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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.
· 7 min read
Articles tagged "community servers"
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Getting Votes Without Begging For Them
Voting works and nagging does not. Rewards that close the loop without corrupting the game, and why a vote share is a retention signal in disguise.
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Guides · Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 Community Servers: Complete Guide
TF2 is free and half of it lives on community servers. Trade, jailbreak, surf, dodgeball and MvM explained, plus how to find a server and become a regular.
· 16 min read
Guides · Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
How to Install Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Join a Server
On Goldrush one team escorts a tank up a hill to blow open a bank, then carries two crates of gold down to a truck. It takes twelve minutes when it works.
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Guides · VALORANT
How to Install VALORANT and Join a Server
Most games ask you to install them. VALORANT asks you to restart your computer, and sometimes to turn on two firmware settings before it will run at all.
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Guides · Valheim
How to Install Valheim and Join a Server
The first troll that finds your house does not open the door. It swings a tree at the wall, the wall stops being a wall, and then the wooden roof falls in.
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Guides · Urban Terror
How to Install Urban Terror and Join a Server
Urban Terror looks like a realism shooter. Tactical vests, iron sights, bleeding wounds, a bandage you have to apply while somebody is trying to kill you.
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Guides · Unreal Tournament
How to Install Unreal Tournament and Join a Server
There is a weapon in Unreal Tournament you fire twice. The Shock Rifle's secondary is a slow purple orb that does little. Its primary is an instant beam.
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Guides · Terraria
How to Install Terraria and Join a Server
Terraria looks like a small game for about four hours. You chop trees, build a wooden box, and an unimpressed man moves in. Then you dig down.
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Guides · TeamSpeak 2
How to Install TeamSpeak 2 and Join a Server
TeamSpeak 2 is not a game, and that needs saying before anything else, because it sits on a game server directory next to games. It is voice chat.
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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
Guides · Star Wars Jedi Knight
How to Install Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Join a Server
Two players meet in a courtyard on a duel server. One bows, the other bows back, and nobody interrupts the fight that follows. None of that is in the code.
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