The CPL announced its initial competitor list for the Summer 05 Championship yesterday. The Painkiller list currently has 93 entries who all got in before the price hike deadline. Notable entries include:

Aim (mysod)
Daler
Wombat
Fatal1ty
Sakh (EYE)
Vo0 and Gellehsak (fnatic)
tRONic,
AphexTwin (4K),
Fazz, Prozac and fox (SK)
clowN
Deatz and M0erser (alien)
Forrest and Stermy (play.it)
Wreck
Toast

Expected entries from most of the UK 4K team, Zyz, Stelam, C_lains, cha0ticz and more are missing. Hopefully well see all the big names return for revenge soon 🙂

You can find the whole list HERE.

PKEURO are looking for the baddest, meanest single player players out there to enter a little competition. Now that BooH brings us in-game demo recording for Single Player, we want you to beat the pulp out of each of the Major Bosses (all bosses taken down will be considered for prizes) using only the Quad damage card (4x damage) in the fastest time possible, and record yourself doing it. Note, please set Showweapon to 1. We will not be able to see your HUD in demos but at least it would be nice to see your weapon 🙂

The time will be measured from the *edit* The start of the level */edit* to when he falls to the floor defeated. The winners will not only get put up in our role of honour page, but also win one of our elusive Painkiller T-Shirts.

Well keep the competition open for some time, and give you notice about a week before it ending. Get in touch with me via email once you have a demo and we will arrange an FTP site for you to up it to, or you can email it to me HERE if the file is less than 10mb.

Hope to see some kick ass demos soon 🙂 Good Luck!

(note, we are getting some reports of recording in single player, not playing back. Please make sure you can playback your demos yourself before submitting them)

Not sure if we missed this recently or if it happened only today but… Yar has released v0.2 Test of his Modification “MiniMod”. The newest release is classed as Test as Yar has not had the time to thoroughly test through the latest packages.

The changelog looks like this for the BooH install:

– NEW: SERVER -> overtime for tdm and duel modes
– NEW: CONSOLE -> “vid_restart” command
– NEW: CONSOLE -> “wtfisthetime” command
– CHG: CONSOLE -> “cfg_load” and “cfg_save” commands now can operate on given file 😉
– FIX: SINGLE PLAYER -> is now playable with mod
And a lot of bugfixes…

And this for the 1.35 install:

– NEW: SERVERSIDE -> tdm overtime
– NEW: MENU -> mod menu with following options:
— FOV <80-140>
— Ammo List
— Timer
— Scores
— Ping
— Team Scores
— Enemy Color R/G/B <0-255>
— Friend Color R/G/B <0-255>
– NEW: CONSOLE -> “vid_restart” command
– NEW: CONSOLE -> “wtfisthetime” command
– CHG: CONSOLE -> “cfg_load” and “cfg_save” commands now can operate on file with given name 😉
– FIX: SINGLE PLAYER -> is now playable with mod
And a lot of bugfixes…

You can download the files either from Yars HOMEPAGE or our from our quicklinks box to the right. Let us know of any issues you find here. Thanks to Yar for his further efforts.

PKEUROs own Blowfish has put up an ARTICLE on our forums stepping through the process of converting QuakeWorld maps to Painkiller. With the lack of good team and duel maps, this process could provide some quick maps if the correct thought process is applied. Due to the obvious differences in jumping distances and other physics, modifications might be required to get the best out of the old maps.

This process has been successfully tested on a number of maps but without the authors “say so” we wont release them. We need to stress the importance of getting the authors agreement before converting any maps. For example, we already have agreement from Slayer to convert any of his maps such as Titan2 and ukcldm2 if anyone wishes to have go at converting these. Get in touch with ME for details if you are interested.

It seems that Tectonic has been busy working away on his next version of DM_Meatless 1v1 map and has released v0.3. He has posted this morning on our forums HERE that he’s been working with the CAL guys MikeMo and Wires, along with a couple of well known US players Wombat, DJ and Wreck to move the map forward in its development.

The result seems to justify the effort as the map now feels like it has more flow and certainly seems more balanced. I have a feeling that the CAL League might be using this in the upcoming season starting shortly in January (details HERE). It would be nice to see the map make it to some servers for playtest. Let us know via the forums if you see it around.

You can download the map from the pkeuro FTP HERE.

Good work Tectonic!