An interesting post has appeared on the official TF2 blog purporting to be a letter from Saxton Hale industries accepting a patent pending for the construction of a canon mounted guard dog – I smell engineer unlocks ahead people!!!

With plenty of maps to be playing with now loaded onto the gungame server I have compiled a map pack ready for you to install directly into your cstrike folder saving you a download wait on the server. Grab your copy now and don’t be left waiting!

[-R-] Clan Map Pack v.1

After a few days of configuration tweaking, map sourcing and of course rigorous playtesting the server is now up and running. The IP is 85.234.148.50:27155 so be sure to add it to your favourites! For any clan members needing admin access please post your steam ID in the FPS channel description and I will have it added as soon as I can.

Thats right, [-R-] are proud to announce our first official server, and what else could it be other than a gungame server? Running the most stable version of Gungame 4 (GG5 is very unreliable) the server will host some of the all time classics of gungame, many of which at one point where found on the legendary teeside gungame server which has been lost to oblivion for some time now. I will put a post up tommorow with the details as I get them through!

Well, it seems the TF2 devs over at Valve have issued a decree of common sense – dont cheat and there are perks, cheat and well, we will bust your shit and slap you down. That said yesterday Valve released a new hat to be awarded to those who didnt succumb to the allure of the idle servers and their free goodies (free in the sense that you get rewards for activity without actually being there). The halo hat known as Cheaters Lament serves as a good ole kick in the nuts to those who spent endless hours idling on servers to achieve hats and items they would not have otherwise got from not being on a server. They will never receive this hat, it can never be traded to their account when a trading system comes into effect.

What cracks me up is just how many players will likely create a new account to bypass this – seeing as the hats they got by ill gotten means have been taken away – real life check is needed there

Well, the latest update to the official TF2 blog has some interesting and good news. Many people have been acquiring items from the new persistent item system (weapon drops and more notoriously, hats) using third party idler software to allow them to idle away on a server. All items acquired this way are now to be removed by Valve and in future instances if you are found using an idler Valve will remove ALL your items.

Will be interesting to see just how many don’t have hats after this comes into effect.

Hi all. Well the site is technically live but is still being pieced together at the moment so there is not a lot to see. As you can see it is not your usual php nuke box fest as we fancied taking a different tack on things with a blog approach instead. The motorbike graphic is all soon to go once work is finished on the designs for a clan logo and banner to replace it with. All this should hopefully be happening over the next week.