Gunstar

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

Good times.
Nice to see so many of yous still sticking around, especially the newbies who have stuck around and become oldies. OB has always been strongest on the community side of things, bringing people from both ends of the spectrum together and the fact you guys are still here just proves that point more. Although the jailbreak days were arguably the best, events, mixes, tournaments and just TS convos are probably what I miss the most. It's over yeah, but it's better to be a "turd in some overgrown grass" than a turd washed away in the sewage right?

It’s just dawned on me that no one cares anymore. But it’s also dawned on me that im perfectly okay with that and so is everyone else. Everyone has accepted that we’re basically a turd that when it originally got shat out, it attracted a FUCK load of flies.. but now even the turd has lost it’s flavour and is no longer attractive to flies. Just a turd sitting stale in some overgrown grass. I propose we all get together in one channel one night and all say together in harmony: “it’s over”
how this thread will go now:
danny will post some weird facebook gif no one will understand
someone will attempt to bait someone into making an angry post (likely an OG or Quinn)
mintlou will chime in with a behind the scenes post
random dudes trying to derail with a ‘hehe rawr lulz ultra random i like custard cremes’ post
Not even a secret santa :’(, it’s over

take all the money in the donation account
might have enough to get a subway or something

A fair amount of change has taken place within the last few weeks, so it's time for an update on the state of affairs.
Outbreak Community Representative
Following the first community meeting, it was decided that a representative should be elected to improve communication between the staff team and members. We followed an instant-runoff vote format and I was elected as the rep (it should be noted that Akame was the actual winner of the poll, but he declined the offer so 2nd place was taken instead).
The full results can be found here:
 
There has also been some confusion over what this role entails, so for clarification, my main two responsibilities are (but not limited to):
• Relaying information on the state of development within the community
           -This includes updates on admin meetings, future development plans etc.
• Managing the monthly community meetings
 
Remember that these are not set in stone, so if anybody feels I could change what I am doing, please do make suggestions.
Role Changes
Congratulations to MiniColossus on his successful promotion to member and Akame for obtaining moderator, as well as Marsh, Toby, Lucy and Vodo Hazed for getting trial.
In addition, the veteran group on the forums has now been retired and replaced with 'Retired Member' - it is effectively the same, but slightly more lenient, available to 2 year old members or previous members who have been a longstanding part of the community. This allows for well known, previously active people to easily return to member once they have returned.
Forum Updates
There have been various small changes within the forums over the past few days:
Member of the Month
As many of you will have seen, there is now a 'member of the month' vote at the right of the home page.

This should be used to suggest a member that you think has contributed particularly well in the past month; the top votes will be considered by the staff and a member selected - keep in mind that obvious troll picks will just be discarded.
As of now, the perks of winning are purely cosmetic, appearing as a forum medal which can be displayed under your avatar:

But if there are any ideas for more substantial benefits, please make a suggestion.
 
Miscellaneous
All previous warning points have been cleared (unless recent or still relevant) as to remove trivial sanctions.
Calendar information now shows on the home page to notify you of upcoming events.
Trophies and medals have now been fully implemented, with 'Veteran' and 'Years of Service' badges to showcase your time in the community (and reveal the filthy 2k16ers). Years of service badges require 20+ pieces of forum content per year to count towards the total.
FiveM Server
Development is still in progress for the server, but there have been some issues implementing certain plugins - a more detailed post will be made about this within the next couple of weeks.
Events
A new event schedule will now be tested to try and encourage more frequent events, following a simple alternating pattern of community choice events and staff hosted events.
The community choice events will be based on a monthly poll to decide on a game, and we hope members will be willing to help with the hosting of these in the future. (Thanks to Danny for hosting the first Worms WMD event).
Staff events will be run entirely by the admin team and game choice will be chosen on our perogative.
 
Results for the first community choice can be found here:
 

skins = wins?

do i win a prize

Post score in comments, 1 for each statement
 
1. Visit forums at least 3x per day
2. Have met someone from OB IRL
3. A day where I'm not on teamspeak would certainly be "abnormal"
4. Have donated some of my own hard earned money to OB
5. Would call people in OB "friends"
6. Have moderated this community at some point
7. Never been banned from OB
8. Have over 500 hours on OB servers
9. IRL friends / family know about OB from you
10. Have stuck around in OB for 3+ years
11. Have gone out of your way to make a ban request for another player
12. Helped run an OB event
13. Posted at least 15 times in the 'what am I listening to thread'
14. Will definitely still be here in 2 years time unless OB dies
15. Have 500+ posts on the forums
 
0-1 = UNKNOWN
2-3 = NEW KID
4-6 = KNOWN, BUT UNPOPULAR
7-9 = AVERAGE JOE
10-12 = BIG NERD
13-14 = GET A LIFE
15 = ???

Dw boys you can be guilty free of not buying me any presents.

I accept upvotes as a form of cash.


 
 

Event Cooldowns
From now on we will be handing out cool downs to people who sign up for events and cannot make it, go AFK during it or don't show up without any notice. This is to allow Admins the necessary preparations needed before an event and stop people from taking up a spot which someone else can take and actually play. This means you cannot simply join an event when you are not sure if you can make it or not and then back out later. So if you are signing up for an event, please make sure you can definitely make it and if you are unsure then don't sign up and play the next event instead of getting a cool down for that one.
The following rules will be applied*:
Less than 24 hours notice = miss 1 event Less than 1-hour notice = miss 2 events No notice/AFK/leave/kicked due to behaviour from event = miss x events (situational) List of people on event cooldown:
  Template: Name - no. of events (date handed out) - tallies
x - Still to be served  ✓ - Served
**It will, however, depend on the situation and in the end is up to the Event Hosts/Admins discretion. For Example, Large Scale Tournaments will have more severe punishments due to the amount of time and effort that hosts have to put in to organise it.  
Last Updated: 11th April 2019 

#OBSkype2018

ontop of the INCREDIBLE bot integration you can now invite people to listen to music at the same time as you
and why are we currently PAYING to use an inferior service? because the owner is too scared to make what would be a somewhat unpopular, positive choice and people are too niave and complacent to transfer to a platform which is superior by miles.

"*Note: This feature requires Spotify Premium for the listeners"

ayyyy shout out to all the ?oys

tbh this isn't even about teams, it's about the obvious abuse and rules not applying the same to everyone.
Last CS tournament my team was forced to play with Vemix for Nuclear in the 3rd map of the final.
This CS tournament, purely because they had a host on their team, they got to be picky with their sub and even break the precedent that we had set that very match.
If this isn't just plain out abuse I don't know what is.