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Monday, 05 February 2001 -
Back to Basics ? 13 comments
I've come to a very unpleasant realisation lately: somewhere over the last few months I've completely lost my game, and it's not coming back any time soon.
Let me explain. I'm a total railwhore; always have been. Month after month of practice with the RG made me aimbot-like in my flickshots, and my entire game revolves around it. I'll use rail even at ranges that most people would switch to SG, and I'll still land an insane percentage of my shots. It's not that I *can't* use other weapons, or that I don't understand the dynamics of each one - it's just that I'm so comfortable with rail that it's always been my weapon of choice unless I'm in a melee against a tank.
I didn't play much in November and December - I was too busy coding, then I went on vacation for 3 weeks. I got back, and all the servers had switched to 1.27, and with that came the mouse changes. And suddenly, my rail sucks. I've tried EVERYTHING to get it back to where it was: in_mouse -1; tweaking my sens and accel to multiple decimal places, none of it's helped. I've lost the feel that I used to have for those insane shots - you know what I'm talking about: the "midair, out of my ass at a barely-glimpsed target" ones - the kind that gets people screaming "BOT!"
And without the security blanket of my rail, my entire game has fallen apart. I'm starting to see all the flaws in the way I play now: my movement's nowhere near as good as it should be; my strat's lazy; my RL is sloppy... I've focused on one aspect for so long that everything else has suffered. While I was winning most of my games, I didn't make any effort to improve those other skills, and now it's payback time. I'm still a well above-average railer, but it can't carry me any more unless I improve the rest of my game too. Worse still, this past few weeks has whittled my confidence away as well: I think that even if I COULD get the feel back, I wouldn't have the stones to play like I used to anyway.
So I'm going back to basics. I'm going to try and unlearn all my bad habits: spend my time practicing my jumps; my bunnies; splashing; dodging; item timing; all the things I need to become a COMPLETE player again.
What I'm curious about is this: I can't be the first guy this has happened to. How have other people dealt with it? Has anyone successfully given up one aspect of the game and been willing to pay the price of losses in the short term to improve their play in the long run? Have they just kept on, maxed out and not improving but happy with simply being better than average?
It's going to be an interesting few weeks for me. I expect I'll suddenly start losing a LOT of games against people that I usually beat. Hopefully it'll be worth it in the end...
Monday, 05 February 2001 -
madfraga does Babbage's ? comment
(not really a column update, but the easiest way for me to get the headline up)
madfraga's at it again with a new MOV of some moments from the Dec tourney: Net Gear Guy, stripper, model generator, random hotel room moments, spectator reactions, etc.
It's a whopping 28MB, but I usually find his stuff interesting: showing what happens AROUND the games, not just in them.
You can snag it here. Hope you've got a fast connection though... :)
Tuesday, 12 December 2000 -
Just republishing the columns that got lost ? 1 comment
when the SQL DB died.
Not too much going on with me right now apart from lots of coding. With any luck, there'll be a fairly significant announcement on the CPMA page in about a week...
Tuesday, 12 December 2000 -
Why Promode will never "take over"... ? 5 comments
... and why I don't care.
--- Originally published 28 Nov --- slightly edited ---
I originally wrote this in response to (a thread that I can't find a link for anymore), but it was a topic I'd planned on doing a column on a long while back, before other things got in the way, so I decided to post it here instead...
Cache recently interviewed n1-xfoo, and they agreed that the biggest obstacle to wide acceptance for CPM was simply that players tend to get thrashed the first time they try it and just give up. Other points were: money (or lack of it); maps (CPM does play better on maps designed for it, but a lot of OSP servers don't have them); "splitting the community"; and, of course, the name... :)
Promode DOES accentuate the differences in skill between players. When you take out the cess out of VQ3; add strategy (no, "aim well and spend 90% of the game collecting armour" does NOT count as strategy); and speed the pace of the game up, of course you're going to see the more skilled players pull further away from the pack.
I'm a pretty good VQ3 player, and on my best days I've got a chance against just about anyone. But my first few games of CPM basically consisted of me getting repeatedly raped.
For me, the potential I saw in it made it clear that *this* was what I wanted to be playing, and if that meant losing a bunch of games 40-5 for a week or two, then so be it.
Not everyone's going to feel that way though, and the common response to Promode is: play one game; get pissed at the air control; have no idea where you're going on the map; declare that CPM sucks; and quit, swearing never to play again.
Sure, the CPM maps are superb, but when you look at the rules changes as well you can see how just how much Promode can throw gamers who are new to it. Ignoring for a second the problems you always have on a new map, look at the items. Take CPM3 for instance: you grab MH, and you're timing it perfectly, and two minutes later you get back to the spawn and it's not there. You don't understand why you can't pick up the YA. You get caught waiting for the RG to spawn because you're expecting one to be there within 3 seconds no matter what. To top it all off, you feel like you're playing with timescale cranked up. Think about it: you get reasonably good at a game (okay, not really good, but better than most of your friends) and suddenly you're like a newbie that doesn't know what strafe-jumping is all over again. Some see that as a new challenge to be met; others as a crushing blow to their ego.
The learning curve for CPM, though not really too harsh, is still significant enough to deter casual gamers. I don't think that's "wrong" in any way - I strongly believe that the design team made the right call in deciding to make the best game they could, with no compromises. If CPM was just "a little bit better than VQ3", which is what an awful lot of people originally wanted it to be, then there wouldn't be much point playing it and I expect it wouldn't have had anything like the success it has.
I've always hated the name, but we've discussed that in the past and it's too late to change it now.
I'm not sure I buy the "split the community" theory. Old-timers may worry about it, but xfoo is the first Q3 player I've ever heard comment on it. All the original Chicken Little whining came from players who'd been around since the QW/NQ era. The Q3 and late-Q2 players don't give a shit, because they've grown up with mods.
The money factor. In and of itself, this isn't really a problem: what percentage of players will actually turn pro, even if they play nothing but VQ3? Realistically speaking, none of them. Right now, there's ONE true pro gamer, although you can make a reasonable case for Mak, Zero4 and Laker as well. The real issue here is the knock-on effect: when Fat says he's not interested in CPM because there's no money in it (as he did in #stomped a couple of weeks ago), all the fanboys hear it as "John doesn't think Promode's any good". I wonder: if Makaveli, who was VERY active in CPM back at the time of RazerCPL, had won, would that have made a difference?
There's this big catch-22 going on: a lot of the younger players who think they're the next Thresh (okay, the next Fatal1ty, because none of them have heard of Thresh) won't play CPM because they don't see the pros playing. Although the CPL's been adding games lately, they're doing so on popularity AFAICT, which means there won't be a CPL Promode tourney until it does have a mass following. Which it won't get unless... etc.
One thing that's interesting to me is the steady globalisation of the CPL: the US is probably the country where CPM has had the least impact (maybe the UK) - as CPL Europe develops, maybe something will happen there.
Personally, while I'd be delighted to see Promode take over just so there'd be no more incredibly tedious games on T2 and DM13, I'm pretty well set with where we are today. On the demo front, there are CPM games being played that are just WAY more exciting than anything I've ever seen in VQ3. True, not many of them are coming out of the US (some of the Cache's Plaything ones were damn good games: xfoo-v-revelation springs to mind), but they're there: ven0m's games leave me stunned; same with xfoo and gloat. CPM's been final for, what, a couple of months? The games will only get better as players continue to push the limits of both the game and their own skills, same as what happened with VQ3 for the first 6 months. The potential is a lot greater in CPM though because of all the extra control gamers have: VQ3 play has stagnated even at the highest levels. (A lot of that has to do with every tournament using the same 2 crappy maps for 75% of the games, and with T4 likely to become unplayable once the 1.27 patch shows up next week we REALLY need to see SOMETHING different happening there, even if it's not as radical as a new mod).
As a gamer, I'm set. I have CPMA/OSP for all my Clan Arena/duel/TDM needs. So basically, I'm covered, and what anyone else feels like playing doesn't really bother me that much. :)
As far as I'm concerned, CPM has been a success. I wanted a game that I could really enjoy playing; that would still interest me a year after Q3 was released. I have that, and more: a game I can see myself still enjoying a year from now.
CPM will outlive VQ3, because what's keeping 90% of the VQ3 players there right now is fear of getting owned; ignorance of the fact that there ARE alternatives; or simply a sheep mentality. The other 10% actually enjoy it, and more power to them. Contrast that with the CPM gamers: every single one of them is playing because they love it. They've made a decision to simply play what they want to play. When the next hot game comes out, be it Doom3; UT2; whatever, VQ3 will disappear off the face off the earth. But the Promode crowd will still be playing, and I'll be there with them, still loving every second of it.
Tuesday, 12 December 2000 -
Quick takes on TA and 1.27b ? 5 comments
--- Originally posted 27 Nov --- So, I just got done playing the TA demo for a couple of hours, more to see what 1.27b was like than anything else.
I'm not going to comment much on the "new" gametypes other than to say that they're not for me, although I'm sure there are plenty of people who'll enjoy them. Skip the next para if you just want to get to the 1.27 comments
The "persistant" powerups are potentially (holy alliteration Batman!) a good thing, although if I could drop one to pick up a better one I'd like them a lot more. I'm not sure how I feel about them being team-coded (i.e. you can't pick up the runes in the enemy base) - in some ways I like it, but it seems to me that since enemy are respawning in there with 125h as is and you can't deny them powerups you're going to get a lot of very low-cap games.
I like the new scoring system in concept, although it doesn't actually work very well: getting "defense" awards for killing someone just because you have the flag is a bit strange.
Prox mines are beyond gay, although I'm sure the UT and newbie crowds will love them, and that's what TA's target market seems to be. They're not as bad as the Kamikaze though: a "weapon" that makes all prior comments about cess seem insignificant. Grab it and go on a flag run: it doesn't matter if you have no skill at all and get killed, as the bomb will go off anyway.
On to the 1.27 changes:
Although strafejumping and movement in general feel like crap on the new map, if you play the standard maps then it feels great. gg Strider, and congrats to id for having the sense to include the code.
Likewise with adding the Rhea/Papa sound fix. Pickup sounds are still dropped every once in a while, but it's still a lot better than 1.17.
The crackling sounds seem to be a problem on the new map only.
The Promode-like knockback is a bit strange to see in VQ3, although it's nice to have. The damage kick on the other hand seems even worse than before.
I noticed different hit-tones, but it took me a while to figure them out: they're not Promode-style to tell you how much damage you did, they're a replacement for enemy pain sounds. The hit tones tell you how badly hurt the enemy is. I REALLY hate this. It's one thing to get a rough idea how much damage you did so you can try and work out if your enemy is ready for a finishing shot, but it's a whole other deal to telegraph their health like this. If you rail someone on the far side of a map, you won't hear a pain grunt - that seems like a fair tradeoff to me. But now the game will tell you exactly how close to death they are. That's gay enough in duel, but it will absolutely *ruin* Clan Arena games. Luckily, it's easily fixed once we get the updated source.
Speaking of which: where IS the source? I'm feeling unloved here...
The new HUD is an improvement on the standard one but still nothing like as good as Khaile's.
r_fastsky is now black, thankfully.
The DirectInput bug *still* isn't fixed. This is another one of those things that really pisses me off: it's a trivial change to the code to sort it out, but id still haven't taken care of it.
The nailgun isn't what I'd expected: it's a lot more like the world's slowest shotgun than anything else.
The chaingun doesn't seem to have the spin-up delay of the Q2 one, and although it's got the same built-in inaccuracy as the MG its fire rate makes it a REALLY powerful weapon as long as you can keep it stocked with ammo. It'll certainly make all the Q2 fans I know happy. :)
Leaning while strafing has been added - I don't know if it adjusts the BBOX as well. I expect the QW crowd will love that, but personally I've always thought it was pretty lame. (Let's see how many QW players have a go at me for that) :)
So to sum up: 1.2x is definitely better than 1.17, thanks mostly to Strider, Rhea, and Papa. Fortunately, it doesn't matter where the bugfixes came from, just that they're finally in baseq3.
It's still not really ready for release (although Duffy says they've fixed the problem that was causing huge FPS drops on the new map) but we're going to have to live with it, since if id miss the Christmas sales rush they'll be out a lot of cash. With any luck there'll be a couple more point releases afterwards when the pressure's off and we'll actually see some of the bugs in the EXE get fixed as well...
I share some of Hoony's optimism for what this release will do for the mod community. The UI rewrite offers all sorts of potential for people to do cool things with. The updated source base also means that lazy mod authors (you know who you are) :) who never bothered to fix things like the dropped sounds or the vote bugs will get that for free, which can only be a good thing for the baseline quality of mods.
As has been pointed out in the past, id don't "owe" us anything: they're good enough to make it possible for us to mod the game, which means I get to play things like Promode and Clan Arena long after the initial appeal of the baseq3 physics and gametypes has worn off. For all that there are a few things about them that really piss me off (lack of progress on bugs and hacks; the way they're slowly distancing themselves more and more from the community they essentially created and in particular the "hardcore" gamers) I'm nonetheless pretty happy with the current situation - the underlying technology is still the best in the world, so as long as we can mod I can live with all the bad parts.
On a somewhat related note: we seem very keen to jump all over id whenever they do something that we don't like: look at all the people who were calling for Carmack's head on a pike after the 1.25 patch (which he had almost nothing to do with, BTW) was released, but the bottom line is that we should still be grateful for the approach they've taken over the last few years. I haven't played a game of VQ3-anything in over 6 months, but I still spend a couple of hours every day roxing and railing people into small piles of gibs. So while I find TA and the 1.27b patch pretty underwhelming, at the end of the day I'm still a big fan of id, and likely to remain so for a long time yet.
Friday, 17 November 2000 -
Competition Ladders and Cheating - Hand in Hand? ? 11 comments
My clan had a run-in with a bot user in an online match a couple of days ago, and it's prompted me to finally write this column that I've been meaning to for quite a while now.
It's a bit long, but I'd really suggest you take the time to read through it all as the backstory is kind of important to the realisation that I've come to. At the very least make sure you snag this demo: it's only a couple of minutes long, but it's worth at least a thousand words....
(You'll need ra3map1 and the RA3 client to watch it. Sorry about that. If you don't feel like DL'ing them, just read on instead).
This isn't an abstract "cheating is bad, mmmkay" opinion piece: it cites a specific incident and how it all played out: essentially, what you can expect to have to go through when you match up against a clan that cheats. The only opinion is in my conclusions at the end.
It's not QIL stuff or anything like that, it's just life as a regular gamer in a clan: the level that most of us actually compete at.
Cheating is hardly a new topic in the online gaming world: from the infamous HangTime demo way back when that really made it clear just how damaging bots could be; through the zbot/ratbot era in Q2; all the way up to the nopbot for Q3.
Unlike most of the Challenge guys, my main game is Clan Arena. I duel every once in a while; play TDM a few times a year, but for me Clan Arena is where I have the most fun.
You know the concept: no items to pick up; no health to recover with to keep yourself alive. You get kitted out with all the armour, ammo, and weapons you're going to get at the beginning of the Round, and the last guy left standing wins, anything goes. It's a test of pure skill, to see once and for all who's got the best aim, the best weapon usage skills: to see who's truly the best *fighter*, not the best armour-gathering railgun-camping player. Sure, it's got even less strat than a VQ3 duel on T4, but it's fun, and that's what I play for.
Quake 3 consumes hours of our time day in and day out as we strive to get just a little bit better and end the day with a couple more frags than we had the day before. Competition is the name of the game, and to fuel that in a more standardized way for those of us not 1337 enough to make the CPL, many people have put together Ladders and Leagues for individuals and clans alike to do battle against one another in.
My clan play on a couple of these: OGL and the relatively new RocketArena.org ladder and they've mostly been free of serious trouble. The usual mild lameness: "we will 0wnz0r you" kiddie clans that we spank and send home to bed; the guy that complains about lag when he's pinging 30 less than everyone else; the great sports that have disconnected already before you can even type gg after beating them. Hey, it's a public ladder: you're going to get all sorts. We've also met some great guys through these events: PoT, GEC, and others.
Now, onto the part that goes a long way past merely lame: the cheating that goes on by some of the clans that participate in these ladders. This aspect hit home rather closely on Tuesday night, when my clan p0rn0 Finish (pF) played Mission to Kill (MtK) in an RA3 match for the RocketArena.org East ladder. We go off to a server that they have rcon on, but for some reason they can't enable Competition Mode. Comp Mode is basically: teams are locked, and when you die you can only spec your own team. Players not on a team (i.e. random spectators) in the arena when the match is in progress can only spectate *one* person for the entire match: there's no followcycle. It's a good concept, since giving away enemy health/armour/position can totally ruin a Clan Arena match. Still, since they can't manage to get it working, we agree to play the match without it. After all, it's a ladder match. We can trust them, right?
MtK win the first match, and during the intermission they manage to get comp mode working. Now, both teams have a sub on the server in case of connection probs, so ours (pF.weena) figures "okay, time to snag demos of our guys to go over later". But he's not ON the team, he's a free spec. So he gets locked to one player that he's stuck with for the rest of the match, and it happens to be [MtK]Hammer.
After a couple of rounds, he notices there's something a bit strange with Hammer's playing style and movement. His view angle is snapping faster than Makaveli's and he seems to have an uncanny ability to track players (whether on his team or not) through the walls. So it all seems a bit iffy, and the demo recording begins. But weena's not the type to cry bot without proof, and specs are muted anyway, so nothing is said...
pF take the second match, and one of our guys has to bail so weena steps in. MtK win the decider, ggs are exchanged, and everyone heads back to their respective IRC channels. Whereupon all hell breaks loose in #clanpf about 5 minutes after weena DCC's the demos to the rest of the clan. It's absolute mayhem - suddenly my quiet clanmates are going nuts. Like all auto-aimers, nopbot has some distinctive traits that make it pretty easy to spot (snap-targeting teammates, for instance) if the user's not trying hard to hide it, and Hammer wasn't. All of pF are furious that a clan has deliberately, blatantly, cheated in one of their matches.
Meanwhile, MtK have managed to report the match as a *loss* for them. I guess the bot doesn't work with IE, and they haven't aimed for themselves in so long they've forgotten how.
So they go to snag one of the ladder admins (cL_Mephit) to change it for them, and he naturally has to check with us on the result. He's in for a bit of a shock when he enters the channel and sees all the flak flying around. No biggie though: he keeps his cool and asks for the demos, we DCC, he reviews, and
[20:39] cL-Mephit: wow
[20:39] cL-Mephit: that was the most obvious bot usage i've seen in a while
[20:41] cL-Mephit: hammer = dead on bot for sure
You'd think that would be the end of it, but no. Instead, inexplicably, things start to get REALLY bad...
Like most ladders, ra.org spells their policy on this out with no room for misunderstanding:
From the homepage: "Zero-tolerance to cheating, whining, and BS by participating clans"
From the ladder rules: "VII. Cheating. Cheating is bad and will not be tolerated. Anyone caught cheating in any way (bots, PAK modifications, pingflooding, etc..) will be immediately kicked from the ladder."
So it's a no-brainer right?
cL_Mephit confronts MtK about the bot usage. MtK's response? To immediately accuse one of our guys (pF.wiz) of using a bot too. Net result: both clans get suspended. Because, obviously, the clan that you already KNOW cheats can be trusted not to make something like that up.
(wiz happens to demo all his games, luckily. He gets back from work (graveyard shift) Wednesday morning and sends them off to Mephit. Surprise, surprise, he didn't cheat.)
Meanwhile, the phrases "zero tolerance" and "immediately kicked" are taking on all sorts of new meanings. The admin decides that we are to play a rematch, with two observers from ra.org, and Hammer is not allowed to play in that match. Read that last part again. Not: "Hammer has been kicked from the ladder", simply that he can't play in that ONE game.
By now, most of MtK including their captains for the ladder (Ruger and Mimic) have seen the demos and realise there's no point in trying to deny it. So, class act that they are they apologise for the cheating, kick Hammer from the clan and forfeit the match to us.
LOL! AS IF!
Ruger at least has the stones to face us in our channel and say "sorry for what happened... we're not about cheating..."
Unfortunately, he's laughed out of the channel and banned by one of the guys who'd played in the match that night and been banned from #mtk a little while earlier for having the nerve to call them "lame" because of the bot usage. I can't say I approve of that, but emotions were running very high and after the way the rest of MtK had acted I think it was pretty understandable.
Anyway, time passes, tempers cool, bans are lifted on both sides, and people go to sleep.
Wednesday evening I'm idling in #mtk when a member of a third clan stops by after seeing the demo (it was posted to usenet) and asks if Hammer is still in the clan. MtK|Mimic's response: "why wouldn't he be?"
Time goes by and we come up on Wednesday night: about 24 hours since the match. I have a nice long chat with Mephit about cheating in general, the hassles of running a ladder, and such things. I'm still disgusted by the ruling, but he's a decent guy, no question. He's also familiar with the problems gamers face, as an active player himself for cLockwork. We finish up and I go back to idling in #mtf to see if they're going to do the decent thing with the known cheater in their ranks.
Instead, I find Mimic is still trying to claim that pF.wiz (that's "the player formerly known as RIB|Wizard", back when RIB was the #1 Instagib clan in the US) was using an aimbot, despite Mephit reviewing his demos and pronouncing him innocent.
Hammer is still a member of MtK: Mimic now says he's in no position to kick him out of the clan. A couple of minutes later he changes that to "Hammer's not a member of the clan; he's a friend." Which I guess is why he's listed on their roster at ra.org; and in screenshots on their site as MtK|Hammer. At this point, even Mimic can't keep his story straight, and I have NO idea what the truth is. I then get kickbanned by MtK|BigPoppa, which at least saves me from having to try and work it out any more.
I get back to #clanpf to discover that our captain has managed to track down MrMagoo, who started the ra.org ladder. Apparently he, Mephit, and the other admins have discussed the situation and changed their minds about how to handle it: the match between pF and MtK will NOT be replayed; pF gets the forfeit win since a member of MtK was using a known cheat during the match. MtK has been dropped to the bottom of the ladder and will have to work their way back up from there, this time on probation with their matches supervised.
Now, I consider this to be a good, fair resolution to the whole mess, except for the fact that the nopbot user is still allowed to play in the ladder, and he's still on the MtK team roster.
Is cheating ok sometimes? By my standards, and hopefully for the majority of the players out there, the answer is a clear NO. However, what we're being told here is that it's fine as long as it's in moderation. It seems that the ladder is more worried about the bad rap they may get from banning a clan or player for cheating and the effect it might have on future clans joining up than they are on the impact that allowing him to stay has on those already competing.
If anything, this incident has affected MtK far more than pF. It seems to have thrown most of them into a state of confused shock: one minute they're calling *us* bot-using shitcunts and blaming the whole thing on us "just trying to stir up trouble"; the next they're apologising and saying how shocked they are and how they this makes them want to quit the clan; then they're back to defending Hammer and saying it's not like he cheated at anything important.
My original for title this update was "Cheating online: who's really to blame?", and after spending way too much time going back through IRC logs and thinking about it, I've worked it out.
It's us, the so-called community.
We all have some measure of control over this, and we're not being active enough with it. When you catch a clan or an individual cheating, DO something about it. Don't just cry "BOT!" and sulk about it in IRC - get proof and make it public.
If you're on a ladder with known cheats, make damn sure the admins know it too. Send the demos to the other clans on the ladder and let them make their own minds up. Refuse to play clans that support bot users, or at the very least have EVERY member spec'ed by admins and/or impartials during a match. These guys are cheating to WIN: if you don't give them the chance to do that, they'll pack up and go home.
If someone in your clan is caught cheating, make a statement and kick them out: show the rest of us that you're not all like him.
If you run a ladder, have a zero-tolerance policy on cheaters and stick to it. Penalise the clan (you know they don't deserve their position) but don't kick them out for one bad apple. Give them a chance to handle the situation themselves: no honest clan will keep a known bot user on the roster. If they won't deal with the problem then it's pretty clear that they consider cheating to be acceptable, and all they'll do is drag your ladder's credibility into the dirt while ruining it for every honest clan on there.
Share the information with other ladder admins. Don't just let these people scurry off to pull the same crap somewhere else.
We're never going to completely get rid of players who use bots and other cheats, but if we take a stand against them we can at least beat them down to the point where an online game can be fun and fair again: a test of who has the superior skill, not just who has the most hacked game and the fewest morals.
Wednesday, 15 November 2000 -
RSI, cheating, and ladders - oh my ? 5 comments
So, in a drunken stupor one night, Hoony agreed to give me a column where I could voice my opinions as a gamer rather than just as a CPM developer. He'll be sorry...
Right now I'm dealing with carpal tunnel (it sucks), aimbot gayness (it REALLY sucks), leagues and ladders (guess what? they suck), and the OSP/CPMA merge (it rocks).
Expect the ranting to begin once I've calmed down enough to be able to talk about the match last night, and cheating in general, in a PG-friendly manner...
The CPMA beta is imminent, BTW. I expect that'll be id's cue to suddenly release the 1.25 source after all, the day after it goes out. :)