HL2RP Xerothermic Gaming - City Twenty-Four Outskirts

Hi, I'm Tommy - the founder and concurrent Director of Xerothermic Gaming. We've had our ups and downs in the past, and we are recently setting a server back up. We'll be trying a different approach at Half-Life 2 Roleplay from what we normally do. It'll be based around being in a more run-down portion of City Twenty-Four, where citizens are given rations rarely and units are much more brutal than the inner city.

Xerothermic Gaming as a whole has two servers up and running, and we plan on putting up a Jailbreak fairly soon. Aside from our HL2RP, we have a Deathrun, but my personal main focus will be on the HL2RP. Deathrun and Jailbreak run themselves, and is only up because of our players from past iterations of the community requested them.

Also, in regards to donation perks - you will not receive anything in-game, as IC perks are not a route I plan on going down again. You will be given a donator tag on our Forum and Teamspeak 3 server indefinitely alongside a Teamspeak channel. As well, if you wish to join the other servers, you will of course be given the perks relative to the amount you donated (Perks located here.)



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Director
Tommy
HL2RP Manager
Oryx
Super Administrators
Shotgun
Administrators
Hope
Moderators
Pixel

Spoiler: A quick rundown

Portal storms raged across the Earth during the early 21st century, bringing new forms of alien life to the world which enforced evacuations across entire nations to centralize the citizens into a well more fortified city. Quickly following, a more military-esque race called the Combine used these storms as an entrance to Earth, making quick work of the planet - gaining almost totalitarian control in just seven hours due to the planet's surrender. Fast-forward about four years after the takeover, the Combine are at their strongest during their occupation as citizens struggle against such a force in cities controlled by the totalitarian Union.

However, there is a city sector where things are carried out differently than the others. In the outskirts of City 24, there is a area known by citizens as the 'Ghetto', which was disrupted during the war and heavily damaged. The Ghetto was still taken under control by the Combine, rumoured around many other cities as an area which is dangerous, scary, and difficult. It's said that many that have been designated to this sector has quickly died from either malnourishment or murder, by both units and fellow citizens who are looking for a meal. Rations are much more scarce than in other sectors, and due to this some of its inhabitants have followed down the path of cannibalism. The Metropolice Force are brutal, giving the citizens terrible housing units made out of any sort of scrap they can find with still the possibility of a small patrol of units knocking it down as a entertainment for themselves. Citizens try to work together to uplift the horrible quality of life, but even resistance is squashed within it's first days of development.

You are a citizen who is currently on a train to be transferred to the outskirts of City 24 - you don't know what to expect besides the rumours others say. When you step off the train, you'll never be able to climb back on. You'll be very rarely given rations, which are of horrible quality. Every other citizen you meet will be judging you, trying to see if they can take you in a fight to take things you have - be it clothes, food, anything. The Metropolice, while rarer in sight than other cities, will strike you down without a bat of an eye - a bullet through your skull if you just so much as look at them funny. It won't be easy to survive, but that's just the way life is here.

Welcome to City Twenty-Four.

Roleplay will be focused almost completely on citizens. There will be no ranks in the Metropolice Force, only digits so that you may be identified. Units will be led by dispatch.

Rarely will you see units around - there will generally only ever be two or three units on at a time, if any at all. The antagonist of our roleplay won't be units - it will be fellow citizens. There will be fight for supplies, be it food or shelter. It will be up to the players if they decide to make a citizen who tries to work together and get equal supplies to everyone, or a citizen who does their best to gather as many supplies as they can for themself.

We have taken out CWU, vortigaunts, city administration, and other various factions commonly seen on Half-Life 2 Roleplay servers; we are sticking with only citizens and MPF. Your greatest friend in the outskirts of City Twenty-Four is the ration terminal, which will give you a low quality ration every half-day. Be cautious, though - if you are seen walking around with your ration, there will probably be someone trying to take it from you.​

 

I saw the thread, thought to myself, looks nice.
Then I saw Hope as an administrator.

Yeah, no.

 

Nice thread, well put together. However I have a fear that not much will/has changed since last thread, I hope the new look isn't all just nice pictures and you've made major improvements in the areas that were pointed out previously.

 

It's a shame really, I see some fantastic threads on Cloudsixteen. But the main problem I have is their all the same, and it's HL2:RP which in my opinion has become boring. But good luck, and if your server quality is anything like this thread then you will most likely not appeal to the common type's of players thus resulting in no major playerbase, I would suggest implementing some sort of ranking structure purely for players to feel like they are earning something, not just existing, if players feel rewarded for their efforts they are surely going to stick around, and if you do add ranks, don't make your self a superior rank, give it to a deserving player.

 

The roleplay is being completely based on citizen roleplay. We plan on giving them small rewards that way, as MPF will mainly be a support faction - similar to traders in a STALKER or Fallout roleplay.

 

NOTICE: The server will be launching tomorrow at 6PM EST. (5PM CST/CT, 4PM MST/MT)

 

And I agree with what you are doing, but unfortunately the serious players of HL2:RP are a bit of a minority these days, everyone wants "IC APPS/ NEED MPF" etc, and unfortunately I personally think this is a bit optimistic.

 

city 24? i don't think i've seen this before. did you mean city 23?

 

we're using city 8 district 9, but ICly we are city 24.

we didn't want to be located in japan.

 

I see...

 

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The server will be launching in 4 hours and 20 minutes.

 

just in time for me getting out for the weekend

 

We are launching in forty minutes! Remember to download our collection here.

 

We are launched! Join the server at 192.223.26.187.

 

-snip-

 

Sometimes i genuinely wonder what kind of guy you are in-person. I truly, truly do.


Anyway;

Was it any good?

Seeing it all day at 0 players, or...?

 

If I had to give it a title, generic. It isn't a bad server but there isn't all that much to do. +for using the proper city 8 models and not the shit hd ones