Hey there, it's been a long time, and to my surprise, I have received countless requests to bring servers back. I didn't feel like keeping the old builds due to the large amount of an unfinished features and countless bugs and awful player base of either complete noobs or sweaty 'l33t' players, not to mention I got really mad at server-side limitations at some point and started making a standalone ssdk2013 game with a really simple yet true name of "Half-Life 2: Multiplayer". While the game is only at it's first development stage, I was brought back to RLS by Klizmotron & simm25. Big thanks to them for their endless support during hard times and desire to keep the project alive. I have been inspired by their desire to play at RLS and here is the result: I have spent a couple of weeks fixing everything up and we're back to 5 different servers with unique gamemode setups. While you can read more about the servers at the main page, I will only summarize what I think is the most important:

- Balance:
It is really the only major reason why this game is truly dead. Not because it's community, not because Valve has abandoned the game, but exactly because the divergence in average skill level. My main goal was to make it easier for new players to gain kills and still have fun in process. While I cannot teach new players to shoot and jump properly, I can compute their combat efficiency either buff or nerf some certain player. Current changes allow everyone to utilize gravity gun yo-yo tricks and double punt acceleration of phys objects by only M1->M2/M1->M1 combos without need of using scripts or anything like that. Catching objects made easier. New damage system is accounting for damage falloff, so you don't accidentally get -225 headshot from across the whole map. Combat Efficiency will be also used to give losing players per-spawn buffs like additional armor, increased armor effectiveness or additional weapons on respawn. For those who do too well, it will decrease their armor effectiveness and/or give less items. This is not yet completely implemented, but I am working on the balance pretty much every day, so expect all sorts of improvements every now and then.

-New HUD:
Suggested by Klizmotron, we have decided to completely wipe out the stock weapon selector, which, unfortunately, makes it impossible to add custom items into the HUD, and since we have a lot of custom stuff, it's been optimal to create our own server-side weapon selector which looks and works pretty much the same way as the stock one, except for it's a little bit more enhanced in functionality, is bug-free and has kind of fancier animations. It supports hud_fastswitch and allows you to drop weapons with right mouse button. I have then decided to also add a shop, which you can access by pressing ALT once (this may change in the future). You can spend your credits to buy weapons, ammo and upgrades used by different gamemodes.

- Combat Ranks:
There is a built-in ranking system inspired by Elite: Dangerous. Combat Rank directly depends on an amount of damage you deal during combat and affects your Combat Efficiency. The amount of XP you earn is affected by your-to-enemy Combat Rank ratio as well as your-to-enemy Combat Efficiency ratio. Dealing damage to higher ranked enemies is rewarded with faster ranking progression. The primal rank purpose is to balance old and new players and equalize their skill level since it directly affects your combat.

- Combat Efficiency:
Combat Efficiency (CE) is measured between 0-100% and represents how successful you are in combat. If your CE is < 10%, you are most likely having troubles killing anyone while CE > 90% means that you are almost impossible to kill. The server may ask you to accept Easy/Hard skill level if it detects that your CE is too low or too high. Accepting new skill level may either reduce or increase the amount of XP/Credits you earn during gameplay as well as make it either harder or easier for you to gain kills.

There are also a lot of small changes and improvements and I won't be able to list all of them here because I may simply not remember all of them. Join now and check it out for yourself!

Hello to those very few, who actually cares about this project. I haven't been active in this group for quite long time and there were different reasons for that. First of all, I basically forgot about it's existence while being busy with Null Core. Secondly... Well, I will be honest with you: I've grown up and completely lost the interest in making this project. First of all, the reason why it's been up for quite long time is because I was interested in self-education, learning about Source Engine and just having fun with friends. Unfortunately, people from RLS have turned away from 'using' this network, so I can't see any reason why I should keep it up and working on it. I was basically doing this whole thing for myself, not even for 'friends' and other people. I loved the game, I've had some really nice expectations about Valve and did believe that some day they would listen to the endless bugs I was reporting to them. However, Valve's reputation has been ruined once and for all in my eyes after they have community banned all my accounts bound to the certain hardware. The reason of that ban is basically.... they don't like me. Yes, Valve has turned into nazi camp where any employee can ban you if you make a joke of them, even if your account is something like $1000 worth, while their employees don't give a sh1t about you and your issues in either steam client or their games. The easiest example was when I asked their support about certain VR hardware issues, since Steam VR is their application, but only got their stock 'reinstall steam'. Then, being in despair, I've contacted Frontier Support and asked the same question, which is basically kinda unrelated to what they usually solve. To my surprise, they have answered within few hours, providing detailed instructions on how to fix my issue. This is kinda represents the relationship, ei? But, well, I went off topic. After certain events I have come to the point where I realized that I basically waste my time doing all this sh1t and trying to revive the community that has been dead since 2009, if not earlier. I expected that my work will be appreciated by the community and other project's owners, however the only thing we can get out of hl2dm community is cancer and wannabe pro players who set their lerp to 0.0151515151515 and then wonder why they can't hit for sh1t. Some of those re1ards set the tickrate to 1000 and then be like 'oh well, 1000 is worse than 66, then your 100 tick server is worse too!!!1' without providing any kind of weighty arguments, not to even mention Source-1-Games don't support rates higher than 100. I've given this community a chance, but they failed in accepting it. Even when I suggested making some really nice anticheat that I had on my server, they declined my offer, because all of them are just a bunch of self-asserted pr1cks. They still haven't made one themselves though. Went a bit off topic again. So, when I realized that the community is cancer and there's no possibility to grow up in there, I've decided to quit that dying game and switch onto something new, basically not staying at the same place. I've found a perfect 'job' with some really nice pay off, which is, again, Null Core. I don't really feel like I want to continue the development, nor to share my sources/content with anyone. (R.I.P. Dmitry Sergeevich, no paste for you anymore). It was fun while it lasted. It was gone, once my people turned away from me. Now you're left with nothing but memories.

"Flying is never the same as falling." (c) Aurora Dawn

This group will most likely be deleted too.

Sincerely yours,
[RLS] V952

A lot of things have changed, appeared and disappeared within this project, so let me introduce the most important of them to you.

- Currently we are running 5 servers with different gamemodes

- New server: [RLS] JUMP
Play jump maps yourself or learn to jump spectating pro-jumpers with our key display

- New server: [RLS] SNIPER
Find your enemies on a huge map, snipe them and cover yourself. Collect supplies and use different sniper rifles to stay alife and unnoticed

- New server: [RLS] VERSUS
Compete with your friends and find out who is the best. This is a new level of fair and flexible matchmaking system

- New feature: weapon selector
Press ALT key to open it. This UI allows to select, drop or use different weapons and items in fast and handy manner

- New feature: key display (jump server)
Allows to see what keys are pressed by observed player and understand how is he performing movement tricks in real time

- New feature: health packs
Carry additional healthkits with you to use them as you need or share with your teammates (available via weapon selector)

- New weapon: vintorez
Silent, accurate and quick-firing sniper rifle for middle and long range usage. Allows to neutrolize enemies and stay undetected

- Code updates and optimizations
Deep refactor of vanilla and RLS code to achieve best optimization, utility and flexibility

- Content updates and optimization
Gibs, equipments, longjump, gauss and other. Everything is optimized as much as posible to reduce the ammount and size of downloadable content files.

- Future plans
Adding new unique features, weapons, gameplay aspects, more optimizatiion and updates. A lot of new stuff is on it's way

Hello everyone, I'm going to perform some maintenance of my server machine, so I must close the server, site and other services. I'll be back online in 4 hours.

Hello again,
It's been a long time since last announcement because I don't usually post them with no need. This update will touch all the admins and mods of Real-Life Server network, so if you're not one and not really interested in this you can close this page right here. If you didn't - that might mean that you are one of RLS admins. I've been working on admin shell for a long time; finally I took my ass and made what I wanted. Major changes include:
- Changed lots of command arguments and argument parsing system
- Your binds and aliases might not work anymore
- Changed security system and authentication algorithms
- Max flags per shell is now unlimited (it was only 64 before)
- Fixed rcon leaks. Note that trying to reproduce this bug now will get you auto-banned.
- Changed 'Immunity' system to accept only one value instead of two; higher values mean lower immunity, -1 = root for now.
- Added support for filter combinations. You can filter out more entities like "!range512&!team3" - this will accept any entity in team 3 within 512 units.

This is it. Other changes are not that interesting (coding stuff) so if you have troubles using RLS admin shell - give me a shot, but don't forget to read manual of 'rls' command first. Questions that are described in help will be ignored. Server is temporatily closed for testing purposes.