Hey guys it has been a while!
First of all, we hope you all had pleasant holidays and have a good start into 2019!
We have been quite busy and instead of writing multiple announcements we opted out for writing one large one.

L4D2:
We updated our game servers to the latest version of Metamod and Sourcemod, this plus a few config changes greatly improves the stability and performance of our servers. It turned out that our L4D2 server crashed due to Valve's server ranking, after disabling it server crashes dropped from multiple per day to none.

Speaking of L4D2, it is now possible to load custom Campaigns without the need to disconnect from the server first, therefore we added a few custom campaigns to our rotation.
All of them can be downloaded through a Steam Workshop collection. Campaigns are not the only new content on our L4D2 server, it now also has custom elevator music and map decals.
But since L4D2 is the big steaming pile of bugs we all love it comes with a catch:
While downloading those custom assets over http you have a black screen that will look like your game crashed.
It is possible to check the progress in the console, we will keep those files to a minimum, promise!
At the moment of writing this those files are around 3MB and are delivered over multiple blazing fast servers.

Steam Group:
Another change I would like to talk about is that we now automatically pick the group member of the week at the start of each week!
All you have to do to have a chance is to be in our Steam Group and to play on our servers, that's it!
Every Monday our server takes the 5 players with the most play time (to make it fair for our folks on the Gmod servers) and sets the player of the week to the first one that is in our Steam Group.

Website:
We switched from PHPBB to NodeBB since it is way more modern and secure. All old posts and users are gone.

Discord:
Since catching an admin via Team Speak can be quite hard at times we now also have a Discord server for it's neat mobile app with push notifications.
https://discord.gg/hgu5Pm3

Happy fragging and a happy New Year,
the AWOG community admins.