UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

With 2007 passing not long ago, I think one thing that was a big let down this year to most people was the CSPromod. With its initial release dating back to mid-October, it was bug-ridden and not much seemed to have been done in the 24 months since its publication by drax.

Fast-forward two and a half months, and an update on the progress! Alex "chibsquad" Garfield, the executive director for the project, released a statement on their website:

"We have completed work on CSPromod Beta 1.02, which addresses a number of bugs, provides significant additions, and also tweaks several crucial gameplay elements. Closed testing took place over the weekend with very successful results. We are now finishing up some late additions and preparing to release the version publicly. Exact information will be provided soon.

CSP Beta 1.02 Release Notes:
-Added first-person damage indicators
-Fixed wall-spawn/crash bug
-Maps now have 20 spawn points per side
-Added buy equipment menu
-Added 3D headshot "gooshes"
-Rifle burst/"single-tap" spread/kick tweaked
-Grenade arc, velocity, and bounce tweaked
-Scoped movement speed tweaked
-Death notifications are no longer offset to the right on player team switches and suicides
-Death notifications no longer occur on player disconnects
-Switching to the knife after firing any weapon no longer causes an immediate "stopsound" effect
-Grenade bounce sounds added
-Fall damage sounds added
-Bomb indicator added on scoreboard (T's only)
-Time after round end extended to 5 seconds
-Shooting while defusing is no longer possible
-Mp_restartgame now occurs immediately
-Fixed AWP muzzle flash animation bug
-Fixed muzzle flash animation bug on reload for all guns
-Added auto-assign option to team selection menu
-Priming a grenade at the end of a round no longer allows it to be thrown in freezetime of the next round
-Added death notification graphic for HE grenade
-Fixed AWP zoom animation bug
-Name changes while dead are no longer possible

Thanks for your support,

Alex"

It seems that during the absence of community updates, Garfield and his team have been working on fixing and enhancing numerous issues within the game. With the 1.02 beta update release just around the corner, is this going to be the game which breaks away in 2008? Only time will tell...

After having some roster problems towards the end of last year the first day of 2008 will see a new squad formed under the wooSai banner. With a few old hands and some fresh new talent they will be aiming to put themselves on the map and compete with mTw (NoA) for the title of Danish No.1

Their new roster looks like this:

FaG

pzyclone

telli

vimo

woodi

Good luck to them as they enter 2008 with high hopes and new dreams and especially to vimo who reportedly won the QTOUR competition in Denmark and was recently seen playing CSource for Copenhagen eSports.

Now fully into the New Year and only a week before the KODE5 US qualifier already the wheels have started to come off for a number of US teams. x3o is the major loser with n0thing moving to bitter rival eMg a week before the qualifier whilst eMg themselves drop phobius and lim. To complete their roster for the KODE5 qualifier they will be using former Dallas Venom player aZn as a stand-in for the event.

This mini shake-up leaves both teams in a state of flux as they will essentially be competing as mix teams in the qualifier and x3o still need to find a last minute replacement for their squad.

eMg roster:

n0thing

evolution

Che

steno

aZn (stand-in)

x3o roster:

goodfornothing

impulsive

mehLer

PaTyoJoN

Good luck to both teams.

Top UK team straightsix have today announced their return to the UK 1.6 circuit. Consisting of members from their previous lineup, as well as some new faces, the clan will be looking to shake things up after what is traditionally a slow period in UK CS.

Ct-R had this to say:

Yes folks, we're back!!

Taking part in EDCSL division 2 we will be hoping to own up the UK scene with our own unique blend of tactical knowledge and extreme aim.

We'll also be trying to attend as many LANs as possible!

straight6 is:

Ct-R
mfig
dzl
raz-
Necroblob
McD
deadman^
Luke

Good luck!

#straightsix

The Finnish 1.6 squad of CMAX.gg have now announced they are leaving the server company. The former Logitech.fi team cited a lack of support from CMAX.gg as the main reason for their departure.

Slaava "Twista" Rasanen had this to say:

CMAX.gg is a game-server provider, not an organization. They can't really fulfill our needs, so this step was a necessary one.

The team will continue to play for CMAX.gg until they find a new organization to join.

CMAX.gg is:

Konsta "kookas" Kaisla
Antti "Shiri" Makinen
Matti "SpikeOne" Jarvinen
Tino "tihOp" Puumala
Slaava "Twista" Rasanen

Good luck.