As a community, we try to maintain a friendly and comfortable atmosphere for all players.
So there are rules which we strongly recommend to read and follow!
Communication rules:
1. | Respect each other. Playing together means having fun together. We get it, it's the internet and some banter or playful shit talking doesn't break a neck, as long as everyone adressed is fine with. Do not go around and repeatedly target indiviuals, if they are clearly unconfortable with it otherwise it is considered as bullying and harassment and will be muted/gagged or on multiple occassions banned. Stick to your group of fun buddies and everything is fine.
1.a | Racism is not tolerated and deep global political discussions should be avoided. An open multiplayer game isn't the place for such things.
1.b | Sexual harassment is forbidden. Consensual flirting or similar is fine.
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2. | Do not pretend to be a SoD member / admin.
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3. | Only English language is allowed to speak using microphone, since it's an international server and English is commonly spoken around the world. You are still able to use text chat to write in your native language. There are also multiple language voice rooms in our Discord!
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4. | Do not microphone or text chat spam. Be sure to use decent microphone. We don't ask to buy pro hardware, but at least don't make people's ears bleed.
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5. | Do not try to avoid mutes or gags by rejoining the server. Usually first mutes / gags longs only till the map change, so use that time to clear your mind and act like a decent player.
Gameplay rules:
6. | Using any cheats will result in an instant permanent ban.
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7. | Sabotaging gameplay is unacceptable.
7.a | Do not block or team kill / prop kill your teammates. Same goes for barricading your team out or triggering stuff that kills your team intentionally
7.b | Do not create situations where it's impossible to enter or leave certain areas for your or the opposite team.
7.c | Be a team player and share your equipment as much as you can. Don't hold unwanted weapons or ammo (if you don't have a gun which uses it).
7.d | Do not share information about current location of survivors / zombies while you stay in a spectate mode or lobby.
(medics can share that info since they can judge by special "symptoms")
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8. | Both teams, Survivors and Zombies need to complete current objective (for ZPS (survival) maps: kill all zombies / survive for 10-15
mins / kill all humans)
8.b | Do not delay the round if you are last survivor. At least die like a hero trying to do the objective!
8.c | Camping or patrolling around the spawn is forbidden on ZPO maps for survivors. Passing by a spawn to get to the next objective is fine.
8.d | Zombies can await for coming survivors (ambushes) but not for too long.
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9. | Do not stay AFK as a zombie.
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10. | Rejoining as a starting zombie to avoid playing as a zombie or even infect survivors from that is forbidden. Same goes for intentionally killing yourself to play as a zombie (whether it's by physics, jumping into horde to die or using console commands). Play the team that you're assigned to by server.
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11. | Glitching and exploiting are forbidden. We would be also thankful if you report about such cases to us.
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Special rules:
12. | Avoiding admin's punishment by any way isn't allowed. If you think your punishment was undeserved then open a complaint at Ban Appeals.
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13. | Any kind of Advertisement (web-links to some external content) is forbidden.
If you think that you were punished incorrectly / unfairly, please get in touch with Lead Admin or Community Manager.
You can always also fill Ban Appeal or Admin Abuse Complaints forms:
— Admin Abuse Complaints
— Ban Appeals
