We made private farming work again! There is however a problem. The bot server, a dedicated server we used to idle tf2 accounts on, is gone. This is needed to farm alone without having to ask a friend to join the private server with you.

Unless you have a friend who wants to idle or if you a second pc laying around, there is currently no easy way to private farm.

We will bring back the bot server eventually, No date on this yet.

Private farming will not come back for a while. The 32-bit server binary completely changed with the update, which had modifications that made private farming work. I have attempted to fix it, but no luck.

I'm hopeful about the 64-bit server binary, which SourceMod doesn't fully support it at the moment. We have to wait for them to fully support it, which may take several months if not years. The sooner the better!

Until then, the public servers are the way to go.

The 64-bit update broke all the private farming servers. Getting the servers fixed is our top priority. It may take a while before everything works again, so please bear with us. Thank you.

We got brand new servers! Four public servers in total. Setting them up took a little longer than we'd hoped for, but here they are. The server ports are incremented by 5, starting with 27015. We may add more servers in the future if we have enough resources for it. Time will tell.


We are pleased to announce the final version of strange_level_ultra. This update comes with a few improvements and bugfixes. No new features are added. Thanks to all for your feedback on this map. We really appreciate it!

We're a bit late with the announcement, but our servers will close down today. Don't worry though, we have already purchased new servers. These servers come with better hardware, allowing us to run more servers.

We will make a new announcement when the servers are up and running. This may take some time depending if we run into problems.

After months of playtesting and hard work we're happy to release the new RC3 version of strange_level_ultra.
This release gives you the ability to farm a few more strange parts. The spawn has gotten a complete overhaul. We also added a tenth farming room to make it a true 10 player farming server. Enjoy!

Map Highlights:

• Spawn overhaul. Seperated most strange parts to one door. Created a second floor.
  
• Added a 10th main farming room. You can change the bot's class in this room.
  
• Silenced weapon and impact sounds. Everything has been pretty much muted.
  
• Added a room to farm the Disciplinary Action.
  
• Added translations to the TF2 Wiki Room.
  
• A lot of optimizations, including requested onces.

Added/Fixed Strange Parts:

• Strange Part: Cloaked Spies Killed
  
• Strange Part: Killstreaks Ended
  
• Strange Part: Taunting Player Kills
  
• Strange Part: Defender Kills
  
• Strange Part: Burning Enemy Kills (Fixed)
  
• Strange Part: Teammates Whipped
  
• Strange Part: Tanks Destroyed
  
• Strange Part: Underwater Kills (Now All Class)
  
• Strange Part: Long-Distance Kills (Now All Class)

• Command !helpmenu/!help/!cmds gives you a menu to see what commands you can use.
  
• Stranges like Dead Ringer, Razorback and Demo shields will now be shown in the side info.
  
• Strange Demoman shields can now be farmed with non-strange primary and melee.
  
• Removed Spy backstab cooldown for faster Razorback farming.
  
• Increased default move speed for all classes.
  
• Auto attack will automatically stop when you respawn.
  
• Steam server and item server issues are better notified to players.
  
• Stats Tracking can now be disabled. This will break cosmetics. Can be toggled with !stats.
  
• Sandman and Wrap Assassin can launch baseballs again.
  
• Improved non-strange weapon removal.
  
• Countless bugfixes.

We tested a lot throughout these months, but we didn't test it with a full server. There might still be some bugs here and there that we've missed. Please let us know!

The last few weeks seb has been working on a map update. We listened to your feedback and added the most requested features. Thank you everyone who gave us feedback to improve the map, we appreciate it!

Biggest Changes:

• The Spy Dead Ringer can be leveled now. You can now use !ringer to idle.
  
• Added a 24 hour map restart timer. Make sure you return to leveling once it restarts.
  
• Added a room to level the PDA 'Health Dispensed to Teammates' part.
  
• Added red/green indicators to the Medic assist room.

Added Support:

• Strange Part: Player Hits
  
• Strange Part: Damage Dealt
  
• Strange Part: Long-Distance Kills (All Class)
  
• Strange Part: Buildings Destroyed (All Class)
  
• Strange Part: Burning Enemy Kills
  
• Strange Part: Allies Extinguished
  
• Strange Part: Medics Killed That Have Full ÜberCharge

To see the full map changelog, see this thread.

• Implemented a patch to make cosmetics build again! Hooray!
  
• Plugin automatically attempts to reconnect you to the item server when it loses connection.
  
• Automatically switch to a strange weapon upon spawn in case a non-strange is removed.
  
• Added !ringer for you to automatically level the Dead Ringer in the sentry room.
  
• Ability to switch weapons while taunting. Handy for engineer.
  
• Instant sapper removal for any weapon that supports it.
  
• Reduced sentry damage and wrangler firing speed.
  
• Instant upgrade buildings and instant deploy time.
  
• Reduced total stickies for faster detonation.

As always, feedback and suggestions are welcome!
You can post your map ideas and suggestions here, or you can add seb directly.