This has been waiting to happen for a long time, but shortly after this announcement goes live I will be closing the group page and let KaempeLaeske take over as founder of the servers.

Kaempe will be able to kick start his new community lone-ranger style and I'm sure it will kick ass. You can catch the new community page here: http://steamproxy.net/groups/PressP2Panic

The switch over shouldn't change much other than a couple of community name replacements so you can expect the same experience as you had originally, pure vanilla ZP!S

This group page will remain closed until I can discover what I want to do next.

I would like to thank:
Denshin aka Mr.Eklund - For introducing me to Kaempe, this journey would never have begun without you.

KaempeLaeske - Your determination was a breath of fresh air for the ZP!S community, I have no doubt you will sail into 3.0 as #1 vanilla server and #1 server, be sure to smile at Fred when you do :P

Dev team - Your constant updates has injected new life into the community, I can't wait to see updates past 3.0

Janaz Leonhart - What can I say? You picked me and Kaempe up when we were out our lowest of lows. When we almost threw the towel in because of DDoS attacks, you jumped to our aid. You didn't need to, but you did and that's the kind of selfless act that shouldn't go unnoticed.

Admins and community - Just a short thank you for being awesome :)

As before, this page will be locked until further notice. I hope I'll be able to catch you guys in the future.

Take it easy and much love,
Dave

Another, long-awaited, map update has now been brought to snowbound. Thanks to Reborn, we've taken steps to make the map a more balanced for the survivors, as well as making the spawn a little less confusing for inexperienced zombies.


One small, but still significant, change is metal grates replacing the metal hatches on the trams; This allows survivors to shoot through them, without damaging them, and defend from the zombies on top. The tram section is obviously designed with teamwork in mind; Having both trams leave a couple of seconds apart to allow each to cover the roof of eachother. Sadly, this is a bit too hard to carry out in practice, so we've given each tram the chance to defend themselves - Before the zombies are already inside and in your face.

Full changelog:

-Minor balance tweaks to weapons, ammo and z-spawns
-Fixed sound looping
-Made the chopper in the lobby static
-Added some new details
-Updated objectives, added beacons and stuff
-Added 2 new zombie shortcuts in the ice cave (access through 1st & 2nd teleport)
- Potential fix of the surf-skipping exploit

Download The Map Here[www.dropbox.com]Leave Feedback Here

We've also uploaded a fix of Xufe's latest version of tunnelway. Before, it had missing models but Xufe was quick to patch it up again. Much appreciated.

Download The Map Here [www.dropbox.com]

Enjoy!

- KaempeLaeske, on behalf of Davidians

We got another small treat for you guys to enjoy over the weekend;

First, we are introducing a new map to the +side rotation: zpo_quarentena_final.

A well known map on ZPS, and a good one at that. However, it was lacking some small but crucial tweaks to make it suitable for the server, which Haxray and Reborn have done a great job of.

Changes include:

- Fixed spelling and improved format on the objectives messages, as well as adding objective beacons, to make things a lot less confusing

- Extended the timer on the kill trigger in the human spawn so survivors have a fair chance of getting suited up and late joiners aren't screwed over.

- Tweaked weapon and ammo spawns

- Changed spawns of the camera to only be in the apartments and specified to search the apartments

- Changed the spawns of the key to only spawn in the offices and warehouse area, and clarified as such in the objective list

- Fixed bugs regarding survivors breaking the door leading to the interogation objective instead of opening it

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Second, Xufe has taken time out of his schedule to deliver a updated version of his map, zpo_tunnelway.

Changes include:

- Fixed minor bugs

- Made the armor stash only breakable by zombies.

That's all for now. We still got a few maps we wanna get out before 3.0.

Stay tuned!

- KaempeLaeske

We apologize for moving the date. Dave and I got caught up with personal dealings. We'll be doing the event tonight, at 7 P.M CET.

The event is gonna be smaller compared to previous events, given the fact that it's on a few hours before 3.0 playtesting and because nominations have been minuscule - It seems we've exhaused all the maps we want to try :P

The maps we'll be trying out are:

zph_unrealistic_v1

zpo_darkcult_b24

zpo_frozenheart_vf1

zpo_lostcity_b2

zpo_trainescape_v5

zps_isolated_v2


We are currently looking to recruit more mappers to help us edit old custom maps to make them appropiate for our servers.

Should you be interested, contact Davidian or KaempeLaeske.

Avaliable projects are:

zps_silo_deg_v1(No draw fixes + potential, additonal tweaks. .vmf provided)

zpo_facility_v4(Balance tweaks to make it less zombie-sided. Notes have already been made. .vmf provided)

zpo_countrytrain(Removal of explosive barrels in the cornfield shed required to avoid server crashes. No .vmf provided.)

zpo_tommipanic_b5(Objectives need to be fixed + potential balance tweaks. No .vmf provided)

zpo_blackbird_final(Balance tweaks to make it less survivors friendly. No .vmf provided. Notes have already been made.)


See you guys there!

- KaempeLaeske, on behalf of Davidians

Hey folks,

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are moving the 'Crazy custom map event - pt.4' to Sunday 30th April. It will be held at 7 PM CET (6pm GMT)

sorry for any inconvenience caused.

- Davidian