Bit quiet recently due to exams etc (well done by the way for everyone getting through the buggers).

Hopefully we will see a bit more activity now that they are all over. However, I am going to Spain for 3 weeks this Saturday, but when I’m back I will buy a CSS server for us to have regular Sunday practice/social meetups on again, and we should be able to get the ball rolling activity wise

Our new ventrillo server is up thanks to Capt Winkleberry.

Hostname IP: uk.ventriloservers.biz 
Port Number: 4072
Password: same as before

Our new TF2 serve is up mainly thanks to Dog.

IP is 85.234.148.33:27115 so add it to your favourites already !

Donations to help keep the server running would be greatly appreciated, just have a quick talk to Dog. Donators also get special privileges such as reserve slots.

A big welcome to 3 new members:

The first two, Tidy and Katana, join us from CSS, with Tidy promising to teach us some Welsh and both being good additions to the CSS team which we can hopefully start up again after the exam period.

Lastly is Green_Giant who promises to dominate Dog in TF2 as well as offering us free sweetcorn!

As many members may be aware, Sprite has decided to step down as being a manager and admin of Gooch Gaming due to his increasing commitments at university, he’s still going to be an active member however and has taken on a “treasurer” role, making him the second (after Bert).  Me and Dog have also decided that for the time being we will NOT be looking for a replacement for Sprite’s position - we feel that currently it isn’t required, and due to “the exam period” coming up there isn’t likely to be anyone with the spare time required.

Mr Cube.

Hey Guys,

Sorry about the downtime but the site is back up and running now, forums should follow as well. I’ll keep you all informed.

EDIT - Forums should be up as well now. Enjoy. It’s possible that some posts made in the last hour that the forums were active before it went to maintenance mode may have been lost - sorry about that but that’s just the way things go.

Cube.

Valve have released some more info about the upcoming scout update for TF2 saying that they are pretty much finished and are releasing a few bug fixes and smaller updates ahead of the full scout pack. You can find the full post on the TF2 Blog along with some answers to commonly asked questions such as:

“Why should I use Natascha? And doesn’t she only do 66% damage, not 75%?”

* You’re correct, there was a bug that caused her to lose 0.75 damage off each individual bullet she fired. She spits out so many bullets that a tiny amount like that added up to a significant difference. Tomorrow’s update will fix that, and also includes a slight boost to the amount of slowdown she delivers. Our internal playtesters have been finding her much more useful, especially on the large number of Scouts running around with new toys.

I would just like to say a big thank you and well done to the ED CSS team that had our first win earlier today.

So big well done to:

Whoose (z0mg my score !)
Highlander (nice P90-ing)
Farrer (AWP demon)
Blood (Loved the hold of short with deagle vs 2 CTs)

Well done lads on being 28th already :>

Next match is tonight at 7pm so lets get a win under our belts !

(please note this is live so will change)