Faded!

draktok

Search on server browser, mods disabled and the like, join our faded server for some fun times tonight! It's a listen server and it's temp, I also have to rehost the server when map changes cause the mod breaks. But it's a fun 10round or so before map swap, where server is down for roughly a minute. Search the hidden or faded and you should find it!

ScardyBob

I've been regularly running The Faded on Team156.com | Seattle #1. Ironically, I haven't actually been able to play a proper match on it yet.

draktok

Hey scardy! We had multiple 13 man games (the most I can host on my personal pc) going last night, played a total (yes i counted) of 138 matches over about 6 hours!

You totally missed out! Also, we tried to play on the faded hosted server but it claims mod out of date, so I can't join it. I'm putting up a server again tonight named The hidden (faded) that will be up for about 4 hours tonight. You're welcome to join!

draktok

Hello again scardy, Some friends and I just tried to join your server and it appears to be working again. When we tried last night, we all got the mod out of date error message. I can join, but I was curious if the map rotates? We like the normal ns2 maps a lot because there is a lot of silly hiding places. This map is neat, but it's obviously a WIP and isn't very large, so it isn't as exciting. The map is still cool, but I don't know if we'll play on it to much if it doesn't rotate.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Scardy it appears that your server doesn't always distribute the mod. When I had people joining my game last night, they were downloading the mod as they joined. Your server seems to say mod missing and kick them out until they sub to the mod, which may be why you can't get a server going. That and it's hosted in seattle, which is 100~ ish+ latency to people in east coast
usually.

DOUBLE EDIT: We can't seem to authenticate at random if you crash. Meaning, if you crash, we can't rejoin. \

Triple edit: We currently have 14 people on your server! Join up, yo!

draktok

Fun game - but the server doesn't change maps which grows boring quick. I'm leaving the server for now but thanks for hosting!

KwisatzHaderach

The Faded mod provided some hilarious moments. Last week I played it with around 16 ppl on my server. It felt like marines were swarming the Fade - nice reversal of the usual Aliens-Marine theme. Some good laughs how one guy with a flamethrower freaks out and TK half of the team.

There's just a few rules we set to make the experience more balanced: no mines and no welding. As a Fade you can't really see mines as the maps are too dark and welding just nihilates acid rocket and overall leads to a marine win every time.
With that small set of rules we get very close rounds and almost even win/loose ratios (slightly favoring the Fade I think).

Also, the best map we have agreed to play on is co_docking. It has good variety and is just big enough without making it a chore to find each other (which has become easier since the Fade can see marines on the map at all times).

Overall, a great mod with great atmosphere! Everyone should try it!

ScardyBob

draktok wrote: »

Hello again scardy, Some friends and I just tried to join your server and it appears to be working again. When we tried last night, we all got the mod out of date error message. I can join, but I was curious if the map rotates? We like the normal ns2 maps a lot because there is a lot of silly hiding places. This map is neat, but it's obviously a WIP and isn't very large, so it isn't as exciting. The map is still cool, but I don't know if we'll play on it to much if it doesn't rotate.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Scardy it appears that your server doesn't always distribute the mod. When I had people joining my game last night, they were downloading the mod as they joined. Your server seems to say mod missing and kick them out until they sub to the mod, which may be why you can't get a server going. That and it's hosted in seattle, which is 100~ ish+ latency to people in east coast
usually.

DOUBLE EDIT: We can't seem to authenticate at random if you crash. Meaning, if you crash, we can't rejoin. \

Triple edit: We currently have 14 people on your server! Join up, yo!

Hmm, I'll look into these issues. Also, the crash authentication issue is a steam problem (i.e. when you crash, steam still thinks you are in the game, not letting you rejoin). Just wait 30s for the timeout to occur and you should be able to rejoin.

I'll also get some other maps into the rotation. Any suggestions which ones are good for the mod?

draktok

I personally enjoyed some of the normal ns2 maps, because they offered a lot of silly hiding places - and I don't think the maps are too big when the fade can see you on the map anyways.

I don't really play any combat maps so I can't comment which ones would be good rotations. I really enjoy veil, summit, and cave though. They have some hilarious spots that either get everyone killed or own the fade, nice double edge sword spots. Kind of up to you, though!

CyberKun

I would really recommend some type of AoE ranged splash attack, even if it is horribly weak like 10 normal damage. On larger servers, even with the increased health, you will burn a fair amount of health to take out a half way decent clump.

ScardyBob

Alright, just revamped the map rotation. The server now runs through the following maps on a 30min rotation:
- co_rockdown
- ns2_co_faceoff
- ns2_co_Core
- ns2_assault
- ns2_summitcombat
- ns2_co_nest
- ns2_co_veilcombat
- ns2_co_ulysses
- ns2_co_tram_hub
- ns2_co_docking_station

draktok

Good to hear! I'm gaming (and drinking) a bit tonight, if you're online feel free to join, I should be able to get another 10-20 people online again. All it takes is 5 dedicated friends, the rest follow ;P