We actually winded up getting servers running on Wine under a headless server as we got tired of waiting for the Linux server binaries. While it works for us, I can't exactly widely recommend it haha. Native would be x10 better.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Rowedahelicon < theoneando...@rowedahelicon.com> wrote: > 1. Thank you kindly for letting us advertise ourselves the way you've set > that up, as a community owner I really want to utilize that function and > look forward to doing so. > 2. However, I'm stuck waiting on Linux support as well. I'm sure you've > heard it a billion times given it is one of the highest requested things > right now, but if you manage to get it working relatively soon I will put a > shout out to you on said MOTD. <3 > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:10 PM, John Gibson < > j...@tripwireinteractive.com> wrote: > >> Everyone, >> >> Today, starting in an hour (1pm EST), we're going to be launching a free >> weekend for Killing Floor 2 in support of our recently released "Return of >> the Patriarch" content pack. I'm here to request the help of the server >> hosting community to meet the peak demand we're likely to see from the free >> weekend. Right now we have about half of the servers we think we'll need to >> meet the demand. So anyone that could pop up some servers for the weekend >> would be greatly appreciated. The servers for KF2 are 6 players and are >> really light on CPU and bandwidth usage, so they can run on a really wide >> range of hardware. >> >> Also, one thing worth mentioning is a new bit of functionality we >> recently added to our servers which will help you be able to advertise your >> gaming community or GSP is a server welcome screen. This displays when >> players connect to a server, and has a customizable message of the day text >> message, a banner image, and a website link. So now if you put up servers >> for a free weekend (or any time for that matter) you can basically put an >> ad in that all players that connect to that server can see, and a web link >> that you can put in that they can click on that will take them directly to >> where you want them to go to find out more about your gaming community or >> GSP. Here is info on how to set it up: >> >> 1) Make sure the game server isn't running >> 2) Edit PCServer-KFGame.ini: >> >> Find this part and edit it, here is the default one >> Code: >> >> BannerLink=http://art.tripwirecdn.com/TestItemIcons/MOTDServer.png >> ServerMOTD=Welcome to our server. \n \n Have fun and good luck! >> WebsiteLink=http://killingfloor2.com/ >> >> 3) BannerLink should be a PNG (save it > 8bit) image >> 4) ServerMOTD is the message display under the BannerLink image. You can >> usesome "*\n*" to create a new line like in the default message, I >> personally add two lines before my MOTD message to add space between image >> and text >> 5) WebsiteLink is the url of your website (if you edit this from the >> webadmin, it resets to a blank value after saving) >> 6) Save, start the server, enjoy you welcome screen. If it does not show >> up ingame, you're doing it wrong. >> >> Thanks everyone! >> >> P.S. We know more of you would put up servers if we had linux servers. >> It's on the list of things we want to do. >> >> John Gibson >> President >> Tripwire Interactive >> www.tripwireinteractive.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > > -- > *Matthew (Rowedahelicon) Robinson* > Web Designer / Artist / Writer > Website - http://www.rowedahelicon.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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