Specc'ing someone

Penfold · January 22, 2009, 10:45:00 PM

There was someone decidedly dodgey on tonight and I wanted to spec him. How does one / can one spec someone in the first person given our locked views?

Thanks

PEN

Blunt · January 22, 2009, 10:57:28 PM

No idea Pen:blink:
This adminning lark is v.hard on Cod4:sideways:
Also hate the way that chat disappears forever; I notice something in chat and think "what is that all about?" but you can't scroll back a la CSS

Anonymous · January 22, 2009, 11:32:22 PM

Quote from: Blunt;259921Also hate the way that chat disappears forever; I notice something in chat and think "what is that all about?" but you can't scroll back a la CSS

if you bring up full console (Shift and `) as opposed to the one line console(`) then you should be able to see more chat history

Soon Jung · January 23, 2009, 11:15:20 AM

I would also want to specc people in CoD4, cos otherwise its hard admining

Anonymous · January 23, 2009, 01:07:20 PM

Quote from: Soon Jung;259958I would also want to specc people in CoD4, cos otherwise its hard admining

If we enable spec mode then it seems to be enabled for everyone as per CSS. I think it was decided to turn it off so that you couldnt find the git spots and alert your team to a hiding place but if this is causing problems with admin then we need to revisit the decision maybe. Arm?

target · January 24, 2009, 01:35:04 PM

Perhaps we need to ensure there is a least one admin per team, and use something like TeamSpeak as admin chat to identify someone who needs watching.

Thoughts?

Penfold · January 24, 2009, 02:11:02 PM

That would work.

Alternatively, is the locked camera mode something that can be quickly set / unset via console? That way the admin could switch the camera lock off to monitor someone and then relock it when the issue is settled?

PEN

Benny · January 24, 2009, 03:36:45 PM

I've always struggled with admin on L4D. Admittedly I'm not on a lot for now, life is a bugger like that, but when I am all I can generally do is mapchange and kick through RCONMax.

There's not too much I can do in terms of historical chat or speccing.

Can we have a 5 minute guide to the way to do things....or log all the servers to a server we can all get to to pull the logs?

Blunt · January 24, 2009, 03:52:31 PM

Quote from: Benny;260168I've always struggled with admin on L4D. Admittedly I'm not on a lot for now, life is a bugger like that, but when I am all I can generally do is mapchange and kick through RCONMax.

There's not too much I can do in terms of historical chat or speccing.

Can we have a 5 minute guide to the way to do things....or log all the servers to a server we can all get to to pull the logs?

That's about all I can do aswell:rolleyes:
I was trying to send a console message to someone on the server last night, but, unlike HLSW you can't see a chat window, so I didn't know whether my message had worked or whether it was answered.
RCONMax is not as user friendly as HLSW, and CoD4 is not as adminnable as CSS.

Anonymous · January 24, 2009, 04:09:34 PM

Quote from: Penfold;260141That would work.

Alternatively, is the locked camera mode something that can be quickly set / unset via console? That way the admin could switch the camera lock off to monitor someone and then relock it when the issue is settled?

PEN

Start RCONmax and go to the "Server General" tab

Click on "Get All" and wait for the settings to load in the tab

You should see that "Spectate" is set to "Team"

Select "Free" for the spectate mode then click on the "Send" button and with a bit of luck you should have the ability to wander around. The RCON command is "set scr_game_spectatetype 2" while "set scr_game_spectatetype 1" will return it to the default setting

Penfold · January 25, 2009, 11:13:29 AM

Thanks Detective BB.

So then, Arm, is there a party line on this??

Thanks

PEN

Armitage · January 25, 2009, 04:58:20 PM

There is no easy answer to this one. as the ability to spectate changes the game dramatically.
Not sure what problem you guys of had. If it's anti social behavior, you should be able to be assess without spectating. If it cheating that's harder even with spectating. One big score doesn't equal a cheat. If you do fear the worse and there is no admin on the other team, ask another player to swap with you then you just need to die a lot.

So I think we leave it like it is. sorry rubbish answer but I think it's the lesser of two evils.

Snokio · October 04, 2009, 08:23:34 PM

Was hoping we would be able to switch this on as trying to admin the spamming is almost impossible with full server (I'm sure the other admins on tonight would agree), nade spamming being the worst, and even with admins on both sides its very hard to see who is guilty and whether they truly seen/know if the ememy is there or not, only way to truly tell is from their perspective,

Also, had too many TK'ing tonight, was wondering if it was possible to auto kick someone after say 3-5 TKs per map without the server being a moded?

Soon Jung · October 06, 2009, 08:17:36 PM

I agree, it would be alright to be abke to spectate someone to see if they are nadespamming, wallspamming, bunnyhopping etc. And using glitches. I know some are fan of glitches. I am not, and think it should be illigal. I saw someone climb straight up a wall tonight, and thats not normal!

For the TK part, I agree with Snokio. Maybe we could turn on the reflective? It works wonders, and the one you harm is yourself, and noone else. Effective.

My two pennies.

Snokio · October 06, 2009, 10:03:26 PM

Quote from: Soon Jung;291973I agree, it would be alright to be abke to spectate someone to see if they are nadespamming, wallspamming, bunnyhopping etc. And using glitches. I know some are fan of glitches. I am not, and think it should be illigal. I saw someone climb straight up a wall tonight, and thats not normal!

For the TK part, I agree with Snokio. Maybe we could turn on the reflective? It works wonders, and the one you harm is yourself, and noone else. Effective.

My two pennies.

Actually, the reflective TW/TK is great idea, and works wonders on other servers I have been on. I believe it can be switched on via Rcon