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Zombie Escape, the Mode That Outlived Three Games
Forty players running a scripted twenty-minute level inside a competitive shooter, cooperating in a game with no cooperative mechanics.
· 7 min read
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Bhop Servers Explained
Bunny hopping was a bug, then a technique, then a mode with timers and leaderboards. How it works and how to join a server for it.
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Counter-Strike 2 Community Servers: The Complete Guide
What community servers offer that matchmaking does not, which modes survived the move to CS2, and why they break after Valve updates.
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KZ and Climb Servers Explained
Movement maps with timers, ranks and a two-decade record book. The clearest example of a community that outlived the game it started in.
· 7 min read
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Jailbreak Servers Explained
A mode held together by rules nobody enforces mechanically. What the Warden does, what the unwritten conventions are, and why it needs good moderation.
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Deathrun Servers Explained
One player operates the traps and everyone else tries to survive the course. The rules, the etiquette, and why it is one of the friendliest modes to join.
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Surf Servers Explained
A physics quirk from 2003 that became a discipline with its own maps, tiers and world records. What surf is, and where to start.
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Guides · Day of Defeat: Source
Day of Defeat: Source Servers: Complete Guide
How Day of Defeat: Source differs from the GoldSrc original, what its community servers actually run, and how to install it and find one worth joining.
· 10 min read
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Finding Servers for Games Everyone Says Are Dead
The servers are still running; the mechanism that used to show them to you is not. Where the players actually are, and how to reach them.
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Guides · Zombie Panic! Source
How to Install Zombie Panic! Source and Join a Server
About twenty seconds into a round of Zombie Panic! Source, one of the people next to you stops being a person. The game picks them and tells nobody else.
· 10 min read
Guides · Team Fortress Classic
How to Install Team Fortress Classic and Join a Server
A new Team Fortress Classic player first sees somebody cross the map impossibly fast, take the flag from a defended basement, and vanish again.
· 10 min read
Guides · Team Fortress 2
How to Install Team Fortress 2 and Join a Server
TF2 is free. This covers installing it, what the nine classes actually do, and why the community server browser is the more sensible way to play.
· 8 min read