To all server admins,
For those of you that don't know Tripwire Interactive are running a special event starting tomorrow (December 14th) called the Killing Floor Twisted Christmas - http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/xmas/. This event replaces all of the monsters in game with Christmas themed monsters, adds an all new level - Santa's Evil Lair, has a bunch of new achievements including some specifically for the Twisted Christmas event, and features a tie-in with TF2 where TF2/KF owners/purchases get the Pyro as a playable character in KF and a special KF themed item in TF2. With all of the buzz and interest surrounding this time limited event ( December 14th - January 4th ) we expect a massive influx of both returning Killing Floor players that wish to experience the special event, as well as new players wishing to experience the game for the first time. As such I have a couple of requests for the server admin community: 1) If anyone is willing to put up some extra servers for the duration of this event that would be extremely helpful. There are currently about 1100 Killing Floor servers, which will support about 6600 concurrent players ( 6 players is the max on standard KF servers). We expect the peak concurrent players to be in the 10,000-20,000 range, which means it will take another 1000-2000 servers to handle this demand. On the bright side, we expect a lot of these players will stick around after the event, which is potential customers for you GSP's :-) 2) With the massive influx of new players, I would request that anyone adminning a group of KF servers to please set 35-50% of them to the Normal difficulty. This will help ensure that the new players will have a place to try the game where they won't get their face eaten off. 3) Please make sure the new Santa's Evil Lair map is in your map rotation, as this is the map EVERYONE will be dieing to try. Additionally, we will be trying to make the server files available through HLDS a couple of hours prior to the start of the event (both Windows and Linux). Thanks to everyone in advance for their help and cooperation. I always say, you admins are the cornerstone that any multiplayer game community is built on! Thanks, John Gibson President Tripwire Interactive LLC _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
