Over the past few days I’ve worked on the backend of the mod vault and other areas of the site, so we’ve had a bit of a pause in updates. That, and all of our editors decided to take an unannounced vacation.

Anyway, a new TF2 patch is out, and the TF2 blog got updated too with an interesting new section that allows you to submit avatars and custom weapons.

They’ve messed about with the dead ringer, making the fake deaths more convincing, but what’s still baffling is that a spy that feigns his death still gives a head to an eyelander wielding demoman. It seems Valve has some work to do on their priorities, as the gunboat and equalizer taunt combo sadly doesn’t work anymore. It’s quite a nerf to people who enjoyed that bug, and I’m certain I haven’t seen droves of steel-toed soldiers grenading themselves to the top of the scoreboard. Well, all in all there’s a ton of small changes to talk about, so I’m not going to go on on this subject. Rest in peace, scootlegs.

Also, feel free to spread my formspring around.

I’m going to release a new simple mod for the Direct Hit, as the sound was annoying me, and it just didn’t feel right.

The real reason why this post is up, however, is the debut of the new mod vault. There you can find pretty much every mod that I’ve released on the net.

Hello, and welcome to Manta Engie. Allow me to introduce myself: my Steam name’s “D7-spuzman00″- but I’ll be going by spuzman here.

I’m a member of the Division 7 clan in TF2- come to our server, hang out. Most of us aren’t dicks. The IP’s 8.6.3.173:27015 and we have a Source TV running on it as well (sometimes). Hopefully that’ll be it as far as shameless plugs go, because I know you don’t really care.

Anyway, I haven’t got L4D yet, because it costs money. Which I do no have. Hopefully, I’ll get it for Christmas and then I can enjoy it with all you lucky people who have it already.

So, for my first real act as a writer here, I’m going to start a contest for all you peoples out there.

Here’s the subject: Deathcam shots. You know, that thing where it zooms into somebody after they kill you, and a small option pops up: to take a screenshot so you can go back later and remember the humiliation of being killed for the fifth time by some jerk.

Anyhoo, post a picture you’ve taken in the deathcam in a comment on this post, and by the end of the day tomorrow I’ll make another post with my three favorites, and we’ll have voting then. The winner will get, I don’t know, something. Probably just kudos and my gratitude for participating. Maybe EvilDaed will put it in the banner or something, I don’t know. That’s up to him.

There are no limits to how many photos you can submit, but each person will only be allowed one picture into the final three.

Well, to kick the contest off, here’s my entry (which will not actually be up for nomination to prevent a conflict of interest).

I look forward to seeing your entries!

What you’ve all been waiting for. To everyone that’s been hyped on the steam group, I hope I did not dissapoint.

So, the community site is launched. Go post on the forums, play on the server, use the [MnG] tag, and have fun!

Feel free to comment.

Work on the MnG community forums is done. Register an account and get posting! =P