I'm always open to these sorts of things in a non-obtrusive way (which is why the game has Black Ops perks). It's just a battle between facilitating features in a way that doesn't interfere with NZ:P's identity, and crafting them specifically so mappers can engage with them in interesting ways!

For a comprehensive list of changes, please refer to this Pastebin!
pastebin.com/raw/rUxgpCqh

Please note this is FTE specific currently due to our Vril engine unification effort, but the backbone is there and once that is done, FEVER is a simple switch flip :)

I’m planning on adding support for a few more holiday face lifts to FEVER throughout the next year, so stay tuned!

Do you hate limited time themes and modes? Or mad that I'm releasing this only a week before October ends? Me too (for both)! That’s why as an additional Accessibility feature, you are able to manually spoof what month of the year the server thinks it is. It can be Halloween all year if you want :D

Also, functionality has been added for user map creators to have festive, month-based visuals on their own. They can either opt to make them Game Mode specific like the official FEVER maps, or global!

On top of the CW functionality, FEVER is also a space for fun Holiday events without compromising the theme of maps in Classic. All maps have general special visuals and audio related to Halloween for October, and all four official maps get a Fall-themed facelift (yes, it’s just pumpkins lol)

NOOO!! I hear you shout... I HATE LOOT! I HATE ARMOR! I HATE SALVAGE!

I do too :3 none of which are featured here. Most of the changes are on a fundamental level, such as Perk-A-Cola behaviors, Zombie aggression, etc. though with some more intrusive things such as a three-tiered Pack-A-Punch system

FEVER is the result of a month long experiment expanding the NZ:P server's functionality and gearing up for eventual data-driving capabilities for user maps. It started out as adding some basic aesthetic changes for Halloween, but progressively evolved and ballooned into a pseudo-Cold War mode.

First, a short video of the mode. Emphasis on short, this originally was 25 minutes. Blame OBS.

youtu.be/nS5_UWr35eA

These builds are much more annoying to maintain as they are not running on the new Vril tech and function much differently under the hood, so it's easy to overlook changes (this is also why it's falling behind with some QoL stuff). They're effectively on life support until Vril is ported to them.

youtu.be/O8aKrQtIZNA

Then you now understand why I asked you this in the first place.

It's open source, there is no concept of team and we're already reaching hundreds of thousands of users thanks to existing strategies. I don't quite understand how Instagram would, specifically, identify more contributors.

Why Instagram specifically?

NZ:P already has a lot of attention, and was formerly on Twitter. I left Twitter for BlueSky.

I've never officially released a "cheese tower" map, no clue what you're referring to