Vault F4 Gaming

Hi folks! A bit of a wall of text here but I would like to give a more complete picture of what has been going on and our plans for the EU server offerings moving forward.

Preamble:

So I know there is a bit of an elephant in the room - and that is the current state of our EU servers. We know the VPS they are on is barely adequate, and up until recently that was basically all we could afford. We lost our slightly more powerful loaner VPS in the massive datacenter fire and had to make an unplanned upgrade to the Frankfurt offering to relocate our services.

Decent, real hardware isn't cheap, and we've been very fortunate to have enough recurring donations that we were recently able to afford upgrading to a dedicated server in the US with significantly more power and capacity. At the time, I looked at the numbers and by far the bulk of our donations are received from folks whose accounts are in North America. Don't get me wrong, we have a few supporters...

Well, another month another update. This one's kinda big as a lot has happened since the last update.

First off, we've now added 32 maps to the custom maps server. (38 counting returning maps!) We've done a lot of playtesting and hope these are as enjoyed by the public as they were by testers, and have heard your feedback about less non-artpassed maps. Here's a quick update showcase image before the full changelog!.. Once again, with help from my good friend Sniffy

You might have noticed the headline was out with the old in with the new.. I originally planed for this update to be a huge revision to the maplist. And while it is in terms of new stuff, I couldn't really think of that many bad maps to remove, and decided it'd just be nice to have a lot more variety. As for the full changelog, here it is in all it's SUPER BIG glory.

Full Map Update 5/16/21

Retired Maps
vipr_downfall
plr_fishladder3
koth_slaughter_b2a_em...

I know it's been a bit since the last post, but I did a lot of map testing with friends and community members, and wanted to make the next map update a bit special, so here's a image to stylized as a TF2 Update page with all the new maps!

As for that further info, we've recently been working on making GScramble work with the 4 team mode of TF2C. We've gotten scramble working with 4 teams (Thanks Nican!!), but the autobalance section of the plugin is still a bit broken, so we wont be implementing that just yet. But stay on the lookout for a half implementation of the plugin sometime soon. No more round resets, and actually useful scrambles.

We've also got some new applications coming in, so our moderation is starting to become a bit easier to handle, and hopefully you'll have a much better time on our servers. Also, in case you're interested yourself, you can always put up an application here! We...