Serious Sam 3: BFE

Spooky Serious Sam Sunday!

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When it comes to Halloween, you damn well KNOW I’M SERIOUS!

It’s Spooktober! Easily the best time of year IMO – a fine time to indulge in eldritch horror, candy and costume ideas. For the first day of Spooktober, Yutram (aka the one with the almost unreadable name) and I decided to play with some mods for Serious Sam BFE! We wandered the Spooky Land Of Evil Creatures, and yeah… as far as the enemies go it lives up to its name.

This alien enjoys his pumpkin spice a tad bit much methinks.

The Spooky Land of Evil Creatures is a five level custom campaign that is graphically basic in design, but features Halloween clad enemies and a fun challenge! You start off with just melee but gradually find more weaponry and ammo along the way. There’s even a final boss battle!

NYEH!

Overall, I would rate this campaign a 4 out of 5 Pumpkin Spice Chais. It uses a nice selection of music from other games (credited on the workshop page), and the basic graphics can be forgiven for the combat and Halloween decor.

All eyes are upon us.

For the Month of October I will be focusing my precious game time on the spooky parts of my library. Potentially clean the cobwebs off of certain game titles, and maybe even investigate some new ones! There’s plenty of potential for Halloween modding the games that will allow, and spooky single player games as well!

RIP Serious Sam Dedicated

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What a Serious Sam 3 Server looks like.

I went through my normal rounds of checking on and restarting my collection of game servers, and when opening up VM3 I noticed a couple Telnet connections that I didn’t authorize from an IP address in The Netherlands. To people that don’t know, Telnet is often used for checking in on another computer on your own network or over the internet. Apparently Telnet is built into the Serious Sam games and can’t really be shut off with any convar or switch. You can get around this by uninstalling Telnet and doing a few other configurations to the VM, but to me the amount of fuss isn’t worth it for a server that only runs in vanilla mode (for some reason Croteam doesn’t allow dedicated servers for the moddable client). If I want to play Serious Sam with a friend my desktop and laptop PC’s are more than powerful as a listen server.

Oh well, while two servers may have to be put out of my misery I still have servers for Garry’s Mod, TF2, Quake III Arena and one each for L4D1 and 2.  This also leaves me room to experiment with other kinds of servers, when I find the time of course. Or even expand on some of the current ones.

OverlordTomala and Yutram Play: Serious Box Solid: Part 2

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This may or may not be my final video for awhile. With Thanksgiving and Black Friday kicking off this week there’s a good chance that I’ll be extremely busy with work as well as other real life obligations. Though if I have enough time set aside I could start doing some Penguin themed videos if ya catch my drift…