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(The documents about BIATCH that were installed with the RC1 version are outdated and will not be updated.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 ;)

Last saturday we (Ghostshaw, EvilWhiteDragon and I) installed our new dedicated server in a datacenter in Amsterdam. After working hard to get things set up and running, it seems to be pretty stable and nice now. A few remaining problems will be sorted out soon, but in my opinion it went pretty fluently. We hope this one will even better than the box we used to rent. Due to the enormous amount of things we had to do, fix, explain, etc we kind of forgot about posting a news post, but here it is anyway. ;)

We also switched to a new way to connect to XWIS. Instead of using WolAPI we recoded most of its functionality to be able to keep the servers running when they lose connection to xwis and for some other less interesting reasons. Although it seemed to be running pretty well in test phase it turned out to be impossible to kick or ban players anymore! Also BIATCH could not ban players in that period. That has now been fixed though. :)

We apologise for any trouble caused by these things, like interrupted games or server crashes. However in the end these changes will only have positive effects. We hope you agree there! ;)