++Beer Garden++ - Games & Beer What Else Could You Possibly Need?

Published by Shafe on 2008/9/5 (2 reads)

After attempting to upgrade the Beer Garden Open Arena server to 0.8.0, I've ran into some issues.

First of, the server requires an older version of GLIBC.

/lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by ./oa_ded.i386)

I was able to compile a debug build from the source, but no one can connect.

The server runs Debian.

Furthermore, I can't get the game to run on windows on my home machine. Any help getting this up and running would be much appreciated.

Go to the forum thread http://www.beer-garden.org/bg2/forum/index.php/topic,1784.0.html

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EF Aimbot in the wild.. How server admins can break it.

Published by Shafe on 2008/7/31 (194 reads)

There is an aimbot making it's rounds for Elite Force, causing a lot of headaches for a lot of players. Apparently it's popping up a bit more on European servers than it is on US servers.

The good news is, there is a simple setting that server admins can use to break it so that it doesn't work on their servers.

Simply change your SV_MAXRATE to 8000. I know that seems low, but thats what the Beer Garden has always used.

Some people think they need to set the SV_MAXRATE super high, when in fact on slower connections with a lot of players it'll cause the players to lag, as this is the setting that allocates how much bandwidth each individual client is entitled to -- thus making sure there is plenty to go around.

If you set this too high, players on faster connections run the risk of lagging out those on slower connections. Setting it too low, causes everyone to lag.

Over the course of experimentation over the past 7 years, it seems like 8000 works well for servers of up to 20-24 player slots.

An easy fix, to thwarte some annoying cheaters.

- Shafe

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Cryptic Studios officially announces Star Trek Online development

Published by Picard on 2008/7/28 (69 reads)

Yes it is official Star Trek Online is back in production which may or may not make trekkies around the world rejoice.

Pulled from http://www.startrekonline.com/

Quote:

CRYPTIC STUDIOS LICENSES RIGHTS TO PRODUCE STAR TREK ONLINE
Trek Fans Worldwide Are Invited to MMO Gamplay Reveal at Annual Star Trek Convention August 10, 2008 or Via Live Webcast at http://www.startrekonline.com/
Los Gatos, Calif. – Cryptic Studios™, a leading developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), announced today that it has secured the global rights to develop and publish Star Trek® Online, a massively multiplayer online game based on the legendary Star Trek franchise, from CBS Consumer Products.

STO ScreenShots

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World Of Padman In Talks With Game Publisher?

Published by Shafe on 2008/7/27 (60 reads)

An interesting news item over at WoP HQ:

Well, now is the time to come clean with you and tell you why we were so discreet, why we couldn't post any news and why we had some trouble with our team.
The situation became harder and harder for us and we were just unhappy about the actual situation, so I decided to tell you about what's going on, to give this statement.

So, what did happen? What compelled us to close the doors in front of you? The easy solution for all those questions is: "publisher". Yes, there really was a publisher who was interested in selling WoP as a low budget game.
Many of us saw a real chance in it. The chance to make ourselves a professional name and the chance to have a honorable conclusion for our little game.
So we began to work harder and harder, beginning with the new game types and we also embarked on our single player game option. We designed new maps, new models and new power ups. We overhauled all 2500 map-textures, all shaders etc. The store version of WoP should notably differ from the free version, there should be a good reason to buy WoP in the stores.

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Beer Garden Urban Terror Server Experiment

Published by Shafe on 2008/7/21 (43 reads)

As an experiment and for a change of pace the CTF server which has only had occasional play lately has been changed to a TDM server running only two maps. Riyadh and Ramelle. These are both larger more popular maps giving room to strafe jump, camp, use the scoped weapons including the snipers (did I say that out loud?) and offer a different type of game play than smaller maps like swim or turnpike. Maybe add/substitute Kingdom or Oildepot in the future but I thought we would start with two of the classic UrT 4.0 maps. Why only two? Especially newer players like to get comfortable with just a map or two while they get used to the game. Being lost and not knowing the map is one of the bigger deterrents for a new player. This should help them get through the learning curve a bit quicker and they may progress to BG's other UrT server with almost all the maps. Either way, we gain a greater player base.

Obviously, if you don't like this idea, BGs regular UrT TDM server will still be running strong for those that want a more complete game. This won't replace it.

Forum Thread Here: http://www.beer-garden.org/bg2/forum/index.php/topic,1728.0.html

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Xreal Releases New Release

Published by Shafe on 2008/7/21 (45 reads)

Getting Quake 3 to look like DOOM 3 and/or Quake 4 becomes a little easier each time the XreaL project releases a new build, and that has happened yet again! The new XreaL_PreAlpha_20080704.7z is now available and offers some fixes, optimizations and includes optional directional light mapping and a slightly adapted DarkRadiant level editor.

About Xreal:
XreaL will be a non-commercial multiplayer only first person shooter based on a heavily modified Quake 3 Arena engine (id Tech 3). The aim is to push the rendering technology until it can be compared with current commercial titles and then to produce a playable Total Conversion. Quake 3 Arena's gameplay will be only slightly modified. The simpleness of the original game will stay but the game media will be replaced completely with high quality assets that match the new engine's technology.

Download Now: http://www.beer-garden.org/bg2/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=2&lid=183

Xreal Website: http://xreal.sourceforge.net/xrealwiki

via PlanetQuake

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Beer Garden Launches UrT CTF Server

Published by Shafe on 2008/6/27 (69 reads)

We're doing an experiment for now, to see how it goes. We've taken down our Tremulous server (which has been quiet for several months) and launched a 2nd Urban Terror server.

The 2nd UrT Server is setup for 30 players and is running CTF.

You can join in @ 72.36.180.26:27960.

The server pages will be updated shortly.

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Player Models For Urban Terror 4.2 Screenshots.

Published by Shafe on 2008/6/21 (206 reads)

Over at the UrT forums, they have posted up some screenshots of some of the player models for the upcoming Urban Terror 4.2

See Them Here:
http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php

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EF: Looking for mirrors for the PK3 Repository

Published by Shafe on 2008/6/17 (70 reads)

Just recently we lost our primary mirror of the Elite Force PK3 Repository. Quite possibly the largest repository of maps for Elite Force in existence. We now are only running on one mirror with all the other domains aliased to that particular mirror.

If anyone out there can offer any help mirroring, we have syncing scripts written for linux, drop us a line.

It worries me to have such a vast resource only in one place.

Email: admin (at) beer-garden.org

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Trek Actors Release Final Act of Star Trek: Of Gods And Men

Published by Shafe on 2008/6/16 (71 reads)

In this action packed final installment we are introduced to 3 new characters played by Daamen J. Krall, Herbert Jefferson Jr. and Grace Lee Whitney as well as cameos from guest stars of the original Star Trek series such as Arlene Martel, Jack Donner, Tania Lemani and Celeste Yarnall. Act 3 gives us a spectacular battle between Rebel and Galactic Order forces while dealing with the personal dilemmas of our principal characters as they uncover more revelations, culminating in the final outcome of the story. This final act has a great mixture of drama, action and suspense sure to please Star Trek fans of all ages.

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men stars Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura and Chekov from original Star Trek) along with Alan Ruck (Captain John Harriman of the seventh feature film, Star Trek Generations). Joining them are Grace Lee Whitney (original Star Trek ); Garrett Wang and Ethan Phillips (Voyager); Cirroc Lofton, Chase Masterson and JG Hertzler (Deep Space Nine), Gary Graham and Crystal Allen (Enterprise), Herb Jefferson (Battlestar Galactica) plus Tim Russ (Voyager), who also directed.

Producer Sky Douglas Conway and Deep Space Nine freelance storywriters Jack Trevino and Ethan H. Calk wrote OGAM . Director of photography is Doug Knapp . In addition, many artists in the field of makeup and lighting have joined them for what has proved to be a history-making event.

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men was produced in association with newvoyages.com and was filmed in part on the “New Voyages” set in New York state as well as locations in Los Angeles.

Watch it here:
http://scifi.dragonfly.com/renegade/stogamst448/

Visit the site here:
http://www.startrekofgodsandmen.net/

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VOIP support in the IOQUAKE3 Engine!

Published by Shafe on 2008/6/6 (94 reads)

From the IOQUAKE3 Site:

Lets examine two quick points:
Hardcore gamers like choices.
Hardcore gamers like VOIP.

Based on these theories, ioquake3 is adding VOIP support for the next release. This internal support is going to bring along with it support for (entirely optional) Mumble positional VOIP audio. More nerd-speak after the break, the short and quick of it is, however:

We’re going to have VOIP for mods/new games, and baseq3. This is a pretty radical departure from the initial goal of not changing anything in baseq3, and is probably the single largest (obvious) end-user benefit for using ioquake3.

The fact of the matter is that if you want to blame someone for allowing it to be included, you can blame me (Zachary, lead omnipresent overseer of ioquake and related entities). If, however, this makes you happy and you want to praise somebody, give either big ups OR big props to Ryan Gordon (lead intergalactic space nerd) and Ludwig (Herr Angst).

The Voip Support is already in the ioq3 SVN..

Read the full story here:
http://ioquake3.org/2008/05/30/voip-support-in-svn/#more-69

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New Admins At UrTAdmins.com

Published by Shafe on 2008/6/5 (76 reads)

From The UAA:

Let us congratulate our new UAA site Admins Furax, Decoy, Pyranwolf on their promotion and continued effort to keep the site going.

First let us thank everyone that has been contributing demos over the last year. We have grown quite a bit and with that so has our list of bans. but our work is far from over...

We have another 90 demos of suspected cheaters waiting to be viewed and voted on by members like you. So if you have time please drop by the site and view a few and give us your vote (f1 or f2 in comments).

Thanks in advance, The UAA team.

Remember UAA is Powered by You!
http://www.urtadmins.com/

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An End to Lag Spikes On The Beer Garden + Other Updates

Published by Shafe on 2008/6/4 (95 reads)

Open Arena Server Updated to 0.7.7
The Beer Garden Open Arena Server has been updated to the newest update. Enjoy, grab the patch in our download area.

No changes have been made to the server configuration as of yet, if you have suggestion post em here:
http://www.beer-garden.org/bg2/forum/index.php/board,16.0.html

No More Lag
After a lot of work fine tuning the server and getting some more concise monitoring going on. Seems like we've solved the Lag issue. The WoP server will remain down until we can figure out the issues with it. WoP was causing the lag issues.

Twitter Feed
We've added a twitter feed. Aside from manual updates, some of the server monitoring is tied into the feed, so that's the best place for the fasted updates:
http://twitter.com/beergarden
Follow the Beer Garden!

There is also a box with updates on the main page on the left side.

That's all for now,
Cheers,
Shafe

After some amount of work,

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Open Arena 0.7.7 Patch Released

Published by Shafe on 2008/6/3 (96 reads)

Anyway, this is mainly a bugfix release. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you upgrade from 0.7.6 to 0.7.7 (or rather, from 0.7.1 to 0.7.6 to 0.7.7 for half of you)

- Fixed "Getting stuck bug"
- Fixed logging bug
- Fixed UI crash
- Fixed overflow in Multiplayer list + Some of beast's changes to server list (longer names)
- Instantgib and All rockets disabled during single player startup
- Clears nextmap after single player
- Windows only: new SDL.dll allows Caps Lock and Num Lock to be used as keys.
- Using protocol number 69, this should only now show servers running 0.7.7 (In other words, no more lotsofservers with 'invalid game folder' error)

Get it here:
http://www.beer-garden.org/bg2/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=3&lid=144

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Lag Spikes on The Beer Garden

Published by Shafe on 2008/5/27 (85 reads)

We've had this intermittent problem of lag spikes, and then an ongoing lag on some of the Beer Garden game servers. This is being caused by a runaway process that hangs and sucks up all the processor resources.

I'm looking into the issue so hopefully I can figure out why this is happening. In the meantime, The servers will be sending sms messages whenever processor usage gets beyond a certain point for more than a minute or two. This should help identify exactly what is causing the problem..

Stay tuned.. all will be well again soon.

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Star Trek Of Gods And Men - Part 3 Release Date Announced

Published by Shafe on 2008/5/25 (98 reads)

Part III of the highly-praised internet webisode Star Trek: Of Gods and Men will premiere on
Sunday, June 15th at 5:01 p.m. Eastern Time
(Please note, there may be a possiblity of it being released earlier than June 15th, so stay tuned!)

In this action packed final installment we are introduced to 3 new characters played by Daamen J. Krall, Herbert Jefferson Jr. and Grace Lee Whitney as well as cameos from guest stars of the original Star Trek series such as Arlene Martel, Jack Donner, Tania Lemani and Celeste Yarnall. Act 3 gives us a spectacular battle between Rebel and Galactic Order forces while dealing with the personal dilemmas of our principal characters as they uncover more revelations, culminating in the final outcome of the story. This final act has a great mixture of drama, action and suspense sure to please Star Trek fans of all ages.

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men stars Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura and Chekov from original Star Trek) along with Alan Ruck (Captain John Harriman of the seventh feature film, Star Trek Generations). Joining them are Grace Lee Whitney (original Star Trek ); Garrett Wang and Ethan Phillips (Voyager); Cirroc Lofton, Chase Masterson and JG Hertzler (Deep Space Nine), Gary Graham and Crystal Allen (Enterprise), Herb Jefferson (Battlestar Galactica) plus Tim Russ (Voyager), who also directed.

Producer Sky Douglas Conway and Deep Space Nine freelance storywriters Jack Trevino and Ethan H. Calk wrote OGAM . Director of photography is Doug Knapp . In addition, many artists in the field of makeup and lighting have joined them for what has proved to be a history-making event.

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men was produced in association with newvoyages.com and was filmed in part on the “New Voyages” set in New York state as well as locations in Los Angeles.

http://www.startrekofgodsandmen.com/

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