Season 2 map rotation and config.

As i have said before,Hotniks did a great job of setting up this league and i believe everyone had a great time with it. So i am making no changes to it except the pb cvars which will be the same for all leagues and ladders. Thanks Hotniks for the great season. I hope everyone enjoys this season as much. So here is the cvars and config for season 2:

Preseason Maps
Week #1: mml-church

Week #1: Assault
Week #2: Axis Complex
Week #3: Beach
Week #4: Castle
Week #5: Ice
Week #6: Infamy
Week #7: Sub
Week #8: Tundra (doc run version)
Week #9: UFO


Config:
//Punkbuster===============================
pb_sv_enable
pb_sv_cvarempty
pb_sv_kicklen 1
pb_sv_cvar rate in 2500 25000
pb_sv_cvar snaps in 20 40
pb_sv_cvar com_maxfps in 43 125
pb_sv_cvar cg_bobup in 0 0.005
pb_sv_cvar cg_bobpitch in 0 0.002
pb_sv_cvar cg_bobroll in 0 0.002
pb_sv_cvar cg_fov in 90 105
pb_sv_cvar cg_thirdperson in 0
pb_sv_cvar cg_shadows in 0 1
pb_sv_cvar cg_wolfparticles in 0 1
pb_sv_cvar cg_errordecay in 100
pb_sv_cvar cl_freelook in 1
pb_sv_cvar cl_timenudge in -50 0
pb_sv_cvar cl_maxpackets in 30 100
pb_sv_cvar m_pitch OUT -0.015 0.015
pb_sv_cvar m_yaw in 0.022
pb_sv_cvar r_ext_NV_fog_dist in 0
pb_sv_cvar r_flares in 0 1
pb_sv_cvar r_rmse in 0
pb_sv_cvar r_vertexlight in 0 1
pb_sv_cvar r_ignorehwgamma in 1
pb_sv_cvar r_intensity in 0 6
pb_sv_cvar r_picmip in 0 4
pb_sv_cvar r_mapoverbrightbits in 0 4
pb_sv_cvar r_overbrightbits in 0 4
pb_sv_cvar r_uifullscreen in 0 1
pb_sv_cvar r_shownormals in 0
pb_sv_cvar r_showtris in 0
pb_sv_cvar r_nocurves in 0
pb_sv_cvar r_swapinterval in 1 0
pb_sv_cvar r_texturebits in 24 32
pb_sv_cvar r_depthbits in 24 32
pb_sv_cvar cg_zoomDefaultBinoc in 20 100
pb_sv_cvar cg_zoomDefaultSniper in 20 100
pb_sv_specname "WTV-speakeasy.net"


// Weapons
g_maxFlamer -1 // max flamers per team (-1 is unlimited)
g_maxMauser -1 // max mausers per team (-1 is unlimited)
g_maxPF 1 // max panzers per team (-1 is unlimited)
g_maxVenom -1 // max venoms per team (-1 is unlimited)

// Ammo Allowances
g_giveAmmo 2 // enable/disable ammo giving/donating (2=multiple)
g_medicNades 2 // # of nades medics begin with
g_LTNades 2 // # of nades LTs begin with
g_medicClips 1 // # of spare clips medics begin with
g_engineerClips 2 // # of spare clips engineers begin with
g_grenadePacks 1 // default: 1 enable/disable LT grenade packs
g_maxClips 4 // max # of clips one can store in reserves
g_throwableknives 10 // Number of throwable knives. Default: 1
g_ammogivessyringe 1 //turns on/off syringes in ammo packs
g_ammogivespistol 1 //turns on/off pistol rounds in ammo packs
g_ammogiveshelmet 1 //turns on/off helmet in ammo packs

//Mines
g_mines 1 // enable/disable proximity mines
g_mineActivate 5 // seconds before an armed mine activates
g_mineAutoDisarm 0 // disarm mine when player limbos, 0=mine stays on
g_mineShootable 0 // whether mine can be shot at or not

//Headshot

g_helmetprotects 1 // helmet protection 0=off, 1=on
g_headshot 0 // turn headshot mode on/off
g_headshotDmg 50 // in headshot mode, damage per headshot
g_helmetDamage 20 // amount of damage first head shot takes
g_headshotShake 1 // enable/disable screen shaking on headshots

// Other
g_ASBlock 1 // turn on/off air strike blocking recognition
g_binocs 1 // 1-All, 2-Sold, 3-Med, 4-Eng, 5-Med & Sold, 6-Sold & Eng, 7-Med &Eng
g_playDead 1 // enable/disable playing dead
g_playDeadLook 1 // enable/disable looking around while PD
g_propDamage 0 // turn on/off property damage
g_shootLTPenalty 1 // turn LT damage return on = 0 off = 1
g_shove 1 // turn shoving on/off
g_shoveAmount 80 // amount of shove to apply
g_shoveNoZ 0 // turn z-axis shoving on/off (1 means off)
g_showRevives 0 // turn on/off printing revives in console
g_showTapOut 0 // turn on/off "tapped out into limbo" messages
g_startAmmoPenalty 0 // start ammo penalty time
g_sinkCorpses 0 // turn on/off corpse sinking (g_maxlives 1 only)
g_unlag 0 // turn on/off lag compensation
g_warmupDamage 0 // enable/disable warmup damage
g_watersniping 0 // enable/disable watersniping 0=off
g_waterRevive 1 // turn on/off underwater reviving
g_dragcorpse 1 // drag your teammate to safety
g_reviveInvul 2 // revive invulnerability time
g_spawnInvul 3 // spawn invulnerability time
g_MG42 1 // enable/disable enhanced MG42s (overheating etc.)
g_friendlyFire 1 // 0 = off, 1 = FF on, 2 = Damage return.
seta g_highAchievers 8191 // default: 4095 high achievers bitmask
g_dropBinocs 0 // enable/disable binoculars dropping on limbo
g_dropHealth 2 // # of med packs medics drop when they limbo
g_dropNades 2 // # of nades engineers drop when they limbo
g_dropObj 3 // default: 3 # of times a player can drop objective
g_poison 20 // default: 3 damage per second/disable (0 disables)
g_mineHints 1 // default: 1 enable/disable mine hints
g_readyUp 1 // default: 0 enable/disable ready-up system
g_shoveOff 1 // default: 0 enable/disable shoving team off ledges
g_smokeGrenades 20 // default: 15 smoke grenade time/disable
g_capAmmo 0 // default: 0 enable/disable forced ammo caps
g_unlockWeapons 2 // default: 2-any class can drop weapon
// g_unlockWeapons has 3 settings:
// 0 - disabled
// 1 - medics and engineers can drop their gun and pick up mp40s/thompsons/stens
// 2 - any class can drop their gun and pick up any weapon
// 3 - venoms/flamethrowers/mausers drop on limbo

//Software Settings
seta vm_game "0"
seta sv_pure "1" //Players with "unpure" pk3 files are kicked
seta sv_screenshake "1" //Allow the screen to shake
seta sv_allowDownload "1" //0=Players can't download custom maps from this server

//Change respawn times
seta g_userAxisRespawnTime "0"
seta g_userAlliedRespawnTime "0"

//recharge times
seta g_medicChargeTime "20000"
seta g_LTChargeTime "30000"
seta g_engineerChargeTime "30000"
seta g_soldierChargeTime "45000"
seta g_fastres "0"

//game style
seta g_maxlives "-1" //all players have unlimited lives
seta sv_timeout "300" //If no data is reveived from the client withint this time he is kicked
seta g_speed "330"
seta sv_maxrate "25000" //Don't allow a rate higher than this if you have a low bandwith server
seta sv_maxping "300" //Deny users with high pings to join
seta sv_zombietime "2" //Zombies are removed after one minute
seta g_gameskill 3
seta g_gametype "6" //Standard SW mode
seta sv_floodprotect "1"
seta g_timelimit "0" //set the timelimit
seta g_log "logs/games.log" //this is where I put my logfile
seta g_smoothClients "1"
seta g_forcerespawn "600"
seta g_allowvote "0" //Disallow the vote, you can still file a complaint
seta g_doWarmup "1" //give players time to choose calss and weapon
seta g_warmup "60" //Give the 15 sec.
seta logfile "3" //Append to exsisting logfile
seta g_filterBan "1" //denie banned users from playing
seta g_noteamswitching "0" //You may switch teams mid game
seta g_altStopwatchMode "0"
seta g_voiceChatsAllowed "4"
seta g_teamAutoJoin "0" //Set this to 1, and players will join the team with lowest number of players
seta dmflags "0"
seta fraglimit "0"
seta capturelimit "8"
seta g_teamForceBalance "0" //Don't let all players join one team 0=off 1=on
seta g_weaponTeamRespawn "3"
seta g_weaponrespawn "3"
seta g_syncronousClients "0"
seta g_inactivity "0"
seta sv_allowAnomymous "0"
seta g_enforcemaxlives "0"
seta g_antilag "0 " // RTCW 1.4 settings - Antilag turned OFF.
seta g_lockspecs "0"


I will be getting with Vix to get the league created as soon as possible.
Post edited by Seadawg^ at 3/12/2005 8:05:04 PM

Dawg, seems like you're spending lots of time to make things work. Thanks man.

Looks good!

Note: we're close to having Wolf TV working with Shrub mod, hope to have it ready by the start of the regular season, still have some minor issues to work out.

Nice work Dawg, also watching a shrub match would be great.

Yea it does look good..So when is the new season starting??..

Question.

#1. Property Damage? - no need for this in competition. just a distraction

#2. Why doesn't everyone get binoculars? Soldiers can't have binoculars... just lt's med's and eng's. Give them to Soldiers too I say... everyone can carry binocs. I noticed you have drop binocs on tapout enabled but honestly that doesn't matter either. Just give them to all classes and don't on tapout. Useless map clutter. 8 )

Nice work... everything seems great and the two mentioned above aren't life and death... just two things I thought would make a little more sense.

nice work Sea... appreciate your hard work.

can't wait to play

Good work, 'Dawg. I know you've been putting in the hours. Combining some of the above, I agree on a couple small items:

1. Remove property damage stats (fun but senseless for comp)
2. Spawn all classes with binoculars
3. Remove the drop binocular feature

All else looks good. I'm tempted to offer making mines shootable as an option. Is there a specific "health" setting, which would require a mine to take X points of damage before being busted by shots? I'd say make it high so at least a whole MP40/Thompson magazine needs to be used to destroy a mine.

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TWL|NiteSwine
TeamWarfare Competition Staff
Email: niteswine@teamwarfare.com
IRC: #teamwarfare, #twl_rtcw

You guys are correct. Settings have been edited.

You guys obviously fear my binoc collecting skillz.

OK, so for the shrub ladder we use this config and just change the lives to limited and turn panzers off, right?

Originally posted by: Ulua
OK, so for the shrub ladder we use this config and just change the lives to limited and turn panzers off, right?

Ulua, the shrub ladder uses a different configuration. You can download it here:

http://www.teamwarfare.com/files/dl/rtcw/TWL-LL-Shrub.cfg

That configuration disables panzers and has limited lives. The above configuration is for the shrub league config.

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TWL|NiteSwine
TeamWarfare Competition Staff
Email: niteswine@teamwarfare.com
IRC: #teamwarfare, #twl_rtcw

I humbly request that TWL just update the ladder config to be identical to the league config except for the lives and panzers.

It would be quite a bit easier to keep all of this straight. Things like g_helmetDamage 5 on the ladder and g_helmetDamage 20 in the league just add to the probability that the game servers will have the wrong settings come match time.

Its not *that* hard to make executable configs, and we have done so...but its not *that* hard to just keep it all simple.

Thanks

http://www.teamwarfare.com/rules.asp?set=Return+to+Castle+Wolfenstein+%2D+Shrub

This one, which you get by clicking 'rules' at the bottom of the ladder says the first head shot does 20.

I believe that file Ulua is for one life to live. I have uploaded the current shrub ladder .cfg to the download section. There are other differences that many shrub players would like to keep the same and we are going to do so. The helmet damage is set to 20 but like i said there are other settings that we will leave alone. This ladder has done well the way it is and unless something drastic comes up i will leave alone and carry on.

Good catch Mortal, last season's config started out limited venoms + mausers but was changed to only limit the panzer to 1.

Fixed. I told you i wasnt perfect

No girl is perfect.

Btw, dont make maps we ALREADY played in the season to be maps in the playoffs, it will get boring fast playing the same 6 maps all season.

replace beach with village and thats a good map list for this season

Yes, WolfTV should be working soon. I have Fonfon working on it. He is working on an update to OSP WTV and promised me that he would look into why it wont work with shrub and will try to get it working. I'll keep you all updated.

Village will be in the playoffs so i will not put it in the regular season.

Great to see the RTCW Shrub competition still going and gaining strength! Hope everyone is doing well.

Fragman - nice to see ya - now come give me a hand. you know ya want to.

pb_sv_cvar r_texturebits in 24 32
pb_sv_cvar r_depthbits in 24 32

Is there any specific reason for this. 32 is just 24 + an alpha channel, so there's not much difference. But why is 16 no longer allowed?

I've two issues with this. First, some slightly older cards don't like 24 bits. And it forces them to play at a lower resolution. Sure any card which can do HL2 can probably pull 1024x768 in 24 bit.

Second, it's unconfortable for me to play at 24. As partially visually impaired, in RTCW I have to run at over a hundered fps in 24 bit not to get a headache. (I get severe migranes instantly looking at a monitor at 60 hz, cause I can see the waves.) Even tweaking the heck out of things, 24 seems harsh and unplayable after a few minutes unless I really crank the frame rate. (and then it's still visibly harsh)

At 16 bit, and >85 hz, there's no issue.

So, why the switch from last season to 24 bit? At this point, I either buy a new monitor, or don't play.

(I've invested a lot into a Sony trinitron and don't have the $500 to spend on a good lcd. The cheap ones make me physically sick. )

I've heard that there are spots on maps where you can see through the walls with 16 bits.

fshalor, you bring up a VERY good point. Thank you for posting. I'm going to get with the rest of the admins from the leagues and bring this up. If you're available sometime this weekend, I'd appreciate it.

Originally posted by: Seadawg^
Fragman - nice to see ya - now come give me a hand. you know ya want to.

hey Sea...looks like your doing a damn good job, keep it up You still with DSB?

of course, he has DSB tattooed on his shoulder right along navy seal tattoo.

Yes Frag im still with DSB. To many good friends to ever think about playing for anyone else.

Pred thats An Eagle Globe and Anchor tattooed beside my DSB one.

I got a Hawaiian chic on my belly and she dances when I eat spiced meats.

Thanks for the binocs and prop damage changes.

Also thanks for the NOT making the config the same as the shrubll config. These are two different things entirley and adds to the number of competitive DIFFERENT shrub venues.

Ulua is a lazy admin and should be made fun of cause he can't exec a 2nd config that only takes a minute to paste into pico and renamed. Same version of shrub so this means Ulua that all you need is a simple /rcon exec shrubleague.cfg and wallah... I dont understand your request anyways since you would have to exec another config no matter what. I think there is a reason he didn't mention for this but whatever. Thanks for not changing it.

Another thing I wanted to address was the debacle over why Hotnicks had us playing cross divisional so early in the league. This upset alot of people and with the history in the forums I'm sure you can bring yourself up to speed.

Some people felt like it was Hotniks pitting the good teams vs each other and the bad teams vs each other. This seems wrong to me and removes any upsets and takes away the 'unknown' factor in the game.

Can you, Seadawg, explain how the matches are goign to be picked or handled... will it be the same as last season?... blah blah blah.

thanks fo' the hardwork and dedication to making this a reality.

My dad was in the Navy and he sucks. <---FYI 8 )
Post edited by high-1- at 3/16/2005 5:53:01 PM

Originally posted by: fshalor
pb_sv_cvar r_texturebits in 24 32
pb_sv_cvar r_depthbits in 24 32

Is there any specific reason for this. 32 is just 24 + an alpha channel, so there's not much difference. But why is 16 no longer allowed?

I've two issues with this. First, some slightly older cards don't like 24 bits. And it forces them to play at a lower resolution. Sure any card which can do HL2 can probably pull 1024x768 in 24 bit.

Second, it's unconfortable for me to play at 24. As partially visually impaired, in RTCW I have to run at over a hundered fps in 24 bit not to get a headache. (I get severe migranes instantly looking at a monitor at 60 hz, cause I can see the waves.) Even tweaking the heck out of things, 24 seems harsh and unplayable after a few minutes unless I really crank the frame rate. (and then it's still visibly harsh)

At 16 bit, and >85 hz, there's no issue.

So, why the switch from last season to 24 bit? At this point, I either buy a new monitor, or don't play.

(I've invested a lot into a Sony trinitron and don't have the $500 to spend on a good lcd. The cheap ones make me physically sick. )

I thought the reason was clipping.

Depending on how your config is setup you can see people clip through walls and this was deemed unfair first by the CAL people and TWL adopted this change. It's like Habit if your an OSP player now to change your depth and textures to 24...

Sorry about your headaches. That sucks.

Anyways... either way I have no preference.
Post edited by high-1- at 3/16/2005 5:56:20 PM

Originally posted by: high-1-
blah, blah, blah

Ulua is a lazy admin and should be made fun of cause he can't exec a 2nd config that only takes a minute to paste into pico and renamed. Same version of shrub so this means Ulua that all you need is a simple /rcon exec shrubleague.cfg and wallah... I dont understand your request anyways since you would have to exec another config no matter what. I think there is a reason he didn't mention for this but whatever. Thanks for not changing it.

blah, blah, blah

Not really sure why you feel the need for a personal attack here but thanks for the laugh!

I'm not an admin, just wanted to keep it simple, stupid!

lol



I was kiding around...


I didn't mean to hurt your feelings... hehe
Post edited by high-1- at 3/16/2005 6:37:15 PM

Suggestion to admins.

make the playoff maps noone hardly plays, would be intresting,

infamy,snowfun, or whatever floats your boat.

Whens the season start?

Originally posted by: fshalor
pb_sv_cvar r_texturebits in 24 32
pb_sv_cvar r_depthbits in 24 32

Is there any specific reason for this. 32 is just 24 + an alpha channel, so there's not much difference. But why is 16 no longer allowed?

I've two issues with this. First, some slightly older cards don't like 24 bits. And it forces them to play at a lower resolution. Sure any card which can do HL2 can probably pull 1024x768 in 24 bit.

Second, it's unconfortable for me to play at 24. As partially visually impaired, in RTCW I have to run at over a hundered fps in 24 bit not to get a headache. (I get severe migranes instantly looking at a monitor at 60 hz, cause I can see the waves.) Even tweaking the heck out of things, 24 seems harsh and unplayable after a few minutes unless I really crank the frame rate. (and then it's still visibly harsh)

At 16 bit, and >85 hz, there's no issue.

So, why the switch from last season to 24 bit? At this point, I either buy a new monitor, or don't play.

(I've invested a lot into a Sony trinitron and don't have the $500 to spend on a good lcd. The cheap ones make me physically sick. )

2 reasons for the change:
a) to acheive what the Admin said he wanted to do, keep the pb cvars in line with the other league config

b) clipping occurs otherwise (hence why the other league config was changed as well).

We've heard the same complaints every time a cvar has been changed in the config, there is no one who plays on a worse system from top to bottom then me and I've made it work, so can you. I'd rather stop people from seeing thru walls then worry about your refresh rate.

I'm at least halfway there. Using anistropic filtering I can get to a comfortable level at 24 bits. But not sure for how long. Should be okay for matches now though.

Without AF, I had a 1000 mg asprin rated headache in about 5 minutes of wolfplay at best.

So I guess I'm not out, just redshirted.

Best,

(And thanks to V1x3n for the concern...)
=4H= FshaloR

I'd like to take a look at your config, something is driving down your rate, there should not be that noticeable of a difference with these new settings.

Msg me in irc if you're interested-

It's not a rate issue... Just an issue with me. I have a dead nerve in my right eye. Since I use my left eye to focus both and track both, it causes some wierd sight issues.

Example; I can't shoot a real gun using my right eye for sighting, I can't maintain the sight picture. I have to use my left eye and switch grips to a modified left handed for rifle and uncentered for pistol.

A consequence of the issue: if I see a monitor at 60 hz, it freaks me out (I mean like bad. I've passed out walking into a room and looking at a large vintage 1995 23" crt with a white screen at 60hz) . Anything under 72 is unconfortable.

Something about how wolf shows the 24 bit color information messes me up. Adding in the extra alpha channel to 32 doesn't make a diference. Adding in AF helps a lot. It's not an issue with the amount of colors (other game engines don't give me a problem at 24, just q3), but something with the way it syncs the frames wich gets me.

Using an nv 6600GT, one of the latest stable nvidia kernel modules, AF on , at 1024x768 (cause can't keep framerates at 1280x1024) and setting maxfps to 111 has helped quite a bit. It's beareable and still fun.

My picmips and intensity are set to minimize the amount of crap on the screen too, (thanks to twl admins for making those settings managable! )

My configs, before the card switch and 24 bit change + AF are here: (those and the last renderer where all that changed.)

http://www.fshalor.net/4hclan/Configs/Fshalor/fsh-cal.cfg

im fairly sure that if we get wolftv for shrub we will see about 3-4 more osp teams join this league