Let me see:

1. Post body full of broken emojis
2. Swearing in a ban appeal
3. Having multiple accounts
4. Trying to circumvent the anticheat with said accounts
5. Getting caught cheating and trying to blame the anticheat

You count them.

INTRODUCTION
This guide will teach you how to play with friends over the internet in a custom games match. Note this guide requires you to know how to port forward, which is very out of the scope of this guide.

GUIDE

1. The host of the game needs to forward 4976 UDP in order for others to connect.
   You can double check the port with the Successfully bound socket to localhost:xxxx! message where xxxx is the port you need to forward.

2. Go to continue to main menu from the Plutonium menu

3. Go to custom games, pick your map and start the game, you must be in game for your friends to connect, it will not work from the lobby!
   Also if you experience the message "waiting for more players" you can use the following command to force start the match: xpartygo

4. Friends join by opening the console, they MUST BE on the Pluto main menu and wait until "Downloading Playlists..." is gone, then they can type the following, replacing YourIP with your public ip. connect YourIP:4976
   If you don't know your public IP any website like whatsmyip.org will work.

If you and some / all of your friends are on the same LAN they connect through the internal IP, if all players are on the same LAN portforwarding is not necessary.
If you really can't portforward use rAdmin VPN as Hamachi won't work in most of the cases. We are however not responsible for any damages caused by you trusting randoms in your VPN and it is a last ditch attempt to play with your friends.

This post is also available over at awog.at.

We are a PC client and not a console replacement project. The only way to get not raped with a controller against Mouse and Keyboard is to have a really unfair aimbot. You will get used to Mouse and Keyboard super easy and fast if you just want to and play a couple of matches and figure out sensitivity settings that work for you.

Requirements:
A PC to host the server.
An Internet connection (where you can portforward if you are behind a NAT).
T6 on said server. (You don't need the video & sound folders, the .ipak files nor the SP level files, this can save you a LOT of disk space.)
Notepad++
A brain.

1 Basic installation

1.1 Downloading and installing Plutonium:

• Download PlutoniumT6 from here.
• Extract it into your T6 folder.
  • If you can enable transparent compression on the ./t6r/ folder as it will contain your logs.

1.2 Deleting unneeded files (Optional)

This is ONLY for people that only want to host a server from their T6 install and not to play with it. This guide only shows how to delete files that are not needed by mp or zm. If you wish to save more space by not hosting mp or zm you can delete all left over files with mp or zm in their name.

As you can see we are starting with the worst case: MP, SP and ZM with PlutoT6 and multiple languages through Steam installed.

We don't need the main, players, sound or video folders. We only need binkw32.dll, localization_mp.txt, localization_zm.txt, t6rmp.exe and t6rzm.exe

Next we clean up the t6r/data folder, delete everything but the dw folder in it.

Now we take care of the zone folder, as you can see we have 3 languages installed.
We are going to delete all but the English one, keep the all folder as all languages require it.

Now navigate to the all folder inside zone. There are plenty of large files that we don't need. All .ipak files and all sp files can be deleted safely. Only files with mp and zm should be left in this folder.

Now to the english folder inside zone. Here we do the same thing as in the last folder.

1.3 Enabling transparent compression

This step is useful if you choose to enable game logs as it will save up to a GB per server.

• Open the properties of your ./t6r/data folder
• Click on Advanced...
• Check the Compress contents to save disk space box
• Press OK
• Press Apply
• Choose Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files
• Press OK

2. Basic configuration and the first start

• Download the dedicated server cfg (MP/ZM) and save it to ./t6r/data/

• Open the cfg in Notepad++.
• Edit the file to your likings.
• Download the bat files from GitHub.
  • Optionally open them with Notepad++ and change the 3 variables on the top.

• Double click the bat file.
• Wait for the server to finish loading.

3. (Optional) Advanced configuration

Every instruction in this section needs additional config files please grab them from here.

3.1 Custom settings (MP only)

• Open the CFG of the game mode you want to edit (eg tdm.cfg) in the ./t6r/data/gamesettings folder.
• Uncomment and edit the values of the settings you want to change.
• Save the file.
• Put exec <game type here>.cfg in front of the first map token in the map rotation.
  For example sv_maprotation "exec tdm.cfg map mp_la map mp_dockside map mp_carrier"

3.2 Enabling the hard core mode (MP only)

• Either copy or open the game mode specific .cfg file for the game mode you wish to play with hard core settings.
• Open tdm.cfg and copy the hard core settings of it to the file from the first step.
• Save the file.
• Put exec <cfg from step 1>.cfg in front of the first map token in the map rotation.
  For example sv_maprotation "exec hctdm.cfg map mp_la map mp_dockside map mp_carrier"

3.3 Mixed game modes with correct / custom settings (MP only)

• Open the server cfg file with Notepad++
• Put a exec <game type here>.cfg (eg. exec dom.cfg) in front of a map token.
  For example sv_maprotation "exec dom.cfg map mp_la map mp_dockside exec sas.cfg map mp_carrier"
  • You can have one exec token in front of multiple map tokens to apply your settings for each following map.
  • You can have a different exec token in front of every single map token to have different settings for each map.

4. (Optional) Install a server management tool

For any administration tool you need to enable the game log and to set a rcon password in the server config, for your own safety use a long and safe (generated) password you will never have to remember this password! And make sure to enable the game log with g_log. You should only install one of those 2 tools.

4.1 Adding IW4m-Admin to your server

• Download IW4m-Admin from RaidMax's website.
• Follow his guide on GitHub.

5. (Optional) Hosting a second server from the same directory.

• Make a copy of the bat file and the cfg file and rename them.
• Edit the copy of the bat file to have a different port and to use your second cfg.
  (You must forward the second port as well if you are behind a DNAT!)
• Edit the .cfg file.
• Start the server through the new .bat file.

FAQ

Q: You said we can delete game files to save disk space, is it worth it?
A:In my opinion it is, the files to host MP and ZM servers from the same folder with all maps and modes require roughly 1.7GB instead of 22GB and HIGHLY speeds up loading times as unnecessary files are not loaded.

Q: So which files can we safely delete?
A:You can safely delete the main, players, redist, sound and video folders. Inside the zone folder you can delete all sp, rts and .ipak files. If you don't want to host MP/ZM you can delete the MP/ZM files too.

Q: Why can't I find my server hosted at home while others can?
A:Your router probably doesn't support NAT-Loopback (aka. NAT-Reflection) and that's why it doesn't know how to forward the network traffic. In order to connect it use your internal IP or 127.0.0.1 if its hosted on the same machine. More information about what NAT-Loopback is and how it works can be found on Wikipedia.

Q: Why does everyone get an time out during a map change?
A:We are not entirely sure but it seems to be related to certain dvars not being set to their default value. Only known dvar to cause this atm is party_maxplayers.

This post is also available over at awog.at.

I suggest you not to link to that forum again.

@xvc said in When did people stop using common sense?:

When did pc cod's go from wow you're nuts to wow ban this cheater

I would say pretty much at the same time when the shift happened from asking your local teen to fix your PC to asking your local teen's dad to fix your PC.

Sounds a bit like your router is too weak to handle all the connections from the queries.

There is no such thing as iw5x.

You count them.

What @Rare said is true, matches on dedicated servers don't persist your stats.

Just a small head up, if that method works one can also add a permanent forward with Windows by opening the properties of the upnp device shown for the router in the network browser.

Also possible there.

instead of having multiple if statements you can make it a bit tidier by using one switch statement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_(computer_programming)#Case_and_switch_statements

You should change all those IF-statements to one switch for readability and a bit of performance.

Why would you set your settings through GSC instead of config files though? CFG files don't need to be compiled after every change.

This does not make much sense with PlutoT6 as bans are too easily bypassed. But @RaidMax is working on official support for shared banlists in IW4mA.

@Rosamaha did try to build up a small comp scene here, but last I heard was that things don't work out due to the too small player base that is interested in these things.

@luigistyle said in got banned for wallhacking but im not:

If you're talking about T6, then there's nothing we can do as the T6 client does not yet have global bans. Speak to the staff of the server you were banned from if you want to be unbanned.

There I fixed it for you, server owners are free to ban players from their server for any reason they see fit on either game.

@Dss0 said in "Sending Heartbeat" with no luck whatsoever.:

Sending hearbeat is completely normal. It would be concerning if it didn't say that.