PainKiller

Welcome to the forums! Nice to see another young brit such as myself (27, from the south east). Hopefully you can stick around

You'll need to patch the game. Steam released a patch which ended up stopping a lot of servers from showing. You can find the patch here: All you need to do is drop it in the main CoD4 directory where the exe is and overright the original one with this one. This will revert it to the older version. Also see if you cna turn off automatic steam updates for this game.

Damn, Lead getting old. I'll have to give him a bash on Saturday!

He wasn't just a fellow CoD2 admin, he was much more than that. He was the embodiment of >XI<, always a great laugh and it was always my mission to smack him upside the head. But most importantly he was a friend and one of the family. I woke up this morning for work with a message from Loader on facebook telling me the news. It's just all so surreal. Your name will forever be a part of this family bart and when it's my turn, I got all eternity to smack you when I find you rest well brother, you really have earned it. My thoughts to his wife and family in this difficult time.

They don't bother you because you blow them up with the nade launcher before they even get the chance to lift their feet off the ground

It really comes down to someones play style. You say that a lot of people are bunny hopping and it ruins the fun. The same can be said for sitting in the corner with an LMG and spamming the ever loving crap out of walls. That is your playstyle. Some like to run around like lunatics and jump around with rockets up their ass; that's their playstyle. Yes different playstyles are annoying, some more than others, but there's no rule against it. That is just how they play the game. Just because it's different doesn't mean its wrong. We had a similar thread up some time ago if I remember correctly riddled with complaints about LMG's and wall-spammers. They're still in the game and those people still play. You just gotta live with it. If it does get too much then of course, there is the no-bunny hopping server. Just get a sohtgun to their face, can't miss from that range

BOING!

So much chicken!

Happy to help! Loader and I deal with map testing for rotations and mod compatibility on CoD2 so I am more than happy to lend a hand over on the CoD4 side. I can do any afternoon (I'm at GMT timezone) and most evenings (just not monday and thursday due to prior engagements).

Prove them all wrong Bart and get through this, I still haven't got a bash on you in a while. You're not gonna leave me without bashing you, eh? Hang in there mate. I don't know what to say really, this all feels so surreal. We'll honor him and make our CoD2 servers the best place they can be, a place full of complete idiots!!

Christ, that's the last thing Bart needs. Thanks for the update teddy, please keep is in the loop. Loader will likely let me know ASAP if something happens to Bart. Keeping them in my thoughts. (I am not the prayer type).

R.I.P buddy, you take a well deserved rest

Just gonna step in a bit before this gets out of hand but the saying goes "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." Instead of chatting shit, throwing insults and causing drama (which we all love) on the forums I suggest taking it to PM's. If you are that concerned about what the admins are or are not doing or you are unhappy about something then please, message the games respective admins or perhaps senior admins not come in here and make a shitstorm because you can. It sucks that the community has devolved into shit throwing just because someone isn't happy and everyone jumps on the bandwagon. This brings out the worse in people and there are plenty of ways to go about saying things. Don't forget, everyone who has access to these forums can read what you have said and you're cultivating a toxic and negative environment by doing what you are doing. if you are getting stressed at the game or at the players then take a step back and find something else for a while and come back when you're thinking better.

Thank you all for the birthday messages! I had a great day

It just really sucks when the whole server empties from one person. So I can understand the frustration. If someone is too good for the server and they are interuppting the fun of everyone else, the plug needs to be pulled on them and remove them because it's just no fun for everyone when the fun gets ruined.

There's a lot that goes on behind closed doors, Rob. There are things happening that even us normal admins know of or even head admins. We work tirelessly to make the servers what they are and there's a large team in place for each game for that reason. Just because something isn't acted upon immediately doesn't mean that it's not being worked on. I recently just a bunch of Quality of Life fixes to the CoD2 TDM server that have been on the backburner for a long time, and all I got was good feedback from it (after months of some players bitching). I am certain you have seen countless ban appeals on the forums and a lot of them refused and the ones that are successful really comes down to the discretion of the banning admin. This isn't aimed at you but the community as a whole: -------------------------------------------- Just because the player is good does not make them a hacker or a cheater. One thing that annoys me in the MW2 FT server is the constant accusations, the crying and the bitching players make against their own clanmates and regulars. I get it, someone is better than me (like most people ) but I am not doing myself or anyone else favours for accusing others without prior evidence given to an admin. If you suspect something, gather as much SOLID evidence that you can and come forward to an admin. There are cases an admin may not be online and sometimes there will be times where a member will have to record such players for us and come let us know and we will look into it. We cannot go by word of mouth alone. We need evidence to make an informed decision. I agree with @Ruggerxi Seeing negative things about the servers and the games does affect the mood of the whole place. I would like to see some people come up and say "hey, thanks for all the hardwork and the servers, I really like [this] and [this]." Positive feedback can go a long way. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as an admin because I enjoy hearing the positive feedback I get from my fellow admins and the players on the servers. These servers are yours as much as anyone elses and it does dishearten me when all I see is the >XI< name smeared on its own forums. A lot of people like to hop on the bandwagon and are very quick to make assumptions and post but as a tip, give yourself some time to think about the posts before you make them. We come into these servers to have fun and get away from everything.

You're welcome! Happy to help you out! We're in TDM during the weekends at about 2pm GMT for a few hours and in DM during the week late at night. Hopefully see you there!

Thank you hexe See you and bakke on saturday to shoot you :

You cannot find the servers because you are running the wrong version of the game. You will need Version 1.3 which you can download here: Use XP compatability mode with both the single player and multiplayer exe and both should work. As for finding the servers, do you have HLSW installed? If not, you can download it here: http://www.hlsw.org/hlsw/download/ You don't have to register, you can use offline mode in the application. Once you have opened the program you will see a long address bar at the top. Put these in there one by one and HLSW will add them for you as CoD2 servers: 74.91.123.194:28960 74.91.123.221:28960 The top one is TDM and the bottom one is DM. When you join you will probably be known as Unknown Soldier, just change your name the downloads do take a while and if they fail, just reconnect and try again, you can get them; just might take a few times.

Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully the changes go well and if needs be, I can alter them quickly if necessary. If there was a way to give rage quitters an hour cool down I would but so far that's not possible. Would be funny though

Even better if you have an AMD card and have the Radeon Adrenaline software (which you will need anyways for an AMD card). This allows for video capture with a multitude of tweakable settings for the user if you don't want to use microsofts built in system. I use it often and its never let me down.

Thank you sir! Thanks Window, I appreciate the feedback and the kind words. I'm getting the hang of this They will always bitch but it'll keep them quiet for a while. I am a young lad yes, 27 in a week and a half lol

Good Evening everyone! This is just a real quick update on the CoD2 >XI< TDM Server. I have implemented some changes that have been long in the backburner. These updates include: Increased spawn timer to 8 seconds (was 5) Increased spawn protect distance to 200 feet (was 50) You now drop weapons on death so people cannot accidentally pick up someones weapon on a sniper map Slight rotation changes Unknown Soldiers are now automatically renamed to Guest_Idiot# (the # denoting what number they will be) I know these aren't big updates but they are some nice quality of life updates for us all to enjoy.

Rotation has now been done and ready to go. There may be errors with IWD's but unfortunately some of that cannot be helped. We don't know what the client has on their system when they connect so it may give them issues. Loader and I will be looking at the spawn timers today and I will also bring up about the picking up weapons. I am not sure if that can be controlled server side or not. I can look at disabling all but one sniper but that means changing the whole weapon loadout system on the whole server which is something I do not want to do. I want to make minimal changes to the weapons we use due to feedback regarding the last time I enabled certain weapon loadouts. Rest assured, we'll get something going right.

I'll take a look through it when I get the chance to and I am sure @loaderXI can also help you out. He has a large repository of the maps as well