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| was playing off a friends connection yesterday, the ibb 1meg/1meg 8:1 line, and my god the ping was vicious.
it was a nice steady 25 to jolt and felt perfectly smooth, (also while i was playing with this 25 ping, the 2 other lads were playing fps's aswell with not even the slightest glitch to the ping  ) .
then on games5 it was 8-9dos ping and in game was about 11-14, which i thought felt like lan, and as such we didnt bother host a lan server, and just used games5.
anyone else got the same conn and know of any problems? otherwise i might considering switching for it :>
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for anyone whos interesting in heading west the weekend, the latest in the long running and now famous galway lan (12th lan) is kicking off on saturday morning.
as usual, it will be an excellent lan and anyone who can make it, should. even tho all places are full, i'm sure you can head in and have a laugh with the lads there.
for more information, head over to room101.org and have a gander.
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for those of you who are fans of the game enemy territory, like me, you should rush over to these mirrors and slurp right away. (jolts fast). basicly, its enemy territory fortress mod and its pretty damn good. whats better.. its free!
note, you need the orig et. can be obtained from here too.
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since clanbases previous announcement, they have decided that it will be quake 3 will be their 2 on 2 event with cash prizes -
1st €2.500
2nd €1.250
3rd €750
4th €500
they also have signups for their opencup. more details can be found here.
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well, it seems that dr. betruger really wants to do bad things in this universe as he'll be back stronger than ever with new monsters to send after your poor little ass ...
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/doom-3-resurrection-of-evil/577592p1.html
and, oh yeah, that's right: there will be a ctf mode for the multiplayer \o/\o/\o/. the threewave team has been hired to work on it which probably means that the maps will be great. and it also explains why there wasn't any comments/work on doom3 from them so far ...
now i really can't wait
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i noticed over on quadnation that biffy has posted up his, as usual, excellent review of the jolt ctf season. two areas that are of interest to irish clans are div3a and div3c. of course you can read the whole thing here.
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clanbase seem to be the only movers and shakers at the moment with their opened the sign ups for their spring 2005 opencup. ctf signups->here, tdm->here and clan arena->here. get signed up and start the new year with a bang!
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clanbase announced that they are going to hold the eurocup xi finals at a lan with 50,000 euro in cash prizes. while the 1v1 fps game hasn't been decided, were hoping that it will be q3. check it out here.
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clanbase announced earlier today that they have merges with the global gaming league in an exciting partnership.
the ggl's marketing crew will find sponsorship for both clanbase and ggl tournaments from now on. the ggl has awarded more than $100,000 in prize money in 2004 alone, and can now add the huge marketing potential of clanbase ..
you can read more here.
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from all they guys and girls here at quake.ie, have a happy christmas and may your new year bring you only good things.
have fun!
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well, the last of the semi finals are on tonight at 8pm gmt with the netherlands taking on swedan. (incidentially, did you ever see the netherlands list of players ? heh). anyway, it should be an excellent set of games and definately worth a look if your into cee tee efff. #cbnations.q3
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for those of you who still like to see and play the beautiful game, you just have to check out these set of demos. the first game is from clan malfunction vs griffins tappra gossar on dm3. keeping in mind, the players are some of the worlds best players in qw, just keep the demo on fix's pov. the guy is just an absolute monster. check it out here.
the set of games is from def vs caban in the duelmania qw competition. theres 4 maps in total, ztn dm6 dm2 aerowalk. fcuk me, these are some games! thats all i can say. go download now.
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map to lan
reeee!! things are taking shape,
attending: me killy mp pyro dest benji spec weemcd vin gib carl weak-infant baz
pyro is bringing a 24port hub
bring power blocks and cat 5 cables if you have them (i have a pile here but better safe than sorry)
come at 8pm saturday and we'll take it from there.
baz asked me to say he will provide a escort service if needed!! (you must be over 18)
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a win over the austrians, rofl, on sunday match report
target="_blank">here following on a win over the german
clan tt in the 1/4 final, sent fh into the final of the 3rd league
in clanbase
ctf opencup. we will be facing the senti-powered swedish/estonian clan vires.
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now that myself and mp's dsl orders are in, looking forward to being back online playing. looking at the jolt website, the results are in for the end of the ctf league, where we have some good results from the irish sides.
fh come in a very strong second in div3a, (won: 10, drawn: 1, lost: 3, cap diff: 23, points: 21), earning themselves promotion to division 2.
joining them in division 2 are n8z, who despite player unavailability problems (me included), got themselves together after a shaky start and came in second in div3c by a point, (won: 9, drawn: 1, lost: 4, cap diff: 28, points: 19).
baz's ded team came in 3rd in div3c, (won: 7, drawn: 1, lost: 6, cap diff: 12, points: 15), narrowly missing promotion. all in all, a good show from us paddys, keep it up next season guys.
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width="170" align="right" vspace="5" border="0">gamespot
has posted an excellent, 25-page, in-depth article titled
the final hours of half-life 2. the report covers:
the choice by valve software
to develop their own game engine
the inclusion of realistic physics and articulate characters
why half-life 2
didn't appear at e3 2002
the real story behind the september 30, 2003 release date
the lawsuit between valve and vivendi universal games
how game levels are envisioned and created
how a 21-year-old german named axel g hacked into valve's network
yeah, i know it's not quake, but there isn't one person here who isn't going to be itching for this, especially after the lukewarm reception the single player game in doom received.
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opening with our game against austria... a tough game to start with, as they had several eurocup winners in their side. we easily agreed on a gameservers.net server, ireland with a ping disadvantage of about 8-10 ms. team.ie lined up with the attacking trio of myself (killy), dest, and sno; kat and melachi in defence, and spectator coaching. they had private, scorp, viech, tropf, and ko (with van-wilder coaching). our map was q3wcp1, which started in our favour and we looked well in control for 6 minutes or so, until austria capped against the run of play. this turned the tide of the game, and a repeat performance put them 2-0 up. a good cap created by sno and finished by dest brought ireland back into the game, and when dest brought the flag back into our half of the map a few minutes later i thought we could have drawn level, but it resulted in a cross-steal with cluckilly holding the blue flag in red base. we managed to get both powerups, and their flag carrier died, and as i was standing on the flag spot hoping for a return, i was killed and our flag was not returned, they picked it up and capped. 3-1 down with not long to go, it was time to throw caution to the wind and attack like mad. this left our base vulnerable for austria to get a 4th, and end the game on a slightly flattering (imo) scoreline of 4-1.
w3 was austria's map, and they clearly knew how to play it. from the start they did very well syncing their home regen with haste, attacking with many bodies. our defence (consisting of a rejuvinated melachi and kat) was up to the task, and fended off most of the austrian attackers. however, the game was played always on the back foot, and although ireland had a few opportunities, austria's powerup work was too good. they went 2-0 up with some well worked caps, and in the final minutes we were forced to stretch ourselves again, like on cp1, in the hope of getting a cap to bring us back into it, but it only led to another score for austria. 3-0 to aut, well played to them, deserved winners and sound people. check for a report on clanbase soon, and if you want demos then sno has some uploaded somewhere.
promising admin work by global, who is putting a lot of effort into this nc... makes a big difference from previous seasons which were run without enthusiasm. our game vs turkey is postponed until next week.
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nobody seems to be stepping up to be captain of the team, and as mp and myself are offline it proves very difficult to organise anything. so i dont mind doing it as long as there is a "backup guy" with regard to practices etc in the evening. but if i'm running it there won't be trials, there will be a squad of about 10 players named and the team made up / named on the night depending on the map being played etc. if killy is around for this cup and is going to play in it, i'd like him to play the "backup guy" / team picker for the matches.
the squad would be more or less made up from:
killy dest nexus kazz sky melachi benji bd sno flash ch pyro
also anarchy if jim will make a re-appearance.
isdners like vin and possibly space in the running too, need to get vin on a decent connect for games. rapp obviously if he can get online. depends on the limit of the squad numbers allowed by cb, but the final squad would be picked from the above. im sure i've missed one or two but that'll happen at 9am. so are people interested? (people as in key players that the team is fucked without)
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this month, don't miss the best excuse you'll ever have to buy playboy: the november 2004 edition has "20 questions to john carmack" ...
playboy webby
... i got it for the article sweetie ...
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.. in the run up the american presidential elections, we here at quake.ie would like you to say a big no thanks to a mr. bush. we all know what kind of corrupt fuckwit silly person that bush is and that regardless of what kerry is like, he should be voted out of office mainly just to make the world a safer place to live in.
go here to here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, or here. you get the idea. please feel free to post other links
peace
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this weekend, the biggest thing to happen in irish q3 since i got dsl, darkside x. with the bulk of the active irish quakers attending, there should be plenty of games to be had. expect reviews/demos/scandal here on monday, or sunday night if people are particularly wired. starts 10pm tonight.
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good and bad season for irish clans in the group stages of the ctf opencup. unfortunately n8z dropped out of their group and
out of tdm opencup also. fh finished undefeated in 3rd league, with wins over ston3d, ppp, naos, and uf!. this sets us up
for the playoffs, most likely against clan tt from group d; fixtures will be set sometime during the week. ded didn't make
much of an impact in group d despite moments of promise, such as a map win vs ^x^ and a win vs err... disappointingly defaulting against tt in the final week, ending
4th in the group ahead of estonians viga, and behind ^x^, tt, and ek.
fh currently are top of division 3a, although ^x^ have a game in hand and could overtake. a mixed season so far, a draw with
x, and a draw and a loss vs the dark-preachers, who have improved lots since our last encounter only 6ish months ago
countered by wins over bdi and a2q. difficult games remain, against belgians dx!, uk clan n2s, and king.
div3c is the one with most irish interest, as it contains two irish clans n8z and ded. in week 3, for the first time since
clan-wars deathmatch league (fh vs acid), two irish sides clashed in a uk q3 league. i would have done a preview if i had
noticed beforehand, but luckily managed to catch the game live on gtv. disappointingly the heavy hitters were unable to show
for n8z, with rapp offline, melachi inactive, mp/zero offline, and coda unavailable, but this game saw the return of kazz in
the n8z line-up. i was worried beforehand that n8z would be unable to field a team, but they had taken in some
reinforcements from ek (old friends of n8z and nd before them) in the form of cyph and van-wilder, their team of 5 completed
by the regulars broadband-powered-pyro and sky. ded had what looked like a usual line-up, arild, cascade, tru3n30, benji,
nozi and baz (i might be missing someone, am just going by memory).
ctf2 looked like a good, competitive game from the start. n8z were leading, and ded's chances of getting back into the game
were damaged when nozi had to quit because of porn trojans on his pc, and was replaced by baz. it was a disappointing return
for kazz who had bad ping, hitting 160 at times, but it didn't matter in the end as n8z were comfortable in a 4-1 victory.
w7 was when the new recruit cyph showed his worth for n8z, with some impressive caps, resulting in a 5-1 win for n8z,
sparking whines from some of the ded players. this put a end to ded's good start (win vs qq, draw+win vs inf), and also to
n8z' bad start (loss vs inf, loss vs lr). both teams had their week 4 games postponed. some potentially tricky fixtures
remain, against the likes of frenchies no, dutchies mobach g, and brits kw. given the starts to the season i would expect to
see ded finish up in the promotion spots, but n8z would have a lot to do to get there.
fh and n8z are plodding away in division 2... fh plagued by a new kind of ping problems, with killy (me) on 200 ping a lot of
the time on tuesday league nights, and vinnit unable to connect to jolt with oceanfree and having to resort to the inferior
eircom 64k, but we have managed to squeeze out points so far with the likes of aly, dest, mako, and ch on green or white
ping. the league kicked off with a very disappointing loss vs ac, disappointing since it should have been a nice win for fh
but aforementioned ping troubles struck to give ac a win by just a couple of frags on osp5, and a more comfortable win on
dm14 while i swam in the void on 200 ping. pings stayed down a bit in week 2 against es(a) and we were rewarded with maximum
points, thanks mainly to the opposition having to draft 2 guys from their b team. week 3 resulted in a draw, with 2k (still
mourning the loss of their star players rapp and staik... and rufus and rock and will) grabbing an 8 frag win on the
unfamiliar ospdm15rc3, while fh took a comfortable win on the more oldschool cpm4. n8z remain a sleeping giant, no points
gained so far thanks to a loss vs il, no disgrace given the fact that the belgians were tipped to win the division and should
have been placed in div1 but were late to sign up, and default loss in week 2 vs rb. a ctf-heavy line-up in week 3 came
second against the french clan ac. with zero returning from america, and 4 games left to play, hopefully they will manage to
field a stronger side before the season is over, perhaps getting rapp onto a broadband connect, or persuading melachi to
partake.
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so while you've all been bl33ting about the nc captaincy and i've been offline, i've made myself a little busy recoding our beloved quake.ie. click here for a snippit.
if anyone feels proficient in .asp or can do up some nice graphics/avatars/icons and would like to lend a hand, drop me a mail, catch me on irc please or just post a comment saying so.
i've a huge amount of work to do, but soon my lovely's.. soon, the precious will be back
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a friend of mine has got herself into the finals of the tv show, the x-factor. whats this got to do with quake? f'all to be honest, but she needs your vote! so head on over and vote dammit!
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this is worth a bigger mention than it gets on the right hand side of the page over there in small print... theres an irish ctfs squad getting together... post on that thread there or contact bourn3 on irc if you're interested. (thats threewave capturestrike afaik)
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i noticed over on jolt that biffy is back doing his weekly reviews. nice. so, go here for div 1 and 2 and go here for the other div's.
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recently announced here . anyone going for captain ?
i’d be willing to do it, or at least help out. lets put the effort in now, and leave what happened in the past, in the past, and give the best of the irish a chance to show what they’re capable of.
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