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Just wanted to welcome our newest player, "MasterBaker" into the FFC gaming clan! Hope you waste many pleasurable hours online with the rest of us FPS addicts. ;-)
Maybe we'll have a few more new players this year....I know one of our old "Wolf:ET" clan members bought COD4 recently (you read'n this Semper?..get a move on soldier!).
Also, as several players were whine'n about the "Bunkermayhem" map, I replaced it with the remake of another old favorite, "Borisovka". It's not in the current rotation but I'll probably manually load it during game time so we can check it out.
Mamba, out
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Been awhile since I posted here plus it's "dues" time again and I do so want ya'll to feel like you're get'n your $-worth, so here we go.
Patch-wise, the rumored COD4 1.6 patch is still a rumor. There are still quite a few bugs with the game that need squashed and the more elite of the COD user community is fighting the good fight in that regard, but Joe Average Player doesn't see much wrong, making it an uphill battle. Supposedly it might release in conjunction with the map pack...supposedly.
Speaking of..still no definitive news on the IW COD4 Map Pack release ever being made available (purchase, download, whatever) to the PC community. Of course the console platforms get all the gravy these days so they already have it. The official rumor is that it will probably make it's way to our PCs but not for several months. Hey, could be worse...the game itself STILL hasn't made it's way to the Macintosh tho' that will change later this month.
User-made Custom Maps. LOTS of new maps out there now and many are awesome. I put a few of the better bigger ones on our server and four of us checked them out last weekend. Overall they were quite fun, tho' we could have used a few more players given their sprawl. Crow's player lost 5lbs just running around on MP_BURG and of course he hates that...no news there. The KStoujane map had some major spawn point problems (hey, let's EVERYONE spawn in the same place at once and try to survive). So that map never got a decent chance. I heard there is a new fixed version so I'll track it down and we can try again.
In non-COD news, Micro$oft released SP1 for Vista last week. They were supposed to release SP3 for XP this week but ran into some last minute error reports so it'll be a little longer. One rumored good thing about XP SP3...it may give you a noticeable performance boost. So you can bet I'll be giving it a try ASAP since I need every advantage I can get to compensate for my little ping. ;-/
Mamba, out
