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    Some random thoughts

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    What I was thinking was giving the fences a special "targetname" in the Stripper config file, then after two minutes, have a plugin find those entities and kill them after a minute or so after the survivors have left the saferoom.

     

    To paraphrase Pink Floyd

    TEAR DOWN THE FENCE

    Thanks in advance if this gets down

    Some random thoughts

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    1 . seeing how the survivors get presents when they kill infected how about the same for infected? A present when they kill a survivor

    or better yet maybe a special present when they kill an admin?.

    Presents are possible but that would be a bit awkward. I imagine a player would need to be spawned in and get the present without being killed. It also distracts them from killing survivors.

     

    2. On hard rain first map would it be possible to remove the fence say after like a minute or 2 of game time?

    (this is the one i wish would happen the most)

    Why after two minutes?

     

    3. The infected health kit. Would it be possible to infect the instant heal the same way?

     

    I was curious if theses are in fact Good ideas????

     

    that could be interesting, I'm curious what others would think of that

     

    I just picked 2 minutes so the survivors had a chance to get away from the edge but they had better do it quick . If you poke along and dont move out quick you are in for a surprise

    Plus it gives the infected something to gain for keeping them back there

    I think it adds to the thrill of getting away unscathed .

     

    As for the BnW instant heal . It cost 20 points to infect it but just 8 points to defeat it.

    remember these are just random thoughts .

    Some random thoughts

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    Good morning

    Well had a couple thoughts that im gonna throw out here

     

    1 . seeing how the survivors get presents when they kill infected how about the same for infected? A present when they kill a survivor

    or better yet maybe a special present when they kill an admin?.

     

    2. On hard rain first map would it be possible to remove the fence say after like a minute or 2 of game time?

    (this is the one i wish would happen the most)

     

    3. The infected health kit. Would it be possible to infect the instant heal the same way?

     

     

    I was curious if theses are in fact Good ideas????

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    Good News

    in What's Up?

    Hi

    I learned today that my nieces cancer (lymphatic) is in remission. Docs dont say cured She will have to go back every 3 months for tests for a little while then the the tests are less frequent if there is no sign of the cancers return

    Thank You Jesus

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    Banned from gcftw lfd2 versus server.

    in Banned from any of our servers?

    Chick, why didn't you just place him on a team instead of banning him? FYI there's no way he could be doing that for 5 mins since he's not a member, and the AFK slot will kick you within 10 seconds if you aren't a member.

     

    Chris, the commands to join a team are !jointeam to join a random team if they are both even; !survivors to join the survivor team or !infected respectively. If the survivor team has 8 players and the infected only have 7, you have to join the team with less people as it's called stacking if you try and join the team that's more populated.

     

     

    I still don't see how he could have been in spectator mode long enough to "spam chat" since he's not a member. And if he isn't a member and both teams weren't full, why didn't it just place him on a team?

     

    My only other suggestion is that you were placed on a dead survivor...meaning the bot you took over was dead before you joined...so it may have looked like you hadn't been placed on a team yet. Either way, I think it could have been handled differently than a ban...even if it was for 5 minutes.

     

    You should read this thread Fenix

     

    http://gamrs.co/forums/index.php?/topic/26609-if-you-werent-involved-do-not-post/

     

     

    I Have played when Chris joins and He does spam the join team command. There was chat messages for him to use the !jointeam command but he just kept on spamming the chat window with "!jointeam survivors" and "!jointeam infected" He did this until the game kicked him.

    The ban got his attention .

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    [Ban Request] Ugh....chaos

    in Banned from any of our servers?

    So we were on the no mercy map tonight. Teams were pretty close, but most of the survivor team (I was on infected) was incapped or struggling at the top of the elevator in the 4th map. In the mean time "I'm not Black Yoshi" rushed the map to the safe room. Not sure if the other team agreed to it, but he could have still helped. Also he was not a main. Here's the weird part:

     

    A. I did a !who to see who he was since he kept saying he wasn't black yoshi. But his username showed that he was black yoshi.

     

    B. After that, Black Yoshi logged in and started chatting in spectator mode while "Im not black yoshi" was still logged in.

     

    C. Tainted was the admin online, and he did nothing to kick "I'm not black yoshi" for rushing (Tainted was on my team).

     

    D. Since we pretty much won that chapter, after we completed and finished the last map, the next team was supposed to go. instead Tainted made half the survivors do the Talpa challenge, and while we were waiting on the roof at the top of the ladder to attack, Tainted !slayed all of us infected so they could get to the roof.

     

    E. After that people were suiciding left and right, and then that was the end of the map.

     

    This is the worst admining of the server I've ever seen, and no one seemed to care too much for the rushing, the infecting of the survivors, or the suiciding or !slaying of the infected. All but me. Maybe I was more vocal about it, but it was ridiculous.

     

    I'm not blaming crasx, I'm blaming Tainted. When I said I saw crasx online on l4d2, it was on my steam friends list, not in-game. I didn't look to see if crasx was online and in-game.

     

    So my ban request is for "i'm not black yoshi", and I am also complaining about the admin that was online at the time. It showed Crasx.gc online in-game, but I didn't see him. Any sort of explanation would help.

     

    So much ado about nothing

    Ban request DENIED(on my part)

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    New Maps

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    Good Morning Everybody!

     

    I was just wondering maybe now is the time to try a custom campaign seeing as all the regular maps crash now .

    GC L4D2 Update

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    Re-fixed 10v10 (removed 8 player restriction)

     

    Found why the server is crashing, someone else has a similar problem... Going to work with them on it (hopefully)

     

    I think everybody here thinks it so Ill say it

    Thanks Crasx

    You da Man

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    Server Version needs Update

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    currently downloading the linux and windows servers, so i thought id write an explanation of what is going on for any aspiring hackers (and to get my mind in the zone)

     

    When people create applications they use a high or mid level language like c++. for example:

    int add(int a, int {
return a+b;
}

     

    Now, the processor doesn't know what to do with the above because the processor only works with a language called assembly. Assembly looks like this roughly for the above function (I haven't written asm for like 8 years so this may be a bit off):

    pop eax
pop ebx
add ebx, eax
push ebx

    This code is represented in binary/hex in the actual computer. For example the above may be stored as "48 a4 bc 02 59". Plugins like left4downtown hook into functions to allow us to process data before it is sent into the function. In order to hook into these functions the plugin needs to know where they are, and this is where crap hits the fan.

     

    We can't use the actual location because that changes with every new version of the server and fixing it would be totally inefficient. So sourcemod uses function signatures, which are basically a unique set of bytes found only one place in the file. In the above example the signature would be "x48xa4xbcx02x59". When ever the plugin loads it scans the file for these bytes and hooks the function as needed

     

    With the recent server modification these signatures changed because valve implemented linux and now all of these signatures are invalid. For example "x48xa4xbcx02x59" may actually be "x11xa4xaax02x50". So my job is to find these new signatures.

     

    Normally this is near impossible without debugging techniques, but we have and advantage- linux. In linux files function addresses are stored in a vtable. This vtable says something like "add 0x4001001" which means function add is at address 4001001. Windows does not have a similaer vtable which is why we use function signatures. So using the linux address I can get a rough idea of where the function is in windows and search the windows file to find similar logic. i then need to get the unique bytes, save them in the left4downtown config file.

     

    This also explains why linux servers are already online

     

    Make sense?

     

     

    Thanks crasx

     

    and NO!

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