When I try to start hlds.exe on its own, it gives me an error saying that:


To remedy this I attempted to replace hlds.exe with

Where %c are the command line arguments, however that seems to fail as well and just ends up opening many instances of the hlds.exe launcher for steam.

/stuck

Spent some more time on this, found some excellent resources over at the valve developer community, however its still not working.

I'm pretty sure I am doing something wrong. I thought you were supposed to be able to launch HLDS in -console mode though...

Until tomorrow!

Yer using the REAL HLDS.exe - with like a DOS console window - and not that crap steam-skinned GUI HLDS they supply, yes? This a winderz or linux server? (NS seems to like Winderz better.)

Easy way (windows):
Download:
http://www.thothie.com/ms/hldsupdatetool.zip

make a folder called c:\hlds
drop contents of above zip archive into said.

Press Windows+R, and paste this code into the Open blank:


This will download the uncompressed version of Half-Life you need to host a true dedicated server, and make sure you have every file you need. (Takes a bit)

Then drop your NS server folder in there. Folder structure should look something like:

Except, where you see "MSC" you'll see "NS".

And in that case, to use the batch file I posted on the previous page, you'd want to dump it into the c:\hlds folder as well.
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Ah I see, so you have to use the hlds update tool in order to host a true not-through-steam dedicated server.

I'll get to it.

[EDIT]
Thats very convenient, it just dropped all the dedicated server files right into that directory.



To answer your questions:

Its on Windows Server 2003
And no, I was using steam-skinned shitty-ness ;__;

[EDIT EDIT]
Everything is up and seems to be running alright, with the exception of a map rotation.

screens & ty tothie.

Hard at work, I see.

I was testing the plugin.

Honestly.

can you adjust the strength?

Anything to get OA off the server.
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Thoth wins

What do you mean?

mp_team1damagepercent & mp_team2damagepercent ?

That's where you are mistaken. With out own server, we can get more followers. And think about when the server is full, those extra OAs have to go somewhere.


And Wormbo, I believe he is talking about the /stuck strength.

yeah

you could make a bind that changed mp_team2damagepercent to 10 % every time you were about to get bit, and just claim that they missed half their bites.

roflroflroflrofl.

There won't be any admin abuse in our server thanks.

Thats funny i was a victim of it when i was there....