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HoQ TDM Spring 2016 - Round 1 (34 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 05:28 CDT, 25 March 2016 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Spring 2016

This Sunday, 27th of March, will see the first matches of the HoQ TDM Spring Season 2016!

With 3 divisions and 20 teams, this new season features 2 more teams than the previous. So far, the prize money consists of 455 EUR. The details of the prize distribution will be announced later.

Here are the matches for the first round of the league. The news will be updated if the teams are rescheduling. We really urge the teams to reschedule as soon as possible when needed, and contact the admins about it.

Division 1 - Sunday 21CEST

Division 2 - Monday 21CEST

Division 3 - Tuesday 21CEST

Map pool and map picking

Streams:

102,

funnyb,

Flair TV
Links: Schedule, Rules -

#HoQLeagues - Donate for the league

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HoQ CA 4v4 Spring Season 2016 Coverage (25 comments)

( Major Article: QL)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 14:47 CDT, 24 March 2016 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Spring 2016

Tonight is the night! As it was already announced the HoQ CA 4v4 Spring Season 2016 kicks off tonight at 21:00 CET with first CA matches of the season. A total of 21 teams, across three divisions will be battling to crown themselves as the HoQ CA champions.

To keep you entertained before match start, I set on a quest to get every team's predictions and thoughts about the league and upcoming matches. I have conducted interviews with team leaders spanning all three divisions. I managed to cover almost all of them. Some couldn't be reached, some didn't want to participate but overall it was an interesting experience. I've been working in fifth-gear for the past 24 hours to get this done as soon as possible, so please excuse any mistakes or typos that you might encounter while reading. I'm still editing on-the-go and getting some more interviews in. So keep checking this page.

Other than that, I would like to express my deep gratitude to all who agreed to be interviewed and to those who have helped me along this hectic journey. I have met many new and interesting people along the way and have really enjoyed interacting with you all. I hope you had a good time doing this as well as I did. Thank you again! Furthermore, each page of the article represents a Divison, so page 1 is div 1, page 2 div 2 and so on. Well... What are you waiting for? Start reading and enjoy!

Article Page: 1, 2, 3 || next page >>

Edited by viaIImaximus at 14:49 CDT, 24 March 2016 - 56667 Hits

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UT4 2on2 TDM Easter cups 2016 (4 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 17:20 CDT, 22 March 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 26 March 2016 to 15:59 CDT, 28 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

After the successful

UT4 openning cups it is time for some more! Since these are times of festivities,

ESL has announced a 1-day 2on2 TDM Easter cups. Similar to the previous cups, this one also features North American and European players. The NA cup will be played on Saturday 26th of March at 3PM EST and the EU one will be played on Sunday 27th of March at 19:00 CET. The cup format will be a Swiss one, to find out what that really is read below.

Update: The winners of the UT 2on2 Easter Cups are:

What is a swiss cup?

Prizes for Winners

Beginners guide to sign up

NA Sign Up

EU Sign Up

Basic rules

Info & support

If you're just up for some fun and trying out how the new UT4 game feels, join the #UT4.eu channel @ GlobalGamers for some pickup games!

Links:

Cup main page,

Free UT4 pre-Alpha download,

cafe

Edited by viaIImaximus at 12:26 CDT, 29 March 2016 - 4045 Hits

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The best new thing - VR? (22 comments)

( Major Article: HW)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 14:15 CDT, 22 March 2016 - iMsg

Probably the hottest news in the IT industry at the moment is Virtual Reality (VR) related. Basically, every IT news portal is being swarmed with articles about VR development hardware and software wise. One might find themselves caught off guard when it comes to the new technology and with so much information being released, you might as well feel overwhelmed by it. That is the reason for the creation of this article. To get yourself acquainted with the new 'hot stuff', giving you an overview as to why VR is so popular right now.

Go on dive in ...

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Edited by viaIImaximus at 17:30 CDT, 22 March 2016 - 29642 Hits

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QuakeLive Old Maps Online Duel Cup #15 (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 09:58 CDT, 22 March 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 26 March 2016 to 12:00 CDT, 26 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

QuakeLive Old Maps Online Duel Cup #15

Cup site http://goodgame.ru/cup/2928/
Bracket http://goodgame.ru/cup/2928/grid
Admin:

Kaintt
Stream: http://goodgame.ru/channel/Kaintt/

Maplist

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Quake Live Highlander Cup #1 - Silence (14 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by flair @ 09:06 CDT, 22 March 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 16:00 CDT, 26 March 2016 to 20:00 CDT, 26 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

Presenting the first Highlander Cup. A North American Quake Live duel tournament where all matches are played out using one map.
Silence has been chosen since it will be used in the upcoming NADC#16 map pool. The event will take place on Saturday at 16:00 CDT, 26 March 2016.
Signups will be made available to the public two or three hours before the event starts.

"There can be only one!"

Information

Stream:

FlairTV
Links:

Brackets, Webchat

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HoQ CA Spring Season Draft Groups (40 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 05:28 CDT, 22 March 2016 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Spring 2016

Scheduled: 15:00 CDT, 24 March 2016 to 17:59 CDT, 24 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

The signups for

Quake Live House of Quake CA 4v4 Spring Season 2016 have been closed. The draft groups have been released but do take note that these are draft groups, meaning it is still subject to possible changes. In total 22 teams have signed up for this season. The matches start at 21:00 CET on March 24th and will be played on Thursday's every week.

Division 1

Division 2

Division 3

Maps

Update:

pRophecy pulled out of the tournament.

White Ivory now in div 2 (previously div 1). Divisions are final now.

Streams:

funnyb
Links: Rules,

HoQLeagues

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Thunderdome Season 6 started! (5 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by leopold @ 06:19 CDT, 21 March 2016 - iMsg

Season 6 of the Thunderdome 1v1 Tournament is now on its way. This time 81 players will battle it out in 6 Divisions on tb5 + bravadob5.

Info

Links:

Get QW,

Community,

Watch it

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125 FPS Sunday Cup#31 (Season#29) (33 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 05:49 CDT, 21 March 2016 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 27 March 2016 to 14:00 CDT, 27 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS QuakeLive Duel Sunday Cup #31, as a part of Duel Season#29, will take place this weekend.

Sign up link http://125fps.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/XRtMEu7BJj

Information

Streams:

102,

zLive, Stream HUB
Links: Season#29 page, Event Rules, Web chat, 125FPS Balance 2015-2016;
Donate: 125FPS Donate link. Guys, pls donate some money, and we will continue our events

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HoQ TDM Spring Season Draft Groups (88 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by doz3r @ 20:10 CDT, 20 March 2016 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Spring 2016

Scheduled: 15:00 CDT, 27 March 2016 to 17:00 CDT, 27 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

The signups of

Quake Live TDM 4v4 Spring Season 2016 have been closed. Here are the draft groups. Division 1 will play Sundays 21:00 CEST, Division 2 will play Mondays 21:00 CEST and Division 3 plays Tuesdays 21:00 CEST. The Spring Season will start Sunday 27th of March. We continue the donations to build up some more prize money. Donate for the league.

Division 1

Division 2

Division 3

Donations

Maps

Streams:

Flair

funnyb

102
Links: Rules, Signup,

HoQLeagues

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Site summary for week ending 18 Mar (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CDT, 20 March 2016 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

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Reflex Update 0.40 (53 comments)

( Major News: Reflex)

Posted by entik @ 23:33 CDT, 18 March 2016 - iMsg

Update 0.40 dropped earlier today. Highlights of this update include new first person weapon animations, hand models in first person, new Ion Cannon sounds, re-vamped scoreboard, in-game stats for weapons, new weapon effects, and more.

Reflex 0.40.0 marks the first release using a new set of internal development tools. While developing, we often find ourselves going back to the Steam build to play random peasants and are immediately stuck by how much it sucks compared to the development version we've been using. With these new systems in place, we should be able to release smaller updates more often, instead of holding on to good features for 3 weeks waiting for other features to become shippable. We're not entirely sure what our release schedule will be like yet, but the take away for players is that you can expect to see features within a couple of days of them being ready.

Gif of some of the new animations
Ion Cannon in action

Change Log & Notes

Tech:

- Fixed multiple reflection probes for shader quality 0
- Added simplistic network compression & encryption, seeing a reduction of around 33% traffic (server->client only)
- Changed default sv_steam_port from 25797 to 25788
- Reduced jittering of all entities client-side
- Reduced jittering when colliding with other players
- Added comment support to config (.cfg) files
- Connect coomand is now just <ip:port>
- Use "password <blah>" in the console to supply a server password
- This format is required for steam:// links
- We now load player steam friends list, and their avatars
- Allowed friend info for players you meet in a server (to get their avatar + steam info)

Dedicated servers:

- IMPORTANT: Our dedicated servers now require the Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x86) to be installed.
- Steam is supposed to install it automatically but that doesn't seem to work with SteamCMD.
- We expect we'll end up including this in future releases but for now we don't.

Weapons:

- All weapons again obey weapon offsets
- Updated IC: revised mesh, updated beam and impact effects, additional animation and glow effects when firing, new sounds based on states
- Fixed ioncannon beam clipping through ground visually in some instances in first person
- Added player hands in first person
- New first person weapon animation system
- Shotgun, boltrifle, plasmarifle casings eject from their correct positions again
- New first person melee animations

Art:

- Optimisation pass on egyptian meshes
- Optimisation pass on japan meshes

Effects:

- Blood decals are now larger and moister with smoother normals (helps look a bit thicker)
- Gib decals have more velocity spread (more likely to go on walls)
- CTF carried flag wisp toned down (might need another pass still)
- Blood on melee weapons now correctly matches blood in the world.
- Robot blood is now some kind of blueish coolant or something

Stats:

- Added in-game stats for weapons, powerups & generic player info (calculated server side)
- We also now track top 5 race times (and distance / topspeed / avgspeed), and store these for each player too
- Stats are all pushed to lua
- Stats are currently only available during matches -- no fancy web API.

Scoreboard:

- Implemented new scoreboard to showcase stats
- Scoreboard is different per gamemode
- Scoreboard is interactive
- By default hold +showscores and rightclick to enable cursor.
- You can click on another player to view more info about them, including adding them to friends / viewing their profile
- You can re-bind the scoreboard cursor release in the options menu. Either with the "showscorescursor" command for a specific key, or "showscorescursorhook" which allows you to hook it in to an existing key "Jump" / "Attack".
- You can now see player steam avatars on scoreboard
- You can now see friend status / add player to friends list on scoreboard
- Added flag for each player to the scoreboard, this is toggled with cl_country (cl_country default is pulled from steam)

Gameplay:

- Implemented /roll command (WoW style). To use, type "roll 20" in console
- Improved the feel of projectiles by pushing the projectile spawn position from 8 to 28 (and fixed all the bugs that usually would have caused).

Editor:

- Added ReflectionProbe entity. The old effect based reflection probes still work but are deprecated.
- Added me_showclip
- Added "Show Clip" to MapEditor.lua titlebar, which controls me_showclip

Bugfixes:

- Players will no longer get stuck inside each other
- Instead, they will have their collision disabled until it can be resolved.
- Internally, this is now known as "Patrick Swayzeing"
- Fixed bug where overlapping guns could prevent pickups. i.e. if player full on burst ammo, and burst gun overlapped RL, RL was blocked.
- Steam defaults are now applied after config load (this was probably causing steam defaults to be stomped :|) note - they are only applied if cvar is at default value!
- Clicking on ReflectionProbe no longer breaks it
- Fixed issue where prefab names with a space in them weren't properly being parsed in on map load.
- Fixed issue where end of game sound would sometimes play on connection
- Right click friend->join game should now work

Known Issues

- Players are Patrick Swayzeing more often than expected.
- Again, our Dedicated Server currently requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x86) to be installed
- Race times in scoreboard are not sorted properly
- Race times do not reset properly

Links: Reflex Forums Post

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Esports professionals are real athletes (95 comments)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by certes @ 06:34 CDT, 17 March 2016 - iMsg

Science proves that Esports professionals are real athletes

http://m.dw.com/en/science-shows-that-esports...a-19084993

It would be interesting if some professional twitch streamers had real time heart rate monitors attached and compared results to other top players

Would be quite interesting? :)

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QuakeCon 2016 Registration Opening Round (41 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 15:44 CDT, 14 March 2016 - iMsg

Earlier QuakeCon on

their Twitter account announced that the QuakeCon 2016 online pre-registration for the 'BYOC Select-a-Seat with UAC Command Center Seating' package will be open for attendees on March 14th at 7pm CT/8pm ET. If you wish to register go here.

The BYOC Select-a-Seat with UAC Command Center Seating ($400 – limit of 32 packages available) includes the following:

BYOC UAC details

QuakeCon 2016 is offering three additional BYOC Premium packages all of which will be available for registration over the coming weeks. If you are interested in what the additional three BYOC Premium packages include and when they will be available, go here.

Do note the following, if you are interested in participating in this year's QuakeCon 2016 BYOC you must pre-purchase one of the 'BYOC Select-a-Seat' packages through QC's site and register online. You should also be aware that all 'BYOC Select-a-Seat' packages are limited so do hurry and reserve your spot. The general attendance still remains free.

Besides that, there will be giveaways for a limited number of BYOC seats once the regular BYOC seats are sold out. Therefore if you're still not 'sold' or you were too late to register in time but would still like to attend, you can try your luck. So be sure to follow the QuakeCon twitter and the QuakeCon Facebook page.

Links: QuakeCon 2016,

QuakeCon twitter,

QuakeCon facebook

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125 FPS Sunday Cup#30 (Season#29) (32 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 04:18 CDT, 14 March 2016 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 20 March 2016 to 14:00 CDT, 20 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS QuakeLive Duel Sunday Cup #30, as a part of Duel Season#29, will take place this weekend.

Sign up link http://125fps.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/nJCkSwlNyG

Information

Streams:

102,

zLive, Stream HUB
Links: Season#29 page, Event Rules, Web chat, 125FPS Balance 2015-2016;
Donate: 125FPS Donate link. Guys, pls donate some money, and we will continue our events

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