Spider-Man: Life Story Gives Venom A Brand New Origin Story
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05.15.2019 19:00:32
The '80s were a strange time for superhero comics. The era of the "extreme" exploded onto the scene and brought with it no shortage of immediately recognizable trends and tropes--holofoil variant covers, grimacing gun-toting anti-heroes, way too many utility pouches--you name it. For better or worse, '80s comics had it all.
By and large, the weirdness and the turmoil of the '80s is something modern comics now deal with at arm's length. In Marvel, this is accomplished by the use of the sliding timeline. How it works is pretty simple: At any given point, it's understood that the stories themselves to only have existed for 10 years or so--which means the stories of the '80s are now readily cherry-picked for only the most pertinent details, rather than looked at as real-time artifacts. Those details are then reworked so that they fit into whatever modern setting they're needed, or stripped of major contextual clues to make him stick out a little less obviously. The stories may have happened, but they happened differently, in a different era, or a different universe altogether.
Unless, of course, confronting the history of a character in real-time is the goal--which just so happens to be the case with Chip Zdarksy and Mark Bagley's Spider-Man: Life Story, a limited series which tackles the decade-by-decade publication history of everyone's favorite webhead one issue at a time. Starting with the '60s, Life Story has taken Peter Parker in ten-year chunks through this week's issue #3, which lands squarely in--you guessed it--the '80s, allowing him not only to age but to progress through his own history in as close to "real time" as possible.
Spider-Man: Life Story #3
For Peter Parker, the '80s were a time of (somewhat literal) transformation. It sent him to fight on Battleworld during the first iteration of Secret Wars, it introduced the black alien suit that would go on to become Venom, and it pitted him against a near brush with death as he faced off against Kraven the Hunter in what would ultimately become one of his most iconic stories, Kraven's Last Hunt. These things still impact modern day Peter Parker in one way or another, but as the timeline slides away, so does their potency.
Life Story gives us a chance to revisit these moments with fresh eyes and a completely new context. Set outside of the main Marvel universe, the sliding timeline doesn't hold sway here. In issue #1, Peter was a teenager in the '60s, with #2 he was in his twenties in the '70s; now, here in the '80s, he's rounding out his thirties. He's facing off against the wild, pulp fiction weirdness of Battleworld and Secret Wars as he exits his prime and deals with his aging aunt and pregnant wife. He discovers the truth of the symbiotic black suit not because of a lucky accident but because he's a scientist who deduced the truth almost right away--and chose not to worry about it because it gave him an opportunity to perform the way he had back in his youth. His confrontation with Kraven is now colored with the trappings of the last days of the Cold War, merged elegantly into the burgeoning symbiote storyline--which was published nearly four years prior.
Spider-Man: Life Story #3
By conducting a total remix of Spider-Man history and applying Life Story's new set of rules, Zdarsky and Bagley figured out a new, even more devious origin story for one of Marvel's fan-favorite anti-heroes. In this version of events, Eddie Brock's weirdly contrived photography beef with Peter no longer exists. Instead, it piggybacks directly onto Kraven's Last Hunt.
Kraven impersonates the black-suit wearing Spider-Man himself and "kills" Peter--but instead of tranquilizing him and burying him alive as he did in the original version of the story, Kraven both shoots and stabs him, literally murdering him until the symbiote finds and revives Peter from his grave. In full Venom mode, Peter attacks and defeats Kraven who readily accepts the loss, believing that his "Venomized" form is exactly what Peter always meant to be.
Then, in a revisit of what might be one of the darkest moments in Spider-Man history, the defeated Kraven prepares to commit suicide--something he successfully accomplished back in the original story (it was extremely bleak, trust me.) Only this time, he's ambiguously interrupted by the oozing tendril of a symbiote, implying that in this version, it's a suicidal Kraven who ends up being Venom's first host outside of Peter himself.
The potential here for new twists and turns in Peter's story is massive. Not only is Kraven a trained killer and relentless psychopath; he's also one of Spider-Man's greatest enemies just on his own--without the help of an alien symbiote's enhancement. Add to that the fact that both Kraven and Venom are notoriously obsessed with Spider-Man and you have all the ingredients for an explosive catastrophe just around the corner.
Spider-Man: Life Story continues with issue #4 next month, tackling the 90s and, with any luck, all the fall out of this massive revelation.
The Division 2's First Raid Launches Tomorrow, But It Won't Have Matchmaking
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05.15.2019 17:00:31
The Division 2's Title Update 3 is now live on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Not only has the patch brought new features, apparel, and other tweaks to the loot shooter, it'll kick off the game's first Raid, Operation Dark Hours, tomorrow, May 16. However, it appears you'll need to manually squad up with other players if you're hoping to tackle it.
During the latest State of the Game stream, Ubisoft confirmed that the Operation Dark Hours Raid will not feature matchmaking, contrary to what it has said in the past. Community developer Hamish Bode read a prepared statement about the topic: "We decided to not include matchmaking, as we don't think this would make a good gameplay experience for random groups. The Raid will test your ability to communicate well, have a good build set up, and will require great teamwork to beat encounters."
The publisher shared additional details about how Raid groups are formed on the official Division 2 website. The overall eight-player team is comprised of two traditional four-player parties. Moreover, the player who creates the Raid group will be the leader, which means that player is the only one who can initiate the Raid. You don't need to have a full eight-player team to begin the Raid, but Ubisoft notes the challenge will not scale to your team's size. All players will also need to be at least level 30 and have reached World Tier 5 to participate.
Operation Dark Hours goes live at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 5 PM BST. The first team to complete the Raid will earn a special reward: their team photo and names will be displayed in The Division 2's White House. Those who complete the Raid by May 23 will receive a commemorative Arm Patch, while everyone who clears it after that date will earn a clan banner icon and a trophy in their clan space.
In addition to Operation Dark Hours, Title Update 3 has added two new Classified Assignment missions for Year 1 Pass owner. It also introduced an assortment of new outfits, masks, emotes, weapon skins, and more to the game. You can find the full Title Update 3 patch notes on the Division 2 website.
In what can only be called tradition at this point, Steam's 2019 Summer Sale dates have leaked. The Steam Database Twitter account initially spotted the date on a Chinese Steam community page, SteamCN, and reportedly confirmed the date with multiple sources. If the leak is accurate, Steam's Summer Sale will go live on June 25 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM GMT (and June 26 at 3 AM AET) and last for about two weeks.
In the past few years, start dates for the Summer Sale fell between June 21 and 23, so the reported 2019 date doesn't stray far from precedent.
It's likely this year's sale will bring back the Steam trading cards and mini games of previous years. Last year's game was Summer Salien, a browser game where you traveled the galaxy to rescue games that had been abducted by aliens. You could earn XP and unlock new abilities, and defending certain planets gave you the chance to win the corresponding game for free.
Steam has even more reason to pull out all the stops for this year's Summer Sale, as the Epic Games Store is apparently gearing up to hold its first big store-wide sale. News of the Epic Mega Sale first leaked on a Fortnite message board and was later confirmed by Epic Games, which tweeted that more details are coming soon. The Epic Games Store continues to pick up exclusive PC versions of major titles, such as The Division 2 and Borderlands 3, but there's no question Steam still has the greater volume and diversity of games that make its Summer Sale such a huge event for PC gamers.
We'll update this piece as soon as Valve has confirmed dates for the Steam Summer Sale, but it's safe to assume it'll kick off near the end of June as usual. That leaves you some time to start prepping your wallet for one of the biggest game sales of the year.
The Division 2 Title Update 3 Patch Notes Revealed; First Raid Launching Tomorrow
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05.15.2019 15:00:36
Ubisoft has released the full patch notes for the latest update to The Division 2, Title Update 3. The major piece of content included in the update is Operation Dark Hours, The Division 2's first raid, but new features, apparel, and quality-of-life changes are included in Title Update 3 as well.
Operation Dark Hours is an eight-player raid available for those who've reached World Tier 5 and defeated Tidal Basin. The raid sends you and your team up again the Black Tusks, who have taken over the Washington National Airport. "Teamwork, collaboration, and adaptation will be necessary to defeat the Black Tusk," The Division 2 community manager Johan LindholmMore wrote in the Title Update 3 patch notes. Operation Dark Hours is scheduled to go live tomorrow, May 16 at 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM BST.
Ubisoft has announced that the first teams to complete Operation Dark Hours first will receive limited-time prizes. The very first team will have their team photo displayed in The Division 2's White House for all other players to see. Any team that completes the raid between May 16-23 will receive a cosmetic arm patch. If you can't pull together an eight-person team in time--which is a likely possibility considering the raid won't have matchmaking--you'll still be rewarded with a clan banner icon and a trophy just for completing the raid at any point in the future.
For Year 1 Pass owners, Title Update 3 adds the first two Classified Assignment missions. Completing them allows you to hear the stories behind the fall of DC prior to the start of The Division 2's campaign and also unlock backpack trophies. Title Update 3 also includes The Division 2's second Apparel event, which adds new outfits, masks, emotes, and weapon skins to the game.
The full patch notes for Title Update 3 can be viewed in the link above. We've gone ahead and listed the highlights below. The Division 2 is available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.
The Division 2 Title Update 3 Patch Notes
Commendations
Added new Commendations for Operation Dark Hours.
Removed the following Commendations.
28 Days Distinction - Record 672 hours (28 days) of time in-game.
Distinguished Service Ribbon – For 30 consecutive days, on each day play for at least 1h and complete 1 mission.
Supreme Response Distinction - For 7 consecutive days, on each day complete 4 main missions and rescue 5 civilians.
Year One Merit - Play on 14 days per month, on a total of 12 months.
Division Service Merit - For a total of 100 days, on each day play for at least 1hour and deliver 20 resources to control points.
Developer comment: We removed these Commendations as we felt that they were not delivering a great experience for players. Often times you could miss out on your daily login or lose your streak with no error of your own. We’re adding different Commendations that still let you show off your dedication towards the game, without the login requirements. For those players that have already earned the above-mentioned Commendations they will remain visible as completed.
Added a new vanity patch reward for all players as compensation for any lost time due to the above changes.
Added five new Commendations
Full Deck Distinction – Acquire all Snitch Cards.
Distinguished Service Distinction – Complete 30 hours of service.
Supreme Response Distinction – Complete all main missions and Strongholds on Hard difficulty (or above).
Control Point Takeover Merit – Take over 50 Heroic Control Points.
Invasion Service Merit – Complete 10 Invaded Strongholds.
Changed Peacock Award to specifically use the ‘Jumping Jacks’ emote.
Changed Mission Discovery Merit Commendations to track when a player collects loot from loot boxes, not opening the loot boxes. This will ensure that all players that are in a group can earn this Commendation when playing the respective missions.
Crafting
Increased the base cap for Receiver Components and Protective Fabric crafting materials by 200, meaning that their caps now start at 350 and end at 600 with all material capacity perks.
Inaya al-Khaliq in the Base of Operation is now a Crafting Vendor, she can be found next to the Crafting Bench in the White House.
Added Specialized and Superior Skill Mod Blueprints to her stock.
Added an extra weekly Blueprint to her stock.
Moved crafting Blueprints from the Base of Operations vendor to her stock.
Note: While Inaya will have a variety of Blueprints available, there are still other sources in the game like Settlements and Control Points.
All exotic items upgraded through crafting will get the maximum Gear Score of the current crafting bench tier.
Gear
Bonus Armor granted on blue attributes gear significantly increased.
Armor percent can now be found as Defense Attribute rolls.
Health percent can now be found as Defense Attribute rolls.
Gear sets
Hard Wired
Now grants Skill Damage instead of Shock Duration.
Ongoing Directive
Now grants special ammunition into any weapon, including the weapon currently equipped.
Now grants special ammunition on any kill, not just weapon kills.
True Patriot
Decreased debuff cycle from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
Increased damage dealt to nearby targets when Full Flag is active to 50%.
Icons
The Confidential Gear Set intel item now has a project icon to better reflect its use.
Loot
Loot containers will now reset at a preset time of day.
Control Point reward container will now also reset with this daily timer.
Improved quality and quantity of Drone Helicopter loot.
Slightly reduced the quality of items from Clan Caches.
Cabinet loot containers now have a chance to contain Dark Zone keys.
Increased ammunition drop chance from enemy NPCs to limit situations where players would run out of ammunition during prolonged fights on higher difficulty activities.
Dark Zone contaminated loot does not drop below player's average Gear Score and will guarantee Gear Score 500 when the player has reached 500 Gear Score.
Heroic difficulty Mission bosses, Stronghold bosses, Bounty bosses and Heroic Control Points reward containers will guarantee Gear Score 500 when the player has reached 500 Gear Score.
Loot now skews more towards the top end of its allowed Gear Score, resulting in fewer items below a player's average Gear Score, and items that do drop below it will be closer to that average more often.
Increased the rewards for daily Hard and Challenge mission Projects and they will guarantee Gear Score 500 when the player has reached 500 Gear Score.
Missions
New feature: Post Mission Activity Summary
After completing missions, players may opt to look at an activity summary showcasing their performance in that activity and allowing an expanded look at a variety of detailed statistics.
Bank Headquarters
Reduced difficulty for solo players.
Roosevelt Island
Reduced difficulty for solo players.
Mods
Hive users can now find +healing on the Experimental Blend mods.
Hive users can now find +radius on the Network Firewall mods.
New mods: Auxiliary Skill Battery
Auxiliary Skill Batteries fit in Skill mod slots and grant Skill Power.
NPC
Updated RC Blade to fix various issues. Elite Medic's Pulse Grenade has been changed.
No longer applies disrupt.
Reduced Impact radius.
The grenade impact radius should now be easier to see.
Decreased damage of Veteran, Elite and Named NPCs.
Greatly decreased melee damage of all Tank NPCs.
Moderately decreased melee damage of all non-Tank NPCs.
Decreased Thrower NPC’s accuracy with grenades. They are no longer professional baseball pitchers or cricket fielders.
Slightly decreased damage of Elite/Named War Hound.
Civilian Control Point Officers now wear pants.
Civilian Control Point Officers now wear protective body armor. Safety first.
Civilians with fully upgraded Settlements now wear combat harnesses and have slightly more health.
Upgrading a Settlement now slightly increased Civilians' damage.
NPCs will now be slightly less defensive while in cover and being aimed at by a player.
Decreased likelihood of NPCs using ladders in combat.
Decreased likelihood of NPCs using special navigation out of combat.
Civilian NPCs will now stay further away from players in cover, lessening the chance of them taking a player’s preferred cover location. We get it, you're very protective of your favorite cover spot.
Civilian Hostages are now more protective of their lives.
Fixed issue with many explosives causing extreme amounts of threat, confusing NPCs.
Fixed various sliding issues with NPCs following recovery from a Status Effect.
Enemy NPCs should no longer be able to stagger players with a melee attack if the player has a Ballistic Shield equipped.
Drone Helicopter
Increased health.
Increased damage.
Improved movement.
Decreased Outcast Suicide vest explosion radius.
Lowered NPC damage and health above normal difficulty.
Increased variety of NPCs at higher difficulty levels.
Open World
Implemented various UI and audio improvements to Living World activities.
Control Points
Control Point difficulty is now more clearly communicated, using regular difficulty names in addition to Alert Level.
Approaching enemy patrols and convoys are now signaled more clearly during Control Point Takeover.
The Civilian Officer will now revive downed players during Control Point takeover and judge you silently.
Players can now select the civilian takeover icon on the map as a respawn option during Control Point takeover. The option is disabled after the enemy leader joins the fight.
Players can now fast travel to civilian convoys and takeover squads from the map.
Black Tusk now send War Hound Convoys carrying gear and weapons to Tidal Basin when the mission is available.
Ruckball Comes to Steam Early Access As Free To Play Later This Week
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05.15.2019 13:00:22 Set in a distant future, Ruckball is a zero G multiplayer sports game where giant corporations fight for supremacy through broadcasted tournament followed by millions of people.
Second Hand: Frankies Revenge is coming to PC via Steam on May 28th
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05.15.2019 11:00:32 Later this month, indie development team Rikodu will roll out their capacitor-crushing multiplayer action game Second Hand: Frankies Revenge on Windows PC via Steam.
The Division 2 State of the Game Livestream for May 14
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05.15.2019 11:00:32
It’s another week, and with Ubisoft rolling out the big The Division 2 title update #3 yesterday, the developers will want to tackle some of the most asked questions and concerns, which they’ll do in The Division 2 State of the Game livestream today!
Set to start at 11 a.m. EST, check out The Division 2 State of the Game livestream today below.
Same as before, don’t fret if you’re not able to catch it or remember all the info. We’ll make sure to list them down like before.
While DICE has been very transparent when it comes to the things coming to Battlefield 5, it seems there’s one thing that’s set to come to the game that hasn’t been discussed yet, and it’s that Battlefield 5 manual lean option will be added soon.
While no official announcement has been made so far, it has now since been discovered in a short gameplay video from DICE Engineer Julian Manolov that a Battlefield 5 manual lean option will be added soon-ish.
Some people were complaining about the BF mouse sensitivity legacy sliders not giving enough resolution – i.e. people try 2% or 3% and the difference is too much. Implemented tuning the mouse in-game at a finer step using the arrow keys and that goes live in the next BFV patchpic.twitter.com/Bfsf9mthMM
In case you didn’t see that, here’s a screenshot of the options screen with the “Soldier Leaning” option marked (via Redditr user KillerCh33z):
If Manolov’s tweet is to be taken as is, this should mean that this Battlefield 5 manual lean option should be available in the next game patch, though we don’t know when this will be rolled out.
In other Battlefield 5 news, DICE rolled out a Firestorm matchmaking update yesterday that should help make waiting a lot easier to take in the mode. Multiplayer fans should expect Fortress mode to be available tomorrow according to DICE.
Are you glad that manual leaning will be added to the game or it doesn’t matter much?
The Division 2 Gets Its First Ever Eight-Person Raid, "Operation Dark Hours", This Week
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05.15.2019 04:00:24 Operation Dark Hours is an upcoming eight-player raid for Tom Clancys The Division 2, making it the first ever for the series.
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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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