Protect the game
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:08 pm
All you as villuns have a duty to keep the games as fun and fair as possible for everyone. With these new hacks out, I urge everyone to make sure they know how to contact an admin, and dont forget supporters can voteban people! Pretty much every one of our admins has TF2 so please add them to your friends list.
Read this post (if you haven't)
Getting help from an admin
Go to our Steampage and add the admins to your friends list from there
Ville Steam page
Here's the link to all the supporters (list is growing!)
Supporter list
Use the shoutbox
Use Private messages
Use the forums
Use the complaints Dept.
Use email and Instant messenger
My suggestion....
If you cant get an admin/supporter right away record a demo. For those of you unfamiliar with what a demo is, it's a recording of gameplay that you can control from the console in ALL half-life and half-life 2 games. You typically see these used as a tool for identifying and reporting hackers. You'll also see them used in clan matches and for regular game play footage.
The source engine provides a set of tools to record a game to a demo file, playback a recorded game and edit a demo file. Most of this info can be found here on Valve's official developer wiki. But for the sake of clarity, i will summarize the most important aspects of this feature set.
To record a demo, you need to type this into the console:
record "name"
To stop recording, type this into the console:
stop
To play the demo back type:
playdemo "name"
The demo file will be saved to:
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\YOURACCOUNT\team fortress 2\tf
as a .dem
Default key for screenshots is F5, hit it any time you see something suspicious
Read this post (if you haven't)
Getting help from an admin
Go to our Steampage and add the admins to your friends list from there
Ville Steam page
Here's the link to all the supporters (list is growing!)
Supporter list
Use the shoutbox
Use Private messages
Use the forums
Use the complaints Dept.
Use email and Instant messenger
My suggestion....
If you cant get an admin/supporter right away record a demo. For those of you unfamiliar with what a demo is, it's a recording of gameplay that you can control from the console in ALL half-life and half-life 2 games. You typically see these used as a tool for identifying and reporting hackers. You'll also see them used in clan matches and for regular game play footage.
The source engine provides a set of tools to record a game to a demo file, playback a recorded game and edit a demo file. Most of this info can be found here on Valve's official developer wiki. But for the sake of clarity, i will summarize the most important aspects of this feature set.
To record a demo, you need to type this into the console:
record "name"
To stop recording, type this into the console:
stop
To play the demo back type:
playdemo "name"
The demo file will be saved to:
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\YOURACCOUNT\team fortress 2\tf
as a .dem
Default key for screenshots is F5, hit it any time you see something suspicious