>>24081I still play TF2 frequently. That game has been a large part of my teenage years. I'm really qaddened by the general state of Casual and the near-death of community servers. Valve tried their best to kill the game, but it survives.
I really miss the old community servers where you'd have a rotation of custom gamemodes and maps like versus Saxton Hale, Prophunt, Zombie fortress and the like. I had so much fun on these servers, and met some of my best friends on there too. They're all gone now though (the servers, not the friends)
The nostalgia was so great that I tried making my own server a year ago, a server similar to the ones I loved. I managed to recreate my lost paradise after a few days of scrounging source modding forums and gamebanana, but it just stayed empty. People rarely ever joined, and they left quickly.
I was quite disappointed, and left it running for a few months until my dumbass locked myself out of the VPS I used to run it (don't mess with UFW rules if you don't know what you're doing !), and I had to wipe it to get access again. Being a cheapstake, I never paid for the automatic backup option of the VPS provider, so now my recreated, empty paradise is gone as well.
I still have most of the files that were a pain to find, so maybe I'll make it again someday, when I have the energy.