OpenFFA Manual

About

OpenFFA is a simple free-for-all deathmatch mod for Quake 2, an open source replacement for ‘RegularDM’ mode of OSP Tourney. Currently in development, it features familiar scoreboard and HUD, voting system, configurable map rotation support, high scores logging, ‘proper’ in-eyes chasecam support. Besides that, OpenFFA fixes many gameplay bugs and annoyances original Quake 2 game library has.

Client commands

OpenFFA supports a number of custom client commands, some of them are reproduced below.

menu	Show OpenFFA menu
join	Enter the game
observe	Leave the game
chase	Enter chasecam mode
settings	Show match settings
oldscore	Show previous scoreboard
vote	Propose new settings
stats	Show accuracy stats
players	Show players on server
highscores	Show the best results on map
id	Toggle player ID display
commands	Show custom client commands list

Admin commands

Administrators are granted access to a number of privileged client commands.

admin [password]

Toggle administrator status.

mute <player>

Disallow player to talk during the match.

unmute <player>

Allow player to talk during the match.

muteall

Globally disable chat during the match.

unmuteall

Globally enable chat during the match.

ban <ip-mask> [duration] [action]

Add IP address specified by ip-mask into the ban list. Optional duration parameter specifies how long this address should stay in the list. Default duration is 1 hour. Maximum duration is 12 hours. Default units for specifying duration are minutes. Add ‘h’ or ‘H’ suffix to specify hours. Add ‘d’ or ‘D’ suffix to specify days. Optional action parameter specifies ban type. It can be ban (prevent player from connecting) or mute (allow player to connect and enter the game, but disallow chat during the match). Default action is ban.

unban <ip-mask>

Remove IP address specified by ip-mask from the ban list. Permanent bans added by server operator can’t be removed.

bans

Show the current ban list.

kick <player>

Kick player from the server.

kickban

Kick player from the server and ban his IP address for 1 hour.

acommands

Show administrator commands list.

Server configuration

Custom OpenFFA cvars are described below.

g_idle_time

Time, in seconds, after which inactive players are removed from the game. Default value is 0 (don’t remove inactive players). Inactive players with ‘stuck’ buttons are removed faster.

g_idle_kick

Specifies whether inactive players are kicked or put into spectator mode. Default value is 0.

• 0 - put inactive players into spectator mode

• 1 - kick inactive players with ‘stuck’ buttons

• 2 - kick inactive players

g_maps_random

Specifies whether map list is traversed in random on sequental order. Default value is 2.

• 0 - sequental order

• 1 - random order

• 2 - random order, never allows the same map to be picked twice in a row

g_maps_file

Specifies name of the file to load map list from. Should not include any extenstion part or slashes. Default value is empty (no map list).

Map list format

Map list is loaded at server startup from ‘mapcfg/${g_maps_file}.txt’. Each line of the map list file should have the following format:

<mapname> [min_players] [max_players] [flags]

Minimum and maximum player counts are optional, as well as flags. Flags can be either 1 or 2, which makes the map entry not automatically selectable and not votable, respectively.

g_defaults_file

If this variable is not empty and there are some settings modified by voting, server will execute the specified config file after 5 minutes pass without any active players. Config file should reset all votable variables to their default values. Default value is empty.

g_skins_file

Specifies name of the file to load skin list from. Should not include any extenstion part or slashes. If skin list is specified, players may only use skins defined in the list. Default value is empty (no skin list).

Skin list format

Skin list is loaded at server startup from ‘${g_skins_file}.txt’. Each line of the skin list file should specify either a model name, or a skin name. It should begin with a model (directory) name, optionally followed by skin names allowed for that model. Model names are distinguished from skin names by the presence of trailing slash, e.g. ‘male/’ and ‘female/’ are models, ‘grunt’ and ‘athena’ are skins.

There may be several model names defined in the file. If there are no skins defined for the model, then any skin can be used for that model. When player skins are validated, if there is no matching skin found, then the last one defined for the matching model is used. Likewise, if there is no matching model found, then the last one defined in the file is used.

It is highly recommended that a skin list is set up to prevent players from specifying random skins, causing unwanted skin download attempts.

g_motd_file

Specifies name of the file to load MOTD from. Should not include any extenstion part or slashes. Default value is empty (no MOTD set).

g_bugs

Specifies whether some known Quake 2 gameplay bugs are enabled or not. Default value is 0.

• 0 - all bugs are fixed

• 1 - ‘serious’ bugs are fixed

• 2 - original Quake 2 behaviour

g_teleporter_nofreeze

Enables ‘no freeze’ (aka ‘Q3’) teleporter behaviour. Default value is 0 (disabled).

g_spawn_mode

Specifies deathmatch spawn point selection mode. Default value is 1.

• 0 - select random spawn point, avoiding two closest (bugged version)

• 1 - select random spawn point, avoiding two closest (fixed version)

• 2 - select random spawn point

g_item_ban

Allows one to remove certain items from the map. This variable is a bitmask. Default value is 0.

• 1 - quad damage

• 2 - invulnerability

• 4 - BFG10K

• 8 - power armor (screen and shield items)

g_vote_mask

Specifies what proposals are available for voting. This variable is a bitmask. Default value is 0.

• 1 - change time limit

• 2 - change frag limit

• 4 - change item bans

• 8 - kick a player

• 16 - mute a player

• 32 - change current map

• 64 - toggle weapon stay

• 128 - toggle respawn protection (between 0 and 1.5 sec)

• 256 - change teleporter mode

g_vote_time

Time, in seconds, after which undecided vote times out. Default value is 60.

g_vote_treshold

Vote passes or fails when percentage of players who voted either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ becomes greater than this value. Default value is 50.

g_vote_limit

Maximum number of votes each player can initiate. Default value is 3. 0 disables this limit.

g_vote_flags

Specifies misc voting parameters. This variable is a bitmask. Default value is 11.

• 1 - each player’s decision is globally announced as they vote

• 2 - current vote status is visible in the left corner of the screen

• 4 - spectators are also allowed to vote

• 8 - players are allowed to change their votes

g_intermission_time

Time, in seconds, for the final scoreboard and high scores to be visible before automatically changing to the next map. Default value is 10.

g_admin_password

If not empty, clients can execute ‘admin <password>’ command to become server admins. Right now this gives them a decider voice in votes, ability to see IP addresses in the output of ‘playerlist’ command and grants access to a number of privileged commands (listed in ‘acommands’ command output). Default value is empty (admin feature disabled).

g_team_chat

Specifies if ‘say_team’ messages from players are visible to others. This setting does not affect ‘say_team’ messages from spectators. Default value is 0.

• 0 - visible only to players themselves

• 1 - visible to every player in game

g_mute_chat

Allows one to globally disallow chat during the match (chat is still allowed during the intermission). Default value is 0.

• 0 - chat is enabled for everyone

• 1 - player chat is disabled, spectators are forced to use ‘say_team’

• 2 - chat is disabled for everyone

g_protection_time

Time, in seconds, for newly respawned players to be invincible. Default value is 0 (don’t make players invincible after respawning).

flood_msgs

Number of the last chat message considered by flood protection algorithm. Default value is 4. Specify 0 to disable chat flood protection.

flood_persecond

Minimum time, in seconds, that has to pass since the last chat message before flood protection is triggered. Default value is 4.

flood_waitdelay

Time, in seconds, for player chat to be disabled once flood protection is triggered. Default value is 10.

flood_waves

Number of the last wave command considered by flood protection algorithm. Default value is 4. Specify 0 to disable wave flood protection.

flood_perwave

Minimum time, in seconds, that has to pass since the last wave command before flood protection is triggered. Default value is 30.

flood_wavedelay

Time, in seconds, for wave commands to be disabled once flood protection is triggered. Default value is 60.

flood_infos

Number of the last name or skin change considered by flood protection algorithm. Default value is 4. Specify 0 to disable userinfo flood protection.

flood_perinfo

Minimum time, in seconds, that has to pass since the last name or skin change before flood protection is triggered. Default value is 30.

flood_infodelay

Time, in seconds, for name or skin changes to be disabled once flood protection is triggered. Default value is 60.