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Formerly a Space Station 13 server - Rounds every 3:00 PM CST on Saturdays, 8:30 PM CST on Sundays (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by PaX@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net
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Edit edit: I had the mods unpin the post cuz we don't run the server anymore rn :(

Will make a new post if we reboot it

Edit: the server is live at byond://157.230.217.31:9999 !

Brief instructions:

Get the BYOND client, make an account, and log in.

Click "Space Station 13" in the game list.

Click this gear icon in the top right of the window:

Click open location and paste in the link at the top of the post starting with "byond://" and press OK. Then you should connect!

Me and @WithoutFurtherRelay@hexbear.net have been talking about running a Hexbear SS13 server for a bit and we just now got it in a working state for testing.

Around 4 PM US EST / 7 PM UTC I'll edit this post with the IP address so anyone who wants to play can join. It's okay if you haven't played before.

All you need to play is the BYOND client from here:

https://www.byond.com/

Come join us in running/blowing up our space station!

There may be a few technical problems we haven't foreseen yet but we'll deal with them if it happens.

Here is our Discord discussion group if you're interested:

https://discord.gg/Qcy6enC2h5

We are gonna replace it with something more secure and private sometime. Didn't we have a Matrix server once?

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[-] Des@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

this is the ultimate origin game of amogus and barotrauma isn't it? like how dwarf fortress was the origin of minecraft?

[-] NailBunny@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Amogus is essentially an ultra-simplified version of Space Station 13, and Barotrauma could be argued to be the same. Tasks in Among Us are really simple, but jobs in Space Station 13 tend to be complex, open-ended, roleplay heavy, or all of the above. You can spend hundreds of hours in SS13 mastering a single job, and that mechanical depth combined with the sheer chaos that can break out at any moment is why people play SS13

[-] Des@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

ohnoes i love overly complex games so much. the chaos part is scary tho maybe i'll have to check it out

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We probably won't get up to anything too scary during our test round!

Chaos scares me too lol. I wanna try to steer our server away from becoming another "low-roleplay" chaos server filled with powergaming murderclowns toward something more roleplay focused...

[-] AOC_Feet_Pics@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Man I have not played SS13 in years. Brings back fond memories haha. I don't think I'll be able to attend the test but I'll join the discord

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

is ss13 free? i might join y'all

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, just make a byond account. We need to restart the round and we need people who knows how to work as an engineer

Update: Ok, I restarted the round. It should be all good now.

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

ok, i just got home. i will try it out soon!

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

It's windows exclusive though.

[-] Faresh@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

SS14 however, which by now has more players than SS13 works perfectly on Linux.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did you use the vote to reboot round option? I should probably mention that is on lol

Thanks for rebooting btw

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[-] booty@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I finally got the chance to check it out and now nobody's on. :(

[-] regularassbitch@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

it might be a very barebones crew, how would we be keeping the power and O2 on? i'm happy to play, just wondering

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Supermatter engine and atmos are relatively self-sustaining once someone gets them going.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Oh God id love to play ss13 again. Such a fun game. I don't know if I'll have time to join but if I do I definitely will

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

It only runs on Windows, just a heads up

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeahh, true. BYOND/SS13 wasn't very portable to begin with but the /tg/station code has been been making it worse. Their UI framework for SS13, TGUI, has been getting more and more complicated and is basically a dynamic webpage rendered with whatever ancient win32 API thing BYOND uses to render webpages. The only reason it works on Windows is cuz Microsoft has gone to the trouble of adapting Edge/latest IE to work as the rendering engine for that. Wine has the Gecko rendering engine for that but it just seems like it can't cope with whatever heavy JS stuff is going on. I'll have to test again sometime and see if there's a way I can get it working. It's been like 1.5 years since I've tried but I think it's only getting worse.

If this project goes anywhere I will definitely be trying to make SS13 more portable again so the non-windows users can join.

In the meantime though if any non-windows users want to play: this game has very simple graphics so it would probably run very well in a VM!

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

0 players

sadness

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Not anymore! We have a round going now.

[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

So uh, is the default character set like this as a joke or is the random generator trying to get me banned on sight?

Lance Christman is an incredibly funny name though. Like actually unbelievably incredibly funny. Like Hideo Kojima wrote the bible but actually real.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

The rounds we played were really awesome. We can organize this better to play with more people, at least 10 people should be enough for a good round.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yesss, it was so fun playing with all of you.

Maybe we can schedule another round to get everyone together for a big one with some antags.

[-] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Anyone still play? I’ve always wanted to try the game but the only active servers are shitty.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hii, server is down cuz we couldn't really get enough people together consistently for rounds

I have the resources to put it back up now though and solve the lag issues we were having

Maybe we should reboot it sometime

I'm surprised the proxying server we were using is still up tbh, unlimited thanks on redacted-1redacted-2 (formerly known as WithoutFurtherRelay) for still paying the bills presumably

[-] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Pleas ping if you get enough people ever again. It sounds cool. Thanks for the response and sorry for the necro.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Will do! And np, you can necro my threads whenever lol

[-] abc@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

not goonstation obama-sad

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Is this every week?

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Almost, but no other players lately :(

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