An Official SD Competition Mod + 1.5 News!

It’s a big night for IPX tonight. The boys have their first official GameArena ETQW ladder game!…But for a bit of side news, I thought I’d let you all know about the upcoming plans Splash Damage have in store for us. Here’s a snippet of badman’s latest blog update regarding news on the new modification:

If you’re not familiar with it, the main purpose of the mod is allow tournament organizers to easily implement and enforce specific rulesets. To that extent, we’ve stuffed quite a lot of cvar customization options in there and creating a new ruleset is as simple as putting the values you’d like to adjust in a config file on your server.
Barring any major international incidents, the beta will be released to the community at large within the coming days. We are hoping to squash any remaining stability issues and major bugs you might come across, so that the final version of the competition mod is in as a good a shape as it can be. To help out mod makers, we are also releasing the full competition mod source code at the same time as the beta – that way you can use bits and pieces of it in your own project, or add your own features to it.

And that wasn’t all, along with a fairly long list of features that the mod will include (no doubt as soon as this goes live we can expect major competitions like GameArena to start using it) badman also communicated what was in store with patch 1.5

With 1.4 out of the way, we are currently working on the next game update, and breaking with all known naming and moral conventions, we were thinking of code-naming it “1.5”. This is going to be a smaller release and fix the remaining issues that cropped up in 1.4, such as ranks not being displayed correctly and Personal Bests being tracked on a per-campaign basis rather than globally (those two issues are actually related).

Check out the full blog here, it’s well worth the read considering it will impact on us as clan players.

I’d just like to take another opportunity to wish the lads playing tonight all the best. It’s whipping time!!