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June 24th, 2010, 02:13 PM
Hey guys,
this is the offical news from the esl about aequitas 2:
After many months of development, we can today officially announce that Aequitas 2 is coming. We will not make the precise release date public, in order to preserve the element of surprise. The aim of this news is simply to announce that Aequitas 2 will definitely come in the next 2-8 weeks. Aequitas 2 at the moment is in an internal beta testing phase to iron out the remaining bugs. There will be no public beta phase, which means that one day Aequitas 1 will be deactivated and Aequitas 2 will be released for all to begin playing with.
Aequitas 2 is fully integrated into ESL Wire, that there will no longer be a separate standalone Aequitas version any longer. By doing this we save time and resources that are otherwise spent on programming and caring for authentication, matchmedia upload, user interface and support for two separate programs. We will be able to spend much more time on the actual detection of cheats. All ESL users simply need to install and use ESL Wire in the future.
http://gfx.esl.eu/media/news/wire/ae2_news_wireteaser.jpgNo one should be worried about losing any performance. Aequitas 2 has been programmed completely from scratch from the first line of code and integrated into the Wire structure. While some parts of Aequitas 1 were programmed in Visual Basic, the new version has been designed completely in C/C++. Functions that you do not want to use while playing, will not cause any performance problems. Once you start the game, Wire recognizes it and deactivates all programme features that are no longer needed - the CPU and network will never be troubled. The in-game overlay will not cost any performance while it is deactivated.
Wire and Aequitas 2 will enable you to start the game automatically with only one click on the website directly taking you to the game server. If required Aequitas will be started for you and after the match all your demos, screenshots and Aequitas data will be uploaded for you.
At this time we would like to ask you for a big favour: If you would like to support us with the release of Aequitas 2, it would be very helpful if you would delete the old standalone Aequitas 1 now and install ESL Wire (http://www.esl.eu/wire/). This way you can already try and get used to the new ESL Wire features and you will immediately get Aequitas 2 support via the auto update, as soon as we secretly release Aequitas 2. It will helpful for us if some users install ESL Wire now and some users don't, so that not too many people be downloading and updating to Aequitas 2 at the same time.
With announcing Aequitas 2 we would also like to give a little forecast for what is coming next. While working on Aequitas 2 we have already begun developing the next generation of anti cheat which will come much faster than the time it took for Aequitas 2 to follow Aequitas 1. Aequitas 2 is a first step, but more steps will be climbed in the next few months.
Anti cheat is one of our highest priority topics. Unfortunately we were not able to show how hard we were working on this in public, but we have definitely not been lazy. This year will bring for all of us - players and league operators - a huge change. Stay tuned!
this is the offical news from the esl about aequitas 2:
After many months of development, we can today officially announce that Aequitas 2 is coming. We will not make the precise release date public, in order to preserve the element of surprise. The aim of this news is simply to announce that Aequitas 2 will definitely come in the next 2-8 weeks. Aequitas 2 at the moment is in an internal beta testing phase to iron out the remaining bugs. There will be no public beta phase, which means that one day Aequitas 1 will be deactivated and Aequitas 2 will be released for all to begin playing with.
Aequitas 2 is fully integrated into ESL Wire, that there will no longer be a separate standalone Aequitas version any longer. By doing this we save time and resources that are otherwise spent on programming and caring for authentication, matchmedia upload, user interface and support for two separate programs. We will be able to spend much more time on the actual detection of cheats. All ESL users simply need to install and use ESL Wire in the future.
http://gfx.esl.eu/media/news/wire/ae2_news_wireteaser.jpgNo one should be worried about losing any performance. Aequitas 2 has been programmed completely from scratch from the first line of code and integrated into the Wire structure. While some parts of Aequitas 1 were programmed in Visual Basic, the new version has been designed completely in C/C++. Functions that you do not want to use while playing, will not cause any performance problems. Once you start the game, Wire recognizes it and deactivates all programme features that are no longer needed - the CPU and network will never be troubled. The in-game overlay will not cost any performance while it is deactivated.
Wire and Aequitas 2 will enable you to start the game automatically with only one click on the website directly taking you to the game server. If required Aequitas will be started for you and after the match all your demos, screenshots and Aequitas data will be uploaded for you.
At this time we would like to ask you for a big favour: If you would like to support us with the release of Aequitas 2, it would be very helpful if you would delete the old standalone Aequitas 1 now and install ESL Wire (http://www.esl.eu/wire/). This way you can already try and get used to the new ESL Wire features and you will immediately get Aequitas 2 support via the auto update, as soon as we secretly release Aequitas 2. It will helpful for us if some users install ESL Wire now and some users don't, so that not too many people be downloading and updating to Aequitas 2 at the same time.
With announcing Aequitas 2 we would also like to give a little forecast for what is coming next. While working on Aequitas 2 we have already begun developing the next generation of anti cheat which will come much faster than the time it took for Aequitas 2 to follow Aequitas 1. Aequitas 2 is a first step, but more steps will be climbed in the next few months.
Anti cheat is one of our highest priority topics. Unfortunately we were not able to show how hard we were working on this in public, but we have definitely not been lazy. This year will bring for all of us - players and league operators - a huge change. Stay tuned!