Urban Terror 4 Server configurations

Urban Terror is a stand-alone modification based on the Quake 3 engine.

I use to play this from time to time with some friends, usually over the LAN when we meet somewhere. One of us guys does then start a local UrT4 Server, where the others can connect to and play. Ho wever, we often have had some issues that stuff like Voting or the map-cycle did not work or meet our expectations. Therefore I looked a bit into how to configure an UrT4 Server – and I will publish some of the main “Good-to-knows” here (most of it can also be found in the Urban Terror FAQ on their website).

Play only the maps you like (= create a maplist)

1. There is a file named “mapcycle.txt” in your Quake 3 > q3ut4 folder
2. Open and modify it, so that it holds only the maps (1 per line!) that you’d like to play

List all available maps

1. Start the game and open the console (alt+cmd+n on Mac)
2. Type “/map ut” and hit TAB – this will display a list of all maps

Ensure that people can auto-download a map they don’t have

This one’s a little tricky, as it requires that you provide an URL to a website, where the map can be downloaded from. This is against what many think, that it will download it from the one who runs the UrT4 Server.

1. When you started the server and you are in the game, open the console (alt+cmd+n)
2. Type ‘sv_dlURL “urbanterror.net”‘ and hit RETURN
   (replace “urbanterror.net” with any other website where the map is available under http://website.com/q3ut4/mapname.bsp)
3. As soon as somebody connects to your server now, he/she will be asked to download the map from that website.

Alternatively you can you do this also by adding the “sv_dlURL”-parameter to your servers configuration file in Quake 3 > q3ut4 > server.cfg. But then you have to make sure that this will be loaded when Urban Terror is being started. To do so, open autoexec.cfg within the q3ut4 folder, and add the following command: exec server.cfg

Enable voting

I got Voting only to work when starting the server over a properly configured server.cfg file (see above). However, basically it is controled by the command “g_allowvote”:

1. Check this website, to receive the bitmap (parameter value) specifying what people can vote for: http://www.urbanterror.net/allowvote_calc.html
2. Start the game server and open the console (alt+cmd+n)
3. Type /g_allowvote “536871517” and hit RETURN
   (between the brackets you must add of course the prior calculated  value)