I recently started doing some youtube stuff again and forgot I made a promotional video for the server back in 2012 thought you guys might want to see what it was like back then:
Brings back a lot of memories, hope you guys enjoy it.
While Jailbreak is being reworked, I think Outbreak should have another server temporarily which can be used as a test to see if it will be populated and if it can bring people into the community. It might be able to stick around as a new server if it is popular enough. These ideas could be much easier to set up than Jailbreak, making them better for a temporary server to test the popularity. Even if the server isn't populated by random players, it could still be something for the community to play.
Community servers within CS, such as Jailbreak, Surf or Minigames, are not as popular as they used to be, but servers which people use to warmup on are still very popular, like Deathmatch, Retakes and Arenas. People still play CS and as long as they do, they will most likely need some server to warmup on.
A major factor which stops these servers from being created is that they do not bring new people into the community. People will go onto a Deathmatch server, warmup and then leave. However, I think that if people were to come onto, for example, a 1v1 Arena server, and see that lots of players are wearing the Outbreak Member tag, they would be more inclined to look into joining the community, especially if the members are talking on the server and making it enjoyable for everyone.
There has been many times when I have been playing on a retake or 1v1 server with my good friends from Outbreak and it would only be better if the rest of the players on these servers were other people from Outbreak too.
These are the ideas that I think could be used:
1v1 Arenas - People face a single opponent and proceed to the next arena or fall into the previous one depending on if they win or lose. This could be a good idea for a temporary server as it is not as competitive as a Retake, it is slower paced, and people can play on it for extended periods of time if there is a wide variety of maps. I have also seen people on 1v1 servers having nice conversations even when there is 30+ people on it. For example, if someone were to come onto an Outbreak 1v1 server and hear people having a nice conversation, they would be more inclined to want to be a part of the community themselves. Moderators would have to be around often to prevent the voice chat from getting too out of control and to keep the server enjoyable. Another feature that could be added to a 1v1 Arena server is a leaderboard, just like the one on Minigames. Players would gain and lose points for getting kills or dying. At the end of the week, some of the top players for that week could be awarded credits or some other kind of prize.
Retakes - The round starts as the terrorists plant the bomb and the counter-terrorists have to retake the site and defuse. I personally enjoy playing Retakes as there are different types of players that you can find on Retake servers. Some people take it more seriously and give callouts to act as if they were playing a comp, while others just play for fun and to meet new people. I even have a video of me and someone I met on retake just playing and having fun, so this can definitely be a server which could bring new players into the community.
Community Aim Maps - This would be a large aim map with 2 teams, up to 12 or 16 players, with people being able to use a menu to pick which rifle they want to use. As for the respawning system, there are 2 ways in which it could go: Unlimited respawns, until the timer runs down. This might make it harder for people to communicate as there will be lots of people fighting eachother all the time. This could be overcome by having a round system with 1 life each, so people could talk in dead chat and there wouldn't be bullets flying constantly. After looking into servers like these I found that both unlimited respawns and one life are used.
*map $2000$_csgo
Team Deathmatch - This idea isn't like the typical Valve Deathmatch. This would be played on a custom map, with all players having 1 life and spawning together, so both teams can fight in the middle of the map every round. I know that there were games like this on our Minigames server, the "War" game was just like this. With a variety of different maps, this game mode could be enjoyable and can encourage communication between all players, members and randoms.
*Pistol gamemode from map mg_swag_multigames_v7
Random Weapon FFA - Obviously, this idea would be a free-for-all. A random weapon is decided at the beginning of the round and all players are given it and dropped into a relatively small map. This gamemode would much resemble the mg_weapon_case_arenas map that was on our Minigames server, except all players will be against eachother. This also would not be extremely fast paced like a normal Deathmatch, players would slow walk around in order to win while others in dead chat could use that time to talk.
Hunger Games/Battle Royale - This gamemode spawns all players around the edge of a map, with random weapons placed throughout the map, and the weapons get better as you get closer to the centre of the map. Every couple of minutes the map gets smaller and smaller, eventually pushing the remaining players to the middle. From my experience, most players on Hunger Games servers talk to eachother while they play. A leaderboard could also be implemented into this, showing how many times people have won or how many kills they have.
*map br_electrified
To be honest, I came into this community because I saw people on the servers who I thought were funny and the kind of people I'd get along with. I like this community, and I enjoyed playing on Jailbreak and Minigames with people within it even when these servers started to die. I would like to play on a server filled with people from OB again, and these are just some suggestions which haven't been tried out before.
Please let me know what you think of each of the ideas and give reasons for why you agree/disagree.
After years of slating everyone who ever dared to run and pay for this place, I promised I would step up and be the admin/part owner that would change things. When we had the team reshuffle sometime last year there was some initial excitement, and a few events and Mordhau servers did pop up... After that, it kind of just died out. Outbreak in truth, was past the point of the golden days of fun and games many moons ago, and I wrongly believed I was the one who could rekindle that wistful occasion.
I'm not saying that there isn't a future for Outbreak, but I'm saying there isn't a future in which we'd all be active in the same spirit ever again. The forums were a hot place to visit, the game servers were where we put a voice to the coloured name, and the TeamSpeak (initially not used) was where the friendships were fortified. The friendships are the only thing that have kept us all together, many so strong that they will last a lifetime. It is very hard for a new person to become part of either of the core groups, not impossible though.
The CS server days were a period where everyone was a bit anonymous, no one really knew anyone other than what their Steam status revealed. It sparked curiosity without too much of the prejudices, it was a more compassionate introduction to each other. The paradigm for meeting new players has shifted a lot since then, it's mainly driven by Discord and Reddit communities rather than self-hosted game and VoIP servers. This is a change we didn't want to embrace.
For better or worse, Outbreak has now been going for nearly ten years. I do sometimes wonder what my life would be without it, but happier that I have had the chance to be bullied all the way to the top and back - even if when I got there I did very little in the grand scheme of things. For those that don't know, I have worked in IT for around 4 years, and 3 of them were working at a company that didn't appreciate anything I did and it made me quite irritable. I then joined another IT company and was much happier, but also much busier as I made the jump from working in an internal IT department to a customer facing one - having to learn multiple IT environments instead of perfecting just the one. I've been absorbing the knowledge of the industry pretty intensely for the last year or so, which is partly why I don't game so much anymore - but I shouldn't have let my relationship with Conor and the rest of the team slip so much I get removed from the Admin team without warning.
Sometimes life gets in the way.
I hope all you frequent and infrequent visitors are still keeping well, and that the choices you are making lead to ample gratification and reward.
-MintyFresh
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