Gaming News

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 !!!

DF won last night by default against BB. Well done to Mesmer and all the other DFs desperate to play in IRC :)

The schedules for the new MCW season have been published, with DF opening their Division 3 campaign against Insomnia Resurrected on Wednesday 11th August.

We've had some good games against IR in the past, so this should be a good opener.

The new MCW season starts August 10th. Time to wipe the dust (or whatever) off your mice and modems and get back into practice.

Also BT has announced it's beginning it's ADSL roll-out (perhaps) so feel free to join in the LPB party all :)

Check out the IRC log that some DFs knocked up whilst bored on a friday afternoon at work. Who said British industry was full of lazy incompetant morons just filling in the time eh?

A new Fox of the Week is now available. Catch the Flying Fox and you're in for a treat :Þ

DF finished their season in style, with good wins over GM and iC. Of the two games, only one was of a serious nature - cheers GM :)
When iC realised they were well beaten, they played their usual childish trick of only using axes. This not only trvialises the game, but it makes for a waste of time for the other team involved. Tossers.

That said, DF went through the season with a 100% record - a big thanks and well played to all clan members for a superb effort :)

DFC play their final fixtures of the season tonight against GM and iC. Both clans have had good results this season and these will not be easy games. However, after a 40 hour marathon LAN session over the weekend, we are in top condition.
Sort of.

With our excellent frag difference, we only need to win one of these two fixtures. Also, PN(B) face Strike Force this evening, who have had a very strong finish to the season. Perhaps they could do us a favour or two...

DFC faced PN(B) tonight in what should be the deciding match in Div4 of the MCW this season. Up to this game, both DFC and PN(B) had 100% records. After a well fought game, DFC emerged winners by 142 frags to 74.

Woohooooo :)

Can all clan members please download an updated E3M1 LOC file from the site prior to Tuesday's practice. The one posted prior to Sunday's friendlies has been replaced.

Following last week's fiasco against the spirited iC, DFC look likely to field an unchabged side to face them in the rematch.
This is DF's first grudge match, and I for one can't wait :)
Check the forum on the iC site for a good laugh :) (Also check the poor spelling :)

After 3 system rebuilds and some extreme swearing and mouse abuse Wij is finally an LPB. Oooh :)

DFC have now won their first 3 league matches in a row, something quite unprecidented for us. Well played to all who have taken part, and thanks to the rest of the clan for making the practices possible :)