Ummm... They are hosting a lot of servers in Seattle and DC. They are there to provide gamers an alternate official server that is setup the way it was made to be. Im sure they will be going international soon too... The reason why they made srcds available is for us to play with our friends using our server that we ping well to instead of the west and east coast ones that some people may not. This isnt TF2 or CSS or DODS, its L4D and dont forget that.
________________________________ From: Steve Stifler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:29:25 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] hlds Digest, Vol 10, Issue 13 Ummm, if plain servers are the intention here then maybe Valve should prevent all mods or better yet just host the servers themselves?? On 12/4/08, Richard Eid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my opinion, I think Left 4 Dead is being 'locked down' because of all > the > problems that appeared during the last year with TF2. It became nearly > impossible to find a plain Jane vanilla TF2 server. It's like every single > one of them had some mod installed that changed gameplay. I'm not against > the modding community, though I'd like to just be able to play the game as > it was intended. I feel that Valve and it's playtesters know a bit more > about what makes a game fun than Joe Blow modder...so I'd like to see what > Valve has to offer and not what 32-man, insta-spawn, fast ubercharge, > longer > spawn for non-clan members, less damage for non-clan members, etc. server > op > has to offer. > > Left 4 Dead is quickly becoming what TF2 became. A different game. Last > night I was on a versus server that spawned a Tank ~1 minute into each > round. Rounds ended quickly and no team ever made it to the Safe Room. It > was plain old not fun. Maybe that server op likes playing that way, but > nobody on the server at the time did...so we voted back to the lobby. The > next server had sv_cheats 0 in its config so we faced random issues, like > Infected only being able to spawn 3 at a time and not 4. The list goes on. > > While, as a server op, I'd like to have a bit more control over my own > server, I welcome these changes being introduced to the game. Just because > a server op likes to play the game a certain way does NOT mean everybody > does. I'm not too keen on the Normal difficulty for Versus mode, but we'll > see what happens. > > I think Valve is doing this for the community and not for any other reason. > Most of the complaints I hear are about how this server or that server > sucks > because of x or y changes made to it. Locking certain aspects of the > gameplay down seems almost a necessary evil when combined with how we now > connect to servers. Give it time. Valve is obviously listening to the > feedback being given and are making changes as they see fit. Just last > night I was chatting with someone from Valve about certain aspects of > server > management. He had explained in detail what things could be changed and > how > they would affect our servers. I thought I had understood the whole > conversation, but I had completely missed the bigger scope of the issues. > > Maybe we're not looking at the long-term and only seeing the short-term. > Like I said...give it some time. > > > -Richard Eid > > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Kevin Kolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'd like to chime in here and second this. I love versus mode but by > > far I've had the most fun in versus playing on servers running on Hard > > difficulty or better. > > > > I find normal is just way to easy and too forgiving on the survivors. > > If anything I think in an ideal world I would be able to CHOOSE the > > difficulty for versus when creating the lobby. > > > > Why Valve feels versus should only be played with wimpy normal > > difficulty zombies I have no idea. > > > > Let the players play it at the difficulty they want, don't lock my > > server down so I can't play how I please. > > > > This is by far the worst game that I've ever operated a server for. I > > feel like Valve is expecting people to run these as basically a public > > service to them. > > > > If you want this level of control valve you should pay to run your own > > servers. And at this rate you may have to. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Message: 1 > > > Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:46:25 -0800 > > > From: "Formologic23" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead Update Available > > > To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" > > > <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > > > Why on earth would you lock the Versus difficulty? That is a pretty > lame > > > forced update in my opinion. Normal is too easy, and most of the people > I > > > have talked with prefer to play Versus on Advanced. So why would you > LOCK > > > the difficulty? I really am considering shutting down my servers > because > > if > > > I can't have control over them (including the clients to a certain > > degree), > > > then I really am not interested in supporting this particular game > > anymore. > > > I love the game, but seriously, this is ludicrous. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
