Toon explosions not working in casual.

[Globe Man]

Alright so I know a lot of people have this problem so I'm going to say this first: I am aware of the map itemtest thing. I've had animation overhauls for quite some time and I know that you need to boot that up before the overhauls will work in a server. So just recently I downloaded the toon explosions, muzzle flashes, rocket trails, all that junk. The problem I've been facing is that once I boot the game and go to the itemtest map, they work fine. If I go to a community server they work fine. But once I go into a casual server they quit working. If I leave the server and go to a community server they work fine again. Anyone know why this is happening and/or how to fix it? I've read certain things talking about sv_pure 1 screwing with these, but that was only with a select few, not completely shutting down all of them. Anyone know a way around that apart from just not playing casual?

[jikler]

Yeah sorry, effects and explosions dont work on sv_pure 1 servers

[Globe Man]

Is this a recent problem or has this been around since these effects were released?

[Big Sloppie]

Particle mods are to my knowledge not whitelisted by sv_pure 1 on Valve servers. Animation overhauls are. I have the DOOM BFG particle replacement for the Cow Managler and they haven’t worked outside of community servers as well.

[GhostyOsty]

Because they're not suppose to. Sv_pure 1 is enabled.

[Globe Man]

Anyone know if valve as acknowledged this? Like what's the reasoning behind them being disabled? Is there some sort of exploit/hack associated with it or what?

[GhostyOsty]

Originally posted by Globe Man:

Anyone know if valve as acknowledged this? Like what's the reasoning behind them being disabled? Is there some sort of exploit/hack associated with it or what?

This has always been a thing. Does it look like I want to download a million mods just to join one casual game because of a few people who have loads of them?

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Originally posted by Globe Man:

Anyone know if valve as acknowledged this? Like what's the reasoning behind them being disabled? Is there some sort of exploit/hack associated with it or what?

most likely because you can make for example spy disguising particles more noticeable, medibeams might also be more noticable, you can make flamethrower particles more transparent so that you can better aim I guess.

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Originally posted by Captain Ghosty:

Originally posted by Globe Man:

Anyone know if valve as acknowledged this? Like what's the reasoning behind them being disabled? Is there some sort of exploit/hack associated with it or what?

This has always been a thing. Does it look like I want to download a million mods just to join one casual game because of a few people who have loads of them?

these are mostly client side mods

[Globe Man]

Originally posted by Alina G(r)ay:

Originally posted by Captain Ghosty:

This has always been a thing. Does it look like I want to download a million mods just to join one casual game because of a few people who have loads of them?

these are mostly client side mods

I was about to ask, why would they be shared into the server? I was under the assumption they were client only.

[Bush]

Originally posted by Globe Man:

Anyone know if valve as acknowledged this? Like what's the reasoning behind them being disabled? Is there some sort of exploit/hack associated with it or what?

It's pretty much them being lazy and blocking almost everything.

Before valve servers had sv_pure disabled people could use mods normally which was good but also bad cause modders easily took an advantage of that to make invisible wall textures and whatnot.

So their best course of action is to block almost everything and leaving you with nice crashes, missing textures or distorted sounds.

This especially sucks for people that don't do those things and just want the game to look a little different or more optimized but who cares for the little guy am i right?