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Summer 2010 Map Voting

Blackhydra

16, July

Hey all, it’s time again for another map vote to keep things fresh and interesting in our community.

Please check out the thread here and cast your votes! http://www.odr66.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2197

Also check out the other server happenings here! http://www.odr66.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2198

In addition to this, there is some other news. If you are not aware, me and foilking have stepped up as co-leaders of the Order 66 Gaming Community and any questions or concerns regarding the clan can be posted to the forums (http://www.odr66.com/forums/) which have been reworked, or you may contact us directly via steam.

I have reworded the daily awards on our gameME stat page (http://bvr.gameme.com/) so now it will be much easier to sort through by specific class rather than the scavenger hunt it was before. Or you can look to see if you got the award for most guitar taunt kills! Okay, maybe not that so much.

Keep on gaming, folks!

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TF2 Lego?

Acid Caribou

23, September

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A big thanks goes out to Oracular Egging, AKA Carrion Luggage for finding this awesome clip.

Enjoy!

Posted in Team Fortress 2 , Valve

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Have You Tried Server #2 Lately?

Acid Caribou

28, August

As many of you already know, we have had a second server for quite some time now, but it lacked that ODR66 touch. It was generally used for matches, or for custom game nights, but the map rotation was generally stock, and it didn’t get used much.

Since it’s launch the following changes have been made.

1.) The server is fully unlocked

2.) Player Limit has been raised form 18 to 24

3.) HLStatsX has been linked between server #1 and server #2

4.) Admin priviliages are cloned between the two servers.

5.) The map rotation is currently dustbowl, goldrush, and badwater.

The server is now a 100% clone of #1, all except for the map rotation which is listed above, and we are eager to get the community using it as an alternative.

I would ask that all members of the ODR66 team try to use the secondary server when #1 has a steady population going, and lets work on growing this community via server #2!

Click the banner to view the server’s stats, or click the link below to see all our servers:
http://www.odr66.com/our-game-servers/

Posted in Adminstration , Team Fortress 2

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Map Vote Underway In The Forums

Acid Caribou

18, August

Now is your chance to have a say on which maps you’d like to play on the ODR66 Servers.

We are a community driven team, and look forward to seeing which of the new maps you love, and which once should be kicked to the curb.

Surf on over to the forums to cast your vote!

Posted in Adminstration , Team Fortress 2 , Valve

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TF2 Update August 17th 2009

Acid Caribou

17, August

Team Fortress 2/Day of Defeat: Source Update Released

August 17, 2009, 3:56 pm – Valve – Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Day of Defeat: Source

Fixed an engine crash

Team Fortress 2

Updated PL_Hoodoo. Changes from community mapmaker Tim Johnson:
- "Added a balcony at 2-1 that I’ve rotated and cleaned up so it’s a much better point, it attracts less sentry spam but is still holdable. 2-2 has a bit more breathing room and the one way route between BLU/RED spawn in stage 3 has gone and in its place some stairs up to the second level accessible from BLU’s side."
Added "tf_ctf_bonus_time" ConVar to set the CritBoost bonus time for capturing the intelligence (0 to disable it)
Added "tf_arena_first_blood" ConVar to toggle the first blood feature in Arena mode (0 to disable it)
Added missing snowpuff particles for DX8 players
Fixed rocket jumping
Fixed sticky bomb attachment to props. They will now only ignore the saws in sawmill
Fixed Scouts going into reference pose in double jumps
Fixed the Ubersaw not displaying team colors
Fixed Spies disguised as RED Scouts not cloaking properly
Removed two more text messages for TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND CTF game mode

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Server is Returning To Normal

Acid Caribou

15, August

After a pretty hectic 24 hours, things appear to be settling down, and life is largely returning returning to normal at Server #1. The newest SourceMod patch solved the crashing issue, and admin functions should be returning to normal.

I would also like to give a big shout out to JadeButterfly who has been invaluable helping to teach me the inner workings of the server, and has been instrumental in helping me to find, and troubleshoot recent issues.

Next time you see Jade on the server, make sure you thank him not just for being the founding visionary of ODR66, but for his ongoing contributions to the team.

No ETA yet for the return of Server #2, but we will keep you posted on this blog when service is restored.

(Image Credit: ShotNBlaze)

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TF2 Update August 14th 2009

Acid Caribou

14, August

August 14, 2009, 4:40 pm – Valve – Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Team Fortress 2

Fixed "r_rootlod" being marked as a cheat, which prevented it from being changed and caused a significant performance loss for some GPUs
Changed "The Big Hurt" Scout achievement to be "Stun 2 Medics that are ready to deploy an UberCharge."
Fixed Announcer overtime bug on KOTH servers using mp_timelimit
- Due to many requests, added server ConVar "tf_overtime_nag". When set to 1, it keeps the broken announcer behavior
Fixed tournament stopwatch not displaying the time in the HUD
Fixed a bug with cloak meter regen and drain rates
Fixed Spies not being able to go invis while reloading
Fixed pipebombs sticking to saw blades
Fixed weapons not being hidden properly during loser state anims
Fixed a case where radius damage didn’t reduce damage to self
- Fixes Demomen taking too much damage from their pipebombs
Fixed a case where items would never show up in the backpack, even though they were available to equip
Fixed a case where items weren’t being validated properly in class loadout slots

Community requests

Removed centerprint texts for TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND CTF game mode
Changed TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND capture reward from 30 kills to 1 capture

Posted in News , Patches , Team Fortress 2 , Valve

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SourceMod Chaos

Acid Caribou

13, August

I’m sure many of you have noticed by now that the ODR66 servers are offline. This is a result of the most recent patch, which breaks compatibility with our SourceMod plug-in platform.

I apologize for the outage, but Valve has changed the engine headers, and gave no advance notification to developers, or even bothered to record any of the changes to the official SDK.

At last count over 1000+ servers were also down as a result of this issue.

I am faced with either

1.) Ripping out SourceMod and restoring the server to defaults, simple, but fixing this later when a patch is available will be hell.

2.) Putting faith in the SourceMod guys to fix the problem tonight (something they claim to be working on).

I appreciate your patience, and hope you will all be back to the server once service is restored!

Thanks

- ODR66 Team

(Image Credit: Shane)

Posted in Adminstration , News , Team Fortress 2 , Valve

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Massive TF2 Update Aug 13th 2009

Acid Caribou

13, August

August 13, 2009, 10:56 am – Valve – Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
New Content

Added King Of The Hill game mode
Added custom animations played by the losing team during the post-win state. They are moved into third person camera to enjoy them
Added lots of new hats

Additions / Changes

Added "Auto Reload" option to the multiplayer advanced options
- Clip-based weapons that reload a full clip at a time can now have their reloads aborted by firing
Pistol now fires at a fixed rate, not based on the speed at which you press the firing button
Added a color blind option to add a Jarate icon above enemies who are busy accepting a terrifying existence where they have no dignity
Significantly reduced the amount of network traffic being sent
Capturing the flag in a CTF game mode gives the entire capturing team 10 seconds of critboost
Sappers attached to a teleporter automatically place another Sapper on the other end of the teleporter, if it exists
- Engineers wrenching a teleporter will repair the other end as well, and remove Sappers from both if they exist
Disguised Spies no longer trigger On-Hit effects (like the Blutsauger’s heal)
Removed self-inflicted minicrits. Fixes Jarate’d Soldiers/Demomen having ineffective rocket/grenade jumps
Added an item panel to the spectator cam that shows non-standard items being carried by the player you’re spectating
Added an "Inspect" key that allows you to look at items being carried by your team mates
Backpack improvements:
- Added drag & drop to move items around. Item positions are maintained on the backend
- Added multi-select, allowing you to delete multiple items at once
- Added a new key to the key binding page that opens your inventory directly to your backpack
- Fixed mouseover panel being incorrectly position when the backpack first appears
Cloaked Spies standing in valid backstab positions no longer raise their knife
Added current map name and gametype to the bottom right of scoreboard
Added class icons to tips on the loadout and loading screens
Improved visuals around flags when they’re being carried by a player
Improved critboosted visuals, making it much clearer when an enemy has critboost
Updated the loading panel to show the game type under the map name during level transition
In-game chat dialog now supports full Unicode characters
Added BLU main menu background
Added response caching for some server queries to help reduce the CPU load from DOS attacks
Teammates no longer block friendly radius damage. Prevents nearby teammates causing rocket/grenade jumps to fail

Map Changes

Update PLR_Pipeline
- Increased the starting advantage in the third round if a team has won the first two rounds
- Fixed carts not continuing to the second round if they’re capped at the same time in the first round
- Fixed being able to shoot pipebombs over the starting gates in the first round
- Fixed being able to open the doors in the first round before the setup time was finished
- Fixed players getting stuck in some doors
- Fixed players being able to get onto rooftops and out of the map boundaries
- Fixed other minor bugs and exploits
Added community map Arena_Offblast
Added community map Cp_Yukon
Update Arena_Sawmill
- Fixed DirectX8 bug where some models would not be visible
- Fixed exploit with building teleporters outside of the map
Updated CP_Granary
- Made a few changes to improve balance based on competitive community feedback

Item Reworks

The Force of Nature
- The enemy knockback now only works in close range and behaves more like the Pyro’s air blast
- Enemies cannot be juggled by the FaN’s effect
- The self-knockback has also changed to respect the firer’s view angle. Looking up while shooting will no longer propel the enemy upwards
- Knockback is now scaled by damage done
The Sandman
- A Scout will receive 1 point for stunning an enemy and 2 points for a long range stun
- Stunned players now take 75% of all incoming damage instead of 50%
- Ubercharged players can no longer be stunned
- Heavies spinning their mini-guns will continue to spin when stunned (whether the left or right mouse button is pressed)
- The minimum distance to stun a target has been reduced
- The negative attribute has changed from "no double jump" to "-25 max health"

Fixes

Fixed various issues around layout & presentation of items inside the Backpack and "X is carrying" item dialogs
Fixed an exploit that allowed players to work around sv_pure
Particle files are now protected by sv_pure
Fixed critboost effect getting stuck on when you die while critboosted
Fixed Timer HUD element backgrounds not being the correct color if you change teams during waiting for players
Fixed a couple of issues with the way critboosts affected The Huntsman and the Spy’s knife
Fixed an exploit where you could reload The Huntsman faster than intended
Fixed Heavy "civilian" exploit
Fixed a set of exploits using the DXSupport config files
Fixed r_screenfademinsize and r_screenfademaxsize exploits
Fixed sentries firing at a fully cloaked Spy if they’re still the closest target

Community requests

Added a HUD element for hybrid CTF & CP maps
- Supports 1 or 2 flags, and any number of CPs
- Mapmakers need to place a "tf_logic_hybrid_ctf_cp" entity in their map to enable it
Added custom kill server log text "train" and "saw" for deaths caused by these environmental hazards
- Format: "%s<%i><%s><%s>" committed suicide with "world" (customkill "%s") (attacker_position "%d %d %d")
Added new "medic_death" event for server logs
- Format: "%s<%i><%s><%s>" triggered "medic_death" against "%s<%i><%s><%s>" (healing "%d") (ubercharge "%s")
  - healing is the amount the Medic healed in that life
  - ubercharge (1/0) is whether they died with a full charge
Added "func_respawnflag" trigger entity. It will remove & return the flag if a flag carrier touches it, or if the flag falls into it

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Hidden Pages Inside New Update

Obamaminator

11, August

As many of you know, today the TF2 Blog began Day 1 of the Classless Update, which was centered around the availability of 18 new hats and a new arena map. What many of you don’t know is that Valve hid links to “easter eggs” inside the update page. This was brought to my attention by Axon, who found three of them. One of the links was in the monocle of the man wearing the top hat on the left. As you can see, very sneaky of Valve. The links below should still work unless Valve deactivated them. Enjoy.