Hey Everyone,

Shoubi asked for a memo to be posted about Redstone:

Originally posted by Shoubi:

Hi,

I started my hosting project focused on 2 standalone games (Insurgency & Day of Infamy). However, I recently expanded to hosting the Redstone Nuclear Dawn server. When I learned it was shutting down, I wanted to give the Nuclear Dawn community the opportunity to reboot the server.

Vertex saw my offer was genuine and accepted it without hesitation. He provided the necessary resources and knowledge to make it happen. I am grateful to be part of such a tight-knit community.

This is an extra project which is why it's not on my patreon. We do not provide any rewards or incentives on Nuclear Dawn to encourage donations. We relay on a handful of kind people to keep the Nuclear Dawn community server running. If you're able to contribute, I would be very grateful.

My project is located here. Donations are being accepted at the bottom of the page. https://ins2u.online/nuclear-dawn

Sincerely,
Alexis

Hey Everyone,

We're doing a play test event on the new Vanilla server later today at 18:00GMT. See the events tab for more details. The stability issues and team pick plugin should be fixed now.

We will also be on discord voice chat. Join us here: https://discord.gg/2AKetQ7

By popular request, a new Vanilla server is now available in London UK. It has no game-play changing mods except for the p900 pistol unlock and parachutes!

It's run on a brand new dedicated i7-7700k with 32 GB of DRR4 2133 ram. Overall, this hardware is 30% faster than the previous setup. The server tick-rate is also increased from 60 to 100, which cuts the ping response delay in half!

Furthermore, the new OVH datacenter in London offers significantly better overseas routing and pings than the previous host. This will create a faster and more stable experience for many players!

The popular Redstone team balancer is also being re-written. Levels will be distributed more evenly across teams. It will function closer to level balancing, with minor distinguishing between level 80 players and more team choice.

The new year is here and it's time for a tickrate increase. Redstone servers now run a 100 tickrate for better performance. The server hosted in a datacenter and has 100% performance.

Last year, the game developer made performance optimizations to idle turrets. And resolved a source engine bug causing synchronization issues with higher tickrates. Our dedicated i7-4770 can now procress 100 ticks per second flawlessly, without any performance drops.

We do not recommend playing Nuclear Dawn on an internet connection slower than 6mbps down and 1mbps up. Faster is better to prevent congestion, if shared with more than one user.

Players should note that a 100 hetz monitor is requried for 100 fps. Vertical Sync must be turned off, to run a frame rate higher than 60 fps. A basic dedicated video card like a GTX 950 is sufficient; however, an i7-8086k is absolutely required to hold a frame rate this high. This Intel procressor has at least 6 threads, a 4ghz base frequency and 5ghz turbo frequency.

Redstone will be hosting Teampick Events from it's own steam group. We will no longer be in posting other steam groups. RedstoneND is now integrated with the server.

Invite your friends to the RedstoneND steam group, so they receive events postings. Redstone is advertising and rewarding people to join the group. Our goals are increase player turn-out for events. We greatly appreciate the community effort to help populate the server.

We value our independence to continue serving the Nuclear Dawn community. Third parties make this more difficult and often take credit for our work.

Our next Teampick Event is Saturday, August 25th, 2018. We've made some improvements to the server and look forward to seeing everyone there!