BF3Blog has details on a new server patch now available for
Battlefield 3 addressing some issues with DICE's military shooter sequel, offering fixes for AA missiles and the "MAV elevator" glitch among other things. Clients need not do anything, as this is a server-only update. Here are the change notes:
- Fixed AA missiles not doing damage to vehicles moving at very high speeds
- Fixed TV Missile doing much more damage than it should (it is no longer a 1-hit kill)
- Tweaked tank armor strength
- MAV elevatoring fix, round 2; proning on the MAV will now disable it
- RCON admin.say command can send to individual players
- A few invalid map+gamemode combinations in maplist.txt could crash the server on startup; these combinations are now rejected instead
- RCON vars.serverDescription was not returning anything in R20 if the string was not set; this has been changed to return “” instead
- RCON player.onChat now reports the target player subset
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new update on the official website for
The Repopulation introduces the Setlang, one of the native species of Rhyldan, the setting of Above and Beyond Technologies' upcoming science fiction MMORPG. The update describes he creatures as well as their pack mentality, including the role of the alpha male.
PC Gamer reproduces what's purported to be a handbook for new employees at Valve, the privately held video game developer that created Half-Life half a lifetime ago. This appears to be bona fide, and offers additional details and insights on the company's unusual hierarchy and way of conducting business.
Rockstar Games now offers the online version of a new
Max Payne 3 TV Commercial that just began airing for the upcoming third-person shooter sequel. This provides the chance to start your own TV network and charge them to show this to yourself.
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HotHardware - If You Resell Your Used Games, The Terrorists Win. Thanks Ant via Slashdot.
Both Browne and Braben conflate hating GameStop (a thoroughly reasonable life choice) with the supposed evils of the used games market. Braben goes so far as to claim that used games are actually responsible for high game prices and that "prices would have come down long ago if the industry was getting a share of the resells." Amazingly, no game publishers have stepped forward to publicly pledge themselves to lower game prices in exchange for a cut of used game sales.
Okay, it's on for real today, as I have a couple of steaks to fire up on the new man stove and put it through its proper paces. Time to come up with a national anthem: Hail hail Manstovia.....
R.I.P.:
Hillman Curtis, a Pioneer in Web Design, Dies at 51. Thanks Neutronbeam.
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