Lead and Gold Gets Dedicated Servers

[Jun 21, 2010, 3:02 pm ET] - 5 Comments

Steam News announces that a new automatic patch is now available for Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West, adding dedicated server support to the wild western shooter. This entails a bunch of new features, as described below.

New dedicated servers support added. They contain many new features, including:
- Map-cycles can now be defined
- Games can be password protected
- Specify max ping allowed for entering a server
- Auto kick idle players added
- Friendly fire can be turned on/off
- Administrators specified with password or steam-id
- In-game console available for administrators. (kick/ban/change map cycle/list users)
- Players can be banned or kicked from server using steam-id
- Server stores log of actions happening in game, including chat messages
- New leader-boards have been added. (kill streak, most exp per match, matches won, matches lost)
- Message of the day shown when entering server
- Ping can now be seen in score-board
- Server name can now be seen in score board
- Server version can be seen in main menu
- Server browser shows some extra info on dedicated servers
- All servers are displayed in the server browser (full and empty)
- The dedicated exe runs without Lead and Gold client installed. No steam account needed to run
- The dedicated exe runs on machines without sound card or advanced graphics card

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