64 players slot

I thought: What? 64 Players? Is that possible?
In fact Urban Terror has a maximum of 32 players possible at the same time, if the 33th player connected the server would have crashed.
I was surprised to see 40+ people in this server and I decided to talk with the Administrator: Emanuele from WarriorTeam.

We discovered that wasn’t possible. But we found that some guy managed to get 64 players at the same time by editing the code of Urban Terror. Unfortunatly it was for Windows and we were looking for something for Linux. After a few days of experiments we had a perfect 64 players server up and running!

That’s kind of cool. I was concerned about hosting solutions.

We initially tried to host it by ourselves, but we didn’t found a provider that had enough bandwith. So we rented a PC in a Datacenter in Germany on a 100Mbps backbone. It works fine and allows us to host external websites. So we are kinda sub-renting the server so it’s paying itself.

Good.

So how was my experience with the WarriorTeam server?

To tell you the truth the first time you play in it is plenty of fun. I was actually laughing, it was fun like the first time I played Superman CTF. But all that shines it’s not gold. When I played on the server there where 44 players on and Capture the Flag mode. It wasn’t a huge number but my framerate was always between 25 and 30. Usually on my MacBook Pro I have 90-100 fps constantly. Also my ping was around 100 instead of around 50 so playing wasn’t that fluid.

Look at the players list!

There where only a few people intrested in actually Capture the Flag, a lot of them where there just to shoot at random I guess. There where a lot of campers, some AFKs and even some cheaters.
Unfortunatly no votes at all. This includes no cyclemap vote, no nextmap vote but more important no kick vote.
In huge servers like this, kick vote is very important IMHO, also since there isn’t an admin 24/7.
I really hope they will fix this soon.
The choice of map wasn’t bat, obviously they had to choose just huge maps and often I had to download them since I’ve never seen them before.
The server is italian but I found more players from outside Italy than actually italians. The main language spoken in the server was english so it’s good for anyone who gets a good ping.

So is it bad?

No it isn’t. It’s for casual games. More experienced players will come and play just once, but for everyone else is good for casual game and brainless shooting.
It was fun playing there but I think I will stick with my good old Team Survivor servers and play there just occasionally.

Overall

The WarriorTeam server is a pretty nice idea, fun to play the first time but due to the lack of voting, low fps and high ping, chances are you are not gonna play there that much. Nice for casual gamers, not for more experienced players. Nice try though.

You’ll want to be able to play on your newly created Urban Terror server once it’s done, so you’ll need to create another install of it. Download the .zip file again, unzip it and rename the Urban Terror folder to something like “UrbanTerrorServer”. Put it where you want, preferrably in your “Applications” folder.

Step 2: Get familiar with the terminal

In fact the built-in Terminal of Mac OS X isn’t that different from UrT’s console. You enter stuff, it responds. It’s that simple.

Step 3: Edit the server’s settings

While you might be used to finding most of your Urban Terror stuff in your ∼/Library/Application Support/Quake 3 directory, all the server’s files are stored in your actual UrT installation directory. Access both

and

and edit those two files in the way you like, for this please refer to the Urban Terror Manual.

Step 4: Add custom .pk3s (optional)

In case you want to use custom maps, funstuff, skins, or in fact anything packed into a pk3 on your server, place it in the q3ut4 directory mentioned in the post above. Keep in mind that the autodl url has to be set correctly for people to be able to download all that.

Step 5: Set up your router

I’m assuming you’ll use the standard port, which is 27960 for Urban Terror. Open up that port in your firewall and forward it to your computer using the UDP protocoll. As the interface is different for each router, I can’t tell you how to do this step by step. This site may be helpful though.

Step 6: Locate the iourbanterror.ub

What actually runs the server is not your ioUrbanTerror.app, but a little unix file called ioUrbanTerror.ub. You find it by navigating to your server install, right-clicking ioUrbanTerror.app and then using the “Show package contents” item in the contextual menu. A new finder window should pop up. Navigate to

and leave the window open.

Step 7: Set up the terminal

Open it up and enter the following:

[path to your install]/ioUrbanTerror.app/Contents/MacOS/ioUrbanTerror.ub +set dedicated 2 +exec server.cfg

You can also just drag the .ub file into the terminal window and then add +set dedicated 2 +exec server.cfg.

Step 8: Hit enter!

The Urban Terror Server icon will bounce in the dock and then seem to freeze while the Mac OS terminal is spitting out all sorts of jibberish. This is normal, that means the server is running. DO NOT FORCE QUIT THE URBAN TERROR SERVER, EVERYTHING IS OK!

Step 9: Locate your server in the server list

No need to explain this step any further.

Step 10: PWN people!

Enjoy your zero ping and admin power and start owning! Wear a helmet. HF GL!