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No joy for Ireland in the end, as we faced off against Estonia tonight. On the first map we were missing Overlord, Searrard, and Dest, so I had to play on my ISDN (on a German server). It was their map, Sandstorm, which they won 167-128 The Irish team was Vinnit, sno, windowlicker, killy, while Estonia had scient, mth, vrz, and megro. As you would expect in a Quake 4 match, the server crashed after the first map, and we spent an hour trying to find a new one. By the time we had found a new server, Dest was back, and despite not having played Quake 4 for several months, I knew he would do better than I could on my ISDN. And it turned out to be a very close game indeed, with Estonia taking the victory by 2 frags in the end, 87-85.
So that concludes Irelands involvement in this season of the Nations Cup. Disappointing that a small and semi-active community has now deteriorated into a very small and inactive community. Well done to the core players who stuck with it and made the commitment for the sake of the team - it says a lot when a country with 6 or 7 players has no problem fielding a team while a country like the Netherlands with 100 players struggle to get 4. Although the Nations Cup has lost nearly all value in recent years, due in part to the frequency of the event, it is good to have representation there. Consider that the upcoming ESWC has 50 countries represented, including the likes of Mongolia and Martinique, and Ireland is not one of those countries.
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Some guy on #quake.ie wanted to know if Ireland are interested in joining this Nations Cup, Im interested in playing it for a laugh. If you too are also interested post here to say so.
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This is just mental! I ran the game and did the pencil test to see things and I actually was able to see shapes in 3D sticking out of my monitor for a few instants but now my eyes are all watery and my head hurts real bad. Yet this is quite impressing, check it out:
http://www.leweyg.com/download/SIRD/q2/index.html
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Looks very nice with many bug fixes and very interesting new features like a new gametype: OOnage!
Its a gameType based on Team DM with some modified rules :
- if a player takes a powerup between quad, regeneration, invisibility, all his teammates will have it too ! Beware you drop the PU once killed, and the opponent can then take back the PU...
- As q4ws team is very concern by peace between friends, all teamdamage are doubled Smile
- projectiles seem weird in this mode, dont you think ? They can bounce twice on floor and walls !
Characteristics :
- no self damage.
- team damage x2.
- crazy projectiles (rox, nails, & plasma).
Be Careful !!! You want to play OOnage Mode ? You must vote it with the vote menu or callvote command (callvote gameType OOnage). This mode doesnt appear in Server creation menu
Official site: http://www.q4w.org/
Readme: http://garulfo92.free.fr/release_beta_3.0a/
Source: http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=997015
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Match report is now up on Clanbase. Netherlands were missing one player so they drafted in s1ntex. A good performance from them nonetheless, with SICK in particular playing very well, they won comfortably on both maps. Irelands team was Vinnit, sno, Searrard, and Overlord, with windowlicker subbing while SICK, MadDog, TamilNeo, and sTx showed for the Netherlands.
NED chose sandstorm, and they worked the spawns very well while they were in control to rack up a lot of frags in a short space of time. Better than Nothing was a better game with great work by Vincent holding RA for much of the first half, and there was about 18 frags between the teams for most of it, but SICKs fragging power made the difference. Netherlands got a foothold after about 13mins and it was easy for them after that.
Final scores:
Sandstorm: NED 211 - 133 IRE
Better than Nothing: NED 173 - 102 IRE
Thanks to 4k for the loan of the server, report is up at:
http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php?lid=2431&nid=202226
Next week is a break for Ireland, with our game vs Spain the week after, followed by Estonia.
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Some bugfixes as well as some new features:
- cl_simpleItems
- referee mode
- chattokens for teamgames
- user defined map-location support for the teamoverlay and teamchat
- cl_weaponConfigs to allow the usage of separate settings for each weapon
- players / listplayers commands
- r_skipWorldFX to skip world effects
- ...
http://www.xbattle.de
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Packet wha ? this shit is soo good, it has to go on the homepage: http://www.cfos.de/
So what is it? without getting technical, let me just tell you Ive got bittorrent running at full speed without any upload/download throttling and Im playing quake at the same time, with NO LAG. I had a max speed download going on, then I fired up IE to hit a web page, and shit comes down immediately.
No, it doesnt give you more bandwidth. It uses XPs built in QoS (quality of service) layer in the stack to give different priorities to different types of traffic. I can use skype/gtalk/msn/irc/quake/etc at the same time as doing massive downloads and it will automagically prioritize the traffic, keeping voip traffic unlagged. It comes preconfigured with a list of all the major apps pre-selected at the right priority. You get 30 days to try it out before you can buy it.. but its only 9 euro. Get it, bitches. No, I dont work for them 
http://www.cfos.de/
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Woho!! All the packages have been upgraded AND INTERLEAVING TURNED OFF COMPLETELY!!!
Pinging www.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=59
Used to be 33ms.
1m/128k goes to 2m/256k
2m/128k goes to 3m/384k
3m/256k goes to 4m/384k
4m/256k goes to 5m/512k
Restart your router if you havent been upgraded.
Shit damn, time to play.
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Our first game in the CB Nations Cup was against a strong team from Belgium. Our line up consisted of sno, dest, Searrard, and Vinnit (with windowlicker and overlord for backup) while Belgiums side consisted of Kingpin, impulse, Blackend, and Shot. Belgium were very comfortable taking the win on Sandstorm, but things were closer on Better than Nothing where the sides close for the first half of the map, before Belgium gained control and took it easily from there.
http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php?nid=201339&mid=71621&lid=2431
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VIA ESi is currenlty running. Group play finished yesterday with winnersbracket n losers bracket currently underwear. underway.
Information page (brackets etc): http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=977258
players like the irish Serox, and Jay, Vorv, Blunt, deus etc are attenting
Prizes:
1 - $1,000
2 - $800
3 - $600
4 - $400
5 - $200
6 - $200
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GameCon LAN in Dublin Feb 24th, 36 hour LAN - check out their website for more details -http://www.gamecon.ie/. I think we should get a good gang of Q4 players there, the Unreal.ie lads are going too.
Update: BK informs me that they will be hosting a Q4 1v1 tourney.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62456
Its like two pages about Quakefield Battlewars or whatever its called. There will be vehicles and guns and battles and stroggs and like guns.
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The official site of whats expected to be a nice breath of fresh air in the Single Player world can be found here:
http://www.prey.com/
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For any of you QW nuts that want something to do.
http://www.duelmania.net
&
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=980728
Thx to dardoz for the reminder.
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Dest (FH)
kRoNic (veL)
sno (lsr)
windowlicker (IK)
Searrard (IK)
Buds (MKC)
melachi (rZ)
ol (IK)
Captain: killy (FH)
This is based partially on the trials, and partially on what I know about the players. Apologies if I missed anyone who should be in the team, please post here if you think I did. There are some players, namely Ser, Vinnit, and Chas, who would be in the squad only for the fact that theyre unable to play at the moment due to lack of time, connection, and fps respectively. If circumstances change for any of those three, then there is a place in the team for them, as ClanBase allows us to add new players at any time. Thanks to everyone who expressed an interest; the standard was very high all round, but we had to make the squad a reasonable size, and in the end the deciding factor was commitment to TDM, and desire to improve.
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Trials for team.ie Q4 TDM team will be held on 5th January at 9pm. Meet in #team.ie on Quakenet at least 15mins beforehand.. I realise it is a bad time of year, so if you cannot make that date then let me know in advance and we can work something else out. Everybody should have q4max .71, xbattle .1, the TMP02 maps, galang phrantic and pro-blip (so that you can connect to servers). Make sure you can connect to games4.iol.ie.
Well use voice comms for the trial - Ventrilo version 2.1.2 - this is an old version of Ventrilo, you can download Ventrilo Mix at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michaelgadge/VentriloMIX/Download/VentriloMIX0.5.exe which contains all versions (you might be required to uninstall your current version of Ventrilo first). We might not stick with Ventrilo for the official tourney, we will consider other programs, namely Teamspeak, but for the trials well go with Vent.
Despite the voice comms, basic team binds are still required - we will write up a set of team.ie binds after the trials but for now just use whatever you already have.
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Groups have been announced in the CB Q4 TDM NC. Irelands group also contains Belgium, The Netherlands, Estonia, and Spain. There will be trials for the team, and a date will be set for that soon, during the first week in January. If you know of any Irish Q4 players who do not read this website and want to take part then please let them know and tell them to join #team.ie to send me a message. The cup will probably start around the 16th of January, so we need to move quickly.
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Revhellfire has kindly updated games4.iol.ie to q4max 0.71. This is just like OSP folks with all the associated stuff that osp had including many fps increasing cvars. And includes Clan Arena by default. No excuses now. Come on in for the big win!
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from the team here at quake.ie, wishing you a happy Christmas and a great new year. best of luck 
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The issue is still not resolved imo - do we have enough active players to justify entering Clanbase Nations Q4 TDM?
This is the situation at the moment... I know there are some people who could potentially return soon, like Zero.
Yes:
killy (isdn but can go broadband for games)
Searrard
kRonic
sno
ol
windowlicker
pandachas
Maybe:
Rapier (considering returning)
melachi
Ser (only just got q4 last weekend)
Vin (ISDN and does not want to go broadband for games because its too much trouble)
Dest (Playing as well as ever despite sucky PC - havent spoken to him yet, question over activity and availability because of college and other commitments)
The problem here is that all our best players are on the Maybe list. I know that FH and IK each played a few games in Clanbase, but aside from that, I dont see enough interest with people looking for games, or playing regularly in any of the pickup chans. Its possible that once we got the squad together and had a lot of prac it could work, but at the moment I dont see enough activity or enthusiasm to justify us entering the league. Signups are open till the 28th, so theres a few days still.
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Yep, q3dm6 is back in Q4 with an official version by id Software.
They released a QUAKEMAS mappack the other day with 3 new maps (one q3dm6 remake) a ctf map and a totally gay 1v1/tdm map which is called RAILED...
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=963958
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Some random (and awesome) person made a new version of Pro-Q3DM6 for Quake 4 using Campgrounds Redux as a template. Its called Campgrounds Remix.
Features: Different weapon, health and ammo layouts for TDM, DM and Tourney. TDM now has Quad and DM/Tourney have Megahealth.
Download it here www.it-netsoc.ie/~pconnolly/campgroundsremix.rar
PS I dont think this random person is awesome it is merely a copy and paste job.
(Vinnit) :/
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Thank Rev Hellfire - the server is back and better than ever now running xbattle .10. Theres a known bug in this xbattle where if you are in tourney mode, and more than one game is going at once, the second game is bugged and there is no armour in it.
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For those who are playing in Clanbase :
http://www.ingame.de/filebase/index.php?action=file&cid=585&fid=2964
Some nice features implemented but after having watched the CPL the entire week-end, I start to think that Q4Max is superior even if it doesnt have all the features that Battle have (yet).
Teamlocks and coaching features are the next updates for Battle which Im happy with as Im coaching FOE and I cant wait to go back to training ...
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