Gameplay Rules (Updated 12/8/13)
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 3:40 pm
5/30/14 Update: The gameplay rules moved to the wiki
Effective immediately, players must adhere to the following rules and restrictions:
To assuage some users' concerns regarding Very Hard games, I want to clarify that inexperienced players should not join games with a higher difficulty. Experienced players should politely ask newer players to leave the game. New users joining Hard and Very Hard games do so at their own risk. Should players find that an inexperienced player in a higher difficulty game is endangering the other players' welfare, they may ignore that player and continue playing the level.
Effective immediately, players must adhere to the following rules and restrictions:
- Team killing of any kind is strictly prohibited.
- Players shall not take any action with the intent to impede the progress of other players. This includes, but is not limited to,
-Obstructing doors
-Using health or ammunition with the intent to make it unavailable to the other players
-Hiding or refusing to utilize key items
-Failing to come to the aid of other players without a reasonable basis to do so
-Luring enemies towards other players
-Triggering environmental hazards with the intent to cause harm to other players (e.g. exploding gasoline canisters near other players) - Players shall not use cheats of any kind, except players may do so in the testing area.
To assuage some users' concerns regarding Very Hard games, I want to clarify that inexperienced players should not join games with a higher difficulty. Experienced players should politely ask newer players to leave the game. New users joining Hard and Very Hard games do so at their own risk. Should players find that an inexperienced player in a higher difficulty game is endangering the other players' welfare, they may ignore that player and continue playing the level.