3FL Has A Terraria Server!
Scott Rose - Friday, June 3, 2011
Indie developed game Terraria received an update and with it came some new Dedicated Server Software which will allow us to run our own servers.
So no more do you need to be the host for you and your friends Terraria adventures as 3FL will be hosting a Dedicated Terraria Server for you to use!
Jump in-game and point your client to the following address to connect to our server;
- 3FL Terraria: 203.14.173.5:7777
Action Half-Life 2 Version 2 Available To Download
Scott Rose - Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Version 2 of Action Half-Life 2 was released today and with it more than 200 bug fixes, and an upgrade to the Orange Box Engine.
Along with the above changes – everything that was in the original Action Half-Life is in Action Half-Life 2, as well as some new Game Customization features.
3FL Currently have a Action Half-Life 2 server running on the following address:
3FL Action Half-life 2 – #1
203.34.186.30:27195
Don’t have the client ? Want to grab it locally ? Head over to the 3FL Mirror to grab the client file quota free.
3FL Brink Servers
Scott Rose - Thursday, May 12, 2011
The latest game from Splash Damage and Bethesda Softworks unlocked earlier today so what better time to list the 3FL Brink Servers.
3FL currently has 18 Brink Servers spanning over 3 Different States with 6 servers in each state:
South Australia:
- 3FL Brink #01: 202.6.131.9:28016
- 3FL Brink #02: 202.6.131.9:28018
- 3FL Brink #03: 202.6.131.9:28020
- 3FL Brink #04: 202.6.131.9:28022
- 3FL Brink #05: 202.6.131.9:28024
- 3FL Brink #06: 202.6.131.9:28026
Western Australia:
- 3FL Brink #07: 58.6.24.252:28016
- 3FL Brink #08: 58.6.24.252:28018
- 3FL Brink #09: 58.6.24.252:28020
- 3FL Brink #10: 58.6.24.252:28022
- 3FL Brink #11: 58.6.24.252:28024
- 3FL Brink #12: 58.6.24.252:28026
New South Wales:
- 3FL Brink #13: 203.14.173.5:28016:28016
- 3FL Brink #14: 203.14.173.5:28016:28018
- 3FL Brink #15: 203.14.173.5:28016:28020
- 3FL Brink #16: 203.14.173.5:28016:28022
- 3FL Brink #17: 203.14.173.5:28016:28024
- 3FL Brink #18: 203.14.173.5:28016:28026
The servers are currently up to date and running a variety of game modes\skill levels, if you experience any issues with the servers feel free to jump on the forums and let us know.
Minecraft 1.5 Coming This Week
Scott Rose - Monday, April 18, 2011
Notch mentioned on his personal blog that Patch 1.5 for Minecraft will hopefully be coming this week.
Two features that he mentions coming in Patch 1.5 are Powered Rails and when a Pig gets hit by lightning it will transform into a Zombie Pigman.
“We were aiming at releasing 1.5 this week, but no.”
“But next week!” – Notch (Posted Last Week)
As with previous patches to Minecraft, the 3FL Minecraft server may have to revert back to a vanilla state for a few days whilst the server mods are updated.
Crysis 2 Unlocked & 3FL Servers
Scott Rose - Thursday, March 24, 2011
Crysis 2 unlocked earlier this morning for Australian Owners and as I mentioned in a previous post – 3FL have some servers up for you to play on!
Currently we have 2 Servers hosted in Perth with 4 more being hosted in Sydney. All of these servers are Officially Ranked by EA Games.
Perth:
- 3FL Crysis 2 #01 : 58.6.24.30:64000 – Instant Action
- 3FL Crysis 2 #02 : 58.6.24.31:64000 – CTF
Sydney:
- 3FL Crysis 2 #03 : 203.217.25.150:64000 – Instant Action
- 3FL Crysis 2 #04 : 203.217.25.151:64000 – CTF
- 3FL Crysis 2 #05 : 203.217.25.152:64000 – Team Instant Action
- 3FL Crysis 2 #06 : 203.217.25.153:64000 – Mixed
- 3FL Crysis 2 #07 : 203.14.173.3:64000 – Mixed
More servers will become available over the course of the next 24 hours.
Got a suggestion on what game modes you want to see on these servers ? Jump on the forums and let us know.
3FL HomeFront Servers
Scott Rose - Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Just to follow up from yesterdays article in regards to us putting up some HomeFront Servers.
The servers should now be up and available for when the game unlocks tomorrow or for those who manage to pick a copy up late today.
Western Australia:
- 3FL HomeFront #01 – 58.6.24.32:27015
- 3FL HomeFront #02 – 58.6.24.30:27015
- 3FL HomeFront #03 – 58.6.24.31:27015
- 3FL HomeFront #04 – 58.6.24.33:27015
South Australia:
- 3FL HomeFront #05 – 202.6.131.6:27015
- 3FL HomeFront #06 – 202.6.131.6:27025
- 3FL HomeFront #07 – 202.6.131.6:27035
- 3FL HomeFront #08 – 202.6.131.6:27045
New South Wales:
- 3FL HomeFront #09 – 203.217.24.181:27015
- 3FL HomeFront #10 – 203.217.24.182:27015
- 3FL HomeFront #11 – 203.217.24.183:27015
- 3FL HomeFront #12 – 203.217.24.184:27015
If there is any issues with the above servers drop an email to Support, or create a topic on our forums.
HomeFront Servers
Scott Rose - Tuesday, March 15, 2011
With the official Australian HomeFront release just around the corner we will be going ahead tonight and setting up a few Multiplayer Servers in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney.
The servers will be available hopefully within the next 24-hours, ahead of the games official Australian release date of March 17th.
Hypernia are now also taking orders for HomeFront servers starting at $0.75 USD Per slot.
Included With Your Hypernia Game Server:
- Free Web Hosting (Our ‘Basic’ Package)
- 60% OFF A Voice Server
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Click Here to order a HomeFront server through Hypernia.
New 3FL Voice Servers
wob - Tuesday, August 24, 2010
3FL now have two new voice servers available!
Teamspeak 3 server – teamspeak.3fl.net.au – Client here: http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads
Mumble server – mumble.3fl.net.au – Client here: http://mumble.sourceforge.net/
(default ports)
Jump on, check em out, post in this thread if you’re after custom channels etc.
These servers are part of the iiNet (and partners) Freezone 
Medal of Honor, coming soon to 3FL!
Frozen Hell - Thursday, June 17, 2010
The beta for Medal of Honor starts soon, and if you want to take part you’ll need to pre-order the game via Steam by going here. We’ll have more details on servers when they are ready to go, so stay tuned!
Is additional gaming content worth it?
Frozen Hell - Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Expansion packs, downloadable content (aka DLC), map packs and other names used to describe additional content seem to have increased in popularity these days, particularly with big name game releases pretty much being guaranteed to include some type of additional content that generally you can be expected to pay for.
There are exceptions to the rule of course, with developers such as Valve having shunned this for some of their games so far, particularly with the Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead titles that have both received significant gameplay updates and additional content that was released for free (at least for PC gamers).
Valve’s title Team Fortress 2 originally released back in 2007 still receives semi-regular updates with new content that do change the gameplay to mix things up a bit, with most of the game’s classes having received additional achievements and unlocks. But these type of examples seem to be few and far between particularly for games that don’t operate as a subscription model.
At the other end of the spectrum, there are examples of a trend towards charging users for content that doesn’t do anything other than change the visual elements of their character. A recent example of this was the opening of Blizzard’s online store that sells in-game items for World of Warcraft, which up until the most recent addition was limited to in-game “pets”.
But the latest addition (shown in the picture accompanying this article) is a so-called “Celestial Steed” flying mount. That particular item cost $US25 and lead to a queue on the Blizzard store of in excess of 140,000 (which won’t even be the total number of purchases) when it first became available. Its probably safe to assume that Blizzard made in excess of $5 million on a single in-game vanity item, which is more than some smaller developers even make for selling their entire game.
World of Warcraft could be considered a somewhat unique case, as its users can be quite fanatical (I used to play it myself) due its very addictive type of gameplay. But its certainly not alone in charging real money for items that only change visual elements of your in-game character, with the latest title in the Battlefield series by publisher Electronic Arts – Bad Company 2 – soon to introduce a set of class skins that will be offered as a paid addon to the game.
Console gamers have had to suffer with this system for a while now, with virtually all add-on content that is made available almost 100% guaranteed to cost money to obtain through their respective console portals. As primarily a PC gamer, this trend seems rather worrying, especially when some of the content really is limited at best or just plain pointless (a flying, sparkly horse, srsly…).
With all of the big-name publishers on-board with this idea of charging customers for additional content that arguably should be given for free, or should’ve been included with the original game, its doubtful that this concept is going to die anytime soon.
So what do you think? Have you been burnt in paying for additional gaming content that wasn’t worth it? What do you think is reasonable to pay for additional gaming content, and what do you think you should get for your money?
