New GFL GMOD Discord

Due to some recent events that resulted in the GFL Staff Team losing access to the GFL GMOD Divisional Discord, we have decided to open up a new discord for the division.   You may join using this link: https://discord.gg/cdPNUkz     All server managers should update their links at once to reflect the new one.     Thanks! Xy

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CS:S Zombie Escape Merge Has Been Completed!

Hello everyone,   I just wanted to announce the CS:S Zombie Escape merge with .RU and .COM has been completed. You can find more information regarding the conclusion of the merge here.   The new server IP is 185.177.22.161:27015.     If you were a member, supporter, or VIP in .RU and do not have your proper perks, please read this thread.   Thank you!

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Announcing the Next Director!

Hey everyone,   I am here to announce the next director! Everyone welcome back @X2D!   For those who do not know who @X2D is, he was a Council member back years ago (2014 - 2015). This was when the Council rank was equivalent to the Director rank now. @X2D has contributed a lot to the community when he was Council and helped build servers such as Garry's Mod Purge and Garry's Mod Murder.   He is back once again to help GFL and push it into the right direction.   I am very confident he will do well!   Thanks.

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Major Expansions Into The United Kingdom & United States

Hello everybody,   I am here to announce the two major expansions we are currently working on. We are expanding into the United Kingdom and United States using different hosting providers.   Unfortunately, we've found that OVH has been difficult to expand with. Their support time has been incredibly slow (example #1) regardless of critical issues and their data center located in Montreal, Canada isn't ideal for a majority of players in the United States regarding latency, etc. I do understand their prices are very good (especially for the hardware we receive), but unfortunately their support doesn't meet our needs and our servers struggle to populate partially due to their data center's location.   Therefore, I've decided to go searching for new hosting providers and I've found two that have great setups and a lot of potential in my opinion (especially for GFL). With that said, I get direct support via Steam, Discord, and even TeamSpeak 3. On top of that, both hosting providers have built their own network dedicated to hosting game servers by owning their hardware, etc. This results in lower latency and great (D)DoS protection. Overall, I feel these new hosting providers will do well for us and I am very confident!   The new hosting providers are Croncos (UK) and GMCHosting (US).   I've requested first-month discounts or a custom build with lower specs/prices to start. This is because we are in a testing stage for both hosting providers. I want to ensure our game servers will populate and things will go well with us. Once this is confirmed, we will be upgrading our machines to the machines with the best hardware for best performance.   Before reading - The server lineups could change. This is the expected lineups at the moment.   Side note - Due to additional IPs being more expensive than OVH with these new hosting providers, we have decided to use one IP for most game servers and different ports ranging from 27015 - 27025 depending on the game's engine. We may have to purchase additional IPs for some games due to the firewall filtering. This shouldn't affect population whatsoever. Our very successful CS:S Zombie Escape server ran on port 27017 in the past without any issues.   United Kingdom We have recently purchased a machine from Croncos. We've purchased the machine for $84.96 the first month. However, afterwards it will continue at its normal price. Here are the specs of the machine:   Intel i7-4790K @ 4.0 GHz. 32 GBs of DDR3 RAM. 240 GBs SSD. One IPv4 address. 10 TBs of bandwidth. 1 gbps port. Located in London, UK. $111.10/m. No setup fee.   As mentioned above, the machine is located in London, UK. I've found that this location has a great amount of players. For example, our Garry's Mod Murder server we've setup recently has been doing very well and receiving many NEW players.   If this hosting provider works out, we will likely be upgrading to a future machine with the following specs:   Intel i7-4790K overclocked to 4.4 GHz 32 GBs of DDR3 RAM. 480 GBs SSD. One IPv4 address. 10 TBs of bandwidth. 1 gbps port. Located in London, UK. $130.70/m. No setup fee.   The processor being overclocked to 4.4 GHz will surely help the performance of our game servers!   Servers Garry's Mod Purge. (will wait for later) Garry's Mod Murder. Garry's Mod Zombie Survival. Call of Duty 4 FFA.     * This is the lineup currently and just a starting lineup. It could change at any time. I will update the post with the GameTracker images when we add the game servers to GameTracker.   If this expansion works out, we will start expansions into more games such as Squad, CS:GO, Arma 3, TF2, and other games. It all depends on how things go.   United States We have recently purchased a machine from GMCHosting. We requested a custom build for a lower price since I consider this a testing stage. I don't want to buy their most powerful machine without knowing our servers are going to populate. Anyways, the current machine specs are:   Intel i7-4970K @ 4.0 GHz. 16 GBs of DDR3 RAM. 500 GBs NVMe. One IPv4 address. 10 TBs of bandwidth monthly. 150 mbps up/down (with 1 gbps burst). Located in Dallas, Texas. $135.00/m. No setup fee.   As mentioned above, the machine is located in Dallas, Texas. This will result in lower latency for a majority of the United States players compared to the OVH's data center (Montreal, Canada).   If this hosting provider works out, we will likely be upgrading to a future machine with the following specs:   Intel i7-8086K overclocked to 5.2 GHz (six cores). 16 GBs of DDR4 RAM. 500 GBs NVMe. One IPv4 address. 10 TBs of bandwidth a month. 150 mbps up/down (with 1 gbps burst). Located in Dallas, Texas. $260.00/m. $100 setup fee.   This machine is overkill in my opinion, but that's alright! While it may seem a bit expensive, keep in mind it's six cores and overclocked to 5.2 GHz!   Servers Garry's Mod Purge. Garry's Mod Murder. Garry's Mod Zombie Survival. Garry's Mod CWRP. Call of Duty 4 FFA.     * This is the lineup currently and just a starting lineup. It could change at any time. I will update the post with the GameTracker images when we add the game servers to GameTracker.   If this expansion works out, we will start expansions into more games such as Squad (moving server from OVH), CS:GO, Arma 3, TF2, and other games. It all depends on how things go.   Overall I believe this is a great start for us. For example, our Garry's Mod Murder server located in the United Kingdom has been doing VERY well recently! We are reintroducing a lot of older game modes that were loved by many people within the community to see if we can revive them on a different hosting provider. However, we are also in the process of creating servers in newer game modes that have had a lot of success recently. We also plan on getting into many games outside of Garry's Mod if this expansion is successful. I am going to be pushing for Valve to fix their server browser in CS:GO. I am betting that if my suggestion for the CS:GO server browser was implemented and servers that are empty or have a password were removed or moved to the bottom of the server browser, many community servers would start populating again. If this does somehow happen (it would be a miracle considering Valve would need to fix it), we would start a major expansion into CS:GO depending on the results.   Keep in mind again, these are just starting lineups for each machine and things will likely change in the near future.   Anyways, I am also going to be working on a lot of internal projects in the near future. For example, one of the projects has to do with an internal training system. I believe there are MANY things GFL can improve on internally to make us a stronger community. I also understand I need to complete a lot of projects related to the back end. I will be making an announcement at some point regarding the internal changes and so on. I believe starting with these expansions will highly motivate the people within the community and I.   I hope you're happy with this announcement!   If you have any questions or concerns, please reply to the thread.   Thank you for reading.

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Partnering with Pig's Indie Games

Hello! I'm happy to announce that we are partnering with Pig's Indie Games. He is currently working on quite a few games, including SCP: Rebirth and Multibombers, his latest project. Multibombers will be released on September 28th and is based off the game Bomberman, but with the addition of first person gameplay and multiplayer. The game will be free to play and is available on steam.   Patreon - https://patreon.com/GlorifiedPig Discord - https://discord.gg/pigsindiegames Steam Page - https://store.steampowered.com/app/931260/Multibombers/

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GFL Newsletter - September 2018

GFL Divisions CWRP changed to Imperial RP Council Changes This month in GFL, we had witnessed the release of a new division within the community. Classic survival-builder game ‘Terraria’ is now home to a GFL server, lead by new Server Manager Elliot. With it being freshly set up by this SM alone, it had spawned overnight thanks to Benroy and Xy as well. The server is set to be a building one, with pvp included. Here’s hoping to seeing many old and new faces alike come and checking out GFL Terraria! In other news, our newest GMod server, CWRP, has turned to the dark side with an eventful switch to Imperial RP. There are 11 new battalions from Stormtrooper to Sith to be a part of, along with new character models, new jobs to perform, and new tryouts for these battalions. Take part in a variety of tasks such as Attack/Defense missions, Assassinations, and Invasions! The server is currently locked from the public but expects to be ready within the month! Will you succumb to the dark side? On the Social side of GFL, there’s been a major change to some roles/positions. The newly-reinstated council was disbanded and rebranded as Team Leaders, each one in charge of a certain aspect instead of a general field. Benroy as TL of Moderators, Pyros as TL of Event Management, and Unknown leading Public Relations. All current moderators that made the cut now have perms across our discord, our ts3 server, and our forums, PR spreads the word about GFL while maintaining a happy relationship between members and community, and Event Managers can plan events for the divisions or even discord events! The remaining council members Crusty and FlyingJoe were dispurst to the ARMA project (Crusty) and co-leader of Media Team (FlyingJoe) in the meantime. Here’s to looking up, GFL! Social Media Links Events Fun facts Public DiscordFacebookTwitterSteam GroupReddit GCC: PUBG Extravaganza Date: October 6th, 2018 - 3-6 Eastern Link: https://gflclan.com/forums/topic/31256-pubg-extravaganza/ GFL Terraria: Terraria was released on 26th May 2011, over 7 years ago.Imperial RP: With Imperial coming after Clone Wars, the switch indicates time passing, and was launched with the event: Order 66, a major plot point in the series.With the merge, we have now 11 mods (not including higher-ups with the same perms) to take care of our social platforms!

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Changes to staff structure

Many of you have probably noticed the introduction of a couple of ranks, noticeably: Moderation, Event Management, and Public Relations. Essentially, these are the result of the council being split up into separate teams with a former council member as their leader (These former council members have the same level of access as the council did). We hope that this new structure will allow more people to get involved with the administration of the community as a whole and will address issues that we previously had with the council rank itself.   The following teams were created as a result of the split:   Moderation Moderates the GFL Discord, TS3 Server, and Forums Assists in the selection of new moderators Application: https://gflclan.com/forms/6-moderation-application/ Currently lead by @Ben Roy   Public Relations Helps maintain good relations between GFL and its community Advertises GFL in a respectful manner (i.e. not getting on other servers and spamming ‘JOIN GFL!’) Assists managers in making sure that bans are consistent with community policy. Application: https://gflclan.com/forms/13-public-relations-application/ Lead by @Unknown   Event Management Involved in the planning and execution community events, as well as reaching out to other communities for event related purposes. Assists managers in putting on events for their server. Application: https://gflclan.com/forms/12-event-management-application/ Lead by @Pyros (Might be reassigned to somewhere else, tbd)   Currently, none of the new teams have strict requirements with the exception of Moderation (due to its nature).   PFAQ (Probably Frequently Asked Questions)   Q: Why was I/[INSERT FORMER MODS NAME HERE] removed from TS3 Admin/ Discord Moderator? A: Due to the expansion of the role to include all platforms, trusted did a vote on all current communications staff. If >= 50% voted Yes, the staff member was retained, but if they didn’t get enough yes votes, then they were removed from the position. If you were removed from the position, you are free to re-apply at any time using the link above.   Q: What happened to Crusty and Flyingjoe? A: Crusty is now the manager of the upcoming Arma 3 server and flyingjoe is now overseeing the media team alongside SadBandit (who is still the primary leader).   That's all for now <3  

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The Return of CSS ZE!

I'd like to add a little clarity to the rumours spreading about CS:S ZE/RU community returning. I'll refer to GFLclan.ru as RU and GFLclan.com as GFL to make this easier.   Juky (whom some of you may remember) had got into contact with @Roy as he had some concerns with keeping the server hosted on their end. They then discussed the possible return to us, and before that decision was finalised, there were some terms from both ends.   Juky, Shinigami and Botox will, at this moment in time, remain banned The server will be moved to our OVH server and the plugins will be recompiled to ensure the servers safety Current permanent VIPs within RU will transfer over to GFL The server will be having 2 server managers (@Dogan and @Backy) from within the RU community—Soft Serve and Vanya’s official ranks are still under discussion The current server rules and admin team of CS:S ZE will remain as they currently are As is currently the norm, global admins (Council/DL/TA) will also respect the rules within that server and will ensure that if they are to join the server that they familiarise themselves with said rules   There are also a couple of points I will mention. For instance, due to the current issues within RU, the donations from RU will not be transferring over to GFL; this is in relation to the issue above about hosting the server. There are also discussions happening to unban Juky (he would not be given a rank), as thanks for bringing both communities together and to enable him to continue playing on CS:S ZE. Feel free to comment your opinion as well.   These are the majority of terms which were discussed and are relatively simple. We would like to ensure that CS:S ZE isn't altered as much as possible, as we don't want to alienate the current players. Overall, we believe this is a good step for both communities in burying the hatchet and moving on. I would also like to thank the RU members who have been involved within these discussions, especially Juky, who initially brought this to us and helped find common ground between the communities.   This means that we will start seeing people from RU getting involved within GFL over the next few weeks, I'd love if we could make them feel welcome and get to know each other as one big community bound by a common interest!   If you'd like to read over RU's post on this topic it is here: https://forum.gflclan.ru/d/935-a-tale-of-two-turfs-community-merge-backstory They do cover some points which I haven't within this post.   I am also going to link the CS:S ZE Discord for anyone who is interested in getting to know some of the RU members before this move is fully completed: https://discordapp.com/invite/JyAxA7K   Finally, I’d also like to personally welcome everyone from RU and I hope to get to know as many of you as possible in the near future!

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GFL Newsletter - July 2018

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Dystopia Server

GFL now has a dystopia server! The game is free and available from steam.   You can connect to the server by typing `connect 145.239.235.223:27018` in the console (without the `).   The server's gametracker can be found here: https://www.gametracker.com/server_info/145.239.235.223:27018/   The dystopia server is located in Europe and is managed by @Kite9867

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GFL Newsletter - June 2018

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GFL Newsletter - May 2018

  A PDF is attached for anyone who would like to view it in a pdf reader over an image file.GFLNewsletter2(1).pdf    

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CS: GO BHop Redone

Merry Christmas I'm happy to announce that the BHop server has been rebuilt from the ground up with a new timer.   The servers are going to go online at 4:00 am (CST for NA, CET for EU) on the first day of Christmas.IPs: NA: 104.153.105.207 EU: 79.137.121.134   Timer The previous timer had way too many bugs and a lot of issues which is why I decided on switching the timer to 'shavit’s simple bhop timer'.   Core features of the new timer are: Good Hud with a lot of statistics support for map tiers very good rank calculation based on map tiers (even tho there's no chat tags yet) trigger-based zones central replay bot checkpoint menu and it's Open Source (GPL 3.0) and very actively being worked on and much more. also, it doesn't crash the server every 2 hours and makes zones load for over 10 minutes   Maps A full list of all maps can be found here. My plan is to add 25 maps every week. This will last over 6 months until there are no more maps left on gamebanana. However, there are other sources for maps so there's probably gonna be more. Maps are also sorted by tiers which represent their difficulty. Tier 1 maps are very easy while tier 6 maps are very hard.   Other Plugins and Features pushfix, slopefix, movement_unlocker etc. for the best bhop experience showtriggers - see triggers while the timer is stopped or practicing. ssj - advanced jump stats Discord integration - this is still being worked on but atm. you can see new records on the discord server. (you can see also see ac detections)   Discord Server This server exists for some time now. Join here. It's probably the best place to talk to me about suggestions or similar stuff other than the forums.   Admins Due to a lack of activity in the admin team (I don’t blame you), I will rebuild the team from the ground up which means that all the BHop staff will lose their ranks. However, they can apply again and if they are active, they will have a big chance of getting accepted again. However, this means that I'm currently looking for admins. If you're active and want to help out the server, feel free to apply in this subforum.   A look at the future I'm currently working on: replay synchronization cross server and discord chat relay Planned stuff: better discord Integration for the timer forum integration for the timer chat tags for rankings (hurry up shavit) and way more.    Thanks to shavit for the timer. @Roy for helping me with all the backend stuff I can't do myself. @Reeve for some advice with the server. @Bae for some advice on the art you can see above.   Have fun.

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*NEW* Prop Hunt Server

After a couple months of hard work the prop hunt server has been re-released. I would like to thank the following people for contributing to the making of this server.   @Zebra & @Violator- Taught me how to basically do everything and spent many hours working on this server. @Roy- Running this server out of pocket and setting a ton of stuff up that I probably don't know about. @Leks, @Winter, & @Xy_-Having to deal with the many questions I have to ask . @_Marshmello_, @Gary, @mbs, @Squanchy, @Jat02, @Finnick, @Winter -Willing to become part of the PH admin team and they also helped test the server before it was released.   Sorry if I forgot anyone a lot of people helped make this server and I might not now about everyone that did. If you are interested in playing on the PH server the IP is: 216.52.143.82:27015. If you want to read the rules click here, or if you are interested in applying for admin on the server click here. Hopefully I'll see you guys on the server!  

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[Server Update] New Gmod Murder Server!

Hello everybody!   As you may possibly have seen (if you are in the Garry's Mod section at all), Murder 1, aka Murder 24/7 Construct, has been locked for a fair amount of time. During this time, I was making some major updates to the server.   And now I am proud to announce that Murder 1 is now known as General Rotation! Multiple maps have been added and clues have been added to every map on the rotation, in addition to massive updates the Pointshop, as you may have seen in the Murder Changelog for about the past 2-3 weeks.   So please come check it out! Murder General Rotation is now completely released and I hope you all enjoy it!   Come join: 74.91.119.125:27015   Credit to @inHaze for this magnificent new artwork/loading screen.   Cheers everybody!

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*NEW* CS:GO TTT Server!

Welcome, everyone! This is a pleasure for me to announce that we have a new TTT server for CSGO. This has been a long time coming and should have been back up awhile ago. We  have a couple perks here and there, feel free to join the server and check it out.   I want to thank everyone that came on during the beta, and everyone that have given me this opportunity to make this server.   Come join us on CSGO, the IP is: 192.223.26.133:27015

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