planetside 2

What was your first computer game ever?

My first game was Maniac Mansion, I played on my Commodore 64 when I had 5 years old, after that my grandmother bought an Amiga 500 and I played Rocket Ranger, was a awesome game, then I played all the LucasArts games, after the Amiga500 I got an IBM 256 and played Lands of Lore and more games.

What was your first multiplayer online experience?

My first multiplayer experience was with Warcraft II, Age of Empires and Startcraft in LAN mode with some friends, my real multiplayer was Diablo 2 and Return To Castle Wolfenstein and my first MMORPG was Ragnarok Online.

What is your favorite snack while gaming?

Well normally I don't get snacks when play because make me fat, but if I have to then I get some popcorns with butter or some chips with jalapeño flavor.

When/How did you join Ginnunga?

I joined in 2004 while I play Lineage 2, before that I allways played with Spanish people and dont liked too much because they are bad players!!

I was looking for more emotions ingame and then I saw a nice human killing migmugs, his name was COGENCY then I asked him to join the guild and after a while he invited me :O


Tell us your most memorable MMO moment?

Big part of the Lineage 2 but I really enjoy when we fight agaist our enemies at Baium stairs or when we got the Giran castle with my golem. EPIC!

Tell us something nobody in the guild knows about you.

After all these years here is hard tell something they dont know about me, but let me see.... When a was about to come to Spain. I almost get in jail because I does an internet felony, I stole 100 accounts for connect to internet and one day one of my friends was at home and he use one of the accounts for login from my home by mistake, then the informatic police got my IP and then they came to my home, hopefully the police only discover 5 accounts :) the rest of the accounts I shared with some friends and teach them how to do to dont get uncovered.

The police told me that i have to pay 150.500 colombian pesos or i go jail, i paid and then travel to Spain.