Follow Freeman development report 1
copied from
Mercilessdevelopment.com
• “A new type of server administrator”
• Get your own password to admin our sponsored servers
• New groundbreaking feature: Game Control Console
• Several of the best single player mods now in Follow Freeman coop
• The new game mode Follow Freeman Battle-Zone
• Community forums go online
Follow Freeman is the new feature packed cooperative mod for Half Life 2. There is so much packed into the upcoming release that we can't fit it all in one news release. So, we are breaking it up into bitesize portions, so you can digest it all easier.
This report is based around the Readyroom, and some of its features ,in future articles we will look into all the other goodies you are going to get when you get your hands on the next version of Follow Freeman. The Readyroom is the hub of our game, as players use it to vote for which sets of maps they wish to play, and even configure the server in game.
How many times have you been on a server and wished you could change something, but there’s no admin around, so tough luck you just have to make do? Well not any more! You see the problem has always been that you can’t just go giving out your admin password to anyone as they could ruin your server. So we have made a new level of security and configuration for Follow Freeman servers, which gives the server administrators the option to give out a password to trusted players and clan members, who can then use the game control console in the ready room to easily configure their game without having to hassle the admin, and without the risk of them killing the server.
This new and unique feature brings unprecedented configurability to online servers by their players, as and when it is needed. Many more members of the community will be able to setup games in the way they wish for a session. This also saves server administrators time, money and bandwidth, as there is no need to run multiple semi-populated servers, each with different configurations.
Thanks to our sponsors “Hypernia Internet” we are able to hold a public test of this feature in the next release of Follow Freeman, and we invite everyone to join in. If you would like to have the password for one of our lovely, brand spanking new high speed Hypernia servers, so you can connect up with a few mates and configure the game for your session, then get on over to our website and register as a beta tester. After you have registered we will send you the password.
for more details and screenshots of the readyroom and in game control console see the screeenshots area or the full report on our forums
Thankyou
Merciless Development Team
