Rentable servers, confirmed

(Wolven) #1

Rentable servers will be a thing in the future. Very nice!

https://youtu.be/Bmys4DmPMcQ?t=40s

(SnakekillerX) #2

I don’t know why people would even want rentable servers without custom content though.
Whats the difference from just playing on any other server?

(ImSploosh) #3

@SnakekillerX said:
I don’t know why people would even want rentable servers without custom content though.
Whats the difference from just playing on any other server?

This. So far, we only know there will be rentable servers, and that could mean no custom content, just altered rules/restrictions like health, friendly fire, and mercs. I think most of us are looking for custom content/mods, not slightly different game rules.

(ThunderZsolt) #4

IDK, you might be able to ban some mercs/loadout cards on your own server perhaps?

Imagine a server without shotguns <3

(Wolven) #5

Well. It depends on what the price will be and what settings you can tweak. A min level 50, FF ON server, with a few admins, who can kick/ban grievers, sounds great to me.

Features I’d like to see in a rentable server are:

  • Reasonable price.
  • Ability to set minimum player level.
  • Ability set max players. 5v5, 6v6, etc.
  • Friendly Fire On/Off.
  • Option to give out admin rights to selected people.
  • Option to set a fixed or random map rotation, without voting. (No Chapel 24/7)
  • Option to set a merc limit per team would be nice, but this can be enforced as “house rules”.
  • You should be able to earn Credits and XP like normal on rented servers.

Custom servers is how you build communities around a game. For those of us who’s been playing FPS games for a while, (~20 years) it feels very unnatural not being able to host our own servers, where you can play with like minded players.

For me it’s not so much about custom content, but about the people you play with and the quality of the games you get. Not having to play with squeaky voiced 12yo “gg ez”, “my team sucks”, kids, would be absolute bliss.

Custom servers has the potential to address many of the common complaints people have about this game. Which basically boils down to ignorant or toxic players.

  • 3x Vasilli campers on one team.
  • 4x pizza tossing shotgun Proxies on one team.
  • 3x Arty and 1x Skyhammer on Chapel defense.
  • Medics that don’t revive.
  • Support that don’t give ammo.
  • Players who don’t play the objective.
  • Stacked EV repairs.
  • Imbalanced teams. (Mature people will vote shuffle and map restart)
  • Players with mental or emotional issues, who spew toxicity.
  • Cheaters.
  • Etc.
(Sorotia) #6

Well if they’re going to have admins and such…I sure hope they can get over the problem that observers take up a player slot.

Or else that could make having admins pointless.

(watsyurdeal) #7

If I could make a Dirty Bomb gun game mod, I would be sooooo happy

(ThePigVomit) #8

@Wo1ven said:

  • 3x Arty and 1x Skyhammer on Chapel defense.

I’ve gotta be honest, this is a fully valid strat. And even pretty simple to counter.

Kicking/outlawing a fire support slant is asinine.

(Loki.) #9

@Wo1ven said:

Custom servers is how you build communities around a game. For those of us who’s been playing FPS games for a while, (~20 years) it feels very unnatural not being able to host our own servers, where you can play with like minded players.

For me it’s not so much about custom content, but about the people you play with and the quality of the games you get. Not having to play with squeaky voiced 12yo “gg ez”, “my team sucks”, kids, would be absolute bliss.

Nuff said!!!

Like the OP here, I’ve been playing FPS MP Objective Based Games since RTCW… Not having clan ran servers in this game is mind boggling…

W:ET is far more active then this game, why? the community wont let it die…

SD know this!!

Just wished they took that knowledge and the lessons learned with ETQW and the Ranked crap that killed that game… sadly, they didn’t…

Regardless, Without Rent-able servers, this game has Zero chance of survival…

(Wolven) #10

@ThePigVomit said:

@Wo1ven said:

  • 3x Arty and 1x Skyhammer on Chapel defense.

I’ve gotta be honest, this is a fully valid strat. And even pretty simple to counter.

Kicking/outlawing a fire support slant is asinine.

Sure. So is a team full of Proxies, Rhinos, Naders, What have you. With custom servers you’re free, (hopefully) to set what ever “rules” you wish. And then people can choose to play on your server or not. That’s the beauty of custom servers, you choose the server(s) with the settings and people you want to play with.

(neverplayseriou) #11

Wouldn’t bother renting a server looking at how crappy the current servers are :smiley:

(Shenaynays) #12

the game maps are developed by a custom version of unreal engine, so if we would want anything we’d need the devs to release their version of unreal engine if we could do anything. And knowing people and the game itself the first day of rentable servers is gonna be shambles, credit farming servers are gonna be everywhere

(Teflon Love) #13

If I can kick/ban crappy recons as admin I’m sold. If I can configure the server to not let players pick recons at all - even more so.

(Freezer_Boss) #14

@teflonlove said:
If I can kick/ban crappy recons as admin I’m sold. If I can configure the server to not let players pick recons at all - even more so.

Recons are useful when correctly used
(crap recons aren’t)

(Nail) #15

“You should be able to earn Credits and XP like normal on rented servers.”

I doubt this will ever happen, far to easy to farm

(Noir) #16

@watsyurdeal said:
If I could make a Dirty Bomb gun game mod, I would be sooooo happy

I don’t think we need new game mode but I LOVE Gun Game so much. I am not sure it would feet DB as it would be hard to implement a sense of progression in terms of weapons. You can duel an assault rifle with a revolver in DB, which is dumb if you ask me.