Team [Housewares]

Donations Accepted

For those that may have noticed, we have put up a donations link via Paypal. Like most things in this world, running [Housewares] is not free. While we by no means require a donation ( we aren’t a clan, remember?), if you feel that you enjoy playing on Housewares and would like to help prolong it’s existence, donations are welcomed. We have set a $2.00 per donation limit (we aren’t trying to get rich off of this, just cover the monthly costs).

For those that have noticed the link AND donated to the cause, THANK YOU VERY MUCH (You know who you are!)

Later.

03-05-2005 Stats Are Up

See what happens when Mac is late to the party? Big congrats go out to 5.56mm for coming in at the almighty Number 1 in the skill rating for the evening! And he managed to miss the number 1 slot for total kills, being edged out by Ash, by a mere 3 kills. Way to go!

It was another stellar evening and thanks go out to everyone who joined in. Here are some other noteables:

5.56mm - besides coming in at Numero Uno in skill, he also got the most MG42 kills of the evening. What’s up with that, zeke?

zeke - managed to dominate with the Springfield and Nagant sniper kills

Toe-Tag - once again regains possession of the Longest Loss Streak award. The rest of the stats are improving though.

Silence - just died alot, most deaths in Rocket and Tigertown

SiCkOnE(formerly Illness) - totally dominated the grenade award. 97. WOW!

Ash - simultaneously winning most bash kills and deaths

Mac - topped last week’s bash record by 2, for a total of 16 bashes in one night

Hammer wanted to join in the fray, but was kept away by connection difficulties. He was not able to connect to the server because the server entry would not show up in the “internet” or “Favorites” listings. Sounds like a filter problem..... If anyone has any insight on this, please drop us a line.

See everyone next weekend!

02-27-2005 Stats Are Up

Turnout was very good Saturday night. Thanks to all who stopped by and played in some excellent matches. For the most part, everyone seemed to be on the same playing level. We even saw some new faces, Hammer and Princess Unicorn.

Here are some highlights:

5.56mm - As expected, he took the award for most Kar98(Sniper) kills.

Zeke - master of killing on the new Tigertown map

IiLneSs - who now sports the [housewares] tag, was true to his word about remaining the grenade kill king

Toe-Tag - gets an award for not winning an award

Hammer - gets the coveted Loss Streak award (although he tied Toe-Tag in this respect)

Ash - won just about every other award, including being the only victim of Princess Unicorn

Mac - 14 bashes, in one night. Hmmmm.

>X< - gonna earn the nickname part-time employee

Silence was silently absent this week, meaning that everyone else had a chance to get some kills in. Thanks again to all who stopped by. See ya again next week!

Upgrade Successful

The v1.5 patch was applied this evening and it looks like it is working fine. The new Tigertown map was added to the end of the map rotation, so it will appear right after Rocket.

All the maps have been checked to make sure that Americans are replaced by the British. A slight modification was necessary to the rifles.pk3 file. This now puts us at the 5th revision of the rifles file, so you’ll download the new rifles5.pk3 when you first sign on. All of the other mods appear to still be functioning.

Here’s some screenshots of the new Tigertown map:

Enjoy, and see everyone on Saturday!

Server Upgrade: Today

The server is being upgraded to the v1.5 patch today, so if you’ve had that v1.5 patch installer sitting around on your desktop, now’s the time to install it. The exact time of the upgrade is not known, just that it will happen sometime today.

For those that have not yet downloaded the patch, here are some links to where you can find it:

Mac  Aspyr’s Web Site (20MB download)
PC  Call of Duty Web Site (36MB download)

Everyone is encouraged to try it out today to see if the upgrade went well. Hopefully the new mods we implemented will continue functioning. The new Tigertown map will be added into the rotation as well.