Jacob's Rest Β· swarm incoming
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Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop Server Hosting
Run your own server for co-op campaigns and Workshop missions, with the campaign, difficulty and votes set from one panel.
- Campaign, difficulty and votes in the panel
- Workshop missions installed on start
- Stays up when the lobby host leaves
- Switch between 446 games for free, anytime*
- From, per month
- $2.99
- Player slots
- Unlimited
- Uptime
- 99.9%
- Money-back
- 3 days
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No per-slot fees. Choose your own slot limit. To help us recommend the right plan for you, tell us how many friends are joining you!
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Harvester2 GB RAM, 150% CPU
$5.99/mo
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Secure Backups Included
Harvester
$5.99/mo
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
- Harvester plan $5.99
- Secure Backups 30 GBFree
3-day money-back guarantee
Part of the Gamebox
Switch your Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop server to any of 445 other games, right from the panel, whenever you want!*
Included with
every plan
99.9%+ Uptime
Server Console
MySQL Database
(S)FTP Access
Secure Backups
Auto Restarts
DDoS Protected
No Per-Slot Fees
US & UK Locations
Instant Setup
Why host your Reactive Drop server with Physgun?
Your campaigns, your difficulty and your Workshop missions, on a server you run from one panel.
Online Β· DDoS protected
Stays up when the host leaves
Your server keeps running after everyone logs off, and it is protected from DDoS attacks.
Deploying server Installing Reactive Drop Server online
Online in minutes
Your server deploys itself the moment you order. No setup, no waiting.
Config Editorserver.cfg
ServerGameplayVoting
Default CampaignJacob's Rest
DifficultyInsane
Allow BreaksOn
Lock Difficulty
Saved to server.cfg
server.cfg, without the typing
Server, Gameplay and Voting Settings
Pick the campaign the lobby starts on and its difficulty, lock it in, and set how many votes a kick or map change needs, all labelled in the panel.
- Server, Gameplay and Voting groups
- Saved straight to server.cfg
server.cfg - Physgun VS Code main server.cfg
1234
// your server, your rules
asw_skill 4
rd_lock_difficulty 1
rd_allow_afk 1
Terminal
$ ssh server@physgun.com
β Connected, Reactive Drop container ready
$ physgun status
β running Β· lobby
For the power users
SSH Access & VSCode
Connect with real developer tools and edit server.cfg and the rest of your server files directly. Or skip it and use the panel.
- Full SSH access included
- Edit files live in VSCode
Workshop Items
item or collection ID3141592653
Restart
Missions installed on start
Steam Workshop Missions
Paste Workshop campaigns, missions and challenges by ID, link or collection, and the server installs them when it starts.
Default Campaign
Jacob's RestArea 9800ParanoiaResearch 7Tilarus-5
Difficulty
EasyNormalHardInsaneBrutal
Lock Difficulty On
Every Official Campaign
Start the lobby on Jacob's Rest, Paranoia, Research 7 or another official campaign, from Easy to Brutal.
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Your Squad Only
Set a server password so only the players you tell can join, and choose how many can join at once.
The panel every Reactive Drop server deserves.
One place for your whole squad: server name, passwords, max players and Workshop items in the startup settings, a config editor for the campaign, difficulty and votes, schedules you set for restarts and backups, subusers for your admins, a file manager with SSH and VS Code, and every other universal tool.
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True Console & SSH Access
Accurate, blazing-fast output piped directly from the container. Paired with complete SSH access inside the Panel!
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Reactive Drop Server Hosting, Explained
New to Reactive Drop?
What is Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop?
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop is a free co-operative top-down shooter that extends Valve's Alien Swarm with more maps, aliens, game modes and guns. Up to 8 players pick a marine and a loadout, drop into alien-infested missions, hack doors, heal each other and fight their way to extraction. It adds new co-op campaigns, Challenges that change the rules of a mission, PvP modes and Steam Workshop support.
Squad Tactics.
Medics, techs and support marines each have a role, and teamwork gets the squad to extraction.
PvP Modes Too.
Deathmatch, Gun Game, Instagib and Team Deathmatch sit next to the co-op campaigns.
Why rent a server?
What is Reactive Drop Server Hosting?
A game hosted from someone's PC ends when that player quits or their connection drops. A Reactive Drop dedicated server keeps your lobby online around the clock instead. With Physgun you set the server name, password and max players in the panel, pick the campaign, difficulty and vote rules in the config editor, list the Workshop missions to install on start, and get full file access over SFTP and SSH.
Always Online.
Your server stays up when the host logs off, so your squad can drop in any time.
Full Control.
Set your campaign, difficulty, votes and passwords, and add Workshop missions.
Questions, answered
Straight answers before you order. Still stuck? Real people are here around the clock.
Physgun
Co-op missions take a squad of up to 8 marines. You set max players in the panel, and we never charge per player slot.
Yes. List Workshop campaigns, missions, challenges or whole collections in the panel, and the server installs them when it starts.
Yes. Choose the campaign the lobby starts on and its difficulty, from Easy to Brutal, and lock the difficulty if you want it to stay put.
Yes. Set a server password in the panel, and only the players you share it with can join.
Yes. The server downloads game and Workshop updates each time it starts, so a restart brings the latest version.
Yes. You can set up a backup schedule in the panel, and secure backup storage is included in every Physgun server!
Yes, to any Gamebox game your server can run. Switching wipes the old game's files, and the panel offers to take a backup first.
Yes. Every Physgun server is protected from DDoS attacks.
Chicago, USA and London, UK. Pick the one closest to most of your players.
Yes. Every server has a 3 day refund guarantee.
Still stuck?
Ready to launch your Reactive Drop server?
Drop your squad into campaigns and Workshop missions on a server that stays up when the host leaves.
- 3-day money-back guarantee
- Online in minutes
- Real people, around the clock
