Vault F4 Gaming

Hi folks!

Thanks to your continued support, I was pleased to note that we reached the goal I had set in my previous announcement

That's right, thanks to your continued support and donations, we are currently forecasting $125/mo for August - and I am following through on that promise as we speak. I've ordered a dedicated server for our EU players and will begin the process of configuring it over the next few days - Keep an eye out!

I'm thrilled I can finally move away from our EU VPS which, (as I'm sure you have noticed) can get a little bogged down if there are a lot of players, causing a negative impact on gameplay.

This also means that after the initial migration, we can bring some of our additional US offerings across the ocean - namely our recently-reconfigured "2008 Flashback" offering which tries to remain true to TF2 in 2008 with weapons and maps from that era.

Thank you all again for your continued...

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...