Gaming News

It was another good CS night over at GAME.NET. Turnout was better than previous weeks, and a good game was had by all.

Check the diary for the next BF1942 games.

Fancy a good game of CS? How about a bit of Ghost Recon? If so, head over to GAME.NET and check out the diary of events. There is plenty going on, and DFC members are to be found getting thrashed on GAME.NET servers.

For the weekly Ghost Recon event run by DFC's Mesmer and Trebz, check out the event forum thread.

Well, after a long absence, the DFC web site is back - this time in PHP/MySQL format. I suppose we'd better start playing some games to write about again :)

As a result of the uncertainty of the future of BarrysWorld, the DFC site has moved to MesmerWorld. MesmerWorld offers ASP and database which will enable DFC to continue with its active content.

BarrysWorld have recently launched their Team Registration service. Any BarrysWorld member can register a team, which is made up of any number of BarrysWorld members.

DFC have registered themselves. Find our details here.

You can also view the full Team List

Not that we had anything to do with it or anything ;-)

England 2 - 3 Portugal,
England 1 - 0 Germany,
England 2 - 3 Romania.

Once again we fail at football. :-(

EvilGoblin has gone and gotten himself a girl....those of you who know Gobs to be the vulgar and smelly little man that he is will be shocked at the amount of effort he puts in to be charming in her company.

The courtship was well worth the price of admission as two more drunk people have rarely been seen together. Nice one. :-)

This site has today moved home as part of the BarrysWorld hosted site restructure. If anyone notices any problems with the site as a result of the move, eg broken links, please mail Mesmer.

The Easter LAN party at Bob's (aka Lynx) was a resounding success. Much beer and food was consumed by all, and many games were played....including the hugely popular "bar football" game :)
Thanks to Ben (Ted the Dog) for a celebrity appearance, and the rest of the DF Clan for making the effort (even Friday's footy was great !).
Quake 3 Arena put in a healthy (and surprisingly popular) showing......and of course lots of UT was played by all.
Unfortunately driving games were a bit thin on the ground, but a few decent Motocross madness tournies satiated some of the angst.
The longest "sess"'s however, have to go to the mammoth AoK games that seemed to go on forever,.....certainly into the early hours of every morning that I can (barely) remember !!
I am crap at AoK, but I enjoyed them immensely.

A good time seemed to be had by everyone that turned up.....thanks to Bob for his hospitality again......and to everyone that made the weekend a success.

Gobs not only smells of poo poo but is also a sweaty hob-goblin from hell - he is also ugly , can't play games to save his tribe and doesn't even know what a beer is - need we say more ?

Anon
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The traditional Easter LAN Party is on at Bob's this weekend.

In other news, Gobs smells of poo poo.

Congratulations to Fox and his new wife on the happy occassion of their wedding. A splendid day was had by all - as usual the Desert Fox members were the last to leave the party after dancing and drinking the night away.

Happy 2000.

At least somebody remembers the good old Quake news page. Last week on DF Clan...

The Clan were hiding out in old man Jeeper's beach house while the Feds investigated DF_Mesmer for arson and burglary. Hearing about their glorious leaders plight, the clan rallied at Newark rail station and proceeded to the West bay.

Under cover of moonlight they tried to break into the high security stockade containing the falsified ars-burglary evidence planted by Agent Manson Mildew in a vain attempt to cover his own tracks (see episode II(12)).

Could the Clan escape the beach house, using DF_Wij's new found Age of Kings skills ? Or were they destined for another night of DF_AngryDaz's tales of the time he got a frag.

Watch this space for news of this week's enthralling adventures...

DF are now to enter the MCW Cup straight into round 2 following the pulling out of a couple of clans. Therefore, our first game in the competition is on Tuesday 30th November at 8:00pm against HSC (see fixture list).

DF welcome Jace (aka The Borg) to DF for their final QW foray - the MCW Cup. We were also hoping to get Belgarion to play for us, but alas he has sold his modem.

Jace was clanless after the folding of Mere Mortals. This was unfortunate as we have had some great practice matches against them (although you could count our wins on one finger), and it was MM that helped DF get off the ground in the first place. Offloading EvilGoblin onto us wasn't exactly fair tho lads ;-)

Our first cup match has been rescheduled for Tuesday 23rd November against KTF. Should be fun :)

The latest UT demo (348) is out, the patch from the last one is on the BW FTP. If you don't have a 3dfx card (or you have, for instance, 2 voodii and a TNT2Ultra) then you'll appreciate the nicely enhanced D3D code. It now runs a fair bit faster on my Xentor32 under D3D than dual voodii under Glide.

The draw for the group stage of this season's MCW Cup has been made. DFC are drawn in a group with UTI, JAMS and the much improved WZ. The first 2 games are on Wednesday 27th October - see Fixtures page for further details.

WZ and UTI are solid 2nd Division clans which will provide us with difficult opposition. JAMS are newcomers to MCW, so we've little to go on there.

As ever, there will be practices on the Sunday and Tuesday before the game.

The UT 3dfx demo came out last night. Faster and chunkier than the beta it's real hectic 2 play the moment :))) (partly because most servers support 12 players on maps designed for 6 or so.)

BW ftp has the correct version (322) so snag it from their FTP. CYA on a server soon

It looks like DF have finished their MCW season, with the final two games being defaults. QC have been defaulting all season, so we have no game on the final week.

This season has been a bit of a disappointment following last season's Div4 win, with half of our games being defaults (and getting stuffed in 3 of the 4 games we actually played). After reading Bif's mail re the future of the MCW, I have to agree - modem gaming will not last much longer. A single unrestricted ping league is definitely the way forward if QW is to remain popular at all.

DF have played their last ever MCW game, but would happily take part in a new unrestricted league, preferably on a day other than Wednesday :) (argueably our two best players cannot play on Wednesdays - bit of a bugger really)

The other direction that DF could take would be to try a different game. After playing an early beta of Unreal Tournament for quite some time, I have to say that it has great potential. The weapons are cool (I love the rocket launcher's ability to fire 5 at once :)), and there isn't all the obscuring fog and smoke that Q3 seems to possess. It's clean and fast, and I believe it will appeal greatly to QW die-hards. I believe the next test version is out today - Reubs..... :)

I would once again like to thank the MCW admins for their work over the years. To receive abuse and no-shows week after week for no reward must be commended.
Also thanks to the DF members who turn up for every game, even when it's only to collect the default. It's very annoying when clans don't have the decency to let you know they'll be defaulting - cheers lads.

Skon is now lpb too !!!