RUSHED.DE have posted a good interview with one of the top PK players at this time, Fatal1ty. The interview is in English which is fortunate for us non-German speaking readers (google translation does provide some funnies sometimes tho 😉 ) and is a good read if you have 5 or 10 minutes. Catch the full interview HERE.

affentod: What Im interested in is, who are you bootcamping with besides zen?

Fatal1ty: Uhm, actually were gonna be training for a whole week here in Germany. Actually tomorrow after the show were heading up to Frankfurt to LAN with Dr.Doom, reptile, canna and the other gamers sponsored by ABIT. So, were gonna have 6 or 7 guys all LANed up, practicing non-stop all night long.

Busy Busy…

The CPL today announced the doors opening for registrations for the second attempt at the World Tour Stop in Turkey. Heres the news from the CPL directly:

The CPL announced today the launch of the online registration for the first World Tour Stop, in Istanbul, Turkey taking place Friday, March 25 to Sunday, March 27, 2005 at the CNR EXPO.
The Stop will feature a $50,000 one-versus-one Painkiller competition and the top four players will qualify for advancement into the $500,000 CPL World Tour Championship Finals.

The Turkey Stop will not feature a BYOC because of local restrictions on the importation of electronic devices, but a practice area will be hosted at the venue.

The 128 competition spots are $60USD per person and spectator passes are free. The online registration for the spectator passes will open next week.

Gamers wanting to participate in the free Cultural Tour taking place Thursday, March 24, 2005 must arrive in Istanbul no later than Wednesday, March 23rd.

Register now for a spot in the Painkiller Tour Stop at www.thecpl.com/register/

Also of interest is Scott Valencias account of what happened at the first attempt to run this world tour stop. Its an interesting read and Im sure that everyone that made the long trip to Turkey for the event is especially thankful to Scott and all that worked hard to make the event a success. You can catch Scotts blog HERE.

News just in from DreamCatcher. The next patch (version 1.62) for Painkiller has been released tonight at 1pm EST (6pm UK Time). The patch will also contain the long awaited Linux server which will hopefully begin the proliferation of servers throughout the world at a greater pace then before. The main patch weighs in at 110mb while both the WIN and Linux standalone servers are 120mb. Note that you HAVE to have v1.61 installed before you install v1.62 to get it working.

The update includes a readme which looks like this:

MULTIPLAYER:
– CHANGE: Linux server updated to 1.62.
– CHANGE: Additional minor physics tweaks to match 1.35.
– CHANGE: Improvements to visual artifacts caused by high lag.
– CHANGE: Shotgun horizontal knockback reduced slightly.
– CHANGE: Cfg.NetcodeEnemyPredictionInterpolationFactor added to allow adjustments to enemy position prediction (default 0.66).
– CHANGE: Removed hallway collision models in maps DM_Psycho, Absinthe and Sacred to facilitate faster player movement.
– FIX: Demo recording FPS dropping issues.
– FIX: Demo playback resetting to Main Menu no longer occurs.
– FIX: FPS drop collision issue on map DM_Psycho fixed.
– FIX: Getting stuck issue on maps DM_Psycho and Sacred fixed.
– FIX: Random drop on demo playback bug corrected.
– FIX: Spectators going through portals now works correctly.
– FIX: Double teleportation visual now fixed.
– FIX: Staked grenade explosions behind walls no longer work.
– FIX: Map changes while demo recording no longer cause crashes.
– FIX: Miscellaneous sound playback issues.
– FIX: Minor Windows incompatibility error for some users.
– FIX: Weapon fire prediction FXs.
– FIX: Automatically firing after respawn.

NOTE: Version 1.62 includes all changes and enhancements from previous Painkiller updates. Also note, installing this patch will break any previous savegames that are not autosaves or saved in version 1.61.

As always, well keep this news post upto date with links as to where you can grab the files. Check back for your best host if you find the initial ones hammered to death 😉

LINKS:

FILESHACK: PATCH WINSERVER LINUXSERVER

WORTHPLAYING: PATCH WINSERVER LINUXSERVER

3DGAMERS: PATCH WINSERVER LINUXSERVER

FILEFRONT: PATCH WINSERVER LINUXSERVER

GAMERSHELL: PATCH WINSERVER LINUXSERVER

An online survey has been created to gather some feedback after the last “Extreme Edition Challenge 3 : Bloodline” MOVIE. It doesn’t take long to fill out & there is a chance you could win an iPod!

Check out the survey HERE and refresh your memory on the movie HERE.

PiTaGoRaS has released the first IRC scorebot to take advantage of the new Server information provided by the 1.61 patch. The BOT is nicely put together with a very good website to support it. The presentation of the scores etc looks something along the lines of:

*** PiTaBOT v0.65 started ***

Server: My server (v1.61)
Mode: Duel
Players: 2/2
Map: DM_Sacred
Timelimit: 15
Currently playing:
fnatic\Vo0 score: 0 latency: 12
SK|zyz score: 0 latency: 10

You can find this new application at sourceforge HERE. If you come across any, please let PiTaGoRaS know of any bugs you find in our forums HERE. PiTaGoRaS is continuing to expand the bot once new server information is supported. We may see some extras once 1.62 is out 🙂