Archive for December, 2007

Mossad TF2 servers are coming up Friday Jan 4th

Published by MoD on December 27, 2007 in Mossad and News. Comments

Gamers prepare yourselves!

Next Friday, January 4th, 16:00 Israel Time, Mossad TF2 servers will go live!

The pre-launch party will start at 15:00 in #mossad.il, come show us your excitement!

We will celebrate the occasion with a festive one hour game of Dustbowl, followed by pickup matches at 17:00.

The launch will be preceded by a pre-launch 24 slots server that will come up Wednesday night, so you can get yourselves familiar in the Mossad neighborhood!

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While you wait you can also:

Team Fortress 2 holidays sale - $26.95

Published by MoD on December 24, 2007 in News. 0 Comments

VALVe are offering a lot on stuff on sale until January 1st:

TF2 - $26.95 - 105₪
The Orange Box -  $37.45- 147₪

And 10%-50% Off on everything!

Steam purchases can be made with an international credit card and let you start downloading the game immediately, buy TF2 and join the fun!

TF2 HOWTO: Fix bad sound since 12/21 update

Published by MoD on December 22, 2007 in News and TF2. Comments

Sound in Team Fortress 2 got really messed up after yesterday’s update, most noticeable with the demoman launcher and the soldier’s rocket launcher.

The solution is simple:

snd_noextraupdate 1

and if that doesn’t work also:

snd_mix_minframetime 0

These get overriden by the game at map change, so it’s best to put them in autoexec.cfg or bind a key to them.

VALVe confirmed this issue, and this is a temporary fix until it will be fixed in engine.

TF2 Update 12/20/2007 - Dustbowl changes!

Published by MoD on December 21, 2007 in News and TF2. Comments

An update was released for Team Fortress 2:

Major points:

Team Fortress 2:
- Sudden Death mode is now a server option (a convar) and defaults to
OFF
- Sapped buildings now take slightly less damage from the Spy who sapped
them
- The Medic’s Medigun now charges at an increased rate during Setup
time, to remove the need for self-damage grinding
- Prevented players from playing the “civilian” class
- Fixed exploit where the Medigun UberCharge wouldn’t drain if you
switched weapons
- Fixed the flamethrower stuttering when firing directly into a building
- Added effects to players when they earn an achievement, visible to
other players nearby

Dustbowl:
- Now waits until either team wins fully before changing to another map
on server timelimit expiring
- Teams now score a point per captured control point, rather than per
sub round
- Prevented Demomen being able to launch grenades into the stage three
alleys while standing at the final cap point
- Fixed gaps in stage gates that allowed snipers to kill defenders
during setup
- Added stair access to the upper area in stage three after the first
cap
- Limited line-of-sight at the first control point in stage 3 to remove
a griefable sniper spot

How will the dustbowl scoring change affect league play?
And what’s that exploit talking about, medic not draining Uber? That was a proper tactic :(

ESL Major series - €1.500 TF2 League

Published by MoD on December 19, 2007 in News and TF2. Comments

The European pro-gaming site ESL - Electronic Sports League - Announced season II of the Major series:

The ESL Major Series (EMS) are a collection of Pro Leagues situated a step below our highest competitions, the Pro Series and Masters.

Team Fortress 2 will be played in that league, for a grand prize of €1.500 - This guarantees we might see some top clans playing there, backed by sponsors, hungry for the prize!

If your clan wishes to participate, go over and register at ESL website - commenting in the above linked article will also give you a chance to win a TV card.

I recommend though that clans that wish to participate in this league get themselves ready - this one’s not going to be easy!

Mossad has been re-opened

Published by Eternal Bliss on December 13, 2007 in Mossad, News, TF2 and Updates. Comments

Three years have passed since Mossad has gone offline, We have decided to bring it back online to support the Team Fortress 2 community.

We welcome and urge you to use our forums in order to know each other, find long lost friends, and start growing.

Mossad is still under heavy development and you can be sure we will be adding more features all the time, but for now we hope you will enjoy our website and forum.

Our TF2 servers are planned to go live next week (around the 20-21st of December) and we plan on adding a special server in which we will hold clan matches, practices and pickups. Clans will be able to schedule time slots in advance and enjoy this server.

Anyone who wishes to become an admin can apply in the forums and each application will be reviewed and those who will be found fit for the job - will be contacted. furthermore, if you wish to help in any other way (programming, moderating ,etc.) you can contact us via the “Contact” link.

We hope you will enjoy this community made BY gamers FOR gamers, without any monetary thought involved, we are not planning on making any money here, the donation link goal is only to cover the costs… we will return any extra donation once we have gathered enough.

For those of you who don’t know what Mossad is, here is some information:

Mossad was founded by Eternal Bliss in 2001 to gather the TFC community into one place (by creating an IRC server), the community became big and had grown every day with new members coming along. After a few years atterdag and Zappatta joined the project and together a powerful server was bought. Afterwards, some TFC servers went online (including some NS, DoD, CS servers).

Due to many hardware malfunctions and lack of funding, Mossad was closed in December 2004.