Defcon Gaming Purge RP

additional pros:

custom, feature-rich minimap specifically for their costum map

during purge spawns players in random places on the map with pipes

top 5 leaderboard for kills during purge with kill counter

"VIP" room in the spawn area with:

• closet that lets anyone (even regular players) choose which default model they play as
• donator only shop that makes it so you (re)spawn with a weapon of your choosing, even during the purge
  • possibly some other things present in this shop (you can't interact with the vip shop npc unless you're a donator so I can't tell)

cons:

random spawns during purge gets players stuck (in which case they promptly kill each other, so not that big of a deal)

mediocre performance

other notes:

sketch "above the law" group of players
 

As an old purge player, I suggest that we use a new menu that is clean and simple, no stupid clutter shit.

BUT use the old party system, please. (ALSO LOOK AT MY VEHICLE SUGGESTIONS THANKS) 

Also, change up the player models or certain PD characters and for the thief, I will make a suggestion for that.

2 hours ago, TheJitFace said:

As an old purge player, I suggest that we use a new menu that is clean and simple, no stupid clutter shit.

BUT use the old party system, please. (ALSO LOOK AT MY VEHICLE SUGGESTIONS THANKS) 

Also, change up the player models or certain PD characters and for the thief, I will make a suggestion for that.

This is a server review for defcon gaming, though.

I may as well put my input here as well.

Pros:

• Custom DarkRP/Sandbox Mats
  • I had my own implementation of this. Theirs is a tad darker.
     
• Custom Esc Menu. Wanted to point out their "updates" portion of it, thought it was pretty neato.
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• Absolute kick-ass Mini-Map.
• Multicore-rendering popup.
  • (gmod_mcore_test 1). This is also a con in a way. It can cause clients to crash under certain rendering conditions (hence why it's a popup and non-mandatory).
     
• Top Purgers.
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• Custom MOTD.
  •  (made it lower-res)
     
• Laws of the land
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• Skill/XP (with skill points).
• Third-Person.
• Voice chat edited.
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• Periodical decals cleanup on the map.
  •  (this may have been just a moderator doing this but it's a good idea nonetheless)
• "Server Guide".

Cons:

• Bad/Generic Loading Screen.
  • Also an unused portion of it.
• A lot of incomplete downloads (lots of errors in game).
• Tickrate >33 and a VAR still averaging 12+.
• (this is my opinion): No Wiremod.
• Bad HUD/UI.
• A lot of script/game errors.
• No visual Purge warning (aside from the timer). I think ours was much much better (still think ours should be less intrusive on the screen).
• Lots of 3D2D Text screen usage (one of the top uses of client resources according to FProfiler)

I'll keep updating this as I figure out more stuff and what I like/dislike on it.

Overall, I can take a lot of ideas from the server and implement them in our own way.

Thanks,

    - @Zebra

20 hours ago, Roy said:

However, I think us running at the 22 tick rate like we did before will give us an edge

Towards Purge's end we ran at 33.

Wanted to note that this ran very well (though towards Purge's end there wasn't many players/events).