That's great news. :p
Your characters will always be missing for a while when they're restarting the servers again. Nothing to be worried about. This happens pretty much...
I absolutely love friendly fire, I always enable it in games where it's off by default. Killing Floor and the likes, howver this is under friends...
It looks very dull. I wish it looked more like Mammoth or Apocalypse tanks from Red Alert. :p
I'm going to be optimistic and say it won't take very long.
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