[News Archive]

June 25

Errr... I was kidding about that porn thing.... Anyway, has everyone tried AllStar2? It rocks! New maps, plus I played Classic CTF for the first time! ROCK! And, for even more rockyness, download Essobie's RA2 Desktop theme! Get it from here: http://planetquake.com/ra2io/ It's kicks ass! ROCK! ROCK! ROCK! ROCK! ROCK! ROCK! Now that that's out of my system... I added How to make a good CTF map to the Other Stuff section, and a rant on cheating in the Rants section.

June 22

It's my birthday! Send pr0n!! I was hoping to get the TW maps done, but they're more complicated then expected. I only have half done. Anyway, I decided to launch the Other Stuff section today. When the TW maps will be done, I dunno. I hope soon, but it is my birthday after all. Cut me a break. Anyway, my secret invisible counter hit 1000 today. I'd like to thank everyone who has come to this site since it's been here. And I'd really like to thank everyone's whose played with me, you guys have teached me new tips and tricks that I've posted on this site. Anyway, havbe a happy Kerbuffelian Birthday Day!

June 21

My refridgerator broke! I have to eat all my food! My soda reseves are getting warm! And the stupid repairman can't come til tomorrow! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

June 10

I just thought I'd update to say this: everyone should download the Coconut Monkey single player map from PCGamer. It's the most fun I've had playing Single Player since I beat the Quake2 ones. Go get it here to get it. I've seen some really good SP Quake2 levels coming out. Even if you're a die hard multiplayer Quaker, give some a try. Go to Single Player Quake2 Level Heaven or Lt. Dan's Single Player Quake2. Anyway, related to this site, I added a Rocket Jumping section to the Tips n' Tricks page of Chapter 2: Offense.. And I'll leave you with this little Thunderwalker II tip: Rocket Launcher + Quad + Protection Tech. Wahoo!

June 9

Demos! I opened the demos section! Right now there's 5 demos, and more in the works. I'd like to thank Dakota for this great idea. The Demo Section is here. Now, I can begin some new stuff, but I'll have to figure out what...

June 7

I'm working on the demos section now since I netscaped all the pages I had to and am completly on schedule. there's a problem with the where how I show to bypass the lasers on Teleport Center; the lasers aren't showing up. Oh well. If anyone has any demos that are useful for teaching stuff, send the to me Thanks.

June 5

Wahoo! I'm hosted by Captured.com! After a few technical diffulculties, which were all my fault, (Never, ever check your mail at 3am. Everything looks like 'free XXX hardcore!!!!'), I got off to a tad of a late start. But I'm sure I'll thrive here. I can feel it. Anyway, new pages (lmctf and config) are getting Netscaped.

May 27

Okay, I ran out of space. I'm dead in the water. I'm trying to get on to the CTF megasite Captured.com! Dakota said that he'd be willing to let me join once I'm ready, but that doesn't seem to be possible. :( Anyway, I haven't Netscaped the new pages (config and lmctf). I'm learning about demos. I figure I'll have a lot more time to work on this stuff in the summer. I'm really sorry.

May 26

I did it! It took me all day but I did it! The problem is, the images aren't uploading. It's late, so I'll figure it out tomorrow. The pages are up, but imageless. Have fun. Oh, yeah, Visit The Guard Guild Captured.com's Site of The Week.. Good Stuff. May 11

I'm sorry. Due to Real Lifetm(why do we trademark that?) getting in my way, i cant do the LMCTf maps. I have a few done, and I still have to do a few more, which I will do next vaction (may 21). I can't do them until then, and I'm sorry. I know I said I'd have them done by the 11th, but i didn't, and I'm sorry. Life's being mean to me. I WILL have it done by the 26, or may I never frag again.

May 5

Click here now! Ask questions later! Now, I hope you clicked the link, spent at least a half hour there, and then came back (you always should come back ;). If you haven't you should learn to listen to your elders. Anyway, Death by Impalment is a great strategy guide, hosted by a great guy, Na|ls. (who couldn't love a guy named that?) Anyway, he doesn't think that the site is getting that much attention. So, he's holding this little contest:
- Real Lifetm has been eating up my time. Because of this I'm starting a little contest. Send a good strategy that can be used in any level with any Q2CTF mod out there (I never intend to write enough for LM, JB, Zoid's, and all the others out there by myself so I don't pick favorites for now) to nails@captured.com. The winner (if I'm greatly impressed by any submissions) will be taken on to help out around here with the strategy sections. Any others may be posted (with full credit of course and links if desired) within the existing strategy pages. So all the underdogs that want their ideas out there but don't have publicity or a page to do it from (I've been there.. it's not fun, but not being able to update isn't either) will have a chance to gain a voice here. Who knows.. if this proves popular, I might even add a section just for submissions. Though what I've received so far is nothing but threats or complaints that I don't update enough whenever I've asked for help in the past, I'm still gonna try again. I am but one man, and I have many things that require my attention out in the world that's been controlling more and more of my spare time. It's sad to see my dreams of helping the community be trashed simply because I don't have time and no one else is willing to offer some of theirs. I guess us oldschool players, from back when there was no flag in CTF, that wanted to help the new guys or the ones that didn't get it because we all were a little new to it are a rare breed. Sure, there's news to report on and plenty of it these days, but with 3 main pages that cover EVERYTHING on the CTF news scene, that job is pretty much filled. Not being a programmer I can't add to the dozens of home brew CTF mods so I'm left with this. Unfortunately my gift to the community is wilting and is facing death. So unless I can get more time and some pieces of a greater puzzel fall in place, DBI will end as it began, a dream of helping others. A noble dream... but a dream none-the-less. Now you must ask yourself... what've you done for the people that give you these mods? What've you done to help the pages you glean info off of daily? A simple thanks would be great, but those don't come in anymore. Sure, I have.. lemme see.. 6 letters of thanks for helping them with problems just by running this page. Another 2 or 3 thanking me for help I answered personally in e-mail. This is just a handful of the thousands who wander in here. Hell, even tellin me that my page sucks and what I should change wouldn't be so bad. Now I ask one last time for your help. If I don't get any answers, I'll just assume no one cares anymore and just leave the page the way it is with a little notes everywhere that it won't be updated anymore. Please don't make me follow through on this one.

May 4

Okay, I had today off, so I finished half the Strogg CTF Maps plus learned some stuff on Javascript and Style Sheets. I'm kinda of in a dillema of how to work the LMCTF maps. Two of the LMCTF maps are SCTF maps, and I don't want to ruin the surprise of LMCTF. I guess I'll upload everything at once. I finsihed the differnces between LMCTF and Q2CTF (I had to start from scratch, because my lmctfdiffer.htm page mysteriously mutated into my lmctf.htm page.) So, I'm about halfway to reaching my goal, and I should be done everything but the LMCTF maps by the 11th

May 2

Okay, Cry Havoc is no longer Mod of the Week I can stop working on Kerbuffel's Cry Havoc Survival Guide and start working here again. I've, again, reshedulded how I'm doing things. I'm going to do the SCTF maps, then dabble with with LMCTF. I should have everything but LMCTF maps done by monday. When will the LMCTF maps be done? Who knows? I do have exams coming up, and in summer this site will be... better. I promise you this: Before summer is over (by the calender, so it's in september sometime) I will have everything done. If not sooner.

April 26

I finished the netscaping! Now, I can do the config section! Yay! It's too bad I discovered how much fun co-op is. I'm going to get to work on the LMCTF chapter. Then I'll do the SCTF maps. Then I'll start setting up demos. I love it when a plan comes togther...

April 21

I'm doing the netscape compatibility thing now, and I'm about half done. Anyway, I'm making small updates as I go along, so if you reread it, you might stumble across a few more tidbits of knowledge. And can anyone get me the specfics on the LMCTF artifacts? I want to be sure before I post them. And, I got a new idea from Dakota, of Captured.com, demos. I like the idea. Newbies probably will too. If anyone has any neat demos they wan me to post, send them in. Quake 2 CTF or LMCTF only! No Quake 2 deathmatch or Classic Quake or any other mod, please! I'd love to see how you can frag three guys a minute in a deathmatch, but don't expect me to post anything that's not related to CTF in Quake 2. And only on the regular maps (The Q2CTF maps), please. Thanks!

April 20

Okay. I was wrong. There's 38 pages. Not 15. Crub. I promise they'll be done by Sunday. (At the end of sunday, check back at 11:59) If I do get them all done early, I'll start the LMCTF chapter. Then I'll do the Strogg CTF maps. This should all be done by around next month. Somewhere around May 11. (If it's not, you have full permission to come after me with a BFG, and while you charge it up I'll hit you with my super shotun. Inferior weapon my ass!) Oh, yeah, I'm working on the config section now, and there's going to be a part on other peoples configs. So, Send 'em in!

April 19

Grrrrrr!!! I'm quite irate. I was playing LMCTF, on LMCTF04, I was in my base. I just spawned. I grabbed the chaingun and went to get the megahealth. Then, so a guy on my team blocks me in. I was like 'okay, he'll move in a second' But he didn't. He sat there, and shot rails at me. He must've got a good 5 rails into me when I saw someone holding my flag standing still. Right in front of me. I hit my grapple key, thinking 'Okay. I won't get out, but I'll still save the flag.' I hit my key and... nothing. MY KEYS GOT UNBOUND!!!! It wasn't the guys fault, but I could shoot the flag stealer because of him. NOOOOO!!! S'not fair!! So, I went to RA2 Server, and no one was there. I'm so lonley... Oh, yeah, the resaon I updated is because I have to babysit my lil' cousin tomorrow, and I won't be able to do anything. Sorry.I'll get the the strogg ctf maps done q a Strogg CTF map done maybe I'll do something. I'm too damn lazy, and I'm sick as a dog. And my dog is looking at me now. Or maybe he's asleep. Mmmm.. sleep...

April 18

So much to do, so little time. I started the LMCTF maps section, when I found out that there's another map .pak called Strogg CTF Two of the maps are in LMCTF: Twin Generators and Toxin Refinery. So, I decided to add the Strogg CTF maps to the map section, and make an LMCTF chapter. Then, I'll make the site Netscape compatible. And I'm going to try to do it in one weekend. And, by the way, Bastards Beatdown 9 is coming up. Since it's on the other side of the country, I won't physically be there, but they said there's going to be a way for other people to connect. I'll try that. Hope to see you there.

April 15

Crub. I just found out that these pages are not Netscape compatible. Well, that presents me with two choices: make pages that are netscape compatible, or wait for everyone to wise up and use MSIE. I'm going with the first choice because some people won't wise up (And that's why we have keyboarders). So, I will redo all the pages. (There's only like, 15 or so) Anyway, I'm going to add a configuration section, and might just put my config up for download (it's nothing special, but it has a nifty grappling thingie) So, eargerly anticipating space marines go to Death by Impalment for config stuff. I did that button of his. Or, if you need a break from CTF, try Cry Havoc, a refreshing class based mod, and then go to Kerbuffel's Cry Havoc Survival Guide for help. That's it for now.

April 4

It's funny. I thought no one thought like me. Someone does. And that someone knows how to program. This person came up the the still-in-devolpment-but-will-kick-ass-when-it's-done mod Revenge of Stroggos It's like an idea I had when i woke up in the middle of the night. You can be strogg too!! Yay!! After playing this, I can't figure out why the Makron looked so scared when he saw the little marine coming at him.... Oh yeah, I'm starting work on the LMCTF maps. Give me until June and I'll have something done. Maybe.

April 1

The best April fool's joke Award for 1998 goes to Planetquake For faking us all out by going to GeoCities. I hope it's a joke. Anyway, Loki's Minions Capture The Flag Came out today! Get it now!! It supports all the id Q2 maps, all the id DM maps, all the id CTF maps, plus 10 original maps! That's like carry the two, and the three... 61, I think. So, go get it now! I am.

March 29

I was just checking over the site for missing files and noticed all the spelling and grammar errors. Most of the time you should be able to firgure it out. I'm checking the spelling now, but at the rate I'm doing it (Find a misspelled word > celebrate with a round of Q2 > Round becomes three hour game > Quit >Find another misspelled word > Repeat) It'll take a while. I'm really sorry.

March 28

I stopped slacking off and procrastinating and playing to many Q2 games and finally got around to finishing the maps section. I'm sleepy now though. Goodnight.

March 15

I've finally got everything done that I wanted done when I uploaded everything. I'm truly sorry aout the maps section not being done. I'm planning on gettig the outands finished and Capture Showdown finished by the end of the day. And the screenshots suck because I have crappy graphics. Sorry. Anyway, I hope you learn everything you need to know.