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This is the first preview of some of the new features the future site will have. Since the forum will be moved to drupal, and incorporated into the new design, we will have a much better control over how the generic forum information will be shown.

The entire spapoints system will also finally be moved to Drupal, and we have designed this neat box to give users a quick overview over their points and bought features.

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The new layout of Specialattack.net has gone FINAL, and this means we can finally give you all the first peak at what you can expect from specialattack.net, once the new layout has been coded. We have decided to reveal one small part of the design over the next few days. The first preview today shows a small part of the header aswell as some of the top navigation and a new forum ticker. As can be expected, the new specialattack.net will feature alot of new and cool features :)

The layout may be subject to changes depending on how hard it is to code.

We've had a bunch of games lately, with only the ETF2L and the ShopTo cup running.

Next Sunday we will be facing off with Dignitas on cp_fastlane, we're prepared to take a beating in the ShopTo cup but it should be good fun :D

Both the Wireplay and Enemy Down leagues have ended, in WP after a terrible season start we placed third with a little bit of help from other teams. And then we tied in points with Hampshire Heavies in EDTF2L and had to a playoff match last Wednesday for the first spot. Beating HH on cp_freight (3:1), losing on cp_granary after about 25 minutes Che timed out and they got the only point in the round at the very end of the game (0:1) and as a decider we played and won cp_well (5:0).

ETF2L has been an odd ride so far, after losing to TEAM ASES, drawing OverGame e-Sports and winning the rest we have (for the time being) taken over the first place in division 3A. There are only two matches left who are crucial for us promoting to division 2 :D

(good game Che)

Our very own warteam #1 medic made his way through 7 rounds to get to the finals of the 1vs1 soldier cup, [SpA]cheetah suprised everyone with his ferocious attacks, ripping them all to shreds! Sadly his rampage was ended in the final by YoYoTech.Coinz (Cheetahs are known for sprints after all, not stamina!), who is known as one of the best soldiers at the competitive level of Team Fortress 2.

Very well done che, we supported you all the way!

More details can be found here: ETF2L Report

Our techteam has added a donation counter on the left top side of our website. This donation counter indicates the amount of money we require monthly to keep this community running, and the amount of money we have received so far this month.

Currently the counter shows an incorrect amount of money. The script just started counting a few day's back and we have not yet finished the manual entry of donations. Starting from next month the counter will be 100% up to date.

To donate to our community please follow this link or use the ‘donate!’ button in the top menu of our website. On there you will also find information on what rewards you’ll get for your donation.

There is currently a survey being held by the authors of the voice communication tool ‘Mumble' we actively use in our community. If you wish to participate in it, please follow this link.
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We noticed a lot of people are having issues with activating their SpA point accounts. We're currently redesigning the system so activating will become easier with fewer steps to follow.
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Sourcemod has been upgraded several times since the "Spy vs. Sniper" update. Because of the classpack update several functions stopped working or got partly broken. We're now back in a state were we think everything is more or less working again. If you notice any bugs please inform us about them on the forums.
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A Little while ago we announced our website DNS hosting would get moved to a different provider. We have successful completed this move without any noticeable downtime. In the next few weeks we'll make the second step in the process which is moving the actual DNS zone hosting to our own environment.
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VMware on Mr.White has successfully been upgraded and all new features we wanted to use are currently configured. We expect no more downtime for VMware maintenance on that machine.
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Our new Cisco ASA hardware firewall is almost ready to be put into the datacenter. We're just finishing up its final configuration and financial stuff with our datacenter.
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Due to the growth in player numbers we've had to upgrade our datacenter contract. We're now processing some 3TB gaming bandwidth and 1TB bandwidth for other services such as Mumble, sBNC's and the website each month.

By Shizz:

We're going to perform a VMware upgrade on MrWhite this weekend.

The machine will get upgraded from VMware ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.0 . Due to the upgrade we have to shut down the running virtual machines for several hours meaning all our web, irc, monitoring, voice, mail and other services will be unavailable during this period. The game servers will also temporary go down but only for 5 minutes. Once they come back up they will not be connected to the database and thus all SpA point features etc will not be available during this time.

We'll perform the upgrade somewhere between Saturday night and Sunday morning or between Sunday night and Monday morning.

Update:
VMware has been upgraded succesfully.

Update 2:
We'll perform some extra maintenance on the server tomorrow morning so we can start using some of the new features introduced in VMware ESXi 4.0

We've launched a Killing floor test server. We're currently still in the process of tuning it and figuring out it's settings, but from what we gather it should run pretty much perfect with default settings.

If you own Killing floor and feel like playing a game, you're now able to do so on the SpecialAttack server.

Servers details:

85.17.60.102:7707 Specialattack.net ::: Killing floor

We're going to move our domain, specialattack.net, to a new host. Our wish is to run primary nameserver for the domain ourselves but that's not supported at our current host. The new host will allow us to run primary nameserver and have them as secondary backup nameserver.

Because of this move the domain might be unavailable for several hours somewhere in the next week.