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So you may have been wondering what the esoteric titles were about... I was whining to @Brian Friday night about how consistently bad our FastDL (hereon referred to as SlowDL) server is. There are times when it just really chugs *insert crude word here*. We previously talked about getting an SSD but couldn't justify the downtime, reorganization, and system update (Debian doesn't really support modern hardware; ssds included). So I frustratingly looked at the LSN server page yet again, and saw they had increased the base bandwidth packages from 6TB to 10TB. I also noticed they discounted a ton of base packages, RAM, and their gbit ports. I priced out our same web-server with much improved specs, it came out about $10 more expensive for a Haswell CPU (same price if we had gotten Ivy Bridge), with memory, and disks tripled (bandwidth doubled). Well, shit; it's the same price and this was the super discounted server. I priced out new game-servers, with improved disk capacity, because you know, Mappers (
), this was an actual win in price. So we can upgrade our hardware, and save money. We went to bed, baffled, planning to wake up in the morning. We also made a ticket to request to have our networks transferred, which is almost always the nightmare. Presumably the $20 charge per network now (it was previously free; don't get me started on horrible tactics...) is to help prevent the confusion because there's a transaction. But I digress, onwards!
Brian rolled out of bed at about 11AM my time (10AM his; we finished at around 3AM). I...
So you may have been wondering what the esoteric titles were about... I was whining to @Brian Friday night about how consistently bad our FastDL (hereon referred to as SlowDL) server is. There are times when it just really chugs *insert crude word here*. We previously talked about getting an SSD but couldn't justify the downtime, reorganization, and system update (Debian doesn't really support modern hardware; ssds included). So I frustratingly looked at the LSN server page yet again, and saw they had increased the base bandwidth packages from 6TB to 10TB. I also noticed they discounted a ton of base packages, RAM, and their gbit ports. I priced out our same web-server with much improved specs, it came out about $10 more expensive for a Haswell CPU (same price if we had gotten Ivy Bridge), with memory, and disks tripled (bandwidth doubled). Well, shit; it's the same price and this was the super discounted server. I priced out new game-servers, with improved disk capacity, because you know, Mappers (
), this was an actual win in price. So we can upgrade our hardware, and save money. We went to bed, baffled, planning to wake up in the morning. We also made a ticket to request to have our networks transferred, which is almost always the nightmare. Presumably the $20 charge per network now (it was previously free; don't get me started on horrible tactics...) is to help prevent the confusion because there's a transaction. But I digress, onwards!Brian rolled out of bed at about 11AM my time (10AM his; we finished at around 3AM). I...
Valve pushed a fairly significant update today that makes changes to both the server and client distribution system. I've been prepping on the weekends for this, and for the most part ZM and ZE work. We had to resync with the main ZR branch, so things will be busted like cookies saving and other misc things. I intend on fixing this when I get home. I rolled out two emergency patches already, but I'm on my phone now and I don't think there's a git client for Android
ZMP and MG haven't been updated, I'll be doing this later in the day as well. Thanks for your patience.
If there are any new bugs please post them in here and tag me. We will probably be sprinting, but its better then allowing it to linger.
ZMP and MG haven't been updated, I'll be doing this later in the day as well. Thanks for your patience.
If there are any new bugs please post them in here and tag me. We will probably be sprinting, but its better then allowing it to linger.
Done, updated our kernel to 3.6.11 and synced a bunch of new libraries up (one server won't blow up when we reboot it now ). Thanks for your patience! The guesstimated downtime was 5 minutes per server.
). Thanks for your patience! The guesstimated downtime was 5 minutes per server.
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Yeah, alright, we've fallen into the gimmick of Tracers (again). This time around, it's not just on snipers, it's on every gun; only when you fire ("modern" tracers).
You're a liar! I don't see any of these so called Tracers!
Good. If you haven't selected a tracer colour using sm_tracer, you won't see any tracers from anyone.
I selected a tracer; but now everyone has one!
Good. If you have a colour set, everyone else is assigned a random colour if they're not opted in (or their selected colour, if they are with the good).
I'm a Zombie and not everyone has a tracer anymore!
Good. If you haven't explicitly enabled your tracer, it won't be visible to zombies.
This is available to everyone, if you're a donor or not. The overhead shouldn't be that bad either, but if we start getting strange TE crashes, we're going to have to rethink this. Thanks to @Aprz for being the first consumer (verifying I didn't mess up the shared networking). As an aside, everyone looks like Predator with this enabled. I'm trying to come up with a portable way around this, but for the moment, pretend it's an Alien film.
You're a liar! I don't see any of these so called Tracers!
Good. If you haven't selected a tracer colour using sm_tracer, you won't see any tracers from anyone.
I selected a tracer; but now everyone has one!
Good. If you have a colour set, everyone else is assigned a random colour if they're not opted in (or their selected colour, if they are with the good).
I'm a Zombie and not everyone has a tracer anymore!
Good. If you haven't explicitly enabled your tracer, it won't be visible to zombies.
This is available to everyone, if you're a donor or not. The overhead shouldn't be that bad either, but if we start getting strange TE crashes, we're going to have to rethink this. Thanks to @Aprz for being the first consumer (verifying I didn't mess up the shared networking). As an aside, everyone looks like Predator with this enabled. I'm trying to come up with a portable way around this, but for the moment, pretend it's an Alien film.
It's that time again, we've synced with the official repositories and moved our kernel version up to the 3.6 series. The emulation layer (along with a bunch of other libs) were updated, so hopefully there's a performance win there. While we're expecting a CS:S update this week, it's possible it will be delayed again (probably forever ), so there may be more downtime ahead.
), so there may be more downtime ahead.Hi guys,
The IP is: zego.plaguefest.com or 216.245.221.139:27015
Huge thanks to @Dharkk for doing some tedious work defining each map in GameModes_Server.txt and @CyphX for play testing.
Same-ish bugs as ZM. If you notice you're dying too quickly, check your class, you may be a human
^ While I'm adamant it's a CS:GO bug (Never saw it before Update 17) with GetTeamNumber (Getting the same crashes that CS:S does... lol), it's probably something I've done, or a bug I've yet to find in ZR.
Monumental thanks to the content porters/creators who've been churning out maps. Thanks again to Dharkk for compiling the map list, and making my life a lot easier.
Anyways, please report any bugs/suggestions you encounter/think of.
Thanks!
The IP is: zego.plaguefest.com or 216.245.221.139:27015
Huge thanks to @Dharkk for doing some tedious work defining each map in GameModes_Server.txt and @CyphX for play testing.
Same-ish bugs as ZM. If you notice you're dying too quickly, check your class, you may be a human
^ While I'm adamant it's a CS:GO bug (Never saw it before Update 17) with GetTeamNumber (Getting the same crashes that CS:S does... lol), it's probably something I've done, or a bug I've yet to find in ZR.
Monumental thanks to the content porters/creators who've been churning out maps. Thanks again to Dharkk for compiling the map list, and making my life a lot easier.
Anyways, please report any bugs/suggestions you encounter/think of.
Thanks!
