Congratulations to the following visitors who had the most rounds played for this month!The winner of the monthly prize goes to , contingent upon the rules laid out HERE. Remember, if you play on our Battlefield servers, you too can be a winner!
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01.25.2011 05:11:58 You can now purchase a reserved slot on all our game servers for just $5/month. Your $5 donation will reserve your slot on ALL of our servers for 30 days. This means no more waiting in line to play. No more wasted time. Not only that, but your donation will go toward paying our bills and will continue to enable TKC the ability to provide quality servers for the PC community.
To purchase your reserved slot just click the "Donate" tab above, then either find your nickname or type in your EXACT solider name (WITHOUT clan tag) in the box provided. Then for donation type be sure to select that you are purchasing a reserved slot. To purchase multiple months just donate the appropriate amount, i.e. $15 for 3 months.
Serious gamers don't wait in line, purchase your reserved slot today and prove to the world that you're no noob!!
Half-Life 2 Fan-Made Remaster Seemingly Coming to Steam With Valve's Permission
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08.02.2021 10:00:07
A Half-Life 2 fan-made remaster, titled Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection, is seemingly coming to Steam with Valve's permission.
Listings for the game were spotted on SteamDB as far back as last year, however, the page has been relatively dormant since. According to its Steam DB page, Half-Life 2 Remastered Collection is not being developed by Valve, but instead, by Filip Victor, a modder who developed the Half-Life: Update mod that launched on the Steam store in 2015.
Valve reporter Tyler McVicker added to the speculation surrounding the game in a tweet recently. Mcvicker said that he is "able to confirm" the legitimacy of the project and that it is "being made by the former Half-Life 2: Update team".
I have been able to confirm this projects legitimacy, being made by the former Half-Life 2: Update team.
The original Half-Life 2: Update mod, released in 2015 on the Steam store, is a 7GB add-on that served up a number of visual enhancements to Half-Life 2 and its two further episodic expansions. The mod itself includes improved lighting effects and more detailed environmental textures. It also looked to rectify a number of bugs that affected the original PC release version.
While it appears that Remastered Collection will include the base game and Episodes 1 and 2, very few other details about the game have been revealed by Filip Victor. However, the modder did address fans in a recent Half-Life 2: Update thread where he said the newest version will put its predecessors "to shame".
Whilst modders have continued to work on Half-Life 2 over the years, Valve its self returned to the series with Half-Life: Alyx - the company's first take on Half-Life meets VR. Take a look at our review of Half-Life: Alyx where we gave the stunning VR title a 10/10.
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08.02.2021 07:00:07 If you're ready to stare into the face of the unknown, and you're looking for games you can play in the dark, you'll want to take a look at ten of the best Lovecraftian games on Steam. From RPGs to management sims to dungeon crawlers, you can find Lovecraft-inspired games in almost any genre.
The messenger-based detective thriller Nothing To Remember is now available for PC via Steam
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08.01.2021 23:00:07 "The Russia-based indie games developer Guts United today announced with great joy and excitement that their messenger-based detective thriller "Nothing To Remember" is now available for PC via Steam." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
The Ascent Has No DLSS or Ray Tracing on Xbox Game Pass for PC, But It Does on Steam
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08.01.2021 03:00:08
While The Ascent features NVIDIA's DLSS and ray tracing on Steam, it does not currently fully support either on Xbox Game Pass for PC. Fortunately, developer Neon Giant has confirmed it is working to bring these features to the Game Pass version.
As reported by Eurogamer, Neon Giant has been responding to PC players of The Ascent on Twitter who have noticed these differences between the two versions, sharing that build processes are different for the two versions. On Xbox Game Pass, DLSS is simply not present. Ray tracing is available as an option, but turning it on appears to make no difference to the game.
"We are working with our partners on adressing [sic] this as soon as we can! Build processes are different for the two versions, not just a storefront swap," Neon Giant wrote in response to @ezekiele2517.
To @SR_Chep, Neon Giant said that "it is being looked at, with the intent of fixing it/bringing it to parity with steam across the board."
@MrChrisBee also noted that the Game Pass version takes "over twice as long to load a level as the Steam version." Neon Giant thanked the user for bringing it to its attention, while also confirming the work to bring both versions to parity.
Unfortunately for those playing The Ascent on Xbox Series X/S, the game does not support ray tracing or DLSS, as those are PC-only features for the cyberpunk-themed RPG-shooter.
In our review of The Ascent, we said, "story isn’t its strong suit, but the rest of The Ascent delivers a wonderfully realized cyberpunk world mixed with satisfying twin-stick gunplay to create an enjoyable action-RPG."
Madden NFL 19 Release Date, Pre-Order Bonuses, Origin Access Premier Early Access
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07.30.2021 19:00:08
The next season of Madden NFL 19 is almost upon us, and as gamers everywhere are preparing to kick off, EA Sports has revealed an impressive line-up of pre-order bonuses ahead of the game's full release date. Players who want the best on offer will be looking for one of the two versions above the standard edition, as these both include a bevy of fantasy packs and hall of fame legends.
Madden NFL 19 Pre-Order Bonuses
Madden NFL 19 is set to release on Friday, August 10th for all players, but those who pick up the Deluxe or Origin Access Premier Edition will be able to play it several days earlier. Keep in mind that the Origin Access Premier is only available on PC – that’s right, Madden is finally returning to PC after a decade of being AWOL. Head over to the EA Madden NFL 19 pre-order page to select the copy that best suits your playstyle.
Madden NFL 19 Standard Edition – $60
Play August 10th
Choice of 1 of 32 elite players from your favorite NFL team (NAT)
5 Gold team fantasy packs
Madden NFL 19 Hall of Fame Deluxe Edition – $80
Play August 7th – 3 Day Early Access
Choice of 1 of 32 elite players from your favorite NFL team (NAT)
5 Gold team fantasy packs
7 Gold team fantasy packs
Choice of 1 of 5 elite hall of fame legends (NAT)
1 Elite cover athlete player (NAT)
2 Signature uniforms (NAT)
1 Training pack (NAT)
Madden NFL 19 Origin Access Premier – $14.99/Month or $99/Year
Play August 1st – 9 Day Early Access
Choice of 1 of 32 elite players from your favorite NFL team (NAT)
5 Gold team fantasy packs
7 Gold team fantasy packs
Choice of 1 of 5 elite hall of fame legends (NAT)
1 Elite cover athlete player (NAT)
2 Signature uniforms (NAT)
1 Training pack (NAT)
The Origin Access Premier edition of Madden NFL 19 also comes with a host of other benefits:
50,000 MUT coins
The 1st to get full access to EA’s newest releases, with content included in each game
Full access to the vault, an ever-growing library of more than 100 PC games
A 10% discount on all Origin digital purchases
Whether you’re an avid Madden fan or a casual football consumer, there’s an edition for you. Those who have been awaiting Madden NFL’s return to PC will no doubt want to subscribe to EA’s Origin Access Premier, a subscription service EA only recently launched.
Valve Explains How The Failure of Steam Machines Helped Build The Steam Deck
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07.30.2021 13:00:08
When the Steam Deck was first announced, some were understandably skeptical. While Valve has had recent hardware success in the VR space, the last time it attempted to make a full PC product didn't go so well. But Valve tells us the Steam Deck is a culmination of its work on many of its past projects, both the successful ones and even the less fondly remembered initiatives.
The failure of Steam Machines sticks out in many peoples' minds, and Valve was well aware of that fact when it was getting ready to announce the Steam Deck. "We've looked at a lot of what we learned as boxes that we needed to check if we were ever going to talk to customers again about that category," says Valve designer Greg Coomer. "We didn't really want to bring this device to customers until we felt it was ready and that all those boxes were checked essentially. But definitely doing that... I don't think we would've made as much progress on Steam Deck if we hadn't had that experience."
"There was always kind of this classic chicken and egg problem with the Steam Machine," explains designer Scott Dalton, referring to the issue of trying to build a Linux-based PC before enough games could easily run on Linux. That resulted in there not being enough games for users to have interest, which in turn meant there wasn't enough interest to get more games working, and so on. "That led us down this path of Proton, where now there's all these games that actually run."
The Steam Deck benefitted from the Valve's experience with more than just Steam Machines and the Proton accessibility layer it eventually developed for Linux as a result of that failure too. Its work on game streaming with the Steam Link, audio quality with the Index over-ear headphones, controller design with the Steam Controller (and the knowledge that future controllers needed to have a lower learning curve), and capacitive touch options across multiple controllers all culminated in the Steam Deck.
"When we say culmination, we really mean it's not only the combination of the hardware that we built, but also the experience that our team members gained while making hardware products," says design Lawrence Yang. "All of it is stuff that we've done before, and we're just drawing on all that prior experience to make this device as good as we can make it."
Valve even had ideas that resembled the Steam Deck back when it was working on the Steam Link and Controller. "Very early versions of the Steam Controller had a small screen in the middle of it, with the idea that it would be a programmable screen," Dalton says. While that plan had some technical hurdles and other reasons it didn't pan out, he explains that "at the time we were like, we could just take Steam Link hardware, put it in a Steam Controller, and make the screen show the link thing."
That shows Valve has been thinking about how to make Steam portable for quite a while. "Very early on, we were talking with hardware partners, wondering if they were going to fill some part of this," Dalton explains. "More and more it just became kind of clear, the more of this we are doing internally, the more we can kind of make a complete package." Yang echoes the same sentiment, saying "By having all of those people under the same roof talking to each other, collaborating, it just makes all of the products better."
Orcs Must Die! 3 Review - Slice and Dice Through The Greenskin Horde | COGconnected
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07.30.2021 13:00:08 COG says: Orcs Must Die! 3 is a follow up to 2012's installment of the action and tower defense game about diabolically dispatching waves of green skinned monsters.
(TKC) BF3 - Fly Maps, fast vehicle spawn.. Noob Friendly!:25200
(TKC) RS2V - NFO Fast Server - Noobs Welcome!:7777
You can easily find any of our servers by using the "Server Status" tab. You can also find our servers at the bottom of our forums at: http://www.clan-tkc.com/phpBB or at GameTracker: http://www.gametracker.com/clan/thekillingcommitteeclan/. If you need any help finding our servers in-game, just come to our forums, post a topic and we'll try to help you out.
TKC servers are well run and every attempt is made to ensure a fun gaming environment. No racist or rude behavior is tolerated on any of our servers. TKC tries to have round the clock administration for it's servers but obviously sometimes a server will have no admin playing so if you witness any abuse for any game please attempt to report the offending players nickname, and if possible GUID here: "Server Vistors Complaint". Just give as many details as you can remember such as what the player was doing/saying. In addition cheating is not tolerated on our servers. We are protected by any of a number of different cheat tools at any given time including; VAC, steambans.com, pbbans.com, ggc-stream.com, metabans, pbscreens.com and punkbuster, depending on the game. If caught cheating your information will be submitted to the appropriate cheat tracker and you will be added to their database which will ban your Steam ID, PB GUID or EA GUID depending on the game and website.
When available we also offer ways for players, in-game, to contact admins to report bad behavior. These come in the form of game server plugins. Players will, if the server has the option available, have the option to report a player using, @report [player] [reason] or @admin [reason] to call an admin to the server. If an admin doesn't respond in a timely manner, please use the @report option so we can follow up on it later or use "Server Vistors Complaint" as mentioned above. If an admin is not available, we also try to give the players the opportunity to use @votekick [player] or @voteban [player] [reason]. This allows the guests to our server the ability to kick or temporarily ban a player who is breaking rules.
Profanity - Many of the games we play have very bad language, some don't, that should make a difference in how we enforce our rules. For that reason we are going to implement a new rule, which will seem strange at first, but there is reason behind it. Bad language will only be tolerated on Teamspeak channels for games where there is bad language in the game. In other words, since there is bad language in Bad Company 2, bad language will be acceptable in the Bad Company 2 Teamspeak channel and on the Bad Company 2 servers. On our Half-Life 2 DM Teamspeak channel and game server, bad language will not be allowed. Future games will also be handled in this manner. The reason, we do not want to exclude members with different beliefs. If I buy a game and one of the selling points for me was the fact that it did not have bad language, that should be respected. I do not want a father or grandfather having to explain bad language to their children or grandchildren because they heard profanity on a TKC Teamspeak channel they thought was free of such things.
How to deal with with Mic/Text spammers - No one wants to listen to a lot of unrelated chatter either on the game server, or Teamspeak. No one wants to see a lot of text spamming either. It's distracting to some, and in the case of Bad Company 2, causes lag problems when the text log gets too long. If someone is talking or typing too much, respectfully ask them to stop. If they continue, you may have to mute or kick them, and if they continue after that, a ban might be in order. When on Teamspeak, a certain amount of "visiting" is fine, but the gamers who want to communicate tactical information to others playing shouldn't have to constantly interrupt talk about the latest CPU, or talk of what's going on at school. If someone is talking too much and you don't feel like you want to address it, PM a clan leader and we can handle the situation.
Team Switching - In some games this is a big no-no and if you are admin for one of those games, ask the player to go back, if they don't and you have the ability, move them back manually. If you continue to have problems, kick/ban them. In other games, like Bad Company 2, team switching usually isn't as big a deal. Sometimes friends or clan members might want to play together, in that case, try to facilitate them and swap some people around. This will show you to be respectful of community and they will probably be very appreciative of your efforts. If there is a mass exodus of people from a bad team to a good team, you can mention in-game that people need to stop. If someone is ignoring you and continues to unbalance the teams, just kick them off the server. For a game like Half-Life 2, teams change after each round, so trying to put clan members together is just a waste of time, that is why team switching is considered bad.
Hacking/Cheating - This is the most overused excuse for kicking someone off of a server. Players are unjustly booted off servers all the time simply because they were too good. That is not fair. Do not base a decision on cheating on a single round, if it isn't really ridiculous score-wise, sometimes people just have great rounds. But if they continue to have an unbelievable K/D ratio, then you might need to ban them. Sometimes it might be necessary to ban someone just because they are killing the server. For me, this is the thing I hate to do the most. That person might be doing nothing wrong, other than being really good at a game. Try to put yourself in their shoes and only ban guys who are really obvious. I don't want to see anyone being banned for an aimbot because they went 29-0. I and many others have had a better score than that, it DOES happen. You have to consider how the person is playing the game. Are they playing as recon? Are they in the heli with a really good pilot? Sometimes, if you are unsure, it might be best to ask the opinion of a clan leader. Remember, visitors to our servers have the ability and a forum to complain about unjust behavior from our server admins. If someone complains about you, you want to know that you did everything by the book.
Soldier Names/Nicknames - We will not allow names that are offensive to anyone. I think we can all use our best judgement here, but if you are unsure, ask another admin what they think of the name and come to a consensus before taking action. Players using racist names should be perm banned immediately. It does no good talking to someone like that because they're only goal is to cause trouble.
Banter and Trash Talking - Now its okay to joke around, but if several players are going at it constantly on the mic or in chat just nicely ask them to stop. If it continues warn them again that if they don't stop they will be kicked, if for no other reason that mic/text spamming. If they ignore this warning then go ahead and kick them. A certain amount of this is fine as long as it's good natured, however sometimes this can lead to hard feelings so you have to use your best judgement of when something is going too far or things are starting to get out of hand.
Racist/intolerant behavior - This is a subject that we will show no mercy on. If someone is being a racist, and that means they are hating on blacks, whites, browns, yellows, whatever the case may be, they get perm banned. No warnings, no kicks, just ban them. We don't need that kind of intolerant behavior on our servers. I don't care if the person is joking, I don't care what his real intent was, if he's spewing hate speech, he's gone. This also applies to someone who is spewing hate speech against a group of people, like Muslims, Christians, agnostics, atheists whoever. We are a gaming clan. This is our hobby and it's supposed to be fun. Everyone who comes to a TKC server should be respected and able to play the game hassle free. Not everyone believes the same, and if someone can't get over it and comes to our server with an agenda that includes racist or intolerant speech, I expect you guys to bring the hammer down swiftly.
Metabans - We will use Metabans only for cheaters and will verify each ban using Cheat-O-Meter. This will ensure that we are not forcing our Metabans followers into banning players we have banned for breaking rules other than cheating. If we deem you are cheating and Cheat-O-Meter doesn't really indicate cheating and we can not find information about you or your clan tag, meaning there is no website or previous information on you as a player or clan that we can cross reference, we will ban you on our servers, but not Metabans. Clans must have a website that we can find and access to be considered legit, otherwise we will view your tags as hogwash and your suspect behavior will be deemed as cheating. Again, we will not add a ban that is not supported by Cheat-O-Meter to Metabans.
We want everyone to have the best time possible so do your best to maintain a good gaming atmosphere, then everyone can have a good time.
To join TKC you only have to read our "Code of Conduct" and then apply for membership by filling out an online application. After submitting your application you will become a "member candidate". You will be allowed to wear our tags but only as (tkc), all letters in lowercase. As you progress, as seen by our members, you will be advanced to (Tkc), then (TKc) and then finally (TKC). You will receive emails at each step with detailed instructions on what you need to do. To obtain your full membership and the right to wear the (TKC) tags, you will have to pass a vote by the TKC members. Only those members who have gotten to know you will vote. An 80% yes vote will be required for full admission. Please keep in mind that full membership takes 8 weeks.
For you to be accepted you will need to display good manners, sportsmanship, and the ability to follow our rules. This applies to all game server activitiy and forum participation. If you do not feel you can meet our requirements we respectfully ask that you not apply as we have many who want to join and we can not waste time on gamers who are not serious about membership.
So now you're a member of TKC congrats! It is important for you to note that membership in TKC is not a lifetime privilege. Only the clan founders Big Flem and Squidward have lifetime membership and can not be removed. Clan leaders expect it's members to participate in clan activites when they can, and to be an ACTIVE member in the clan. We consider active members to be members who regularly post on the forums, participate in clan activities when possible, and communicates and develops friendships inside the clan. We do NOT consider a member to be active if they only ever play on our servers and nothing more. The leaders of this clan work hard to organize events and if you can't support these activities, can't check and post on the forums at least once or twice a week, then you are not TKC material and eventually you will be kicked from the clan. If you do not think you can meet these requirements as a member of TKC, then please don't attempt to gain entry into the clan as you will only waste your time, and ours.
Beyond administration positions such as "Clan Leader", "Division Leader", etc, the answer is no. However we do have achievable military style ribbons and medals that can be won for various acts. You may see each members ribbon and medal "Display Case" by going to the "Members" tab and under each members profile clicking the "Awards" icon. Below is each award and how you obtain that award. Note that medals also have an associative ribbon:
Ribbons(Hover over information icon for description)
In the past TKC had too many admins on our servers and things got a little out of hand. We are not looking for any new admins, however if we feel you will make a good addition to that team we will ask you. Being a server admin is not fun and games. It requires you to WORK, and follow server administrator rules which are well defined once you become an admin. Our admins are forced to stop playing whatever game they might be playing, and work to secure and maintain server tranquility reguarly. If you are an admin that does not mean you will get to run willy nilly and ban, kick, and torture at will. Admins who do not follow our rules will be stripped of admin duties and power. In addition there are more requirements of admins such as, reguarly checking our server admins forum. Once you become an admin you will be given access to this forum and you must check and read it quite often. It is a way for admins to help one another by posting their thoughts on what is going on, who to watch closely, etc. Do not ask us constantly to be an admin, that is the surest way I know to never become an admin. Our leaders will identify the best candidates for admin duties if we think it necessary.
No. In order to have an official TKC server it must meet certain standards. In addition, we might not want a server for a particular game, and if you aren't an admin, then you shouldn't have admin authority on any server. Official TKC servers have to be setup as close to identical as possible. This means that the clan leaders must have all access to any of it's servers including the ability to restart that server, gain access via FTP and game panel. It means that the clan leaders can setup the server with it's normal settings and add the usual addons. In short, if you want to have your own server then that is fine, but don't try to name it "Boom Boom Room" or tie it in any way to TKC.
Clan TKC maintains several servers that are open to it's clan members and the public. In addition TKC has other expenses that require money. To pay the bills TKC relies on it's members and visitors to donate. Without these donations, TKC will cease to exist. Please consider donating money when you can. We do our best to use the money wisely, to invest in TKC, to invest in PC gaming.
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