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Originally Posted by RDiver
I've read your tutorial at Gitlab thoroughly, but I still don't clarify the difference between "abm_minplayer" , " abm_extraplayer" and "abm_teamlimit" .
btw, how do I set these three cvars as well as L4Dtoolz for the following server setup?
- Totally 10 player slots in server
- Max. 8 players in survivor team (i.e 2 spectator slots are available)
- Min. 5 survivor bots all times
- 3 additional survivor bots allowed for pruning (i.e. spawn or remove additional bots for the sixth player onwards.
How would be the case for competitive modes (e.g. versus)?
For example, paired with L4Dtoolz & Left 4 Downtown 2
- Total 18 player slots in server
- Max. 8 players in survivor team
- Min. 6 surivivor bots in survivor team (the remaining 2 would be additional bots)
- Max. 7 players in infected team ("unlocked" w/o additional bots available, right?)
- The remaining 3 player slots are for spectators only.
Please explain so that I fully make use of this remarkable mod in my server.
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If you have 1.92 (which was at the main post until this very moment), get it again, it should be 1.94. Version 1.94 fixes quite a few things and it especially fixes versus. For the most part, Crasher_3637 got it right but I'll recap as there are a few things that have changed but have not been updated in the readme (following the readme still works but some of it is being phased out).
You can't choose 10 or 18 slots. Its either 10 or it's 18. We'll go with setting up 18 in L4DToolZ in this example
PHP Code:
sv_maxplayers 18
sv_visiblemaxplayers 18
sv_force_unreserved 1
If you want only 8 human team mates active on a team at any given time and everyone else to spectate thereafter, do
PHP Code:
abm_teamlimit 8
If you have 18 slots and abm_teamlimit is set to 8, after 8 spots are filled on all teams, additional players are put onto spectators. So if you're playing campaign, you'll get 8 survivors, 10 spectators. If you're playing versus you'll get 8 survivors, 8 infected and 2 spectators.
If you want to always start off with X bots, do
PHP Code:
abm_minplayers X
What ever you set this too, you'll start every round with X survivors. Additional survivors are created on demand thereafter until either abm_teamlimit or max slots are reached. You cannot currently choose an X amount for team survivor and Y amount for team infected. These numbers have to match, 4 vs 4 or 10 vs 10. ABM does not unlock SI in competitive modes, you'll need either Left 4 Downtown or VScript Director Options Unlocker.
See the explanation.
Here's a historical note. abm_extraplayers can be used to help add additional bots but it's no longer needed. It's still available but it's unnecessary. At one point, it was used to track extra players created with e.g, abm-mk. Even though it's still around and works, it will be removed at some point and using abm_minplayers directly is fine.
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