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Wow the light house level is really difficult to defend, only lasted just over 5 minutes. Has anyone found a good place stand? Seems like every wall collapses.
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I played last night for 3-4 times with some lads from here. We got to 6m06s on lighthouse, hard as nails.
Basically don't go up top. We managed that attempt by mostly staying in the main house area, where the kitchen/living room is. You are right though, it's a bloody difficult map and probably one of the few that is going to present a real "challenge". BY this I mean we have seen people beating 12/14/16-24!!! minutes on some of the events from other maps.
I think LightHouse or "Last Stand" is going to be the defining map on how long you can survive as a team, as it has been designed soley for the purpose of making it rock hard for survival mode!
On the whole, just from my short experience; it seems that L4D has had a new injection of life into it. The survival maps will keep everyone busy for quite some time and even then we have the countless DeadAir and DeathToll VS games to play in future!
I think I'm gonna wonder around tonight and see what has changed from the coop version!
See you all on tonight no doubt
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bit peeved that DT versus has all those invisible walls. makes pouncing a nightmare. id have rather they made it so you cant get on the corners of the high roofs at all. now you go for a good distance jump and get smacked in the face by invisiwall!
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I suck at survival mode 
It's so difficult. Our team lasted just over 5 minutes on the lighthouse level on the third attempt, failed to reach that in subsequent games. Still, I got a bronze medal out of it. I also tried Death Toll vs last night. The server was terribly laggy (non-ocuk), but the campaign was quite fun from what I played on it.
It's so difficult. Our team lasted just over 5 minutes on the lighthouse level on the third attempt, failed to reach that in subsequent games. Still, I got a bronze medal out of it. I also tried Death Toll vs last night. The server was terribly laggy (non-ocuk), but the campaign was quite fun from what I played on it.
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downloading at 45kb/s
It's funny how we now consider 45kb/s to be slow by todays standards
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I can help you set it up. I wouldn't recommend setting it up on a home connection though - a proper dedi box in a datacentre is the best choice really.
You need a decent processor and a reasonable amount of ram - the oldest example I've tested on is a P4 2.8ghz/1GB ram and that managed two servers *just about*. You want something more beefy than that really.
Any questions, just fire away.
Cheers dude, will send a pm with some question later on.
Edit: maybe not, will have a think and post some more questions
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I was thinking about hiring a server box, which i'd use for an ocuk server in left 4 dead and probably a css server aswell. Only thing is, how much it would cost to do it. If it's too much I won't bother. Any good links? And tips?
Dave, I am tinkering about with an 8 slot dedicated I have *aquired* through a friend.
Got FTP access and builtin website script options, etc. It's actually rented through INX gaming, seems decent enough.
Wondering if I can ninja the config files and any other useful things I can upload (ocuk banner?) to this server. Don't think the friend reads OcUK too much and wants to keep it for his own use, but OcUK lobby games are welcome there if we are in the game kinda thing.
Can steal it from Steam or whatever is possible/easiest!?
Got FTP access and builtin website script options, etc. It's actually rented through INX gaming, seems decent enough.
Wondering if I can ninja the config files and any other useful things I can upload (ocuk banner?) to this server. Don't think the friend reads OcUK too much and wants to keep it for his own use, but OcUK lobby games are welcome there if we are in the game kinda thing.
Can steal it from Steam or whatever is possible/easiest!?
More than you could afford
Baring in mind hardware of server (unless you rent that from DC too, if possible), maintenence, rental of spot in DC, security, licensing, etc. Dave and UV live in Manchester close to the DC so no problem for them to go up and sort stuff manually, IIRC.Also, for two game servers it would probably be a huge waste of money/bandwidth/time/effort.
You're probably better with going for something similar to what I have mentioned above, upto you though
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Sounds good. I'll chat to you on Steam about it when I'm not in work
For now though, look into installing sourcemod on there. The config I uses makes use of 'screen' in linux so make sure you have that too (it's very likely that it's already installed - but worth checking). I'm assuming a linux box here, but I guess it could be windows - let me know either way. I've more recent experience of linux dedi stuff but up until a year or two ago I used windows mostly so I can still help with that.More than you could afford
Also, for two game servers it would probably be a huge waste of money/bandwidth/time/effort.
You're probably better with going for something similar to what I have mentioned above, upto you though
The cheapest dedi rental I found was about £40/month for a server with the 2.8ghz P4 and 1GB of ram (This was via Idaq, who I now use for my colo server....and also making use of an offer they advertised on ebay). This was running linux too, so you'll need to become familiar with it. I found moving over to linux daunting at first but it's quite simple once you get a handle on it.
This would probably run a L4D server and CSS fine, and would run quite a few websites on top of that without any issues. One way to offset the costs slightly is to get anyone you know with web hosting requirements to start paying you for use of your server. You'll have to be 'on call' to sort out problems for them so it's not worth it unless you find the costs of the server too much to swallow.
Alternatively, there's colocation. Quite a bit cheaper per month but you have to provide your own hardware. Shopping and building it yourself around can net you a decent spec server for about £350...
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Yeh, been looking around, they are a bit expensive for me :/
But I am currently looking at the INX ones, about £8 a month isn't too bad.
But I am currently looking at the INX ones, about £8 a month isn't too bad.
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It's not too bad for Left4Dead nope. I think that sort of pricing is a bit expensive for things like CSS/etc, which put little strain on a server...but for Left4Dead it's about right - it really pushes the servers quite hideously. I could probably run about 10 or more CSS servers comfortably for the same processor/mem usage as the 2/3 Left4Dead servers.
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Just looking at configurations. What tick rate do you run your servers at and what do you consider acceptable? 100 tick rates are a bit above what I want to spend, but I'd happily spend on a 75 over the 66 if it is that much better...
Also, would you be able to send me the config files and give me a hand setting it up? If I do it, it will probably be next week...
Sounds good. I'll chat to you on Steam about it when I'm not in work
Awesome mate, I'm on all day all be it at work too so if you get some time just send us a message. Would love to steal the config's and any other useful files from OCUK ones if possible. (Need to design custom banner, etc)
Not sure of the O/S. But as I said I have FTP access and a webpage interface where I can edit the MOTD.CFG and Server.CFG and setup mods, etc.
Seen the sourcemod option to install via the web interface, doing that now.
Don't know if it's worth just getting a copy of the server configs and banner and just overwriting our current one and modifying it slightly for his needs?
Link: As Aekeron is busy if he sends me the stuff soon I will help you with your INX server as that is what I'm working with now anyway
I would imaigne 66 tick is fine.
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