2 great HLDM servers I found

[Power and Glory]

The longest it took so far me to d/l a map from their server was about 3 minutes.

for now, i'll take your word that it's all kinds of kickass, and that to play on one of these servers is like strolling in the gardens of heaven, with more blood, and gore, and stuff.

For me it's better than the standard HLDM. How you will like it I don't know. I have not been a regular HLDM player in 4 years so my standards are differant.

After playing there a week I find the most annoying thing is there server rules. They frown on type killing. I agree with that to an extent. When your in a fierce fight or come around a corner and run into someone your first reaction is to shoot. Their language filter is lame on the Severian's Mod server. One of their clan guys was doing good and I said "damn" and it got filtered.

I find the BubbleMod server to be a little more annoying due to how the Mod works. There is no language filter there which is odd. When you spawn you flash for 10 seconds unless you fire or change weapons. You are called a "Fresh Spawn". Now the problem. If you kill a fresh spawn the server gives you a auto warning. If you kill a fresh spawn 3 times the server bans you for 5 minutes. So in turn when you see a fresh spawn you may as well run away. They can shoot you first which is stupid especially when you start with a shotgun which can kill in 1 shot to the head. the spawn protection timer needs to be lowered to like 3 seconds not the 10 it has now.