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Castaway.tf Team Fortress 2 Servers

Welcome to the steam group for Castaway.tf. We are a small community focused on playing vanilla TF2, in the spirit of old Valve servers.

Check out our website for a server list, the map rotation, and additional info: https://castaway.tf

The goal of Castaway is simple - servers where you can play Team Fortress 2 in it's prime. Random crits, sprays, no class limits, no moderation on player communication; this should be as close as possible to the vision of the game as seen by the original developers. Our servers feature a weapon reversion plugin, which puts weapons back into the state whenever they were most fun.

Castaway also features a map voting system. As we do not have all that many players, and it's not as simple as just joining a different server if you want to play a different map, the map voting is a compromise to allow players to play what they want.

No matter what someone else might tell you, we do not, have not, and will not have an official discord server.

Join the group chat for announcements!

Check out this promo video one of our members made!

We now have an official YouTube channel for clips! Check the discussion thread for more information.

Add our servers to your favorites!:
96.126.126.174 | Dallas (USCentral) - Weapon Reverts
45.79.181.77 | Newark (USEast) - Weapon Reverts
194.195.210.23 | Atlanta (USEast) - Weapon Reverts
192.46.236.32 | Frankfurt (EU) - Weapon Reverts
172.233.246.87 | Paris (EU) - Weapon Reverts
45.79.118.151 | Syndey (AUS) - Weapon Reverts
172.236.143.188 | Singapore (Asia) - Weapon Reverts

Event Schedule
We have daily events in both NA and EU servers. The times are as follows, however the specific server may change and the time might be slightly different each day. As of writing this, the community currently favors playing on the weapon revert servers.

EU
Monday-Friday - 7 PM GMT / 9 PM GMT+2
Saturday-Sunday - 4 PM GMT / 6 PM GMT+2

NA
Monday-Sunday - 5 PM PST / 7 PM CST / 8 PM EST

AUS
Saturday-Sunday - 8 PM AEST

These events are announced in the group chat when they start.
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SourceTV and server changes
SourceTV Demos
I have enabled SourceTV auto recording on all servers. What that means is that a demo file will be automatically recorded for every match, from this day going forward, and will be publicly available for download. Thanks to Eric Zhang for pushing me to implement it and helping with the cvars.

The goal was to boost the community's ability to create clips, though you can use it to save your favorite games.

The archive can be found here[mega.nz], and it is also available on the website. Demo files are uploaded to the mega once daily, right before the daily server restart (5am at the local time of the server). Unfortunately, I can't find a very elegant solution to do it faster than that, so you'll just have to come back the day after to get your replays.

Replays are stored in the archive like so:
ServerLocation-ServerIP └──Year └──Month └──Day └──HourMinute-Map.zst
Where Year/Month/Day are the date when the match occurred, and HourMinute are the start time of the match.

Demo files are large, especially when recording 66 ticks per second and 45 minutes of gameplay. In order to save space in the long run, I have compressed all demo files using zstd[en.wikipedia.org]. To extract the files, you will need a tool capable of decompressing zstd. You can view the github[github.com] for the zstd tool and download it from the latest release. For windows users, it will be zstd-v1.X.X-win64.zip (v1.5.6 as of writing this) and for Linux users, you can get zstd with your package manager. I apologize for not putting it in a more common format, but as I said these files are decently sized so every percent saved matters in the long run.

For assistance regarding editing demo files, you can view this thread by castaway member ejv2 for a guideline on how to use the replay editor with demo files.

Singapore server
I have spun up a Singapore server, our first server in Asia. Singapore was chosen just based on feedback from some of our members in Asia. As per below, it is also a weapon revert server.

No more Vanilla
I made an executive decision and converted all remaining Vanilla servers to weapon revert ones.

Let's be honest, at this point a regular vanilla server isn't enough of a draw for a consistent playerbase. The overwhelming majority of our community wants to play weapon reverts instead of modern balance, and it's reflected in player counts. Therefore, I have converted Newark, Dallas, and Frankfurt to weapon revert servers. This has the added benefit of giving people an overflow server if the main one is full, as before there was only 1 revert server per big region. More servers can be added for AUS/Asia if the demand exists and there's consistent server fills.

Submit your TF2 clips for youtube!
174 commentaires
Gabber 23 déc. à 0h47 
Most of our players in Asia are not really associated with the group and aren't Quickplay patriots, most of them appear to be randoms from the server browser.
As long as we have a decent amount of players (5+) seeding, the randoms seem to show up.
Granted, many of these randoms are unwashed barbarians who have been brainwashed by years of u*cletopia and c*sual, and they seem to have very specific preferences in maps (koth, upward and badwater above all else), but with time they will become civilized.
Gabber 23 déc. à 0h42 
Weekly report:

Monday - Singapore lasted 6 hours / Atlanta lasted 3 hours / Paris lasted 1 hour
Tuesday - Singapore lasted 2 hours / Atlanta lasted 5 hours / Paris failed to fill up
Wednesday - Singapore lasted 2 hours / Atlanta lasted 3 hours / Paris lasted 2 hours
Thursday - Singapore lasted 2 hours / Atlanta lasted 2 hours / Paris failed to fill up
Friday - Singapore lasted 5 hours / Atlanta lasted 5 hours / Paris failed to fill up
Saturday - Singapore lasted 1 hour / Atlanta failed to fill up / Paris lasted 8 hours
Sunday - Singapore lasted 7 hours / Atlanta lasted 2 hours / Paris lasted 5 hours

YO! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
WE had a very good week.
I was actually against adding an Asian server at first, but it turned out to be very successful.
Singapore was actually the best performing server this week.
There's no guaranteeing that this type of performance will continue, but there's a lot of potential.
protons oppai 22 déc. à 7h11 
Turns out Asia server can get full at around 3PM GMT+8 on weekends, then get full again at 7PM onwards
Good test run. There is potential.
Alvy 21 déc. à 12h33 
>chud tf2 server
>look inside
>8 confirmed furries, 5 of them ♥♥♥♥
;))) 17 déc. à 10h43 
castaway fell off :steamlaughcry: i guess thats what happens when you ostracize all the good members(me)
kuz 17 déc. à 1h49 
tsmt
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