This year is already turning out to be an interesting experience. Many of you know of the Call of Duty World at War server issues that have occurred recently. For those who have missed this situation, here is the rundown. Our public server for CODWAW was moving toward its end date and we had planned to keep it for an additional 3 months at a reduced player count of 16. Unfortunately, the only option of renewal was for another 6 months at 24 players. This issue was discussed among the Officers and with those who had donated funds toward the clan. It was decided to cancel our 24 player public server and get a refund.
That being said, there is another large issue with Call of Duty: World at War. |DOS| Crabb and I were looking into the status of our place in the TWL ladder, a problem was quickly found. Without warning, it appears that nearly all World at War ladders have been suspended. It appears that TWL wishes to support other new games, but not World at war. After coming to grips with this, we realized that for now TWL matches for Call of Duty will be suspended until 4v4 TDM or 4v4 CTF is restored.
Over the last year and a half the |DOS| Clan has had a close relationship with Call of Duty: World at War. Many members of the clan have the game and enjoy playing it. While many have grown an addiction with Killing Floor, I feel that it is important to maintain a foothold in Call of Duty. We have converted our TWL server into a private |DOS| server for the members to use at their leisure. This server will be used to have internal clan scrims. At the low cost the server is operating at, it is currently more of an asset then a hindrance to the future plans of the |DOS| clan. We will continue to support our current set of games into the next year or until all interest has decreased in them.
As the clan leader I try my best to look forward to new games and new ideas. We are currently in position for growth in members and further support of additional games. Over the next few months, I will do my best to ensure that the money that has been donated to the clan will not be used in a frivolous manner. We should all be on the lookout for the next great competitive game that the clan will support, will it be Bad Company 2, Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad, Medal of Honor, or the next entry in the Call of Duty series. Perhaps it will be more than one of these games or something entirely different. I look forward in your help in shaping the direction the Defenders of Stalingrad will continue to grow.
Welcome to another year in the |DOS| Clan. Already this month is looking to be better then the last. First, Forgotten Hope 2.25 will be released tomorrow for everyone to play. This is really exciting because it adds four new maps and many new awesome features.Check out the Battlefield 2 mod at http://fhmod.org.
Second, we are going to be playing CTF in Team Warfare League for Call of Duty World at War. The first CTF match will be held next week on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 9pm est. I hope to play with many of you in this first fight. Finally I would like to announce that we will be extending our Public Server to last until May 2, 2010. The TWL server will remain active until competition in TWL ceases.
Since classes have ended I have already made a start on the layout and design of our new website. Many of you have already seen some of my ideas for the new website. If you have not I will be posting it in our Members forum for you to see during the next few days. If you have any suggestions for our new website, please post them in our forum.
Teamspeak 3 is due for beta release tomorrow. |DOS| Raines will be hosting the beta for us to use on a server at his apartment. I look forward to seeing everyone on Teamspeak 3 as soon as he has it up and running. Should the beta be determined good enough for daily use we will upgrade our Teamspeak 2 server to Teamspeak 3 by January 1, 2010. The upgrade with gameservers will cost us $4.95 per month compared to the current cost of $4.45 a month. This upgrade cost is most likely negligible compared to the improvements in quality and reduced latency Teamspeak 3 will bring.
In addition to the news above I was wanting to inform everyone that Forgotten Hope 2 is celebrating a two year anniversary since the 2.0 release. They have updated their website with two new maps that will be in the next release and even added the P-51 Mustang to the mod. Check out the lastest updates here.
