Can't view skins on weapons/items from the new Christmas shift/background (been like this for a bit, it might just be me.)

Example pictures:

https://prnt.sc/YQnUMMSrUdx4

https://prnt.sc/UHhlb2IfQaoP

https://prnt.sc/m0g5zj1b71iQ

https://prnt.sc/_9jKxuMtoHeO

https://prnt.sc/75P5HmPHmvpW

I'm not sure if I'm missing textures from a certain game or something but since the beginning of the seasonal, I haven't been able
to see any of the Ultra Rare Skins/Rare ones. Some of the normal ones I can view but others I can't and are just purple and black checkerboard missing texture.
As I haven't seen anyone else talk about this issue, it seems it's just me but I wanted to bring this up just incase.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Gmod, still same issue. thanks

Steam Name (Current): dylansonfire

Steam Name (During incident): dylansonfire or God Tier Player

Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:48767881

Steam Profile Link: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198057801491/

Name of staff you were banned by: Unknown

Length of the ban: Perm I believe, given it's been 3-4 years now it seems perm.

Would you like your ban shortened or repealed?: Repealed would be nice but shortened is also understandable.

Reason for ban: Posting a war video that had violence/gore in it.

Did you commit the actions stated in the ban reason?: Yes.

What really happened?: So if my memory serves right, I was just getting into frg and joined the discord and started to fuck around, but I did truly enjoy the server and its content and put weeks into it. One day I did post a video, I believe it was under the video or meme channel, but I do remember the topic people were talking about the war and I posted a video relating to the war that contained violence/gore. I promptly got banned and I didn't know why until I made a website post and someone gave me the answer on why. I have been playing the server for quite some time now on and off recently having long periods but I am deterred from playing FRG because mostly everything is on the discord in terms of development or community trading and features. At the time of the ban, it wasn't a big deal for me but now it is as I feel locked out from what half the server has to offer, the community, of course, I have nothing to blame but myself. I just hope after 4 years of trying to get unbanned another chance can be offered as it would greatly revive my interest in playing FRG a lot more, and as I said in my previous post I regret it and I'm sorry for anyone that was affected by that video, thanks for reading.

Additional details: My previous unban discord request was denied, I made a few now and both were denied, Parade told me to try again in the future so that's what I'm doing now, its been 5-6 months now since my last discord unban request post.


Give your honest opinion below of what you think about this and if I should have another chance or not, any response would be appreciated.

Hello guys,

I've played this server off and on for a while now, gone by one other name but mostly its just been Moor3. I'm usually pretty respectful and I'm not huge on hating any groups of people when respect is given all around. I'd say that the vast community of FRG has been pretty huge when it comes to a safe space to think and wring out stressors in life, and I've broken that for those who come here.

First of all I'm truly sorry for anyone I offended with my word that I used, I rarely ever use it and I never really think about it. It was a spur of the moment word used towards a troll that was on the lobby for way too long and I felt like they were putting people down pretty heavily while they were around. I spoke plainly to take some of the heat off of those who felt bullied or harassed by the individual. It was reactionary, idiotic, and plainly unprofessional of me to use a word like that and disrupt someone else's safe space.

Being unbanned is something that affects me but the word I used affects everyone else, I find it fair and reasonable to be banned, but I will never earn the respect of those hurt by my words, and for that I am truly sorry for my actions.

My deepest apologies - Moor3

Steam Name (Current): mauimods

Steam Name (During incident): mauimods

Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:50219225

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

Name of staff you were banned by: Beebee

Length of the ban: Perma

Would you like your ban shortened or repealed?: Repealed

Reason for ban: Mass RDM + toxicity

Did you commit the actions stated in the ban reason?: Yes.

What really happened?:Got a long vacation for what I'd said after the mass RDM

Additional details: I know what I did was wrong, but I've missed FRG. I'd be okay with a 99% warning, last chance sorta deal, chat ban and voice ban me for now, but I don't want to be permanently cut out of the game and community after almost 3 years. I appreciate any consideration.

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I am officially hosting a giveaway for some items that include a Yuletide's rift and a eternal bond. If you want to join please reply with your discord name. There will be two parts of the game. The first part will be the game mode sprint where the top 3-6 people will move on to the final game and the top three get prizes.


https://strawpoll.com/poy9WmMxwgJ

Steam Name (Current): Hungh

Steam Name (During incident): It was probably one of these (Anonymous_ES, Anonymous_SxS, AnonymousDerek)

Steam ID:STEAM_0:1:70957447

Steam Profile Link:https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198102180623/

Name of staff you were banned by: Automated

Length of the ban: Permanent

Would you like your ban shortened or repealed?: Shortened

Reason for ban: "Hacks detected! This has been logged..."

Did you commit the actions stated in the ban reason?: Yes

What really happened?: I was banned 8 years, 4 months, 5 days, and 7 hours ago. I was 12 at the time and I was foolishly messing around with the injectable lua scripts that would give you auto bhop. If I remember correctly I don't think I actually ever played on the server for more than a second due to the injectable being immediately detected.

Additional details: I have pondered the reasons as to why I cheated and the answer was I really was not that good at much during the time. Younger me thought I was the shit at everything and it was solely due to the fact that I cheated at pretty much everything and lied about most things. After I got banned from the server I thought nothing of it until I would keep getting banned from other servers for the same reason. I kept cheating in games until I got my first VAC Ban on my steam profile and ever since then I have stopped. Its really embarrassing to have a stain on my profile, yet it is what allowed me to repurpose my character and quit cheating for good. I have played on many other TTT inventory servers and made a great deal of progress on them only for them to be either shutdown as a cash grab or completely abandoned. FRG or previously NTG seems to be the only server that has remained. I have learned from my ways and am pleading for a second chance or at least a consideration. Reading the other unban appeals in relation to cheating I understand there is a strict policy against it regardless of the time at which the cheat occurred. Thank you for your time and if my ban does not get shortened, I would like to thank you for the closure. -Hungh

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.