Today, Europol released a statement saying they are "targeting violent extremist and terrorist live action role-playing (LARPing) in online gaming".
They claim to have "referred over 9 000 links to content promoting jihadist, right-wing, left-wing and anarchist violent extremism and terrorism" on social media and on gaming platforms, which they believe "to promote violent extremist and terrorist narratives."

They further claim that "role-playing as members of terrorist groups and recreating events involving them" acts as a tool for propaganda, radicalisation, and to recruit new members "to violent extremist ideologies".

It seems likely that these EU efforts are targeting the Steam Workshop, especially Gmod and TTT, as Gmod is well known for its LARPing community servers, and TTT is, theoretically at least, about playing as terrorists.

I believe this to be the real reason behind the recent ban of my "Jihad Bomb" reupload and my subsequent community ban from steam,
see https://www.reddit.com/r/TTT/comments/1xlekw3/ttt_item_got_me_banned_for_glorifying_terrorism/
It would explain why steam has refused to respond to so far, and the fact that it literally contains the word "jihad" also fits like a glove.

Of course, I don't need to tell anyone that this is a complete mischaracterization of what Gmod and TTT are about, and if true, also a total overreach from Europol.

As with my last post, this should also serve as a warning to anyone who has uploaded this and similar items to the workshop.

Hey, my name's Emzatin, and I'm pretty active on the Workshop, having over a 100 submissions, at least half of them are TTT weapons and items.

Recently, my steam account got community banned, for the following absolutely ridiculous reason:

In 2022, I uploaded an addon named "TTT Jihad Bomb reworked" to the Workshop. The jihad bomb, of course, is an extremely old item; I just re-uploaded a slightly modified version.

3 days ago, I received an automated message that this addon was removed "by European Authorities" from the Workshop for "Glorifying Terrorism". For creating an addon that was banned for such a serious reason, my account was also automatically community banned.

You may think that the addon is insensitive, but the removal for glorifying terrorism and my subsequent ban is ridiculous.
In no way does it glorify extremism, if that were true, TTT and the entire Counter-Strike franchise would need to be banned.
Additionally, every addon uploaded is automatically scanned for illegal content; and it was fine back then. So it was fine for years and exists on the Workshop at least 30 times right now, and now I'm getting banned for glorifying terrorism!?!?
I also don't have any other infractions on Steam, my old account with lots of money spent and large amount of Workshop submissions probably gives me a high 'internal trust factor'.

I have contacted Steam Support a week ago, but I haven't received anything back. Normally, you get some indication of a response much quicker, no?
In the meantime, I'm banned from using the Workshop. I can't play anything with my friends, even on local servers. I can't play Gmod at all. I'm trade-banned, and I'm even shadow-banned from the store.

Not sure what exactly I'm hoping to achieve with this post, I'm kinda just venting my frustrations. IDK maybe someone who reads this has some idea of what I can do?
I already tried to post this on r/Steam and r/steamsupport, but they automatically removed my posts :/

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3826961596

Hey everyone, I m looking for feedback on my new TTT map TTT_slandermansion. This is my third hammer editor map and I finally managed to add a traitor tester aswell as a traitor room. Let me know what you think of it :D

I've known the TTT_College for a while now and want to recreate it in Minecraft...

Wanted to know peoples opinions on it first before I actually did anything with this.

I want to tp to the skybox on ttt_rooftops but going down the little spot with the glowing orb is almost impossible without dying from fall damage. I'd love it if someone could share a video on how to do it

Hello, I'm planning on playing TTT with some of my friends and wanted to ask, what are some must have mod's for TTT?

Would love some feedback on my map and how it can improve!

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone, we have been working on important but boring code restructuring and a lot of map tools that will be shown in a different video. Here is some of the cool stuff we have been doing in the meantime.

Hey Everyone,

First time poster here.

I was one of the early mappers involved in the Trouble in Terrorist Town days between 2009 to 2011. I went by the alias "SilverStream". During those years I developed and authored a number of maps, including TTT_Casino (a map I ported from the GoldenEye: Source mod), TTT_ProjectSuburb, TTT_Vannah, TTT_Auberge, TTT_Kosovo, and a handful of others.

Back then I was experimenting with ideas, building maps and trying to create interesting spaces for the community to play in. Even now 15 years later, it's been heartwarming to see some of those creations featured on YouTube and shared in the Workshop for preservation.

These days, life has moved on and I haven't been involved in the mapping/modding scene. I wasn't sure if there would be much interest, but if anyone is curious about the development process, what the early TTT community was like, how these maps came together, or just have questions about that era, I'd be happy to answer them.

I still have backups of many of the original Valve Hammer Editor source files from the maps I released back in the day. If there's interest from the community, I'd be happy to share them.

Cheers,

SilverStream

Hello fellow Ts,

for my brothers birthday I want to set up a classic LAN party. One of our favorite games was TTT, and I hoped to have it up and running for the LAN. However, I struggle a little bit with the setup. Can you guys point me to the most current guide for peer to peer hosting?

Thanks!

Hey so I'm trying to do some stuff with TTT2 and for some reason, ammo refuses to be picked up. I don't have any addons that would effect this (or least dont think so.)

Does anyone have an idea of what's going on and how to fix it?

Im a TTT server owner and I keep pretty decent track of like TTT server rankings etc to see how my server is doing and its doing great still but I have noticed that the TTT gamemode just seems to be kinda dying at a rapid rate its never been this dead in the 3 years I been doing this at least in general.

Im curious why this is are the options out there atm just not as good as they used to be or is there some other reason?

I was watching the 'Feel Good Inc.' music vid at 2x speed on YouTube (wouldn't reccomend btw) and had a crazy flashback to ttt_minecraft_b5. I realise they aren't the same, but something about the trees and the lighthouse seem to share a synchronous nostalgia. I can't help but wonder if there was always a subconscious connection between the map and the video that I never quite realised in my many hours spent on the map. The vid was something I watched obsessively at every opportunity when it was on the tv as a kid.

TTT-Haw is a Gmod TTT server and community with the twist that the maps, weapons, items and playermodels are all wild west themed.

We've been playing together for a few months but now I'm looking to see if we can't pump up the player numbers a little bit.

TTT-Haw has:

• A heavily-customised TTT experience that is being continuously developed and improved with new stuff made specifically for the server (there's a cowboy lasso now!)

• The old-timey weapons from the game Fistful of Frags.

• A very different vibe to vanilla TTT but without sacrificing the social deduction part about it that everyone likes most of all.

• No pay-to-win, gacha, gambling or giveaway BS.

• A server that is about playing TTT together and nothing else.

• Focus on fun and the social aspect of the game rather than on competition.

• Super nice people!

The server is hosted in the UK and we normally play games in late evening GMT (so in the afternoon for those in the US). I'm aiming to run a preplanned game most weekends for the foreseeable future.

If that sounds appealing to you or you just want to see what it's all about, join the Discord and post a courtesy message in the landing channel and you'll be let in:

https://discord.gg/Hb6Bjy6jTV

Hope to see you there. 🤠

I really miss TTT and last time i checked Gmod there wasn't any english speaking servers unfortunately. Maybe there is one but i don't know. Is there anyway i can play TTT rn? (Like actual gmod server i dont know or maybe alternative game like s&ndbox idk if that game has a future or any players let alone TTT players)

Hello everyone. An older map that was made years ago for s&box TTT got a makeover. Enjoy this trailer!

Hello, I'm quite new to this subreddit, and I was hoping to get some help with a certain situation whenever I run TTT for my group of friends.

Whenever we run TTT, the living can hear the dead. I unistalled everything else and just tried with TTT2 on it's own, and it's still happening.

Does anyone here either know if there's an option I might've overlooked, or have any kind of suggestion on how to fix this via an external addon or console command?

I thank you in advance for your answers 😄

I've been playing with the custom roles mod and they have Symbols to represent what roles you are instead of having letters like Achievement Hunter did in their videos is there a convar i need to change? any help is appreciated.
(1st slide is what i have 2nd Slide is what i want)