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Custom campaign server?

Discussion in '[L4D2] Points Reloaded' started by BadLuckBrian, Feb 18, 2014.

  1. BadLuckBrian

    BadLuckBrian Guest

    I knew that a custom campaign PR server existed last year but was removed however. It there any chance for this server to be reintroduced? No offence but I am getting bored with the official ones. and PR is the only thing getting me interested in this game after almsot 200 hours played
     
    BadLuckBrian, Feb 18, 2014
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  2. Adward

    Adward Game Server Moderator Staff Member

    as far as I know custom campaigns were removed due to crashes caused by conflicts in the way they're made, and the way the sourcemod/metamod plugins work for MG.

    Custom campaigns can often have a lot of custom panic events/triggers/things which can play havoc on a heavily modified server such as the PR MG servers.

    That and they were never really anywhere near as active as the regular PR-Coop servers.

    I'd like them back as well, but perhaps an admin can clarify?
     
    Adward, Feb 18, 2014
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  3. marvel

    marvel Head Administrator Staff Member

    Pretty much what you said, custom campaigns require a lot, and I mean A LOT of testing to see if they work with our mods. A lot of them don't and cause crashes.

    The other part is the downloading, steam workshop sucks so that's no option. Mirroring vpk's here requires a lot of effort/maintenance.

    In other words, it's not worth it, it requires a lot of effort and on-going maintenance while only a few people are playing.
     
    marvel, Feb 18, 2014
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  4. BadLuckBrian

    BadLuckBrian Guest

    well , i guess coming from Admin who is doing the work,its understandable. Thanks for replying!
     
    BadLuckBrian, Feb 19, 2014
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  5. Penguin

    Penguin Guest

    On the subject if this... Out if curiosity if something did happen where you was able to easily maintain the server and put less time into it would it be something that would be considered to return?

    I say IF this where to happen of course


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    Penguin, Feb 19, 2014
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  6. Adward

    Adward Game Server Moderator Staff Member

    It's one hell of a big "if", on account of it being made of lots of not-so little "if"s that add together to not make it worth it.

    If downloading maps was easier, if they didn't conflict with MG mods, if the userbase for the servers was higher (linked to the downloading maps point, but I digress).

    pretty big ifs going on. love custom maps, but they were far more unstable then the regular coop maps.
     
    Adward, Feb 19, 2014
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  7. Penguin

    Penguin Guest

    Whilst they where around i will say that they where a lot of fun, would be interesting to see a versus custom campaign server though ;D

    just got to see if we can solve all the     IF's in the problem
     
    Penguin, Feb 20, 2014
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  8. ughgh

    ughgh Junior Member

    I thought the custom maps CrazyRabbit made were really good - maybe we could even get them to run on versus?
     
    ughgh, Feb 21, 2014
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  9. Adward

    Adward Game Server Moderator Staff Member

    Hell, I remember seeing a thread about versus survival on Helm's Deep. Now that would be crazy, or just versus survival in general.
     
    Adward, Feb 21, 2014
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  10. Penguin

    Penguin Guest

    This would be insanely fun without a doubt lol


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    Penguin, Feb 21, 2014
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  11. Tricky

    Tricky MG Donor

    Even without rewards, this would be popular :P
     
    Tricky, Feb 21, 2014
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  12. erik

    erik MG Donor

    The problem with this is that it's only one map... we pathed HD out once and goofed around in a PR-VS game mode. Everyone got bored within 60 minutes.
     
    erik, Feb 26, 2014
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