Well the progress is slow but I'll eventually move all the forum content to the blog! All the SOF2 content is now in the blog.

Downloads List
• multiplayer weapons balancing mod -in progress-
• SOF2 Extended mod
• The BS movie

Gaming Info and Links
• My SOF2 mod servers 'to do' list

Soldier of Fortune: Payback

• original version banned in Australia 16-Oct-07 - OFLC link -
• revised version given an MA 15+ rating 21-Nov-07 - OFLC link -

... in order to meet the requirements, the ragdoll physics and blood levels have been toned down, and there will be no dismemberment in the Australian release.

Soldier of Fortune Payback will be available early 2008 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

- IGN: Soldier of Fortune: Payback Gets AU Classification -

The Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification - link - has given the upcoming Soldier of Fortune Payback a 'Refused Classification' (RC) rating. Apparently there is no official R18+ rating for games in Australia so anything that would normally fit into this catagory is simply banned.

This isn't just a rumor, it's listed in the above site on their database.


Soldeir of Fortune Payback official site
http://mercenarieswanted.com


Here are a couple of articles regarding the ban:
• http://1up.com/do/newsStory/sofp-ban
• http://news.com.au/story/sofp-ban



All this really does is reduce sales to game selling businesses and prevents servers from being run in Australia. Looks like the NZ servers will be busy. The already large problem of piracy and torrent downloading will now get worse in November when this game is released overseas. Australian businesses will now lose money simply because Australia doesn't have an R18+ rating for games... eg. game selling businesses and game server providers.

How hard can it be to include an R18+ rating for games?
It's there for other forms of media so why not games?


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Well... first it looked like the game was being held back for release in Australia while the rest of the world got it... this was apparently a marketing decision...

NOW... it looks like it's banned in Australia!!! - gamespot-news -


I'm phoning the - OFLC - tomorrow for confirmation.

Well it's official!

After years of rumors it's finally going to happen. The next installment of the Soldier of Fortune series is about to be released. Mid November. Activision is releasing Soldier of Fortune Payback.

- http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3163466 -


^^^ check the above link for some ingame footage!

For multiplayer, there will be standard Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag modes, along with Elimination and Demolition modes, which we don't know much about at this point. There will be long-term stat tracking included for those who play online.

Let's hope there is a client option to disable stats.
What is it with noobs and stats now-a-days?

The last version made of the SOF2 Extended mod was v1.11 This version looks to be very hard to find to download especially as the mod's website no longer exists. The previous version (v1.1) can be found but not this most recent version. Due to the site being down and the unavailability of this mod and the fact I believe it's well worth playing, I've decided to host it. SOF2 Extended has some nice admin options, clean HUD, and a well balanced real-damage option plus more. It's primarily designed for competeion play.

See - here - for more info including download link.

After playing SOF2 one day and constantly getting BSed from a noob I decided to take a demo. Turns out the BSing continued.

Anyway, at the time of this I was experimenting with windows movie maker which comes with windows XP and decided to try to put a small movie together. A part of this was I wanted to play around with editting and adding sound.

So.. here is my BS SOF2 movie. It's nothing special but usually gets a few laughs ;p

- link -


^^^^^^^

Well it's been a while but monk has re-emerged to continue his work with the OSP mod with the help of some new contributors. The last version was 1.0L

This latest see some cvars taken from Enemy Territory (these are server-side)

- add: osp_fixedhz <0|1> [default 1] serverside cvar. this will impliment 125hz fixed frequency to prevent framerate dependant physics for jumps, weapons etc
- add: insert osp_fixedhz into /settings and serverinfo. this will show up in a game browser (all seeing eye etc) as being enabled/disabled
- add: match_mutespecs <0|1> allow/prevents spectators from chatting during a match
- add: match_latejoin <0|1> prevents/allows players from joining a match
- add: cvars to control messing spamming of clients. These default to "0"
- g_msgs <n> Duration in seconds between messages sent to users
Setting g_msgs to 10 will spam a message to all clients every 10 seconds
- g_msg<n> <string> where x is a number. Messages will be displayed from lowest to higher (0-9)
- g_msgprefix <string> where string is a prefix. ie: set g_msgprefix "^1OSP ^2TEST ^3SERVER:"
- g_msgpos <n> position of messages
- <0> screen area
- <1> center screen
- <2> console

The update also includes security and minor bug fixes.

Download client and server packs - here -


As you can see from the download page, v1.2 and v2 are in progress!
I'll keep you posted =]