Saiboat has proven his movement ability time and time again, making even the most complex of trick jumps look effortless. This movement training level, designed to stretch a players speed, skill and agility presents several increasingly complex stages, at which the game's lightweight class must wall-dodge, boost and launch himself through the course's various obstacles.


We hope even those from outside the "Unreal 2 eXpanded MultiPlayer" - community will appreciate this video; it is just a taste of better things to come :> Enjoy.

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Good news everyone! The new improved MapVote is now available for download. I have added the following features since 0.4:

1. New, improved graphical interface, graphical configuration menu as well
2. Time delay between votes, and after joining the game (to stop vote-spamming)
3. Maximum number of votes imposed (to stop vote-spamming)
4. A choice of poll styles, to make it less intrusive for players using lower resolutions
5. WebAdmin Module, to help server admins change settings more easily
6. Admin-configurable Message Of The Day - admins can set the text, colour and duration of the MOTD.
7. Improved map downloading for admin users - maplist is now downloaded more slowly and is cached by the client.

Downloading/Installing
The new package is available here. It is available both zipped and as separate files. For installation and usage instructions please first consult the readme.txt.

Notes
This is still remaining alpha for a reason. Please report bugs to me via e-mail and I shall attempt to rectify the problems as quickly as I can. Continued testing and bug-reporting will make it more stable, I can also add the features that you want.

Screenshots (Click to enlarge)

New graphical MapVote interface	New poll style: "small"	Graphical configuration screen	WebAdmin screen

So it feels like a long time since anything really drastic happened in the Unreal 2 XMP community, but good news is here, in the form of a replacement Master Server coded by ]HoC[Omen. The new MS made the news at BeyondUnreal and UT2007 World and is already breathing life into the wounded community. Efforts are underway to gain access to the domain "legendent.com" in order to provide seamless connectivity to the new server. In the meantime, we have put together a UI Mod which allows players to easily alter their configuration to query the new master server.

So far responses have been excellent, even to the point that new servers are sprouting up each week.

If you've never played Legend Entertainment's classic multiplayer add-on for their digital masterpiece that was Unreal 2: The Awakening. Then you may well wonder what all the fuss was about. It should however be noted that during it's somewhat foreshortened life, it spawned a following and community which, I expect, will not be rivalled in the near future by any other online game.

The secret to it's success was some of the most intense and rewarding gameplay, coupled with a style of teamplay which remains unmatched to date. Unfortunately, the closure of Legend Entertainment by Atari, the lack of decent master server provision by the same, and the advent of U2:XMP's successor "UTXMP" (a conversion of the classic game to the Unreal Tournament 2004 platform), meant U2XMP is now played only by a loyal hard core of dedicated players.

However, as a tribute to this great game, and really just an excuse to have a good laugh and some extremely good games, we decided to stage a small revival match for old times' sake.

We did.

It rocked!

Match 1 Results	Match 2 Results	Match 3 Results

Community Stats Service
Shortly after we launched Battlefield 2, many users found ways to query the Stats system outside of the game client and began creating great interfaces and web sites that allowed users to pull their own (or really any player's stats). Unfortunately, we were forced to close this query off to the community after some malicious types in our Community began to run over-large and continuous queries. That said, we are currently deploying and testing a new service that will return some of this functionality to our dedicated players and we intend to provide this tool (along with guidelines for use of the service) very soon. Stay tuned to this space for news.

Battlefield 2 Mod Tool Update
As we mentioned in this space a little over a week ago, the Battlefield 2 Editor was released to a small number of Mod Teams worldwide recently to help us uncover last minute configurations issues and/or documentation omissions. This process has been a tremendous success thanks to the dedicated Community Members involved, and we are in the process of addressing a few last minute issues with the Editor. With that said, we are still a few days from Open Beta release. We again ask for the community's patience, as our goal with the Editor is to provide the most stable, complete toolset possible.

Many of you have surely noted that a version of the Closed Beta tools have been illicitly provided to a wider audience without our approval. If you choose to download and install these files, please be aware that you do so without any expectation of support from EA or DICE. As noted, the BF2 Editor is still in the process of being cleaned up, and your experience with the toolset will surely be much more positive if you wait for the Open Beta release in the days ahead.

Original source: EAGAMES.COM