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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Download Warcraft 3 Maphack 1.20b

We have updated the latest maphack for patch 1.20 December 2005.
You can download in the forum. However, you need to register and have minimum 5 posts in the forum before you can view the "hide" forum.

Access it here

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Need For Speed Most Wanted, Clan Bala Review

Hardware:-
Personally recommendation on the hardware:-
CPU:- Pentium 4, 3Ghz and above or AMD 3000+ and above.
Memory: 512MB is minimum, recommended 1GB
Graphic Card: nVidia 5900, 5700Ultra, 6600, 6800 and above
Input:- Work well with MOMO USB PC wheel

Interface:-
Cons
Too many buttons to click to go in one menu
The interface is quite confusing for newbie

Pros
Manual attached is quite useful
Some tips and hint during every loading of the game

Internet Play
Cons
Lagging especially in the public game
Slow initial connection of the userid
Time consuming in registering one new account

Pros
No lagging in the private game
Many players in the custom game
Leavers will be given incompletion %
Players will be locked to launch game

Single Play
Cons
Too many loading for every screen play
Unable to select car for the quick play
Not able to test out the map (single car)

Pros
Intelligent AI
Police chasing is very fun
Game will not get boring even if is single play

Winter 2005 GPU Benchmark (PCI Express)


GPU Benchmark using 3Dmark05, based on PCIe graphic card.
Data and image extracted from tomshardware.com

2004 CPU Benchmarks (PCMark2004)


Full list of 2004 CPU benchmark using PCMark2004.
Image and data extracted from Tomshardware.com

2005 CPU Benchmark (PCMark2005)


Full CPU comparison listing using PCMark2005.
Image extrated from tomshardware.com

Benchmarking AMD vs Intel


Benchmark extracted from anandtech.com for your reference.

Monday, December 19, 2005

How Keeper and Dwarf Looks Like?


Image extracted from battle.net

Friday, December 16, 2005

Custom Map For Download


Run, Kitty, Run is a simple, yet fun, fast-paced game. The objective is to avoid the Evil Dogs as you make your way towards the center of the map. Be sure not to get left too far behind as you and your teammates will need to rely on one another to make it to the end.

http://www.warcraft.org/maps/details/c5218



Battleships is an Aeon of Strife map that pits you and your friends against one another in a fun sea battle. You may start the game as a sailor and upgrade to bigger, better ships along the way. Choose from a variety of ships with different abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. After you've made a name for yourself, bring the Captain ashore to purchase items for your ship and head back out to join the fight.

http://www.myforge.net/html/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=13



Choose one of ten governors, each having a different set of elements available to them. You will also be able to select from a total of 80 different towers, many with unique abilities, to prevent 40 levels of monsters from reaching the center of the map. Purchase a Hero to catch leaks, use special abilities, and defend your base. Teamwork is necessary if you expect to win!

http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3/maps/spotlight/(4)BurbenogTDv2.32.zip

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Review of Need For Speed Most Wanted



Most Wanted is great fun, from its hysterical cutscenes to its extremely tense police chases.

The Good: Outrunning the cops is extremely exciting; outstanding sound effects; sharp graphics; tones down some of the over-the-top product placement found in the previous nfs games; mindblowing full-motion video cutscenes.

The Bad: Racer AI isn't too bright at first, gets wicked smart later on; not enough mindblowing full-motion video cutscenes.

EA's long-running Need for Speed series took a trip underground a couple of years back when the developer refocused the game solely on illegal street racing. While the nighttime racing series was certainly successful, the lawless world was always missing one key factor: cops. This year's installment crawls back into the daylight. The actual racing hasn't changed too much, but the ever-present police make this game a whole lot more interesting.
The game's career mode starts out with a hilarious bang. You take on the role of a nameless, faceless new racer attempting to hit the scene in the city of Rockport. An underground ranking known as the Blacklist governs who can race who, and when. You almost immediately run into a punk named Razor, who's definitely the sort of dude that lives his life a quarter-mile at a time. He's at the bottom of the list, but a few races later, he's sabotaged your ride and has won it from you in a race. Meanwhile, you're carted off to jail. Left with nothing but some mysterious help from a stranger named Mia, your task is to get back in the race game to work your way to the top of the Blacklist, which is now topped by Razor, who's using your old car to wipe out the competition.

The game actually has a great story hook at the beginning that makes you want to see the career mode through to completion. The early story segments are told through some sort of unholy mixture of computer-generated cars and full-motion video actors. The acting in these early segments is awful...awful good, that is. You'll scratch your head and wonder if these segments are intentionally bad and meant to be played for laughs or if they're just unintentionally funny. Either way, they're great. Unfortunately, after a brief prologue, you stop seeing video sequences, and the story is conveyed via voicemails from various characters. Are you a cop? Will you get to utter the magic street racing words, "Mia, I am a cop"? Or is the plot twist even more painfully obvious than that? You'll have to see the story through to find out where everyone's allegiances lie.

Working your way up the Blacklist is a multistep progress. Before you can challenge the next Blacklist racer, you have to satisfy a list of requirements. You'll have to win a set number of race events. And you'll have to reach a set number of pursuit milestones and earn enough bounty by riling up the police. The cops hate street racers and will give chase when they see you rolling around the open city. You can also just jump right into a pursuit from a menu, too.
Running from the cops is the best action the game has to offer. Chases usually start with just one car on your tail. But as you resist, you might find 20 cars giving chase, in addition to a chopper flying overhead. Losing the cops gets tougher as your heat level rises. Level one heat results in the appearance of just your standard squad cars. But by the time you get up to level five, you'll be dealing with roadblocks, spike strips, helicopters, and federal-driven Corvettes. A meter at the bottom of the screen indicates how close you are to losing the cops or getting busted. Stopping your car--or having it stopped for you by spike strips or getting completely boxed in by cops--is how you'll get busted. To actually get away, you'll need to get out of visual range...and stay there. The initial evasion changes the meter over to a cooldown meter. You'll have to lie low and wait for that meter to fill up to end the chase. This is probably the tensest part of the entire chase, since you never know when two cops might blow around the corner and spot you, starting the whole process over again. It all sort of works like some sort of strange, wonderful cross between Grand Theft Auto's open city and Metal Gear Solid's stealth mechanic. All the while, you'll be acquiring heat on your car. This means that you'll have to keep a couple of cars around, because acquiring heat on one car lowers the heat on your other ones. Also, getting busted too many times can result in your car getting impounded, though you can avoid that by resetting the system whenever you get caught (if that's more your speed).

There's also a lot of racing in Most Wanted's career mode--almost too much, in fact. You'll engage in multilap circuit races, point-A-to-point-B sprint races, drag racing, checkpoint-driven tollbooth races, and speed trap, where the winner is the player that accumulates the most speed while passing by a handful of radar cameras spread throughout the track. The races are solid but not spectacular. The artificial intelligence doesn't really help things along, because most of the game is rubber-banded like crazy. We actually set our controller down for 20 seconds--then picked it back up and caught our opponents on the final lap. And though the AI will occasionally crash and come to a complete halt, it'll catch up very, very quickly. Later on in the game, you get a voicemail message informing you that things are going to get tougher. At this point, the computer drivers magically start taking every single shortcut, and the rubber banding only seems to work against you. As a result, catching up after a mistake is much tougher. If this difficulty had gradually sloped up, it wouldn't be a big deal. But flipping the switch from "drive like crap" to "drive like a genius" is really annoying. Fortunately, the racing action itself is entertaining enough to keep you going, and of course, you'll be dying to find out what happens next in the story.

The game has more than 30 licensed cars that you'll be able to purchase or win from other racers. We started out with a pretty weak Chevy Cobalt, but eventually we picked up a much faster Supra, a new Covette C6, and so on. You can also find the Ford GT, a Ford Mustang GT, and other cars from BMW, Mitsubishi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Lotus, and more. You'll buy your first car, but as you move through the Blacklist, you'll get a shot at the pink slip of the other racer, letting you ease right into the driver's seat of a new, tuned vehicle. Buying them from scratch means you'll have to apply enhancements yourself. You can buy a lot of different performance gear and a ton of visual stuff, like body kits, spoilers, vinyls, and so on. Applying visual upgrades lowers your heat level, making them pretty useful once the cops take notice of your faster cars.

Aside from the career mode, there's also a challenge series that gives you a car and a specific goal. Race goals are fairly easy to understand, but the pursuit challenges ask you to achieve specific milestones, like blasting through five roadblocks or racking up a specific amount of property damage. You can also just dive into quick races, or take it online. The online game is focused strictly on racing, which is a little disappointing. Teaming up to avoid the cops or letting some players drive police cars probably would have been more interesting. Still, the game offers sprint, circuit, and drag races for up to four players, and it keeps an online version of the Blacklist going so you can see who the most dangerous online opponent is. On the game-creation side, you can play in ranked or unranked games, and you can specify a disconnection or "did not finish" percentage, letting you manually weed out jerks. You can also turn off collision detection between players if you want to prevent people from just crashing into one another throughout the entire race, but that's only possible in unranked games. All in all, the online is functional, but without any sort of pursuit mode or other police-tinged races, it's awfully standard.
Graphically, the game looks great, overall. But when you break it down, some parts of it look better than others. For the most part, the game does the large city environment quite well. The different parts of the city give a nice sense of variety, and the car models look sharp, especially when you start painting them with crazy triple-colored paint. The game delivers a pretty good sense of speed and seems to scale reasonably well to fit different PCs. There's a level of detail setting that gets the image quality up to around the Xbox 360 version's graphics, but when that and the resolution turned all the way up, you're going to need a really tough machine to get a playable frame rate out of it. The game doesn't have much car damage at all. You'll see your rear window crack up after a few good wrecks, but there's never any real damage to your vehicle.

On the sound side, the game has outstanding engine noises that change depending on which car you're in and which upgrades you have. The rest of the sound effects are also of excellent quality. The game uses quite a bit of voice acting in the story, which is good. But the best voices come from the police. When you're being chased, you'll pick up the police band and hear them communicating and cooperating as they try to take you down. The cop talk sounds awfully authentic, and you'll eventually decipher the police 10 codes and figure out when they're going to lay out spike strips, set up roadblocks, and so on. While the 10 codes used don't seem to be the actual ones the real police use (at least that's what a little basic research told us), they sound good enough to be realistic. The music included is the standard mix of rock and hip-hop you've come to expect from EA's games, including a few songs from Styles of Beyond.
While the actual racing in Need for Speed Most Wanted is probably the weak link in the chain, it's still solid enough to keep you interested as you move from racer to racer, working your way up the Blacklist as you go. But the real stars of the show are the police, who give the series a much-needed shot in the arm. If outrunning the law sounds like your idea of a good time, you'll have a great time here.

By Jeff Gerstmann
Posted Nov 23, 2005 3:06 pm PT

Need For Speed Most Wanted Cheat Code

Need For Speed Most Wanted (NFSMW) Cheat Codes
Cheat codes are entered at the main menu.
Unlock NFSMW Cars - iammostwanted
Unlock the Burger King Challenge - burgerking

Unlockable Cars and How To Unlock
Aston Martin DB9 - Beat Blacklist Boss #7
Audi A3 3.2 Quattro - Beat Blacklist Boss #15
Audi A4 3.2 FSI Quattro - Beat Blacklist Boss #14
Audi TT 3.2 Quattro - Beat Blacklist Boss # 15
BMW GTR (Race version) - Beat Blacklist Boss #1
Cadillac CTS - Beat Blacklist Boss #12
Chevrolet Cobalt SS - Automatic
Corvette C6 - Beat Blacklist Boss #5
Corvette C6.R - Complete 100% of the game
Dodge Viper SRT 10 - Beat Blacklist Boss #6
Fiat Punto - Automatic
Ford GT - Beat Blacklist Boss #4
Lamborguini Gallardo - Beat Blacklist Boss #6
Lamborguini MurciƩlago - Beat Blacklist Boss #4
Lexus IS300 - Automatic
Lotus Elise - Beat Blacklist Boss #8
Mazda RX-7 - Beat Blacklist Boss #9
Mazda RX-8 - Beat Blacklist Boss #12
Mercedes-Benz CLK 500 - Beat Blacklist Boss #8
Mercedes-Benz SL 500 - Beat Blacklist Boss #11
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren - Beat Blacklist Boss #3
Mitsubishi Eclipse - Beat Blacklist Boss #14
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII - Beat Blacklist Boss #11
Mustang GT - Beat Blacklist Boss #12
Pontiac GTO - Beat Blacklist Boss #10
Porsche 911 Carrera S - Beat Blacklist Boss #7
Porsche 911 Turbo S - Beat Blacklist Boss #5
Porsche Carrera GT - Beat Blacklist Boss #3
Porsche Cayman S - Beat Blacklist Boss #10
Renault Clio V6 - Beat Blacklist Boss #13
Subaru Impreza WRX STi - Beat Blacklist Boss #9
Toyota Supra - Beat Blacklist Boss #13
Vauxhall Monaro VXR - Beat Blacklist Boss #10
Volkswagen Golf GTI - Automatic

More Money Selling Cars
When you're going to sell a car, always take it to the tune up shop and sell all the parts first. The selling price of the car is the same either way.

Start Off With $10,000
If you have Need for Speed: Underground 2 installed on your computer and you begin a New Career, you will start off with $10,000.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

100th Post in Clan Bala Blog

This is the 100th post after the Clan Bala blogspot launched on 25 July 2005. Out aim to keep all Clan Bala members as well as all Warcraft 3 players and all visitors to have the most updated news about Clan Bala, games, warcraft 3, Dota, IT news and many many more.

Clan Bala is going to celebrate the 900 days Anniversary on 27 December 2005. I suggest to host some game competitions in-house either dota or even standard games. We also welcome all players to visit us at Clan Bala channel at Lordearon (USWEST) on that day.

With a team of regular, active and friendly players, Clan Bala has reached total of more than few thoudsands ladder game, and the figure is keep increasing. We also have lost count numbers of dota games till todate.

Till date, Clan Bala has about 89 members in Clan and in addition, Clan Bala has its subsidiary Clan, Clan LGDE which is active with Dota games as well.

To all Clan Bala members, keep up the good work and remember to stay good relationship. No only always remember to say a GG, but also to maintain a GG in gaming.

Creative Singapore 3 Days Promotion


Good Buy from Creative Singapore for 3 Days Promotion, Dont miss the boat...

Friday, December 02, 2005

Dota Replays

Thank you for visiting Clan Bala Home Page. if you were referred to here from DotaPortal.com forum and try to find the 2 girls pictures, please refer to the November posts.

If you are looking for the Clan Bala Dota Replay by our Clan pro players, you may find it from our clan forum at http://clanbala.999.org. You will be able to find the maphack tools from there too but you are required to register and post for more than 5 posts before the Tools Forum can appear. (The maphack tool is for you to try it only, please do not use it in any ladder game or dota. We discourage player use hack !!!)

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