We’re currently having a little pool on our Facebook page:
If you could play Suicider as any model in the new version, what would you choose and what would be the most fun?
Head on over to our Facebook page and vote for your favorit ideas or add your own to the pool. All silly and crazy ideas are welcome 🙂 Thanks,
The shrub-management
Hello people from the internet
Here we are with another exciting update post about whats going on in the world of Suicide Survival 1.2 development. First things first: a couple of weeks ago popular Youtube star SeaNanners made a short video of him playing Suicide Survival with some friends and ever since the popularity skyrocketed. Which is pretty amazing considering the current version is 4 years old and filled with embarrassing animation errors (PS: sorry about that). None the less people love the game which makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside 🙂 <3 Lets not forget that around 1 million people have heard my Yalala scream which sometimes is pretty hard to wrap my mind around.
Right, onward to more serious things. We did an internal playtest of the new survival game mode couple of weeks ago and it actually went pretty well. Thanks to Derek for coding this together. The new mode turns the game into a round based game similar to Counter-Strike. Everyone starts off as a survivor. At the start of each round one or more players will be randomly selected and turned into suiciders. If you die as survivor you’ll become a suicider. The round is over if a time limit has been reached or if there are no survivors are left alive. All of this works but we’ve a few  bugs to fix and make the whole thing more pretty for you guys before we’ll release version 1.2. Hopefully this wont take too long.
The other big news is that two new brave souls joined our team. Dear internet, please meet: Roman Schmid and, Jacob aka. Darth Brush.
Roman will help us out with the code which will hopefully raise the bar on what we can get done. This is his first time working with the Source Engine but he did a few really good flash games. Hit up his website if you want to try them out. Jacob on the other hand has a lot experience working with the Source Engine. He created the really popular Left 4 Dead custom campaign “Dead before Dawn” among other works such as Portal 2 “The Core“, Half-Life 2 “Zombie Panic” and Half-Life 2 “No more room in Hell“. He agreed to make a few maps for the mod and we’re looking very forward to that and you guys should too! 🙂
All right, thats about it. If you’re bored why not like our Facebook-Page and maybe next time there will be cake? Also spring is coming so it might be a good idea to trim your bushes. Just saying…
Hi fans of explosions!
I’ve got some updates for you. While we’re still working as much as we can on version 1.2, Derek got the new survival game mode almost ready for testing. While Clément made some desert related assets and is currently working on a new map. Check out the following screenshots:
And I’m in the process of ironing out the last bugs of the new tool that will allow mappers to set the model for the suiciders. Which reminds me that we’re still looking for help with some new maps for version 1.2. So if you’re still unsure whether to help us out or not. Now is the time!
Additionally we now also joined the social media bandwagon and created an official Facebook page ready for your likes. We’ll use this to post updates and also to answer questions. Not that you guys ever ask me anything but just in case. Hit it up at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suicide-Survival/217394808394119
Last but not least we would like to announce that we’re trying to finish up version 1.2 by the end of the year. Hopefully we’ll make some per-christmas release date 🙂
Thats it for now. Thank you for reading!
Ok everything has been moved to the new server and I hopefully removed all the nasty hacker stuff. If you notice anything strange give, let me know.
Oh and the forums are back online as well! 🙂
On another note we’re making some progress with version 1.2 and we also have a new team member: Clément from France! He’s helping us out with some cool new models. On a final note: we’re still looking for help with making new maps for version 1.2. So if you always wanted to have your work released in a mod then let me know. It would be nice to have a few more people on the team. 🙂
So you’ll probably thought this mod is dead and slowly sinking into the great abyss of the intertubes. Guess who’s wrong?
Remember when I started searching for someone with more experience in C++ coding then me? Well I finally found someone to help me out! Let me introduce Derek Brown, aka FingerFactor!
We secretly started developing on Suicide Survival 1.2 a few months ago and the good news is we already got one feature working. The bad news is, well actually there are no bad news because you’ll will get to play version 1.2 in the not so distant future. You lucky bastards! So let me introduce the planned features for the next release:
Here’s where all you mappers get your chance. We’re looking for a few talented people who would like to do some crazy maps for Suicide Survival 1.2. Send me an e-mail with your map idea and if we like it you’ll get access to the development build. The idea is to have a few nice maps with different suicider models for the next release. Think we can do that? I sure think we can!
We currently don’t have an release date set for 1.2. but I can say with 96.54% certainty that it won’t be released on a Monday. So sit tight and hold on to your bushes, or maybe better don’t. I don’t care.
Oh, and on a final note: If you’re interested in the development history and design choices behind Suicide Survival then check out this blog post on my personal development blog.
I’ve decided to start development on Suicide Survival again. But for this I’ll need help so I’m looking for an experienced c++ coder to be part of the core development team. The ideal candidate would’ve the following features:
In return I can offer you the following:
If this sounds exciting to you then send me an e-mail with some information about yourself, your coding experience and why you want to work on Suicide Survival. You can reach me at: hello at tobiasbaumann.net
Thank you and I’m looking forward to meeting you.
Hey everyone, After a longer-then-expected downtime due to the site having been hacked, everything is back to normal now. I re-installed the blog and the forum and it all should work again as before the hack. If you notice anything strange or if something isn’t working please let me know.
Also apparently due to digg and reddit the mod got a lot of attention in the last 48 hours. Last time I checked there were two servers online with 10 people playing. So if you wan’t to jump in for some good ‘ol rounds of exploding now would be a good time 🙂
The youtube user “brudda985” made a pretty nice bird-eye-view video that captures the gameplay of Suicide Survival pretty well 🙂 Check it out:
Thanks brudda985!
Skaaq sent me an e-mail with the following super easy way to make a server for Suicide Survival:
I don’t know if someone find this solution. Simply launch the zombie panic source dedicated server tool, (you can download zombie panic source for free its just a mod host by steam( and a very good mod)) and choose suicide survival. It work for me. And way more easy. I already make a 8 players game true internet. So if that can help.
So yes, this works perfectly as well. 🙂 Thank you Skaaq!
Since the update to the new Steam version players who want to host a Suicide Survival server with the “Team Fortress 2 Dedicated Server” tool are greeted with the following error message:Â SetupArrayProps_R:Â array prop ‘(null)’ is at index zero.
The reason for this is that the engine build used by the Orange Box DSes on Steam (one for TF2 and each of the Steamworks mods) differs from the one that Suicide Survival was built with (the 2007 SDK code). However there is a solution:
This is a step-by-step guide on how to host your own dedicated server. PS: this will probably also work for other mods with the same problem.
Download the HLDS Update Tool, which installs a standalone dedicated server. This doesn’t require Steam to be running, but also doesn’t read data that Steam has downloaded — meaning that it requires a separate install of the game your are running from, including all textures and sounds. If you don’t have 2.5GB free space on your hard drive you’re out of luck.
Once downloaded run the hlsdupdatetool.exe and choose a install directory on your hard drive.
Getting the necessary files to run the server:
a) Open a command prompt.
Go to Start, Run and type “cmd” (minus quotes) and press enter.
b) Change to the directory where the HLDS Update Tool is installed.
If you’re unfamiliar with the commands here is exactly what you’ll have to type:
> cd c:
> cd <the directory you installed the HLDS Update Tool>
usually its HLServer so type:Â cd hlserver
c) Run the HLDS Update Tool with the “update” command:
> hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game hl2mp -dir .
<-dir>  is the path where you want the files installed e.g. ” .” (for the current directory) or “c:hlserver”
d) After its done run the update command again for a different game:
> hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game orangebox -dir .
d) Once it’s done downloading all the files go to step three.
For further info regarding the use of the hldsupdatetool.exe check the readme file inside the hlserver folder.
Copy the SuicideSurvival Folder into the orangebox directory you just created with the hldsupdatetool.exe.
In most cases this would be: c:hlserverorangeboxhlserver
Create a Server.cfg file. This file a simple text file which save config variables for the server. Here is a simple example config file:
hostname “the name of your server”
rcon_password “pick an admin password”// Gameplay
mp_flashlight 0
mp_fraglimit 50
mp_timelimit 40
mp_falldamage 30
mp_teamplay 1// Server Cvars
sv_lan 0
sv_region 255
sv_downloadurl “http://www.suicide-survival.com/sv_download”
sv_allowupload 0
sv_allowdownload 1
net_maxfilesize 60
sv_voiceenable 1
sv_alltalk 1
sv_maxrate 7000
sv_minrate 2000
sv_maxupdaterate 30
sv_minupdaterate 10fps_max 100
Copy and paste the above text into a textfile and save it as: “Server.cfg” inside the HLServerorangeboxSuicideSurvivalcfg directory.
If you want to know what each command does check this console command list from Valve.
Well you’re almost there. One final step to starting your server is to make a shortcut of it and pass some commands along when launching it:
a) go to the Orangebox directory: HLServerorangebox
b) Right-click on the “srcds.exe” and choose: “create a shortcut”
c) Right-Click on the shortcut file and choose: “settings”
d) In the field “target” add the following at the end of it:Â -game suicidesurvival
So it reads: C:HLServerorangeboxsrcds.exe -game suicidesurvival
e) Hit the OK button.
Voila! Your done. Double-click on the shortcut file and you should see the launch window for the dedicated server.
If you have any questions or encounter some errors leave a comment below. If your running a server regularly feel free to advertise your server in the forum.
The friendly modDB user “likestoplaymods” brought to my attention a solution for how you can play Suicide Survival for free! Even if you don’t own a game from Valve. So here is how:
Steam has some promotional packages which includes among other things Half-Lif 2: Deatmatch. How to get this package is very easy. Just visit one of the following links, depending on your graphic card manufacturer, and download Steam:
This is a limited time offer from Valve. So be sure to get it while its free. This is a great opportunity to play some rounds of Suicide Survival with your mates who previously didn’t had the chance to play it.