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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
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SourceMod admins and immunity, done properly
Flags are capabilities, not ranks, and z is not the top of the ladder. How to hand out admin without handing over the server.
· 3 min read
Guides · Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source Servers in 2026: Complete Guide
Counter-Strike: Source still runs hundreds of community servers. Zombie escape, surf, bhop and KZ explained, plus how to install it and find a good server.
· 16 min read
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Updating a Server Without Breaking It
The update that takes a server down is almost never the game's. A staging habit that costs twenty minutes and saves a weekend.
· 8 min read
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SourceMod vs AMX Mod X vs Oxide: Compared
The server-side modding frameworks behind community servers, why players install nothing, which fits which engine, and how to tell if one is maintained.
· 15 min read
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 · Left 4 Dead
How to Install Left 4 Dead and Join a Server
There is a reasonable argument that you should not buy Left 4 Dead. Its sequel absorbed all four campaigns, plays better and has six times the servers.
· 8 min read
Guides · Insurgency (2014)
How to Install Insurgency Standalone and Join a Server
Insurgency will kill you before you work out where the shot came from, and it will do it in your first thirty seconds. That is not a difficulty setting.
· 8 min read
Guides · Day of Defeat: Source
How to Install Day of Defeat: Source and Join a Server
A machine gunner who has found a second-storey window and set his bipod on the sill will hold a street alone until someone flanks him or lands a grenade.
· 10 min read