You can take on the role of either Axis or Allies with a variety of weapons including grenades, mauser sniper rifles, rocket launchers and of course, flame-throwers. You will have to upgrade to the latest Half Life client to connect to any of the new servers. The network protocol has been changed significantly, which means that old clients will not be compatible with the new server. As to what exactly this will result in will be seen on the day of release, but we can hope that it equates to better pings and lower latency. The new and improved phorums are now online.
Some cosmetic changes have to be made, but for the most part the phorum is fully operational.
All of the old posts have been preserved and so have all the logins. There are some pretty good features added so be sure to check them out. I will be working to get them up as soon as possible. Both are Punkbuster required. I am still working on the admin situation and hope to have something going very soon.