Wha… ? What’s this!? Hardfought is coming back??
Yup :-P
I just confirmed this yesterday gang, and some of ya already know about this from hanging out in our IRC channel… the Hardfought game server is coming back online this weekend! w0oP!! Sometime during the afternoon of the 28th (this coming Sunday). Kerebos from the Fragwire crew has been able to set me up in a big way, so go by the Fragwire website and thank this guy profusely, he deserves it. The game box is being put onto an OC-48 pipe provided by swbell with points of presence to UUNET and it appears Sprint as well. I’ll be sitting on a 6Mbit segment all by myself, which will be more than sufficient. Heh… cool thing is, if you’re a local Dallas/Forth Worth swbell DSL customer, you could be as little as 6 hops away from the server and technically wont even go out on the internet to reach it :-) I’m averaging 15ms ping from home, people like SaGe and PUPPY are averaging 60-65ms ping all the way from Florida, a friend of mine all the way up in east Canada gets around 90ms, hell Ki||erClown is getting 210ms ping on his shit dialup service… it’s looking good. We’ll just have to wait and see how ping times are when all the ports get full, but so far indications look very promising. Some of you will have the same pings as before, some will have worse pings and some will have better pings as before… hopefully most will be same and/or better :-) Anyways – I’ll be bringing up HF1 and the CS match port as well as the Quake3 OSP match port, with a 24/7 HLTV feed to the match port (at 60 sec delay) and will try a 24/7 GTV feed to the Q3 match port. If things go well on these, I’ll bring back HF2 and I may also do a public Quake3 Threewave CTF/CCTF port… or maybe save the resources for Return to Castle Wolfenstein when it comes out ;-P So… go ahead and ping this IP address – 216.62.101.222 – the box will either use that IP or one on the same segment. Ping/trace that and see how you’ll fare.
In light of the server coming back online, I’m gonna revamp the game stats and change the program that runs those. HalfStats is just too slow on the updates… dunno what I’m gonna use yet, but PsychoStats looks promising. Also, meet in IRC, channel #hardfought on irc.enterthegame.com this weekend, and show your support for the server coming back online, we’ll have a lil party :-P It’s kinda like being at ‘Cheers’ in there anyway, if ya don’t hang out there, you’re missing out. I got some other goodies and improvements about the server to share with ya, but at a later time. I gotta get to work :-/ Have a good one folks…
K2