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Doom

The Sound Of Doom 3

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MP3.com has a really cool interview with Chris Vrenna, formerly of NIN. If you didnt know, Chris is the mastermind behind the dark, eeriely cool music from Doom3.

In 1996, the inclusion of a soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails in the computer game Quake made it clear to anyone watching that entertainment categories had blurred and that gamings importance as a vehicle for music was just beginning. The blood-splattered world of Quake (like Doom before it) was key in the drive toward a personal cinematic experience–a Holy Grail to which many of the best video games aspire. A crucial element for a convincing, compelling experience is sound, and the era of the celebrity sound designer for games now overlaps neatly with the fame of celebrity producers.

Battlefield 1942

BF42 Friday Night Fights – Custom Map Night Returns!

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GamersRadio.com presents Friday Night Fights – Custom Map Night for Battlefield 1942. We have been having fun with our BFV Custom Map Nights, but we miss playing BF42 custom maps. There have been some interesting maps put out lately for BF42 and we wanted to get the chance to play them. To round out the night, we are bringing back some of our personal favorites. This will be an event to remember. I guarantee you will have a blast, so mark your calendars for this Friday Night. The action starts around 7pm CST and goes into the early morning.

Here is your line up:

304 Fields of the Fallen – This is one of my all time favorite maps for BF42 by our own |GRB| LoU-Cipher. If you have never played it, you are really missing out.
GRB Ghost Front – BF42.coms first ever Map of the Week back in June. See the review at BF42.com.
DamBusters – This is great fun. Besides who can deny the joy of base jumping from a huge damn? 🙂
The Night of Nights – DDay from the Air. Non stop jumping fomr a plane. We expect this one to be non-stop action.
Midway 2k – Plane Jockeys Rejoice! This ones for you.
Corsica – Tough little island map with a nice design.
Ruhr Valley – Another dam map! 🙂 This time its broken and washed out the town below. Very nice design.

The custom installer is being put together now and should be available shortly. Keep it here or at GamersRadio.com for further details.

Teamspeak Server
Host: ts.gamersradio.com
Port: 8767

Game Server
GamersRadio.com |GRB|
IP: 67.18.226.37
Port: 14567

Battlefield Vietnam

BFV 1.1 Lag? Possible Fix

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We posted this information on the PlanetBattlefield forums, but one of their admins decided it was not worthy of being on the site. Sure, you can find this information if you dig way down into many different posts, but we put it in the first post for everyone to easily find. Oh well. They dont want you to know, but we do. This is one possible fix for the lag problems experienced in Battlefield Vietnams 1.1 patch.

Add the following to your Battlefield Vietnam/ Mods/ BF Vietnam/ Settings/default.con with a text editor:

Game.soundbuffersize 400 (you can go higher with this if you want to play with it some – some guys have it set as high as 1000, I think I set mine at 400 or 500, I cant remember)

and to the videodefault.con in the same folder change “allowallrefreshrates” from 0 to 1

Battlefield Vietnam

FNF – CMN Download Available

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The Download for map pack #8 is now available. Due to an unforseen problem, we were unable to add Tranquility to this map pack. We regret not being able to have it this month, but you can bet your sweet patootie it will be included next month!

See you Friday Night starting around 7pm CST. The new maps will be up for testing late Thursday night. Please note we now have a dedicated Custom Map Server running. Here is the server info:

GamersRadio.com Custom Maps
IP: 67.18.226.36
Port: 15567

Public TeamSpeak Server
Hostname: ts.gamersradio.com
Port: 8767

Battlefield Vietnam

FNF – CMN

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Its that time again boys and girls! Battlefield Vietnam Custom Map Night! This time around, we have a brand new Dual Xeon Monster server (thanks to donations from the GRBs) and we will dedicate the whole thing to custom map night if it will allow us to have a lag free frag fest!

The line up includes some great quality maps and one new map from the GRB, called Operation Ebony Eyes featuring some of the coolest high rise buildings you have ever seen. Back by popular demand will be our own Ghost In The Darkness, with some of the coolest tunnels this side of the real thing.

Here is your line up:
Nui Ba Dihn
Tranquility
One Last Try
Vinh Thanh Valley
Gloria
GRB Operation Ebony Eyes
GRB Ghost in the Darkness

ephil is working on the custom installer and the download should be available sometime in the next two days. Keep it here for updated info on the download and we will see you at our Friday Night Fights – Custom Map Night.

P.S. BF42 Custom Map Night will be the following Friday, August 6th! Yippee!

Map pack is available!!! : Map Pack #8

Battlefield Vietnam

Custom Map – City in the Sewers

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In our on going effort to highlight the maps we have in development, we bring you City in the Sewers.

In an attempt to make life difficult for the US, the NVA has sabotaged the sewer system of a major city where the US has a large presence. Dysentery, Malaria and Wild Fever are rampant in the city. Everywhere the US fights is covered in green sewage. Good thing your computer doesnt have smell-a-vision.

Call of Duty

New TeamSpeak Server Active

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The new Gamers Radio Battalion TeamSpeak server is active. To make life easier, you can access it using the hostname ts.gamersradio.com or by ip 67.18.226.38 with the standard port 8767. As an added feature, you can click the link on the left block to jump right in.

The last game server, Call of Duty is now online. ephil and Goose worked extra hard to bring you a very cool CoD experience. They added a bunch of mods to make the game even cooler. Ill let them tell you about it. 🙂

The Battlefield 42 server is currently running the recently released version of BF Pirates. Only Fileplanet subscribers can get in right now, but us less fortunate types will be able to download it starting this Friday. I hope we will see you next weekend so I can run me steel through ye body like a sack of wet potatoes! Argh Matey!

Hot Off The Presses

Many New Servers!

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We have been working our butts off, and the new servers are almost finished. If you look to the left <----------. You will see all the new game servers. We have everything from Battlefield Vietnam to Battlefield 1942, Unreal Tournament 2004 and hopefully by tomorrow, Call of Duty. In addition, we will be running a 24x7 BFV Custom Map server running our last Custom Map Night, Map Pack#7 and the BF42 server will play nothing but mods and custom maps. We are also working on a TS server with public channels for each of the servers. A special thanks goes to the guys in the Gamers Radio Battalion. We couldnt have done all of this without donations from them. You guys Rock!

Battlefield Vietnam

Official WWII Mod for BFV from DICE

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EA posted their community update today. The first part said the patch passed quality testing. I expect we should see it soon. But the next part blew me away. I cant tell you how excited I am about this. Thank you DICE!

A Gift from EA and DICE
For some time, DICE Canada has been secretly working on something very cool as a gift for owners of Battlefield Vietnam. We’re pleased to finally announce the fruition of this work: the OFFICIAL WWII Mod for Battlefield Vietnam.

Have you ever wondered what Wake Island or Iwo Jima would look and play like with real tropical foliage? Do you love Battlefield Vietnam but you want to be able to relive the classics without having to dig up your 1942 disks?

The WWII Mod includes the classic Wake Island, Invasion of the Philippines and Iwo Jima maps rebuilt to take advantage of all of the new features of the Vietnam rendering engine (normal mapping, undergrowth, overgrowth, etc.), as well as the gameplay tweaks that came with BFV. (capture timer, 3D Map, use of kit weapons from passenger seats, vehicle radios, etc.)

But that’s not all, DICE Canada has also added a brand new Flamethrower weapon for both the Axis and Allied teams and re-animated all of the weapons from Battlefield 1942’s Pacific Theatre. The WWII Mod has been in heavy testing here at EA for some time, so expect to see it some time in the near future.

GR1 Heavy Metal

Big Music Update on the Station

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I added a bunch of new stuff to the radio station including 4 new songs from Slipknots new album Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses) and a few songs from Shinedown, including the acoustic version of Simple Man. Speaking of Simple Man; us early buyers of Shinedowns album Leave A Whisper didnt get it. Matter of fact, we didnt get 3 songs that have been added to the album. Oh well. If you are interested in the new song, Simple Man, check out this great story on Country Music Televisions website, of all places. Another new band I added to the playlist is Future Leaders Of The World. Signed by Puddle of Mudds Label, they look like an interesting band. Get more info on their official website, FutureLeadersoftheWorld.com. Keep it here for more goodness coming to the station soon.