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Take this post with a grain of salt, but I reckon IPX has great potential, so i’ll impart some wisdom I learnt while in MaD.

Golden Rules of ETQW Scrims:

#1: Never lemming attack
This is defined as running into a situation that is unwinnable.
Examples:
a) Frontal assualts on heavy weapons (other than rocket) with no cover to protect yourself.
b) Letting the front line dissolve into reinforcement waves of 1 or 2 soldiers.
c) Attacking more than one enemy soldier without a wingman.
Solution: In these cases, if practical, respawn, and regroup. Never rush an enemy unless in a coordinated group. Use flanking and cover. Retreat if necessary, but only if firing back at the enemy. Work as a team. Report threats when practical, i.e. “Hyper Left flank bridge” when you spot the enemy not while the team is engaged shooting them. Maintain operational seperation. Maintain your formation!

#2: Never lemming objective

“Intel released the article ‘Quake Wars Gets Ray Traced’ (PDF) http://www.intelsoftwaregraphics.com/?lid=2224&siteid=32
which details the development efforts of the research team that applied a real-time ray tracer to
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars . It describes the benefits and challenges of transparency textures with this rendering technology.
Further insight is given into what special effects are most costly.
Examples of glass and a 3D water implementation are shown. The outlook hints into the area of freely programmable many-core processors, like Intel’s upcoming Larrabee, that might be able to handle such a workload.”

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/26/0336245

Many of you might not know that you can do some pretty cool things other than just watch yourself in a demo, so I will show you a pretty good config.

First, go in game and create a new player. Then quit.

Then, go to D:\Users\Kraizen\Documents\id Software\Enemy Territory – QUAKE Wars\sdnet\kraizen\etqwpro or your equivilent directory (if it doesnt exist create it in the new players profile)

Then create a file called autoexec.cfg

Then paste in the following and save and quit:
// GreasedScotsman’s Replay Config

//
// HUD Toggle
//
bind “MOUSE1” “toggle g_showHUD; toggle ui_showGun; com_showFPS 0” “ALT” “default”

//
// Demo Scale Controls
//
bind “KP_INS” “cvaradd demo_scale 1.0” “” “default”
bind “KP_DEL” “cvaradd demo_scale -1.0” “” “default”

bind “MWHEELUP” “cvaradd demo_scale 0.1” “CTRL” “default”
bind “MWHEELDOWN” “cvaradd demo_scale -0.1” “CTRL” “default”

bind “MOUSE1” “toggle demo_scale 10 1” “CTRL” “default”

ADA are keen for another get together, and Tuesday night looks like prime time for a friendly scrim.

No need to sign up, but if you aren’t exhausted from Monday night’s win (I’m assuming it’s a win ;) then it’d be great to see you all online.

What it is:
An GPL Open Source, free as in speech and free as in beer, application which supports high quality VOIP for gaming. It works cross plat form (Linux and Windows being the platforms of interest here) and allows us to utilise our own server to host the channel. After it is configured correctly, it will be able to automatically detect when you are speaking and transmit this across the channel, no holding down of buttons required. This provides us with a great alternative to Skype for games like Padman.

Grab the installation files here:
Windows: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mumble/Mumble-1.1.6.exe
Linux: Install via your favourite repository or grab the source and compile http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

To connect to the IPX Murmur server use the address: server.ipx.evolvingsoftware.com