Castaway.tf

Finally tried this out, from a gameplay standpoint i have no major complaints so far. The arenas play how i expected them to and are a lot of fun.
Biggest complaint from me is the asteroid skybox on every map. That's stupid. It looks tacky and weird. Keep the skyboxes natural for what the map is ...

The 'only two map extends in a row' limit is kinda stupid, just wastes everyone's time during the longer EU seeding phases. Had to rtv back to mge twice while seeding today.
I'd rather have the auto mapchange player limit be lowered to something like 8 or even lower instead.

Trying this ...

The 'only two map extends in a row' limit is kinda stupid, just wastes everyone's time during the longer EU seeding phases. Had to rtv back to mge twice while seeding today.
I'd rather have the auto mapchange player limit be lowered to something like 8 or even lower instead.

So a limit of 8 ...

I have enabled the pre dec 2010 variant of the natscha and have disabled the cleaners carbine revert.

This will very likely be the last set of reverts I touch before hopefully freezing the plugin (or at least our config) indefinitely. Every other weapon seems to be in a pretty good spot. So let's ...

Also I don't like the new Natascha change, it now feels very niche without the damage resistance and I barely notice any differenc with the new slow effect.
I would much rather have the 20% damage resistance when spun up rather than a little bit better slow effect.

I put in a patch for it ...

I've added a custom mge map created by @Kvasorob (how do you tag people in this software?) named mge_castaway_v1 to specifically Virginia 2 . If there are no issues and it runs smoothly it will be added to other relevant servers.

Gamebanana link to the map here and workshop link to the map here ...

Are teletraps something you would be willing to revert? Back in the day you could place teleport entrance on top of the exit and trap yourself (and anyone else who used the teleporter). If you were using the wrangler this allowed you to build momentum by shooting yourself with a sentry and after ...

RIP to a real one

I'd like to set up a poll for maps in the next few days. This is going to be a rather large and sweeping poll because we have so many maps now. I want to have a poll for some of the lesser played official maps to be moved to the weekend rotation, for example haarp. This might also mean other ...

I have enabled the pre dec 2010 variant of the natscha and have disabled the cleaners carbine revert.

This will very likely be the last set of reverts I touch before hopefully freezing the plugin (or at least our config) indefinitely. Every other weapon seems to be in a pretty good spot. So let's ...

I added a handler plugin which I think should solve the issue. I won't be adding mge to all servers until I'm sure this works.

Brass tacks are:

Player threshold is defined as 10 players. When you get above it (11 players) is when the threshold is considered passed
When the threshold is passed ...

I'm not going to care about politics. I'm sorry, I know... I'm just not going to do it is all. UGHHHH I know!! I am just not going to care about politics is all

Not sure if this playlist will embed properly but I've been obsessed with this album for the last week or so. Only 2-3 songs that I'd consider mediocre, everything else is pretty damn good

If time allows I'm going to try and, in the next few days, update the plugins so that an RTV is automatically called once a certain threshold of players is reached, then I can put mge on all servers.

My idea is that, let's say the threshold is 10 players, if an 11th player joins a 60 second ...

spirit cooking with guy fieri wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 5:50 am
if you wanna go on a power fantasy watch crank 1/2 rampage and upgrade 2018

I haven't seen upgrade but I can vouch for Crank 1 and 2 being completely batshit insane and hilarious B movie action fun

I was against MGE on all servers because i think it sort of undermines their VANILLA, stock tf2 nature, my idea was that VA2 was going to be a sort of more "experimental" server where we could try something like MGE or DM while all the other servers stayed fully stock TF2.

But if it's been ...

Suspicious Carl wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 12:54 am

From the soundtrack of Hardcore Henry, a kickass movie. Here's another from the end credits

I don't think it needs to be that comprehensive. In my opinion it'd be best to take the top 2 maps that we like from each gamemode (that actually can be mge-ified, harvest is a bad example for instance) and add them in. Necessarily this would probably mean asteroid, doomsday, and hydro get in as ...

I've implemented this on Virginia 2 only. There is a MGE map, which can be nominated infinitely (it never enters the "played recently" pool) and the MGEmod plugin activates only on that map. There are currently no player count restrictions on when you can nominate it, nor does it get swapped off ...

For those interested in MGE, if we could only have one map what would the ideal one be? I have a good way to get it so it's only in rotation on virginia 2 but I am not too familiar with mge maps. mge_training_v8_beta4b seems to be the one that gets run most frequently from what I can see

I'm also ...

I prefer Kritzburgh's idea. I don't think randoms (and possibly some regulars too, idk) would be as willing to join during MGE, and having instant respawns while the server has less than, say, 10 people would still make seeding more enjoyable. Transitioning to regular server mode would also be ...

If the plugin does interfere it wouldn't be terribly hard to just convert it into a vscript mge map which would work completely on it's own without plugins.

I don't mind this, sounds like a fun idea for seeders. But one thing is we'd need some way to prevent people from going to this map when the ...

Suspicious Carl wrote: Tue Feb 24, 2026 2:20 pm
i couldn't think of anynody who plays alot of engie on the server

I think myself, huutti, and Herra Poo are the main engie players from what I'm aware

Just watched The Man in the Glass Booth. Excellent film, and as it turns out one of my favorite Star Trek episodes, Duet, is directly inspired from it. As a result I ended up seeing the plot coming as soon as I noticed the similarities but it was still enjoyable. Manages to throw shade at both sides ...

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I just realized you can see the in-game 3d skybox within hammer++ by using tools > create instance from selection > instance/hub_skybox

like holy fucking shit dude, can we have this included somewhere in the guide and/or any more instance/etc magic in the guide?

Instances are a bit out of ...

Finally, i think a much more healthy goal is - instead of going for a lot of 24 hour sessions on one specific server, we really should just try to keep Castaway running 24/7 by just filling up the server that makes most sense at that time, as in - NA has it's 12+ hour session, then everyone ...

First impressions of all the new maps

Pride Rock: D, below average 5cp map. Second is right next to mid, but last is far from second. Jump pads are used to make up for deficits in level design. I love the aesthetics but it doesn't play well
Red Bounty: B, I think second point is a little ...

Figured out the problem, new custom maps are in rotation now. Silly mistake on my end, the maps weren't actually being downloaded to the server.

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