PC Gaming (HL2:DM - Sept 6th) [Run By: Pfkninenines]

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

This Week's Information:
Current Poll is for the week of September 6th
Game for this week is Half Life 2: Deathmatch

Weekly Winners
Winner 1 - Directxfire | 5-10-10
Winner 2 - Duke Juker - AKA Moochmaker | 5-17-10
Winner 3 - Jasonmrc | 5-24-10
Winner 4 - Sam | 5-31-10
Winner 5 - Tim | 6-14-10

When: Every Monday, 7PM RSBandB Time/MDT (6PM PDT, 8PM CDT, 9PM EDT, 1AM UTC/England)

Started: Apr 30, 2009

Run By: Pfkninenines

Server: R! Servers can be found at 209.160.21.177

System Requirements:
Minimum: 1.2 GHz Processor, 256MB RAM, DirectX 7 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection
Recommended: 2.4 GHz Processor, 512MB+ RAM, DirectX 9 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection
Mac: Minimum: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, 1GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, or ATI X1600 or higher, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

If you're wondering if your computer can handle any of these games, please refer to the 'Can You Run It' site. It should give you an idea as to your system specs, and what they can do. It's not 100% accurate, though it should give you a baseline.

Other Info:
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch (HL2DM) can be downloaded from Steam with a valid account for free supposing the user is on a computer with an ATI or NVIDIA graphics card. If you are unsure of your graphics card manufacturer, you can use the free utility GPU-Z to determine if you qualify for the offer.
[ ATI Steam Offer :: NVIDIA Steam Offer ]

We now have an official Steam community page. Join it to keep up to date on the current weekly event.

The mod chosen is GoldenEye Source (GE:S). Please go to http://www.goldeneyesource.net/ for more information, and for the client download. Use the guide found here for the installation process. From my experience, just run the client .exe file, and it should install. Restart Steam (I'd begin the process with Steam off, then start the program after the installation), and try to launch GE:S. You'll (probably) be unsuccessful, and it will say you need to download the SDK. It should begin to download automatically. Once finished, you should have a working copy of GE:S.

http://rsbb.ca/t74317 is the unique short url for this topic.

If you don't want to wait on map downloads the night of the game, get your maps early from the links provided below. If you do not wish to download these separately, no worries. The Rsbandb PC Gaming server has a fast download for all maps, ensuring that even if you don't pre-download maps, you'll get them quickly if the server contains a map you don't have. Follow Shane's instructions below to make use of these downloads.
[ HL2:DM Map Pack 1 :: HL2:DM Map Pack 2 :: Complete HL2:DM Map Pack August 2010 :: Complete CSS:GG Map Pack + extras May 2010 ]

Note: You can download individual maps from the HL2DM server and put them in their correct folders by going to the HL2DM server with your browser.

If you'd like to submit a map for us to play, please PM the map info (preferably with a download link) to Mike or Shane.

Updates
8/30/10 - This weeks' game will be CSS
9/6/10 - This weeks' game will be HL2:DM
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Adbot · **Posted:** April 20th, 2009, 4:23 pm

Shane · **Posted:** April 30th, 2009, 3:46 am

I have some maps for you all to download. Make sure you have them before you come to the server as it will greatly speed things up

Download the maps here: http://events.rsbandb.com/rsbandb_maps_1.zip

You will then want to extract them into your maps folder. This is usually located at: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\[your username]\half-life2 deathmatch\hl2mp\maps

Please note the actual bsp files must be in this folder. The simplest way to accomplish this is to just open the zip file using Windows Explorer and drag the contents to your map folder.

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

Had a low turnout for the first event, what gives guys? Would anyone be more likely to show up if it was a Team Fortress 2 event instead? I know there are people here with TF2 installed, so there isn't any reason to suggest it's too expensive.

If you'd show up in a few weeks, but you didn't this time, could you please say why?

Chief Snake · **Posted:** May 1st, 2009, 6:48 pm

I'd love to come but the event is during school on a Friday for me. :oops:

Burnt Joint · **Posted:** May 1st, 2009, 9:12 pm

I'm in the same situation as Chiefy

Vervada · **Posted:** May 9th, 2009, 2:55 pm

I attended the inaugural event a few months back, but I don't think I'll attend religiously, for the main reason, as Pfkninenines stated, that I'm just too wrapped up in Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead. We do need to do a TF2 event, if it's an issue of a server you can borrow mine...

Adbot · **Posted:** May 9th, 2009, 2:55 pm

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

Servers, we can handle

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Contemplating moving the time back a few hours, and potentially the game if people just don't like HL2:DM. Please feel free to keep giving your opinions, after all these events get quite boring with just a few people

phr33 st00f pl0x · **Posted:** May 13th, 2009, 9:32 pm

Counter Strike FTW

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

Reopened till further notice. Please attend if you wish to see these events in the future.

dknifton2004 · **Posted:** June 5th, 2009, 1:35 pm

phr33 st00f pl0x wrote:

Counter Strike FTW

so true

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pfk is there any other days that the event can be run ? and how many people attended last time? any screenies?

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

I wouldn't mind it being a different day, especially during the summer. The only problem I have is during the school year since I usually have exams Thursday nights. The event tends to be after any exam would end, so it tends to have worked out.

If moving it to Wednesday would help, that'd be fine by me. This summer I'm taking a course and I have exams every Friday... Needless to say, Thursdays aren't great for me anymore.

dknifton2004 · **Posted:** June 5th, 2009, 3:59 pm

sounds like moving to a wed would help you

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server is empty when i had a look. any way of trying to boost traffic?

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

Not really. Unless people are consistently in there, it will be empty.

Anyone else in favor of moving the event to Wednesday?

phr33 st00f pl0x · **Posted:** June 7th, 2009, 5:12 pm

I've never even heard of Half Life 2: Deathmatch... Counter Strike or another TF2 event pl0x =D>

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

If you haven't heard of it, why bother spamming in the thread? Download it, it's free if you qualify with your graphics card.

phr33 st00f pl0x wrote:

Counter Strike or another TF2 event pl0x =D>

Nobody showed up for the TF2 events. We had a good turnout the first week because a ton of other people not from BNB joined. If people want a certain event, they actually need to show up for it. We went back to HL2:DM because we always got a better turnout, and it's free for nearly everyone who wants to play.

Point of the matter is, don't ask for it if you aren't going to show up.