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- The latest in client side statistical programs comes to us from frangen of Clan Gunslingers. Wolfenstein Teamstats will take your client side logs, organize them up for you nicely, and then hand out awards such as the Terminator Award and Blabbermouth Award. The program is available for Win32 & Linux, and comes compelete with source code. Visit Wolfenstein Teamstats to check out samples and download it. |
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- This week's Dear Helga is now large and in charge, much like the woman herself! This week Helga answers a heaping helping of questions, easing the minds of the troubled RtCW community with some hard hitting advice. Don't be left in the dark, check out Dear Helga, our new weekly feature here on PlanetWolfenstein! |
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- The Wolf Tactics RtCW mod site has been updated with a pair of quicky notes. They've posted a screenshot from one of the maps to be included with the mod, Riptor's Forts. The team is also currently looking to bring in mappers and animators, if you're interested in hooking up with them then visit the Wolf Tactics site for more information. |
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- PW Forum regular, theKapn, has just released his first map at Allied, it goes by the name of Street Fighting Man, and includes some cool features! The Allies have discovered a small town separated by a river, in which the Axis have been using as an intelligence base. Allied intelligence has reported that a code book for the Enigma machine is somewhere in the town. Visit Allied to check it out! [FilePlanet Download Mirror] |
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- RtCWPortal has posted a quartet of summary map reviews, for the latest maps running on their game server. This week they are evaluating Enigma, Deathwish Final, Attack, and something called F.I.B.U. |
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- Over at Chiffriermaschinen, aka The Enigma Machine, they've posted eight new scripts for your tinkering pleasure. The new additions include a crosshair toggle, demo recording, various communications scripts, and sound playback. As always, the scripts are offered in .txt format, formatted with comments to help make clear exactly what you're doing to your Wolfenstein configuration... |
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- The DMZ Clan continue their Living Wolf series with an interview with Team Empire's Mongul. Would you like to make the jump to professional gaming, or do you think RTCW is just 'a game'? III-Mongul : Empire is currently planning on competing at Quakecon in August, and we'll definitely look at any other tournaments as they present themselves. If winning money/prizes at RtCW tournies qualifies us as "professional,"then we'll be only too happy to wear that label! |
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- The new Map of the Week is up over at Allied, and the honour goes to Mitchell Down by the fantabulous Rummie! Mitchell Down scored an 89% in the Allied Review, and it's proven itself to be a fan favourite. Visit Allied for map reviews and downloads! |
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- Now that Australia's first RtCW league has kicked off, keep your eyes 'n ears tuned to AusWolfenstein for the latest scoops from the Game Arena Ladder action! To kick things off, they've summarized the first challenges, you can see what's going on here. Apparently we can expect some Aussie match shoutcasting as well, something I think would be pretty interesting to tune into... G'day mates, toss another shrimp on the barbie, get ready to barrack the bastards you're rooting for as we have a captain cook at the action! Gonna be a real rip snorter! |
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- If you like to try before you buy, Aspyr Media's Michael Rogers has revealed that they intend to release a Mac Single Player Demo of RtCW. There is currently no firm commitment, but it is on their list of things to do. In addition, they are working on the RtCW 1.3 patch for the Mac. Version 1. |
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- Battlefield Wolfenstein have updated their CAL Invite League Power Rankings. So who's turning out to be the cream of the crop? Right now they've got Doctors sitting at #1 in the East, and Abuse holding fort at the top in the West. Any signs of wear and tear or will they remain tops? Check out all the Power Rankings over on Battlefield Wolfenstein. |
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- GamesDomain have posted up a new featured entitled The Making of Market Garden. Market Garden was a mapping success story from Splash Damage, and the team let's it all hang out in the article. Included are some research photos and concept art, read it here! |
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- Cached.Net interviews wheela and burnzone of Team Phoenix, a championship winning Q3 Urban Terror clan goes RtCW. The interview includes information regarding the clan's humble beginnings, their tourney history, favourite maps and much, much more. Included are some demos, demo commentary and screenshots. Dig it all here! |
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- ShackES has popped up a quick editorial on the alpha build of OSP for RtCW. Here's a bit of what was said regarding the mod in progress: I watched a scrimmage between Abuse and :/ last night, on an OSP-enabled server. As expected, there's nothing really different about RtCW OSP compared to vanilla RtCW, there are just more features. |
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- Haakon A. Myhra's map Vemork goes up to bat as the latest ALLIED review by OBJ. With very few things wrong (and i looked hard) you have a map with some amazing sounds, unique textures, multiple ways to the objective and a lot of fun. A rather ringing endorsement, and a very sweet final score. Visit ALLIED to read the review and leave your opinion in their Flak. |
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- One of the Planet Wolfenstein hosted sites, Surface, has released a set of ten new floor textures, for all of the mappers out there. According to the announcement, shaders for all of the textures are included with the download, which is a 995k download. More details and a few sample images of the textures can be found at Surface. |
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- ALLIED have announced the list of RtCW maps which made the first Allied Map Pack in the Add Ons section of the new PC Gamer UK CD insert. Congrats to the folks whose top notch work will be published on the CD! Airstrip 2 - Rummie The Bunker – nib The Tank - BadIdea Foo Fighter - Menzel POW Camp - Necro (N.L.R. |
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- Over on SteelRat's Cage you can find the newest version of SRCSTAT, the latest teamplay statistics program for RtCW. Here's what kinda of goodies it collects: Server Info Total games played on a server Total Axis score Total Allies score Number of players that has played on the server Player Info Total games completed by this specific player Number of times a player has been on the winning team Number of times a player has been on the loosing team Total Player score Times a player played Axis Times a player played Allies You can download and get the full scoop on v1.02 here. |
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- Over on the Team Abuse site, method has posted up some general offensive strategies for RtCW. Using classes to your team's advantage, making attacks count and crucial timing are amongst the topics of conversation. Read the article here! |
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- Id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead updated his .plan today with a quick blurb giving PlanetWolfenstein's very own Dear Helga the thumbs up! Here's a copy 'n paste: "Good stuff for RTCW fans: http: |
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- Haakon A. Myhra has updated his RTCW NorthStar Site with new screenshots of his mp_lofoten map. Wolf Tactics have updated with a bit of news regarding their progress. The Fuel-Air Explosive grenade (FAE) has been implemented into the mod's code. In a nutshell, the FAE grenade has two charges: |
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- TC's Seekers Dream is the latest map to go under OBJ's knife over on ALLIED. Unfortunately due to some GameSpy technical difficulties, we had to delay posting news of this one for a couple of days but now it appears to be live 'n happenin'. The good, the bad and the ugly? Doesn't sound like there's any ugly, the review takes home a decent final mark, bearing in mind that a map has to be a real professional masterpiece to make it into the top percentile. Seekers Dream is a fun, well designed piece of work that deserves a nod, so head over to ALLIED, read the review and leave some Flak of your own! |
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- Brad Custer gives Mac Wolf a proper tribute with several new desktop wallpapers available in a bevy of sizes for your downloading pleasure. The wallpapers were originally to be included with the game CD as part of Brad's continuing work with Aspyr Media, but he missed the deadline. :o The 18 new wallpapers use high quality images supplied by Activision, check them out here! |
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- Rummie's Maps has some sweet news tonight for those anxiously awaiting his current mapping project, Philadelphia Experiment. The map is now in beta testing, which means a final release won't be too far off the horizon. For more information visit Rummie's Maps! |
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- Bubba has updated his Castle with a little news regarding the map he's currently working on. Castle Neuschwanstein is for the Special Forces RtCW modification, and it sounds like things are coming along nicely. Several new screenshots have been posted up, along with a quick blurb on the maps's progress. Hit Bubba's Castle to check it out! |
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- I just found the address for an interesting website. It's called 99secrets, by Carl Steadman, and it is an anonymous male and an anonymous female revealing secrets to each other. You go straight to a random secret and you can go forwards or backwards. Try it yourself. Edited on May 3rd 2002, 10: |
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- I just found the address for an interesting website. It's called 99secrets, by Carl Steadman, and it is an anonymous male and an anonymous female revealing secrets to each other. You go straight to a random secret and you can go forwards or backwards. Try it yourself. Edited on May 3rd 2002, 10: |
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- I just found the address for an interesting website. It's called 99secrets, by Carl Steadman, and it is an anonymous male and an anonymous female revealing secrets to each other. You go straight to a random secret and you can go forwards or backwards. Try it yourself. Edited on May 3rd 2002, 10: |
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