Yo whats cooking, I am Epi or Epipen, I am not a old player but I am familiar with the concept of this server. Back way way when I used to Mod on WoGs (World of Gods) but I have recently learned of some facts that have changed my mind about that server. So far this server is far superior and the community is really nice with Broseff and Piam (Idk if I spelled your name right) helping me out early. Looking forward to playing with y'all  

Age: 21

Steam Name(Current): Wicked (or WickedStorm)

Time played on servers?(!time username to check): 106 on TTT, 244 total

Where did you hear about this server?: A few old friends from NTG told me about it a long time ago (I originally played on FRG back in 2017(?) and put in about 30 hours, but I decided to take a break from Gmod as a whole to focus more on other games)

Have you ever been banned and why?: I've never been banned

Why do you want to join?: I've really enjoyed the experience I've had with the people here and it's been a blast recently! I've been playing inventory servers for a long time and FRG makes me feel right back at home and would love to be a part of the community.

Referred by:

Additional Details: I don't really talk all too much, and most of the time when I do I'm usually just asking questions but I hope that I can get to know everyone better as time goes on and make some great friends and memories!

The 2023 Christmas Seasonal event is now upon us!



Festive Chests!
This are just the typical seasonal chest you expect, but tweaked using some data I gathered from Halloween.


The new seasonal pass! With it comes the addition of Forerunner Fragments to the pass, and some updates to the fragment shop.


New loading screen.

I have updated the loading screens to a new page I made over the last few months. I know we'll miss the community screenshots from prior, but up keeping the old ones was a pain, so I moved everything over to a unified system, which makes it WAY easier to iterate upon and add new screens & on screen info.

A more detailed changelog is below (it doesn't include everything, just some of the highlights)

General Changes

• Added Festive Chest.
• Added Jolly Troves (tier 1 - 3).
• Added the new Christmas Seasonal pass.
• Brought back seasonal tasks.
• The Santa Group fight makes a return (1v1 as well) with some major changes.
  • You can now revive downed teammates up to 2 times during this.
  • All players must Eat Cookies to gain entry, and because of this, all loot is the same regardless of individual performance. Any variation you see is just rng.
  • Some other really cool changes you'll have to see that make it really fun .
    
• Added Forerunner fragments to the seasonal pass and seasonal tasks.
• The frag shop items can now get seasonal traits and older seasonal godlikes during seasonal events, also made their rare items a bit more common, and brought back harvester for the season.
• Updated the loading screens for TTT and Lobby (other modes to come).
• Wallrun crystal now properly loses stamina when wall jumping.
• Wallrun crystal drains more stamina and takes 1 second longer to start regenerating.
• Wrathwing now has an 'overheat' meter on TTT and creates fewer fireballs during TTT. (Does not apply to pve or dilap). Throwing it too often will build the meter, and overheating will put the attack on cooldown for a few seconds.
• Wrathwing's DoT deals lower damage outside of erebus in PvE.
• Fixed Aetherborne's trait on shotguns, you now have to hit all of the pellets, missing a single one resets the stacks, it also stacks less dmg per pellet.
• You no longer have to start a party before queuing for bloodwynd.
  

Steam Name(Current): Schlanta Claus

Age: 26

Current Rank: Member

Have you ever been banned and why: No

Why would you like to be promoted?: Im FRG pro, and I play too much ttt for my own good so I wanna help w some reports since im on ttt majority of the time (when its populated).


Why do you think we should promote you?: Over 2000+ Hours spent on frg with about almost 50% of those on lobby/events and 50% of those on TTT and I get along w everyone and I love this community!

Do you have any administrative experience: If me being a teacher irl counts then sure, but otherwise no,

Do you agree to FRG's policy on applications(yes or no): Yes
(By agreeing above you are agreeing that you understand you are not entitled to said promotion, and that we have all rights to deny or approve the application
for any reason we see fit, you agree to not stir up any trouble if the application outcome is not your desired outcome.
Failing to abide by this can result in a full demote, or perma-denial.)

Additional Details: :CoachGrump: (This is actually coach)

Cmon, any Monster Hunter game, even like Generations Ultimate or the 3DS ones.

Any Soulborne games, even Bloodborne or Demon Souls.

Hello FRG players, it appear discord is seeing issues, please continue discussion here.

anyways, here is the itsy bitsy spider full gif

Each modifier will give a certain amount of challenge points, you can mix and match or stack whichever you want to increase your amount each run.
ALTERNATIVELY - A random few will be selected from the pool and you could choose to do "Challenging Ostara" or not.

Challenge points could affect stuff like loot, forge chance, maybe special rewards if they're high enough. NOT ALL CHALLENGES would give equal points! Some are harder!

If these are any good, I can probably easily think of more. If they're not, boo me to h*ck. Also, please suggest your own if you think this is a cool idea.

"Magazine Counting" A limited ammo challenge, replenishing from chests so you gotta watch your shots. Damage thresholds on bosses restore ammo too.
"Bleeder" HP drains over time unless you get a kill to stop it for a bit.
"Destitute" One less option to choose from for each chest.
"Armored" Enemies spawn with "Armor" that blocks one full hit of damage and any DOTs that might apply until you break it with that hit.
"Nightmare" Enemies move and attack 20% faster.
"Man of Iron" Healing is 50% less effective.
"Man of Steel" No healing allowed during the run, no HP increases. You start with 200HP.
"Allies" All bosses spawn with mini-room bosses to support them.
"Speedrunner" Time limit - Each floor you gain 8 minutes on the clock, extra time carries over to the next floors.
"Swarming" Enemies spawn in greater number
"Healthy" Enemies have +20% life
"Strafing" Dashing gains a +50% cooldown.
"Limited" Dashing causes 5HP damage
"Terranable Luck" Increased chance for Common cards rather than better ones
"Reload Addict" Cannot auto-reload, must do it manually, and reloads are 30% slower.
"Time to Die" Max HP is 1. Each floor, the first hit deals no damage. The second is fatal.
"Finishing Blow" Enemies must be finished off at very close ranges.
"Terrible Foes" Some normal enemies will potentially deal various DOT damage if they hit you, in accordance to their type/color.
"Fumblefingers" You can only reload when standing still, or out of combat.
"Lost and Confused" You have no minimap or map of any kind.
"Dark Souls" Some extra chests will be spawned that are mimics and burst into enemies. Be careful when you open. (Doesn't lower the amount of good chests, just adds "Fake" ones.)
"Mortal Man" No legendary upgrades from chests.
"Airstrikes" Orbital Beam Cannons will occasionally target near you, avoid the radius or take heavy damage.
"Gambler's Greed" Your upgrade chosen from a chest is entirely random.
"Ice Physics" Your movement is slightly slippery, meaning it'll be harder to move accurately.
"Sun in my Eyes" Enemies will be slightly harder to aim at, your cursor will slowly drift away from them. Keep it steady!
"RNG" Damage dealt each shot or DOT tick will be randomized between 25% and 110%.
"Loot Goblin" All chests except the final floor one are on a time limit, acquire keys fast enough or be locked out. Including the minigame room chest.
"Avengers" Enemies will shoot out a burst of projectiles when killed.
"Failure's Price" Healing at a well costs a random key. No key, no heal.
"It is a mystery" Enemies are shrouded, you cannot tell what type they are or see what their names are.
"Everyone's Fear" Some normal keys might randomly not drop, potentially leaving some normal chests unopenable. Plays a sad horn toot if this happens.
"Alpha Striker" Every enemy pack will have a Leader, who must be killed before any other enemies in that pack can. The Leader has double HP and a glowing outline. Other enemies can still block projectiles.


There could be one that gives bosses or enemies new surprising moves that make things harder, but that'd be a lot more to add so I'm not suggesting anything there. Yet.

basically the same as every year, but to recap:

you MUST post a reply to this thread if you want to participate. (if you want to include what kinds of items you like for your gift-giver, you may, it might be helpful)
this is just for my recordkeeping, if someone tells me in discord that they want to join, that message will be lost within the hour and i may forget. so you HAVE TO REPLY TO THE THREAD!!

Everyone should participate, even new players or people who cant think of something to give!
there are certainly items you can give which would be good gifts, and if everyone does, a lot less people will complain about the gifts they recieve (lol)

sometime in december, when there are "enough" participants, I'll randomly roll a name for each person.
You are their "Secret Santa" and will trade me the item you wish to gift to them, after I have DMed you their name on discord.

it is very very highly encouraged that the item you gift isn't "worthless" and you'd be happy receiving it in turn. If everyone gives really bad gifts- the whole event is moot.

these gifts will be handed out to the recipients after all have been recieved and once i ask around for a solid date that everyone should be available on.
Additionally, courtesy of myself and any other generous gifters who would like to contribute (DM ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE),
there will be a "BONUS GIFT" pool to ensure that no one receives a "bad" gift.

I'm going to be making a spreadsheet of all the items received to assure everyone that I'm not a scammer like always.
Feel free to DM me on discord at @pickle if you have any questions

Happy Gifting and remember to tell your friends to sign up!!

Steam Name (Current): Sunset City

Steam Name (During incident):ac4c666

Steam ID:Steam ID: 76561198110240252

Steam Profile Link:https://steamcommunity.com/id/ac4c666/

Name of staff you were banned by:Console

Length of the banermanent

Would you like your ban shortened or repealed?:repealed

Reason for ban:hacking (free to download aimbot)

Did you commit the actions stated in the ban reason?:yes and ive regretted

What really happened?:2016 i was a shitty 15 y/o went on low pop sandbox servers and just mindlessly used the aimbot on random things. its a decision i regret from today and went onto frg server.

Additional details:22 years old now and 6 years later i still regret the decision. i still see in my friends screenshots of the servers and each time remember and regret the mistake ive made. the server looks really fun and the puzzles and bosses look amazing, i wish could come back with everything having nothing at the start as want to make up for the shitty mistake ive made and come back to the community. 2023 and ive grown alot as a person and want to come back, ive seen the error of what ive done long before and been haunted by it. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Sorry John Smith,

But i feel i didn't explain my argument enough.
As seen in the ban appeal months ago i want to say sorry to the poor person that i harassed.
But as for this second appeal i want to further give reason for a second chance for myself.
At the time of ban i was about 14 years old. I was banned for extreme toxicity and targeted harassment.
I'm sure most people know that 12-15 year old males on the internet aren't the sharpest tool in the shed and are usually quite aggressive and toxic and i exemplified this. i was cruel and unjust. The person sheerly existed and that lit my fuse.
Again Unjust.
But i wish i could prove this to everyone in FRG that i have changed as a person within those 2 years. Funnily enough i am not too sure how i can prove other than just spending more time banned (most likely going to happen).
Two years to a young person can do a lot to them mentally because its quite a percentage of their overall experience. In these years i went to mental health care facilities because i was in a such deep depression (due to reason I'm not going to explain because that's just weird) . But i am going to say what depression does to an individual or at least what it did to me. It made always on edge, hateful, and overall non self-controlling. But since then i feel that i have changed for the better.
Again its hard to justify malice.
I want to say it was because i was extremely immature and ignorant for the fact that their is no other server or any other game out there really that even resembles something like FRG, Its something extraordinary that nothing can replicate.
But i'm going to say what i think is you're side of the argument.
"This Is obviously a lie"- If it is a lie hypothetically and then why would i go through all this effort to write an appeal like this ( You could just use chat gpt or sm shit) I'm not terribly sure how to prove that i typed this from sincerity. all i can say is that.
"Why should we even read let alone consider unbanning you?" Because i wish to exemplify that people can change, Even though overall this is just a gmod server its a place i can truly say its home away from home. Some people fail to see how somethings are incredibly important to others. I only remember happy memories with FRG.
"You are just going to rdm and harass people again if we unban you" Well then i guess all this effort was for nothing and that i'm just an idiot or something. I'm not insane no one in the right mind would go through all this effort just to prove a small tiny point of hatred towards some else .That's reverse flash amounts of petty.
Sincerely-SirMaldsAlot (ironically)
Poll: As a person who read this and atleast remembers someone resembling sirmaldsalot, can you say that i deserve a second chance?




TLDR: Two years can change a growing young adult and i feel i had grown quite a bit since the last time i played FRG.
Link to First Ban Appeal: https://forerunnergaming.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=10497


Steam Name (Current):SirMaldsAlot

Steam Name (During incident):AnnoyingOrangePorn

Steam ID:76561197971079267

Steam Profile Link:https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197971079267/

Name of staff you were banned by:Brassx

Length of the ban: Permanent

Would you like your ban shortened or repealed?:Repealed

Reason for ban: Toxicity/targeted RDM/Harassment

Did you commit the actions stated in the ban reason?:
Yes
What really happened?:
I harrassed a poor individual to the extent of me checking all three toxicity boxes at once and got banned permanently because of my ignorance