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Next Unreal Tournament announced (271 comments)

( Major News: UT)

Posted by destrukt @ 13:51 CDT, 8 May 2014 - iMsg

The next Unreal Tournament title, called Unreal Tournament, will be free and with a marketplace, for PC, Mac and Linux. Epic announced today in a Twitch Livestream (long, short).

Steve Polge from Epic on unrealengine/blog:

"Work on the future of Unreal Tournament begins today, and we’re happy to announce that we’re going to do this together, with you. We know that fans of the game are as passionate about Unreal Tournament as we are. We know that you have great ideas and strong opinions about where the game should go and what it should be. So let’s do something radical and make this game together, in the open, and for all of us."

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125 FPS One Map Cup - BattleForged (76 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 07:51 CDT, 6 May 2014 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 11:00 CDT, 10 May 2014 to 14:00 CDT, 10 May 2014
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS Project is proud to announce the One Map Cup - Battleforged. Participation is free, full double elim, BO1 all matches

Bracket link: challonge/signup
ZLive's VOD

When: 10 May, start at 09:00 CDT,
Map: Battleforged
Rules: full double elim, BO1 all matches, serverchoice rules here
Prize: 1000RUR + donates

Cup Admins: Nico, []34[], Xron, Green (search on IRC or write to nikolay.grishin@gmail.com)
Streams:

ZLive
Links:

#125fps, twitter 125FPS , CUPs site

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HOURGLASS (56 comments)

( Major Movie: QL)

Posted by lee.ql @ 15:33 CDT, 5 May 2014 - iMsg




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Rating: 8.7 (104 votes)

Hey guys! I quit playing Quake Live, so this is my farewell movie. Some frags are really old, some are pretty new, but regardless naf made a good job putting them all together. We hope you like it.

Movie by NaF, featuring Lee.

Soundtrack:
KOAN Sound & Asa - Starlite
Keeno (ft. Fifi Smart) – Rephrase & Rewind (Thinnen Remix)

Here is NaF' youtube channel

Movie File - Stream () 0MB
- YouTube (1474 clicks)
Movie File - Download (Hourglass_by_naf.rar) 556MB
- gett (89 clicks)
- MaverickServers.com (79 clicks)

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FACEIT - Weekly Cup Info - May 5-11 (No comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by easytarget @ 13:08 CDT, 5 May 2014 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

The Month of May is now here, sorry for the delay on this post but here it is, the new map pools are below. the only change to the Cups is we have removed the Fun Cups, and replaced it with a LvL 10 Duel Cup.

The cups format and map pools listed below will take effect starting today. All the cups for the whole week are posted on the site, so feel free to head on over and take a look. Remember all these points you win can be exchanged for prizes, such as Razer gear in the FACEIT Shop.

Quake Live Europe Schedule

Quake Live North America Schedule

TDM 2v2 Map pool

CA 2v2 Map pool

Duel Map pool

Links: FACEIT.com,

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEIT,

FACEITcom

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Hangtime2 DeFRaG CUP (15 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by xajA @ 09:26 CDT, 5 May 2014 - iMsg

Hangtime2 is a series of 6 nonstandard strafe maps made by

NaturalSpringWater.

You will find a lot of unique, previously unseen tricks there. Passing through all of them without fails is a real challenge requiring a lot of patience and concentration. The more challenging, the more interesting it is. Skilled players will find many new tricks, whilst newbies gonna get a good reason to improve their skills.

I’m presenting to your attention Hangtime2 DeFRaG CUP with an initial* prize fund of $380 ($190 each physics).

Hangtime2 DeFRaG CUP poster

Schedule and results. UPDATED!!!

Rules

Upload

Prizes

Donate*

Admin

SCHEDULE CHANGED!

Links: DeFRaG.ru, Q3DF.ORG, #defrag

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singularity (136 comments)

( Major Movie: QL)

Posted by h8m3 @ 20:47 CDT, 4 May 2014 - iMsg




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Rating: 9.4 (178 votes)

A fragmovie made by

wntt, starring

fearzzz,

fazz,

noctis and

tyba1t

Author's Statement

File Information

Music

Previous wntt works: moopoint

Movie File - Stream () 0MB
- Youtube (2134 clicks)
Movie File - 1080p60 (singularity.rar) 898MB
- Google Drive (159 clicks)
- Mavericks Servers (222 clicks)
- Yandex Disk (52 clicks)

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Site summary for week ending 02 May (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 4 May 2014 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

North American Cap This 2 CTF Tournament (20 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by cl0ck @ 10:27 CDT, 4 May 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:30 CDT, 4 May 2014 to 17:00 CDT, 4 May 2014
Schedule: Passed

North American CTF is booming, and we're back for another installment of Cap This! Tune in at 12:30 CDT, 4 May 2014 as some of North America's top CTF talent showcase their skills in the second NA CTF tournament ran by id_.

Format

Maps

Teams

Schedule

Stream:

whaz
Links: Bracket

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125 FPS May'14 League, Finals (290 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 09:51 CDT, 4 May 2014 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 30 May 2014 to 15:00 CDT, 30 May 2014
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS Project is proud to announce 125 FPS May'14 QuakeLive Duel Season! As usual huge thanks to our sponsor Alexey A from the Moscow region and to the rest of the donators as well.

Live report

Schedule and results

VODs

Rules

Map Pool

Players

Prize Pool

Donate Manifest

Our May'14 Donators

Credits

Cup Admins: Nico, []34[], Xron, Green (search on IRC or write to nikolay.grishin@gmail.com)
Streams:

ZLive

elder_ru,

102
Links: Cup Website,

#125fps,

Esportactu coverage

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EQL 18 FInals today! (7 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by leopold @ 09:01 CDT, 4 May 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 4 May 2014 to 14:00 CDT, 4 May 2014
Schedule: Passed

EQL 18 Finals today! The time has come for the 18th EQL final where Suddendeath and Chosen will meet for the first time.

Chosen vs

Suddendeath on May 4th 20:00 CEST.

Predictions by Hooraytio

Suddendeath boasted a 12-0 map record as they made their way into seed 1 and a spot in the semifinals and they wherent really challenged by any team with the exception of Suddendeath 2 who came within 100 frags on DM2. Suddendeath who lost the EQL 17 final to tVS are eager to claim their second EQL title and nothing really stand in their way this season as they quite easily defeated Immortals 3-0 in the semifinal and now await last season's division 2 champions Chosen. All though Chosen improved a lot during playoffs there isnt anyone who doubt a 3-0 victory here for Suddendeath. We all know the players of this team by now: bps, carapace, ganon, rasta and mawe. All of them players who can turn around games and lead a team to victory in crucial situations. Having to face 4 of them at the same time has proven too hard for every team this season and only teams like SR, tVS, c88 or CMFS would be able to do anything about them these days.

Chosen had a miserable group stage with losses versus all, on paper, equally skilled clans. The only bright moment came during Flinthearts only map this season where they took down Suddendeath 2 on DM3 in an otherwise dull performance as they lost the game 1-2. They also lost to long time rivals Immortals and newcomer Majestic. With 3 easy wins versus Paras, Division 99 and Lost Legion they did however manage to get enough points to end up in 3rd place thus avoiding Suddendeath in the Semifinals. Even though the result in the final seems clear Chosen have established themselves as the best clan below the real div0 clans with a division 2 win last season and a spot in the finals this season. With all but one div0 clans gone the spot in the finals was up for grabs and with 3-1 wins against both Fraggers United and Majestic Chosen managed to get it. Elguapo has been the main player for CSN this season, turning maps around and bringing some crucial quadruns to the field. Hooraytio has played equally much but has not impacted the games in the same way as Elguapo but instead been somewhat of a backup/defense player. Late addition TheEvilDog has played solid and was one of the main reasons CSN played so well in the playoffs. Krab has done his part with alot of teamplay and heart while pollox and 187 has been called upon from time to time. Both of them did really well when they got the chance. Sadly CSN saw alot less of Ake_Vader, Flintheart and Xero and this is one of the reasons the group stage was such a bumpy road for them.

Outcome: 3-0 for Suddendeath

Results

VODS

Stream: suddendeathTV
Links: Get QuakeWorld, EQL 18

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#QLReddit EU Newbie Duel Tournament #4 (23 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by CrazyAl @ 13:03 CDT, 3 May 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 06:30 CDT, 10 May 2014 to 11:30 CDT, 10 May 2014
Schedule: Passed

We have started running some fun events for players who are new to quake on Reddit. The last event had 12 players sign up and was a great continuation from the last event that we held. We are hoping if you are interested in competing and just want to have a good time you will join us for our fourth event.

General Information

How to play

Rules

Format

Prizes

Congrats to Lakitu for winning the last QLReddit Newbie Duel Cup! Here's the bracket from event #3.

REMINDER: Sign up on challonge with a display name that is the same as your QuakeLive account or you may be removed before the tourney begins.

Stream:

deotrip

veRRo
Links: Sign Up,

#qlreddit, Reddit Post

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Sev3n joins team one.soldier (28 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by takesix @ 12:32 CDT, 3 May 2014 - iMsg

From Team one.soldier's Facebook page:

"We are happy to announce the addition of the well-known French QuakeLive player Sev3n to the Team one.soldier family! We will be supporting him however we can in the future to ensure his game experience is as enjoyable as possible and look forward to him representing us in the arena - please welcome him on board"

About Team one.soldier

Links:

Facebook,

Twitter,

Youtube,

Steam

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FACEIT SPRING SEASON SUNDAY CUP #6 (123 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by easytarget @ 19:40 CDT, 2 May 2014 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 4 May 2014 to 13:00 CDT, 4 May 2014
Schedule: Passed

The FACEIT Spring Season Week #6 is here and you had better tune in! We have been hard at work on our new studio in London, the time has arrived for the reveal.

Last week we saw

Spart1e play in his first Spring Cup but was unable to make it past the round of 16.

pavel played

Sev3n in the one semi final which he easily took the match in two straight.

Agent met

matr0x_pl who also made his way to the finals, beating him in straight maps in the semi final. In the final he met

pavel and won three games to one granting the Russian Cosmonaut his first title of the season.

Will we see

evil return to claim a second win in the season or will he completely drop from the top eight this sunday? You can already sign-up now! The cup starts at 08:00 CDT.

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia and

Xavier "Zoot" Dhorne will be casting the games for you, starting live at 08:30 CDT

FACEIT TV.

Rules

If you missed the Match of the Week #13 - CYPHER vs. ASH (Spring Season Cup 4), then you better give it a look you do not want to miss the thrills of this match.

Notable sign-ups: TBD
Stream:

FACEIT TV
Links: Sign-Up, Spring Overview

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEIT,

FACEITcom

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Warsow 1.5 released (141 comments)

( Major News: WSW)

Posted by adem @ 08:07 CDT, 2 May 2014 - iMsg

After months of hard work and multiple test releases, we are proud to announce the long-awaited release of

Warsow 1.5. The latest and greatest version introduces significant updates to all areas of the game.

As with every release, we welcome constructive feedback on every aspect of the game. For more details, make sure to see the full changelog. See you in the game!

Read more

Jason Padpork, the heroic pig of war, has gone through a complete visual makeover. The new player model has been created from scratch by Matteo Pignatelli and funded by the Warsow community. We believe the new model manages to better represent the character that Padpork is, and to bring the player model up to date with the modern advances in Warsows visuals.

As moving around in the world of Warsow is one of the key skills a player has to master, we concluded that improvements to the movement mechanics were due. The newly improved default movement makes it easier for new players to get a grip of the basics, while simultaneously allowing experienced Warsowians to even further express their art of movement. However, old school movement is still available as a possible movement style.

Localization support has arrived to Warsow. For a game played all around the world, we feel that language-independence is a welcome addition to the global audience of this fast-paced shooter. Warsow 1.5 ships with 11 community-translated localizations (in Russian, Japanese, French, Polish, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Italian and Finnish), and there are many more to come. Warsow 1.5 automatically detects the language of your operating system and uses the localization of that language whenever available. Remember to check out this wiki article for a guide on how to participate in translating Warsow to your language!

In addition to a whole new Padpork, Warsow 1.5 also introduces other beautiful changes to the games visuals. The latest installment of our qfusion engine supports FXAA, a fast and powerful anti-aliasing method which can improve image quality when hardware anti-aliasing methods like MSAA or CSAA are not available or affordable.

Le dream on, the extremely popular duel map known to many as wdm2, has gone through a major facelift with stunning new textures and added details. Additionally, the improved qfusion engine introduces beautiful soft particle effects to explosions and halo shaders.

There are many cool things happening in the world of Linux gaming, and Warsow 1.5 is one of them. We have taken great care to make our latest release run smoothly on the open source radeon drivers, the input code utilizes XInput2, and our shipped binaries are fully compatible with Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian Wheezy.

Server hosts will be happy to hear that 1.5 features a built-in HTTP server that significantly simplifies map downloads by removing the need to serve downloadable files through mirrors.

Full Changelog

Engine:
+ Feature: added built-in HTTP server (TCP port 44444) to serve UI AJAX queries and file downloads to clients.
+ Feature: added localization support to User Interface and HUD (the language is autodetected at the first startup).
+ Feature: added support for TrueType and OpenType fonts.
+ Feature: distinguish between left and right ALT, SHIFT, CTRL key presses.
+ Feature: gzip-compression of demo files.
- Feature: dropped support for Quake1 and Quake2 maps.
- Feature: dropped support for bitmap fonts.
+ Improvement: entities with active events use distance-based server side culling (prevents fast moving players from suddenly appearing in POV).
+ Improvement: optimized cinematics playback by offloading YCbCr->RGB color-space conversion to the GPU.
+ Improvement: domain names for master servers are resolved asynchronously at startup to prevent slow or N/A DNS servers from blocking.
+ Improvement (Linux): updated input code to use XInput2.
+ Improvement (Linux): hint the window manager to bypass compositing in fullscreen mode.
+ Improvement: increased the maximum number of simultaneously loaded models, sounds and shaders.
+ Bugfix: fixed various audio/video synchronization issues with cinematics.
+ Bugfix: force vertical synchronization during playback of fullscreen cinematics.
+ Bugfix: resampled Ogg/Vorbis sounds had the looping position set to wrong value.
+ Bugfix: editing a democam or adding a new one doesn't break spline paths.

Maps:
+ Improvement: Revamped wdm2 visuals.
+ Improvement: Improved wdm12 lighting.
+ Bugfix: added missing clips to wbomb6.

Models:
+ Improvement: upgraded Jason Padpork player model.

Music:
+ Feature: Added 5 new tracks from Warsow OST.

Renderer:
+ Feature: moved renderer from the engine core to separate DLL.
+ Feature: rewritten rendering backend, GLSL2+-compatible.
+ Feature: GLSL shaders are now loaded from disk allowing customization and easing development.
+ Feature: added support for foliage surfaces and instanced rendering.
+ Feature: added 'soft particles' effect to explosions and halo shaders.
+ Feature: added FXAA support.
+ Feature: added RGB shadowmaps (fallback rendering path when GL_ARB_shadow extension isn't available).
+ Feature: added r_brightness cvar, useful for monitors that are too dark.
- Feature: removed planar stencil shadows.
- Feature: removed bloom.
- Feature: removed r_ignorehwgamma cvar and associated functionality.
- Feature: removed r_lighting_diffuse2heightmap cvar and associated functionality.
+ Improvement: Q3A shader commands previously processed on the CPU are now processed in vertex shaders on the GPU.
+ Improvement: optimized shadowmaps and changed them to use orthographic projection.
+ Improvement: added LOD support to shadowmaps (shadowmaps dynamically lower their resolution depending on the distance to the viewer).
+ Improvement: optimized VRAM footprint on modern GPUs for maps and models using half-precision floats.

Mapping:
+ Feature: added misc_video_speaker entity to steam synchronized samples from the nearby videomap shader with audio spatialization.
+ Feature: added func_timer entity.
+ Feature: added target_relay entity.
+ Feature: added target_delay entity.

HUD scripting:
+ Feature: new drawing commands: drawStringRepeat, drawStringRepeatConfigString
+ Feature: added new set of font commands: setFontFamily, setSpecialFontFamily, setFontSize and setFontStyle.
+ Feature: added #WEAP_INSTAGUN constant.
+ Improvement: improved scoreboard sorting (thanks hettoo).
+ Improvement: upgraded crosshair images to higher resolution (thanks adem).
- Feature: removed setFont command.
- Feature: removed %MATCH_TIME variable.

UI:
+ Feature: TAB-completion of player names in chat box.
+ Feature: added callvotes menu.
+ Feature: added "Watch on TV" button to chasecam menu.
+ Feature: Added Russian, Japanese, Frenсh, Polish, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Italian, Finnish localizations (language can be set manually with the “lang” console command).
+ Bugfix: fixed rare crash in server browser menu.

Console:
+ Feature: CTRL+MWHEEL up/down increases/decreases console font size.
+ Feature: added TAB-completion for "demo", "cinematic", "exec", "whois" and "stats" commands (thanks hettoo).
+ Feature: "imagelist" and "shaderlist" commands now accept glob pattern as an optional parameter.
+ Feature: CTRL+R now does bash-style command history search.
+ Feature: CTRL+C now works in Linux (thanks Kalhartt).

Gameplay:
+ Change: changed knockback from splash weapons from linear to quadratic and removed horizontal distance clamping.
+ Change: changed riotgun pattern from spiral to a more traditional one, with wider horizontal spread.
+ Feature: added cg_gun_alpha console variable to control gun opacity.
+ Feature: picked up items now leave ghost trails in warmup mode.
+ Feature: allow vote changing. The maximum number of changes is controlled with server console variable g_vote_maxchanges (thanks hettoo).
+ Feature: added opcall "specstotv" which moves spectators to connected TV servers.
+ Improvement: improved autojoin balancing (thanks hettoo).
+ Improvement: optimized AI code.
+ Improvement: default movement physics are now closer to old movement style
+ Bugfix: map rotation now considers the current map too (thanks hettoo).
+ Bugfix: maps were always missing one spawn indicator.
+ Bugfix: walljumps had direction bias (more obvious on larger maps).
+ Bugfix: removed silent bits from hit sounds (thanks adem).

SDK:
+ Feature: game modules are now C++ - compatible.
+ Feature: AngelScript 2.28.1.
+ Bugfix: fixed compilation with Clang.
+ Improvement: map models (prefabs) are now bundled with SDK.
- Improvement: C-compatibility layer removed from Angelwrap library.

Linux:
+ Change: downgraded to libpng 1.2.

Downloads: Windows installer, Linux+Windows, SDK, Torrent
Links: Warsow.net //

#warsow

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RUR 2v2 CPM QuickCup - May 6 (13 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by nineX @ 22:25 CDT, 1 May 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 6 May 2014 to 23:00 CDT, 6 May 2014
Schedule: Passed

After spending some time away from hosting competitive tournaments and working on a more refined tournament page layout, Ready Up Radio is proud to announce the 2v2 CPM QuickCup for May 2014. Tournament play will begin 19:00 CDT on May 6th.

IMPORTANT! - Please read

Details

When?

How to sign your team up?

Links:

#uscpmpickup, Brackets + Signup, Stream

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