Since this morning when the new Warning System was introduced, there has been a flood of queries into what it actually is and what it does.

The basic idea for the system is that in the past, the admins at Crossfire weren't able to easily track repetitive rule breakers very efficiently. It all had to be co-ordinated through word of mouth to one another. By introducing a purpose built warning system we are able to log who the trouble makers are and effectively administer bans when in the past they may have gotten away.

This is not all doom and gloom for users though as from now on you should not get banned for small instances of rule breaking, instead you will get an official automatic warning instead of a custom written PM from an admin or an immediate ban.

Social Punishment

As some people seem to think they want warnings, if you get more than 20 points your profile will no longer display your buddies, achievements, last visitors or your profile text.

How it works

Every user by default has 0 points. This is the ideal amount you should all aim for. 0 points mean you are the ideal user that doesn't break any rules.

With less than a month to an open beta and hopefully only 2-3 months till Enemy Territory:Quake Wars is released to the gaming mass, SplashDamage along with Activision has decided to publicly open a Community site to try and keep the interest and hype surrounding the game at it's maximum after so many delays and false promises with previous dates.



Not only providing a ET:QW specific forum, where previously you would have to use SplashDamage's multi purpose ET/ET:QW forum to let eager Quake War players to chat amongst each other and share their excitement, but the community site also plays host to;

* Regularly updated Developer Blogs by the good people at SplashDamage
* Articles and Game Guides such as 'An Introduction to the Game', and hopefully a continually updated FAQ
* Events, which will show such spots as competitions and in the future LAN events
* And also links to various ET:QW fan sites where you can keep up with the latest and greatest gossip surrounding the game.

It's highly recommended to sign up to the site and keep a regular check on the content as it's produced, as always information from the game publisher and creator will be more interesting to the rumours previously found to wonder the journals.

Another year is drawing to a close and so as happens every November, the annual Mod of The Year is launched, the event consists of just over a month long wait for anyone and everyone to vote for their favorite mod for that particular year, and with Enemy Territory being this site's game of choice, what other mod would we want to win than our very own ETPro.

From it's initial launch over three years ago to this very day it has been the very base that competitive ET was built on. Who knows, if ETPro was never released would we even still be playing this game, and would it be drawing the thousands of players every day that play it?

The amount of time that has been put into ETPro by all of the coders that have worked on the mod is just an indication to how much they are willing to please and push forward the game itself and make sure everyone in the community still enjoys playing.


So think about the hundreds of hours you have spent playing this wonderful mod and the hell we would be going through if we were still using ETMain 2.56 with akimbo pistols, XP rewards and constant airstrike spam and unlimited soldiers to name but a few of the horrors of ET's history.



And don't forget to thank all the developers behind ETPro - Bani, Rain, Zinx, Fretn, Ikkyo, Reyalp, as they didn't JUST make ETPro, but are also behind the ET 2.60 patch and also the ever so popular ETTV system.

Dejavu? NO

It's been about nine months since anubis a.k.a LoyalPrincess a.k.a roude a.k.a hannes a.k.a tlitch wrote a news post about probably the best NC-Team there has ever been. No, we are not talking about , we are talking about Switzerland! Last time we had some bad luck against Team-Germania, which I'm confident won't happen again.

History:

After nearly winning the WorldCup in football we thought about winning it in ET, once more.
Not much changed since the last time, and I'm happy to present you some new, talented, fresh players as sadly ElEcTrO-bOy anubis prefers going to discos this days (<3) and GuNnEr has gone AWOL. Although some things never change, we still have the best cheese (>), the best chocolate (>),the best knives(no doubt), the best watches (obviously) and are the richest! (>)

Anyway, I don't want to bother any longer, here is the Swiss Enemy Territory Lineup!:

Main Lineup:

gifty
wck (Manager)
vEg
vegi
DabSter
Rapt6rr (150 ping, nP)

Melkor
ReavEr
arrow
So better watch out, the cows are back!

Website: www.team-switzerland.ch (currently offline)
IRC: #team-switzerland.et

Forget Allies vs Axis, what you really want is Red vs Green vs Blue.

With only one other well known 3D modelled Enemy Territory movie(Christmas ET Jingle by Santa) released, this movie is a refreshing change from the usual frag movie or trickjump movie.

With custom skins and all your favourite maps turned into 3D models that are mixed with funny scenes and a great soundtrack, this is definitely not a movie you want a miss.

Weighing in at a mere 149MB and lasting 4 minutes 40, it is neither too large or too long for you impatient folk and is encoded with xvid 1.1, so even the poor old PC users who struggle with x264 will be able to watch.

Download the film - Main Mirror | Secondary Mirror


Expect more mirrors within the next hour

So the final standings for the Crossfire Prizefight PCGear.nl LAN are:

[*] Idle.ee - 1st
[*] sFx - 2nd
[*] Team-NL - 3rd

Congratulations to all involved! More coverage to come soon (when we get home). Thanks for watching.

As the title suggests, out of the blue, Vicious & Evil have launched a Call of Duty 2 team consisting of members who formally represented 'Team Spirit'.


After V&E had been approached by quite a few lesser skilled CoD2 teams to form a new V&E CoD2 Squad, The leader of V&E's Enemy Territory team "biqq", brought up the idea of having a talk with the guys of Team Spirit.
He knew a part of the team before and thought that they may fit in well with what the clan wanted.

After lengthy conversations, clarifying goals, views and stances, V&E came up with the decision of finally opening VAE.CoD2 under the leadership of Monk, along with his teammates from Team Spirit.

The team that have shown their strength many times in CoD2 before, and will now play under the Vicious And Evil tag are:

[*] Monk
[*] aJzZ
[*] hobbes
[*] sp0ck
[*] Thyrfing
[*] udo

Read On for a short talk with VAE.Monk about the switch and the lineup

After a mere 8 months of waiting, Bani and (more importantly) his merry group of followers have finally released ETPro 3.2.6 , although this is just an initial beta it does include some very welcomed bug fixes and new additions.

Updates

[*] 2.60b Support (ETPro 3.2.6 required the 2.60b client)
[*] show who did team commands like pause, specinvite, readyteam
[*] added 6 new crosshairs, which are variants of the orignal 0-5 that work better at small sizes
[*] Specinvite improvements

Bug Fixes

[*] players sometimes suddenly drowned if they go directly from waterlevel 0 to/from 3
[*] etpro now plays the prepare and fight sounds when unpaused
[*] Weaponbank 10 no longer crashes the client

To see the whole changelog just head over to this thread



Not content with just releasing a new ETPro release, there's also a much needed ETTV beta update.

Bug Fixes

[*] Upgrade to et 2.60b with security bugfix
[*] Fix spectator inactivity bug
[*] Fixes for network lag
[*] Fix for ping calculation bug

The ETTV documentation can be found here

After a very nervous wait for alot of QuakeCon regulars which has been filled with the fair bit of controvsery and worry, the final dates and location for the event have been annouced.




Although this is good news for the BYOC crowd, there is still worry for any competitive team that is interested in going as the QuakeCon staff still havn't released the list of games that will be played at the event except for this lovely little piece of information

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The public’s first chance to play Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

Now seeing as E3 already had a demo for ET:QW, it seems that QuakeCon will have a full playable version of the game, so if you want to get a sneak peak at what the game is like before it's released to the masses then go book your ticket!

Heres what Athrax said

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We know you all have been waiting to find out about QuakeCon 2006, and we want to thank you for your patience. We’ve had some unexpected issues locking in the dates and location, but don’t worry, we’re still bringing you another kick-ass QuakeCon event, and it’s already right around the corner - August 3 – 6 in Dallas, TX at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in their Trinity Exhibition Center.

With about 1,800 BYOC spots, QuakeCon 2006 will be a bit more exclusive than it has been the last couple of years, but we hope people will enjoy the more personal touch this year. QuakeCon 2006 will of course include all the great activities that it’s known for, including high-stakes tournaments, workshops, exhibitors, the BYOC Area, parties, and the public’s first chance to play Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

First-come, first-served online registration for the BYOC area will kick off at 9 p.m. EST on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006, at www.quakecon.org.

To read the full article click here

Can you imagine a farmer boy? Helping his father on the farm, doing the garden, smoking a joint after the long day on the fields...
But this is not your average farmer boy! He's ET's very own BuLL!

With a history of playing with such legendary clans as Kodler, Malfunction and Kreaturen and representing his country in the NationsCup you are surely in for quite a spectacle.

So without no further ado, let me introduce FarmerBoy2k5 - which was produced by Hack4WeeD and features BuLLs frags versus the current cream of the crop and also the oldschool teams such as gunslingers and dignitas.

As usual the movie is available to download via SweRTCW, be sure not to miss out on what will be one of the great ET movies of all time.