Custom and Community Servers:

#1

With rentable servers being confirmed recently and the trauma from a Dirty Bomb void of Execution continuing to affect me, I’m making this thread as a hail-mary attempt at getting some important people to notice. @stayfreshshoe cough cough

Please, PLEASE consider retaining Execution as a game mode that can be played in custom servers and enabling all forms of customization rather than just giving us another server to practice with buddies on. Don’t scrap that code just yet. I think I speak on behalf of the entire community when I say we’d like to see things along the lines of merc, augment, and loadout restrictions, melee only options, choosing the game mode, setting a map rotation, access to a pool of all of the skins available in game, setting team names, changing spawn timers, choosing friendly fire on or off, password protecting or leaving them open publicly, and so on. There are a million different routes y’all could take this and I really hope some of these things are being taken into consideration. After all, we are the ones who will be renting these things. Above all else, keep Execution in here. I’m begging you.

  • signed by yours truly, the resident cheerleader for Execution.

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(Melinder) #2

I’ll gladly throw money at SD for a server as long as we can do the following:

  • Prohibit certain weapons
  • Prohibit certain mercs
  • Choose the map rotation
  • Choose the player limit

Oh, and they are a reasonable price. Remember SD, I can rent a 14 slot, 128 tick CS:GO server with a web console, server-side demo and plugin support for less than $15.00/month

(emjot) #3

In the perfect world we would get the binaries for Windows.
In the “perfectier” world we would get the binaries for Linux, so we could buy some dedi and host multiple servers on one machine for the pretty low price.

I remember hosting up to 40 gameservers on my dedicated server for ET , idtech !=UE tho.

But yeah, I will be happy to set up min lvl 20 pub without javelin, so I can chill after lost ranked and don’t get annoyed by “proplayers” with panzerfaust.

I doubt they will allow Execution mode tho since it’s not something they want to promote as DB feature.

(znuund) #4

why not make everything editable by mods?

(emjot) #5

Probably in the current state it would be too much of a hassle. I mean, the game is not in the final stage, probably a lot of stuff will change and keeping modcode up to date with other changes could be a problem. I’m also NOT in favor of giving players free will here. This game is designed in specific way and I’m worried some players would just use the “engine” and miss the whole DB point.

(Chris Mullins) #6

As rentable servers are quite a way off, no information is confirmed about features they will or will not have. I strongly believe however that Execution would not be an option on these servers purely because of the impact this would have on the dev team.

As you know, Execution was removed for a number of reasons, including:

  • Less than 5% of players time was spent in Execution
  • It didn’t fit in with the core focus of the game (OBJ/SW)

By removing Execution, not only are we able to focus our efforts on gamemodes we’re actively supporting, but we also drastically reduce the impact every update has on our QA team. For each release prior to Execution being removed our QA team would need to test for 100’s of hours to make sure everything worked in Execution correctly. By removing it, we remove this strain which allows us a shorter testing cycle, getting updates out faster.

Adding in support for Execution with rentable servers would remove this advantage we have and cause our testing processes to take longer for a gamemode which (at that point) even less than 5% of players time would be spent in.

We know that many of you enjoyed and miss Execution, but it’s not something which will be a regular gamemode again in general or rentable servers for the foreseeable future.

(bgyoshi) #7

@stayfreshshoe said:
We know that many of you enjoyed and miss Execution, but it’s not something which will be a regular gamemode again in general or rentable servers for the foreseeable future.

(watsyurdeal) #8

Execution was gar bage

COD style Headquarters tho…I would like that

(Xenithos) #9

@Wintergreen said:
With rentable servers being confirmed recently and the trauma from a Dirty Bomb void of Execution continuing to affect me, I’m making this thread as a hail-mary attempt at getting some important people to notice. @stayfreshshoe cough cough

Please, PLEASE consider retaining Execution as a game mode that can be played in custom servers and enabling all forms of customization rather than just giving us another server to practice with buddies on. Don’t scrap that code just yet. I think I speak on behalf of the entire community when I say we’d like to see things along the lines of merc, augment, and loadout restrictions, melee only options, choosing the game mode, setting a map rotation, access to a pool of all of the skins available in game, setting team names, changing spawn timers, choosing friendly fire on or off, password protecting or leaving them open publicly, and so on. There are a million different routes y’all could take this and I really hope some of these things are being taken into consideration. After all, we are the ones who will be renting these things. Above all else, keep Execution in here. I’m begging you.

  • signed by yours truly, the resident cheerleader for Execution.

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I miss execution, and I hated it. :confused:

#10

@stayfreshshoe said:
We know that many of you enjoyed and miss Execution, but it’s not something which will be a regular gamemode again in general or rentable servers for the foreseeable future.

The Gods said no. Crushed my last sense of hope that I’ve been clinging to since its removal.

Well, here’s to hoping we’ll get other customization and game mode options then… I’m gonna go cry, lick my wounds, and contemplate my life now.

(bgyoshi) #11

@Wintergreen said:
Well, here’s to hoping we’ll get other customization and game mode options then… I’m gonna go cry, lick my wounds, and contemplate my life now.

But why do that when you can instead blast the ХТОЯТ album and rack up more frags in DB??

All are equal, no discrimination, son of a gun, a simple equation

#12

@bgyoshi said:

@Wintergreen said:
Well, here’s to hoping we’ll get other customization and game mode options then… I’m gonna go cry, lick my wounds, and contemplate my life now.

But why do that when you can instead blast the ХТОЯТ album and rack up more frags in DB??

All are equal, no discrimination, son of a gun, a simple equation

Lol, I’ve never really been big on Industrial stuff. Closest I’ve come to that would be some of Fear Factory’s older stuff. Yeah though, it’s great for some classic games like DOOM and Quake.

(Mc1412013) #13

@stayfreshshoe said:
We know that many of you enjoyed and miss Execution, but it’s not something which will be a regular gamemode again in general or rentable servers for the foreseeable future.
Well at least theres still some hope for its return. He said forseable future not removed indefinately. I doubt it will be back but atleast theres a mall glimmer of hope.

(Nail) #14

@Mc1412013 said:

@stayfreshshoe said:
We know that many of you enjoyed and miss Execution, but it’s not something which will be a regular gamemode again in general or rentable servers for the foreseeable future.
Well at least theres still some hope for its return. He said forseable future not removed indefinately. I doubt it will be back but atleast theres a mall glimmer of hope.

hey, when it goes open source you can make a new one

B)

(ImSploosh) #15

I miss Execution so much. It was tons of fun. I was really sad to see it go. Now we’re stuck with just Stopwatch (since Objective was taken away by CMM) which means long ass games that don’t pack the intensity and fun that Execution did. Stopwatch gets boring after a while. Wishing we had other gamemodes, but I guess those are a long way off, if they’ll ever appear.

There’s tons of reasons why Execution should have stayed or why it was actually a better fit for Dirty Bomb than some people believed. I seem to have these talks everyday with someone on my friends list. :’(

(BlackboltLW) #16

@bgyoshi said:
But why do that when you can instead blast the ХТОЯТ album and rack up more frags in DB??

Here’s an Insightful point for mentioning ХТОЯТ

(Mc1412013) #17

@Nail said:

@Mc1412013 said:

@stayfreshshoe said:
We know that many of you enjoyed and miss Execution, but it’s not something which will be a regular gamemode again in general or rentable servers for the foreseeable future.
Well at least theres still some hope for its return. He said forseable future not removed indefinately. I doubt it will be back but atleast theres a mall glimmer of hope.

hey, when it goes open source you can make a new one

B)

Great idea only i cant pas my programing classes with out the help of classmates and a teacher that gives u the test answers as review. Yeah its 10 questions and he gives u the answers prior to test.

(Xenithos) #18

@Nail said:

@Mc1412013 said:

@stayfreshshoe said:
We know that many of you enjoyed and miss Execution, but it’s not something which will be a regular gamemode again in general or rentable servers for the foreseeable future.
Well at least theres still some hope for its return. He said forseable future not removed indefinately. I doubt it will be back but atleast theres a mall glimmer of hope.

hey, when it goes open source you can make a new one

B)

Tell me truthfully, do you ever expect this game to go open source? Or even community moddable?

(Teflon Love) #19

I have yet to see any relevant game going fully open source.

Sure, id open sourced the code for various incarnations of Doom and Quake, but they never made the assets like art, sound and levels available. There would be appropriate licenses for that too (e.g. Create Commons). Instead, to actually play the game you still had to buy it.

The advantages of open sourcing the code mostly are that developers can educate themselves on how to write a game and that someone can port the games to other platforms (remember Doom for AmigaOS?) or improve the visuals (e.g. OpenGL instead of pixel renderer).

Even if SD ever open sources the code, the game as a whole will be gone once the assets are not available from Steam anymore.

(Nail) #20

@Xenithos said:

@Nail said:

@Mc1412013 said:

@stayfreshshoe said:
We know that many of you enjoyed and miss Execution, but it’s not something which will be a regular gamemode again in general or rentable servers for the foreseeable future.
Well at least theres still some hope for its return. He said forseable future not removed indefinately. I doubt it will be back but atleast theres a mall glimmer of hope.

hey, when it goes open source you can make a new one

B)

Tell me truthfully, do you ever expect this game to go open source? Or even community moddable?

lol, not a pig’s chance in a bacon factory, but ya never know