Unreal Tournament 2004 Server settings and Admin commands
Saturday, 28. July 2007, 12:12:21
These are only the “BASIC” settings of a server – different types have mostly different options.
Before you try to add bots to a server where you've enabled "track stats" please read my post Here
So let’s see the main settings for a death match – and I’ll also list the basic server commands.
So click on Host, then click on Death Match, then click on Game Rules then thick the box called View Advanced Options.
You’ll see a lot of settings then.
If you set “Bots balance teams” then when you add bots they will join to the group with fewer ppl.
Weapons stay means that the weapons won’t disappear if a player picks them up. Otherwise there is a spawn time.
Goal score – if you don’t know what it is then blow up your PC – LOL.
Delay at End of game is set to 4 – if you don’t want to wait then set it to 0.
Spawn Protection time means that players can be killed for that amount of time right after they are spawned. It is set to 2 – and I think you should leave at it.
Enable player highlighting – it is for noobs – you shouldn’t enable it…
Friendly fire scale – well you shouldn’t bother it – if you set it then your team’s players can hurt / kill each other… - Only experienced gamers should set it.
Allow weapon Throwing, Allow Taunts - you should leave it on defaults.
Weapon shake View – leave it on.
Allow translocator – oh well if you want to use it than turn it on.
Click on Server Rules – if you want other players from the net to join you thick Advertise server.
Allow Admin Pausing – it is useless
World Stats Logging – also Useless – but if you want to increase / decrease your stats set it on.
Admin e-mail – if you want to add it add your e-mail there.
Admin name – write your nick name here
Admin Password – set a password – you’ll need it
Game password – useless
Kick Idlers Time – if you want to kick idle player set a minute here
Login Delay – don’t bother it
May Players – set it to the desired number
Max Spectators – if you want to disable it set it to 0
Min Net players – Set it to the desired rate – the game starts when it reaches the number.
Net start Delay – don’t bother it
Server name – set it to what you want
MOTD – Message of the day – when users join your server they will get the message –
Everybody should set at least the rules, the admin name, and the Language there – For example : Welcome to alskfjsd’s server! The admin is yxz. Do not idle, do not camp, and speak in ENGLISH – or something like that.
From the rest you should set “players must be ready” and “players balance teams”.
If you want you can select Kick Voting or Map voting – but it is useless.
If you set LAN server it will be optimized to LAN playing – so players from the Internet may have lagging problems.
So you’ve set the server – maybe you’ve set the bots as well -and you’ve entered the game.
So let’s see the very basic commands.
First of all open the console and type :
adminlogin <password> - where the password is what you’ve set. If you did it right you will be highlighted in the score board as Admin. About 90% of the commands can be executed ONLY after you logged in as an Admin.
Also when you switch to another map you have to log in again as admin! - I have no idea why does the game forgets it...
After you are in Admin mode all of the following commands will work:
ADD BOTS [number] - Adds the specified number of bots
BEHINDVIEW 1 - Changes to third person view (if you’ve enabled it)
BEHINDVIEW 0 - Changes to first person view
DISCONNECT - Disconnect from current server
EXIT - Quits the game
KILLBOTS - Gets rid of all bots
OPEN [IP address] - Connect to a specific server IP
OPEN [mapname] - Opens specified map
QUIT - Quits the game
RECONNECT - Reconnect to the current server
SWITCHLEVEL [mapname] - Switches to the specified level
SWITCHTEAM - Switch your player\'s team
SUICIDE - Kills yourself
TEAMSAY [text] - Displays your message in team chat
PLAYERSONLY - Freezes \\ pauses the bots
SAY [text] - Displays your message in global chat
SETNAME [playername] - Changes your player name
DEMOREC [demoname] - Records a demo using the demoname you type
STOPDEMO - Stop recording a demo
KICK [playername] - Kicks the specified player from the server
KICKBAN [playername] - Kicks and bans the specified player from the server using their IP address. To unban the player, edit the server.ini
These are the MOST BASIC commands – there are dozen of other ones – but since they are advanced commands (and most of them are for debugging purposes) - ppl who don’t know what they do with it can screw up the server – in extreme case they might crash the game itself – so I won’t list them.
Before you try to add bots to a server where you've enabled "track stats" please read my post Here
So let’s see the main settings for a death match – and I’ll also list the basic server commands.
So click on Host, then click on Death Match, then click on Game Rules then thick the box called View Advanced Options.
You’ll see a lot of settings then.
If you set “Bots balance teams” then when you add bots they will join to the group with fewer ppl.
Weapons stay means that the weapons won’t disappear if a player picks them up. Otherwise there is a spawn time.
Goal score – if you don’t know what it is then blow up your PC – LOL.
Delay at End of game is set to 4 – if you don’t want to wait then set it to 0.
Spawn Protection time means that players can be killed for that amount of time right after they are spawned. It is set to 2 – and I think you should leave at it.
Enable player highlighting – it is for noobs – you shouldn’t enable it…
Friendly fire scale – well you shouldn’t bother it – if you set it then your team’s players can hurt / kill each other… - Only experienced gamers should set it.
Allow weapon Throwing, Allow Taunts - you should leave it on defaults.
Weapon shake View – leave it on.
Allow translocator – oh well if you want to use it than turn it on.
Click on Server Rules – if you want other players from the net to join you thick Advertise server.
Allow Admin Pausing – it is useless
World Stats Logging – also Useless – but if you want to increase / decrease your stats set it on.
Admin e-mail – if you want to add it add your e-mail there.
Admin name – write your nick name here
Admin Password – set a password – you’ll need it
Game password – useless
Kick Idlers Time – if you want to kick idle player set a minute here
Login Delay – don’t bother it
May Players – set it to the desired number
Max Spectators – if you want to disable it set it to 0
Min Net players – Set it to the desired rate – the game starts when it reaches the number.
Net start Delay – don’t bother it
Server name – set it to what you want
MOTD – Message of the day – when users join your server they will get the message –
Everybody should set at least the rules, the admin name, and the Language there – For example : Welcome to alskfjsd’s server! The admin is yxz. Do not idle, do not camp, and speak in ENGLISH – or something like that.
From the rest you should set “players must be ready” and “players balance teams”.
If you want you can select Kick Voting or Map voting – but it is useless.
If you set LAN server it will be optimized to LAN playing – so players from the Internet may have lagging problems.
So you’ve set the server – maybe you’ve set the bots as well -and you’ve entered the game.
So let’s see the very basic commands.
First of all open the console and type :
adminlogin <password> - where the password is what you’ve set. If you did it right you will be highlighted in the score board as Admin. About 90% of the commands can be executed ONLY after you logged in as an Admin.
Also when you switch to another map you have to log in again as admin! - I have no idea why does the game forgets it...
After you are in Admin mode all of the following commands will work:
ADD BOTS [number] - Adds the specified number of bots
BEHINDVIEW 1 - Changes to third person view (if you’ve enabled it)
BEHINDVIEW 0 - Changes to first person view
DISCONNECT - Disconnect from current server
EXIT - Quits the game
KILLBOTS - Gets rid of all bots
OPEN [IP address] - Connect to a specific server IP
OPEN [mapname] - Opens specified map
QUIT - Quits the game
RECONNECT - Reconnect to the current server
SWITCHLEVEL [mapname] - Switches to the specified level
SWITCHTEAM - Switch your player\'s team
SUICIDE - Kills yourself
TEAMSAY [text] - Displays your message in team chat
PLAYERSONLY - Freezes \\ pauses the bots
SAY [text] - Displays your message in global chat
SETNAME [playername] - Changes your player name
DEMOREC [demoname] - Records a demo using the demoname you type
STOPDEMO - Stop recording a demo
KICK [playername] - Kicks the specified player from the server
KICKBAN [playername] - Kicks and bans the specified player from the server using their IP address. To unban the player, edit the server.ini
These are the MOST BASIC commands – there are dozen of other ones – but since they are advanced commands (and most of them are for debugging purposes) - ppl who don’t know what they do with it can screw up the server – in extreme case they might crash the game itself – so I won’t list them.
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