We would like to welcome the newest addition to our moderating team Sirshaks. We are sure you will do fine!

Welcome to the moderator team rchap4, I'm sure you'll be a good moderator. Congrats and good luck!

Today we finally revived BlackIntel2, our second renegade server. We had planned to do this before (this is also the reason it went down), but now it's finally done!
What we did is turning it into an OldSkool Snipe server. This because we will be one of the first servers on the list, and thus have a reasonable chance to make it popular.
We will share this server with TheKOSs2 which will mean that some rules will be a bit different. Mainly being that we will not tolerate swearing at all. Yes, that is different then normal, but mostly the swearing ends in insulting and flames anyway. At this moment we don't have a swearbot set up and we hope that will not be neccesary either. If needed it will be ran on the sniper server.

As you know we updated the server a couple of days back. I made some pictures both at the datacenter and at home. You can clearly see our new scsi card and (not so clearly) our 3 harddrives.

Yesterday windows gave some annoying error messages after installing two disks on our dedicated server. Today we have been able to fix it. (Well, it magically started worked again...)
Additionally our IRC server decided to break today, so irc.blackintel.net has been down for some time too, we are not sure what went wrong currently, however whatever it was, it's fixed, because IRC is working fine again.

Sorry for the one day downtime, hopefully the new disks will improve performance though.

We hereby release BIATCH 1.1 RC1.

It contains various updates, here are some important ones:
- AntiAimbot was updated to counter the updated *cough* antiantiaimbot. (unfortunately, this does still not fully block aimbots)
- Added AntiBigHead feature. Still needs some testing, so it currently only writes to a log file so you know who you should check on bighead.
- Added protection to huge network holes. It was possible to al sorts of nasty stuff, which will be impossible with this update.
- Added SBBO at netcode level (lower level then SSAOW does at the moment) limited at 56K. This will probably be configurable in 1.1 final.
- Changed the logfile directories, and we hope other mods (like SSAOW) are going to use this too, to make everything more clear.

More information can be found in the changelog in the documentation.

We need feedback on the ABH, this means that if someone shows up in the logs as using BH, then you need to test him to be sure, and after that, send the results to us. Tell us if he was actually using BH at that time, or that he wasn't. This so we can determine what would be a suitable action on BH detection. This may vary form just blocking that damage or banning/kicking the one using BH.

Special thanks to Neku for help on the AntiBigHead stuff.

You can find the download here:
BIATCH download

And the documentation can be found here:
BIATCH documentation

We have updated some parts of the website, which can be seen in the navigation on the left. The various subsections can now be accessed using the expanding menus. For example the BIATCH documentation and clan site were separate websites until now, and have now been nicely integrated in the rest of the site. Also some other parts have been grouped to organise it a little better.
Internally a lot has been changed too, we are now using some sort of custom CMS we made, which is really flexible and simple, so it should be rather easy for us to do site updates, so hopefully we will have more of those. ;)

Another thing is that we switched to a new domain, www.blackintel.org. We have done this mostly because we wanted to get rid of the - in the name, which caused confusion about the proper spelling of BlackIntel. Remember, no dash and no space. ;) We will still keep the old domain registered for quite some time though, so this switch should go fluently. Some people are still having problems with accessing this page at the moment, however forcing a page refresh (by pressing ctrl+f5 in your browser window) should fix these.

Oh, I forgot to say that the rankings are now functioning again, and that you can even sort them by rank/name/kills/etc. Take a look at the rankings page!

We hereby release BIATCH 1.0.

It contains various fixes, here are some important ones:
Updated installer and uninstaller (it works now).
Several bugs found in RC 1 have been fixed.
Feet has changed into meters.
Hugely expanded documentation.

The rest of the changes can be found in the changelog in the documentation. You should read the documentation anyway because it conatins much new and important information. We also added better information about the weapons and the amount of damage it can do.

Some people have also been complaining about BIATCH spamming a lot of false-positives. This may happen on servers which have thier objects.ddb/aow damage values modded. Since the client doesn't "know" this, it will send an "illegal" amount of damage. Even though it is the normal damage.
Another problem with this is that because of the clients determining the damage that is applied, the modded server values wont have any effect.

BIATCH download
BIATCH documentation
(The documents about BIATCH that were installed with the RC1 version are outdated and will not be updated. So make sure that you visit the site instead of opening the old documentation directory).

I am proud to announce that the BlackIntel clan is officially recruiting new members now.

The clan was allready started, but since I finished the clan website today, its now time to make an official news article.

The website will be extended with userlists, war history etc soon.

Trace

As you can read below we've bought and placed our own server. The specifications are as follows:
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E4300
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2
Memory: 2GB's of DDR2 ram
Harddisk: 120 GB Seagate



We jope this will be able to bring the best game experience as possible ;)