Time for a little experiment.

We’ve set up an easy to use Mumble shoutcast server.  Basically you connect your 1.2 Mumble client to fakkelbrigade.eu, port 64760. Right click the root (FB) channel and add a temporary channel.  Anyone joining your temporary channel is muted and can only listen, but you can unmute co-casters and yourself.

The main feature this new version has is built-in recording. If you don’t need the recording stuff, you can just stay on the 1.2 stable version, there’s no reason to upgrade. If you want to record your or your team’s ramblings, get the 1.2.3 developer snapshot from the Mumble website.

So we’ve changed the permissions on the shoutcast Mumble a bit. You can now create your own temporary channel where you can talk privately with your friends. When you link the temporary channel to the shoutcast, you will be able to hear Byte rambling on about ‘lack of experience’, but Byte won’t be able to hear you laugh about it with your clanmates.

Here are some screenshots that show you how to do this:

For some reason Exfane joined a shoutcast hosted on our Mumble to provide his *cough* EXPERT *cough* commentary, helped by his superiour gamesense.

Being a masochist, I decided to record the shoutcast so you can get the full enjoyment of watching two great matches (semi-final and final), while simultaneously listening to Mr. Rage interrupting the excellent Arx.

Bronze final STV + shoutcast recording:

TCM getting robbed (crashing tournament PC’s for TCM) of third place by Power Gaming

Final STV + shoutcast recording:

Illegal using taunts while fighting for mid against Dignitas

I’ve also reset the 1.2 database for a clean start. From now on we’ll be hosting both Mumble 1.1.x, for anyone wishing to stay on the old stuff, and the new Mumble 1.2 for the latest and greatest.

Mumble 1.2 server details:
IP/host: fakkelbrigade.eu
port: 64738
pass: same as the old mumble

For now, everyone is able to create temporary channels (which disappear after the last player leaves the channel). If you want a permanent channel on our 1.2 server, contact us in #fakkelbrigade on Quakenet or place a comment on this newspost. Please make sure you’ve registered yourself on our Mumble and provide us with your username (so we can make you owner of the channel).

This new version is a pretty drastic overhaul of Mumble and introduces some nice new features, for example:

• Easier user access management.
• Lower latency / higher quality thanks to a new/better voice codec
• Whisper function
• Channels with passwords
• Temporary channels
• Easy upload of custom user pictures for on the overlay
• Friends list

We like these new features and encourage you to experiment with them on the FB beta Mumble.

host: fakkelbrigade.eu

port: 64738

password: mumble12

Feel free to join this Mumble and test it out. If you’re already a user on the ‘normal’ FB Mumble, you can simply login using your account and join your channel.

In the interview an intoxicated Exfane spoils some FB state secrets, for which he will be executed.

As you may have noticed, we switched servers this week. We’re now on a shiny new quad-core machine. This means we can run more servers, STV relays and (private) Mumble servers.

The ‘old’ server is with us till the end of the year, so we have an even bigger shitload of bandwidth and server capacity than usual. If you’re in need for a server, ask around in #fakkelbrigade on Quakenet or contact us on Steam.