So, Volume Two of the Future Balance Changes. We’ve recently updated with patches that have changed some balance items, and the community has responded with feedback. This list includes some direct responses to that feedback, as well as a very important issue close to several player’s hearts: Aggressive Recon.

Bolt action sniper rounds now have a chance to kill at close range if the player is hit in the upper chest.

Why are we making this change?
-Aggressive Recon was a popular (and controversial) play style in BFBC2, the fact that the playstyle is essentially not present in BF3 has been a disappointment to many players.
-The balance issues of BC2 (Magnum ammo increasing the 1 hit kill range) is not present in BF3, the range is set and cannot be improved by players. Additionally the 1 hit kill is not guaranteed in BF3, the target is small and can be blocked by the player’s arms.

Mornin,

So Wikipedia is blacking out their english database in protest of some new anti piracy laws being introduced in the United States.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-17/wikipedia-plans-24-hour-blac...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Begins in less then 17 hours from now. Just giving you all a heads up in case you don’t know

I don’t know the details of the piracy laws, but it’s probably bad in my opinion….

I’ll give a sh!t about piracy the day I see Michael Bay homeless and begging on the street.

Mornin,

So I just found out that theres been a new update for Minecraft, version 1.1.0 ( I presume the .0)

DO NOT UPDATE YOUR CLIENT YET. We will not be updating the IPX Server until the mods we used have been updated accordingly.

Minecraft 1.1

• Bow Enchantments
• New language translations.
• Sheep eat grass and regain their wool
• Added spawn eggs to creative (the colors of the eggs even look like the mobs)
• Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)
• Golden Apple recipe
• Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes
• Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
• Removed collision box from ladders
• Bug fixing