Vault F4 Gaming

Well, it's been a bit since the maps have been added in, but I wanted to wait a bit for some further things to talk about.

First off, 4 new maps were added, two of which being some classics, while the others I added to flesh out the vip map selection.

Harbl Hotel - A classic map thats certainly got a lot of.. old culture.. in it. I edited it a bit to fix some small issues and include a timer, but besides that its just the good ol' dm map with not much different

Wacky Races - Another race type map, people have been requesting this one for a while, and it is pretty fun on occasion. Hoping it wont be too overplayed and I can keep it in the rotation while balloon race is retired.

VIP Mountainlab - It's uh.. it's vip mountainlab! I wanted to include a map that was pretty fun on a/d and see how it plays in VIP. There's nothing actually different, really. It's just VIP now. But, it seems to be well received!

VIP Dustbowl - This map is a lot more different than the other VIP map....

Starting tomorrow, weekly maps will be changed to custom maps. This is due to both it being hard to constantly find 8-10 good (not counting ctf_4fort) maps weekly, as well as players seeming to prefer the all maps available mapcycle.

BUT!

This does not mean new maps wont be added. Weekly mapcycles will instead be replaced with map updates added every so often. There wont be a set amount of time in between them, so i can't guarantee how often it will be, but they will still be posted about in #servers in the TF2C Discord as well as here in the VaultF4 Announcements forum. We'll also be looking into accommodating the map voting system to work better for the huge selection of maps in the mapcycle, including changes to how many maps need to be played before a map can be nominated again, and looking into always including 1 new map in the map vote (unless nominations are chosen.)

As always, we appreciate feedback, hope this announcement is understood, and hope you enjoy the...

It is looking like the performance issues on VPS3 have been resolved, and the original EU standard (and a new EU randomizer) server are now up and running.

The former EU Exclusive (temporarily made a Standard server during the outage) will likely be configured to mirror our US "Weekly custom maps" server in the near future so that our EU denizens have something similar locally - stay tuned!