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Some other games I would like to host

2024-12-29 by Rails, tagged as gameservers

For a long time I have been wanting to expand the servers to some other games. In my mind I have been planning to host these:

But for now I have these drawbacks:

  1. Portal Co-operative only has Windows binaries and Wine for some weird reason refuses to load SRCDS even with the latest version from Debian and from the WineHQ repositories. What a shame, I really liked this mod so much and I ever wanted to make a server for this.
  2. Synergy has had too many problems when I wanted to create a server on Linux (such as entities not appearing, sounds not loading correctly, weird crashes, and so more). Now that it has been updated after the HL2 20th Anniversary my plans to create a server there have resurfaced but for now I'm not sure if I'll take it up again.
  3. IIRC when running a Headcrab Frenzy server it crashes, but I don't remember exactly if this happened when trying to use Metamod. I don't remember how I managed to fix this but there was a solution to this problem on the Steam forums.
  4. I'm not sure whether to leave a server on Base Defense but seeing that there are literally no servers left in the US on that game (although there's actually one and it's from GoldSrc Saturdays) I was deciding on whether to leave one there. What I will do is setting the Softcore difficulty for personal reasons and for the sake of some other new players.
  5. I would like to but I'm not sure either. Probably it will run with the default campaign maps but there are a huge lot of servers running with vanilla stuff that it would not be worth it.
  6. I haven't played TF2 since 2020 and I don't quite remember how to play MvM anymore. I was thinking of dropping one with this mode and probably custom maps since this was one of my favorite TF2 game modes (I suck a lot in normal modes) but seeing how much TF2 assets end up weighing after downloading them on my VPS I ended up backing out of this.
  7. Just like TF2, I haven't played that again for years now and never got used to its gameplay. Still doesn't take away from the fact that it's an awesome game. For now I'm not interested in opening a server of that, although I would also like to add custom maps (if possible) and new characters to it. And in case you're wondering, it will be co-op only too.

BTW, I was also considering hosting Xash3D FWGS gameservers of the current GoldSrc mods I'm running. I'm not sure about doing this considering Xash3D FWGS now allows playing on GoldSrc servers which has Reunion/Dproto on it but for now I don't think about doing that.