***OFFICAL*** Left 4 Dead Thread!

Knubje said:
Also, tbh, I'd rather use the OCUK servers for VS games and let people doing survival find a public place. Often OcUK becomes a good place for leeroy games which require admin really to enable all talk. Also more people get to utilse the service. Public 4 slots for Survival mode won't be hard to find! It's better than:

3 Servers = 24 people playing on VS mode - OCUK players win

3 Servers = 12 people all playing survival over and over again - OCUK lose


Just an idea and I don't know if there is a way to enforce it other than to have a gentlemans agreement or just let people do what they want.

I can assure you this though, when putting together a lobby for VS and see 3 groups of 4 punks whoring servers on survival mode...I won't be happy :D
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I suspect we'll see most of the servers running survival mode for the next couple of days at least ;)

I generally prefer servers with more players on as it isn't really the number of players that put strain on the server, it's the number of infected (which is generally the same in vs and coop mode). It'll be interesting to see how much more (or less) demanding survival mode is.

There is/was a plugin for sourcemod that could force Vs mode only but it most likely won't work immediately after the L4D update is released or at the very least be a little buggy. The only other alternative would be to delete the coop maps, or run the servers without -fork and have seperate installations for Vs servers (with no coop maps installed..deleting them is a manual process I'd have to re-do each time the game/server was updated) and coop/survival servers.

In short, it's quite a lot of extra work to try and force game modes, and it also can lead to additional instabilities/etc on there...which in turn means I have to spend more time working out what the problems are with the server and disabling things/restarting them.

So...sorry to not be more helpful in this case but until I'm less busy at home/work I don't think I want to mess around with things too much :/
 
LinktoInsanity said:
Yeh I know it's set via the lobby. I mean so that if you are playing survival mode then you can use a specific search key. It'll have to be a gentlemen's agreement to not use that search key for versus games in lobby and not use the other search key unless you are on survival.

I agree that having 3 sets of 4 on survival using all three servers would be a bit selfish, but one server only with 4 players would be fine by me.
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Ah yeah..I get you. It could possibly be done I guess. I'd personally kind of prefer to keep the search keys all the same where possible though :S Will think about it.
 
Aekeron, can you post the IP addresses of your servers here (and the other guys ones if you have them handy)

I want to add them into a file of mine for favourites and testing at a later time.

To be honest, the survival mode issue with servers is only going to be a problem for a little while (I hope). With 4 servers now in play as long as they all run fine at "full capacity" I think there is always room for a game somewhere :)

I'll try and get some of the guys using the new server or the new test tongiht if you want ,just to test performance. Although I would assume we would need all servers full AND the new ones to be running to get an exact idea, or are they hosted on different hardware?
 
Knubje said:
Aekeron, can you post the IP addresses of your servers here (and the other guys ones if you have them handy)

I want to add them into a file of mine for favourites and testing at a later time.

To be honest, the survival mode issue with servers is only going to be a problem for a little while (I hope). With 4 servers now in play as long as they all run fine at "full capacity" I think there is always room for a game somewhere :)

I'll try and get some of the guys using the new server or the new test tongiht if you want ,just to test performance. Although I would assume we would need all servers full AND the new ones to be running to get an exact idea, or are they hosted on different hardware?
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OcUK 1 - 3 are hosted on the same box and I know that they can definitely deal with any load you care to put on them :)

OcUK 7 is on a different box and is untested - it's this one that I need testing primarily. Also to note: This one may not stay up permenantly...I'm hoping it will but it'll depend on test results (both in L4D and the other stuff running on there).

I'll get the IP of OcUK 7 to you later tonight. In the meantime, IPs for 1-3 are:

217.168.150.203:27016
217.168.150.203:27017
217.168.150.203:27018
 
Aekeron said:
OcUK 1 - 3 are hosted on the same box and I know that they can definitely deal with any load you care to put on them :)

OcUK 7 is on a different box and is untested - it's this one that I need testing primarily. Also to note: This one may not stay up permenantly...I'm hoping it will but it'll depend on test results (both in L4D and the other stuff running on there).

I'll get the IP of OcUK 7 to you later tonight. In the meantime, IPs for 1-3 are:

217.168.150.203:27016
217.168.150.203:27017
217.168.150.203:27018
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Sounds good, can you set the 7 server (when available) to search key ocuk2 or something just while we test it?

If so then I can get a group of lads tonight and test it if you want!
 
Repta said:
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Makes me realise what a disadvantage I'm at playing at recommended brightness.
 
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