New possible Homefront Server

[dylangreen162]

Homefront server and community is dead. I am thinking about reviving the multiplayer by hosting a dedicated server. If it thrives and people enjoy the gameplay I will host another dedicated server. I will admin and can volunteer admins. Admins will be kept in check to keep out the buttholes. This game has a decent multiplayer. I loved the beta. So if anyones interested in a dedicated server let me know. It won't be right away of course but I will do it if I see enough interest. I also have a teamspeak as well for players. There will be a growing community for people to play hopefully.

Thanks everyone,
dylangreen162

[PKON]

There are enough server online but not enough player.

[Akira_Kurosawa]

Dylan, PKON is correct. We have several long-standing servers. There are more servers than players. We have played this game for years and we are die-hard players. We need more players. I am glad to see someone who likes the game as much as we do. I hope to see you in-game. Sincerely....... :)

[[SB]TacTicToe]

You guys beat me to it.

What you have to realize is that this game is VERY old by PC and FPS standards. It is no longer updated and the company that created the game is long out of business.

Kaos thought they were Infinity Ward or some better established game developer. Their hubris is what caused the short life of this game. They did not allow us to create our own mods and maps and the DLC they released forced you to own that DLC to join that server, EVEN if the server was running stock maps as well. Very stupid.

In contrast, you take a game like CoD4 Modern Warfare. Game is even older than Homefront, however there are mod and map tools. As such that game still thrives and has a large player base, DESPITE Activisions many attempts to kill the game off. They have tried to kill the game off and can't. Our CoD4 servers still get hundreds of players and still new players every week. Evenings server is slammed full and if it werent for a private slot password, would be difficult for me to get on.

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We have Teamspeak 3 server with 500 slots and the highest codecs possible so sound is crystal clear. We host the oldest and longest running Homefront servers. While we wont tell you not to put one online, I will tell you it will only increae your frustration and disappointment levels. If you host it off your own PC then you are providing a crappy server for the community. If you host it with a GSP then you are just wasting your money. People keep trying to put new servers online thinking that will bring in the players, it wil not. I have tried hosting pretty much every configuration for a server there is, being just as hopeful, and it did not help.

Homefront is where Frontlines Fuel of War was at just before it went offline for good. They shut the master server down for that game as well. Very few if any players then poof, gone. We host the only remaing FFoW servers, and you know what? We get as many players there as we do Homefront. Just a handful here and there. When the master server is taken offline, the only way to connect will be direclty via IP. That is how you have to connect to our FFoW servers. When that day comes, we will continue to host and will quite probably host the only remaining Homefront server as well.

BTW in case you did not know, FFoW was the game that Kaos released before Homefront. For those of us that played, Homefront is basically FFoW 2.0. Same game play, even the EXACT same sounds, just bigger maps and more players on a battlefield.