The new [ODR66] Left For Dead 2 Community server is up and running, and while the dedicated server support isn’t perfect, it is still much improved over the original.
The easiest way to join is to be part of the [ODR66] Community Group, at which point it will show up normally in your game, but this method only allows you to join, and vote for new maps in-game.
If you want to connect from a lobby and set your own rules, use the following method:
1.) Enter the settings menu and make sure you enable “Developers Console”
2.) Enter the Console by pressing the ~ key (its the key directly to the left of the “1” key.
3.) Type sv_search_key odr66 (then press enter)
4.) Now create a lobby and launch!
If nobody is online to play with when you launch don’t worry about it, once in-game I find it fills fast! As long as at least one person is in it, it usually never takes more than a few min.
Let me know if you have any issues using it, and hope more people will make use of it this time!
Enjoy!
Check out some new footage of the new Left For Dead 2 campaign called “Hard Rain”
This game really looks to be coming together!
A ship load of new footage has washed ashore L4DMODS featuring the recently announced Hard Rain campaign that will feature in Left4Dead 2. The videos contain first time footage of the chainsaw, bile bombs and even a glimpse of the walking witch. The new weather effects are also looking great, we were very impressed over here at L4DMODS and we cant wait to battle it through terenchal rain and thunderstorms. Enjoy the footage!
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A big thanks goes out to Oracular Egging, AKA Carrion Luggage for finding this awesome clip.
Enjoy!
As many of you already know, we have had a second server for quite some time now, but it lacked that ODR66 touch. It was generally used for matches, or for custom game nights, but the map rotation was generally stock, and it didn’t get used much.
Since it’s launch the following changes have been made.
1.) The server is fully unlocked
2.) Player Limit has been raised form 18 to 24
3.) HLStatsX has been linked between server #1 and server #2
4.) Admin priviliages are cloned between the two servers.
5.) The map rotation is currently dustbowl, goldrush, and badwater.
The server is now a 100% clone of #1, all except for the map rotation which is listed above, and we are eager to get the community using it as an alternative.
I would ask that all members of the ODR66 team try to use the secondary server when #1 has a steady population going, and lets work on growing this community via server #2!
Click the banner to view the server’s stats, or click the link below to see all our servers:
http://www.odr66.com/our-game-servers/
Now is your chance to have a say on which maps you’d like to play on the ODR66 Servers.
We are a community driven team, and look forward to seeing which of the new maps you love, and which once should be kicked to the curb.
Surf on over to the forums to cast your vote!
August 17, 2009, 3:56 pm – Valve – Product Update
Updates to Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Day of Defeat: Source
Team Fortress 2
- Updated PL_Hoodoo. Changes from community mapmaker Tim Johnson:
- "Added a balcony at 2-1 that I’ve rotated and cleaned up so it’s a much better point, it attracts less sentry spam but is still holdable. 2-2 has a bit more breathing room and the one way route between BLU/RED spawn in stage 3 has gone and in its place some stairs up to the second level accessible from BLU’s side."
- Added "tf_ctf_bonus_time" ConVar to set the CritBoost bonus time for capturing the intelligence (0 to disable it)
- Added "tf_arena_first_blood" ConVar to toggle the first blood feature in Arena mode (0 to disable it)
- Added missing snowpuff particles for DX8 players
- Fixed rocket jumping
- Fixed sticky bomb attachment to props. They will now only ignore the saws in sawmill
- Fixed Scouts going into reference pose in double jumps
- Fixed the Ubersaw not displaying team colors
- Fixed Spies disguised as RED Scouts not cloaking properly
- Removed two more text messages for TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND CTF game mode
After a pretty hectic 24 hours, things appear to be settling down, and life is largely returning returning to normal at Server #1. The newest SourceMod patch solved the crashing issue, and admin functions should be returning to normal.
I would also like to give a big shout out to JadeButterfly who has been invaluable helping to teach me the inner workings of the server, and has been instrumental in helping me to find, and troubleshoot recent issues.
Next time you see Jade on the server, make sure you thank him not just for being the founding visionary of ODR66, but for his ongoing contributions to the team.
No ETA yet for the return of Server #2, but we will keep you posted on this blog when service is restored.
(Image Credit: ShotNBlaze)
August 14, 2009, 4:40 pm – Valve – Product Update
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Team Fortress 2
- Fixed "r_rootlod" being marked as a cheat, which prevented it from being changed and caused a significant performance loss for some GPUs
- Changed "The Big Hurt" Scout achievement to be "Stun 2 Medics that are ready to deploy an UberCharge."
- Fixed Announcer overtime bug on KOTH servers using mp_timelimit
- Due to many requests, added server ConVar "tf_overtime_nag". When set to 1, it keeps the broken announcer behavior
- Fixed tournament stopwatch not displaying the time in the HUD
- Fixed a bug with cloak meter regen and drain rates
- Fixed Spies not being able to go invis while reloading
- Fixed pipebombs sticking to saw blades
- Fixed weapons not being hidden properly during loser state anims
- Fixed a case where radius damage didn’t reduce damage to self
- Fixes Demomen taking too much damage from their pipebombs
- Fixed a case where items would never show up in the backpack, even though they were available to equip
- Fixed a case where items weren’t being validated properly in class loadout slots
Community requests
- Removed centerprint texts for TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND CTF game mode
- Changed TF_FLAGTYPE_ATTACK_DEFEND capture reward from 30 kills to 1 capture
I’m sure many of you have noticed by now that the ODR66 servers are offline. This is a result of the most recent patch, which breaks compatibility with our SourceMod plug-in platform.
I apologize for the outage, but Valve has changed the engine headers, and gave no advance notification to developers, or even bothered to record any of the changes to the official SDK.
At last count over 1000+ servers were also down as a result of this issue.
I am faced with either
1.) Ripping out SourceMod and restoring the server to defaults, simple, but fixing this later when a patch is available will be hell.
2.) Putting faith in the SourceMod guys to fix the problem tonight (something they claim to be working on).
I appreciate your patience, and hope you will all be back to the server once service is restored!
Thanks
- ODR66 Team
(Image Credit: Shane)
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