nVidia 81.85 ForceWare Drivers

81.85_forceware_winxp2k_english_whql.exe     new

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Foxxxtracker 10/23/05 14:37 hours

1.80 Full Patch 252 MB      new

Live Patch Notes Disclaimer: While we make every effort to include all upcoming changes in our patch notes, please be aware that occasionally some changes are unintentionally omitted.

Patch 1.8 Changes

Disturbance at the Great Trees

Something is amiss in the Emerald Dream. Immense dragons with the shimmering emerald scales of the Green Dragonflight have been sighted guarding the portals at the Great Trees... but these once-noble creatures crawl with a new, strange menace, not the peace for which Ysera is known. Bring many allies should you dare to confront them; their powers are formidable and they will not hesitate to crush any who draw near.

The Stirring of the Silithid

The arid sands of Silithus are shifting. Something is awakening beyond the wall to the south... Aid the Druids of the Cenarion Circle as they delve into the mysteries of the desert. Seek answers behind the Twilight Hammer's presence. Discover more about the alien creatures known as the Silithid as you explore their hives. Many new endeavors await the high-level adventurer!

Hallow's End

When the decorations of Hallow's End light up Azeroth's cities, you know there's mischief afoot! Seek special vendors in Orgrimmar or Ironforge and get your hands on treats! Aid a sick orphan in a little trick-or-treating! Deathcaller Yanka, attending the Forsaken's Wickerman Festival, and Sergeant Hartman of Southshore are seeking your aid in keeping the enemy out of their holiday affairs -- are you up to the challenge?

General

• Instant Attacks

  The mechanics of most instant melee attacks have been modified to improve item balance. Previously, instant melee attacks did damage based on the damage range of the weapon, plus a bonus for the player's attack power. This bonus was then multiplied by the speed of the weapon. As a result, slow weapons did more damage than was intended, and fast weapons were considered inferior by most players. We have changed the way the attack power bonus is calculated for instant attacks. This change does NOT affect attack power calculations for normal melee attacks. Instead of multiplying by the speed of the weapon, the attack power bonus is now multiplied by a fixed number pulled from the following table:
   

  • Two-handed weapons: 3.3

  • Daggers: 1.7

  • All other one-handed weapons: 2.4

  As a direct result of this, many weapons have shifted position in their relative power. In particular, many Epic (purple) quality items are now more powerful than slower Superior (blue) weapons.
  This change was not made to reduce the power of instant attacks, but to correct the relative imbalance of weapon itemization. At a given level requirement, epic quality weapons should always be more powerful than superior quality weapons.
  Please also note that all normal weapon swings will be completely unaffected by this change. The following abilities are affected by the design change: Sinister Strike, Ambush, Backstab, Whirlwind, Mortal Strike, and Overpower.
   

• The cost per point of durability to repair plate, chain, and leather items has been reduced to be equal to the cost of repairing cloth items of the same quality.

• You can now repurchase up to 12 items that you have sold to a vendor. There is now a buyback tab on all merchants that you can select to repurchase the last 12 items you sold since you last logged in. When your character leaves the game, this list of items will be cleared, so if you have accidentally sold something, don�t wait to buy it back. Buy it back immediately.

• Perception (Human Racial) is now usable while stealthed.

• There is now a spell effect when you increase your reputation to a new level.

• The loading screen upon login now displays gameplay tips.

• Channeled spells that are cancelled by movement can no longer be cast while moving.

• Fixed bug where the debuff Tetanus was reducing stamina by one more than it should.

• Pets no longer break off attacks when their target is affected by Warlock Fear.

• The "Knockout" mechanic has been renamed "Disorient" and all tooltips that referenced this mechanic should be updated.

PvP

• Honor System

  • The percentage of players that may reach ranks 6 through 14 has been increased.

  • Lower-level players should advance in the Honor System more quickly than they had previously (although this change does not affect the highest ranks they can achieve).

• Battlegrounds

  • Each Battleground has an individual turn-in quest associated with its related victory/loss condition. Upon completion of a Battleground, the winning side will be awarded three Marks of Honor while the losing side will be awarded one Mark of Honor. Three Marks of Honor may be turned in to the associated questgiver for Honor Points and faction increase. Should players complete this turn-in quest, they will find that the bonus Honor Points for completion are twice that of normal turn-in conditions (individual).

  • Players of levels 10 - 19 will now be able to participate in the battle for Warsong Gulch.

  • Alterac Valley has received an overhaul:

    • In order to keep teams in Alterac Valley more numerically balanced, players will now enter Alterac Valley on a one-for-one basis (i.e. if there are 30 players in the battleground for each side with 10 players in the Alliance queue and 2 players in the Horde queue, only two players from each team will be added, bringing the total to 32 per side).

    • The minimum number of players required to start a battle in Alterac Valley has been lowered to 20 (the maximum is still 40).

    • Points for completing the map and winning have been slightly decreased.

    • Graveyards and graveyard capture points are now at different locations. This was done to correct the negative behavior and tactics associated with graveyard captures and the subsequent player swarming factor. Graveyards should be much more meaningful now to both defense and offense.

    • Several terrain changes were made to fix some geometry exploits as well as to adjust for the new graveyard mechanic.

    • Iceblood Graveyard has been fortified.

    • The Frostwolf Relief Hut now has appropriate guards.

    • A great avalanche has closed off both the eastern and western segments of Alterac Valley. This has displaced the Syndicate, the Woodpaw Gnolls, and many of the Winterax Trolls.

    • Due to the avalanche, Korrak the Bloodrager and a small band of surviving Trolls have made the Snowfall Graveyard their new home. Players will find that Snowfall is now under Korrak's control and they must defeat Korrak and his Troll guards if they wish to take Snowfall.

    • The quests Korrak the Bloodrager (Alliance), Korrak the Everliving (Alliance), The Legend of Korrak (Horde), and The Return of Korrak (Horde) have been removed from the game. The rewards for the initial quest involving Korrak have been moved and can be acquired by completing the quest associated with winning a match in Alterac Valley. We realize that some players may have had the Korrak quest and never completed it. These players may have already completed the quest for killing the General and thus might not be able to benefit from the rewards from the previous quest line. We have opted to add an extra quest step at the end of the General kill quests to reward players that fall under such conditions.

    • A new item has been added as one of the reward choices for the quests Hero of the Stormpike and Hero of the Frostwolf.

    • NPC difficulty has been scaled down. All NPCs have had their power reduced by 15-30%.

    • There is now a portcullis at the end of each of the entrance tunnels inside Alterac Valley. They will rise two minutes into the battle.

• The PvP Tier2 Alliance and Horde Cloth armor sets have new updated textures.

Druids

• Due to significant talent changes, talent points for Druids have been refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent spell/ability replacements have been significantly reduced.

• Hurricane - No longer a talent. Now available to all Druids at level 40. Damage and Mana cost increased on all ranks. Spell is now cast on a targeted area up to 30 yards away and affected by Nature�s Reach. Multiple Druids casting Hurricane will no longer stack the slowdown effect. Radius of effect decreased slightly.

• Remove Curse - Updated tooltip to reflect that it's usable on friendly targets only.

• Shapeshifting - Fixed a bug where the Chilled effect caused by Ice Armor/Frost Armor was not removed properly when shapeshifting.

• Swipe - Self cooldown removed.

• Tranquility - Cooldown reduced to 5 minutes. Mana cost reduced by 25%.

• Cat Form - The attack power bonus from the base cat form will now calculate correctly on zoning or logging in.

Hunters

• Counterattack - Now properly sets its cooldown.

• Throw - Use of this ability will no longer cause a global cooldown with all other abilities.

• Auto-shot is now cancelled when you die.

• Added Lightning Breath pet ability for Wind Serpents. This ability instantly hits a single target for Nature damage at medium range.

Mages

• Arcane Missiles - Should now properly report the correct "out of range" indicator on the action bar.

Paladins

• Judgement of Light and Judgement of Wisdom will now benefit players that are immune to Holy effects (e.g. Divine Shield).

Priests

• Psychic Scream - Updated tooltip to reflect that damage caused to the feared target may break the effect. Included radius in tooltip.

• Devouring Plague (Undead) - Will now properly consume the Inner Focus effect when cast.

• Shadowguard (Troll) - Tooltip updated to reflect actual functionality.

• Elune's Grace (Night Elf) - New icon.

Rogues

• Vanish - Fixed a bug where the Chilled effect caused by Ice Armor/Frost Armor was not removed properly when vanishing.

• Parry - Minimum level to train this ability has been lowered to 12.

• Blade Flurry - This ability will now trigger correctly off of special attacks such as Sinister Strike and Kick.

• Shoot Bow/Crossbow/Gun - Fixed a bug where these abilities could be used faster than intended.

• Throw - Use of this ability will now only cause a cooldown with Shoot abilities.

• Ambush - Now uses normalized attack power.

• Backstab - Now uses normalized attack power.

• Riposte - Now properly sets its cooldown.

• Sinister Strike - Now uses normalized attack power.

Shaman

• Lightning Shield - Tooltip updated to reflect actual functionality.

• Ghost Wolf - Will now correctly have its cast time reduced by Nature's Swiftness.

Warlocks

• Death Coil - Cooldown reduced, mana cost increased, and now causes a short Fear effect that is not diminished.

• Corruption - Duration reduced and damage per tick increased. Total damage over duration approximately identical.

• Curse of Agony - Duration reduced to 24 seconds and damage per tick increased. Total damage over duration approximately identical.

• Conflagrate - Conflagrate will now correctly remove Immolate rank 4 from its victim when cast.

• Bane - Now reduces casting time of the Soul Fire and Hellfire spells in addition to Immolate and Shadow Bolt.

• Intensity - Now reduces chance to be interrupted during cast time of Rain of Fire, Hellfire and Soul Fire spells.

• Pyroclasm - Now gives a chance to stun when Rain of Fire, Hellfire, and Soul Fire spells damage the target.

• Soul Link - Percentage of damage split with pet has been reduced.

• Ruin - Critical damage bonus reduced.

• Summon Felhunter - Has a new, unique sound effect.

• Improved Drain Mana - Damage caused by this talent will now cause 150% damage instead of 200% damage, which is now consistent with other damage spells.

• Lesser Invisibility (Succubus) - Tooltip updated to reflect actual functionality.

• Fixed a bug that would cause the Master Demonologist buff to be removed if the pet was banished.

Warriors

• Concussion Blow - Will now initiate combat when used.

• Shoot Bow/Crossbow/Gun - Fixed a bug where these abilities could be used faster than intended.

• Throw - Use of this ability will now only cause a cooldown with Shoot abilities.

• Mortal Strike - Now uses normalized attack power.

• Overpower - Now uses normalized attack power.

• Whirlwind - Now uses normalized attack power.

• Warriors can immediately charge after using trinkets to remove immobilizing effects.

• Camera angles when using Charge should be improved.

Items

• Items which provide +hit chance will now be allowed to counteract the increased miss chance penalty of dual-wielding.

• The 5-piece set bonus for the Warrior's Wrath set now works with Whirlwind and Retaliation.

• The 5-piece set bonus for the Druid's Stormrage set now properly displays the reduction in casting time.

• The Cenarion Druid set bonus that improves Thorns damage now properly works when Thorns is cast on other players.

• Anathema, Benediction, Thunderstrike, and Shadowstrike will now remember the enchantments and durability data they possessed when they transform.

• The ability to transform Rhok'delar and Lok'delar has been removed, but you can talk to Vartrus the Ancient to receive the item you currently don't possess.

• The Drape of Benediction had the statistics and effects of a Superior quality item, but was an Epic item. The item has been improved to have the proper Epic stats.

• The effect of the Admiral's Hat has been changed. You can now click the Admiral's Hat to provide yourself with an aura that gives you and your nearby party members a stamina increase. Taking the hat off will remove the effect. The Headmaster's Charge item has also been changed in a similar manner.

• Shard of the Flame and Shard of the Scale are now unique.

• Rod of Resurgence now heals more health over time.

• The Puncture Armor ability found on the Rivenspike, Bashguuder, Digmaster 5000, and Vibroblade will no longer stack with Faerie Fire.

• Chromatic Gauntlets no longer has a listed Holy Resistance bonus, since there is no actual Holy Resistance.

• Ring of Binding and Blade of Eternal Darkness now have appropriate minimum levels.

• Demonic Rune has been changed to a Good (green) item so it will display the bind on pickup dialogue when looted.

• Invulnerability will no longer protect you from a Demonic Rune.

• Deviate Fish changed to appear in the Trade Goods section of the Auction House.

• Jadefire Pants texture fixed.

• The icon for Flash Powder has been changed.

• Shredder Operating Manual pages will no longer drop for the Alliance.

• Gurubashi Helm now properly hides long hair.

• The Sheen of Zanza has a tooltip typo fixed.

Professions

• There is now Silithid armor that can be made by leatherworkers. The recipes require Cenarion Circle faction to learn.

• Additional Tailoring and Blacksmithing recipes can be found in encoded messages found on the members of the Twilight's Hammer in Silithus.

• Two additional pieces of Dragonscale Leatherworking were added to the Dragonscale Leatherworking Trainer.

• A Dragonscale Recipe has been added that requires killing the great Green Dragons.

• The Blue, Green, and Black Dragonscale Leatherworking Armor pieces are now parts of sets and have set bonuses so they should be significantly more desirable.

• Green Dragonscale Armor has slightly reduced spirit and now has a stamina component.

• Ironfeather Armor set bonus has been improved.

• Leatherworking item Murloc Scale Belt improved.

• Leatherworking pattern for Black Whelp Tunic added to vendor in Redridge Mountains.

• All Wild Leather patterns for Leatherworking are now bind on acquire.

• All Wild Leather patterns for Leatherworking no longer have cash value with vendors.

• Enchanter-made wands are now Good (green) quality and have had their damage increased.

• The minimum level for the Artisan First Aid, Artisan Fishing, and Artisan Cooking quest lines has been lowered to 35.

• Water Breathing potions will no longer be overwritten by Shaman and Warlock Water Breathing spells if the potion has a longer duration.

• The Pet Healing effect of the Robe of the Void has been improved.

• Expert Alchemy requires 125 skill now instead of 100 skill.

• Free Action Potion text changed to clearly indicate that the potion is not retroactive. No actual change was made other than the text.

• Gnomish Mind Control Cap - Is now subject to diminishing returns in the Charm category.

• Blindweed has been increased in size, making it easier to see.

Quests

• Added level 50 class quests for the Warrior, Shaman, Paladin, and Warlock. Trainers in the major cities will let you know where to start your quest.

• A few new quests have been added in Tanaris. Head over to Steamwheedle Port to see if you can help out.

• The Rin'ji's Secret quest line now has an ending and reward. If you previously finished the Rin'ji's Secret quest out of The Hinterlands, speak with Oran Snakewrithe in the Magic Quarter of the Undercity and select the Oran's Gratitude quest.

• The following repeatable quests have had their levels increased to 55: Morrowgrain to Darnassus, Morrowgrain to Feathermoon Stronghold, and Morrowgrain to Thunder Bluff. The net result of this change is that level 56+ characters will notice an increased amount of reputation when turning in Morrowgrain.

• The Thistlewood Axe will no longer be an available option as a quest reward for the Webwood Venom quest.

• The level 30 Mage class quest rewards are now Superior (blue) quality.

Raids and Dungeons

• Azuregos is now properly resistant to Frost damage.

• If you are in front of Chromaggus and can hit him with spells, his breath attack will hit you.

• Razorgore now has the ability to summon players to him if he cannot reach them for a time.

• Fixed a bug that was causing Broodlord Lashlayer to do less damage than intended with his Mortal Strike.

• Fixed a bug that would cause the debuff "Burning Adrenaline" to be able to be removed if enough other debuffs were applied to the target.

• Fixed erratic taunt behavior for Ebonroc, Firemaw, and Flamegot in Blackwing Lair.

• You now receive Core Leather when you skin Magmadar.

• Fixed a bug that would cause High Priestess Jeklik to not be able to summon Frenzied Bloodseeker Bats.

• Fixed a bug that would allow Hakkar's Corrupted Blood ability to target pets.

User Interface

• To speed up game loading and reduce memory usage, several portions of the UI have been converted to add-ons. These are completely transparent to the player, but custom add-ons may need to be updated.

• You can now search for random suffixes such as "of the Monkey" in the Auction House.

• Items that are in your action bar and are equipped will now display a green border around them so it's easy to tell which of your action bar items are equipped and therefore usable.

• The Reputation tab will now display on mouseover exactly how many reputation points you need to attain the next reputation level with that faction.

• When you gain reputation, the combat log message will now display the numeric value of how much reputation you gained as well as the previous relative message.

• There is now an option in the interface window to put a translucent pane behind the portraits and health/mana of other party members for easier visibility.

• When you place an auction up on the Auction House, the auctions tab now displays your minimum bid and buyout price even if there are no bids on the item.

• Players should no longer miss loot rolling messages when they're outside of the immediate area.

World Environment

• The flight paths in Silithus have been moved from Valor's Rest to the new Cenarion Hold. Characters that previously discovered the Valor's Rest flight path will be treated as having discovered the Cenarion Hold flight path.

• A neutral graveyard has been added to Silithus at Cenarion Hold. With the addition of this graveyard, characters dying in Silithus will be sent to whichever graveyard they are closer to when they die: Valor's Rest or Cenarion Hold.

• Killing Twilight�s Hammer and Silithid enemies in Silithus now awards reputation increases with the Cenarion Circle. You may increase your faction to the middle of Friendly with non-elite mobs and to the middle of Honored with elites.

• Flamekin Imps (Ragers, Spitters and Sprites) in the Burning Steppes now drop Elemental Fire.

• A new weapon merchant who can also repair durability damage on items has moved in to Talonbranch Glade in Felwood.

• The Silithus area map has been modified and its scale has changed.

• Modifications were made to several areas of Azeroth so that the undiscovered areas of the map are revealed easier.

• The Woodpaw Hills sub-area of Feralas now properly grants discovery experience when you enter it for the first time.

• Brackenwall Village now has an arrow on the minimap that points to it when you get within range.

• Sayge�s buffs at the Darkmoon Faire are now exclusive to one another.

• Due to popular demand the general goods vendor in Undercity now sells Morning Glory Dew.

• All graveyards that needed adjustment were changed so that a character's spirit comes into the world facing toward the Spirit Healer.

Bug Fixes

• You no longer become stuck and unable to loot if you try to open clams and chests while you are a ghost.

• Fixed bug where players would get stuck in the falling animation if they cast an instant-cast spell while jumping.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 10/11/05 12:58 hours

Back to Basics, back to DC

Well, I'm making a decision,

NO MORE BF2 at =SS1=

After playing the incredibly huge pile of shit again, and having it crash to desktop on me in the first 2 minutes, I have decided that I'm done with BF2. We do not have enough active members playing BF2 to support having it either. Everyone here is either playing DC, WoW, or DOD:S, I can no longer see a reason to support a game that has totally let the community down.

Clan members need to contact me about this ASAP, as this will obviously affect the future of the clan.

=SS1= will look very hard at Desert Conflict when it is released to see if its going to be a good enough mod to overcome the massive shortcomings of the BF2 base game. If it does not do this, I believe =SS1='s involvement with the Battlefield franchise has meet its end. We will continue to host a DC/DCF server for BF1942, its even possible that I may load up a BFV server for the hell of it on occasion. But after the absolute lack luster performance of a woefully inadequate and far to late patch I feel its time we moved on.

BF2 is broken, and I don't want to wait for EA to let DICE fix it. EA is far more concerned with releasing an expansion pack for this turd than they are fixing it. They have made it very difficult foe the modding and mapping community to create and release and usable content, and I don't see that they are going to make it any easier on them anytime soon.

I may continue to host a BF2 server for the time being, but it will not be managed the same way it has been in the past. I am not going to put the time and effort into it that I had been, I will be focusing more on other games.

 For starters, Desert Combat will again be,  our primary Battlefield Division at =SS1= until the release of Desert Conflict. If Desert Conflict turns out to be a worth while mod,  then the clan will move over to it. If Desert Conflict does not live up to our expectations, DC/DCF will remain the as it is until we close our doors.

I am very pleased with the way Day of Defeat : Source has turned out and will be putting more time and effort into that server. If you do not have this game yet and you like fps'ers then I highly recommend you get it, it simply kicks as. At least the people at Valve® to give a shit about their customer and fan base and genuinely want to see high quality content released. In order to maintain the image they have so richly earned and deserve for creating the best fps'ers of all time in Half-Life and Half-Life 2. DoD:S is yet another example from them of what hard work and zero compromise on quality will get you.

EA/DICE SHOULD TAKE A FEW LESSONS FROM THEM

I am also very much looking forward to F.E.A.R. and its multiplayer aspects. They are offering dedicated server software to the public and I will be giving it a try when the full retail game is released.

DAMN THE MAN, SAVE THE EMPIRE!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 10/04/05 16:36 hours

Battlefield 2 Patch v 1.03     new

Patch v1.03

NEW FEATURES
 
 - Wake Island Map
 
        Included a remade version of this popular BF1942 map. 
        Battlefield 2 version includes a 64 player layout and is
        configured for multiplayer only.
 
 - Server Favorites / History
 
        There is a new tab in the MULTIPLAYER menu that holds a list of
        the last 20 internet servers you have connected to, plus a list
        of servers you have selected as favorites.
 
        * Added a button to the other multiplayer tabs that adds the
          currently highlighted server to your favorites list.
        * Added buttons in the in-game server info menu (press TAB to
          access) that will add or remove the server you are currently
          playing on to / from your favorites list.
 
 - Account Login Welcome Screen
 
        After you login to an online account, a message appears that
        contains BF2 news and information which updates periodically.
 
 - Stat Compare
 
        By clicking the COMPARE button in BFHQ, you can search for another
        players name and load their current stats into BFHQ.  Using the
        arrow buttons next to the name in the top-left corner of the menu,
        you can toggle between your stats and their stats.
 
        You can also load a player's stats by double-clicking on their
        name in any leaderboard.
 
 - Nickname Prefix
 
        You can add a 6-character prefix (such as a clan tag) to your
        account nickname which will be displayed in-game next to your
        nametag in the score menu, in game messages, and above your player
        in the game world.
 
        * This prefix does not change your account name or statistic
        information (e.g. the prefix does not appear next to your name
        on the leaderboards).
        * You can change this prefix at any time at the account login
        menu.
 
 - Server Reserved Slots
 
        You can define a list of player nicknames that will act as a
        "reservation list" for your server.
 
        * The list is located in mods\bf2\settings\ReservedSlots.con
        * You can add player names to the list by editing the file and
          adding the following text for each player :
 
                reservedSlots.addNick <account name>
 
          where <account name> is the player's registered account name,
          not including a nickname prefix (see above).
        * You can define the number of slots to set aside for reserved
          players in the dedicated server launcher, or with the setting
          sv.numReservedSlots <number> in your serverSettings.con file.
        * The number of players on the list and the number of reserved
          slots does not necessarily have to be the same.
 
 - Mod Support
 
        There are several new changes that improve support for mods.
 
        * When connecting to a server that is running a mod that you have
          installed but not activated, it will be automatically activated
          and you will load into the server.
        * Added a filter on the server browser for servers running the
          currently activated mod.
        * Fixed dedicated server launcher to properly handle launching mods.
        * Improved support for mods sharing archives with bf2
 
 - Improvements to in-game HUD / Map
 
        * The viewable area of the spawn menu / commander map is now scaled
          based on the out-of-bounds area so that only the playable area
          takes up the majority of viewable map space.
        * The names of CPs are now displayed on the spawn menu / commander
          map and minimap
        * The minimap zoom level now changes dynamically depending on the
          type of vehicle you are in.  If you zoom in or out manually, that
          zoom level is remembered for that vehicle type next time you use
          it.
        * The names of players in your vehicle are displayed in the HUD
          when someone enters the vehicle or switches positions.
        * There is a new element in vehicle HUDs that displays the reload
          time for countermeasures (smoke and flares).
        * Flags for each team are now displayed below their ticket count
          on the minimap to make it easier to tell what team you are assigned to.
 
 
GAMEPLAY CHANGES
 
 - Many criteria for ranks and awards have changed.  If you are immediately
   eligible for a new promotion, unlock, badge, award, or ribbon, it will
   be awarded the next time you receive points on a ranked server.
 - Only 1 player in a vehicle will get credit for or speed up capturing
   a flag at a CP.  The other passengers must exit the vehicle to increase
   the speed of capture or receive capture score.
 - Commanders no longer accrue a TK when artillery hits
   teammates.  
 - The commander's supply drop now has an icon on the minimap and a 3D-
   map icon in the world.
 - Auto team balance no longer moves players to the other team if they
   are a team commander or a squad leader.
 - The wrench repair rate on helicopters has been decreased.
 - You now receive 1 support point for destroying an enemy commander's
   artillery, UAV or Radar station.
 - If you have received a point for healing, repairing, or resupplying
   a teammate, you will not receive another point from them for the same
   action for a set period of time.
 - Singleplayer enemies use the knife more effectively.
 - New engine sounds for the T98 tank.
 - New engine sounds for the China/MEC light jeep.
 - New cannon sounds on APCs.
 
       
BUG FIXES
 
 - Fixed physics of vehicles against soldiers so that soldiers are not
   killed so easily by moving vehicles.
 - Fixed a physics issue that can cause you to be stuck when falling into
   shallow water
 - Fixed an issue with soldier armor when spawning on a squad leader in a
   vehicle
 - Fixed some objects that caused vehicles to take massive collision damage
 - Fixed erroneous message stating that you punished a TK when auto-
   punish is OFF on the server.
 - When a vehicle explodes due to external forces, the driver is no longer
   mis-credited for the kills.
 - Added turret movement sounds to several vehicles.
 - Fixed an issue that caused crosshairs to stay on the screen when
   switching camera views.
 - Fixed an issue that caused the time limit status of the server not to be
   sent to clients when it is changed by the server.
 - Fixed server setting sv.allowExternalViews.  Setting this to 0 will
   disallow external views.
 - Added setting for interfaceIP to the server launcher
 - Changed automatic TK banning to ban by cd-key instead of IP address
 - Improved the stability of secondary position turrets to reduce jerkiness
   during movement.
 - Fixed spawning on squad leaders to prevent players from spawning where
   they should not.
 - Fixed issue with auto team balance not sending new players to the team
   with less players.
 - Set T90 top hatch armor to "Front Armor".
 - Set some wheels on jets and helpcopters to stronger armor to prevent
   them from being destroyed instantly by AT missiles.
 - Adjusted wheeled vehicle engines on hills to improve climbing.
 - Changed the Commo-rose behavior so that player does not leave crouch
   when using it.
 - Passwords entered to join password protected servers are now cleared
   after use.
 - Improved PLAY NOW functionality.
 - Fixed some memory usage issues in the front end.
 - Fixed an issue allowing color changes in player name text.
 - When you click on a server in the server browser, the information
   from that server is updated to be more accurate.
 - Fixed a crash in the Ranked Linux server when communication with stats
   back-end ceased.
 - Improved the behavior of AA missiles when locked on an enemy.
 - Fixed an issue where parachuting soldiers could not be healed.
 - Added the server port to the SERVER INFO tab.
 - Removed the SERVER INFO tab when playing singleplayer
 - Fixed an issue causing some soldier & vehicle control keys to be used
   for in-game menus.
 - Added new soldier artwork in BFHQ
 - Added name of video director to credits

---

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 10/04/05 09:50 hours

Did someone say Desert Combat?

So, your going to reload DC and you need the shit to do it!, well follow the list from top to bottom, and you'll have everything you need.

First install your base game then install the following in order from #1 to #4

1. Battlefield 1942 patch v1.6.19 full
    

2. Battlefield Incremental Patch v1.61b.exe
    

3. DC v0.7 Client
    

4. DC Final Client for Windows 
    

5. PBweb

Once you got that you have the base for playing DC and DCF, We also have a few custom maps that we play on =SS1= made by our very own 1/9AirCav. Fell free to download them and play them as well!

=SS1=1/9AirCav Map Pack

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 09/30/05 20:06 hours

F.E.A.R.

FIRST ENCOUNTER ASSAULT RECON

Do you know the true meaning of F.E.A.R.? Play this amazing multi-player demo and you'll find out soon enough.

F.E.A.R. Multiplayer Demo     new

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 09/29/05 14:45 hours

Desert Conflict Promotional Video

Click here to view from site.

Download in .zip format, with extras.

Desert Conflict Promo001.zip     36.2 MB

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 09/18/05 12:36 hours

Desert Combat Final

A return to basics, I have decided after feeling somewhat nostalgic, to put our DCF server back online. Had an old friend that used to play DC with us stop by and inquire about our status as a DC clan, and I figured what the hell. The BF2 server is still up and running, no need to worry about that. It just has its older brother running along side him on the same box. This server is also running as a Punks Busted, so here is the server info, and we'll see you on the Battlefield!

32 players

Full Rotation of Conquest and CTF Maps

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 08/31/05 22:37 hours

=SS1= has UNLOCKED WEAPONS for BF2 again!

Through the modern miracles of the h4x0r mentality, I have acquired the knowledge on how to make our server unlocked again! Not sure exactly how long this will last, but we have it for now. So enjoy it!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 08/25/05 14:50 hours

Aeon Flux

Maybe some of you remember back several years to an odd little animation series on MTV Called Aeon Flux. Well, I sure do, it was weird as hell and equally as cool. Well, the good folks over at MTV have decided to turn this little gem into an actually movie. They got Charlize Theron to play the role of the super spy Aeon Flux, and when is she not absolutely freakn' hot!.

I got the trailer here for you check out, its pretty cool. Its in Apple QuickTime format so you'll need it to watch it. If you don't have QuickTime you can download it here.

QuickTimeInstaller.exe

You can also download the trailer in a .zip format here.

aeon_flux_m480.zip

Enjoy!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 08/23/05 02:39 hours

Half-Life 2 - Aftermath

Download in .zip (47.3 MB)

View now in .avi (125 MB)

This is the first trailer released for Half-Life 2: Aftermath, the anticipated add-on to Half-Life 2. The expansion takes place right after the events in HL2, and you and Alyx will flee from City 17, fighting against creatures who were previous blocked from entering the city. The video clip is 34 seconds long.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 08/19/05 15:28 hours

BF2 1.03 Patch Update Progress

In this space about a month ago, EA and DICE listed many of the feature tweaks and updates that are pending for the 1.03 Update. In order to address the key issues as quickly as possible, we set an aggressive release date for the end of August. Unfortunately, as we approach the end of this month, it has become apparent that we will not meet this goal, and we wanted to keep you abreast of our progress. We are committed to making the 1.03 Update as comprehensive as possible, so while it is important to us to keep the release date, it is more important that we take the time to do this right. We will avoid committing to another date, but know that our goal is to get 1.03 out to you as soon as we’re certain it will deliver what we know you’re all hoping for. Keep fighting soldiers, the 1.03 Update is coming!

Imagine that, we don't get a patch, heaven forbid they release a working game, oh no, lets keep it a BETA for an undetermined amount of time.

These people should be politicians.......

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 08/19/05 13:14 hours

=SS1= now has Active BF2 server

=SS1= has rejoined the BF2 community.

 Due to recent bandwidth tests, and the good results which I have gotten from them, we once again have a BF2 server up and running.

=SS1=

new 207.254.23.17 new

I would really appreciate some feedback from the public on what they would like to see on this server. To give your opinions please register in our forums and post in the public BF2 forum. Please keep your comments focused on the following options:

• Which maps you want to see in the rotation.

• How many rounds.

• Round time limit.

• Ticket count: 100%, 150% or 200%.

• What size maps: 16 (small), 32 (medium) or 64 (large) player.

• Maximum number of players: 16, 24, 32, 48, or 64.

I would also like to announce that as soon as Desert Conflict is released we will be a mirror for the client and the server. We will also be changing our present BF2 server over to a Desert Conflict server at that time as well.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 08/18/05 02:26 hours

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 08/14/05 16:40 hours

New Web Server

I am happy to announce that I have successfully transferred the website over to a new machine. This new machine is a 2.6 GHz Celeron on a socket 478 die platform. The new server also has 1GB of PC 2700 DDR RAM. This machine is one of our old BF2 servers, (The Black Box). I am also happy to report that this puppy hallz ballz and is allot nicer to work with than the old PII 450MHz machine that we were running. Everyone should notice a decrease in load times, and I'm hoping an increase in download speeds as well.

At any rate just wanted to let everyone know what was going on.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 12/08/05 00:08 hours

Massive Overhaul

Due to a total lack of use and the severe need to upgrade many parts of the site. I have decided to take down the forums and VWar in order to perform some much needed maintenance. These changes are primarily in regards to the version of php, MySQL, phpBB forums and VWar that are currently in use.

For starters the site will be moved to a new machine. In the mean time, the site will remain as it is.  Once the site is back up personnel will need to re-register in the forums.

We will be starting over from scratch! See you soon.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Foxxxtracker 08/08/05 04:19 hours

Thank You for your donation

"=SS1=Spectre"

=SS1= would like to thank =SS1=Spectre for his generous donation to the clan through PayPal.  It is through the continued support of persons such as yourself that make this clan and its services a reality.

Thanx, you ROXXX!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 08/05/05 17:00 hours

Battlefield 2 MOD Editor (Open Beta)

[DOWNLOAD NOW - 49.3MB]

Battlefield 2 Editor Open Beta Release!
EA and DICE are pleased to announce that today, after two weeks of Closed Beta testing, we are releasing the first public version of the Battlefield 2 editor! Over the last couple of days you've probably seen some of the outstanding work that the Closed Beta teams have created using the tools, and now we're giving everyone else the chance to join the fun. Keep in mind that we are considering this release "Beta" software, so it’s still a little rough around the edges, though we’ve worked out many of the kinks. Also, though most core functionality is editable as of this release, there are several more advanced areas of the tools that are still being worked on. One example of of a tool to be delivered in a future update is the Single Player Editor.

Also worth noting is that the current Battlefield 2 Dedicated Server files are not yet compatible with Mods. DICE is already working on a fix for the Dedicated Server files that will be included with the 1.03 patch. In the meantime, this will not prevent Mods from being tested over the Internet entirely. For testing purposes, Mod Teams can still create a non-dedicated server game through the regular in-game multiplayer interface that will allow anyone to connect to your game, either locally or over the net, provided that the rest of the team connects by IP .

In the days ahead we will be announcing the Official Battlefield 2 Mods home page, which I will be very proud to make my "home". Our intent for this page is to make it "the" place for mod teams and mappers and community members to gather and exchange help, problem reports and feature requests regarding all facets of BF2 Editing. The site will also host the BF2 Editor manual, my editing tutorials, and a repository for community editing guides. We are also excited to be able to offer a variety of forums for new or established modders, mod team showcases and support. The site will also stand as a centralized source for downloading mods and maps as they are presented to the community. I'll be providing more information on this as we get closer to launch. For now, I invite everyone to join in the temporary forums we started for closed-beta testing. These will be maintained until the official site is up. There are a lot of great guys there that would be happy to share their experiences with you and get you going. To join, just go to forums and register.

Whether you’re new to the Battlefield experience or a seasoned modder, I invite everyone to download and try out the tools and I hope the accompanying documentation proves helpful for any and all. Happy Modding!

-Lawrence Brown
-Battlefield Mod Coordinator
[email protected]

That will be all , carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 08/05/05 16:52 hours

100 Mbps My Ass!!

Well beings that my new ISP is a bunch of lying assholes, we won't be getting the 100 Mbps as they had advertised. Until I can find another service provider (one that isn't a lying sack of shit) we'll have to cut back on a few things. For starters we will be falling back to one BF2 server.

The Black Box will be the only BF2 server that we will have up. Sorry for the inconvenience.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 7/29/05 09:50 hours

100 Mbps, ohhhhhh we are so pampered!!!!

Here's the heads up for everyone. We will be switching ISP's tomorrow morning at approx 09:00 hours PST. I hope for this to not take to long, and that it takes no longer than an hour. We will have new IP's for all the servers, those being Team Speak, and both BF2 servers. For those of you out of the loop on what happened and why we are changing, my current ISP HomeNet Northwest decided to throttle us to 10 Mbps  and forgot to tell anyone that they were going to do that, shame shame shame...

Well, because of all things, some junk mail, I found a new service provider that will give us back our 100 Mbps that we used to have. I am also hoping that we will have way fewer problems with our connection. So boys and girls sit back and enjoy it.

Here is a list of the new IP's for everyone.

Team Speak

new 207.254.23.16 new

or

(www.skullsquadren1.com)

Silver Box Ops

new 207.254.23.17 new

Black Box Ops

new 207.254.23.18 new

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 7/24/05 17:52 hours

LET THERE BE ROCK!

In celebration of =SS1= moving back to a 100Mbps connection I have decided to add some music back to our little website. As you may have noticed on the title page there is an audio control panel (for those of you that use IE). Once you make it into the main page of the site, if you hover over the =SKULL SQUADREN 1= at the top of the page you will see that its a link to a play list. This play list will open in your computers default mp3 playback device. These are tunes that I like and I hope that you do to.

Oh and AirCav I put a little track in the play list I think you'll recognize, man you so very rock!!

Enjoy!!!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 7/23/05 21:04 hours

=SS1= BF2 Servers

=SS1= now has 2 full retail BF2 servers. They will be designated as follows:

Silver Box Ops

Black Box Ops

We do hope that you vist and enjoy playing on our servers.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 7/19/05 10:30 hours

Battlefield 2 Patch v1.02

click on image to download patch

NOTE: Upon installing v1.02 you will see references to v1.01. You are not installing v1.01 but are installing v1.02 (referenced in the game browser as 2484)

Well, it seems while I was gone over the weekend the good people at EA Games decided to release a patch for BF2. Sorry I wasn't here to help take care of things but I'm home now and I believe I got things worked out.

The =SS1= server has been upgraded to the new version and we can all play on it again.

 I have the patch here for those that haven't gotten it yet or just if you need it in the future. I'm sure that it will be replaced by another patch sometime in the near future anyway but none the less here it is.

Enjoy the patch everyone, I hope this one works better that the first piece of shit they released. Lets keep our fingers crossed then!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 7/18/05 00:33 hours

World of WarCraft Patch v1.6.0 Released!!

click on image to download patch

Below are the official patch notes for the 1.6.0 version of the Public Test Realms. Please be aware that the PTR patch notes are not the final patch notes, and are subject to change/additions before the patch goes live.

***************************************************

Blackwing Lair Released!

Nefarian's sanctum, Blackwing Lair, can be found at the very height of Blackrock Spire. It is there in the dark recesses of the mountain's peak that Nefarian has begun to unfold the final stages of his plan to destroy Ragnaros once and for all and lead his army to undisputed supremacy over all the races of Azeroth. Blackwing Lair is a max-level, 40-player raid dungeon, with many new encounters and tempting rewards awaiting the intrepid adventurer that dares enter its halls. (Blackwing Lair will not be accessible during the public test.)

Darkmoon Faire!

A gathering of the exotic from around the world and beyond, Silas Darkmoon has brought together the Darkmoon Faire as a celebration of the wondrous and mysterious found in Azeroth. While the Faire spends most of their time in parts unknown, they do stop from time to time in Mulgore and Elwynn forest. When the faire is on its way barkers will stop by Ogrimmar and Ironforge to announce its arrival.

Battlemasters!

There is a new way to enter the battleground queues. Battlemasters! Located in some of the cities, right-clicking on a battlemaster will allow your character to enter a battleground queue just like you normally would if you touched that battleground’s entrance portal. The functionality is exactly the same, so when it’s your character’s time to enter the chosen battleground, you will be teleported directly in. Glordrum Steelbeard stands in the Hall of Arms in Ironforge, serving as the Alliance battlemaster for Alterac Valley. Aethalas of the Silverwing Sentinels stands ready in Darnassus, next to the warrior trainers, to send Alliance characters into Warsong Gulch. And in the Hall of the Brave, located in Orgrimmar’s Valley of Honor, Brakgul Deathbringer serves as the Horde’s battlemaster for Warsong Gulch, while Kartra Bloodsnarl will send you to bring glory to the Horde in Alterac Valley. Guards in their respective cities can give you directions on how to find them.

General

* There is a new option upon the login screen. If you click the "Remember Name" checkbox on the left side of the screen, the game will automatically fill in your account name when it starts up.
* Will of the Forsaken (Undead Racial) - duration of the lasting immunity effect decreased to 5 seconds.
* Cannibalize (Undead Racial) - Regeneration increased to 35% of a character's total health over 10 seconds.
* Stoneform (Dwarf Racial) can now be used to cancel self-inflicted poison effects.
* Fist Weapons will now have the normal chance to parry that all weapons use.
* It will no longer be possible to swap any equipment while stunned.
* Pets will now enter passive/follow mode when their masters mount.
* The Dazed effect caused by NPCs will now stack with all other movement slowing effects. Note that the movement slowing effects will not stack, but the debuff icons will remain to ensure the full duration of these effects persist.
* Damage caused by environmental effects will now cancel stealth (e.g. swimming in lava).
* Several creature spells that silenced players are now properly flagged as silence effects, which will allow talents such as Unbreakable Will to provide a higher chance to resist the effects.
* Spells that drain mana will now properly report the amount of mana gained in the combat log.
* Clarified the error message when no corpses are available for the Cannibalize ability.
* Clarified the error message when trying to attack while mounted.
* Resurrection spells should now check range properly when used on targets that have released their spirit.
* Spell reflection effects have greatly improved visuals and functionality.
* Knockback effects are now synchronized with any associated missile impacts.
* Special abilities which are parried will correctly activate abilities which are usable after parrying.
* Damage shield spells no longer damage you if you use spells that damage both you and your enemies.
* Fixed graphical anomalies when using channeled abilities in a group with a grounding totem.
* Fixed the duration of Frostbite on pets which are dismissed and then recalled.
* Fixed a bug where broken off-hand fist weapons would prevent main-hand dagger abilities from being usable.
* Health leech effects no longer give you health while you are a ghost.
* You no longer spout profanity when talking about sitting while drunk.

Macintosh

* Some optimizations for terrain loading and rendering were added for the Macintosh build.
* Enabled multisample support in the video options.
* Fixed an issue where inspecting crafted items on other users could potentially show attributes that those items did not have.
* Updated the Mac sound code to use memory more efficiently.

PvP

* Honor System
o There is now a progress bar on the Honor tab of your character window that displays how close you are to your next rank.
o The honor screen now displays a bar indicating how far along your current rank you are (Scout, Private, etc). This will let you know whether you are moving towards your next rank or falling back towards your previous rank. from week to week.
o There is a new "This Week" section of the Honor tab, which will display PvP accomplishments of the current week.
o The "This Session" section of the Honor tab has been changed to "Today", and will now display the entirety of your accomplishments for the day instead of the most recent session.
o Players rank 11 or higher can now chat in the WorldDefense channel.
o The WorldDefense and LocalDefense channels will now display your rank as well as your name when chatting.
o Battleground scoreboards now display the time elapsed in a battleground.
* Warsong Gulch
o Warsong Gulch has new item rewards at the appropriate faction vendor near the entrances to the zone. These are available starting at Honored faction.
o Friendly flag carriers are now displayed on the overhead map in Warsong Gulch.
o Both the Warsong Outrider Supply Officer and the Silverwing Sentinel Supply Officer of Warsong Gulch now offer distinct tabards for purchase. Those heroes who are of Exalted status with one of these factions may purchase the tabard for 5 gold (discounts not included).
o Players now receive a faction bonus for completing the repeatable Warsong Gulch quests.
* Alterac Valley
o Each team will now gain additional bonus honor if their towers are not destroyed by the end of the map. The more towers that remained intact, the more honor received.
o If you manage to keep your faction's Captain alive for the duration of a battle, you will be granted extra points upon victory.
o Several Alterac Valley vendor items are now bind on acquire.
o The respawn time for tower guards (assuming the tower has not been destroyed) has been greatly increased.
o Korrak the Bloodrager has gained immunities to many different spell and ability effects.
o The minimum reputation needed to send a cavalry charge has been reduced to Honored.
o Players of Revered or higher reputation may now call offensive air strikes if they have managed to rescue their respective Wing Commanders.
o Alterac Valley's guard spawn is now controlled via a more intuitive mechanism. Please check the Officer Supply vendors for your faction to read up on the changes.
o Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the Alliance team from receiving honor for destroying towers.
o Fixed a bug that was not awarding Horde credit for owning a mine at the end of a game.
* Dispel Magic can no longer be used on players participating in a duel unless the caster is in the duel.
* You are considered in combat for the entire duration of a duel.
* You can't assist players which are engaged in free-for-all PvP unless you are also in free-for-all PvP.
* If you have PvP combat toggled on, it will no longer be cleared when taking a flight.
* Hunter traps work properly in duels if the target is flagged for PvP and the hunter is not.
* Removing an insignia in PvP no longer marks both players as being in combat.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 7/12/05 14:18 hours

Hey EA Games , MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!

Well it turns out that EA Games has pulled off yet another brilliant and spectacular display of marketing intelligence! The patch they released for BF2 last week that was supposed to fix BF2 (because it was broke BIG TIME when they released it) was more broke than the original game.

Due to memory leaks found in the client side patch and the updated server (which were pointed out to them by the community) EA has recalled the patch and is asking everyone to (here it comes) REINSTALL THE GAME!! LMAO Yes that's right folks, you heard me correctly, you need to completely uninstall and then reinstall your game to the original v1.0 and do not install any patch at this time. EA is working (or so they say) on a new patch to fix the fix so to speak.

=SS1= will be rolling its servers back as well (which is an incredible PAIN IN MY ASS) so that people will be able to play on the original v1.0. I would say sorry for the inconvenience BUT ITS NOT MY FAULT. All I have to say at this point is .....

GGz EA w00t!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 7/11/05 08:33 hours

=SS1= now has FULL BF2 Server

As of 10:00 hours Wednesday, June 22, 2005=SS1= has been hosting a full retail version server for BF2. This server is set to 45 minute rounds, and ticket count is set to 100%.

Full Server - 64.146.189.67:16567

Have fun Fragg'n'!

We also have a couple new downloads. We will be a mirror for the full dedicated server as well as PBWEB for BF2. Please check our downloads section for these and other downloads.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 06/22/05 12:29 hours

The Black List

Many of you may or may not know that EA Games and GameSpy have decided to start "Black Listing" Battlefield 2 servers that remove the time limit and unlock the weapons. They have been removing these servers from the Master Server list in your "in game server browser", without notifying the server admins. I personally find this to be absolutely grabasstic of them. Much of this issue stems from EA's desire to try and force everyone to play on ranked servers (that only they possess) so that they can profit from server rentals to clans, while effectively destroying the private server hosting market.

Their hope is that people will be so caught up in the idea of needing rank to unlock weapons that the server market will gravitate towards them so they can make even more money. Try 8 dollars per slot per month for an EA ranked server. That's 256 dollars a month to EA from each clan that wants a 32 slot server. That's just a game server, that doesn't include web hosting, team speak/ventrilo (if clans have more than one game they play which would negate their dumbass little VoIP) or any other services.

I live in an area that has fiber optic internet and I host the services for my clan for free. I will not, under any circumstances pay EA Games for one of their servers. I also think its absolutely stupid that I need to play on a ranked server, to gain rank and unlock weapons, so that I can have the chance (not even a guarantee) to use those locked weapons on a server that I host. Besides, isn't there already a game that people have to train to use certain locked weapons? Oh that's right, its called America's Army, AND ITS FUCKING FREE! If I wanted to play America's Army I would download it and installed it.

The fact of the matter is, EA is being a money grubbing asshat about the server thing and wants to punish its potential customers for playing the game to its full potential. Is this right in my humble opinion? NO. That being said I would like the communities support. If you feel that you have been "Black Listed" and want to be added to a list of servers that have removed the time limit and unlocked the weapons please do the following:

1. Register in our forums and find the thread in the BF2 Forums entitled "The Black List" (its a sticky)

2. Post your servers name, IP address and clan server graphic (if you have one, the 4:1 graphic).

Things I will be doing myself.

1. Openly and publicly boycott ranked servers!!!!!!!!!!!

2. Let them know we want the whole game we will be or have already paid for!

3. Support the modding community, all we need is the game engine, we can do the rest!

We, as a community need to stick together to let EA know that they need to listen to their customers.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 06/15/05 02:12 hours

=SS1= now has BF2 Demo Server

No Time Limit and No Locked Weapons

As of Friday, June 10th, 2005 =SS1= has officially entered the world of BF2. We now have a Demo server up for our clan members and the public to play on. We will be running a 32 player server with a couple extra bonus's. I was give instructions on how to remove the time limit and unlock all the weapons for everyone to use. You heard me right, no time limit , and no locked weapons. We hope that you enjoy playing on our servers and will for a long time to come.

=SS1= Game Server List

=SS1= Battlefield 2 - 64.146.189.67:16567

=SS1= DC Final Server #1 - 64.146.189.67:14567

=SS1= DC Final Server #2 - 64.146.189.232:14567

Note that the BF2 Server and the #1 DC Final server have the same IP address.

They use different ports!!! Do make sure you have the port number correct!!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 06/14/05 10:09 hours

Thank You for your donation

"=SS1=Gen.Spanky"

=SS1= would like to thank =SS1=Gen.Spanky for his generous donation to the clan. Spanky has donated virtually an entire computer to be used as a DC Final server. With the release of BF2 we will be needing a second server in order to maintain a DC Final Division. Because of Spanky's generosity, we now have 2 servers. It is through the continued support of persons such as yourself that make this clan and its services a reality.

Thanx, you ROXXX!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 06/13/05 01:46 hours

Thank You for your donation

"=SS1=Blar"

=SS1= would like to thank =SS1=Blar for his generous donation to the clan. Blar has donated an external USB 2.0 HDD enclosure so that I can keep backups of the website, forums, team speak, and ftp. These backups will be run automatically once a day. It is through the continued support of persons such as yourself that make this clan and its services a reality.

Thanx, you ROXXX!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/26/05 10:09 hours

=SS1= is #1

Congratulations ZULU Company

I would like to congratulate ZULU Company on their recent move up the SquadGames 4vs4 Infantry ladder to 1st place. It was a home game and we got beat 21-0 in the first round and we beat them 23-0 in the second round. Giving us the win by 2 tickets. {FLATASS} is way cool people and a way tough team , great job guys!!!

Good job ZULU !!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/25/05 21:41 hours

Congratulations ZULU Company

I would like to congratulate ZULU Company on their recent move up the SquadGames 4vs4 Infantry ladder to 3rd place. It was an away game and we got them 27-0 in the first round and 29-0 in the second round. Gods of War is good people, we look forward to the re-match!

Good job ZULU !!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/13/05 20:00 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=Archie{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=Archie{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/11/05 01:07 hours

Thank You for your donation

"Pointman"

=SS1= would like to thank Pointman for his generous donation to the clan through PayPal. It is through the continued support of persons such as yourself that make this clan and its services a reality.

Thanx, you ROXXX!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/08/05 02:15 hours

=SS1= Welcomes new member and Division Leader for WoW

"=SS1=Gen.haVoc"

=SS1= is proud to welcome new member "=SS1=Gen.haVoc". You have shown yourself to be a person of good character with a high level of dedication.

We are pleased to have you here and look forward to continued excellence!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/07/05 23:21 hours

=SS1= Welcomes new member and Division Leader for WoW

"=SS1=Gen.Arcturas"

=SS1= is proud to welcome new member "=SS1=Gen.Arcturas". You have shown yourself to be a person of good character with a high level of dedication.

We are pleased to have you here and look forward to continued excellence!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/06/05 10:25 hours

=SS1= Welcomes new member and Division Leader for WoW

"=SS1=Gen.RobbinDaHood"

=SS1= is proud to welcome new member "=SS1=Gen.RobbinDaHood". You have shown yourself to be a person of good character with a high level of dedication.

We are pleased to have you here and look forward to continued excellence!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/05/05 17:05 hours

=Skull Squadren 1= Congratulates

=SS1=ROTATION666

For receiving the April "Most Hours Played" Award for DCF Division

In recognition of outstanding service and great personal sacrifice to the clan, =SS1=ROTATION666 is hereby awarded the Most Hours Played Award for April 2005 with 86 hours. You have put forth a great amount of time and effort into honing your skills and to help make the presence of =SS1= known in the community.

For that we are very thankful and owe you a great deal of gratitude.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/04/05 12:14 hours

=Skull Squadren 1= Congratulates

=SS1=1/9AirCav

For receiving the this quarters MVP Award

In recognition of outstanding service and great personal sacrifice to the clan, =SS1=1/9AirCav is hereby awarded the Most Valuable Person Award. Your time and dedication to the Battlefield community has been tireless. You have produced some of the best maps in the DC and DCF mods. You have given =SS1= special access to these maps and have helped to elevate =SS1= into the Battlefield gaming community. You also continuously produce server side mods for clan events and movies.

For that we are very thankful and owe you a great deal of gratitude.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/04/05 12:02 hours

=Skull Squadren 1= Congratulates

=SS1=Gen.Spanky

On his promotion to General and command as a DCF Division Leader

In recognition of outstanding service and great personal sacrifice to the clan, =SS1=Gen.Spanky is hereby awarded the rank of General. =SS1=Gen.Spanky is a dedicated and hard working member of the clan. He has put forth great effort in creating training programs to help fellow clan members hone their skills as well as help lead the clan on the field of battle.

=SS1=Gen.Spanky has also been made Division Leader of the DCF Division.

Congratulations General, you've earned it.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/04/05 11:55 hours

=Skull Squadren 1= Congratulates

=SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe

On his promotion to clan Executive Officer

In recognition of outstanding service and great personal sacrifice to the clan, =SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe is hereby promoted the position of clan XO. =SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe is a dedicated and hard working member of the clan. He has put forth great effort in managing clan affairs, tracking player hours, setting up events, and basically doing all the things I don't have time for, as well as help lead the clan on the field of battle.

=SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe now has rank and command over all division leaders. His word is as good as mine. Please show him all the courtesies that he deserves.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 05/04/05 11:40 hours

Trojan Alert

I have received reports that the new =SS1=1/9AirCav DCF Map Pack has been popping up as a Trojan Horse threat.

THIS IS A FALSE POSITIVE

I have recompiled the installer with a the newest version of "Install Creator Pro" and removed the uninstall option. Since doing this I have not gotten any alerts that say it is a virus or a Trojan. I would like to apologize for any misunderstandings that this has caused and hope that this does not deter people from downloading maps, or any other software from =SS1=.

The newest version of the map pack can be acquired from =SS1= in the custom maps section of the website or clicking the link below.

=SS1=1/9AirCav DCF Map Pack

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/24/05 13:38 hours

=SS1= Welcomes new member

"=SS1=Nikon"

=SS1= is proud to welcome new member "=SS1=Nikon". You have shown yourself to be a person of good character with a high level of dedication.

We are pleased to have you here and look forward to continued excellence!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/22/05 20:47 hours

=SS1= Welcomes new member

"=SS1=ROTATION666"

=SS1= is proud to welcome new member "=SS1=ROTATION666". You have shown yourself to be a person of good character with a high level of dedication.

We are pleased to have you here and look forward to continued excellence!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/22/05 20:46 hours

=Skull Squadren 1= Congratulates

=SS1=Cpt.Spanky

On his promotion to Captian

In recognition of outstanding service and great personal sacrifice to the clan, =SS1=Cpt.Spanky is hereby awarded the rank of Captain. =SS1=Cpt.Spanky is a dedicated and hard working member of the clan. He has put forth great effort in creating training programs to help fellow clan members hone their skills as well as help lead the clan on the field of battle.

Congratulations Captain, you've earned it.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/20/05 09:42 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=vaceking{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=vaceking{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/18/05 14:00 hours

=SS1= Welcomes new member

"=SS1=DietMoxie"

=SS1= is proud to welcome new member "=SS1=DietMoxie". You have shown yourself to be a person of good character with a high level of dedication.

We are pleased to have you here and look forward to continued excellence!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/16/05 15:00 hours

=SS1= Welcomes new member

"=SS1=Scarab"

=SS1= is proud to welcome new member "=SS1=Scarab". You have shown yourself to be a person of good character with a high level of dedication.

We are pleased to have you here and look forward to continued excellence!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/10/05 05:19 hours

You've all waited long enough so here yah go, the long awaited and much anticipated:

=SS1=1/9AirCav Map Pack

If you already have these maps you still need this. These are the newest versions of all maps. Slovenian Alps Day 1 is now V.2, Liberation of Harlingen is now V.2, and Yakima Firing Center is now V.3. Slovenian Alps Day 2 is an ALL NEW map! These will be final productions of all these maps, so please download them and have fun playing them. I want to thank =SS1=1/9AirCav for the great amount of effort he has put into these maps, YOUR FREAKIN EXTREME!!!

Enjoy!!

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/09/05 18:34 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=haVoc{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=haVoc{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/09/05 14:00 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=Arcturas{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=Arcturas{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/08/05 18:00 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=Sharpy{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=Sharpy{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/08/05 18:00 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=RobbinDaHood{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=RobbinDaHood{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 04/07/05 21:00 hours

=SS1= welcomes reinstated member "=SS1=Unipheas"

=SS1= is proud to welcome back returning member =SS1=Unipheas. During your probationary period, you have shown to be capable of upholding the ideals and values of the clan.

 We are pleased to have you back, and look forward to your continued excellence.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 03/27/05 19:00 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=Nikon{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=Nikon{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 03/25/05 19:00 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=ROTATION666{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=ROTATION666{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 03/25/05 19:00 hours

FiberActive

The latest news from FiberActive group is a pole that is being run on the Columbia Basin Herald Online. The pole asks;

"Did the PUD Commission do the right thing by deciding not to build out the Zipp in 2005?".

Be careful to read and understand the question completely, a "NO" vote is actually a favorable vote for Zipp.

Please do me and the rest of the gaming community a favor and stop by the Herald's site ( http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/ ) and vote today, let them know you want the Zipp Fiber Optic Network to stay and be finished! Yes, I know that time and time again the public of Grant County has said WE WANT FIBER, but there is still a group of people that feel that you do not need it. DO know that without Zipp Fiber, what you are looking at right now would not be possible. The downloads, you get from =SS1= , the forums, Team Speak, and the games servers would all just be a nice dream if not for Zipp Fiber. So please don't go down without a fight, let the Grant County PUD Commission know that they have chosen poorly and that they need to continue the build out of the Zipp Fiber Optic Project. Even if your not from around these parts, please take the time to visit the link I posted and vote. If Zipp falls, it will affect you as well.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 03/23/05 07:28 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=Dietmoxie{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=Dietmoxie{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 03/18/05 05:00 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=Unipheas{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=Unipheas{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 03/13/05 23:00 hours

=SS1= welcomes new recruit "=SS1=Scarab{R}"

I would like to welcome =SS1=Scarab{R} as the newest recruit to =SS1=. We all hope that in the next 28 days that you can prove to be a valuable and dependable member to the clan. Thank you =SS1=Gen.Anishinaabe for sponsoring our newest recruit.

That will be all, carry on.

=SS1=Gen.Foxxxtracker 03/13/05 23:00 hours