1. Thank you kindly for letting us advertise ourselves the way you've set that up, as a community owner I really want to utilize that function and look forward to doing so. 2. However, I'm stuck waiting on Linux support as well. I'm sure you've heard it a billion times given it is one of the highest requested things right now, but if you manage to get it working relatively soon I will put a shout out to you on said MOTD. <3
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:10 PM, John Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > Everyone, > > Today, starting in an hour (1pm EST), we're going to be launching a free > weekend for Killing Floor 2 in support of our recently released "Return of > the Patriarch" content pack. I'm here to request the help of the server > hosting community to meet the peak demand we're likely to see from the free > weekend. Right now we have about half of the servers we think we'll need to > meet the demand. So anyone that could pop up some servers for the weekend > would be greatly appreciated. The servers for KF2 are 6 players and are > really light on CPU and bandwidth usage, so they can run on a really wide > range of hardware. > > Also, one thing worth mentioning is a new bit of functionality we recently > added to our servers which will help you be able to advertise your gaming > community or GSP is a server welcome screen. This displays when players > connect to a server, and has a customizable message of the day text > message, a banner image, and a website link. So now if you put up servers > for a free weekend (or any time for that matter) you can basically put an > ad in that all players that connect to that server can see, and a web link > that you can put in that they can click on that will take them directly to > where you want them to go to find out more about your gaming community or > GSP. Here is info on how to set it up: > > 1) Make sure the game server isn't running > 2) Edit PCServer-KFGame.ini: > > Find this part and edit it, here is the default one > Code: > > BannerLink=http://art.tripwirecdn.com/TestItemIcons/MOTDServer.png > ServerMOTD=Welcome to our server. \n \n Have fun and good luck! > WebsiteLink=http://killingfloor2.com/ > > 3) BannerLink should be a PNG (save it > 8bit) image > 4) ServerMOTD is the message display under the BannerLink image. You can > usesome "*\n*" to create a new line like in the default message, I > personally add two lines before my MOTD message to add space between image > and text > 5) WebsiteLink is the url of your website (if you edit this from the > webadmin, it resets to a blank value after saving) > 6) Save, start the server, enjoy you welcome screen. If it does not show > up ingame, you're doing it wrong. > > Thanks everyone! > > P.S. We know more of you would put up servers if we had linux servers. > It's on the list of things we want to do. > > John Gibson > President > Tripwire Interactive > www.tripwireinteractive.com > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > -- *Matthew (Rowedahelicon) Robinson* Web Designer / Artist / Writer Website - http://www.rowedahelicon.com/
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