New betas for all

http://community.enemyterritory.com/?q=node/238

Linked article details the “Competition Mod” beta and the 1.5 upgrade beta, just released.

The competition mod mainly adds new cvars to enable various “artificial” restrictions on the game in whatever way a tournament organiser decides. This will probably be a step up on the current system at GA (“Just don’t get in that desecrator!”), but I’m not sure if I trust them to balance the game well for a 6v6 match. We’ll see….

The 1.5 beta has some interesting changes:
* No more voice warning of enemy arty coming down on your head
* Fixed ranks above Supreme Commander displaying as ##### or emptyname ….. yeah, I was just gonna complain about that one
* Fixed the ‘Press F3 to Ready Up’ tooltip not always displaying – finally, it’s been annoying waiting for this in pubs, ppl should ready up quicker now
* Fixed exploit that allowed GDF to get past Strogg Energy Shields …. does this mean the “Outskirts” objective-skipping is gone?
* Fixed being able to complete certain objectives at a distance… wish I knew about this one earlier
* Fixed the ‘Aborting Bombardment’ VO not playing when the Airstrike/Violator beacon is in an invalid location… another annoyance gone

And “Known issues”
* The game will not start for users running the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta

This beta probably won’t be running on many (if any) public servers, so I’m probably not going to install.

Weird how they are beta-ing this update, but no others.