unless you're in a church or a clinic for the terminally clueless, that person will probably tell you that return to castle wolfenstein (rtcw) is a remake of the classic wolfenstein 3d. if you whack them again with the cat they'll probably then tell you that the world war ii shooter is a collaborative effort between id software, gray matter studios (doing single-player), and nerve software (doing multiplayer). one final thump from your kitty carcass may reveal that the game is powered by the quake 3 engine and is pretty much the most anticipated first-person shooter on the horizon. gamespy have the review of the full game..
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just noticed this over on quakenation, (/me thumps emp!) that empedocles has updated his qnation column with an indept review of week one of the bw cpm league. if your into promode and want to keep on top of whos who, good, shit, whatever, its worth a read.
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odee has sent word about the next q3 euro championships. heres what he has to say :
following on from the first championship that finished in august with
germany being crowned the first q3ctf european champions. i am pleased to
announce that the 2nd tournament will get underway in january 2002.
i would like to invite players who would be interested in representing their
country as national team captain. i am hoping to increase on the 21
countries involved last time round so please email me as soon as possible.
i wonder, would there be enough interest in this to create a team? let me know.
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the draft divisions for season 7 of the barrysworld q3ctf league have been posted on the leagues new webpage as the build up starts for the largest season of the competition so far, with 84 clans signed up to participate from countries all across europe.
the season itself will be kicking off on ther 28th/29th october with the divisions, maps and fixtures all being finalised over the next week.
incidentially, my ctf clan, ts (tortured souls) and clan bio are both in division 2a. im kinda looking forward to knocking two shades of purple out of them. heh, gwan!
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clanbase has started a return to castle wolfenstein (rtcw) ladder. at the moment only the rtcw multiplayer test is out, but as the stats show that version is already more popular than any form of q3a or ut - only the big hl mods are played more than rtcw currently. when the full version of rtcw is released, the ladder will be continued with that. worth a look.
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threewave have released their awaited mod. it has four different paks. the compilation packs 1 and 2, classic pack and the threewave pack.
this looks very promising. its a whooping 123 mb download and you can slurp it here.
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tomorrow sees the long awaited release of the lastest and probably last pack files from threeewave. it promises to be an excellent set of maps, which will bring a new lease of life to the ctf community.
planetquake have been busy lads, as they have some really cool screenshots of some of the maps. you can check them out here.
we will of course have a mirror up on quake.ie as soon as the new packs become available.
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if your a coach for a team or a team captain and interested in the coaching aspects of team games, i suggest you take a look at an interview.. actually three interviews with fuzzy, godsmurf and existenz. gunpower has the low down.
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sign-ups for season 7 of the barrysworld q3dm league have been opened. if your team wants to enter they should sign-up via the league website. deadline for sign-ups is next monday.
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i saw this and said 'this is pharking brilliant'. if you liked the film predator and you've played a bit of camper-strike, then your gonna love this. go take a look!
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just read this over on adsl.ie that eircom have decided to delay the launch of their i-stream product.
due to of ongoing discussions with the office of the director of telecommunications regulation [odtr], eircom regrets to announce that the commercial launch of , eircom's new adsl service, scheduled for today (tuesday 2nd october 2001) has been postponed. eircom will make every effort to resolve all outstanding issues with the odtr and to bring adsl technology to customers as soon as possible.
looks like us wee-people are gonna be stuck with isdn for a good while longer yet.
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bigfoot has posted his review of season 6 of the barrysworld q3ctf league, this can
be found on quakenation. it features the usual stats, division by division reviews and quotes from
participants from each division and allways worth a read.
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amid the recent proball hysteria, vamp|ro has set up #q3proball in the tradition of #q3pickup and #ctfpickup. for those of you who haven't played it, proball is a football/basketball mod for q3 that has become very popular after two servers were set up by barrysworld last week. pop into #q3proball for a game, or just to idle.. and if you haven't played it yet, download it off barrysworld ftp, its great fun 
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the first of donkings challenges kicked off in the wee hours of this morning with our very own koopa v's north american player, bronx. donking's weekly challenge site is yet to be setup, but keep checking challenge-tv during the week.
the first game was played on an irish server giving koopa a big ping advantage, the rest, were played on an american server. koopa narrowly wins all games. check out the demos.
demo 1
demo 2
demo 3
demo 4
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the latest quake 3 point release, 1.30 has just been released for general usage. you can download the full release here.
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this one has cash prizes, so it could be very interesting. its run by zommy of thrustworld. even if you're not interested in the q3 league, its worth looking into the services for a variety of games promised by thrustworld, including leauges, ladders, clan server booking and rental. heres what zommy had to say:
thrustworld (read for more information) are announcing that they will be launching a new quake3 tdm (and ctf/ra3/cs – more on these later). the leagues will be run in the now standard divisional based system, 2 x 20 minute maps, running on a home/away basis (each clan picks a map at the start of the season). there will be a prize purse of around £5000 per month, divided up between q3/cs etc. for more information regarding the league and to provisionally signup email zommy at zommy@thrustworld.net.
also, if your interested in signing up for a beta account which entitles you to one month of free gaming please do so here.
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bigfoot sent in word about the recently finished bw q3ctf league's winners:
division 1 & overall champions - wr - warriors of the realm
division 2a - potzw - prince of the zorgons world
division 2b - ex - excrucio
division 3a - inf - inferno
division 3b - bu - belgium united
division 3c - xpd - expedient demise
division 4 - sps - self preservation society
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highlander has developed a long needed method for recording all povs to one demo.
its just one improvement in his new demo protocol - mvd. get all the info here. i've put up a test server on slosh.ign.ie:27503 which includes the latest ktpro mod as well.
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sorry about the down-time guys. bit of a networking problem with the servah. anyhows, thanks to ecksor for sorting them for us.
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i recently reported a story about beast's escape from the world trade centre in my column. we'll it seems nicky's escape is taking the nation of ireland by storm. his story is sitting there nicely on page2 of the evening herald. heres the scanned one.
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with no notice, the cpl in the us has ended its website affiliation program with all its affiliated sites. i wont comment at all about this, but i feel you should read what other people have said on their sites, which kinda mirrors what i would have said. have a read :
challenge-world
cached
shackes
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from what i can gather is the main change in this version is the fakeshaft has been removed, this is due to a poll on challenge-tv in which 52% voted for it to be removed. you can nab it here
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mindphuck has updated his column with a mail he got from beast. it describes how beast escaped the terror of the wtc attack. its worth a read
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return to castle wolfenstein. rcw test was released tis morning. it does look like its soo gonna own. servers up later today, but for now, download a local copy here.
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gamers tv have released their latest version of gtv for quake 3. this new version will work for 1.29 and the pending 1.30. you can download it here
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filur has released one of the most enjoyable mods i've played in qw, a deathmatch/arena mod with a boinking sound, and for once its the fish who are in the action. player models have been replaced by fish, and there are plenty of other clever modifications, such as fishing floats for rockets. there are a couple of maps which come with the mod, very simple.. but that hasn't stopped 'end' from being one of the most popular duel maps. alternatively, you can spice any of the regular dm maps by playing them in fishmod. boinking around dm3 has never been as much fun. download it here. theres a temporary server up here: 213.66.172.100
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fellow irc op and gamer on quakenet, roy-ove "rodan" rodan died because of an liver tranplantation that never happend. he will be missed.
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this must be something quake
players are interested in so i'll give some info on it here. eircom have finally
made a move on dsl, publically announcing a package, and a date... since it's
the only available dsl package in ireland at the moment it's a total rip off
when compared to other european countries. also there are rumours of a "cap"
being put on the service... which coupled with the high price would make it
even more unattractive.
i steam solo
the product has both a usb port or ethernet option
speeds are up to 512kbps downstream/128kbps upstream
connection fee is 125 (ir£98.45) - monthly fee is 99 (ir£77.97).
additional equipment required: adsl usb modem 145 (ir£114.20) or adsl ethernet
modem 200 (ir£157.51)
i stream plus
speeds are up to 1mbps downstream/256kbps upstream
connection fee is 125 (ir£98.45) - monthly fee is 165 (ir£129.95).
they're 34 exchanges flagged
for upgrading throughout dublin for dsl. after talking to an eircom customer
rep i was told that shortly after launch, and in the proceeding weeks all 34
exchanges will be upgraded.
ther'll be a 15 day wait
from ordering to installation (i was told the same delays that accompanied isdn
installation will not be present with adsl installation), after a phone line
test to verify your line is within the nesessary distance from telephone exchange.
they'll be accepting pre-orders from about next week onwards and say they'll
start installing lines in peoples houses on the 28th of september.
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| another baaaad week for bio in this week's bwctfl where they played two difficult fixtures, against neo and mtw. the first game was against mtw, where bio lost 0-9 on wctf3 and 0-10 on wctf2. an hour later, bio faced neo only to come to a similar fate, losing 0-7 on the first map, and 0-8 on the second. however, this week, struggling division 1 clans so and bio were given a glimmer of hope as xyz folded, meaning only the bottom 2 active clans in the division get relegated. either of these teams can potentially knock omg into the bottom 4 given wins in their remaining two matches (so face a daunting task in the final week vs ss). two crucial fixtures next sunday sees bio play so. then they play omg to decide their fate, a win here following a win over so will see them move two points ahead of omg and into safety. bio's inferior cap difference means that the larger share of points vs omg is vital, thus creating a few permutations that will grant bio a place in div1 next season: if bio share the points evenly with so, they will require 4 points vs omg; 3 points vs so will warrant 4 points vs omg; if bio gain maximum points vs so, 3 points will suffice vs omg, as both teams will finish on 19 points and the result between them would work in bio's favour. that sounds right anyway... its 5.30am so i'm probably not thinking straight... a very unlucky season for ts finished well. going into the final week, ts had a default win vs 5e, so their fate was in the hands of pr, who did them a huge favour by losing both maps to iced. with the remaining games only affecting the upper half of the table, ts finish the season in 7th place, 1 point above relegation, with an impressive cap difference of +6.
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you may have noticed that over on the smackdown site, they have released over 400 demos, screenshots, match reports, map guides, and lots of bells n whistles all in a nice cd.
for $15 us dollars, you can relive the whole smackdown 2 season. its totally cool. i myself will be ordering a copy, but if anyone else wants me to order while im at it, let me know and ill get several copies.. and no, i wont copy you a copy in case you ask.
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