Archive for February, 2012

As Wiskey asked to play 1/2 hour before our usual time, starting from this Thursday our weekly clan deathmatch will start at 20:30 CET (21:30 in Israel and Finland) instead of 21:00.

All clan members agreed to change the start time, and in particular JesseJames who wants to watch a football match on TV at 21:00. Hmm … for me two different games in an evening is too much. Jesse, you’ll probably end up dreaming something like this, when you’ll go to sleep:

A Specs-are-Flies production, by Biondo.
3D intro: Subject Name Here aka SNH.
Sounds: ERH, HerbertBoland, olive-yeah, prototipado, Pablo-F (www.freesound.org).
Made in: Blender, Cinelerra CV, Inkscape.

Please vote for servers/gametype/maps for next Thursday clan deathmatch.

@spi informs us about a planned power maintenance in the building that hosts the server for BallerBude, SpecialBude and Terra Nova on Friday 24 February 2012, from 16:00 till 18:00. For around 2 hours those SG servers will be unreachable.

I have an indecent proposal for our Thursday clan deathmatch of tonight: a game in TheUgly style. That exactly means “dyna only”, not “insults only”. 😉

The reason behind this is that I want to obtain a client crash in Terra Nova to debug SG beta’s random crashes.

Since it seems that crashes occur more frequently in crowded games, I tried adding a lot of bots to the map, but without being able to produce a crash. I’m starting to think that crashes occurs in crowded games, but only when someone is using dynamite. This is plausible since dynamite had a similar bug in past times.

I think you understand my proposal now: I need many players, using dyna. Possibly in a not so big map (Tijuana should fit very well the purpose).

Do yo agree to help me in crashing my client?

The second game of the deathmatch might be another Winnies’ fight in Greenhill Lake, or something totally different in another map.

In the meanwhile have fun with this 2 minutes short … “Ugly Thursday”!

Music by: Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)

Sounds by: Benboncan, Erdie, Nikolino, Robinhood76, Syna-Max, davidou, fonogeno, joedeshon, juskiddink, klankbeeld, schademans, shawshank73, simon.rue, soundscalpel.com (http://www.freesound.org/)

If you thought that what happened at Greenhill Lake on Thursday wasn’t strange enough, surely you will be shocked to hear the latest news about it.
The tenth man is not missing any more. The Police’s helicopters have discovered him, swimming over the trees, in a catatonic state.
He was found to be the one named Biondo. Questioned by the Police a few hours after the finding, Biondo claimed that, while in the middle of shooting, he was captured by The Big Wave, and instead of surfing he erroneously started to swim. He added that he wasn’t able to reach the ground again until the moment when he was rescued by the policemen, three days later.
Biondo will have to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, county court has ruled. The need for an evaluation has been triggered by widespread criticism of his story.

Here is an excerpt from the Police’s video footage taken from an helicopter.

Credits: SG News Broadcasting.

After having played our weekly deathmatches in Terra Nova for more than 8 months, it’s time to summarize which maps the clan enjoyed more. Not all matches were well documented, but 90% of them were. So, this is the chart for 45 games played, and the winner is … Tijuana, with a total of 16 games!