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The Ready-Room

How many times have you been on a server and wished you could change something, but there’s no admin around, so tough luck you just have to make do? Well not any more! You see the problem has always been that you can’t just go giving out your admin password to anyone as they could ruin your server. So we have made a new level of security and configuration for Follow Freeman servers, which gives the server administrators the option to give out a password to trusted players and clan members, who can then use the game control console in the ready room to easily configure their game without having to hassle the admin, and without the risk of them killing the server.

This new and unique feature brings unprecedented configurability to online servers by their players, as and when it is needed. Many more members of the community will be able to setup games in the way they wish for a session. This also saves server administrators time, money and bandwidth, as there is no need to run multiple semi-populated servers, each with different configurations.

In the ready room Players can also vote for the chapter they wish to play next, select the difficulty from 0 to 9 and various other features. coming soon to the ready room will be even more innovative and fun features. The ready room may seem a little disorienting at first but its actually very simple and you will feel right at home after a short time

 
Public Information Board

This is the public information board which displays the settings of the game for all the players when they join the Readyroom. This board is fully dynamic and even restores settings after returning to the Readyroom from a mission.

Information Screens

On either side of the spawning area are information screens on one side we have details on the chapters and the mission objectives and on the other game-play info such as the scoring system and options

 

Admin Teleporter

To change the settings of the game a player will need to use the admin teleporter which scans the player to see if they have clearance (to check you have entered the Follow Freeman admin password) before teleporting the player upstairs to access the control console.

Game Control Console

Once past the admin teleporter the player reaches the game options control console.

To use it the player can press “use” on the “select” button in the lower panel to change which option is selected. The currently selected option is underlined. Then the on and off buttons will either enable or disable the selected option or cycle through the available settings.

Option 1 ranked server
When enabled this will connect the server to our database so players stats and high scores can be saved onto our website.

Option 2 Game mode

This cycles through the available game modes

Option 3 Story Mode

This option changes the way the game progresses from chapter to chapter. When story mode is on players are taken directly from one chapter to the next as in the single player game. This preserves the game balance of the original single player experience and gives the players a greater sense of immersion in the game world. When you turn story mode off, after a chapter is completed players return to the Ready-room to vote on which chapter they wish to play next and visit the shop to spend their hard earned points on goodies for the next mission.

Option 4 Elimination
The dreaded elimination mode can now be turned on or off at the press of a button.

Option 5 Friendly Fire
Good old friendly fire always provides a greater challenge to players and makes for some fun times

Voting Zone Control

On the other side of the control console we have the voting zone controls. This will open or close access to the different voting zones of the Readyroom so server administrators can choose what type maps can be voted for by players.

The three areas players currently have access to in this release are through the door way past the administration area.
 

Valve Zone

Straight ahead we have the Valve Zone with Half Life 2 (The single player game in Follow Freeman co-op).

THE HALF LIFE 2 SINGLE PLAYER MAPS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS RELEASE. THIS RELEASE IS A BETA IN PREPARATION FOR THE RELEASE OF THESE MAPS

 

Mods Zone

This zone features third party single player mods which we have converted to Follow Freeman co-op. With this release we will be adding 6 of these mods, totaling a huge 69 playable maps in this area alone.

Mods included in this release

Rock24

Minerva - Metastasis

Ravenholm

Combine Destiny

The Island

Penetration

Mods currently  being converted to Follow Freeman Co-op

Causality Effect

Awakening

Infiltration

Riot Act

Mistake of Pythagoras

Coastline to Atmosphere

Das Roboss

Battle zone

This is our new experimental (with the emphasis heavily on MENTAL) type of map where anything goes. Featuring team and co-op battles between combine and/or rebels with hordes of npcs. Maps may be objective based or pure arcade style action. Battle zone is a mappers dream come true, with the full power of every feature of the engine at your disposal in multiplayer co-op. If you like fast intense action and deathmatch then you will love our conversions of 3 of the favorite valve dm maps into battlezone

Battle-zone Maps

ff_overcrabbed
T
eam deathmatch in the middle of an intense headcrab missile bombardment

ff_lockdown
Team Deathmatch with big points for the team that hunts down the antlion guards

ff_runoff
Teams battle for control of the central bunker (which is full of zombies) and use the artillery strike to neutralise the enemy

ff_lighthouse
Co-op defense of the lighthouse against waves of combine

ff_ravenholm
Team Objective based game where the rebels must destroy the combine core. Being in Ravenholm it of course features plenty of zombies

ff_trainstation
Co-op objective based mission to take back the train station of city 17 from the undead hordes