The Future Of OB

[Gaz 13]

Hello all

As you know McLovin has stepped down as owner of Outbreak. I had spoken to McLovin about it for a while. We both knew I would not be able to take over and do the server work alone. After discussion, I told him I would keep the website and a teamspeak running for nostalgic purpose and for people to keep in contact.

Afterwards I thought, people love this place, they wouldn't want to see OB die. I was convinced this place could run off forum and ts3 only. As it stands, it appears I am right.... For once.

After saying I would keep the website and teamspeak going, people called out for a server. This is where Venga and Cash stepped forward. They have offered to pay for a Jailbreak Server. Hopefully that will be here in the coming days.

Where does that leave Surf and Minigames? Well I announced to the team a few days ago, that surf would be closed. Sadly that means minigames is also going. This is because we are getting rid of the dedicated server. It is creating too much work for one person to handle, and due to the lack of Linux knowledge within the team, it was impractical to keep up.

This isn't the only change to outbreak. There are going to be a lot. Some minor, some major. Here is a break down:

1) Tomorrow - 20/08/13 the forums will be upgraded and jigged around. During this time they will be taken offline, but the teamspeak will still be up and running. I'm hoping to get this finished in the morning.

Some forum sections will have been moved around, some will be missing completely. The css server sections will be put into it's own archieve. For viewing purposes only.

There will be an arcade added to the forum, we are gamers after all. Just something small and fun to pass the time.

2) Other members of the staff have put offers of servers in, here is a list of upcoming and current servers:

Jailbreak - CS:S

CS 1.6 - Dust2 or dm

TF2 - 24/7 double cross we think

Members Only Minecraft Server

CS:S Paintball Lazers - rotating Assault and Office

3) We will also be creating gaming teams for games without servers.

Guild Wars 2 now has an Outbreak affiliated Guild

League Of Legends will also have an Outbreak Team

4) All the above game related news will have their own forum sections for chatter and support

5) Review Team will be put into place

6) Live streaming team will also be put into place

These are definate changes upcoming for you guys. Times will be hard whilst we find our feet again. How can you help?

Well if you have your own gaming server, or want to start one you can become an associate server owner. This means you simply have server ads giving people the address to Outbreak, so they can join the community and play games with everyone. If you haven't set a server up yet, feel free to contact me and if I have time I can help you set one up. It's like sharing the love. In return you will have your server banner or gametracker banner at the top of the website where the current ones are. You will also get your own channel on teamspeak for users of your server, and finally a forum section for chatter and support. An easy place for your playerbase to give you feedback and praise. But please make sure you let us know this is happening before you go ahead and do it.

Or if you play a game that is not server based, e.g. Guild Wars. Then feel free to send your members to Outbreak, if it populates enough, we can set up a forum section again for you playerbase to chat and communicate.

What if you cannot do either?

Simple, wear your OB Member or OB Fan tags with pride. Show people you meet on other servers you are fun and out going.

Now I must say thank you to McLovin, for his hard work and determination during many many changes to Outbreak. He created the playerbase we have today, and we should always remember that.

Finally where does that leave me? I no longer have time to keep game servers running so this website is all I really have time for. I am so grateful to the team for their support and want to keep outbreak running. I feel privalidged to have them around. Hopefully this new direction will mean good things for Outbreak, and hopefully you will stick by me and the rest of the team with what is about to happen.

Time for the next chapter, I should probably update the history of Outbreak now.

Gaz - Community Coordinator

[gaffeR 1,380]

Can you add a HoN Team, i want to create a clan on Hon and try poach players from that

[mitch 457]

1.6 server sounds cool, I'd like to be able to play on a server that isn't filled with cs 1.6 veterans, be nice to play people my own skill so I don't rage quit lul. Also cod4 mix team plssssssss

[JohnDoe 0]

I love those ideas Gaz, but member only minecraft makes me sad. Could you think of making it applications only? Like whitelisted? That'd be nice :p - for the regulars. So far I know me and Anti would love to have that.

I'm going to message you soon about some thing I can do to contribute ;)

[HoneyMuffin 0]

TF2 server shouldn't be a 24/7 of one map, needs to be payload or capture point dedicated or both.

[Gaz 13]

Remember people OB is to be shaped by you, if you have a server and there is enough call for it, then we will probably affiliate it. Or even tribes guilds and stuff like that as mentioned above.

[M1nt-l0u 1,235]

:/

[HoneyMuffin 0]

I wonder if I could keep asking people to play a game and get a channel for the game put in place, seems easy enough to do so with this evidence.

[w33zy 1,523]

yea i really would like to see JB first, the other servers would be great and can expand the community.

[Cash 1]

yea i really would like to see JB first, the other servers would be great and can expand the community.

We will try but i do's like the idea of a tf2 server run by Daffy all those free to play people the benefits that this server will bring is potentially endless fingers crossed.

With Jailbreak please give us some time to get the server up and running no instant turn around as me and Venga are new to this so please be patient

[Shinigami 0]

yea i really would like to see JB first, the other servers would be great and can expand the community.

We will try but i do's like the idea of a tf2 server run by Daffy all those free to play people the benefits that this server will bring is potentially endless fingers crossed.

With Jailbreak please give us some time to get the server up and running no instant turn around as me and Venga are new to this so please be patient

Running a CS:S server is pretty similar to Gmod servers, right? I've got a lot of experience there so I could help you out if you guys need it

[Skeff 289]

I feel that i'll be playing less then, but hopefully i can still play with OB.

Maybe it can help me get into 1.6, i got it recently but not played much

Also a suggestion for the minecraft server, add big builds that everyone can join in with. like a big city

I'm a little unsure about a paintball/lazer game, i played on one a few months ago and personally i found it rather crap. it was just normal css with bright bullet marks and stupid lazers - pointless add ons

Hopefully things will be alright

[Gaz 13]

essentially yes. Server was populated most of the time, it was a no brains required game mode

[JohnDoe 0]

I can contribute around 25 quids a month for a server, if it is needed :)

[UnSeen 1,036]

I can contribute around 25 quids a month for a server, if it is needed :)

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