Dead Island Review

Well, it only took me 9 years, but I've FINALLY beaten Dead Island, and I can say, this is the WORST zombie apocalypse game I've ever played in my entire life (you can tell why it took me 9 years to beat it).

The characters are forgettable, the special infected are nothing special. Resident Evil and Left 4 Dead both have better characters AND better special infected. I was hoping that each new area would have a new special, and this was for the most part true until the Prison level where there is no new special infected.

Here are a variety of reasons why I hate this game:

- There's no way to BLOCK with your weapons, you're supposed to kick, which is stupid
- Picking up a weapon of the same type will AUTOMATICALLY swap to that weapon, even if worse
- If you pick up alcohol, it automatically equips alcohol, and if you pick up molotovs, you will automatically equip molotovs. It should go into your inventory, NOT an auto-equip
- There is no difference between "Press Z" and "Hold Z" when your inventory is full. The slightest of taps will swap your best weapon with trash, and this is how I lost my BEST weapon in the game
- Can't equip brass knuckles on fists, wasting a wheel slot on fists that you'll never use
- No keyboard shortcuts for player menu, such as being able to press R to repair and Enter to confirm prompts
- Throwing weapons is STUPID, the only time I throw weapons is accidental and then I'm in a panic to pick up my best weapon before I lose it!
- The final boss has a health bar but you CAN'T DAMAGE IT until you go through the final cut scene, making you waste ammo on it
- The final boss can walk through the air to kill you if you climb either of the ladders in the middle of the final boss battle
- There's an exploit spot where you can jump off the helipad onto one of the metal units and kill the boss from there

Turnstile

 I wrote this poem to sort out the feelings I had about Unigamia.

I see you all every day
Some in groups and some at play
And as you all pass through me
Here I am, the turnstile

Sometimes you don't get along
And then I wonder where you've gone
You no longer pass through me
I'll be waiting for you, the turnstile

Other times, you skip a beat
When you hear a voice, and you first meet
As your hands touch by happenstance
While passing through me, the turnstile

Some of you pass through me in a hurry
Full of dread and full of worry
You push your way to the edge,
  and as the light shines, you take a step
But you come back to me, the turnstile

And one day I ground my gears
Overcome with my own fears
That eventually you'd no longer need
To pass through old rusty me, the turnstile

I let those who jump over me
Cloud my vision so I could not see
Those who bring me the most glee
For you I loosened up my gears, the turnstile

Some of you have not come back
But this is where you first met
I hope you will not forget me in the end
For I'll always remember you

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Servers Disappearing from the Master Server List - Ports?

I upgraded to MultiAdmin 3.x for two reasons: server stability (less crashes) and the mysterious [MEMES] server disappearance. MultiAdmin 2.x would lose track of [MEMES] and ONLY [MEMES] and refuse to restart the instance.

Of course, upon getting this same issue in MultiAdmin, I was furious but I believe I've found it to be one of two issues:

1) For whatever reason it cannot allocate ports 7777 or 7778 so it starts incrementing the ports, which were blocked by the firewall.
2) The daemon should pause instead of using read because read occasionally locks the process.

Week of April 21st Void Glitches

Void Glitches began to frequently affect #3 [RP] and then spread onto #4 [MEMES] during this week. I tried moving the SCP Secret Laboratory folder as well as purging the configs, and disabling all plugins, reintroducing them one-by-one.

Nothing worked. One change that I did make was to detect lines like this in the config_global.txt:

ec_end_conditions: [<-- p="" space="">
And delete those lines from the resulting configs if they were not filled in. These configs with trailing spaces might have been the cause of the Void Glitch, but I have no way of knowing.

No Color, No Verification - SCP:SL Server Glitch #7

If you set a role color to "default" in your config_remoteadmin.txt, it will prevent your server from being verified.

Config Too Long - Tales of the Void Glitch - SCP:SL Server Glitch #3

If a configuration setting in config.txt exceeds 256 characters, the server will load into a Void Glitch.