Gasp, argh. K2 decides to do a news post again finally :-P
Sorry I’ve been ‘away’ the past few weeks. Just haven’t felt the drive to mess with the site lately. Work has been piling on, been out trying to get back more of the social life I once had many many moons ago… ya know how that goes. Or maybe you don’t. Anyways…
Hardfought CounterStrike is officially retired, for good. Ever since I brought the box back up at it’s new location, everyone was expecting everything to be the same as it was before in terms of ping and that just wasn’t gonna happen. I knew it… some of the rest of ya knew it. Oh well. Ping can make or break a server as we all know… and over time my user base has slowly dwindled away. That, plus rampant cheating (don’t even get me started there) and trying to implement ways to counter-act those cheats without totally lagging out the server… it just aint worth my time anymore. The past 2-3 weeks, traffic to the CS port was minimal at best, so I made the decision to drop it completely. If that makes you upset, I apologize, but hey… you weren’t really playing there anymore anyways. Besides, this year has seen a whole new crop of exciting new game titles to hit the shelves, including Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The public port for that game that I brought up a few weeks ago has been almost non-stop packed.
Hmmm… maybe a less-than-stellar ping doesn’t make or break a server after all, eh?
Out with the old, in with the new I suppose. Go buy RtCW and try her out. The gameplay may not be exactly to your liking (class-based instead of just CT’s or T’s) but the graphics are *stunning* and the cheats are very few. I had also kicked around the idea of possibly running an Operation Flashpoint or Ghost Recon port, but either the player base is too weak or the server-side setup is all outta whack. And then of course there’s always the PING issue… *sigh* I don’t think I’ll be bringing up anymore new FPS ports until I find another home for the server. And that may not happen at all… I kinda enjoy not having to pay a monthly co-hosting fee anymore :-) We’ll see gang…
But anywho – I’ve enjoyed for the most part being a part of the CS scene and hosting one of the best CS servers around. I hope all of you enjoyed your time here as well. You’re all more than welcome to make the RtCW port your home if you wanna try something new. If you feel you must move on, that’s fine too… it was nice hosting for you.
So, you may ask yourself what I might have planned for Hardfought in the future. Right now I dunno for sure. RtCW is doin’ ok so I am just gonna let it coast for the time being. Hardly any of the RtCW players visit here I think… heh :-) I still wanna host Halo once it’s released on the PC platform, but I wanna be on a better network connection as well. Neverwinter Nights is very much still a go in my book. I’m playing Dark Age of Camelot right now to appease my RPG cravings in the meantime. A rather significant number of HF regs have made their way over to the Guinevere server in the realm of Midgard to form a guild and play. Feel free to hop on in and join in the fun. Expect to see some changes to the site here to reflect the DAoC Hardfought guild over the holidays.
That’s all for now gang. I’ll be making a new voting poll soon and some other changes around here, updates, spring cleaning, etc. Have fun at whatever game you decide to play. See ya online…
K2