Written by Boserup
Hey guys,
As some of you already know, I work for 2Dawn Games as Community Manager. We released the game Ravaged in October with limited success. The limited success was caused by a lot of things like, no marketing resources and not enough game content at the prize of $24,99. So we added more content and will add a lot more for free in January, and we also reduced the prize permanently to $9.99.
Ravaged is a vehicular FPS set in a post apocalyptic world. The game has small, medium and large maps(9 maps in total). Ravaged has 2 game modes, Capture the Resources (Unreal type of capture the flag) and Thrust (a conquest type on mode with frontline system). The game focus a lot on teamwork and squad play as well as tactics. The game is very similar to Battlefield 2 and Team Fortress with fast heavily armed cars, tanks, ATV's and Helicopters.
As many of you know, I am and will always be a competitive player. So I have fought hard to get eSport features implemented in the game. At this point we got a solid working Spectator mode(free cam+3P cam) however the first person spectator still needs some work. But at this point its better than it was in Battlefield 2. Also the devs are working on the demo recorder.
We have been doing tons of community events and 8v8 matches that was live-streamed and commentated by the Legendary Stoner from RushTV and TotalBiscuit.
The lack of marketing resources are our biggest challenge. Our game is simply not reaching the majority like BF and CoD titles. Therefor I would like you guys to come support the kind of development I know you have been wanting since battlefield 2 died out and got replace by the money machine BF3.
The Ravaged Free Weekend starts today at 19:00cet and will end sunday at 19:00cet. The game will be sold on Steam and 2dawn.com with a 66% discount.
Saturday at 19:00cet The Apocalyptic Free Weekend will start. The event is basically an community 8v8 tournament. Only difference is that you will be randomized into a new team with new players after each match. If you win a match, then you will win 1 point at the time. The event will end Sunday around 22:00cet. But before that, the most winning 8 players in Europe will play the 8 most winning players from America. The match will be live-streamed and commentated by RushTV Stoner on 2DawnTV. During the event you must be on teamspeak3, so its easier to communicate with your teammates rather than using the ingame squad VOIP.
If you like, we could also set up a 8vs8 match without the community.
For more information on the Apocalyptic Free Weekend event and the event schedule, check out this link:
http://www.2dawn.com/i...lyptic-free-weekend-event
Teamspeak3 ip:
ts.2dawn.com
2Dawn TV:
http://www.twitch.tv/2dawngames
I hope I will see you all there!
- Boserup
VIP Gaming has decided to move the last sign up date to 14th April. This is due to our work with getting prizes for the cup. We are working hard on getting big prizes and hope to be able to announce the prizes as soon as possible.
Homefront has recently been patched. This means that some weapons has been nerfed and the game performance has been hugely improved. We hope that we can get some of the most requested competitive features in the game before the cup starts. Just to mention a few requested features:
1. Squad system like Battlefield 2 or close to. Spawn on team mate or flag.
2. Fixed 1st person spectator. At the moment its lagging in 1st person spectator.
3. Ability to chose team in the intermission room. So the teams can be ready for start on auto spawn.
4. Ability to decide spawn-time.
5. Restart round. At the moment you have to change map to get a restart round routine.
6. Pause/unpause match. To prevent any team of getting an advantage if a player from the opponent team gets disconnected.
7. More spectator options. See who killed who, faster free cam movement and ability to hotkey each player.
8. View the points at the conclusion of a round instead of just a "win / loss.
9. Score board live update and show icon of who is dead (e.g. dead players have a skull icon )
Last sign-up date will be Wednesday the 14th April at 23:59cet(gmt+1).
NOTICE!
This news can be updated. In case of an update the title will look like this ex. VIP HomeFront Cup.(Updated 4)
Sadly HomeFront didn't have the best start after its release. General performance issues made it hard for a lot of the players to start up the game or join servers. Also HomeFront has been a victim of haters who never played the game and- or in fear HomeFront would be more popular than their favourite game.
HomeFront has a huge potential as a competitive game, but it do need some patches and new features to help run a match. The developers has showed great dedication and interest towards the competitive community, last in the podcast and showmatch hosted by Rush-Zone. The developers have added features, addressed issues and fixed bugs and are continuing it as long as it take.
Sadly not enough teams have signed up for the Cup and we there have to cancel it. VIP Gaming are however not giving up on Homefront and will continue playing it and hopefully host a HomeFront cup in near future.
VIP Ultra participated in the Battlefield 3 Conquest 8o8 Opening Cup on ESL.
Before the cup started there was a lot of discussions about the rules. Some wanted to allow all perks and weapons and some wanted it limited. Maps were also a topic. Some maps where simply better to play in 64 size than 32. ESL decided, besides the majority of the community wish not to allow the well known Flashlight ( SUN ), lasersight and IRNV ( BF3 build in hack )to allow all.
VIP Ultra won by forfeit the 1st round and had then Vital Gaming coming up next. Vital Gaming who we know from the good old Battlefield 2 days. Sadly Ultra had to wait for an opponent who didnt show up and VIP Ultra yet again won by forfeit.
3rd round Ultra had to play the polish team Clan Poland. BF3 ( CPL ) on Damavand Peak(64). Without any practice at all on that map, Ultra however took control from first second and didnt give CPL much breathing room and defeated them by 305-0 total.
4ht round was against the Swedish team TOP Nordic Battlegroup on Seine Crossing. Seine Crossing is very infantry based but still we manage to make lots of mistakes in the first round and were fighting up hill the most of the time. We lost the first round by a few tickets. In the second round we had to do better and we did. Still TOP fought back and didn't make it easy for us. We did end up winning second round comfortably and by then win the match.
5th round met the Russian from n!Core bf3. n!Core is a team we know from Bad Company 2. This was our first conquest match against them however. The map was Operation Firestorm. Another map that Ultra had played before. We started out really bad. We lost the Air, but did well on the ground. We did however end up losing first round with 0-49. The second round did go a lot better. After learning a lot from first round, Ultra came back in style and manage to win with 52-0. This meant that Ultra won with just 3 tickets against a very strong n!Core team.
6th round ( Quarter Final ) was against the Russian team BFCQ or formerly knowned as Team Empire. We played on Noshahar Canals and started out as defence. Its was very clear that our lineup wasnt the strongest and we ended up losing by just 0-1. Second round we had to attack as the USMC. This was up hill from 1st minute. BFCQ Played very well and more less managed to keep us down to 1 or no flag at all. VIP Ultra ended up losing 0-164. So in total we lost 0-165 against probably one of the best teams in Battlefield 3 8on8.
In general our permanences were acceptable. We didn't have our main lineup available all the time which clearly was showed in the results. But we learned a lot and know its just up to us, to use the experience for next time.
VIP Gaming have decided to make 1st person record mandatory for all its players, who wants to participated in cups and leagues with prizes.
Battlefield 3 is shipping without a Battlerecorder. The battle recording or 1st person demo recording is the frontline of catching cheaters. All known anti cheat applications like Punkbuster, ESL wire, VAC and lots more are simply failing in catching "Professional" cheaters.
For competitive gaming having a working anticheat application is just as important as having teams playing in the cups and leagues. As long as the matches are being played online there is no way of catching the professional cheaters in competitive gaming with the current anti cheat applications available. As Battlefield 3 doesn't provide ANY proper anticheat app( battlerecorder or 1st person spectator) then the competitive community have to take the responsibility and do something about it.
What the competitive community can do is making 1st person recording mandatory! This means that all players must record in 1st person while they are playing a competitive match. There are several applications on the marked who can provide this without decreasing your PC performance( fps drops) drastically. Applications like Playclaw and MSI afterburner has proven that this is possible without affecting the player ingame in term of FPS drops.
If everyone who plays Battlefield 3 competitively would record in 1st person in all their matches then this would be a huge step toward having clean hacker free competitions. Showing this dedication and seriousness towards potential prize donators, shows that the community is to be taken serious and that it doesn't want cheaters running away with all the prizes.
Of course implementing this kinds of rule is not easy and no one have ever said it would be. There are a lot of obvious questions and challenges that have to be taken into account.
Here is a list of questions and challenges that have to be answered and dealt with as good and possible.
Some of the issues and possible solutions when recording in 1st person:
1. Low-end PC´s. Not all PC´s can handle a recording tool as well as the high-end PC´s. Low-end will have less frames per second meaning low performance and effect the player ingame.
Solution. Upgrade the PC hardware and change the recording tool settings. Reducing ingame graphic settings can help a lot, as well as reducing the resolution.
2. 1st person recording file size. Recording files tends to become large.
Solution. virtual dub is a great tool to compress files into smaller files. Virtual dub also have a great feature that allows you to select different codec's, so that you still can get great quality. It also have a feature that allows you to cut your recording into smaller pieces.
3. What about uploading the files. They will be huge. 1 round can be up to 5-7GB and it will take ages with 512 upload.
Solution. There are lots of file sharing sites out there like, Rapidshare, Media fire and a lot more. Some are free to use.
So to prevent cheating in Battlefield 3 and to remove whatever suspicion towards players from VIP-Gaming who are participating in big cups or leagues with prizes, then we have decided that ALL VIP-Gaming players must 1st person record and share the recordings if asked to from other teamleaders. To prevent too much upload time any teamleader with a reasonable suspicion can ask for specific parts of a match ex. 1 round, between 03:00 and 04:00 from player Boserage. Then Boserage will compress the file and deliver a recording in good quality for the teamleaders for review.
This means that VIP-Gaming will be the front figure in this crucial matter. VIP-Gaming will do whatever we can to prevent cheating outside and inside VIP-Gaming. VIP-Gaming will not sit on their hands witnessing competitive Battlefield 3 gaming being ruined from day one by hackers and cup and league administrators not caring and who have to will to make Battlefield 3 clean in the competitive scene! We hope that other teams will follow our example and join us in combating hackers and ineffective cup and league administrator. VIP-Gaming will invite all interested teamleader for a meeting on this matter very soon, to get a mature debate and come up with solutions on the matter.
Contacts:
Boserup
steam: sjanten22
xfire:Boserup
Lund:
steam blandreasen@hotmail.com
xfire: viplunddk
After winning the last ESL 5on5 Infantry Cup #1, Ultra was favorites to win the 2nd edition of the ESL 5on5 Infantry Cup. The cup was this time spread out over 2 days instead of one day.
The days one matches was against the Polish team, Positive (PST) and our own VIP-Gaming Alpha(Alpha). The match against the polish was played on Seine Crossing. It was also a welcome back to XeoStyle, who had been absent because of work for some weeks. Ultra won the 1st round with 121-0 and 2nd round with 94-0
Ultra showed great teamplay and individual performances in the 1st ESL Battlefield 3 infantry cup.
Ultra played a total of 5 matches:
1st match was against the German team beQuiet on Damavand Peak. Sadly the Germans had connection problems and they were force to play 2ith only 4 players. The match was quickly done and Ultra won with 465.0
2nd match was against Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Finland on Grand Bazaar. It didn't take long before VIP had the Finnish tea
Since Battlefield 3 arrived VIP Ultra have been playing a lot of 8on8 matches. Our infantry line up were strong and so was our hardware players. But Battlefield 3 just isn't like Battlefield 2 8on8 conquest was. There are too much hardware, the maps aren't that good and unbalanced.
So after giving Battlefield 3 8on8 conquest a chance VIP Ultra have decided to focus on Infantry only, most likely 5on5 or 6on6.
VIP Ultra have been testing lots of players since the game was released
From our luxurious LAN setup at Lunds place we joined up in the BF3L Weekend Cup .
We started out playing against the Dutch team Vital Gaming on Teheran Highway. Without any problems Ultra managed to get 2 flags and hold Vital Gaming off without many problem. With good organisation and teamplay we defeated them by 403-0.
In the 2nd match we had the British team Absent With Leave (AWOL) on Seine Crossing. Again we sat on the majority of the flags and managed to bleed AWOL down to z
VIP-Gaming has successfully been hosting several Leagues and cups in the game Bad Company 2. One of the thing we are most proud of is the dedication of the participating teams. The teams have lived up to our relatively harsh rules. Our main rule focus is not as much the weapon/kit rules, but more the sportsmanship rules. We do not accept any kind of No-shows or forfeits. We want all matches to be played within the default match date/time ( Match default time is Sunday at 20.00cet ). We don't want teams show
Following the release of Homefront, one of the upcoming FPS's which could possibly lead us out of these dark times of searching
for a new competitive FPS with actual competitive features.
Rush-zone will be holding a live event on Monday the 21st of March in association with VIP Gaming.
Whats happening at this event? Well, we will be having a live exhibition match between some of the best teams in this
niche of the FPS genre. VIP Gaming and Epsilon eSports. Both colossa
VIP Winter league has ended and has yet again been a success.
First Division (full stats)
Trønderbataljonen 12Ireplica 12Phyrexian 9
The A cup went well with some hard fought matches. Paranoia played vs. RICE. The match was very equal until 3rd round on Panama Canal. RICE lost with too many tickets and made it very hard for themselves to walk away as winners and semifinalists. Paranoia ended up winning 558-276. The Cup favourites from
Links: http://warcon.vip-gami...lbmj,w3zpdu,gu0dgk,gwdksc
Epsilon e
VIP Winter Cup group stage is over and now it's time for the A and B cup.
There has been some bumps on the road in the group stage. Some teams didn't know how to use WarCon, some teams only Downloaded it and tried it out 2 minutes before the etc.
We of course take our part of the responsibility of not informing the teams well enough about the WarCon.
Before I go into further detail about the use of WarCon I will give you a small update on the Group stage.
The groups have been drawn. The teams have been placed in 4 seeding group and them randomly placed in the groups A, B, C and D. IRF has been chosen, do to its lowest members registered on their team, to be in the backup list.
All the group stage matches must be played Monday 21st February at these times:
20:00 Oasis
21:00 Laguna Alta
22:00 Arica harbor
The groups look as following:
Group A:
The goal of reaching 16 teams has been archived. 17 teams has signed up,. This means that we sadly have to disappoint one team since we can only be 16 teams. The team that we decide to disappoint and that won't be in the cup at start will be placed in the backup list in case a team haven't registered at least 6 players before Saturday 19th February at 20:00cet.
Saturday 19th February at 21:00 the groups will be announced. We will make 4 seeding groups. The already decided are:
1st
VIP-Gaming has successfully been hosting several Leagues and cups in the game Bad Company 2. One of the thing we are most proud of is the dedication of the participating teams. The teams have lived up to our relatively harsh rules. Our main rule focus is not as much the weapon/kit rules, but more the sportsmanship rules. We do not accept any kind of No-shows or forfeits. We want all matches to be played within the default match date/time ( Match default time is Sunday at 20.00cet ). We don't want teams show
VIP gaming has successfully been hosting 2 cups and 1 League in BC2, mode 5on5 infantry only.
VIP Gaming has decided to host another VIP CUP with BC2 Vanilla . The in-game rules are familiar for most players who have already played in ESL BC2 with some adds.
Rules:
Our most noticeable rules are the rules about forfeit and no-shows. A team that makes a no-show or decides to forfeit for an instance, last round because they already lost, will be punished with a permanent ban along with
I'm proud to announce VIP's new COD4.no team.
The team was founded by Shortyz for one month ago. The players have known eachother for a long time, many years actually.
The ambitions of this team is quite high, they wanna reach a higher level and go to some of the big lans. They are attending
Dreamhack which is in five months.
VIP Gaming allready have one CoD 4 team (VIP Alpha) but will from now on be called be called CoD 4 Team.dk
This new team will then b
Today is the first mandatory match day of the new VIP Winter League.
To help you all get to know your oponents, i send out an email last week asking for a clan presentation.
Theres were the replies i got, sorted by division:
Muttley 1
Muttley 1 is a gathering of the best players from Muttley.
Lead by Roldsgaard and Giiraph, we are quite sure to give at least some of the teams a decent match.
Unfort
17 teams from 8 different countries have been divided into 3 divisions.
The 1st division teams are:
Muttley 1
Phyrexian
Rice Field Commando
Team
VIP Vietnam Winter League
VIP gaming has successfully been hosting 2 cups and 1 League in BC2, mode 5on5 infantry only.
VIP Gaming has decided to host a VIP Vietnam Winter League, mode 8on8 conquest. One of the reason for VIPs success are the rules. The in-game rules are familiar for most players who have already played in ESL BC2 with some adds.
Rules:
Our most noticeable rules are the rules about forfeit and no-shows. A team that makes a no-show or decides to forfei
Im proud to announce that we today have taken in a new CSS team.
The team is mannaged by one of our old BF2 players Gmode who have gone all in on CSS after BF2 died.
The ambitions for the team isnt high atm and this team proberly never will try to become a top team in CSS but they have been part of the VIP Gaming TS3 community for a realy long time and desided to go all the way and become a part of chosen ones in VIP Gaming.
Because the ambitions aint that high atm the team will be
VIP-Gaming is proud to announce that we have taken in a new Enemy Territory Team.
The team is still new and need to train alot to reach there full potential but i belive that this team will make us all proud in the future.
As you see the team is also very mixed in nationalities and i think its the first time VIP Gaming ever had members from Canada and India.
Lineup presentation:
Jeep
Manager & Captain
Real name: Balkar Rana
Age: 17
VIP league has ended and has yet again been a success.
In the 1st division it was the Russian team Omerta who not surprisingly won the 1st division. Omerta did not only win the 1st division but also got the top fragger uNFixed. who made 524 kills in total. On the 2nd place the Danish VIP Ultra followed closely. The 3rd place went to the Czech republican team Phyrexian.
In the 2nd division VIP Bravo won the 1st sp
VIP League was another success. With great sportsmanship and dedication from all the participants this League was the best so far!
VIP Winter League start in the 3rd week of 2011. First match default day is Sunday 23rd January at 20:00cet. Matches can be played before the default match date and time if both teams agrees.
The goal is to get more teams than we had in the latest VIP League. We aim to get 4 divisions with at least 6 teams in each
4th round Results:
Trønderbatajonen vs. Muttley:
Arica Harbor:
80 - 5. TB Wins
41 - 48. TB Wins
Laguna Alta:
92 - 33. TB Wins
137 - 0. TB Wins
TB wins Total: 350 - 86.
Phyrexian vs. Team ireplica
2nd division. 5th round.
The last match round is to be played on White Pass and Nelson Bay. White Pass is a known fragger map mixed with a lot of snowstorms and Nelson Bay is a big 4 flag map which focuses a lot on team play.
Veterans vs. VIP Bravo. Sunday 12 December at 20.30.
This is the final of the 2nd division. Both Veterans and VIP Bravo has
Due to EA server downtime some matches wasn't completed.
Even When the servers was up again a lot of teams and players still had problem connecting or stay connected.
All matches that hasn't been played through can be played no later than Sunday 12th December at 2100.
If the teams can agree to play earlier then its allowed.
The 5th match round is then threatened by this EA server failure . This means that the original default match Sunday 12th December is
1st division. 4th round.
4th match round takes us to the maps Arica Harbor and Laguna Alta. Arica Harbor has more than once showed that this is a map where frags count. Many teams would be wise to pick their squad depending on its players fragging power. Laguna Alta is very different than Arica Harbor. Laguna Alta is all about control. Control at least 2/3 flags to bleed the opponent. Due to its size Laguna Alta is a very challenging map tactically and mentally. Tactically because you always ha
It is mandatory that every player record his match using the recording tool that fits your PC best. So far tests of various low end PCs, WeGame seems to be the best solution from 4th match round is VIP League 1st division. We suggest that all teams in 2nd and 3rd division do the same, but it is not mandatory.
WeGame can be downloaded at www.wegame.com. WeGame requires that you make and account and then you can download
3rd round. maps: Panama Canal and Laguna Presa.
VIP Ultra vs. Muttley
VIP Ultra started bad but finish good in their last match against Phyrexian. On the paper Muttley should be an easier opponent than Phyrexian was for the Ultras. This fact got proven from 1st whistle.
1st round on Panama Canal was the only real chance for Muttley to get some tickets wi
