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Today's new topics are: lasers, trim , shortcuts, trolls, and salt.
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Map(s): ze_diddle_v3
Restrictions/Limitations: beating laser ending
Event Time preferred: 2-3 hours
Others: Secret ending is beatable with the whole team shooting from outside the arena while defending the zombies. Teamwork and great leading required but it'll be fun and satisfying after we beat it.
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On 9/6/2017 at 5:12 PM, Flops said:
For future reference, many maps have lists of the music used during the map. Wanderer's palace, santassassination, and other non shit maps have them all in the admin rooms, close to spawn. PM the creator of said maps for music help too!
Finally, when all else fails (no youtube playlists, no music lists, map creator not helpful) you can get all files used for the map using a program called "PakRat" (NOTE, I DO NOT CONDONE PLAGIARISM AND FUCK YOU IF YOU USE PAKRAT FOR THAT) including mp3s and songs. Finally, download said songs to your computer and try using a program such as shazam on your phone to identify said songs.
IF everything else fails, just reach out to the community and ask people like @Shiki who know lots about ze map music.
Fatty digs deep
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I feel like this post is more about asking why older players are still playing ze. Lacking of new maps is the main reason besides the fact that people are simply moving on to other mods or games. There will always be new players coming in as long as Valve isn't attacked by ISIS, but for older players, there's no more thrill in winning the same map over two hundred times, it's more of " just chilling in ze", and obviously, they start to play less and less and only for certain maps. It's just the way how a game or game mod is gonna go, no one stays forever.
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On 6/22/2017 at 6:21 PM, xZephire said:
do these work for you? i remember i had those too but i just got error msg for them in my console so i took them out
Don't think these commands are the reason why those errors appear. Got this from reddit and a lot of people are using it.
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Also here's some fps boosting commands for your autoexec.cfg (increased my fps for around 20)
cl_disablehtmlmotd "1"
cl_forcepreload "1"
fps_max "999"
r_drawtracers_firstperson "0"
r_eyegloss "0"
r_eyemove "0"
r_eyeshift_x "0"
r_eyeshift_y "0"
r_eyeshift_z "0"
r_eyesize "0"
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i've seen people drop nades and use the smoke particles to "yek"

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On 6/20/2017 at 8:11 PM, Unorth said:
I was going to write a post about what keeps me playing ZE, it would have been short, boring and rather untruthful given the current circumstances which is affecting not only this community but the overall ZE community in general.The past few months Ive pushed myself further away from ZE across all servers for a number of varying reasons. I could rattle on about map pool (go make a map yourself) or make some outlandish comment about settings, defending or some either meaningless topic that is bland & hasn't been said before.
The main reason I have been moving further away from ZE community itself is the people. The community is full of arrogant egotistical assholes who are so fixated on their own ego driven agendas and elitist circle jerk that they cannot see the untold damage they are dong to the overall ZE community.
The maturity level of your average zombie escape regular is reasonably low. Lets be frank. The average of most regular ZE players hovers around the late teens early 20s. With some outlying exceptions player characteristics such greediness, self entitlement and insulting behavior as the average method for people to express themselves or to vent when things are not going there way. On a daily basis there is a constant level of drama and bickering over clans, items and ability to dodge laser expressed by your average zombie escape regular. Be it classified as "tryhard" or "casual" this is a double edged sword and there is people from both sides of the coin who are guilty of this.
I have seen people victimized in circumstances such as people being finger pointed for "skipping lasers" or other petty shit that may seem like a joke at first, but a lot of you tend to forget that people log into a video game to escape from reality. They come to chill out after a hard days work or to have fun playing a game they enjoy. Hearing one person belittling another for no other reason other than "for a laugh" or that the person "deserves" it is not and should not be tolerated by either the direct GFL community or the wider ZE community. Sure a joke can run for a couple of days and usually it can be funny for a week at best, but if you lads seriously think 6 months of telling someone they are shit is "funny" then I am sorry but you are part of the reason why ZE has not taken off in a bigger way given the global reach counter strike has in terms of player population. The average age in the community is very low, demeaning comments about a video game can have untold affects on the person behind the keyboard. Mental health is a serious conversation and anyone who continues to target individuals in the community on a regular basis should be called out.
CSGO like CSS before it peaks at a relatively low value for repeating players. If you look at the statistics of unique player hits via steamid's on gametracker you could be looking at anywhere between 10,000 - 30,000 unique vistors per month. Of that id say about 25% of those players relog back in to play a second time. Taking 20,000 as the median thats about 5,000 people who decide to try ZE more than once. The return rate after 10 visits drops off relatively high with only ~10% or 500 of those 5,000 per month converting into regular players across all community servers. This is a very low value given the divide in time zones, peak hours, server distributions, language barriers and ping. Given the turn over rate of players also leaving the game due to stagnation for various reasons this is not a healthy model for maintaining yet alone growing the overall ZE community.
ZE is a team based game. Pure and simple. Yes ZE has trim mechanics which will result in the deaths of a new player if there is nobody there to tell them of that fact well in advance. Contributing to the drop off of players and stagnation of "new to regular" ratios is the fact that people are unwilling to sit and teach people how to survive and complete a map. There has been a rise in people "claiming" leadership qualities who are only capable of reminding players of mechanics they already know from playing the map before. Partial tactics, false tactics and staying quiet to achieve the "appropriate" trim to complete a boss so the map can be beaten only drives no players away. The argument that they learn by doing does not stand true when you look at the statistics. From a median of a guesstimated 20,000 per month only ~500 of these people actually stick around long enough to have even played a map twice. Shitty mentalities towards achieving your own screenshots is the reason why people are dropping off this game mod. Team wins that gives ample opportunity for new and regular players alike is what motivates new players. Team wins such as the paper escaper win with a load of new players is far more rewarding than winning Tilex ultimate for the 20th time solo because you practiced the laser mechanics offline.
This is not a rant where I decide to point fingers and recall specific members of the community up on there actions. I am simply highlighting certain examples that I have seen in my travels in GFL and beyond where by the behavior of high profile members in the community continues to have a profound affect on the overall ZE community and as a result keeping it the small, toxic and an unhealthy environment for new,regular,casual or try hard players to have fun playing over an extended period of time.
As a whole the ZE community has a long way to go before it can take off. Team play and coordination needs to happen at a day to day level and peoples attitudes need to change in order to attract new players in. Otherwise 2-3 years down the line the ZE community will be severely lacking in player population, servers, map development and community.
Stay comfy
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need to offline practice before the event huehue
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stop buying lavaboots so u'll have enough money for !kev
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I miss Fidler/ Diddler
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One of the greatest moments in ze history
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30 minutes ago, Trexller said:
I like trees
, this tree seems happy, trees are made of paper, therefor we should keep the trees happy and not vote for paper escaper,
DO WHATS RIGHT AND SAVE THE TREES
VOTE 4AUSTISM... I MEAN, VOTE 4 A_E_S_T_H_E_T_I_C_V1this map is dead after the contest
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v2_11 is the final version of the classic wanderers where you can experience the thrill of dodging spin (omg) lasers
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Is this new exorath finally beatable?
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I just here to see all the perfectly fitting santa hats on the avatars.
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GFL is turning whim into Muslim

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Back then when we tried to beat frostdrake we play it every night during the summer because people want to beat it. There are times that server really likes one map and that's what drives people to play on GFL. You are trying to create a "perfect" map playtime distribution that every map's played equally in term of playtime. That's just not gonna happen unless you make a plugin that kicks maps that have higher playtime off the nomination list, and then you lose most of the regulars so goodluck winning tryhard maps.

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Try hard maps like santa are mostly played during late afternoon or night time when the team is good. Other normal maps are still played during other time of the day on the server. I don't see any problem with that and we have a good nomination system on the server. If you like the next map u stay if you don't just leave and do something else. Just because you usually play around that time and people voted for the maps that you don't like doesn't mean we should go play jurrasic park when we have a team that can potentially beat santa
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Usually bhoppers get items and usually bhoppers have basic knowledge about ze. When a new player gets an item for the first time and asks about the right way to use it, people will always help out. But in most cases they just take an item, hold on to it and not communicating in any ways.

What happened on GFL stays on GFL
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Good times
Wish i had clips of those