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Topic: Revival and Discord

First, I can't really overstate how nice it is to see First Strike once again receive some activity and attention. Allow me to add my voice to those clamoring for continued development and support for this amazing but long neglected mod.

Secondly, in the interest of stimulating further interest, I wanted to suggest setting up an official Discord server for the mod. It's a free and quite flexible service which would easily enable both text and voice communication for the community. A synchronous-communication service like Discord would be a more suitable forum for coordinating games than an asynchronous forum like this one.

Thirdly, what is the current status where persistent servers are concerned? Revive seems to host a persistent First Strike server most of the time, though it's currently offline, but for some reason that one only has 4 out of 20 available maps enabled in its play queue. I've asked them to change this and enable the other maps as well, but I also wonder if it's possible to get at least one other official server online running First Strike?

  • Registered: 2016-11-17
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Re: Revival and Discord

I recieved a response from the Revive project on the status of their First Strike server, currently down. Due to its low traffic it is being moved from a physical host to a VM, and should be back up running on the VM soon. I was also told this is highly unlikely to negatively impact performance, even when the server is full.

Hopefully the new server will also be running more that just 4 maps, although I received no confirmation of that.

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Re: Revival and Discord

Yea that server kinda bothered me so I ended up playing on local by myself tongue I wish they had all the maps and higher coop settings so it was more enjoyable to pub.

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Re: Revival and Discord

Hi all.

The Revive server is now back up and running, and they have kindly given me some access to it to change basic settings. For the moment I have left it running co-op, since it is unlikely to have RL players all the time. If we can get the weekend community games going again we can definitely look at running non-bot maps at those times.

Anyhoo, any requests, let me know and I will see what I can work out. All co-op maps should be on the server now, rather than just the four.

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Re: Revival and Discord

Good news! I noticed earlier today that the server appears to be back, and running a lot more maps than before. Unfortunately, I'm having the issue with CTD:s whenever a map has been loaded, sometimes before, sometimes when I click the "Deploy" button. I'm running a clean install of 1.6. I saw some other players online while I was attempting to connect, so it seems there must be some version of the client that is working. Is there something I am missing?

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Re: Revival and Discord

Make sure FS has been updated. A full guide with link to the new updater can be found here:

https://bl2142.co/post.php?id=28103

I'll see if we can get a newspost up somewhere and possibly a second download available from MODDB.

Note that a new mod Updater is available by following the link above.

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Re: Revival and Discord

Thanks. Unfortunately even with the updaters, it's still not working for me. Updater 1.0.0.0 applied on a clean install of 1.6 simply had no effect, still crashing after map load. And allowing the updater to update itself to version 1.0.0.1 prevents me from even running it afterward. I just get a dialog saying "This app can't run on your PC" when trying to run the updated executable.