[HB] HeartBit Serious HL2RP

So the other day I decided to join some random HL2RP server. I came across HeartBit, a server with a fairly large playerbase. It seemed alright at first, nothing out of the ordinary. What you'd expect from HL2RP, really: walk around as a citizen and try to communicate with others that just walk away from you. The server's sectors were all 'quiet areas', which meant that if you talked to someone you'd be beaten up. I have no idea why they'd want that implemented, since it discourages social interaction, and makes the RP even more dull, but whatever.

My citizen was a generic one, fearing the combine and staying out of their way. I mainly just wanted to have a conversation with someone, try and get some basic RP going, but to no avail. After a while I noticed that the CP's that were on were dicking around a lot, recoloring each other with the toolgun, spawning random props as well as spawning GMan and killing him. They did this in the middle of the plaza when there were people on. For some reason a CP also started chasing around a scanner, yelling in OOC that he'd kill it.

After what seemed like ages I left the server, having accomplished little to nothing. I joined up today as well, and saw some CP's dicking around again. Then about four citizens ganged up on a CP recruit, trying to disarm him. A guy was casually standing next to the action, spamming random citizen lines... I wouldn't really recommend this server.

During my brief stay on there, I managed to snap these screenshots:

Status 2: Electric Boogaloo

Greetings once more, good 'ole blog.

I haven't updated this blog in months, but it was brought up in a conversation today and it made me want to update it again. Apparently it has actually been getting some traffic, which is strange.

Anyway, here are some updates on the GMod RP front:

Tiramisu 2 was being actively developed by FNox and Matt, then it was released on facepunch. Tiramisu 2 actually looks really cool. The visuals have improved a lot, and its features are pretty neat. I'd honestly recommend checking the gamemode out, it's extremely easy to edit to your needs.
However, FNox and Matt have stopped working on it due to lack of interest, I suppose. FNox says he'll release one more version once GMod 13 launches, but that's it.

Conna Wiles/Kurozael/Kuropixel/Kudomiku etc is working on the successor to openAura: Clockwork. It's apparently not going to be yet another rename, but based on the screenshots/video footage released it honestly looks like it. It was also leaked a while back, and when I browsed through the code it seemed very similar to OA.

Other than that, not much has really changed. There are still a shit ton of DarkDM... I mean, DarkRP... servers out there as well as OA servers. I think I'm going to start playing on some random RP servers and posts reviews of them on here.

Until next time.