ZR is slowly dying

[Ralphatron 19]

There havent been that much players lately, on weekends fills up a bit more, but during the week its pretty much dead, sometimes not even 5 players at the same time. Im slowly starting to play in Escape too, I dont mind. Is it a problem with the latest update? Can the non-steams play? Just wanted to know whats going on with a tech answer since normal players dont seem to have an answer. ^^

Edited March 17 by Ralphatron

[CrazyChris 106]

At the end of the day, I can only state my opinion regarding the situation in the ZR server, but here goes:

Although there was a low player volume when the server had the latest build, the server should have maintainted the latest build & not have rolled back. I preferred the low player volume where no-Steam players had no access until the no-Steam servers get updated with the latest build. Some players may agree & some may disagree, which is fine, but at the end of the day, as stated in the beginning, it's only my opinion that the server should have not been rolled back to the previous build. Good day/afternoon/evening/night.

[Hobbitten 651]

Hi @ Ralphatron

We will attempt todo something about this today. The ZR update has actually been ready for a bit of time but was delayed because of nosteam having todo some extra work to make their game work on the newest css build. It is something we will work on today and see what we will end up doing. Ether having a guide to help prevent the issue / remove it but hopefully my dev can fill me more in about this topic as we speak later today.

[cut magic 0]

Can you help me play on the new update? I'm looking for a no-steam one. The last one I found had a virus and I don't know of a site to find another CSS.

Edited March 18 by cut magic
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[AlexZeg 223]

10 hours ago, cut magic said:

Can you help me play on the new update? I'm looking for a no-steam one. The last one I found had a virus and I don't know of a site to find another CSS.

You can try 7Launcher or just buy css on steam it's curently on a sale for 0,95$

Edit: 7Launcher wanted to download me a trojan, i won't instal this shit ever again

[Ralphatron 19]

Steam is too expensive. Just buy a skin instead. 

[Ralphatron 19]

Now jokes aside, Im 100% with Chris. Both the servers should be completely steam only, for various reasons, but the main one being that on Steam cheating is almost impossible due to VAC. With non-steam players its a different story, even though cheats like Aimbot or Speedhack are pretty self-declaring and are caught fast, there are other cheats that are more cunning and sneaky to get a hold off, specialy dropable files and scripts like a aimhack, wallhack, no spread, no recoil, etc. Only cheaters recognize other cheaters, Im one of these. Ive cheated before on CS, I cheat on single player games, I mess with hexadecimal, decimal, octal and binary values, Ive built cheats for the Pokemon rom hacking comunity, I know how it goes. I dont cheat on online games these days, I dont find it fun anymore and steam gets you banned on the blink of an eye, VAC is just that powerful, even though some cheats can get bypassed. Its like in cybersecurity, if you want to catch hackers you gotta learn how to think and act like one, and some players on revival are using soft cheats that get bypassed by the naked eye. You have to be a cheater or have knowledge in the field to catch them, and non steam are much more likely to cheat and not get caught. Not saying the admins do a bad job, but many cheaters go bypassed. 

On the other hand, I think comunity servers should be oficial steam only. Non just because of the cheaters and the safety, but also because the oficial steam comunity is much better automated with updates, maps and stuff like that. 

Just my opinion, Ill go with whatever the admin and tech team decides, at the end of the day, I know theyre hungry for players and revival wouldnt survive without the non-steams if it goes like this. Also, the majority doesnt have the knowledge of how to buy steam or the will to do so, even though CS:S costs like 10 bucks when its not on discount sales. 

Its a big joke man, I cant help but laugh at it. Thankfuly theres Escape, Im slowly moving over there. But I love revival, dont want it to die. Well, like Spike Spiegel said, whatever happens, happens. ^^