UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Many of you may remember Hertz from a few months back, a top clan that consisted of some very skilled players like AKuJii and Dark0r who now play for I-eS. Well Hertz has reformed with a few of the old line-up and some fresh blood. I caught up with NuK for a lowdown on the current situation.



As soon as the final line-up is announced i'll update this post. Hertz are currently in CSGN division 2 and have a match tonight at 8pm, details on the main news page.

There's no website up at the moment but you can find them in #Hertz on Quakenet. Best of luck to Hertz in the future.

This week there's a rather big update from Steam which will add some considerable changes to the game as we know it, the biggest being the changes to the money system.

COUNTER-STRIKE:

Fixed bug where shield would be invisible if a player picked the shield up immediately after throwing a grenade.

The round timer is now disabled when the bomb is planted.

The winning defensive team now gets the same amount of money whether they win by round timeout or not ($3250 instead of $2000)

Players on the offensive team who survive the round due to a round timeout no longer receive money the next round.

The Terrorists get an additional $800 per player if they plant the bomb but lose the round.

Fixed exploit where when a player died they could sometimes join the other team during the same round.

ENGINE:

Fixed custom decals not being downloaded from the server correctly.

Fixed custom decals drawing incorrectly for the host of a listen server after another player joins.

Fixed vgui textures being corrupted after going over a number of level changes.

Fixed problem where player would be sometimes be forced to look straight up after task switching in and out of game in fullscreen d3d mode.

Fixed problem in sound system where it wouldn’t properly be shutdown at the end of a .wav file.

Fixed banner picture not working correctly in HLTV.

VGUI:

Changed the way that Asian fonts are displayed in game for compatibility on more platforms.

Optimized VGUI to use less system resources when running on the desktop.

GAMEUI:

Fixed error message that was cut off when a player was disconnected from a game server.

Over at the BBC website they have written an article covering the CXG which focuses mainly on the players who attended the event from all parts of the globe.



Checkout the article in full here.

CXG Interview Movie: ScOOp over at ESReality managed to interview the Cyber X Games CEO Joe Hill shortly after the cancellation of the Counter-Strike tournament. Joe talks about the problems that occured at the event and who he thinks is to blame for them. The movie weigh's in at 217m/b, you can grab it from here, registration required, or here.

CyberAthlete Amatuer League or CAL for short will be making changes to their league rules due to the pending Steam update. The roundtime which is usualy 3 minutes will be dropped to 2 minutes 30 seconds now that the new money system is in place, they hope to create a faster more action packed game. Although this is only for a test period to see how it works out.

Cliffe, the co-creator of Counter-Strike and present VALVe employee, has announced a few more changes to CS for the next Steam update. Speaking after feedback from a recent article on GotFrag?, he unveiled some decisions by VALVe - often regarded as ignoring the community (after the changes in jumping in 1.4 and the steam/shield/1.6 affair) - that they hope to implement this time next week:



Cliffe has also requested community opinions on the controversial shield, and has invited us to e-mail such opinions to cliffe (at) valvesoftware (dot) com.

These problems have long been in CS and the time for which they should have been fixed by is long overdue. Hopefully, however, their response time to the 'smoke bug' won't be quite so long...

*update*

Although not explicity mentioned, has the smoke bug been fixed on the quiet? A few people have been saying it wasn't working anymore, and a check of this proved them right...

An admin employed during the recent eSports catastrophe, the Cyber X Games, has written a first-hand account of all the organisational failures of the event, in quite a lot of detail. One interesting part summarises the security - or lack of - at the event, as we all know there was major theft of Shuttle PC machines as well as other equipment.



As you can see by this short extract, the whole security front was faulted, let alone the general tournament. For the entire article, see hardheads.org/CXG/CXG.html.