The title says it all:

• We're organizing a CTF tournament. The competition starts Saturday, 2010-03-20.
• The winners get a copy of IG Warlord.

• We require teams of 3 (three) players.
• Each two teams will fight each other on three maps. The team that wins two events out of three is declared winner, and awarded one point.
• Only the first two teams will take part in the next level of the competition.
• To sign up your team, make a post either on our forums, or on the one hosted by the Russian Bears.

• Introducing Iron Grip: Warlord, a fast-paced first person shooter set in a harrowing world of endless war. Fight as a rebel warlord in the narrow streets of cities, destroy hordes of enemies with your vast arsenal, and fight for your freedom with your last breath and bullet.
• Players can utilize RTS overhead modes to build defensive structures and then switch to fight the enemy head on using the FPS mode.
• Featuring multiplayer and singleplayer modes; find strength in numbers, or stand alone. The choice is yours.
• Seven unique maps and multiple difficulty levels, allowing for different challenges and gameplay experiences. Spiral was just the beginning!

If you're wondering what does the 1.1.2 version has to bring, well, the picture above already gives you a hint. But since hints are usualy not enough, here's the list of things changed:

• Acro32 added sentries and a lobby system to his 'Crepuscular Hecatomb'. The same map also got some of it's sound FX-es ... fixed. That'swhy his map is featured on the left side of the above image.
• Gps fixed some issues with two of the teleporters in 'Enterprise'. And yes, you've got it, his map is the one on the right.
• We've integrated our mod with the master server patch v1.5.
• I added one sound file that was missing; now, when grabbing the red flag, you'll hear our announcer saing "Alert! Red flag taken!".

Acro32 mailed me the latest version of Crepuscular Hecatomb, and after a quick run, all sound FX-es seem to be there. We'll need to properly test that, so get the followig file:

                     20:00 BST 
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Pacific Time 
(GMT-8)               12:00 

Mountain Time 
(GMT-7)               13:00 

Central Time 
(GMT-6)               14:00 

Eastern Time 
(GMT-5)               15:00 

UK, Spain, Portugal 
(GMT)                 20:00 

Netherlands, Germany, 
France, Norway, Demark 
(GMT+1)               21:00 

Finland, Romania 
(GMT+2)               22:00 

Sidney 
(GMT+10)              06:00

We promissed you a download link:

For this weekend, the map being tested will be Enterprise. Just one cosmetic change to look after, the appearance of the teleporter ... tubes? They need to look like their lights are turned on.
We will add other maps to the map rotation.
The patch for weekend test will be uploaded about two hours before the actual test. And speaking of test schedules, we'll be playing at the usual hour (20:00 BST). The detailed schedule follows:

                     20:00 BST 
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Pacific Time 
(GMT-8)               12:00 

Mountain Time 
(GMT-7)               13:00 

Central Time 
(GMT-6)               14:00 

Eastern Time 
(GMT-5)               15:00 

UK, Spain, Portugal 
(GMT)                 20:00 

Netherlands, Germany, 
France, Norway, Demark 
(GMT+1)               21:00 

Finland, Romania 
(GMT+2)               22:00 

Sidney 
(GMT+10)              06:00

Last Saturday we tested the first 'new content' kind of patch. Some of our findings are listed below:

• The game launcher! it should have added the -rez avp2tf\avp2tfp.rez to the command line. It didn't though, and this is the reason why players couldn't join when the server was running the latest version of the Crepuscular Hecatomb map.
• Enterprise! it has some issues with two teleporters (teleporting the player only once; one of them also had some polies missing)
• Sound issues in Crepuscular Hecatomb. The announcements regarding one team scorring play only once.
• The dancing predator! Well, actually, the Infiltrations unit (light predator) was missing the animation set when the selected weapon was the anti-sentry hacking device.
• Sentry guns! They can be spawned really close to the walls, causing them to shoot through. It gives an unfair advantage to the team deploying sentries in such a manner. We're currently "pushing" them back a bit, but I guess there's a limit to what that fix can do.
• Game time too fast! This seems to occur more on Intel powered servers. The dedicated game server in this download tries to fix that.

                     20:00 BST 
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Pacific Time 
(GMT-8)               12:00 

Mountain Time 
(GMT-7)               13:00 

Central Time 
(GMT-6)               14:00 

Eastern Time 
(GMT-5)               15:00 

UK, Spain, Portugal 
(GMT)                 20:00 

Netherlands, Germany, 
France, Norway, Demark 
(GMT+1)               21:00 

Finland, Romania 
(GMT+2)               22:00 

Sidney 
(GMT+10)              06:00

Quite a lot of things happened in the first few weeks after launch. We had our first patch (a game launcher patch), and we've also shared some of our knowledge with the rest of the modding community.

Another pleasant surprise came from the Russian Bears. This tight group of AvP2 players are now running a server for AvP2TF, the game mode being CTF.

Meanwhile, Acro32 prepared another version of his Crepuscular Hecatomb. We also did some alterations to the server code, to work around the "Unknown" class bug. Adding to that another change implemented, on the master server integration, so that AvP2TF game clients see only AvP2TF servers.

All these changes are bundled as a patch file, avp2tfp.rez. And all these changes need to be tested. So, I invite you to join our test session that will be carried out on 2010-01-09. The patch can be downloaded from here:

We're releasing version 1.1.1 (a small update) to handle issues with the mod launcher. If you haven't yet downloaded AvP2 Team Fortress, then make sure and get the latest file here:

1. Get the 1.1 to 1.1.1 patch here:

   DOWNLOAD v1.1.1 PATCH

   Download the archive and execute the installer inside it.
2. When clicking on Multiplayer Internet and the update window pops up, click ok:
   
   
   The game will shutdown and your browser will pop up at this location:
   
   
   Download the archive and execute the installer inside it.
3. If you like to poke around things, then locate the avp2tf.ini file inside the game installation folder. Open it, and change the following:
   

   ---

   [commandline]
   mainExe = "lithtech.exe"
   mandatoryCommandParams = "-rez AvP2 -rez avp2tf\AvP2Fortress.rez"

   ---

   to:
   

   ---

   [commandline]
   mainExe = "lithtech.exe"
   mandatoryCommandParams = "-cmdfile avp2cmds.txt -rez AvP2 -rez AvP2.rez -rez Sounds.rez -rez avp2tf\AvP2Fortress.rez"

   ---

4. And finally, if you're one of the guys that belive that custom launchers are for sissies, then running AvP2 with the command line parameters set to -rez avp2tf\AvP2Fortress.rez should do the trick for you.