Relevant links:

• Release info
• Local download

I'll probably be putting it on the vanilla servers tomorrow if there are no problem reports, so get it early.

Totally OT: I lost access to my email for the past few days due to (drumroll...) technical problems, so if you sent me any mail between the 12th and the 19th of June, it might be a good idea to re-send it. Thanks.

Thanks to Rapts and Tetsujin's points in its direction, we've got a shiny new map up on the Q3 servers: Dismemberment (hub3tourney1)

Very cool map, well worth downloading. As usual, you can get it from our ftp site here.

Thanks, everyone who've sent in their comments and suggestions. :)

The new/current maplist:

187city
actcity2
actcity3
actdam
aggression
beer
boxcanyon
brickyard
bronx
bxtrain2
citygate
cliff2
cloud
cucu40a

deepcanyon
deepcanyon2
ffrontal
junglesa
lighthouse
matrix2
mesto
murder
night_r
passin
rexro
rhcity1
rhstation
smuggle

soho
teamdepo
teamjungle
tequila
terrain
tokyo
urban
urban2
urban3
urban4
village2
wargroun
winter

As usual, you can download all the maps from our FTP site at ftp://ftp.gamezone.co.za/quake2/action/maps/current. Enjoy!

*sneaks off with his shotgun and stealth slippers*

Just a short (and overdue :) note...

Firstly, our Weapons Factory Arena server (atlas.mweb.co.za:27961) has been upgraded to version 2.9. Required downloads:

• Main setup file (~45MB)
• Map pack 1 (~28MB)
• Map pack 2 (~46MB)

Our Day of Defeat server (namib.mweb.co.za:27015) has also been upgraded, to beta 1.2, and you can grab either the full (~88MB) or upgrade (~41MB) version of the download.

Enjoy!

Troopers,

Dust off your jetpack. Tribes 2 is out and this one we'll definitely be supporting with a fast server. For your information, we still have a Tribes 1 server @ 'namib.mweb.co.za'. Regarding the R150 rip-offs available for Tribes 2. For the record, I've spoken with a trooper whose already ordered and received Tribes 2 from this source. He intends complaining to Sierra, having been very disappointed with the product. He expected it to be properly packed and boxed because it's marketed as the real thing, not warez. So, if you like your games pure, want to show off the box like a trophy, and don't want to pay some loser R150 for a R5 blank and the use of their CD copier, please buy it from us here.

Hi,

Just want to know if you can please put this up on the news:-

(sure, trooper)

There is an Unreal Tournament happening 27th - 29th of April at the Boulders Shopping Center in Midrand, Gauteng. Players from all over South Africa are gonna be there competing for cash & hardware prizes. Entry fee is R60 per person for the 1-on-1 Tournament and R360 per clan/team for the Clan/Team Tournament. Events start each morning at 8:00am and there are projectors setup so people can spectate the games. For more info and to register mail me

-Hein-

Troopers,

We're now hosting an excellent Action Quake 2 site. For those of you who've only come onto the action multiplayer scene recently, AQ was where it all started. Basically, an 'action' multiplayer mod usually denotes no convenient health pickups. This means that when you die you have to sit out the round. Also, you get more realistic gameplay, which means that you can't do 50 ft. jumps, and you only get to use standard military weaponry. Ie. - no rocket launchers.

Many thanks to Brett Mostert, AKA Neon Knight[CR], for getting the site together. Combat veterans will remember the classic AQ war between M-Web and Iafrica, before the ISPs 'joined forces'. That was a 4 hour game to remember. From our archives, amongst some of the first M-Web AQ players were pHanTom; Rogue; Siberiyan; Kane; Radient; Vio Nectro; Carnage; Shakti; and Redeemer.

And lastly, to the trooper hanging out in the bottom of the pool with a handcannon,

"It's over, you can come out now" - :> (Tribes 2 is coming)

First off, we've put up a local ARC server. What's ARC, you ask? Let sPlatcAt tell you:

"It's a top down shooter thing, where u pilot a flying saucer and shoot the bejeesus out of everything with lasers, bouncing lasers, missiles and bombs. U can play deathmatch, CTF or a game where u change all the buttons to your teams colour. It's pretty awesome."

Then, for Q3 players, we're testing out a new class-based CTF mod, Weapons Factory Arena. To play, you'll need to grab this (82MB), this (3MB) and this (3MB), and connect to atlas.mweb.co.za:27961.

As always, all is highly appreciated.

Troopers,

The legend of Justice on the net continues to be supported by M-Web's game judges, whose sole purpose is to monitor the corridors of cyberspace for cheat codes and socially irresponsible players. But judges themselves are not above the law, and more than one judge has been given the regulation shotgun with 7 shells and dismissed into the radiation desert. The good news? Well, we can safely assume that the judges are still human-:>

Now that Counterstrike 1.1 has been released and successfully absorbed by the community, isn't it time NDC and KK have their long awaited rematch?

Regarding the evergreen question of Counterstrike cheating, only one thing is clear. We need more heroes and less villains.

But I guess the same goes for real life.