I’m quite pleased with Dustbowl against TFA though FAP showed us there’s still much to be worked on as they played a defensive 1st cap in the 1st stage. Who ever said <abbr title=”first person shooter”>FPS</abbr> games had no strategy - so so wrong.

After a quick Dustbowl game with FAP we proceeded to Granary. Though we lacked in speed, we still managed to hold off FAP at one point. But everyone here still have much to be improved.

As there is no; I, in team, when it comes to Team Fortress 2.

Tonight, we’ll be taking on EDC. GL HF!

Unfortunately, we won’t be using the eClub server to host any scrims as of yet. But, we will be doing it in due time.  In the meantime, we’re looking for Team Fortress 2 clans either from Malaysia or Singapore to scrim with us during weekends.

Please get in touch with either me (etsuko) or strife for arrangements. Or, you could contact us from this website.

We’d definitely like to scrim with other clans from around the world too. But we’re worried of the bad latency you experience later. However, if you don’t mind this and would like to scrim with us, please do contact us too.

• The Engineer’s dispensers can now be upgraded to level three. It will give out metal and heal faster as it is upgraded.
• Spies will be able to recharge their cloaking ability by picking up ammo off of the ground or from health cabinets.
• Some changes to the second part of the first stage of Goldrush to give the attackers more of an advantage.
• Any weapons that fire bullets (shotguns, sniper’s machine gun, heavy’s minigun, etc.) can now break apart the Demoman’s stickybombs.
• The icon on the HUD for a person calling for Medic will now give more information to the medic (if the target is low on health, on fire, etc.).
• Added an achievement tracker that will allow people to choose specific achievements that they are trying to get.
• There is now a custom icon for death messages when the player was killed from a critical hit.
• Added a new particle effect for when a player enters the water.
• Added smoke to the feet of a rocket jumping soldier.
• Players will now have some particles swirling around them so other players can see when they are overhealed.

I guess for the Engis and Spies they’ll most likley welcome this update. Which means other classes need to be more aware of the spy!

A quick clan update is we’re getting a new roster of players and we’re looking at scrims this weekend - both Saturday and Sunday. Booyah!

There’s no need to be proud of winning as it’s only a 15-second of fame at this point. We’ve a much juicier target to meet and we’ve to continuously work on reaching there. The list of players who participated in the scrim:

LYN++ players:
sewerspeakers
etsuko
master ch33f
spying around
noob player
hitman

SoK players:
frosty
renzeikun
FIR
narutox
yuki ona
commando12

I noticed in this game everyone was more relaxed while there were moments some of us (LYN++) almost got heart attacks during the capping of points. Plus, I apologize on behalf of the clan to SoK if you downloaded the video and found weird behaviour in our players. Especially, Sewerspeakers bursting out laughing for no apparent reason. (-.-”)

Nonetheless, thank you very much for the game and we’re looking forward to the next one. As long we’re informed in advance so we can get all our players organized. We too are still less on substitutes.

Here’s the recorded demo from my perspective. Enjoy!

• Mediafire
• Rapidshare

Note: Rapidshare now implemented a Collector’s account. File can only be downloaded 10 times or something like that. -.-”

LYN++ players:
SewerSpeakers
Master ch33f
Medic!
Hitman
etsuko
Spying around
SoK | Cyromancer [sub]
SoK | FIR [sub]

V players:
hcaz
Shin
xela (lexi)
obob (bobo)
nishino
Gioo
[Cm1] jiteshdivine [sub]

Despite our loss to V, we gained major experienced from the game and playing with a team like V points out where weaknesses really lie in our general game and skillsets. Thanks a bunch to V and we hope to continue scrimming with y’all.

And, here are the Team Fortress 2 recorded demos from my point-of-view and freecam when I had to be substituted due to high ping.

• Rapidshare.com
• Mediafire.com

P.S: I hate Internet sharing in a household. T_T

We kicked off our new beginning with an early scrim against the other Malaysia Team Fortress 2 clan; SoK (Symphony of Krits & Symphony of Kaos).

LYN++ players:
sewerspeakers (captain)
razer cicak
etsuko
medic!
spying around
master ch33f

SoK players:
boom
fir
cyromancer
commando12
silverlight
renzeikun

Both sides played really well and we all had our own weaknesses. I’d like to keep this short by saying good game to SoK and we look forward to more scrims with you.

Download the the game demo I recorded from:

• Mediafire
• Rapidshare.com
• Megaupload
• Rapidshare.de

P.S: Sorry about the mid-game subs and having to substitute in Lexi, Allen or John in in some parts. We didn’t have any proper subs and our players (ch33f and sewers) left in emergency. Thanks Lexi, Allen and John for subbing at the time.

Updated September 27, 2008:
We’re looking at wrapping up the player list earlier than the expected October 10. Members have been having anxiety attacks (in a good way) and I believe this is a good sign for our new beginning.

Thanks for your commitment and understanding the situation which had befallen the clan. As you know, we’ve had members who left or resigned. However, this is the natural order of a gaming clan including its dramas and politics behind it. There hasn’t been a clan so far which I’ve not seen at one time go through this.

So, don’t pity us. You are the Team Fortress 2 Malaysia gamer who makes your own decision. The decision to either be in the competitive clan (LYN++) or to remain a casual gamer (LYN). If you’d like to commit seriously into the clan, please expect to do the following:

• Be open minded and responsible.
• Commit to training times.
• Commit to scrims or better known as friendly matches.
• Respect your team mates.
• Share the server rental costs for our private training server.

If you believe you’re prepared to commit to this competitive clan, please leave your player tag in the comments as followed: [LYN+] etsuko.

What’s the difference between having ++ and +?
The LYN++ team members are formed to enter tourneys. The [LYN+] team members will be substitutes and training buddies of the [LYN++] members. No, you’re not for target practice but the backbone of the clan. If your fellow [LYN++] member fails to perform, his/her ranking may be demoted and yours promoted. This’ll be determined by the clan leader(s) later.

What’s the difference between [LYN++] and [LYN+] and [LYN]?
The [LYN] gamers is the community group of [LYN++]. As our history has been written, the competitive clan; [LYN++] was made up from a community from the Low Yat forums. However, now we’ve decided to set things straight. [LYN++] will be known as the clan which teams will commit to training and participate in tourneys.

Again, if you believe you want to commit to training and participate in tourneys then leave your tag in the comments.

It’s neither a new dawn or a new day. This is [LYN++]. And, we are a Team Fortress 2 Malaysia gaming clan!

Yesterday not only our Team Fortress 2 public and clan servers were experiencing high pings but generally, international connections faced a setback. According to our server administrator, he first thought the server was under attack. Soon we all learned the attacks were possibly affecting the datacenters!

And when crap like this happens in Malaysia, you can expect the TM guys to probably be pointing fingers then running in circles before getting to a solution.

On another note, LYN++ and kHz wanted to have a scrim yesterday. I wonder how it turned out.

This is what one of our brothers; Reuben, had to say on the ongoing Agent Fruitloops issue.

Pretty fedup of these accusations and the one-sided nature of it all so I’m going to post this as my final take on matters (personal opinion) though I did talk to Lex and Lode regarding this matter and they too are of the same opinion that the case isn’t clear.

What they didn’t provide are the other 3 demos of Fruits which in our opinion didn’t show any clear cut case. So 1 out of 4 demos. Believe us when we say that some of us approached this with a biased point of view AGAINST Fruits. Call it human nature in that we find it hard to believe in a good thing but eventually after watching the vids and investigating into wallhacks, we decided not to come to any conclusion and are of the opinion Fruits is innocent until proven otherwise.

Wallhacks (three known types of wallhacks)

1. Hooking into memory: This is detected by VAC2 and would have resulted in a ban, Fruits account has not been banned by VAC.
2. Materials hack (undetected by VAC2), however does not work with servers on sv_pure 2 which Khz’s server was set to.
3. perfui hack (fixed in January)

So…unless Fruits have discovered an unknown wall-hack then there’s no possibility of him using any of these hacks.

I personally find it hard to believe that a working man with children has the time to dig up all this shit to cheat in a friendly scrim and even in our own private trainings where he owns us as a sniper. Remember Fruits with or without wallhack is a crackshot sniper with fast reflexes (faster than many people) which make him more jumpy than a regular player.

Furthermore, after I shown this evidence to some people, they then accused him of using aimbot as a sniper (several people in fact). Looks like people are very eager to find Fruits guilty and that to me is disgusting. That wasn’t even the initial allegation by V-Co. To me it seems like a grudge taken on him where it was clear that they got some people to observe him from the very start to try and LOOK for something. And to me it was just plain disrespectful to bring it up in public when they had such shoddy evidence.

I spoke to several others and everyone has their ‘favorite moment’ of clear cut cheating while to others that part was believable. My take on the story is that if you observe someone long enough and try to look for cheating parts (especially with a soldier), you’re going to find suspicious behaviour. Maybe I should record some people playing soldier and see how ’suspicious’ they are shooting at empty doorways and stairwells and sometimes connecting. Hell some people thought the whole jerky motion with him being stuck in the stairs and porting around shooting at NOTHING and then dying to NOTHING was suspicious when it was just a simple case of lag on the part of the recorder. I personally thought that it was the part where the medic came across the corner and he shot at him which could have been a preemptive shot. Other people think it was him jumping and shooting at the sniper while i didn’t even notice that shit.

Reason why we haven’t spoke up regarding this is not cause of fear of defending Fruits, just don’t want to aggravate the situation especially when many people have unfortunately already prejudged him. Fruits has played with some of us in real life and he is equally as good (especially when smoking). It was decided that if we are to really disprove Fruits of cheating, then we’ll just bring him to a LAN tourney and everyone will see how good he really is.

And frankly, Fruits sucked hard in that demo. Don’t know what’s the big frickin deal. If he was a god like soldier and killed many people, sure, maybe he’s cheating but dammit he sucked, they lost and he didn’t do anything in that vid except die like a idiot. Heck, I think he was even surprised by the entry of a player who jumped him halfway. Surely he would have noticed them coming if he was using a wallhack?

If he’s a cheater, he sure was a pretty lousy cheater. Sure there is the possibility that he did cheat, but isn’t everyone innocent till proven guilty? And if he did cheat, he sure has the nerve to continue playing with us on our own clan server and continuing to use that hack (if that’s all that it is to his skill) in private training (to what end?). Sure I may eat my words in the future but right now, evidence isn’t good enough to condemn someone.

So those looking for drama and so eager to find Fruits condemned, how about just look at the sad state of our country’s politics. That would provide enough drama and BS to last a few years.

Anyway, as I said it’s still ongoing in our internal investigation and even family members can get disown if it’s a serious matter. Personally, I’d like to say Agent Fruitloops has participated in the clan’s first tourney before. So why does he need to cheat if he’s helped LYN++ win in the previous tourney?

Can you (or did you) do it in your upcoming game?