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Creating a Server "How-To" 10/02/09 14:49 From reading the forums and listening to feedback, it seems that some people don’t know how to create a server. So, to help you out and make sure that there are always a few servers running we wrote a handy guide. The first thing you’ll need to do after logging in is to go to the Multiplayer screen which looks like the picture above. You’ll notice that we’ve put a big red box around the ‘Create’ tab to help you find it. Click that tab. Now you’ll see the server creation screen. During the beta anyone can create a server, after release though this will probably be limited to premium accounts. The options you have here are pretty straightforward but we’ll go through them anyway: Creation Screen
Once you’ve picked the settings you want hit the ‘Create’ button in the bottom right corner and you’ll go to the lobby for your new server. As soon as you hit ‘Create’ your server will appear in the list on the multiplayer screen with the options you chose. Now other people can connect to your server too. The lobby screen looks like this. Room Screen As you can see you have a whole lot more options here and, as the person who created the server you can change all of them. Probably the most important is the game mode; you can switch between Team Deathmatch or Reinforcement modes. This choice will also show up in the multiplayer list with your server details. You can choose the map you’ll be fighting over too. Remember that you can change it by vote during a game as well. You have four options at present – Alleys, Greenwich Village, Rooftop and Pier. Pick your favourite. The other options depend on your chosen game mode. For Team Deathmatch you can choose the Match Time which is the length of the match in minutes, the Points Limit which is the number of kills a team needs to win and the Respawn Time which is the length of time in seconds between respawn waves. The winning team in this mode is the one that either reaches the point limit first or that has the most points when the round ends so if you want a very long match you’ll need to increase both the points limit and the match time. For Reinforcement you can choose the number of rounds your match will last and the length of time in minutes that each round will take. You can have matches of up to 30 rounds (which will be a very long game) and round times of up to 10 minutes. Remember that a round ends when all the players on one side are dead so you’ll not usually take the full amount of time each round. Finally you can select whether you want friendly fire to be on or off in both game modes by checking or unchecking the Friendly Fire box. If there’s an ‘x’ in the box then friendly fire is on, no ‘x’ means no friendly fire. Although this is now your server and you have control over all the options, you’ll need to take into account the wishes of everyone else in your game too. There’s no point choosing options that no-one else but you wants to play. Hopefully this guide has been helpful and we’ll see a lot more servers to choose from! | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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