HeatSurge
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Alright,
so there's this game "Killing Floor" that came out on Thursday.
It's really an "improved mod" over a UT2004 mod called Killing Floor - kind of an attempt to do what Valve did with CS - take a mod, release it as "standalone" title and make improvements on it.
It's been rather popular, and it's still pretty high (#2 behind the weekend sale) on steam's "top sales" list 2 days after release.
The stats show a peak of half the TF2 players for today, which is quite a bit... so you could say right now it's "half" as popular as TF2 lol:
http://store.steampowered.com/stats
Anyway, I bought it on preorder, because the buzz was pretty good and gameplay videos looked at least ok.
It's not a game that will sweep you off your feet by any means, and it does have "mod" and "budget/indie" written all over it, but that said I think it's going to be somewhat popular in the future, especially when new maps start coming out (they have already), and even mods. I enjoy it quite a bit myself.
Then again, the SDK Beta for L4D is out as well, so when that comes out in release, we might see a backslash but who knows.
Anyway, I've been playing a LOT myself over the last two days, and the servers are incredbly busy right now, bc for some reason right now there's very few of them (especially dedicated ones) for a LOT of players. However, I don't know if this is going to be just over this weekend or sustained. It might not be sustained as people will get tired of the game eventually, but servers should still be moderately popular.
Sadly, nobody at TBG will likely play this game but me, but I can almost guarantee that if we run a server for it, it will be full at least 50% of the time (in "right now" timeframe, not sure after a week or two). It shouldn't take many resources or bandwidth as it is a 6-player game and the UT2004 engine basically, so it should be pretty lightweight.
So... can we install a server for it (if it's completely free to TBG and can run on our existing box or whatnot - I don't want extra payment for it)? :-D
Can I set it up and all if we are going to try having a server? It has a "web admin" which should work fine hopefully.
so there's this game "Killing Floor" that came out on Thursday.
It's really an "improved mod" over a UT2004 mod called Killing Floor - kind of an attempt to do what Valve did with CS - take a mod, release it as "standalone" title and make improvements on it.
It's been rather popular, and it's still pretty high (#2 behind the weekend sale) on steam's "top sales" list 2 days after release.
The stats show a peak of half the TF2 players for today, which is quite a bit... so you could say right now it's "half" as popular as TF2 lol:
http://store.steampowered.com/stats
Anyway, I bought it on preorder, because the buzz was pretty good and gameplay videos looked at least ok.
It's not a game that will sweep you off your feet by any means, and it does have "mod" and "budget/indie" written all over it, but that said I think it's going to be somewhat popular in the future, especially when new maps start coming out (they have already), and even mods. I enjoy it quite a bit myself.
Then again, the SDK Beta for L4D is out as well, so when that comes out in release, we might see a backslash but who knows.
Anyway, I've been playing a LOT myself over the last two days, and the servers are incredbly busy right now, bc for some reason right now there's very few of them (especially dedicated ones) for a LOT of players. However, I don't know if this is going to be just over this weekend or sustained. It might not be sustained as people will get tired of the game eventually, but servers should still be moderately popular.
Sadly, nobody at TBG will likely play this game but me, but I can almost guarantee that if we run a server for it, it will be full at least 50% of the time (in "right now" timeframe, not sure after a week or two). It shouldn't take many resources or bandwidth as it is a 6-player game and the UT2004 engine basically, so it should be pretty lightweight.
So... can we install a server for it (if it's completely free to TBG and can run on our existing box or whatnot - I don't want extra payment for it)? :-D
Can I set it up and all if we are going to try having a server? It has a "web admin" which should work fine hopefully.