How to setup a DA2 server

[DA|aBsOlUt]

Hey guys, just wanted to post this here to redirect you to our manual for setting up a basic DA2 server.

A quite big amount of people have requested Player Vs Bot servers, something DA2 currently supports.


Creating a DA2 Server (http://www.planetunreal.com/da/2/html/manual/creatingaserver.html)

[diablobreaux]

Can you post an example server startup command?

I'm erroring out with:
./ucc-bin server DA2-LastHope.ut2 -mod=DA2

I assume gametype or something is missing.

Thanks

[DA|aBsOlUt]

Try using:

Start-> Run

X:\UT2004\UT2004.exe -server -mod=DA2

Console window will show up if all is fine then use command servertravel da2-<mapname>. If you had your server settings setup in DA2 or UT2004 it should already use them, like number of bots etc.

However, you can still use addbox <number> to add bots into the server.

Hope this helps.

[diablobreaux]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm looking specifically to launch a linux server from a command line. I haven't had any issues with other mods, so I figure I have something missing in the command. This is what I see:

./ucc-bin server DA2-LastHope.ut2 -mod=DA2 --nohomedir

Executing Class Engine.ServerCommandlet
Browse: DA2-LastHope.ut2?Name=daPlayer?Class=DA2.da_players_ClassPlayer?Character=Generic?team=255?Sex=M?Voice=X Game.AlienMaleVoice
Collecting garbage
Purging garbage
Garbage: objects: 45224->45220; refs: 723645
Game class is 'da_game_DefenceAlliance'
Failed to load 'AssaultBP': Can't find file 'AssaultBP'
Failed to load 'AssaultBP': Can't find file 'AssaultBP'
Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError
Failed to load 'AssaultBP': Can't find file 'AssaultBP'

History:

Exiting due to error
Exiting.
FileManager: Reading 0 GByte 0 MByte 0 KByte 0 Bytes from HD took 0.000000 seconds (0.000000 reading, 0.000000 seeking).
FileManager: 0.000000 seconds spent with misc. duties
Name subsystem shut down

[diablobreaux]

The issue has been resolved by re-installing DA2 from the zip file and launching the server with the following command:

./ucc-bin server DA2-BlackGold.ut2 -mod=DA2 -log=server.log

Thanks!