3 years of the HLRally server
It's been 3 years now since I've been running an HL Rally server for the first time since Igloo Arena was still a thing. For a while it was the only existing HLRally server from 2022 until someone named MisterCalvin had opened his own server in mid 2024.
At first it was running on a crappy AWS EC2 instance through Wine (since at the time running this under Linux was giving me problems until I figured out how to fix them later) with a super old version of HLDS (because I was using it to run Sven Co-op 3.0), and with AMX Mod 2010.4 before I decided better to use AMX Mod X due to the small variety of plugins. Nowadays it's running without any other changes with ReHLDS on native Linux, with Metamod-P APG and with some custom maps I found on 17Buddies and some old websites like FilePlanet and ModDB (I really would like to make a map for this mod but it requires making "complex geometry" and my Hammer skills are still very much a beginner's skill). This server was one of the few in Igloo Arena to be the most active and popular besides Sven Co-op 3.0.
Here's a list of videos I've made on this HLRally server over the years:
- HLRally multiplayer - ab_summit [YouTube @GeckoF]
- HLRally multiplayer - rc_avalanche [YouTube @GeckoF]
- HLRally (2023-12-23) [YouTube @IglooCafe]
- HLRally 2007 Pro Race [YouTube @GeckoF]
And some screenshots I did:
I want to thank everyone who has spent time playing here, my friends who helped me doing some videos and tests and also to those YouTubers who mentioned the mod (as well as the server) like DeZolance.
Here's to many more years, and don't let old and forgotten HL mods to die!
