January 17th, 1999Beta 5.1 cheat foundOnce again the lamers abound. A little cheat has been found in beta 5.0 and 5.1 and will be corrected in a new server release. For a temporary fix to this bug, it is reccomended that server ops edit "commands.cfg" and add the line "camera 1". This will prevent use of the feature with the cheat capability.Another trick for you server admins... is to LEARN what commands.cfg does. =) It restricts a command to the operator level assoiciated with it. But not only a command. Any line of text that BEGINS with that word you can restrict.Therefore if you wanna prevent people from scrolling weapnext or weapprev just add those lines to the commands.cfg and it will not let the client spam with em.You can even prevent people from dropping their guns! (OH DAMMIT, NOT THE TRRACER!) :) January 16th, 1999Paintball Player NewsCaptured.com is now hosting a News site devoted to clans and players. This site is run by Sunspot of LP and is called Paintball Player News. Click here to visit the new site. Also check out other Paintball news sites, Paintball Central and Paintball News Stand. Digital Paint supports all 3 sites and we send our press release to all three. Hopefully all three will provide unique services to the community and help Paintball grow. PlanetQuake Most Popular FilesDigital Paint's Beta 5 Client release made it into the top 10 files downloaded for the past week at Planet Quake. Click here to see Digital Paint listed at #6. Hopefully by time you check this link we will move up yet another spot. =) Thank you to everyone who is making our Mod of the Week experience so great. DPcon by the NumbersFrom the makers of Splatcon by the Numbers, comes DPcon by the Numbers. Murdock of Clan Smurf has once again compiled a list of important numbers from a lan party. This time it was this past weekend's DPCon. Click here to view the list. January 15th, 1999Hump Map PackIn earlier Beta versions of Digital Paint exhisted several maps made by Hump. However now Hump has left paintball and asked that we not include his maps in our release. Rather he wanted his maps released as a seperate zipped pack. Many of these maps are played on Digital Paint servers so Hellraiser over at Paintball Central has packaged them up for easier download. If you are looking for Kaos, Koth, Warhouse, or Sball2 then you need look no further then our files section and the Hump Map Pack. More DPcon Post mortumBonfilio has sent me a few more pictures off his digital camera from DPcon and they are now up on the DPcon site here. Murdock has been hard at work for the past few days and today placed the Smurf DPCon Journal online. This journal includes entries made by Murdock and Hellraiser on their car ride to and from DPcon. Stay tuned for Murdock's DPcon by the Numbers, and more photographs to be scanned soon. New Button!Georgiana, the great artist from Clan PMS and attendee of DPcon has created a new button for Digital Paint. Thanx to Geo for the great button! January 14th, 1999Beta 5.1 Server Side Only Release!With any release their is bound to be some bugs. Beta 5 was no exception. However the bugs are merely server code problems that can be easily fixed with a Server side only release. This means that only people running servers need download this release. And the rest of you don't need to download anything else. (I know you have been downloading ALOT in the past few days). This new release fixes the following bugs found in the beta 5 dll.
Server now informs you if you are rejected for a bad password.
You may now use the inven menu (tab) to switch teams or go into observer mode.
Server admins can now use CVAR_SET on "elim" to vary the elimination length without rcon.
You cannot fire when the round over anymore. (Fixes scoring issues)
Friendly Fire bug in Deathmatch mode fixed.
You can download the Server Side only release for Windows here. The Solaris and Linux ports will be done by Smokeya shortly and will be available for dl asap. Thank you for helping us beta test Digital Paint. If you find anymore bugs please let us know.
DPcon AftermathMurdock, AKA Grouchy[Smurf] has put together his view of DPcon. It includes a story of the events he experienced as well as links to pictures, and scores from the DPcon tournaments. Click here to see Murdock's "DPCon: A Smurf's view". January 13th, 1999Slow as ballsWell, a lot of people on the server have been complaining about lag. And of course with the release of beta 5 just the other day, its been blamed on beta5. Welp, i just hopped on a beta4.5 server and the lags just as bad.
It seems that there is something going on with the `net screwing up TCP/IP connections. I dont know who all it affects, but it does seem to be noticed by many people, in quake][, irc, and http(the web) connections alike.
On the lighter note, i just checked and 5 of the servers are at max clients, and there are 65 people total playing this second. The highest q1 pball ever got to was 45 people at once. I'd like to give a shout to all those who made this success possible.
