[hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
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
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
Awesome, can't wait. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:01 PM, John Gibson j...@tripwireinteractive.comwrote: 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 -- - Naso ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
[hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released
A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include: - Fixed first person spectators seeing particle effects on the wearables of the person they're spectating. - Added the Pyro's Foster's Facade and Stockbroker's Scarf items as part of Tripwire's Twisted Christmas event. - See http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/xmas/ for full details. Jason ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibson j...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibson j...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ 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
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
Hey, your email address doesn't say tripwire, you sneaky tripwire representatives... On 14/12/2010 10:14 AM, AJ Collins wrote: I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibsonj...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ 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
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
I guess it wasn't clear that it was just speculation. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Shane Arnold clontar...@iinet.net.auwrote: Hey, your email address doesn't say tripwire, you sneaky tripwire representatives... On 14/12/2010 10:14 AM, AJ Collins wrote: I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibsonj...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ 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
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
j...@tripwireinteractive.com What? On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Shane Arnold clontar...@iinet.net.auwrote: Hey, your email address doesn't say tripwire, you sneaky tripwire representatives... On 14/12/2010 10:14 AM, AJ Collins wrote: I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibsonj...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ 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 -- - Naso ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
hes saying AJ isn't from tripwire On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Alinay Gomez alin...@gmail.com wrote: j...@tripwireinteractive.com What? On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Shane Arnold clontar...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hey, your email address doesn't say tripwire, you sneaky tripwire representatives... On 14/12/2010 10:14 AM, AJ Collins wrote: I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibsonj...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ 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 -- - Naso ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds -- Michael Krasnow http://mnkras.com mnk...@gmail.com ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
I think he was talking about my email where I said I think that there would have to be a price drop or a free weekend to get the number of players Tripwire is predicting. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Alinay Gomez alin...@gmail.com wrote: j...@tripwireinteractive.com What? On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Shane Arnold clontar...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hey, your email address doesn't say tripwire, you sneaky tripwire representatives... On 14/12/2010 10:14 AM, AJ Collins wrote: I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibsonj...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ 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 -- - Naso ___ 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
Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released
As of this post, this is not marked as required. Master server is listing out of date servers in the server list.. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Jason Ruymen jas...@valvesoftware.comwrote: A required update for Team Fortress 2 is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include: - Fixed first person spectators seeing particle effects on the wearables of the person they're spectating. - Added the Pyro's Foster's Facade and Stockbroker's Scarf items as part of Tripwire's Twisted Christmas event. - See http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/xmas/ for full details. Jason ___ 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
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
Just from the initial and previous emails from Tripwire showing that they actually care, I'm going to buy the game. With this being said; when the game is on sale do you guys receive less? Or is it the same static ammount? Thanks, Kyle. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:28 PM, AJ Collins gamerzwo...@gmail.com wrote: I think he was talking about my email where I said I think that there would have to be a price drop or a free weekend to get the number of players Tripwire is predicting. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Alinay Gomez alin...@gmail.com wrote: j...@tripwireinteractive.com What? On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Shane Arnold clontar...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hey, your email address doesn't say tripwire, you sneaky tripwire representatives... On 14/12/2010 10:14 AM, AJ Collins wrote: I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibsonj...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ 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 -- - Naso ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
FYI it won't take even 5% of the people that own KF hopping online to try out the Twisted Christmas event to hit the high end of those estimates. We also figure more than a couple of the TF2 fans might be picking up the game due to the free KF items they'll get in TF2. So even without a sale I think we'll see a very large amount of players. John Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:14 PM, AJ Collins gamerzwo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibson j...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ 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
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
My apologies, I re-read the email. It's been a long day and for some reason I was applying an additional zero to the numbers. :P On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:59 PM, John Gibson j...@tripwireinteractive.comwrote: FYI it won't take even 5% of the people that own KF hopping online to try out the Twisted Christmas event to hit the high end of those estimates. We also figure more than a couple of the TF2 fans might be picking up the game due to the free KF items they'll get in TF2. So even without a sale I think we'll see a very large amount of players. John Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:14 PM, AJ Collins gamerzwo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibson j...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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 ___ 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
Re: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
I'm not in any of the marketing department of any firm/company/developer/etc but as a server admin and as the odd man out, i know from experience, reading related announcements from Valve and looking how games shift in the Steam top sold games and looking our servers that even a slight sale will rapidly increase how the game sells. Note that i don't even have access to the detailed data like developers do and Valve too. The jungle drums have been talking about these items and many TF2 players of ours have stated that if KF goes sale, they'll get it just because of the items. TF2 got a lot of sales among updates and at those times, we have always seen several new players on the servers that have gotten the game to try out just because it was on sale and friends newssites have been talking about it (thus the jungle drum). However, even at those times, the Peak Today stats on Steam, which are public, never reach more than 2-3 times more players than usually even though TF2 has sold millions among OrangeBox. Some of the owners will never get back on the game because they have lost interest completely. We'll see how KF manages to lure back players in with the event. You are correct that new updates bring out old players too to try out the new stuff and servers are most likely packed but only for some time. I'm also sure that some TF2 owners will get the game just due to items but also many others are thinking about it who expect it to go on sale and if it does, they get it too. -ics 14.12.2010 4:59, John Gibson kirjoitti: FYI it won't take even 5% of the people that own KF hopping online to try out the Twisted Christmas event to hit the high end of those estimates. We also figure more than a couple of the TF2 fans might be picking up the game due to the free KF items they'll get in TF2. So even without a sale I think we'll see a very large amount of players. John Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:14 PM, AJ Collinsgamerzwo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that amount of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes violentsmob...@convictgaming.com wrote: Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event -Original Message- From: John Gibsonj...@tripwireinteractive.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up 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,
