On This Day... |
 1945German Stuka dive-bombers (Junkers Ju 87, known in German as Sturzkampfflugzeug, which translates literally to "plunging combat aircraft"), with a fighter escort, conduct a raid on Malta. A total of 13 German planes are shot down while the British lose 2 fighters. British authorities decide to withdraw all bombers and flying boats from Malta as a result of the raid. [Two Stukas in action] 1945The British 2nd Army and Canadian 1st Army mount a carefully prepared Operation Plunder, to cross the Rhine River in the area from Emmerich to just south of Wesel. There is massive artillery and air support. Two parachute divisions are also to be dropped to aid the crossing. The operation begins at 2100 hours and continues in the moonlight. Meanwhile, US 1st Army and the elements of US 3rd Army are extending their bridgeheads over the Rhine. Within a week of the start of Plunder, the Allies had taken 30,000 prisoners of war north of the Ruhr. [Crossing the Rhine under fire] |
Sorry about that !!! |
 I had not realized that the disk quota for the site (not that it is used much) had been exceeded so no one could post, delete or update anything other than the shoutbox.You'd be surprised that the hosting company NEVER notified me (my job really) Or that the 25,000+ spam emails for Rolex's, Viagra and other things that Drake was pushing via email that also included the email delivery failures from Soonie and Drake for the Bucket Revival (no wonder nobody was there) was jamming up the Site's inbox.. but I must say it stopped getting emails in 2013 !!!! All because the Error_log file was at 8.85GB My bad... So how is everyone... everyone that can read this of course.. |
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What are you doing now?????? |
 So a lot of people have moved on to other things since the Buckets server going offline. Some even still play online together and have kept the gaming friendships going.I tried BF4 and lasted all of 45 minutes of online game play before I uninstalled in disgust.. Sorry Drake and Soonie but I just could not play that drivel... World of Tanks and War Thunder have held my interest for some time but the gaming became stale and boring and the usual crowd of griefers and punks just ruin the game with running the mouths and being on Roads lawn... So I find myself wondering what is new, what is going to be the next biggest thing... for me there are two possible bright spots coming and I backed them through kickstarter... they have online elements and multiplayer but they are both Space sims... games I would lock myself away and spend hours playing in my youth.... Elite Dangerous (coming this year hopefully) link Star Citizen (2015 to 2016 if it ever gets made) link So what games are coming that are exciting you? |
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ET Server Closing |
 The server will be closing in the next few days, and I wanted to thank everyone who stopped by the server. While I can't say that there wasn't some disappointment with the turnout, the fact that we did have Bucketeers show up was appreciated by the people that put this together.It was great to see some old names and to play a game that we all enjoyed. The server may be shutting down, but the community isn't dead, so please don't hesitate to post on the messageboard and to join the Chicken Bucket Steam Group to catch up with and see what games everyone else has been playing. Thanks! 
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The Chicken Bucket Enemy Territory Server Revival! |
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NOW OPEN!!! The Chicken Bucket ET Server Revival! 208.167.243.65:27960 LIMITED TIME ONLY! Please join us starting on Saturday, January 26th on the new Chicken Bucket Enemy Territory server! If you do not have ET installed, please check this forum post for instructions. The server will be running the ETPub mod. The server will be running the following maps, and you can save the links below to add the pk3 files to your etmain folder ahead of time. 1. Siwa Oasis 2. Chateau Voilegarde 3. ET Ice 4. MLB Temple 5. Goldrush 6. Pier 16 7. Caen 2 8. Resurrection 9. Fuel Dump 10. Chicken Bucket ________________________________________________________________________  NEW INFORMATION -> We are prepping new map rotations. Below is a collection of 4 zip files containing all of the maps we have put into the mix. Note Pack1 represents the maps that have been on the server for the last few weeks (for the most part). IMPORTANT: These are really .ZIP files. Either "save as" on the download to .zip, or rename after you download. Open it up and copy all of the contents (mapname.pk3 files) to your "etmain" folder. Questions, shoot Drake or Soony a Bucket PM. 1. Pack1 2. Pack2 3. Pack3 4. Pack4 ________________________________________________________________________ Remember, this is for a limited time only, so please stop by and have some fun!  |
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RTCW and W:ET source code GPL'd |
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As part of their QuakeCon announcements, iD has released the source code for RTCW and W:ET under the GPL. Full news story here. |
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Steam Group |
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Come join us on Steam!  |
