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News Update (july 20, 2010)

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by marvel, Jul 20, 2010.

  1. marvel

    marvel Head Administrator Staff Member

    L4D1 has two (much requested) features added:

    Character select menu is active. It will auto popup at the start of each map. If it doesn't use !csm anyitme in-game to change your character.

    AFK Manager has been adjusted. After 45 sec. you will be moved to spectator, then after 240 seconds total AFK time you'll get kicked. This means if you get moved to spec by the AFK manager you already have been 45 sec AFK and you will be kicked after 195 secs :) If u use the !away or !afk command you need to be back in 4 minutes before getting kicked. That should be sufficient for everybody to take a leak.

    Next, Berserker Mode. It has been updated a LOT the last few days by the dev honorcode23. For update news see his topic on Aliied Modders (http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=127518). All credits go to him for writing this plugin and adding new features!

    We had some imbalance problems though with the plugin so the config has been adjusted to make it much harder for the survivors (since it was way too easy). It should be ok now, but still if you see anything that could use a change feel free to post it here. If you don't say it we can't adjust it.

    So, the server will be left running now for about 1 week and no changes are being made anymore that time (except minor ones to balance the game). After that we decide if we move it out of BETA state as it's in now and make it a permanent addition to the MG network. As far as I can tell it's the only 20vs berserker mode server out there so make sure to try it and leave your comments here or on our forum!!


    Then there is survival versus. It looks like it CAN work with the right adjustements so the next thing to do is more testing with it and then put a BETA version public and see what will happen. Several people are working on fixes for it but it all depends if Valve will make this game-mode permanent so if there's a vote on it later vote YES!


    Last but not least is the USA server. MG USA had some difficulties uploading stats to the database server across the ocean so it hasn't been logging for about 3 days. Seemed like one nasty typo which I looked over all the time was the problem (took me 2-3 hours to find it) so since yesterday it's finally working again.

    We still need to make a permanent decision if it will be extended or not but it's running stable lately so we have high hopes on it.

    Well, that's about it for today! Be sure to check back here occasionally for new updates and feel free to leave your comments!