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Hey, all you cool cats and kittens.

We're having a donator sale for the first time in a decade, and more!
As Big 'Rona steadily achieves Pinky and the Brain's failed dream of world domination, many of us find ourselves stuck at home, possibly with a dwindling to-do list and a creep of boredom that makes CS:S look fun enough to play.
Some of us are fortunate enough to still have jobs that can be done from our cave dwellings, while others have been laid off, have had their hours cut significantly, or they're being held hostage as "essential" workers.
Whatever boat you're in, a little downtime goes a long way in distracting one from this unique and uncertain time.
So, we're inviting you and everyone else reading this to join us in game - where social distancing alone won't stop the infection (you'll need a P90 too) - for some fun, events, and prizes!
To kick things off, we're throwing a donator sale (our last sale was 10 years ago)! For a limited time only, you can snag 2 months of donator for $6.99, or 3 months of donator for $10. This applies to donator gifts as well.
Over the coming weeks, we plan to host some fun events on Zombie Mod and Customs, where we'll be giving away donator and possibly other prizes. Some of these will be planned, others...
For the past year or so, our fast download server has sometimes been known as more of a slow download server. This is the server that you download all the game materials, models, maps, etc. from, and without one it would be painfully slow to join and download anything.
The old server was fine when only a few players were downloading from it, but it only had a 250 Mbps connection which could easily get saturated if a lot of players were trying to download at once. We decided to address this by moving to a new server with a much faster network - 10,000 Mbps.
The info-graphic below shows what this mostly means for players. This will result in faster join times which should help the server population, and quicker downloads on everything (especially when testing new maps).
The old server was fine when only a few players were downloading from it, but it only had a 250 Mbps connection which could easily get saturated if a lot of players were trying to download at once. We decided to address this by moving to a new server with a much faster network - 10,000 Mbps.
The info-graphic below shows what this mostly means for players. This will result in faster join times which should help the server population, and quicker downloads on everything (especially when testing new maps).
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Server IP:
surf.plaguefest.com
Some of the features:
- Surf
- RPG
- Team deathmatch
- 83 surf maps on rotation (nominate is open to everyone)
- GameME stats
- Spawn protection
- Team balancer
- !guns menu
Players earn experience by killing other players or on other game dependent events. After they reach a certain amount of experience, they level up and get some credits. The credits can be used to buy upgrades which give the player an advantage against their enemies.
Some of the available upgrades include:
- Armor+ - Increases your maximal armor.
- Damage+ - Deal additional damage on enemies.
- Fast Reload - Increases the reload speed of guns.
- Frost Pistol - Slow down players hit with a pistol.
- Health+ - Increases your maximal health.
- Ice Stab - Freeze a player in place when knifing him.
- Impulse - Gain speed for a short time when being shot.
- Increase Firerate - Increases the firerate of weapons.
- Long Jump - Boosts your jump speed.
- Resupply - Regenerates ammo every third second.
- Speed+ - Increase your average movement speed.
- Stealth - Renders yourself more and more invisible.
- Vampire - Steal HP from players when damaging them.
- rpg or rpgmenu - Opens the rpg main...
We're introducing a new rule that applies to all servers:
@Server Admin please read: http://plaguefest.com/threads/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-no-third-party-tools-rule.22085/
The main reason this wasn't a rule before was we knew false positives were possible and could affect innocent players. However, after conducting a few tests and tweaking some plugin and server settings, we're confident we can now accurately detect and enforce this.
The main reason this wasn't a rule before was we knew false positives were possible and could affect innocent players. However, after conducting a few tests and tweaking some plugin and server settings, we're confident we can now accurately detect and enforce this.
Server Updates
From now until the end of the year, donators and admins can play as Bad Santa on the Zombie Mod server. Just type !zclass and select the Bad Santa human class.
The original suggestion for this change was buried in the map suggestion thread:
The ZM server will now be treated with a new panic map each week from ZMP's (Zombie Lila Panic 24/7) rotation. ZMP is an old server (now dead) that used to reach 64/64 players regularly, whose maplist was separated from ZM's when it was created and a lot of panic maps were moved from ZM to ZMP. Now we're bringing those maps back.
Every Friday at 3:00 am EDT the ZM server will have a new panic map available to play.
Here's the schedule:
2017-09-22 03:00 EDT - zm_choddapfpanic1 (currently on rotation)
2017-09-29 03:00 EDT - zm_choddasnowpanic_b5
2017-10-06 03:00 EDT - zm_dirty_panic_v3
2017-10-13 03:00 EDT - zm_kruma_panic_004
2017-10-20 03:00 EDT - zm_lila_cheesypanic_v2
2017-10-27 03:00 EDT - zm_lila_panic_beach_2_PF
2017-11-03 03:00 EDT - zm_lilapanicbeach_chodefix3
2017-11-10 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_crazy_pf_v5
2017-11-17 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panicdark
2017-11-24 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_darkbasement_v1
2017-12-01 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_f3_v3_pf
2017-12-08 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_fixed_pf
2017-12-15 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_isethen_pF
2017-12-22 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_lego_final_pf
2018-12-29 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_pfcf1
2018-01-05 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_tpc_v2_pf
2018-01-12 03:00 EST - zm_lila_wow_style_[S]_v1...
Every Friday at 3:00 am EDT the ZM server will have a new panic map available to play.
Here's the schedule:
2017-09-22 03:00 EDT - zm_choddapfpanic1 (currently on rotation)
2017-09-29 03:00 EDT - zm_choddasnowpanic_b5
2017-10-06 03:00 EDT - zm_dirty_panic_v3
2017-10-13 03:00 EDT - zm_kruma_panic_004
2017-10-20 03:00 EDT - zm_lila_cheesypanic_v2
2017-10-27 03:00 EDT - zm_lila_panic_beach_2_PF
2017-11-03 03:00 EDT - zm_lilapanicbeach_chodefix3
2017-11-10 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_crazy_pf_v5
2017-11-17 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panicdark
2017-11-24 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_darkbasement_v1
2017-12-01 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_f3_v3_pf
2017-12-08 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_fixed_pf
2017-12-15 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_isethen_pF
2017-12-22 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_lego_final_pf
2018-12-29 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_pfcf1
2018-01-05 03:00 EST - zm_lila_panic_tpc_v2_pf
2018-01-12 03:00 EST - zm_lila_wow_style_[S]_v1...
We've added a new skin and moved some old ones around.
Eli
New skin for Donators+
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Super Soldier
Moved from Level 3+ to Level 1+
![[IMG]](https://plaguefest.com/styles/plaguefest/xenforo/plaguefest/css_skins/s_super-soldier.png)
Dr. Kleiner
Moved from Level 4+ to Level 2+
![[IMG]](https://plaguefest.com/styles/plaguefest/xenforo/plaguefest/css_skins/s_kleiner.png)
G-Man
Moved from root only to Level 3+
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Dr. Kleiner and G-Man don't include lsa/root jump; they have the same jump height as other donator+ skins.
As always you can view all donator+ skins here: http://plaguefest.com/wiki/skins-available/
Thanks to @Emily for proposing the idea.
Eli
New skin for Donators+
![[IMG]](https://plaguefest.com/styles/plaguefest/xenforo/plaguefest/css_skins/s_eli.png)
Super Soldier
Moved from Level 3+ to Level 1+
![[IMG]](https://plaguefest.com/styles/plaguefest/xenforo/plaguefest/css_skins/s_super-soldier.png)
Dr. Kleiner
Moved from Level 4+ to Level 2+
![[IMG]](https://plaguefest.com/styles/plaguefest/xenforo/plaguefest/css_skins/s_kleiner.png)
G-Man
Moved from root only to Level 3+
![[IMG]](https://plaguefest.com/styles/plaguefest/xenforo/plaguefest/css_skins/s_gman.png)
Dr. Kleiner and G-Man don't include lsa/root jump; they have the same jump height as other donator+ skins.
As always you can view all donator+ skins here: http://plaguefest.com/wiki/skins-available/
Thanks to @Emily for proposing the idea.
Hello everyone,
Good news! After years of discussions and thousands of suggestions it is finally here. RockTheVote plugin has been updated to ignore AFK's (thanks to @Brian for the well-crafted idea). This solves the issue of 154 AFK spectators preventing rtv's from going through. It works as follows:
If you afk in spectate for some time or are moved to spectate for being afk, you will be removed from the voting pool and your vote will be discounted. If you come back you can rtv again.
Good news! After years of discussions and thousands of suggestions it is finally here. RockTheVote plugin has been updated to ignore AFK's (thanks to @Brian for the well-crafted idea). This solves the issue of 154 AFK spectators preventing rtv's from going through. It works as follows:
If you afk in spectate for some time or are moved to spectate for being afk, you will be removed from the voting pool and your vote will be discounted. If you come back you can rtv again.