In order to play properly organized pickup matches download this IRC client.
pickupirc.zip
Unzip it and run the .exe
It will automatically join our server and channel (irc.quakenet.org #deathball)

People there will be helpful, so don't worry. And nobody will mind you playing crappy :)

The basic commands for the channel are here:
If you are in there you can add yourself to matches if they are running.
with !team you can check the current status
with !join k you add as keeper
!join d as defender
!join m for midfield
!remove to remove

We'll be happy to see you there!

Download Full Version (51MB exe)
install it to your ut2004 folder

Download Full Version (64MB zip)
unzip it to \ut2004\

Download Update (1,6MB zip) (from 2.4m  to 2.4n)
unzip it to \ut2004\deathball\system\

Changes
Gameplay:
-Fixed Bananas again (they only had half their effect)
-Fixed Player<->Ball collision
-Reduced max speed to 209km/h
-Reduced Backspin power

Other:
-Fast balls have a fire trail and a 'wooosh' sound (only if you have the smoke/spark option ON)
-Ball has a stylish yellow sparkle effect
-Post sounds work again
-Cube doesn't occassionally hide the ballowner rings anymore, but when you look down you see your own rings
-Banana rotates slower in slow motion replays now
-Shortreset Replays now depend on the Replay Amount option, not on 'endgame replay' option
-Shortreset Replays now wait 1 second, then play 4 seconds of replay in real time and jump right back into the game after it
-Shortreset without replays takes 5 seconds to restart again

Bugs:
-Replays still laggy and it could still happen that you sometimes see 2 balls
-Fire trail not yet showing in replays (bug only occurs in multiplayer)
-Weird HAX with ballcarrier rings staying at a place and all being weird

We are Mod Of the Month at moddb.com.
They have a video of about 5 minutes and a bunch of text in match report style.
HERE



It's nice promotion, but you can tell they are pretty new to it or never played it hardcore.
That guy can't believe HOW good the bots are :)
(Well, they might be quite good, once the keepers start saving in the WHOLE goal again, so you can't score across the whole field).
And I can't believe he's playing 5on5 on Duelcube ;)
But hey, no-one who doesn't know the game will notice :)

Anyway, spread this, make all your friends watch the video at least <3
There is a little ad-video before the DB video starts

Download Full Version (51MB exe)

Download Update (5MB zip) (from 2.4k or 2.4l to 2.4m)
unzip it to \ut2004\deathball\

Gameplay:
-Rolling ball lag fixed (Couldn't reproduce it until now)
-Reduced Backspin power
-Max ball speed reduced from 116 to 111 km/h
-The hammer hit cone has been increased from 60° to 70° (makes volley timing a little easier for noobs people with high or unstable pings)

Other:
-Name of BananaUp changed to Backspin, BananaDown changed to Topspin
-Changed default keys for Topspin and Backspin to Wheelup (Top) and wheeldown (Back)
-Default chat channel changed from #dbpickup to #deathball. Pickups now happen in #deathball.
-Shortreset with replays now works. A very quick replay and the waiting time after the goal is only 7 seconds.

Maps:
-November: Fixed missing ball reset

Bugs:
-Due to the fixes made to the ball, replays are a bit laggy and twitchy
-Due to the fixes made to the ball, there are no post sounds right now
-Sometimes you see no ball in replays, when it was scored from the ballspawn
-Shortreset replay only works when server has endgame replays enabled

Servers Updated:
TV1, TV2, DBL1, DBL2, DBL3

This is a little update before the actual new beta which should be out in a few days.
It's just so I can get my balancing of the new values right. So this will not last long!

Download:
2.4Lame updated
Unzip the .u file into ut2004\deathball\system
Only install this over 2.4k.

2.4lame Changes:
-Backspin shots are harder now, which makes the hardest shot in the game at about 216km/h max
-Backspin aiming improved. A hard backspin shot now goes almost exactly to your crosshair.
-Topspin shots do not accelerate so fast anymore: at about 203 max

[edit]
the menuscreen still says 2.4kickit, ignore that :P

To ensure our community stays cool, trendy and what not...
You probably just got used to saying "i owned this newbie"......and missed that you were already supposed to say "i pwnd that noob"....
well, now you are supposed to "poon the nub"...
ok?
perfect!

Or to be really cool try to pahooon the nahoob :s (blame that on dan!)

Here we go! The new design is finally up!
Coded by Bazzi, Designed by David.
I tried to keep it simple and have less buttons, so it's more accessible.

I payed Bazzi 100,000€ so he can have 2 deluxe whores tonight!

-So, you can now register in order to post comments. We hope this keeps it spamfree. If not, we (Bazzi) will add more security. \o/
-I've written a rather detailed Deathball guide (the 2nd post on the About page). Maybe even oldschool players will learn a thing or two from it.
-Check how the newsposts are changing as you scroll down....especially the bottom ones :D
-Stuff is not yet done, but I will soon...
-We didn't reimport the old Comments...the viagra shit took up 50mb or so and was't that interesting \o/

edit: this is NOT the forum...you need a new login!

They are starting soon, using 2.4kickit

Here is the link to register as a player: http://www.fps-sports.net/nadbl/index.php?opt=register_player

And here to register your team(even if someone is a team captain he should register as a player first then register his team):

http://www.fps-sports.net/nadbl/index.php?opt=register_team

Any questions? Ask Shinobi....I'm just posting what he asked for :)
have fun
-David

Dead since it's birth and still getting older all the time.
Hurray, Deathball turns 4 today!

I would have loved to post this on the new homepage...but it's only like 90% done yet, and we don't want to deliver a bunch of bugs! :o

Anyway....celebrate, be happy etc.

Just for your info...Goldy is back from the dead and some progress might be done soon.
But stop asking for release dates already. (Guess what the next news comments question will be, just to be funny...)

DOWNLOAD full .exe - V2.4kickit (51mb)

DOWNLOAD Update .zip - Update from 2.4imakepwn OR 2.4join TO 2.4kickit (13mb)


Changes from 2.4join to 2.4kickit
Gameplay:
-Curve hit damp reduced (keeps curving after ground/wall hit).

Other:
-New Main Menu
-New Map Loading Screens
-New deflect sound
-New bounce sounds
-New Mouse Cursor + more accurate
-Added welcome messages for Cuban, Devilkid, Maddog (\o/), Noko, Orney
-Readded Menu music and after-goal-music

Maps:
-Spiced up SmallCubeSE (don't worry, none of the visual improvements have any influence on the gameplay. All surfaces are FLAT).
-November, can't walk through the hut anymore. Removed Camera 6. Renewed Camera 5. Replays only use Camera 2 and 5 now. Flattened the ground (Gameplay wise).

BUGS:
-Ballcarrier Ring bug not fixed yet.
-Ball sometimes warping around when deflecting from a wall.

This version was produced by
DavidM - Game Design, Graphic Design, Level Design
Goldeneye - Coding
Priior - Sound
Croaker - Coding

Deathball 2.4join full exe (48mb) (Not uploaded yet)

Deathball Update from 2.4i to 2.4join (1,6mb)


Changes from 2.4imakepwn to 2.4join
Gameplay:
-New Banana Physics, no more weird bouncing off.
-Ball rolling now (in the code it's actually walking xD but it looks like rolling :P).
So the years of the ball getting stuck in the ground - in front of the empty goal - are finally over. \o/
-Ball collision radius increased from 10 to 20 unreal units (uu); this was made to make it roll and bounce on the force field, not on the ball.
This has a side effect...the goals become a tad smaller. Also blocking will be a little easier.

Other:
-Ball hissing only at higher speeds (1600+).
-Shown Ball speed after goal now calculated properly.
-Added ball carry sound (humming).
-Added new ball sounds for "hitting surface".
-"Hitting surface" sound's loudness depend on the ball speed; so hard balls make more noise.
-Ball banana rotation is fixed online (the roll animation of the ball).
-New Splash Logo (when you start the game).
-Added welcome messages for Adversary, Curve, Firebird, Flexy, Fragger, Hookr, Humbleone, Klex, Priior, Strafe, Shig and TheBug.

BUGS:
-Rolling ball sometimes warping (only online)
-Ballcarrier rings sometimes behave strange (only online)

Forum Thread for discussions

This version was produced by
Goldeneye - Coding
DavidM - Game Design
Priior - Sound

Yeah, I designed a new logo....
the rest of the page doesn't fit to it's color sheme yet. Hopefully we'll get that fixed :P
I'll get the forums in it's style too. Something like the good old brown, orange and light blue.

I just started to hate the old one...which basically wasn't a logo, it was just text in a special font we've stolen on the internet ;)

Thanks to Priior for his advice.

Deathball 2.4i full exe (48mb)

Deathball Update from 2.4h to 2.4i (1,3mb)


Changes from 2.4h to 2.4i
Gameplay:
-Volley banana added. You either hold the banana button while hitting the ball in order to have it curving...or you hit the banana button and volley the ball in the next 2 seconds. The 2-second method also works for charged shots now(!).
-Added 8-way-banana. Added the ability to curve up and down. So mixing these with left and right you have 8 potential directions. [We suggest a 8-direction-wheel mouse to fully enjoy this feature...otherwise you will need crazy keyboard settings...but it works though]
-Ball rotates when it was curved (Bug: online replication of this is a bit laggy, offline its very smooth)
-Banana shots now bounce off in a proper angle from the ground and wall.

Note: this whole thing offers a lot of new shooting techniques and might make keepers life a lot harder and maybe unfair with some things. We will test it in this beta and then fix it in the following release.

Other:
-Ball hisses (louder the faster its flying)
-New bounce/dribble sounds
-Touches stats no more going crazy when you dribble or bounce like mad
-Background in Botmatch and Host menus removed
-Spectator screen now shows the correct pings for all
-Accidental Owngoals by keeper are now being credited to the shooter (so they are no more owngoals).
-Changed Hammer-Ring appearance. They dissapear faster and are less visible.
-Hammer-Rings added to "Smoke-Spark" option in the display options (so you can turn this off now if you like).
-The Hammer-Ring effect is no more visible "through" replays (where the rings from your hitting while watching the replay shows thru...if you know what I mean...ffs hard to describe ;D)
-The default-camera in spectator mode is no more falling down and is now fully working.
-After a goal the camera now focuses on the scorer (only for the team that was scored on)
-Ballheight color in middle radar: increased the area of the color fade, so you can now easier react to the fade from red into green, because it happens slower now.
-Ingame IRC: changed default server and channel to irc.quakenet.org and #dbpickup (the continent-ping problem will be solved by chatting in there then)
-Fullscreen button in display options fixed (was disable even tho the game was in fullscreen mode)
-Ball height in hud removed for spectators

Forum Thread for discussions

This version was produced by
Goldeneye - Coding
DavidM - Game Design
Croaker - Coding

...the goals are 16,3 meters width and 4 meters tall?

Sounds a lot larger than it feels...about twice as large :P

Deathball 2.4h full exe (48mb)

Deathball Update from 2.4g to 2.4h (18mb)


Changes from 2.4g to 2.4h
Gameplay:
-Holding altfire prevents you from catching balls always.
When you get a ball in your back while holding altfire, it will deflect from your back
So you can also dribble with a lying ball (it doesn't need to be moving anymore)
-Increase the "field of view" for bouncing balls from 180° to 225° (so you can also bounce them when they come from slightly behind you)
-Shaketime decreased from 1.7seconds to 1.5s
-Keeper refire rate reproduces online too now.
-Bounces and dribblings no more cause volley delays (so you can finally stop these 'bounce along the wall" tricks).

Other:
-The ball height in middle radar is now depended on the floor, not on the player.
(For level designers: it's checking for the keeper startpoints height; so this might be a bad thing in multi-floor levels)
-The ball height in middle radar is fading from green to red. Dependent on your vertical distance to the ball.
Red means it's unreachable.
-The hammer produces a shockwave effect in red of blue.
-No more server crashes during map change in matches with replays on
-You can now toggle between the F1, F3 and F4 screen without closing the others. They get deactivated automatically.
-Shortnames are shown in F1 screen before all players are "ready".
-"Volley only" and "no self volleys allowed" removed. Because it's ruining public servers and makes the game inaccessible for beginners. It scares them away, because it's too complicated to start with volleying only.
It had to be done, because pub-server admins refused to cooporate. So we remove it game-side.
-Changed names of "short reset" "2 goal difference" and "allow long shots" in the menus for better understandability for beginners.
-Yellow ball smoke looks a lot smoother and cooler now.
-Red/Blue Shot trail not streaming upwards anymore
-Replay cameras work fine again.
-(there's a hidden fart-move...by accident xD)

Maps:
-Added DB-November
-Prettied up DB-SmallcubeSE
-Tweaked lighting in DB-Cube

Forum Thread for discussions

This version was produced by
Goldeneye - Coding
Croaker - Croaking (as in coding)
DavidM - Game and Level Design

I updated all servers to the latest version:

TV1 - Public Server (short-reset)
TV2 - Our betatest server (passworded)
DBL1 - 3on3 Server for Pickups (passworded) (short-reset)
DBL2 - 4on4 and 5on5 Server for Pickups (passworded)
DBL3 - 4on4 and 5on5 Server for Pickups (passworded)

The DBL servers all have the same password, that you know, if you are a pickuper. (IRC Quakenet #dbpickup).

Deathball 2.4g full exe (44mb)

Deathball Update from 2.4d or e or f to 2.4g (1,2mb)
(Installation: Unzip to /ut2004/deathball/system/)

Changes from 2.4e to 2.4g
-New Fire mode. Hold Altfire, then click Fire to release it.
(it's the same as the "rmb without lock" in 2.4d and 2.4e)
Hence the RMB-without-Lock is back to normal (2.4c and before)
Also this mode is being shaken (like Fire...unlike Altfire)
(no more yellow "catch" msg)
(doesn't slow you down anymore)

-No more deflected balls going through players. They all deflect in proper angles now.

-menu backgrounds black, to see text better

-you can select any UT2004 model
(fixed model/skin problems with deathball-model)

-no more shaking after dying

-keeper double hammer fire rate working
(BUG: it has an effect on gameplay, but you don't hear/see it yourself yet)

-Added happy gimmick. Let's see who finds it first. (Doesn't affect gameplay)

-Bug: default camera in replays is screwed up.

Forum Thread for discussions

This version was produced by
Goldeneye - Coding
Croaker - Croaking (as in coding)
DavidM - Cracking the Whip

we were honoured mod of the week on this German page:
http://www.krawall.de/news.php?s=&news_id=20944

For your info: Deathball is Deathball, and Notpron is Notpron.
For Notpron go to www.notpron.com

2.4e update 1.2mb

Put the files into your ut2004/deathball/system folder.

Only change: reduced no-lock-rmb-power from 1.05 to 0.95

This is a full version!

Download (57MB)

Installation
If you are updating, delete your Deathball-folder (just save your deathballuser.ini and deathball.ini for the settings) and extract the zip file into /ut2004/ (it should all be in /ut2004/deathball/ then).

Changes from 2.4c to 2.4d
Game:
-shake bar always red to avoid confusion. when the bar is empty, you can shoot properly again.
-no more shaking after dying and respawning.
-"altfire with no lock"-power increased from 0.7 to 1.05 (might have some surprising side effects, can now also been used as soft goal shot)
-when you catch a ball while having rmb held, it wont release by accident anymore (requires to press rmb again to pass then)
-no more getting "stuck" on own team players with shots; also easier to pass past someone via rmb who is very close to you
-fixed colors in server browser (yellow on yeloow was hard to read at times :P)
-remove singleplayer option (too buggy atm)

Maps:
For now removed all maps except the main ones (Smallcube, Echo, SmallcubeSE, Cube)
-Added DB-Duelcube, its for 1on1. After one goal was scored, the next one opens (you'll see).
-Echo: fixed blue posts; cave visible in lowest detail mode; fixed wrong color firework
-Cube: invisible ceiling higher; keeper spawn points fixed; fixed ball reset not working sometimes
-SmallcubeSE: fixed radar; different ceiling; fixed 1st spectator cam being outside of the map; added 2 more spectator cams

Future
The plan is to fix a few more things (through 2.4e and maybe 2.4f) and then release Version 3.0 as a real full version release.

Note
This is a fully working multiplayer release, it's no stupid buggy beta.
Yes, the new No-Lock-RMB is a bit too hard and will be toned down
On your knees for Croaker, who is the only coder on this! <3 <3 <3

Here what I got from gameservers.net

"We stopped a game on the same server so there is a lot more CPU bandwith
now. Can you confirm the server is acting better now ?"

Please tell me how it feels for you when you played some matches on it. Thank you.

The FPS-Sports Network!

http://www.fps-sports.net

We are proud to announce the beginning of a new community center for what we believe is the beginnings of a new genre of video game. First Person Shooter Sports.

Not to be mistaken with regular sports games found on consoles such as Xbox, PS2 and Nintendo like EASports NHL or NFL What separates FPS-Sports from the rest is multi-player aspects of the game which revolve around real team work with real people around the globe via the internet. Instead of controlling the entire team, you are simply a player using your gaming skills to help your team win in sport style games that are often impossible to reproduce in the real world.

Currently the Fps-Network is supporting games such as:

Deathball (Unreal Tournament 2004 Modification)

Carball (Unreal Tournament 2004 Modification)

Dodgeball (Unreal Tournament 2004 Modification)

We'd like to welcome all to come and visit our page, signup to the forums and learn more about these exciting games and modifications.

Thank you,

The FPS-Sports Network

http://www.fps-sports.net

Download Update 2.4c
N.B. -- This is a beta version and is not backwards compatible with the 2.3 Full Release servers.

This has to be put on top of 2.4b.
So if you only have 2.3, follow the guide under "what do I need?" (on the right), then put this file on top.

News Details for changes-0.02s Big Catch Radius Delay added (0s -> 0.02s) AND Small catch radius reduced from 84 -> 50 (No more getting stuck on players behind you!)
-Keeper update rate higher (0.5 -> 0.15; meaning you turn into a keeper faster after joining your pbox)
-Keeper can leave pbox for 5 seconds and get back keeper status then (increased the time)
-Keeper Volley Delay removed
-Removed trail in Singleplayer
-Removed pbox hud icons
-Reduced shaking time from 1.9s to 1.7s
-Visible shake bar (still wrong position etc, dont mention this bug)

-Keeper's hammer hit frequency is twice as high, but it's not replicated properly yet. Don't mention this bug to me.

I opened a 3on3 Ladder HERE.
Feel free to sign up with your team.

It's for Deathball 2.4b on DB-SmallcubeSE, 20 goals win (with 2 goal difference).

The password to join it is deathball

The site is pretty hard to coordinate, because it's so full packed with shit. But you'll find the way, I'm sure. ;)

I'm a bit bored of hearing the same questions etc. all day long, so I decided do another QA with whoever cares.
Drop me your questions, complaints, worries in the comments or via mail or irc. I'll put them on the news then, with answers.
:rolleyes:

And save us the embarrassment of the typical childish junk, thank you :)