"It's that time of year again, folks! After the success of last year's Going the Social Distance & Pigeon Classic raising over $3000 for nurses & midwives, it only made sense to do another event of epic proportions. This year, our event is benefitting Child's Play, which is an organization that donates toys & games to hospitals and domestic violence shelters around the world, providing children with a variety of therapeutic opportunities that are also fun! Join us in showing them some love!

We've arranged several events by partnering with our friends to create tournaments, exhibitions, and showcases, as well as asking many of our favorite streamers & developers to promote donations to the charity between the 6th & 14th of November."

Learn more about The Pigeon Classic 2021: https://inthekeep.com/pigeon-classic-2021/

Now that you're more than compelled by the Drowned God Cthalha to donate to this great cause it's time to frag and gib! In The Keep[inthekeep.com] and Zensports[zensports.com] are hosting Warfork Duel and 3v3 Clan Arena Cup's to help raise money for Child's Play[childsplaycharity.org]. We urge you to please make a donation via the following Tiltify campaign link: https://donate.tiltify.com/+in-the-keep/pigeon-classic-iv. Please note it is not required to make a donation but encouraged.

Pigeon Classic 2021 | Warfork Duel Cup
Sunday, November 14, 2021
8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET
$250 Prize Pool

Challonge page with all information:
https://challonge.com/pc2021warforkduel

Pigeon Classic 2021 | Warfork 3v3 Clan Arena Cup
Saturday, November 13, 2021
8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET
$250 Prize Pool

Challonge page with all information:
https://challonge.com/pc2021warforkca

To stream the event please tune into In The Keep at Youtube Live or Twitch[www.twitch.tv]!

If you have any additional questions, comments, or concerns please join the following Discord servers:

Warfork: https://warfork.com/discord
In The Keep: https://discord.com/invite/Aa7tcsH

Hey Forkers!

We're proud to announce we will be featured in Realms Deep 2021! Special thanks to the following for helping complete our submission:

Video Production: tontoepfer
Sound Engineer: MaxCarnage
Voice Actor: James Holyoake as "Rufus"
Music: Ava1anche

Press release:
AALBORG, Denmark — July 7, 2021.
3D Realms[3drealms.com] (a world-famous video game publisher and game developer that’s been around for over 30-years time) today announced with great joy and excitement that their digital “Realms Deep 2021[www.realmsdeep.game]” event kicks-off on August 13th this Summer.

That’s right! 3D Realms’s shooter-focused digital event, returns for a second year filled with world premieres and special guests, from Friday, August 13 through Sunday August 15, with a live show airing at 10:00AM PDT on August 14, on the 3D Realms’ Twitch channel.

A Realms Deep Steam Sale will also take place from Aug. 13-15. This year, Realms Deep also includes “The Vault”, filled with talks, interviews, lessons and great discussions with some of the brightest minds in the first-person shooter industry. The Vault content will unlock throughout the weekend!

Prepare for three days dedicated to all the latest old-school shooters, newer shooters and everything in-between. Some non-shooters might even sneak in! Realms Deep 2020 featured 40+ games including the Hexen-inspired GRAVEN, Ion Fury’s Aftershock expansion, and Postal: Brain Damaged.

This year’s event plans to more than double the fun with 100+ titles worth of reveals and updates. 3D Realms invited their friends with announcements from Slipgate Ironworks, Devolver Digital, 1C Entertainment, Running with Scissors, New Blood Interactive, HYPERSTRANGE, and more.

Realms Deep returns with deep-dives, lessons, keynotes and discussions, with classic industry icons and legends as part of The Vault, throughout the weekend. These names will be revealed leading up to the show! Tune in to hear from a new generation of developers, like MK Schmidt (Star Explorers, Paradox Vector), Damjan Mozetič (Call of Saregnar), Scumhead (Vomitoreum), and many more.

In addition to some super secret debuts, expect updates on GRAVEN, dark-fantasy action adventure WRATH, and Ion Fury Aftershock. Ivar Hill continues to work with 3DR and prepares to provide exciting news on Core Decay, an immersive sim inspired by classics like System Shock and Deus Ex revealed at last year’s Realms Deep.

Just like last year, proceeds generated by exclusive Realms Deep merchandise available during the show all go directly to Child’s Play.

“We had an amazing time at last year’s Realms Deep sharing not only what we’ve been working on all year, but our friends’ projects too,” said Frederik Schreiber, co-owner of 3D Realms.

“We hope to see Realms Deep grow each year, and we hope shooter fans swing by and hang out!”

Realms Deep 2021 begins on the Realms Deep website on Friday, August 13 through August 15, with a live show airing at 10:00AM PDT on August 14 on 3D Realms’ Twitch channel. For more information, visit the official Realms Deep website, follow 3D Realms on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, join the team’s Discord and check out the official 3D Realms website.

About 3D Realms
Founded 30 years ago, 3D Realms was the publisher, developer and creator of many legendary gaming franchises, most still going strong: Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem, Shadow Warrior, Max Payne and Prey.

To learn more about 3D Realms please visit the studio’s official website[3drealms.com].

- We have extracted all the Warfork Testing PK3 files once again since the previous update is now live. If you have a limited amount of bandwidth per month we urge you to uninstall the FVI Launcher DLC (which contains Warfork Testing).

Hey Forkers,

We bring you a minor update to squash some bugs which were pestering players. We're in the process of working on models amongst many other things at the moment and will have more news shortly.

- Fixed a player name bug. (thank you klaufir)

- Teamcolored textures now work after 2nd map loading

- Server containing only spaces as hostname no longer take up two lines in the server browser.

- Added const uint8 cClient::buttons to AS. This property allows gametypes to check the pressed buttons of a given
client. This way a gametype can detect whether a player is pressing his
attack button at a given time. This could be used to to implement
controllable vehicles for example. Intercepting the +attack command has
proven to be an unreliable method to accomplish something like that.

- Added some administration functions to AS. This changeset allows gametypes to
* promote/demote operators
* mute/unmute clients
* drop clients with custom messages printed on the clients' screen after
dropping out of the game.

- Added bool cEntity::allowFunctionOverride to AS
This property allows gametypes to take control of arbitrary edict_t
function callbacks. This way a gametype can enhance existing entities
by extending their behaviour.

- Added G_PureFile to gametype AS
This allows gametypes to register files other than sounds and models as
pure. This can be used to transfer other files to connecting clients,
for example ui files.

- Fix qwertz layouts messing up the first char in the console.

- Add cfg filename autocomplete for writeconfig command.

- Updated the Warfork credits and completely revised the Warsow credits to be more accurate.

- Updated some logos and billboards.

- Moved /misc/ sounds to non-pure.

- Allow server owners to configure disallowed cvars. This also stops requesting empty cvarchecks. See: configs/server/cheatvars.txt

Hey Forkers,

We've renamed the "Warfork Testing" DLC to "FVI Launcher", which now gives you quick access to the Warfork Map editor of choice (Netradiant Custom) bundled with the Warfork Game Pack + Map Sources, Warfork, and Warfork Testing via an easy to use launcher. For the time being the launcher is only for 64-bit Windows. If you have the DLC installed and click Play you'll be prompted with the "Warfork" and "FVI Launcher" as choices. If this bothers you: 1. Right click Warfork 2. Click Properties. 3. Click DLC 4. Uncheck what should be listed as "Warfork Beta", "Warfork Testing", or "FVI Launcher" depending upon when you activated it. A handful of programs, tutorial videos, new features, and more will be added shortly.

Notes:

1. To change launch options for each application please edit: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\fvi\fvi-launcher\config\metafiles\windows.wf.metadata.txt

2. FVI Launcher uses Windows' built-in video playback support (DirectShow). This supports many video formats without problems, but in some cases it might be necessary to install separate codecs, or a codec pack. The K-Lite Basic pack is a popular choice that should work well for most cases.

Special thanks to Mátyás "mmatyas" Mustoha and Seth "PlayingKarrde" Powell for their code contributions and continued support.

Hello Forkers,

We've removed the placeholder music that has been in Warfork for quite some time and added music from our official soundtrack. Ava1anche our soundtrack composer is still hard at work and you can view his most recent progress here: https://soundcloud.com/deshaadman/sets/warfork-soundtrack-early-wips

The following tracks were added:

Utopia
Convergence
Electriccitadel
Neptune
Fugitive
Gloomworks
Machine
Residue
Riot

Note: Warfork Music is proprietary. If you wish to use free cc0 music please visit: https://github.com/TeamForbiddenLLC/warfork-free-soundpacks/tree/master/cc0/music

Just as a reminder to anyone that doesn't read our Discord, while the new sounds are proprietary and exclusive to Warfork, the old + original ones we created are CC0 and CC BY SA 3.0. There's voice says, weapons, items, an announcer, player sounds, etc. If you would like to make use of them that would make us extremely happy!

https://github.com/TeamForbiddenLLC/warfork-free-soundpacks
https://github.com/TeamForbiddenLLC/warfork-free-textures

We hope to work with the FOSS community in creating new free player and weapon models as well after completing our proprietary ones. There should be a post regarding this once we reach this point.

Hello Forkers,

Instead of keeping you waiting longer for other tasks to be completed, we bring you a much needed sounds update.

Changelog:

- All sounds have been replaced. Special thanks to our Sound Engineer: MaxCarnage and Sound Director: Oizo.

Note: Please update your custom soundpacks. Weapons now have additional sound variations.

- New announcer: Toni Jean Erasmus as "AI (Announcer)"
- Reaction Kills have been added, but are disabled by default. They will be enabled when character lore videos + their respective models are in-game. Note: Voice lines are intentionally absurd and seemingly random (for now). They're intended for new comers to spice things up. Special thanks to:

Cat Protano as "Amber"
Ty Anderson as "Buck"
Kevin Liberty as "Hamilton"
James Holyoake as "Rufus"
Su Ling as "Serena"
Matthew Archer as "Leon"

- You can now adjust the volume of your own effort sounds in Options.
- Added unique voice commands for each character.
- Added in-game chat which bridges with our Discord server.
- Cleaned up assets (99.9% less cats and cards).
- Fixed in-game screenshots. You can change the format with: r_screenshot_format <1-3> (1 => png [default], 2 => jpg, 3 => tga)
- Rekt gametype added.
- Bomb loadout bug fixed.
- Added "official" 32 bit support for Windows\Linux.
- Added OSX 64 bit support and dropped 32 bit support (see: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208436).
- Damage numbers size now saved.
- Fixed damage numbers bug in demos.
- Fixed wctf5 and wfca2.
- Fixed some issues with default.cfg


Note: We recommend existing players to copy + paste the following into console for optimal sound levels:

cg_volume_effects "0.7"; cg_volume_hitsound "0.5"; cg_volume_players "0.9"; cg_volume_voicechats "0.9"; cg_volume_efforts "0.65"

Presented by The Keep:

"The Keep is hosting a Duel tournament today!

Tune in to see who will come out on top!

Date: Sun 21 Nov 2020
Time: 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 19:00 CET"

Spectate on the TheKeep[TV] servers that can be found in the TV tab of the Server Browser or watch the stream via Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/zensports