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Serving custom content properly with FastDL
Four ways it goes wrong and all of them are silent. The directory layout, the compression, and the two places files have to live.
· 3 min read
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Installing Metamod:Source and SourceMod without breaking it
Two pieces of software, one job, and an install order that decides everything. Plus the gamedata errors that look like plugin bugs.
· 4 min read
Guides · Counter-Strike 1.6
Warcraft Mod: RPG Levelling Inside Counter-Strike
Races, levels and abilities bolted onto Counter-Strike, still busy after twenty years. What the races do, why it works, and what arriving is like.
· 7 min read
Guides · Counter-Strike 2
Executes, Practice Servers and Nade Lineups
What a practice server gives you that an empty one does not, how executes differ from retakes, and how to spend an hour on lineups without wasting it.
· 7 min read
Guides · Counter-Strike 1.6
Scoutzknivez, Rats and the Fun-Map Tradition
Iceworld, rats maps and scoutzknivez are still running on populated servers twenty years later. What the format is, why it survived, and where to find it.
· 7 min read
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Counter-Strike: Source Still Has More Community Servers Than CS2
Source has the mature plugin stack and a stable population. CS2 has the players. What each scene is good at, and what it costs to move between them.
· 7 min read
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GunGame Explained
The weapon changes on every kill and the last level is a knife. Twenty years old, still the best warm-up in the game.
· 7 min read
Guides · Team Fortress 2
Mann vs Machine on Community Servers
Six strangers, waves of robots, and an upgrade system that punishes buying damage. How missions work, what each class is for, and how to pick a server.
· 7 min read
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Retake Servers
The post-plant situation a competitive round produces twice a game, repeated forty times an hour. What it trains, and what it does not.
· 7 min read
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Aim Maps and Training Servers: What They Are Good For
Four formats that train four different things. Most players who feel stuck are practising the one that does not address their problem.
· 7 min read
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Hide and Seek Servers
The playground game inside a shooter, taken more seriously than it has any right to be. One of the easiest community servers to walk into.
· 7 min read
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How Surf Map Tiers Work
What the tiers mean, why two servers rate the same map differently, what separates one tier from the next, and how to get past the one you are stuck on.
· 7 min read