Ok, so this isn't the return you might all be waiting for (well, some of you are). But with the lapse of the www.hidden-stats.co.uk domain name and issues with renewing it, we've brought the stats into the fold and they can now be found at stats.hidden-source.com.

This would have happened sooner, but we had some hosting / setup issues that took a while to track down and resolve - I won't be pointing any fingers!

For players, this just means updating a bookmark - for server admins who want to rejoin the stats program, you'll need to modify your valve.rc file (within the hidden/cfg directory) and alter the "logaddress_add" value to read "logaddress_add stats.hidden-source.com:6838".

If you are setting up your server to send stats for the first time, than you will also need to enable logging with "log 1" on the line above "logaddress_add". Head over here for some more details.

You might be in for a surprise?

Ok, so that didn't entirely work, but it does sort of cover the topic of the post - our forum buddy Deathtoll_David has been busy working on BumperCars 2 and he's been poking other mod teams to see if he can't include a suitably themed bumper car. When we saw the quality of his previous tributes, we could do nothing but jump to say yes!

Without further ado, I provide you with suitably sexy imagery of the IRIS Bumper Car, with a bumper that's guaranteed to gut you like a fish!

We've tracked down the issue causing the missing sonic alarm sound effect (we're not entirely sure why it happened, but there you go) - and are releasing a small download (that's server side only) to fix it up.

You should also grab this file if your server has issues with IRIS with missing heads.

B4b server fix (5 MB)