Powerlord

SourceMod is operational on our servers again, but there may be a few quirks. For example, one map earlier triggered the Halloween mod, and everyone was doing the Thriller taunt. I'm also not sure if reserved slots are working correctly, as updates tend to break the extension it uses.

Maplists got totally trashed by the update... I'll be fixing these shortly. SourceMod is also broken at the moment and has been temporarily disabled. The new Medieval map is cp_degrootkeep. Edit: Maplist and Mapcycle files have been rebuilt.

Presenting the Holiday Update! Required updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Team Fortress 2 are now available. The specific changes include: Engine changes (TF2/CS/DOD): - Improved sv_pure: - Materials / Models / Sounds / Animations are more comprehensively protected. - Switched from CRC to MD5 hashes for stronger per-file validation. - Fixed some issues between custom files and server whitelists over level changes. - Added HL2:MP to the list of dedicated server games when starting a server via the Tools tab in the Library Team Fortress 2 - Added Medieval Mode, a game mode where players are restricted to using olde weapons. - 'Your Eternal Reward' changes: - Spies can now change their disguise weapon via 'lastdiguise' while using 'Your Eternal Reward' - Already-disguised 'Your Eternal Reward' Spies are no longer forced to switch to displaying the melee weapon when they make a kill - Spies no longer play speech lines when making a kill with 'Your Eternal Reward' - Sentries no longer track 'Your Eternal Reward' Spies after they backstab someone - 'Natascha' changes: - Spin-up time increased. - Slowdown-on-hit effect is reduced over distance. - Added 'The Medi-eval Medic', 'The Hibernating Bear', and 'The Expert's Ordnance' item sets. - Added new weapons: 'The Claidheamohmor', 'The Back Scratcher', 'The Boston Basher', 'The Fists of Steel', 'The Amputator', 'The Crusader's Crossbow', 'The Ullapool Caber', 'The Loch-n-Load', 'The Buffalo Steak Sandvich', 'The Brass Beast', 'The Warrior's Spirit', 'The Candy Cane', and 'The Jag'. - Added 20 new hats. - Added a prototype item testing map, and associated functionality, for contributors to test their work. Further details in an upcoming blog post. - Spies can now see TargetID's of players and objects regardless of their own disguise status. - Fixed some speech lines continuing after the speaker changes class - The Spy 'Sap Auteur' achievement now increments in cases where the Spy was the assister in the building destruction. - Fixed the arrow burning effect getting stuck on if you changed class in a respawn room with your arrow lit. - Fixed a Flamethrower bug that allowed players to rapidly fake the Pyro's airblast effect. - Throwing the Jarate or Milk now returns you to your previous weapon, instead of your Primary. - Added leaderboard to track duel wins. - Added ability for players to donate money directly to the creators of their favorite community maps. - Increased backpack size by 100 slots. P.S. My problem has been lessened, but still happens... just for not as long. BLU and RED have both been restarted, but chances are their map sets were clobbered. I'll be fixing those shortly, and possibly adding in new maps.

So, cable tech was out at my house today to diagnose my recent connection issues. Problem is, the connection worked fine when he tested it using a tester. And now it's working fine when I play WoW. So, final likely diagnosis? Loose coax cable between the cable modem and line splitter (where cable TV and Internet signals split). Makes me want to just kick myself repeatedly. Then again, I had the same symptoms 6 months ago, and that time it was an issue with the upstream's signal strength.

The Shatter one was a PITA, but I finally got that one. I'm not a big fan of music-driven games... wasn't really impressed with Audiosurf, so I skipped Beat Hazard.

As a reminder, there will likely be a TF2 update either Friday or Saturday. Why Friday or Saturday? Because Saturday is the first day that people can unlock the Hat of Undeniable Wealth and Respect, which currently has a fake model in the game files. Currently, I'm one objective away from the Treasure Hat after buying the only one of the three games I'm interested in from the current objectives. Since there's been one easy objective each day, I'm fairly sure I'll get it Saturday.

I've got 14 now... as long as there's one last easy one in Saturday's set, I'll have the second TF2 hat.

New set of objectives: Smack Talker Post a comment on a friend's Steam Community profile page One-Hit Wonder Build a Wonder in Civilization V (25% off today, $37.49) Road Rage Set a leaderboard score of at least 10,515 for 'Slaughter, City Center' in Zombie Driver (75% off today, $2.50) Butter Me Up Build Me Up Buttercup in Bob came in Pieces (75% off today, $2.50) P.S. Go ahead and post on my profile if you have no one else better to post on. Of course, if I'm not your friend, you need to add me to your friends list (and vice versa) first!

Oh weird, I'm subscribed to this thread, but I'm not getting emails about new messages. Must be related to being split from another thread.

I wasn't aware of that at the time I asked the question. Having said that, it has Steamworks integration. Also having said that, the Steam Server browser has Killing Floor in its games dropdown...

Unfortunately, the only day I'll be home before 6pm EST is Friday... and that's because the cable tech guy is scheduled to come out.

I'm not seeing it in the Steam server browser... or must I access it directly from Killing Floor?

Dunno if it's been mentioned here or not, but Killing Floor is currently on sale on Steam... in part due to its TF2 crossover. However, the sale is only until 4pm PST/7pm EST Thursday.

I started at 1168 in the queue today, so I'm going to say that it's not down to 300. This is my WoW login screen after 30 minutes.

Within the last 10 minutes, Valve decided that the watch demos objective was stupid and everyone now has it: "Turns out this one is kind of hard to track. All eligible Steam accounts are now entered for this objective. Nice work!"

Whoops, I missed this earlier today, but... A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include: - Fixed first person spectators seeing particle effects on the wearables of the person they're spectating. - Added the Pyro's "Foster's Facade" and "Stockbroker's Scarf" items as part of Tripwire's Twisted Christmas event. ----- See http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/xmas/ for full details. Strangely, RED's autoupdater didn't force this update, despite people playing on it right now.

Yes, it is pretty bad. 1-2 hour queues are currently commonplace.

Same here. Not only have I sent sale items as gifts (particularly Orange Box the first time it was on sale, and TF2 during 2009's Halloween sale), but I've also sent full price items as gifts. I'm not sure I'd like Shatter. I'm already on track to get the 15-objective TF2 hat, with 10 objectives completed. P.S. Today is the first day that the second hat can appear in the game on un-modded servers.

Another day, another objective set. The "easy" achievement involves actual money this time, guys. Today's objectives are: It's Better to Give Send a gift to a friend Take One for the Team Make a Sacrifice in Call of Duty: Black Ops Breaker, Breaker Set a leaderboard score of at least 11,200,000 for 'Bonus Mode' in Shatter. Shatter is on sale for $2.50. Zombie Zoo Create a Crass Menagerie in Left 4 Dead 2

Aha. Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha... er... I supposed it's only funny if you quote my post first, then notice that it includes text in the forums' white color tag. Specifically, the text "Also, Arena maps are back on the nominate list."

I recompiled the plugin months ago to fix those. Plus, it relies on a manual list of what's custom and what isn't. Which I've already created. The current list of maps that it will automatically chooses from now are: cp_badlands cp_coldfront cp_dustbowl cp_egypt_final cp_fastlane cp_freight_final1 cp_gorge cp_granary cp_gravelpit cp_junction_final cp_mountainlab cp_steel cp_well cp_yukon_final ctf_2fort ctf_doublecross ctf_sawmill ctf_turbine ctf_well koth_harvest_final koth_nucleus koth_sawmill koth_viaduct pl_badwater pl_goldrush pl_hoodoo_final pl_thundermountain pl_upward plr_hightower plr_pipeline tc_hydro Edit: Whoops, pl_frontier was on that list. Fixed now. We could add new ones. I guess it's all a matter of "do we want to?"

Two new changes: 1. Apparently RED's map timer has been broken since the Halloween event. This has been fixed. 2. Custom maps (and event maps) will no longer appear on the vote list unless explicitly nominated. This is to prevent the rare case where ALL the maps on the list are customs. This will happen on BLU as soon as it leaves cp_pacman_wtf_plus. Also, Arena maps are back on the nominate list.

I've been getting this too, but it's not exclusive to our server... in fact, World of Warcraft also has random freezes and disconnects. I'm planning on bitching to my ISP sometime this weekend, since this exact problem has happened to me before, though.

Yes, but my point is that he doesn't always look for you. Unfortunately, it also means you're using the pop-gun and not the Ambassador, and since Frogg tends to run away using the GRU when he has low health... We were discussing it in this thread before the Treasure Hunt thread even existed. Scroll back a few pages to see it, or just follow this link.

The only one that let you use its demo mentioned the demo directly in the objective text. I may pick up Droplitz... but if this is the Magic game I've heard about, it's extremely buggy. Edit: It is the Magic game I've heard about... Magic: Duels of the Plainswalker.