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How to prevent demo server from choosing random map?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:24 am
by Skull Kid
In the maplist.con, I wrote this:
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game.addLevel kursk GPM_COOP bf1942
game.addLevel berlin GPM_COOP bf1942
game.addLevel iwo_jima GPM_COOP bf1942
game.setCurrentLevel kharkov GPM_COOP bf1942
But STILL, I can NOT force my server to start Kharkov always, not just a random of these four
Does anyone know how to solve this?
Re: How to prevent demo server from choosing random map?
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:40 pm
by Apache Thunder
I noticed that Kharkov isn't among the "addLevel" entries. You may need to add the entry for the current level command to set the map correctly.
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game.addLevel kharkov GPM_COOP bf1942
Also even the retail game is hard-coded to always advance to the next map after the server closes. So if you had one round on Kharkov and exited the server, the current level command gets updated to load the next map. I don't even think the server needs to exit for this to happen. It updates the file the moment the server starts.
You might be able to set the file attribute for the maplist.con file to read-only to try and prevent this, but I haven't tried this myself so I can't say for sure if that would work.
Re: How to prevent demo server from choosing random map?
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:30 am
by Swaffy
Can he make a batch file that changes the current map then starts up the game server?
Re: How to prevent demo server from choosing random map?
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:52 pm
by freddy
Swaffy wrote:Can he make a batch file that changes the current map then starts up the game server?
yes that should be one solution, i dont remember the exact syntax to use but i think it is posted somewhere on this forum
edit: for windows, but should work for linux start scripts to, look at the +map part
"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe" +game DesertCombat +map BFE_TestingMap +restart 1 +hostServer 1
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