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Welcome to The_Doormans SWAT4 dedicated server admin page.

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The_Doorman

From time to time I run a dedicated SWAT4 TSS server on my server computer, natch. This page is for my server admins and anyone else who is interested in admining a SWAT4 server with SES Gez's admin mod.

The admin list so far is,

  • The_Doorman
  • Omniscius
  • Gen Tierra

I use the SES Gez admin mod on my server, Ver 18 as of 06/12/2006.

Since Ver 17 Gez has added a web admin interface, and updated it in Ver 18.

It works by IP address and a port number. ie" http://24.19.99.101:10490/"

10490 is the port the web admin is broadcast to.

It looks like this, note that no ones currently in the game but me in this shot.

First the log in page.

Then the main interface.

This is a server side mod only, that means this mod is entirely server side, clients don't need to download it, neither do admins.This mod has many features to help administer the server, here is a list of features,

 

  • List players id, name, score and ip address
  • Kick or Kickban players by ID,s
  • List the last 25 bans, removeban ip or range,add ip or range to banlist.
  • Balance teams, lockteams.
  • Force leader.
  • Force less than lethal.
  • Force name.
  • Switchteam.
  • Force VIP.
  • Change Message of The Day.
  • Save config.
  • Send a command to ded server console.
  • List all admin commands

What I would like the admins to be able to do is,

  • Kick or Kickban whomever annoys them or disrupts gameplay.
  • Switch players to other teams or balance teams when needed.
  • Force players names if needed, ie innapropriate names.
  • Start games, admin maps, warn players, etc.

What this mod does automatically,

  • High ping kick, 400 and over get a warning, grace period then kick. (This comes on even when I join my own server so just tell them to ignore warnings, it would take a true high ping to get kicked).
  • Idle kick, idle player gets warning, grace period then kick.
  • People whom have the name "Player" cannot join, if they change their name to player they will not be able to join on round restart. Feel free to warn then kickban anyone with the name player.
  • Unique player name, ie if a player name of "Joe" is already playing and another player named "Joe" enters the game the mod will add a number to their name, ie "Joe2". This was done to stop people from "stealing" other players names and perpetrate foul deeds,lol. OMFG-WTFC.
  • Team kill action results in a forced less than lethal loadout, its set to only one TK action.
  • Vote bans are disabled for now, all other votes should function.
  • Right now spectate mode is set to admins only, and a warning about spectate mode-its fuckered up. Its supposed to have the ability to spectate from a players view, but when you use that , or I should say attempt too it freaks out and scrolls through all the players views. This is known bug with version 16, should be fixed in version 17. You can free roam spectate, which is very cool cause you can clip through all objects. Downer for the free roam is that you do not see players names.

Here is an overhead shot on the roof of Victory Auto Imports that I took while in "free roam spectate mode".

Thats Puffanug and Karma making entry. I will probally set spectate mode to allow all as its a pretty cool feature.

I watched a suspect runner while in this mode and I was pretty amazed by two things, how actually fast they run, I knew they ran fast but had never followed one before. That and where the runner went, he went freakin everywhere, tried every door and went through every room that wasn't wedged. He eneded up in a dark corner at the spawn point, Puff and Karma had to search the entire map over to get to find him.

**Note to self new SOP on Victory Auto Imports-wedge up last door to garage,lol.**

 

----Admin Command List:----
This is the list of commands you can type into the console when logged in as an admin.

Console is activated by default with the "tilde" key, looks like this "~".

This will bring up a command line interface at the bottom of your screen, type in the code and hit enter, better yet keybind the commands like I show farther down below.

kick ac getplayers (lists the id, name, score and ip address of each player currently on the server)

kick ac balanceteams (attempts to balance the teams)
kick ac lockteams (locks the teams so that only admins can change a player's team)
kick ac lockeddefaultteam None/Swat/Suspect (sets the default team for connecting players if the teams are locked)

kick ac kick id/name (kicks a player)
kick ac kickban id/name (kicks and bans a player)

kick ac addban ip/range (adds an ip/range to the ban list)
kick ac getbans (lists the last 25 ip ban rules)
kick ac removeban ip/range (removes an ip/range from the ban list)

kick ac forceleader id/name (forces the specified player to become the coop leader)
kick ac forcelesslethal id/name (forces the specified player to use less lethal weapons for one round)
kick ac forcename id/name newname (forces the specified new name upon the player)
kick ac makevip id/name (makes the specified player the VIP)
kick ac switchteam id/name (switches the specified player's team)

kick ac motd msg (replace msg with your message - sets the message of the day, enter no msg to remove the motd)

kick ac saveconfig (saves the current server settings, useful after a kick ac sc set command)

kick ac sc servercommand (sends a command to the dedicated server console)

kick ac help (lists all the admin commands)

----Client Command List:----
This is the list of commands any client can use.

kick cc join (puts you back into the game)
kick cc spec (puts you into free spectator mode)
kick cc view (lets you view through the eyes of players on your team)

kick cc help (lists all the client commands)


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Very important Note on keybound commands in SWAT4,

they function only when in the game, not while in the menus.

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I have got some of the basic admin commands bound to single key strokes so I can,

  • Getplayers=shows me a list of players and their IDs.
  • Kickban #1 thru to #9 ID numbers with a single keystroke.
  • Spectate mode, view player spectate mode, rejoin game.

Here I have my Numpad "Del" or "." key bound to Getplayers ID, this I need to bring up all the players IDs before I can admin a command to them, ie kick or kickban, etc.Note that one of my admins, Tierra, noted that the old "showids" no longer functions in SWAT4.

NumPadPeriod=kick ac getplayers


Here I have my Numpad keys 1-9 bound to kick banning the ID spots #1 thru to #9.

NumPad1=kick ac kickban 1
NumPad2=kick ac kickban 2
NumPad3=kick ac kickban 3
NumPad4=kick ac kickban 4
NumPad5=kick ac kickban 5
NumPad6=kick ac kickban 6
NumPad7=kick ac kickban 7
NumPad8=kick ac kickban 8
NumPad9=kick ac kickban 9

Makes F8 key put you into spectator mode.

F8=kick cc spec

Makes F9 key put you into player view spectator mode.

F9=kick cc view

Makes F10 key put you back into the game and out of spectate mode.

F10=kick cc join

Here I have my Numpad key backslash "/" to show viewport blue,

GreySlash=ShowViewport Blue

Here I have my Numpad key asterisk "*" to show viewport red.

Separator=ShowViewport Red

 

These key commands are located in my User.ini file, of which I have manually edited to include or replace default commands. Do not just add them, you have to replace the commands, ie dont have two lines that say "Numpad8=" with two different commands, only one command line per key. If you are not comfortable with editing INI files then I suggest you do not attempt to change them. Whatever you do always make a copy of any file before you edit it.

 

You can find these commands and more at the SWAT4 forum

Here is a link to the Gez Mod webpage

The_Doorman Out.

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