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Another big episode for you this week. Nabore, the captain of the CoD4 pro-gaming’s Team Pandemic and that team’s media liaison, Ted Ottey is on the program.

They of course are coming on to discuss the team’s showing at NERV #2, which was held two weeks ago.

If you have never seen or experienced CoD4 competitive gaming, or if you only play on-line and wondered what going to a LAN would be like, listening to this interview is a must.

Nabore and Ted describe their experiences in such interesting detail that, in the end, you will feel as though you were there as well.

For the hardcore competition guys out there, there’s a lot of interesting things said in this interview. In it, the guys touch on the following subjects:

- How to prepare for a LAN and what to expect. - NERV #2 highlights.

- Nabore tells us what secret-strategy he came up with against the Evil Geniuses that as he told e-Rev’s shoutcast crew, “would change the game forever”.

- Where is CoD4 competition gaming going? - Ted talks about a change in CEVO gameplay/rule-sets for season #2.

- The European LAN season. If you liked this episode, click here to subscribe to this webcast!

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Last week saw the staging of Treyarch’s Community Event, a venue which provided the Call of Duty community with its first glimpse of “CoD: World at War”.

CoD: WW is the latest installment in the CoD series. Among the small group who were invited to the festivities were two Call of Duty Community icons and great friends of BASH:

Matt Pruitt from planetcallofduty.com and planetmedalofhonor.com

Jim aka Rudedog from FPSadmin.com

Both Matt and Jim are on the program with me to talk about what they saw. So grab your Garand and K-rations and buckle down for an information packed one-hour special edition of BASH.

Show notes are available on BASHandSlash.com.

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Today we bring all you admins and clan leaders out there the first in a series of webcasts focusing on how to populate your servers.

In this series we scour the community for tips and tricks to create a popular, vibrant, exciting place to play FPS games.

While we have posted all these ideas on BASHandSlash.com article:

Ten Tips to Populate Your CoD4 Server

…we thought that to augment our article, we would go out and get the straight scoop on how to create a super server from folks who have excellent track records at building clans and rocking servers.

In today’s first installment, we have asked Jazz, admin extraordinaire from the 509th tactical community to share his knowledge and experience with us.

And now here’s the interview….

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In this BASH episode, regular guest {PST}*Joker from mycallofduty.com comes on with Jock to talk about the news of the day in the Call of Duty world.

And man…have we been inundated in news.

Here are some of the topics we discuss:

- The CoD4 v1.6 patch. What did it fix…what did it not?

- Is IW fixing the known game exploits out there?

- nVidia sponsoring the Variety map pack for PC gamers.

- 402’s blog a conflict of interest?

- Treyarch announces World at War.

- The Community Day at Treyarch…are the participants ringers?

Now that it is summer and folks are on holiday…you have time to listen to the nearly hour long program.

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This week we invite Stuart, aka “Chiblue” from Clan LOoL (Loyal Order of Ludicrum) to represent the CoD4 Tactical community and come on BASH to discuss the no Run’n Gun (No RnG) initiative.

Along with Jazz from the 509th, Chiblue is one of the founders of No RnG and as a modder, he discusses what he has been doing for that community.

One of the more interesting developments that Chiblue describes is that he has collaborated together with BASH regular {PST}*Joker to develop a toolset for tweaking CoD4 stock servers into modded Tactical (no run’n gun) servers. This collaboration is one of the best examples that we have heard of in the CoD community of “open-source” programming and co-operative sharing of code. To discuss the significance of these two modders coming together to openly swap code, we have Joker on the program as well.

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Kyle Feeley, aka “Hackett” is an accomplished tournament player, a well-informed eSports journalist and an influential member of the Call of Duty competitive community.

Currently, he is the head of CoD4 news on GotFrag.com and a member of Team Focal: one of the top ten CoD4 teams in North America.

Kyle took time out from practicing for the upcoming NERV LAN tournament to talk to us here on BASH.

Which teams make it to the top 10 in North America?

What players would Kyle pick for his “all-Hackett” team?

What did he think of the championships in CEVO-P and CEVO-A? For that matter, was CEVO a success this year?

Find this out and more in the interview. The show notes, as usual are on BASHandSlash.com.

The show is dedicated to Brad Dick.

If you liked this interview, you might like listening to these we have recorded in the past:

BASH 58: CoD4 Cyberevolves (Ted Ottey)

BASH 46: prank’s in our sights

BASH 45: Wormsworld

BASH 44: CoD4 Competition?

BASH 42: Stratcallin’

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In this, the second of a two part BASH with {PST}*Joker, we introduce you to his latest mod offering for Call of Duty 4: X4 version 2.0.

X4 is the first community mod to unlock the awesome power of the atom.

{PST}*Joker and his co-horts at mycallofduty.com have figured out how to give you a WMD that can literally wipe the map clean of your enemies - and you and your mates if you are not careful.

Learn all about the nuke and all the other amazing features in X4, like the AC130, at BASHandSlash.com: X4 version 2: Armageddon it! In addition to news about X4, Joker and Jock wrap up the K3 Backdoor trojan news cycle. It seems that KILL3R, K3’s author, has taken his modding talents to cod4-maps.com a *cracked* gaming site. KILL3R is now offering his Zombie and K3 mods to the cracked gaming underworld. Sad, but true.

I am not surprised. KILL3R seems to be in this game for recognition. As he was banned from the community, he turned to the only group that would give him the adulation he is looking for.

The blame for this goes all around. He takes most of it for lapses in ethical judgment (some of which can be excused due to his youth). But some of the blame can be laid at the feet of our community which chose to banish this kid, rather than try to steer him into the path of “good” and “righteousness”. Now, we may have lost him to the dark side - forever.

If I lived on the planet Tatouine, I’d be nervous. Very nervous.

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In this first of a two-part edition of BASH with uber-modder {PST}*Joker, we talk about the bizarre and somewhat frightening discovery that one of the community’s rising stars, the 16 year-old wunderkind from the U.K., KILL3R hid a backdoor Trojan in his CoD4 mod K3. With that Trojan, KILL3R could steal server passwords and own the server his mod was loaded on. We say “could” because it was never proven he ever did anything nefarious with this hidden code.

While nothing has ever definitively proven that KILL3R did anything with this hidden access, the mere fact that he stepped over the line separating ethical and unethical software…got himself tagged with the “pariah” label. His mod has been removed from all the “white-hat” websites in the world of CoD, his GUID banned from CoD4 by anti-cheat sites like pbbans and his membership revoked from CoD-PC sites like InfinityWard forums.

Joker brings us the inside scoop on this as he was one of the first people to know about the Trojan and one of the first to slap a ban on KILL3R.

Find out KILL3R’s response to these accusations in the program. We have his full written response to our questions on our portal site: BASHandSlash.com

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The topic for this week’s webcast, as the title implies, deals with Cyber Evolution (CEVO) and competitive gaming in CoD4. We called the webcast “CoD4 Cyberevolves” to describe the changes that IW’s Modern Warfare game has gone through. First starting out as an awesome SP game, then to a handsdown MP winner to now…a solid platform for competitive gamers to play on.

With us to discuss CoD4 and competitive gaming is someone that I feel is not only a great student of the game, he is one of the best at explaining its nuances. Former competitive player, CoD-advocate and writer and now match-caster for eRev TV, Ted “Sang” Ottey is on the program.

We discuss all aspects of CoD4 competition, with special attention to CEVO online gaming:

Where is CoD4 competitive gaming going?

Who is the best CoD4 player right now?

What are the greatest teams?

Where can you watch the games?

How can you get involved in competitive gaming?

Of course we spend a good deal of time talking about the Championship CoD4 game between Team Pandemic and The Evil Geniuses that took place the day before. Read more about Ted and get the show notes at BASHandSlash.com.

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Ladies and gentlemen, senhoras e senhores…today we are proud to have on one of the best FPS modders in South America. He has made some prodigious FPS mods in his career and has two going great guns right now both in the MoH world (H.E.R.) and in the CoD world he brings us Frontlines a campaign mod for CoD4.

We are honored to have Freddy Hajas from Rio de Janiero on today’s program.

Freddy talks to us about what it is like to game in Brazil. Many of our listeners living outside of North America and Europe will find that the problems are not unique to South America; that is, over-priced hardware and software (for their market) make gamers turn to cracked games and those who keep to the straight and narrow find empty servers.

Then we quickly switch from solving the world’s economic problems to Freddy’s great Frontlines mod for CoD4.

Freddy is a very enthusiastic FPS gamer and you can certainly hear it in the interview.

Read more about Frontlines on BASHandSlash.com. Join our boards and post comments on this and other webcasts.

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In this week’s episode, we discover the world of Call of Duty Tactical Gaming (TG). To help us understand what this gameplay is like, we asked Jazz, General of the the fabled [509th] Tactical Gaming clan to come on and give us the full scoop.

I will be the first to admit that, my first introduction to TG scared me away. There was a lot to absorb for a noobie like me and the speed of the game was much slower than I had been expecting.

It was only on the second attempt that I started to “get” this form of play - and now I have been hooked. Hopefully you will try it out, the benefits are many.

The slow play brings your imagination into the fray. In this game…being fragged counts for a lot as it is very difficult to recover positionally if you are eliminated: spawns are relatively a long way away in TG. For this reason you are on pins and needles all the time…so much so that play becomes exhilarating and yes…addictive.

Find out more at BASHandSlash.com where we have included our show notes on this episode.

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And remember, you can always give us feedback on what you have heard and read on our BASHBoards.

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This week on BASH, we have the eSheriff of on-line FPS gaming on the program: Rob (RodeoBob), co-founder of the online anti-cheat service pbbans.com.

He has come on the program to tell us what pbbans.com is all about and to chat about all the great things his organization is doing.

Here are some of the questions we ask RodeoBob to answer:

What is PBBans and how did it start?

Why does the FPS community need PBBans?

What is the relationship between PBBans and EvenBalance? What is pbbans Master Ban Index? How does one get added to that Index? What are the minimum requirements? Does it always take a PB violation to get on the list?

A few weeks ago there was a DDoS attack on pbban’s website - what happened and what steps have been taken to prevent another outage?

Players and admins should listen to this program to get the inside scoop on the latest anti-cheat technology in online gaming.

Read the Show Notes for the program here.

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Back by popular demand, Jock again puts on his fake mustache and a wide-lapeled polyester suit and matching kerchief, to host the game show that everyone in the FPS world is talking about: Kill or be Killed.

The contestants on today’s show include:

Community leader, and BASH show regular, Matt Pruitt from planetcallofduty.com.

Sam, aka iBleedv20 from cod4world.com returns after his appearance on KoBK #1.

And Oliver - yes, it’s the infamous Taco! - from the 420th at fritzmods.com.

Can Matt and Sam handle the Taco? We will soon find out! Listen in as these contestants vie for Call of Duty trivia show supremacy on this episode of BASH. …and listeners, don’t forget to play along - get the questions in our show notes on BASHandSlash.com.

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This week on BASH, we have an integrated multi-media extravaganza that focuses on the online community we know as the “clan”. First off we have friend of the show, the forward-thinking Sam (aka iBleedv20) from Cod4world.com on the show to talk about his view on what makes good communities online.

Today, we discuss the clan - especially, as it pertains to CoD FPS gaming. Sam’s got some really great news for those out there that have started up a clan - but have nowhere to play. He is sponsoring a few clans and if you have the right requirements, he might sponsor yours!

Read this information for more: Clan Sponsoring at cod4world.com

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Jock achieves a career milestone in this episode of BASH. Listen as Jock dons a mustache and a wide-lapeled polyester suit to host the gameshow that is taking the FPS world by storm: Kill or be Killed.

The contestants on today’s show are:

The lovely senior staffer at mycallofduty.com, modder-extraordinaire, he is now supporting CoD2’s eXtreme+ mod and the versatile X4 for CoD4…taking the podium it’s: {PST}*Joker!

Also joining us this evening is the erudite, coding genius Garetjax from GaretsLab.com!

…and strapping on his quiz-show protective goggles and high-voltage buzzer is newcomer to BASH, Sam, aka ibleedv20 from cod4world.com!

Listen in as these contestants jockey for top spot in our version of a Call of Duty trivia show.

Get the questions in our show notes on BASHandSlash.com.

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Today we are bringing to you this special miniwebcast to celebrate the momentous announcement that we are opening the doors to our new BASHandSlash.com forums: The BASHBoards are here.

…and you can find them on our main portal site: bashandslash.com/boards

The BASHBoards are *the* place where you can discuss your views on Call of Duty and on gaming in general.

BASHandSlash.com’s emphasis has always been on the player and our boards are no different.

Some of the reasons to stop by include

- A desire play better. Get the inside scoop on strats and tactics and get the most out of games like CoD

- you can also ….meet like minded players in our community and share ideas

- for you creative types…sharing your creativity. Tell us what you’ve been up to … whether its a new website, script, mod a map or even a new forum avatar…let us know and display it on our boards

- and as we are the host of the CoD Hall of Fame, registered users are given the honor of choosing who gets in.

At the BASHBoards we criticize ideas NOT people…so feel free to come by and share your thoughts in an atmosphere free of flaming and bullying.

Listeners to the webcast know that I talk too much…so we are offering you the opportunity to talk back on:

The BASHBoards!

register know and start talking.

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Today we depart from the usual Call of Duty interview/round-table format to bring you a special 50th edition “flashback” episode.

Yes, that’s right…we here at BASH are celebrating our 50th episode.

To mark this special occasion we went through the archive and came up with the special moments that marked the first few shows we did - way back in late 2006/early 2007.

Not many people remember our gaffer/audio-engineer Yorgi Uzbek…who blew up our studios, or Anthony Scungile, a young NJ executive on the make. Did I say make? Wrong tense…Mr. Scungile was “made” - and I now call him “boss” as he owns the BASH empire.

Or how about our former intrepid crime reporter, Hillary Wojohowski (now Mrs. Scungile)?

Remember all our cast of characters by listening to the way we were - or weren’t - way back when…

And on behalf of the hundreds of BASH staffers that make this program the fragtacular hit it is in the CoD community, let me thank the special guests we have had on here, my current audio engineer, Skeebo and my director Chico.

Last but not least, a big thanks go out, of course, to you the listener! Without you, everything we do would be for naught.

Thanks for the support - and here’s hoping for those clean headshots.

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