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Hi All,

After 3 weeks in sunny (and not so sunny) Vietnam, I’m back from an outstanding holiday.

There’s no real way to distil 3 weeks and a whole country into a single post, but point-by-point:

• Traffic traffic traffic… scooters mainly. Crossing the road can be a challenge.
  
• Said traffic also contains kamikaze bus drivers, and some trips don’t bear remembering
• Our trip was sometimes just moving from one meal to the next. When $5 will get you three delicious and fresh courses, you will gain some weight. Plus a beer for less than $1 helps it go down.
• In a clear violation of Rule 51, the Mue Ne sailing club serves a delectable chocolate martini
  
• Do visit Hoi An if you have a chance… an oasis of calm in between the big cities. This is a panorama from our hotel window (it looks even better in full size)
  
• Ha Long bay is something out of another world – not to be missed
  
• Sa Pa is very cold and a long way up in the mountains, but it’s all worth it when you get this view for $12 a night (another stiched together panorama… no other editing applied)
  

But after all it’s good to be back. We were exhausted at the end, because we were on the move so much. See y’all around.

L.

Yes, really.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1495503.stm

http://community.enemyterritory.com/?q=node/212

‘nuff said.

…. well actually no, not enough said:

• UI Improvements – Always good
• Basic training – Probably too late for most of us, but newbies rejoice
• Auto-downloading – It’ll be cool when there are new maps and servers to play ‘em on :)
• ETQW:TV – Meh, if I had the free time to watch, I’d play instead. Maybe tune in to some high level games to pick up some tips or something.
• Balance improvements – We’ll what can’t be said:
  • Head shot randomness fixed – dammit, I think I rely on that
  • Vehicles immune until driven – a good thing, I think
  • Anansi and Tormentor nerf – Good and bad. Good because I’ll stop being destroyed by flyboys quite so much, and bad because I never really got the hang of them myself in the first place and this’ll just make it harder
  • Hacking deployables can do damage – Makes this worthwhile rather than just third-eye-camera-ing the bloody things like I normally do
  • Other balances – Here’s hoping Icarus’ annoy me a little less from now on
  • MCP takes no damage whilst being repaired – Being an engineer will hopefully no longer equate to being a lemming
• Other stuff – the rest of it is less exciting, but all good. They are closing the cvops data brain backdoor in outskirts too I hear.

I braved the eye-bleedingly bad discussion forums on GA for a few minutes today to see the latest on the ETQW comp. Currently there are pages missing, but our old friends RoK are out, and our older friends nes are in the final. I think it’s versus Sequential Gaming, who apparently beat RoK in a worthy game. It doesn’t seem as if there is a broadcast of the final being realised due to lack of ETQW-tv (although apparently this is coming) or whatever. Hopefully there will be at least a few demos to watch and learn somewhere.

In other news a ladder will be open for registration directly after the closing of the competition. This will be organised by GA directly (i.e. none of the stupid rules enforced by Activision or whoever it was) and will be similar in format to the W:ET ladder. 6v6, max of 3 maps in stopwatch. I’m pretty damn sure that substitutes between matches will be allowed.

Anyone think it’s worth risking sitting at the bottom of the ladder for a few good matches ;) In any case we could try it out for a season instead of our normal randomly organised scrim approach.

P.S.

Fully half the posts in the competition thread had to be removed by admins. Seeing some of the dribble that was left alone in other threads I can only imagine how bad it got. And then the same people manage to complain about the “ETQW community being dead…”. DUH!

Hi all,

Any of you that were chatting about a vectorized version of the IPX logo have a look at this: http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

Ten times better than any attempt I’ve made, and it took about 30 seconds to do it (have a go yourself). You can then download the vectorized version as an EPS or SVG, which should be usable and exportable to many different formats.

Here’s my attempt: http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/vctr/vctr_flex?g=40177&k=3YaayJFs8zehnLH...