[Tutorial] Using Rcon

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[Tutorial] Using Rcon

Post by lewbylew » Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:49 am

OK, so the other day as you all know I posted this
lewbylew wrote:I posted this on halo heaven aswell, I'm in the clan [XDZ], Its a pretty kool clan and I'm enjoyin it but I wanted to be able to rcon some of the dedis, I don't have any idea how to tho.
A little assistance wood be helpful
I didn't get that assistance from anyone, so I posted it on halo heaven, and I got an answer, and now I'm a pro at rcon, now I'm gonna share that with ya's :P

OK, so whats rcon I hear some of you saying, rcon is when you emulate the console, mostly on a dedicated server and use it to do what you wish (I think thats a logical answer).

To use rcon, you need console enabled so you can actually use it, to enable conole, you go to the little window that pops up at the start of the game, If you've turned off the little window press the Apple key on you're keyboard whilst you are opening halo and tick the "allow console" box. Next you will need to know the button to press to use console, the default button happens to be ~ which is above the tab key, when you press this key, u should get a little pink text box, as if you where about to type something to a player, it looks like this.

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Now to using rcon, heres the fun part.

To start using rcon you need to know the password to a dedi, most clans have them, so... If you're in a clan go ahead and ask for the password!

Now, log onto the dedi and press ~ and tab, it should come up with this.

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From looking at it you probably get an idea at what you can do with rcon, but now you need to learn how to apply it, if you've followed this tutorial closely, you will still have you're little console window open down the bottom, first up you gotta type in rcon to tell the server that you want to use rcon commands, next you have to type in the rcon password, which is between 1 and 8 letters long, this is to tell the serer that you have the authorisation to use rcon, lets say you're password is LeWbYlEw0, you would have to type in

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rcon LeWbYlEw0

Please note that the reason I' using this in code is so you don't add any radom characters like <> or "" :)

Note 2: commands ALWYAS have a space in between them but but commands that are two words ALWAYS have an underscore unerneath them i.e. rcon LeWbYlEw0 sv_map

Note 3: rcon is CASE SENSITIVE

next you gotta type in the command, theres a command list above.

that should be you're rcon working, now on to commands hehe funfunfun

I have a tutorial for commands but its copyrigted so I guess I'm gonna have to right this out by hand

Note 4: this is the command list NOT the rcon command list, so this will list commands that are not used during rcon

cls
clears the console text screen, also, text will dissapear on its own if you close the little text thingy!

connect
basically, you use it to connect to a server, if you can't be bothered to click diret i.p., you type in the i.p. first then the password, if any.
Its used like this

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connect 12.43.546.67:2031

disconnect
I think we can guess how to use this, basically it just disconnects you from the server

help
gives you help on some of the commands, i.e. you could type

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help sv_map
not every command has a help menu

mouse_acceleration
Sets the mouse speed, this one is pretty straight forward to use

quit
This (obviously) quits halo



The next bit I am going to tell everyone about is the sv commands, but since there are so many I'll only list the main ones


sv_map
changes the map, the map must be in the mapcycle you must state the map + the gametype i.e.

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rcon LeWbYlEw0 sv_map hanemhigh classic_snipers

sv_mapcycle
shows the maps you can change to

sv_mapcycle_add
adds a map to the mapcycle, it has the same usage as sv_map i.e.

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rcon LeWbYlEw0 sv_mapcycle_add putput shotties

sv_password
used to set the passwordon the server, to take away a password type

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rcon LeWbYlEw0 sv_password ""

Note 5:You MUST include the "" if you want to take away the password, if you want to set the password you do not have to set it

sv_rcon_password
sets the rcon password, used the same way as sv_password only the rcon password is not deleteable

sv_players
shows all the players on the server and there numbers

sv_kick
is used to kick players from the server using there player number obtained from sv_players

sv_ban
does the same thing as kick only instead of chucking them from the server it bans them

sv_banlist
shows all the players that have been banned plus there numbers

sv_unban
unbans a player using there number which is shown in the banlist (above)

sv_mapcycle_timeout 1
is the only known way to set up a mac dedi (do NOT use this inside a dedi) unfortunately, unlike a windows dedi, you must keep you're halo window minimized

sv_end_game
ends you're game, no matter what, never EVER use this on a dedi because it puts the server into idle so it won't show up on the game spy lists, only for use in non dedicated servers, unless you want to cop a hell of a beating from you're clan leader




now how was that for my second tut, is it worthy of a sticky?
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Post by Moxus » Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:10 am

To answer your question, absolutely. Well done, very thorough tutorial and addresses most of my unknowns about the console.

By any chance, could you post a tutorial about how to make a Dedicated Server, or a link to one?

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Post by TaxiService » Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:14 am

too bad you cant do this in demo...


TYLER! DO SOMETHING! CMON!




ah, btw, OMFG well done man!


EDIT: wait a second, cant you just press "<" to make pink text appear???? it works from me! <_<
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Post by Mac Hacker » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:42 am

you cant do dedicated servers on mac well there is a way but you will always have an inactive player in the game to do this type in

for halo full only

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sv_mapcycle_timeout 1
that will automaticle restart games for you and you do not need any external program to do it just minimize halo :P
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Post by Moxus » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:49 am

tyler777 wrote:you cant do dedicated servers on mac well there is a way but you will always have an inactive player in the game
Well that just sucks :|.
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Post by Mac Hacker » Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:23 pm

if you use the code i showed u u can run a server with minimized halo
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Post by lewbylew » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:17 pm

thanx 4 the extra command Tyler, I'll be adding that one theres quite a few that I need to add!

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Post by TaxiService » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:35 pm

you know what? this should be sticked

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Post by lewbylew » Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:25 pm

man, if I knew how to, I'd make a program that works as a console, only for demo

oh and BTW taxi and moxus, thanx for the vote of confidence

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Post by Moxus » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:10 am

lewbylew --> Do a good job and you deserve one.

TaxiService --> 1971? In any case thanks for referencing me!

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Post by TaxiService » Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:46 am

yea! remember?

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Post by lewbylew » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:16 am

wow, just noticed that I finally got the sticky I wanteed :D

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Post by ?Fe?thers? » Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:56 pm

for some reason i cant ban people when i type in sv_ban #(and then the players number) any help?
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Post by lewbylew » Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:44 pm

well, first you press sv_players, get there number and THEN you type in sv_ban and the number, works for everybody

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Post by ?Fe?thers? » Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:45 am

Lewbylew wrote:well, first you press sv_players, get there number and THEN you type in sv_ban and the number, works for everybody
oooooh you you press sv_ban and then something will come up saying like "what number"?
not sv_ban #(players number)?
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