Hey Everyone,

For this weeks Falcon Friday, we will be offering two great pricing deals! The first one is that, as of right now, all international shipping is discounted by 50% for any purchases of the standard Falcon bundle or the Falcon Pistol Grip bundle! During your purchase, any International shipping costs seen in your cart will already be discounted by 50%, with no further action required on your part. This special will only be valid until October 30th, 2009, so if you're an international customer looking to make a purchase, make sure you don't miss out!

Our second deal is that XLR8 will be discounted by almost 75%, and will be available for a mere $3.95 until October 23rd, 2009. For those who don't know, XLR8 is a rally car racing title that is just a blast to play with the Falcon, as you can feel all the bumps and variations in your environment while driving, along with the rumble of your engine. If you don't have it already, now may be a great time to pick it up.

Enjoy!!

-johntnovint

Hey Everyone,

In cooperation with Edge Gamers (www.edgegamers.org/) we now have an official TF2 server for Novint and the Falcon available to you, our community! The IP of the server is as follows:

208.43.203.94:27015

In addition, we also have HL Stats available for the server, and you can find those at the following link:

http://ego.hlstatsx.com/?mode=servers&server_id=26&game=tf

We welcome any questions or comments you may have on the server. This server will be the one utilized for our Wednesday TF2 community night as well, with more information coming on that shortly.

Enjoy!

Thanks,

johntnovint

Hey Everyone,

The Half-Life 2 Episode 1 beta is available now. If you want to give it a try, here is how:

1) Open the Folder C:\Program Files\Steam
2) Right click on Steam.exe
3) Click on Create Shortcut
4) Move the shortcut to your desktop, or wherever you want to access it from
5) Right click on the steam shortcut, and click Properties
6) The target should be something like:
"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe"
7) At the end of the target add -beta ep1novint so that the target is "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -beta ep1novint
8) Close Steam, and run the shortcut you just created.

When you start Steam, HL2 Ep1 will update.
When it is done updating, you can run it, and the Falcon will control the game.

That is 4 of 5 on the Orange Box. Only HL2 beta remains, then we can polish them up and get a V1 Gold Master out (and advertise on Steam, which should be a big deal for us)

If you run into any bugs, or have any issues, please contact us at [email protected].

Enjoy!

Hey Everyone,

We have some good news! It ends up that our integration into other Source games had a nice effect of enabling Day of Defeat Source. We checked, and we were able to create an effects file that adds a bunch of nice forces in, in addition to the navigation, etc. Pretty sweet, eh - nice surprise for all of us, me included.

This isn't an officially supported game, so we have to warn it might not continue working. We have a good relationship with Valve, but if something comes up where they make changes that screw it up we can't insist they keep it working. That being said, it appears that it isn't more work for them, and given we have a good relationship, we guess that we'll be able to keep it up and running.

Thanks to Abok and Toppunisher etc on the message boards for clueing us in to check it out.

This is a testament to how well the Falcon integration into Source was implemented. Those of you who had concerns about the delays earlier - this is a good example why. We took the time to do it right, and we apparently got a new game out of it by simpling adding in a tuning file ;)

Here's how to get DoD:Source going

1) Open C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\[username]\day of defeat source\dod folder.
2) Once there, create a new folder called 'scripts' (without the quotes).
3) Insert the gamehaptics.txt file (from link below) into the scripts folder
4) Launch the game directly through Steam. You'll feel all the weapon recoils and other forces.

Here's where you can download gamehaptics.txt

https://backup.filesanywhere.com/fs/v.aspx?v=8e6b698f5e6170b97367

The games works pretty well, but there are a couple minor known issues:

1) There are no forces for grenade throws/planting TNT. These may be added at a later date
2) Some haptic filters aren't working, so certain reloads that would utilize them to have a metal on metal effect (eg. The rocket launcher) will not have them until this is fixed.
3) Damage forces are not functioning (we're looking at this).
4) If you pick up an empty gun off the ground, and there is ammo to reload it, the reload forces will not be in sync.
5) Reload forces will sometimes not be in sync when the game is launched. This is a minor issue with all OB titles that should be resolved shortly. If anything feels off, simply restart the game.

If you have any questions or issues, feel free to contact [email protected].

Enjoy!

Hey Everyone,

The Falcon beta for Battlefield 2 has been officially released, and can be accessed simply by installing the 1.50 BF2 beta patch from DICE. You can find the patch at the following link:

http://www.fileplay.net/file/5123/battlefield-2-v1-5-beta-patch-1

Please make sure you have Version 1.41 of Battlefield 2 installed before attempting to install the 1.50 beta patch.

If you have any questions, encounter any bugs, or require any assistance, please feel free to contact [email protected].

Enjoy!