badwater.pub - No Waiting, No BS, Just Vanilla

#1

twiikuu

0 Frags – +

Hello,

Meet Your Match has greatly changed the TF2 ecosystem, one of those changes personally affected me.
My biggest interaction with the game, when not playing competitively, was playing Valve public servers, mostly on pl_badwater.
Sadly, those servers were removed to make place for the great Casual+Competitive systems.
That's why I'm trying to bring this experience back by launching a small and simple project:

badwater.pub is a Vanilla Team Fortress 2 Public Community Server, running 24/7 Badwater, with nocrits, nospread, fixedspread, no restrict_aspect_ratio_fov, user votes include kick, scramble and classlimit 3.

The IPs are eu.badwater.pub and na.badwater.pub.

I will be as available and transparent as I can, feel free to heckle.
Oh, and of course, no ads/donations ;)

Wow, Check it out!

Hello,

Meet Your Match has greatly changed the TF2 ecosystem, one of those changes personally affected me.
My biggest interaction with the game, when not playing competitively, was playing Valve public servers, mostly on pl_badwater.
Sadly, those servers were removed to make place for the great Casual+Competitive systems.
That's why I'm trying to bring this experience back by launching a small and simple project:

badwater.pub is a Vanilla Team Fortress 2 Public Community Server, running 24/7 Badwater, with nocrits, nospread, fixedspread, no restrict_aspect_ratio_fov, user votes include kick, scramble and classlimit 3.

The IPs are eu.badwater.pub and na.badwater.pub.

I will be as available and transparent as I can, feel free to heckle.
Oh, and of course, no ads/donations ;)

[url=http://badwater.pub]Wow, Check it out![/url]

#2

adysky

28 Frags – +

i hope this gets populated. i will probably be on this tonight while waiting for pugs

#3

Blithe

6 Frags – +

nfo servers are good

#4

yttrium

2 Frags – +

I have a cheap Linux VPS that could be used for this, worked really well for my TF2 servers in the past. It's Chicago based though.

#5

vibhavp

1 Frags – +

nice name

#6

farthammer

0 Frags – +

not trying to steal any thunder here, but i setup a vanilla server as well located in dallas,tx 69.162.82.214:27015

#7

b1gl4ke

1 Frags – +

:O i get 200 ping from california, but :O

#8

Stevie

3 Frags – +

I hope this turns into a popular server community.

#9

sops

-1 Frags – +

will definetly play there when i pub
im glad community servers are coming back, almost half of my hours were played on a dm_store server that no longer exists sadly :(

#10

flatline

8 Frags – +

twiikuu raysH

#11

cin

4 Frags – +

=

#12

Smin

0 Frags – +

Also loved valve servers, I'll definitely play on an American server and will probably play on this one

#13

twiikuu

9 Frags – +

Hello again,

Thank you again adysky, mario, unskilled and everybody else for playing tonight, that was great indeed :)
Thanks Blithe and yttrium for the info/offer, I'll probably check those out if the other solutions I found aren't as good as I thought.

I too hope this gets populated, and if it does regularly, I will definitely run more servers with more options, payload/upward/goldrush are requests that have come up often so far.
EDIT: Actually, if the servers are doing great this weekend as well, I'll set up upward.pub :)

@vibhavp: gtld are great

https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/1/1.0

I found the server to be iffy with 24 players online (cpu load was ~1.10 for an hour and a half), and sadly this is probably the best they could offer (they offer more cores, but of the same type of CPU, tf2 server is single-threadded). I'm considering limiting to 22 or 20 players so that the server never feels iffy to anybody, ever. Thoughts?

EDIT 2: sorry, whoever tried to bruteforce my ssh :/
root:~# grep "Password" /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitEmptyPasswords no
PasswordAuthentication no

Hello again,

Thank you again adysky, mario, unskilled and everybody else for playing tonight, that was great indeed :)
Thanks Blithe and yttrium for the info/offer, I'll probably check those out if the other solutions I found aren't as good as I thought.

I too hope this gets populated, and if it does regularly, I will definitely run more servers with more options, payload/upward/goldrush are requests that have come up often so far.
EDIT: Actually, if the servers are doing great this weekend as well, I'll set up upward.pub :)

@vibhavp: gtld are great
[img]https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/1/1.0[/img]

I found the server to be iffy with 24 players online (cpu load was ~1.10 for an hour and a half), and sadly this is probably the best they could offer (they offer more cores, but of the same type of CPU, tf2 server is single-threadded). I'm considering limiting to 22 or 20 players so that the server never feels iffy to anybody, ever. Thoughts?

EDIT 2: sorry, whoever tried to bruteforce my ssh :/
root:~# grep "Password" /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitEmptyPasswords no
PasswordAuthentication no

#14

cin

2 Frags – +

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#15

twiikuu

9 Frags – +

Hey, I just set up a server in NYC!

Use the appropriate flag on http://badwater.pub , or just type this in console:

connect na.badwater.pub

Thanks :)

Hey, I just set up a server in NYC!

Use the appropriate flag on http://badwater.pub , or just type this in console:

connect na.badwater.pub

Thanks :)

#16

cin

3 Frags – +

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#17

biskuu

6 Frags – +

Post this on reddit too, I think even more people will be interested to join.

#18

twiikuu

4 Frags – +

I posted whenever I opened the euro one, it didn't get much traction, I'm gonna wait a little more to announce the NA one

EDIT: it just isnt getting traction on reddot :( EU server's almost full tho!

I posted whenever I opened the euro one, it didn't get much traction, I'm gonna wait a little more to announce the NA one

EDIT: it just isnt getting traction on reddot :( EU server's almost full tho!

#19

nurfu

3 Frags – +

this should be added to the servers tab

#20

toads_tf

0 Frags – +

if you had funding to do this for other maps, would you do it?

i could possibly give you some money, i definitely want to see more of these things after casual was introduced.

if you had funding to do this for other maps, would you do it?

i could possibly give you some money, i definitely want to see more of these things after casual was introduced.

#21

twiikuu

6 Frags – +

Thanks for reminding me, nurfu, I did it.

My plan was to grow badwater.pub with its name, add some non-interfering features (chat bans, server stats (not player stats because that makes people try too hard for stats), some monitoring stuff for me) , and maybe try reproducing more than just badwater, say upward, or complete payload servers.
I would do it if the servers were populated more than anything. Right now, the only funding thing that bothers me is the price of the NA server compared to the EU server, the latter one is absolutely cheap and high quality, I'm not sure I'll be able to ever find anything similar in NA.
I'm really glad you'd be down to help me financially, but considering this project is very (very) young, I'm gonna hold off on accepting donations, I don't want to feel pressured to provide, etc. The thought is very much appreciated, though.

Thanks for reminding me, nurfu, [url=/34869]I did it[/url].

My plan was to grow badwater.pub with its name, add some non-interfering features (chat bans, server stats (not player stats because that makes people try too hard for stats), some monitoring stuff for me) , and maybe try reproducing more than just badwater, say upward, or complete payload servers.
I would do it if the servers were populated more than anything. Right now, the only funding thing that bothers me is the price of the NA server compared to the EU server, the latter one is absolutely cheap and high quality, I'm not sure I'll be able to ever find anything similar in NA.
I'm really glad you'd be down to help me financially, but considering this project is very (very) young, I'm gonna hold off on accepting donations, I don't want to feel pressured to provide, etc. The thought is very much appreciated, though.

#22

Hunter_2_0

0 Frags – +

I would play here but then I can't pubstomp because everybody on the server will be better than me :/

#23

feathers

2 Frags – +

why not play anyway
it's a pub and skill doesn't really matter too much, not like people will try their hardest

#24

sops

0 Frags – +

played a bit with twiikuu it was pretty fun, thanks for making this!

#25

Froooost

0 Frags – +

Just wanted to request for an Asian 24/7 badwater pub. There are alot of people who would love an Asian 24/7 badwater server. Not telling you to MAKE an Asian server but if you could we would greatly "worship" you. :D

#26

STOGE

0 Frags – +

Server keeps lagging?

#27

twiikuu

0 Frags – +

Server issues should be fixed, very sorry for the inconvenience!

#28

denisbit13

0 Frags – +

Good!

#29

boots

1 Frags – +

Good pub. That dude complaining about class limits got everybody tilted though.

#30

flyingbuddy

0 Frags – +

Awesome work :D
Also in the future are you possibly planning to expand to Australia....tired of playing cancerous 24/7 upward as the only pub