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UPDATE

Promod 0.6a is now on the servers, thanks Pinge.
There is still no match config on the servers, so I will book one now and ask Pinge to manually config it for us tonight.

So again: For practice tonight have 0.6a installed please.

END UPDATE

Just so everyone knows what’s going on for practice tomorrow (Tuesday 5/8), here’s what is going on with the new version of etqwpro.

1. Promod 0.6 was released
2. GA gameops got it installed, but without a match config set up
3. Promod 0.6a was released
4. Everyone downloaded 0.6a and wondered why they couldn’t connect.

Currently 0.6 is still on the servers, and you have to have this installed. You can’t (as far as I can tell) reliably have 0.6 and 0.6a both installed, but you can keep 0.55 (old version) and you probably should in order to view older demos.

So, before tomorrow night, y’all should:

1. Download both 0.6 and 0.6a

Iron Grip:Warlord is a new game in development by Isotx games. The bsaic rundown:
– Not released yet, no release date announced
– Commercial game, at low cost
– Single player or co-op multiplayer versus AI
– Base defence style of play, where the players have to hold off increasingly large armies of AI controlled enemy for a period of time
– Turrets, vehicles, bases, walkers, air strikes, traps and more, all buildable and upgradeable by players
– Players gain upgrades with experience also, with multiple classes, weapons and abilities
– Enhanced Quake 3 engine based, so should work for us Linux junkies and playable at high frame rates and detail with lower spec machines

OK, so what makes this a game worth waiting for? The developer has hired ENTE and cyrri, two of the twisted brains behind World of Padman to develop this game with them!

http://igwarlord.isotx.com/

Dragon at GA has posted a poll for settings for next season of ET:QW, as the conversation surrounding it devolves into a nice flamefest. It’s not clear if this vote will be “definitive” but I think it’s just a way for the gameops to get a quick idea of how people in the ladder are thinking.

The polls involve:
– Restrict deployables or not
– Restrict radar or not
– Restrict heavy weapons or not
– Restrict bumblebee or not

You can find it here:

http://www.gamearena.com.au/forums/3323/thread.php/4707756

Vote Quimby

I’ve never really bothered getting any real gaming setup going. I actually generally play ET:QW slouched on my couch with a Thinkpad T61P balanced precariously on my lap. My cat likes how warm the graphics card vent gets and squeezes in on my lap as well, occassionally causing me to fire uncontrollably when she drops her weight on the trackpad buttons so apologies for when this happens :)

My mouse for this until now has been a portable Logitech infra-red based thing: great little mouse for just working and keeping in a laptop case, not so good for gaming I guess.

But I’m thinking that a proper mouse might be in order to improve my game a little without putting in all that hard work and practice people keep going on about.

Anyone care to chime in whether a good mouse will make much of a difference? What models are good and cheap? I don’t mind using a wired mouse, as it will be only plugged in for gaming anyway.

UPDATE:

http://community.enemyterritory.com/?q=node/238

Linked article details the “Competition Mod” beta and the 1.5 upgrade beta, just released.

The competition mod mainly adds new cvars to enable various “artificial” restrictions on the game in whatever way a tournament organiser decides. This will probably be a step up on the current system at GA (“Just don’t get in that desecrator!”), but I’m not sure if I trust them to balance the game well for a 6v6 match. We’ll see….

The 1.5 beta has some interesting changes:
* No more voice warning of enemy arty coming down on your head
* Fixed ranks above Supreme Commander displaying as ##### or emptyname ….. yeah, I was just gonna complain about that one
* Fixed the ‘Press F3 to Ready Up’ tooltip not always displaying – finally, it’s been annoying waiting for this in pubs, ppl should ready up quicker now
* Fixed exploit that allowed GDF to get past Strogg Energy Shields …. does this mean the “Outskirts” objective-skipping is gone?
* Fixed being able to complete certain objectives at a distance… wish I knew about this one earlier
* Fixed the ‘Aborting Bombardment’ VO not playing when the Airstrike/Violator beacon is in an invalid location… another annoyance gone

And “Known issues”
* The game will not start for users running the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta

This beta probably won’t be running on many (if any) public servers, so I’m probably not going to install.

Weird how they are beta-ing this update, but no others.