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#1 | New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | hyper | Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:06 am

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After spending much more time on it than I first intended to, the new DS site is up. As decided a few months ago, DS disbanded temporarily due to a mixture of inactivity and the members being too busy to be able to reliably attend COD4 matches. The idea of the disband was to time a regroup for the Modern Warfare 2 launch ...and we all know how that turned out.

The announcement of no dedicated servers triggered an explosion of outrage and disappointment from the PC COD community. This is also a major factor for why this site is up a bit late, because the MW2 news reduced the motivation and urgency to work on the site, which otherwise would of been up in time for the launch (Borderlands was another distraction as well

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If there are any strands of hope left for MW2 to redeem itself, they are getting thinner and thinner as more days go past without IW releasing the dedicated-server/console/lean patch that everybody secretly wants to see, but at the same time no one is holding their breath for it to ever appear. The game is still a really decent pub game though (if you can get past the random lag, connection problems and the quirky and restrictive behaviour of IWnet). By the way, there is a new post-release petition - it's numbers aren't moving anywhere near as fast as the pre-release one - probably because most people have moved on...

...or gone back to COD4 or COD2, which is what we might just do for now. Cybergamer does have a trial ladder for MW2, but doesn't look too promising from reading the description. On the horizon for competitive gaming, we have Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (FPS), and Starcraft 2 (RTS), both coming in early 2010 and both looking clannable. At this point, I think it is fairly safe to say that the best of the call of duty series is well behind us (MMO? seriously?).

This site is still in a 'beta' stage at the moment, and some features are incomplete / will be added over time when needed (like the war system, which has a completed backend, but I havent made views for them). I wrote this site from scratch using the Django (Python) framework, so I should be able to change things pretty quickly if you ask me or see a bug/error.

So... welcome back everyone!

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#2 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | Spartan | Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:29 pm

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It is quite disappointing to see the lack of features needed for competitive gaming in MW2, and I cant really see them doing anything about it real soon too.

On the other hand, as Hyper mentioned, there will be new games. Bad company 2 really stands out for me and with a release date not too far away (March 2nd 2010), hopefully this will be the next big game the competitive PC community will pick up. If anyone is interested, you can check out some live PS3 beta steam of BC2 here :http://www.justin.tv/afflictedstudios (they alternate between MW2 and BC2)

As to the long awaited new dynamic soldiers site, all i can say is... Fricking Awesome!!
Good job Hype, the site looks great!!

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#3 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | riz | Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:35 pm

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Site looks nice. :)

The activation email went to my junk mail, however.

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#4 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | Dealy12 | Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:49 pm

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all i have to say about the site is this

ITS FREAKING AWSOME LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#5 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | Ricochet | Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:04 pm

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|DS| Hyper... you are my idol!

Now if only we had a game to play... fuck you infinity ward

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#6 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | Dealy12 | Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:34 pm

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i hear cod4 is on the cards atm? in its 8th season of uber competitiveness and stuff

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#7 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | JiNxXx | Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:17 pm

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I jizz'd when I heard that the DS boys were coming back!!! and then the site came and I cum'd all over the place....

now for some reason everything I touch is sticky....

Good to be back :D

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#8 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | hylander | Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:18 pm

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Bloody brilliant job hyper. You should be really proud of your efforts, I'm sure I'm speaking for everyone here about how much we all appreciate the work you've done here.

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#9 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | Dealy12 | Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:48 pm

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this means you should start gaming again hylander yea?

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#10 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | hylander | Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:01 pm

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I was getting all keen to get into MW2 then well... the rest is history.

I'd definitely be happy get a hand on Bad Company 2 or even get into some old school COD2, COD4 is still really stale in my opinion.

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#11 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | Dealy12 | Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:32 pm

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cod2 would be good, but im in a team atm that is going to try and get into finals etc im only free for cod4,mw2

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#12 | Re: New DS v2.0 site is finally up and running | K1ngz | Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:56 am

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really good job on the site hyper looks good

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