Posts made by Xerxes

Changelog:
23.06.2019: Started to add screenshots.
26.06.2019: Added more screenshots, basic set-up and preparation for a RCon tool is now covered.

1. Through the internal console

• Start the game and wait until XUI has fully loaded.
• Open the internal console by pressing the tilde key.
  • ^ on QWERTZ.
  • ~ on QWERTY (US).
  • ' on QWERTY (UK).
  • the key above tab on most keyboard.
• Type name YourNameHere.
  
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  2. Through the external console

  • Start the game and wait until XUI has fully loaded.
  • Press ALT+TAB and open the external console window.
  • Type name YourNameHere.
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  3. Through Notepad++

  • Make sure the game is closed.
  • Navigate to .\t6r\player and open user.name with Notepad++
  • Change the first line to your username.
    • DO NOT add any new lines or control characters.
  • Save the file
  • Start your game
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After some time spent on creating our own vote plug-in we are happy to announce that we have the first servers having a vote functionality based on IW4m-Admin.

Obviously abusing those votes can result in a ban.

The following new commands and aliases got added.:

• !votekick or !vk to vote kick a player
  • Requires a player and takes an optional reason.
• !votemap or !vm to vote for a map
  • Requires a map name.
• !voteskip or !vs to vote to skip a map
• !yes or !y to vote for a running vote.
• !no or !n to vote against a running vote.
• !veto or !v to use your veto right.
  • Requires at least Moderator permissions

Requirements:
A PC to host the server.
An Internet connection.
T5 on said server. (You only need MP and can delete all .iwd files but iw_00.iwd after the first step this can save you a LOT of disk space.)
Notepad++
A brain. (Mainly to understand the difference between your T5M install folder and the T5M folder.)

Preface

I know that T5M install folder and the T5M folder can be a bit confusing.
All relative paths are as seen from t5m.exe
Certain things require you to disable the playlist, this however also disables the automated maprotation.
Please don’t create any 24/7 servers as they are cancer and might get treated as second class servers later.

1. Downloading and installing Plutonium:

• Download RektT5 here.
• Create a T5M folder inside you T5M install and put t5m.exe in it.
• Run t5m.exe it will ask for your T5M install, point it to the right folder.
• Click cancle when it asks you to log into your getrekt account as we don’t need one to host a server and all configs needed for a server are set now.

2. Basic configuration and the first start

• Download the dedicated server cfg https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xerxes-at/T5ServerConfig/master/server.cfg and save it to ./t5m/main/
• Open the cfg in Notepad++.
• Edit the file to your likings.
• Download the bat file from GitHub.
  • Optionally open it with Notepad++ and change the 5 variables on the top.
• Double click the bat file.
• Wait for the server to finish loading.

3. (Optional) Advanced configuration

Please read the instructions first before changing your config.
It’s always a good idea to backup your config before you edit it.

3.1 Changing the game mode

• Open the server CFG.
• Change the playlist to a different one with the game mode(s) you would like to host.
• Save the file.
• Restart your server

3.2 Enabling hard core mode

• Open the server CFG.
• Change the playlist to a Hardcore playlist.
• Save the file.
• Restart your server

3.4 Custom settings

• Open the server CFG.
• Disable the playlist and setup your maprotation as the playlist forces its settings.
• Set-up your map rotation (sv_maprotation)
• Scroll to the settings of the game mode(s) you want to change and make your changes.
  • Make sure you did remove the //.
• Save the cfg and restart your server.

4. (Optional) Install a server management tool

Both tools need you to enable the game log and to set a rcon password in the server config, for your own safety use a long and safe (generated) password you will never have to remember this password! You should only install one of those 2 tools.

4.1 Adding IW4m-Admin to your server

• Download IW4m-Admin from RaidMax’s website.
• Follow his guide on GitHub.

5. (Optional) Hosting a second server from the same directory.

• Make a copy of the bat file and the cfg file and rename them.
• Edit the copy of the bat file to have a different port and to use your second cfg.
  (You must forward the second port as well if you are behind a DNAT!)
• Edit the .cfg file.
• Start the server through the new .bat file.

FAQ

Q: You said we can delete game files to save disk space, is it worth it?
A:In my opinion it is, the files required to host MP servers with all maps and modes require roughly 1GB instead of 12GB and HIGHLY speeds up loading times as unnecessary files are not loaded.

Q: So which files can we safely delete?
A:You can safely delete the players and redist folders and all .iwd files but `iw_00.iwd`.

Q: Why can’t I find my server hosted at home while others can?
A:Your router probably doesn't support NAT-Loopback (aka. NAT-Reflection) and that's why it doesn't know how to forward the network traffic. In order to connect it use your internal IP or 127.0.0.1 if its hosted on the same machine. More information about what NAT-Loopback is and how it works can be found on Wikipedia.

http://getrektby.us/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=16
But I would recommend using as server.cfg https://github.com/xerxes-at/T5ServerConfig/blob/master/server.cfg

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The issue with the IW4m-Admin AntiCheat got resolved. The issue was caused by CoD ignoring very common and basic coding conventions. A more detailed explanation is in the spoiler below.

In case anyone cares for the technical reason behind the false positives.:

The issue got cause by the different meaning of . and , in numbers in different regions of the world. Normally the localization settings of Windows are meant to solve that by providing a program with the right settings for the local PC. However while IW4m-Admin did follow these coding conventions CoD did not and always used the US number format. When that happens on a PC where the localization settings are set to a region where . and , are the opposite tiny numbers are seen as enormous ones and vice versa. This is why IW4m-Admin did get those impossible for a legit player values while the player in fact was not cheating.

Hi,
I am sorry for the inconvenience caused,
as you can see here it is a false positive! And as you can see here your ban got lifted nearly instantly.

Hi,
I am sorry for the inconvenience caused,
as you can see here it is a false positive! And as you can see here your ban got lifted nearly instantly.

UPDATE:
After another debugging session with RaidMax the issue has been found and it got fixed. Thanks for your patience!

UPDATE:

We are currently trying to figure this out together with RaidMax.
Every single one banned wrongly during that process will be unbanned ASAP!

We did test a private version of IW4mAdmin to fix https://awog.at/t/55.
Sadly it didn’t work as intended, your ban will be lifted the next time we start IW4mA.
Since IW4ma isn’t running nothing stops you from rejoining.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused by this, but its for a good cause!

We and other communities / clans have experienced an issue with IW4mAdmins Anti Cheat. According to its main developer Raidmax it seems like when a player kills a bot the offset of the bot is somehow parsed as the offset of the player. Which causes values that are impossible to reach for legit players and then causes an automatic ban from the Anti Cheat.

All AUTOMATIC BANS caused by OFFSETS have been deleted.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused by this to the affected legit players!

There is an issue in the latest version of IW4mAdmin that seems to apply the offset of a bot to players killing them. Those offsets should always be 0 if you are a legit player.

I could reproduce this with my game as well. You are unbanned, I’m sorry for the inconvenience caused by this!

That was an automated ban, nobody did manually ban you. We gonna need demo files from you from those rounds.

https://cod.awog.at/Client/ProfileAsync/17076