Two servers…
TV14 has been sitting quietly doing nothing for the longest time.
Frustrating trying to run any TF2 on it because the server really never takes off.
So I asked Silver if he’d let me run a Left4DoD server on it….I wanted to see if there were issues in Windows because, historically, Windows servers IMHO are much less stable and more likely to crash when any plugins are run on them. Many might disagree but I’ve been running servers for a while!
The server is located in Chicago so it might have a better ping for East coast Americans and Europeans.
So far things are looking good. I had one crash, but that was because I updated the plugin while the game was running, and I was waiting for a lull in play to restart the server. Server crashed on map change as it tried to load the new version of the plugin. Linux won’t do this.
I have also been dumping handles to make sure there is no leaking. As far as I can tell, the i’s are dotted and the t’s crossed and there is no leaking.
Game changes.
Noodgevader wrote a long review and had a lot of good points, so I made a few changes.
- Increased the power of bazookas – they should now be more useful against the Zombies
- Increased the power of grenades
- Changed team hurting to that it didn’t slow players down if they were shot by their own team
- Began coding for ‘rewards’ for domination – although Noodge mentioned extra nades and stuff, I’m thinking a little extra health or a little extra speed would also be good.
Anyway, things are working well, and the servers are staying reasonably filled without my advertising them…
