Garry's Bhop was a Garry's Mod Bunnyhop server ran by me (via NFOservers) that aimed to provide the best experience for bhoppers possible. It fully lived from September 19, 2019 to February 26, 2020. The FastDL lived from September 19, 2019 to November 23, 2023 and served ~6.2TB of data.
Last update: October 23, 2023
Last map reviewed: bhop_vietkz
The exact FastDL is mirrored onto fastdl.me here! We ❤️ fastdl.me!!!
Final map list is available here!
Some notes about the list:
- I'm 99% sure bh0p_bigcity and bh0p_edgeparkour are just gm_bigcity and gm_edgeparkour renamed just to show that in the nomination list that these are in fact zoned. I can't say for certain.
- bhop_flatzone_fix (which was previously on the website FastDL) is a CS:GO map, so it'll technically load in GMOD but I wouldn't trust it to be totally right. Changed to bhop_flatzone which should work.
- bhop_dev_fix (which was previously on the website FastDL) just didn't have textures baked into it at all, so it's all missing textures. Total eyesore. Changed to bhop_dev which should work.
- There are also two maps named bhop_displacements on Gamebanana. I'm 99% sure the one we used on Garry's Bhop was the one made by cheezz, so that map will be downloaded (name is bhop_displacements_cheezz.bsp).
- If your count differs from mine, it's because we removed useless downloads (I had a .prt file in there for some reason) and also removed nav files.
I used this directory lister to list all the maps and files. Lightly modified it to have a darker theme.
This is a curated list of bhop-centric maps catered towards Garry's Mod bunnyhop servers and players. Previously, it was a FastDL.
CS:S/Momentum Mod players can still definitely use this, but I cannot guarantee that every map will be perfectly completable. There are, at the time of writing, 22 maps made/modified especially for GMOD on this map list. If it doesn't have _gm at the end, you're probably fine to play it wherever.
Q: What makes this map list different from any other FastDL?
A: I have personally vetted every single map on Gamebanana's CS:S Bhop map page by looking at the listing and ensuring the map passes a basic inspection. Most FastDLs take any map that's ever been made and put it on their FastDL.
Here's the ruleset that I use to determine if a map will be added (in order of importance):
- Does the map look decent?
- Is the map a bfur clone (AKA only strafing in essentially a straight line with no significant changes?)
- Does the mapper supply enough screenshots? (If there's not enough screenshots, I don't download.)
- Does the mapper seem like they care about their work? (profile picture, map description actually being used, etc)
- Is the map from a known mapper?
- Is it a compilation map of maps already on the list that doesn't really add anything to the gameplay? (If it doesn't add, I don't add)
There are exceptions to the above rules (ex: for ports); those are decided on a case-by-case basis.
Q: What about maps not on Gamebanana?
A: I have some of the more popular ones that aren't on Gamebanana. For those, I usually vet them by word of mouth (a friend says it's good), playing the map myself, or it being a "classic" (ex: bh_aztec).
Q: You have one version of a map, but not the other (ex: freedompuppies).
A: Some older maps have had a ton of remakes/remasters/retextures. With freedompuppies, I believe the one I have is a retexture only that makes the map look less terrible.
Q: Why'd you take it down?
A: I've been doing this quite a while, and at this point, I just don't want to do it anymore. I don't have a lot of purpose in doing it; it's for a community that I'm not really a part of. I know I had a few people that were using it, but with fastdl.me, there's not much point in having my own service. Much easier to just let fastdl.me take over; they were even kind enough to put a list of what I had so you can scrape it real easy! It was a phenomenal run though. Thanks for being there :D
(To the best of my memory anyway)
Note that I do not intend to try and draw shit to anyone. I am not innocent either. There are things I wish I could go back and fix, but ultimately this is my honest rendition of how the story went and generally how I felt.
It started as a pipe dream back in 2014, when I first met FiBzY and Matt0722 back on I think Prestige Gaming. [pG] was a pretty popular bunnyhop server at the time, regularly getting 24-30 players and it was a good place for competition. I remember watching in awe as SomebodyEpic and bLand (and probably some others whose names I can't remember anymore) would set record after record, all while shooting the shit and having fun. I wanted so badly to create that environment but have it to where it was in my control.
At the time, there was no public gamemode for Garry's Mod Bunnyhop for people to use. Flow didn't release publicly until 2019. At the time, I just happened to be asking around for one and Rel Henwi was there to just drop one in my lap. He ended up giving me georgerulesLOL's gamemode. At the time, it was a totally unreleased private gamemode (I don't think it ever released tbh) Henwi had somehow gotten the files of. And he just gave them to me, a total stranger.
Likely my first server with the unreleased george gamemode on bh_aztec; ye rip = lolu
Taken Apr 24, 2015 @ 5:11pm
I decided to host a server using it just...on my PC. Yeah, IP exposed to everyone. I wasn't that concerned at the time, and I was pretty young and stupid. I would end up later regretting that when George found out that I had the gamemode and was allowing anyone to play on the server. For the record here: I'm 14 years old at this point and don't have any money. There is no FastDL on the server; you'd have to already have the map downloaded (I think it was bhop_kiwi_cwfx in this particular case) to join. He ended up joining, added me on Steam, and told me to take down the server since I was using his private gamemode. I, like a smart person, said "or what?" and he told me he'd DDoS me. I called his bluff and ended up getting DDoSed for around 5-6 hours. Thankfully my parents weren't home so they weren't suspicious of why the internet wasn't working, but I think eventually at a certain point I caved and agreed to his terms.
Server browser for the Bunnyhop gamemode at the time. All servers pictured no longer exist.
Taken Jul 9, 2015 @ 10:11pm
Regardless, I eventually relaunched the server after I was sure the heat died down and ran with that for a while. I had ElDigato working for me as a developer. He didn't really play Bunnyhop and was extremely mentally ill, but he had a passion for developing for the server, so I let him. Eventually, at some point, I took it down.
Likely george's gamemode again, rehosted probably on my PC, despite the name. Excuse our crudeness; there's a lot of things I regret about that era.
Taken Feb 8, 2016 @ 8:46pm
After this point, things get fuzzier. I think after this I took a break and played other games. I eventually came back around 2018 ish and started playing on Ruta's World. That ended up being right around the time Ruta's Bunnyhop server died (iirc), and there I happened to meet and befriend lorp and Dusty. They ended up giving me the gamemode for Ruta's World (again iirc; I think it might've been Justa since he did leak the gamemode due to not liking what lorp and Dusty were doing) under the assumption we would develop it further. I sadly don't have the imgur link anymore, but I had a huge image that listed all the plans and things I wanted to happen. I wish I could still find it and post it here. Regardless, we had big plans, and since I had a job, I could throw money at my developers and they would work. They'd do some work pro-bono but most of it was paid.
Work continued and the server went up under the name Garry's Bhop in September 2019. Again. Now hosted on NFO servers so the server would run 24/7. lorp helped me out a lot with that, and it's a large reason of why I know how to do anything with Ubuntu at a command line level. Progress continued and things were great! I had a team of staff that would zone maps, and I did most of the admin work. I had a lot of issues with staff abusing privleges and just generally not nice things happening, but overall it was serviceable. One of the bigger problems is that Henwi and FiBzY started having issues. I'm still not really sure who started it, but it might've been Henwi talking shit while drunk, and then they both just kept getting more mad at each other. I didn't demote Henwi for any of this behavior, so then FiBzY started to not like me. At this point, FiBzY already had his own server called StrafesOnFleek, which did admittedly make me a bit bitter at the time that he didn't want to play on my server, but in hindsight I understand since the players on my server tended to be total dicks.
In the background, justa was currently developing the new version of Kawaiiclan that was supposedly amazing and then best thing ever. I don't think it ever publicly released, but while it was happening, Kawaiiclan itself was getting ignored. Justa did contact me and said he was down to sell his current version of Kawaiiclan (the dev branch) and then actively continue to develop for it while it was on my server. He tried to get me to spit out a price that I would pay for the perfect gamemode instead of giving me a value of what it's worth to him. I had never seen the gamemode, as I wasn't whitelisted on the private test server he had and had only seen few screenshots. He offered it for 220 euros as a starting price (not counting additions or further work), but I saw the red flags and backed out of the deal completely, sticking with what I had.
Back to FiBzY; tensions worsened between him and I over time, and I don't have records of what broke the camel's back, but he ended up removing me on Discord and Steam and told me we weren't friends anymore. At that point, he kinda cut everyone off, even people like sei who really didn't do anything.
At this point, I was getting pretty tired. I was the main person who was zoning maps at this point and putting in late hours dealing with admin bullshit while everyone else kinda coasted along and did whatever they wanted. I had burnt myself out on bunnyhop due to these factors. I didn't balance as well as I should've between playing and working. I started messaging people around the end of February if they wanted to be owner, and the ones I messaged didn't want it. On February 25, 2020, I messaged Henwi asking if he wanted to be owner. I explained that I felt like I wasn't being a good owner since I wasn't active on the server, and that was the last thing I wanted to do to this group of players that I valued. Henwi ended up agreeing and I taught him how to take care of the server and manage it. I would cover the hosting costs (at least temporarily) and he would just have direct access.
On February 27, 2020, it all went to shit. Henwi ended up telling justa about some confidential info that I did not want shared. I specifically asked to keep it a secret, but he told justa anyway. Regardless, he broke my trust, and after that I felt like I couldn't trust him with the server anymore. And after him, I didn't feel like I had anyone who would have the time or dedication to run the server, so I shut it down.
A little while later, I gathered up all the data and gamemode stuff and released it on my now-defunct personal website, which is where it stayed for 3 years until now. Now, it'll be hosted here as a more permanent form of archival. I'm glad I released all of this data publicly, as due to it, rq was able to use it to develop the gamemode further, and a couple of users ended up creating some LAN servers for them to have some fun on.
Looking back, both then and now, the Garry's Mod Bunnyhop community is...filled with fucking troglodytes. The bunnyhop community is just really not worth the trouble. Regardless, I will say that I had a lot of good memories that were drama-free, of just having fun. Thinking of inventive and tricky bonus routes. Trying new shit. Fixing broken maps. Discovering, learning, teaching. So many good things came of it and I know more today because of my experience back then. I wish things went a lot differently, but I can't help but feel glad it happened.
Gravious joined my server once :D
Taken February 13, 2020 @ 3:16AM by sei
Thanks to Gravious for the base Flow gamemode. Your work helped an entire community of people thrive, at least for a couple more years.
Shoutout to Acer to holding onto such a huge Bunnyhop map archive for so long.
Shoutout to Yxagon for fixing a couple of maps and making them able to be played on GMOD.
For better or for worse, you were all here. Thanks for playing.
- Antacid (Zoner)
- drew (Zoner)
- greatchar (Zoner)
- astra
- FiBzY (I wish things were still good between us)
- hyper (The most sane of them all; effortlessly fun and cool)
- rq (The GOAT; unquestionable veteran)
- Rel Henwi (Thanks for starting it all and zoning; Hope you get better)
- rhythm (Wish I could talk to you one last time)
- samurai
- sei (GOAT, hope you feel better soon. Zoner)
- zeonn (zoner i think)
- zammo
- 123 (It's nice hearing from you now and again)
- Dzna (I wish we could've been better friends)
- lolu (I wish you remembered me like I remembered you)
- South (You copied lorp too hard homie.)
- Taco (Sorry I wasn't a better friend)
- Cat Goes Meow
- Sad Rainbow (Thanks for the work on fixing maps made for CS:S that were incompatible with GMOD)
- Vehnex (Get help)
- SpeeDy
- justa
- Exe
- lemin
- venecan
- Temper
- FeWrY
- BlankBHOP
- ElDigato (Fuck you for killing those kids. I wish someone could've helped you. I wish I would've said more.)
- lorp (Developer whose face I never saw and voice I never heard. Fuck you for almost getting me fired but thank you for all the work you did after Ruta's died. Both paid and unpaid.)
- Dusty (Developer. Country Boy Gaming. Classic stuff. Fuck you as well. Was fun shooting the shit with you.)
- uniball (I think)
- lotus
- Meeno
- curtag
- ForbiddeN (I think you cheated multiple times? IDK)
- Hooowl
- Oakly
- teger
- Turtle
- Catkiller (i guess lol)
If any info is wrong or I forgot someone, put an issue in!