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50% off All TeamSpeak 3 Servers!

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by admin

Alien Serve Limited are an ATHP for TeamSpeak 3, and as such we are able to offer you fantastic deals on TS3 servers.

For a short period of time, until 31/01/2010 we are offering a massive reduction of 50% off all our TeamSpeak 3 servers. This means a 10 slot server is only £0.75p!

Please see our Voice Servers section for more details.

Alien Serve Limited become a TeamSpeak 3 ATHP

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 by admin

We are pleased to accounce that we are now an Authorised TeamSpeak Hosting Provider for the hugely anticipated TS3. As has become expected of us, our prices are probably the lowest in the industry, whats more, we dont make you pay for more than 1 month to get the server at a cheaper rate. Our TeamSpeak 3 servers are simply £0.15p / slot with no hidden surprises!

We will also be offering 50% off all voice servers, plus some exciting clan packages coming soon.

2x LFS Servers Special Offer

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 by admin

Due to popular demand from the previous offer, we currently have a special offer running on our LFS Servers until 17/01/2010. We are offering 2x 47 Slot LFS Servers for only £6.75 / month, this offer is perfect for the larger teams who require more than one server. To take advantage of this offer please contact our sales department who will send you a voucher code to offer the discount.

Expansion for 2010

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 by admin

To continually meet our customers high expectations of our network and performance, we expect to install 6 new Dell Poweredge Quad Core dedicated servers by the middle of next week. The machines offer the latest in performance and reliability running Xeons with 2.83GHZ and 12MB cache, 4gb memory and 2x 150Gb 15K RPM drivers in RAID-1 running Microsofts latest Windows Server 2008 operating system.

5% off all Services!

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 by admin

The new years savings at Alien Serve have just begun, we are offering 5% off all our services, including game servers, dedicated servers and voice servers. The 5% reduction will last the entire duration you have the service active with us. The offer is available to new and existing customers on new services only.

We wish you all the best for 2010, and hope you will continue to enjoy the services we offer throughout the year!

To take advantage of this offer please use the discount code:  Alien5%2010

Offer is available until 31/01/2010

TeamSpeak 3 comes to AlienServe!

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 by admin

AlienServe are now proud to support the new TeamSpeak 3, there are a host of new features available including new codecs for improved voice quality, friends list with offline messaging, file transfers, avatars and much more.

Existing AlienServe customers are able to upgrade to a TeamSpeak 3 server at no extra cost. We will also be providing stand alone TeamSpeak 3 servers available for purchase in our voice servers section of our website.

For any more information regarding TS3, please contact us.

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 by admin

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Server Browser (for TF2 and DoD:S)
* Added a client-side server blacklist

* Supports blacklisting of specific servers, all servers on an IP, and all servers on a class C range

* Saves the server list to a file, and has an Import button to allow easy sharing (cfg\server_blacklist.txt)
Balance changes

* Reduced the health penalty on The Sandman

* The Force-A-Nature knockback on target now

* Only applies to hits that deal more than 30 damage and are in close range

* Factors in the firer’s angle of attack when determining the knockback direction

* Has less of an effect on grounded targets

* The Dead Ringer now

* Reduces cloak to 40% when uncloaking early

* Has a 35% cap on the amount of cloak it can gain from an ammo pack

* Has a quieter de-cloak sound
Changes / Fixes

* Fixed a performance & stability issue with AMD processors

* Improved the stability of the game server -> item backend connection

* Fixed a rare server crash related to dispensers

* Added min/max values to viewmodel_fov convar to match the settings in the slider

* Reduced the number of moons in ctf_doublecross, sadly

* Demo playback now ignores sv_pure settings, allowing demos to easily contain custom content

* Fixed a crash related to sv_pure and the wireframe_dx6 shader

* Players can no longer shoot while stunned

* Fixed a bug that caused movement speed reductions to not work on stunned players

* Soldier Rage bar no longer resets when touching a resupply cabinet
Achievement fixes

* Fixed the “Second Eye” Demoman achievement

* Fixed a bug in the “Play Doctor” Medic achievement

* Changed the requirements for the “Medals of Honor” Soldier achievement

* Updated description for the “Blind Fire” Demoman achievement to better explain the requirements

* Fixed an issue that affected several achievements requiring the use of the Equalizer
Community requests

* Added “skip_next_map” server ConCommand to skip the next map in the map cycle

* Added “Play a hit sound whenever you injure an enemy” option to the Multiplayer->Advanced options menu

* Added server “tf_use_fixed_weaponspreads” convar. When set, shotgun & scattergun pellet spreads will use a non-random distribution

* Added a “show_htmlpage” command to allow server operators to display custom web pages to clients
Changes to the TF Bots

* In KOTH mode, Bots are now

* More likely to roam around and hunt enemies if there is lots of time left

* Become more likely to push for the point as time runs down, or their teammates start to capture it

* Medic bots now

* Opportunistically “overheal” nearby friends when they can

* Prioritize healing of injured nearby friends more

* Don’t focus on Heavies quite so exclusively

* Don’t spam their Medigun continuously at round start

* Won’t choose cover far below their heal target so much (koth_nucleus)

* Fight back with their syringe-gun appropriately

* Various improvements to combat behaviors

* General bot improvements

* They no longer stand still on the point when capturing or defending it

* They choose more varied routes now

* They choose better defensive spots around captured points

* They fall back to another weapon when they entirely run out of ammo

* They adjust their FOV when using zoomed in sniper scope

* They treat in-range Sentries as the most dangerous threat

* They fire their weapons is more realistic bursts

* Engineers use their shotgun properly

* Added a “virtual mousepad” concept to rework how bots track enemy players

* They now periodically estimate the position and velocity of the enemy they are tracking, instead of “locking on”

* After rotating beyond a maximum angle, they will pause for a fraction of a second to re-center their “virtual mouse”

* Allows for over/undershoot “slop” in aiming. Looks more natural, and allows skilled players to dodge

* Addresses the “180 spin around and fire”, “Heavy bot is OP”, “Sniper is OP”, and “I can’t fight a Heavy bot as a Scout” issues

* Tuned Sniper spot finding algorithm to generate more diverse locations, partially addressing the “Predictable Sniper camping spots” issue

* Soldier bots are more careful to not fire rockets that will explode on nearby geometry and kill them

* Fixed a bug where bots tried to heal from a Dispenser being carried by an Engineer

* Tuned scoreboard logic to guard against malicious server operators spoofing bot pings to hide the “BOT” tag

2x LFS Servers Special Offer

Sunday, December 6th, 2009 by admin

Due to popular demand from the previous offer, we currently have a special offer running on our LFS Servers until 14/12/2009. We are offering 2x 47 Slot LFS Servers for only £6.75 / month, this offer is perfect for the larger teams who require more than one server. To take advantage of this offer please contact our sales department who will send you a voucher code to offer the discount.

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Modern Warfare 2 + Left 4 Dead 2 Game Servers

Friday, November 27th, 2009 by admin

Unfortunately, as you are all probably aware, Modern Warfare 2 has been decided to not be shipped with dedicated server software. This is obviously a huge blow to the whole PC gaming communitity which means our gameplay will be nowhere near as smooth and fluent as we are used to with our dedicated servers. At this point we can only cross our fingers and hope that we see the dedicated server software released for Modern Warfare 2. All users that pre-ordered the game with us have been refunded.

On a more upbeat note, we will shortly be offering Left 4 Dead 2 Servers, which is the sequel to the hugely popular Left 4 Dead. Expect pricing to be extremely competitive, all users that have a Left 4 Dead server with us, will have the ability to upgrade to L4D2 server if they wish.

LFS Z25

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 by admin

LFS Patch Z25 is now available to install from your game control panel.


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