swat-gs1

Version:	1.0.1
Home page:	https://github.com/sergeii/swat-gs1
Author:	Sergei Khoroshilov <[email protected]>
License:	The MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Description

This package provides Gamespy Query multiprotocol (both UDP and TCP) listen support for SWAT 4 servers.

Inspiration

Initially this package was developed with an intention to provide an ability for a SWAT 4 server to respond to Gamespy queries utilizing TCP networking, which has been a major relief for webmasters willing to set up their own server monitoring software that would avoid using UDP transmission, since it's almost never available on a shared website hosting.

It has later been tweaked, in order to replace the native query listener that has gone obsolete due to SWAT 4 Gamespy support shutdown, as there are no other solutions had been available that the author of this package had been familiar with. The widespread AMServerQuery listener from the AMMod package that has been meant to replace the native listener since the shutdown, does not comply with the Gamespy Protocol standard, hence is helpless to a variety of server monitoring software (GameQ, HLSW, etc) that expect a properly formatted buffered UDP response.

Dependencies

• Utils >=1.0.0

Installation

0. Install required packages listed above in the Dependencies section.

1. Download compiled binaries or compile the GS1 package yourself.

   Every release is accompanied by two tar files, each containing a compiled package for a specific game version:

   swat-gs1.X.Y.Z.swat4.tar.gz
   swat-gs1.X.Y.Z.swat4exp.tar.gz
   

   with X.Y.Z being the package version, followed by a game version identifier:

   swat4 - SWAT 4 1.0-1.1
   swat4exp - SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate
   

   Please check the releases page to get the latest stable package version appropriate to your server game version.

2. Copy contents of a tar archive into the server's System directory.

3. Open Swat4DedicatedServer.ini

4. Navigate to the [Engine.GameEngine] section.

5. Comment out or remove completely the following line:

   ServerActors=IpDrv.MasterServerUplink
   

   This is ought to free the +1 port (e.g. 10481) that has been occupied by the native Gamespy query listener.

6. Insert the following line anywhere in the section:

   ServerActors=GS1.Listener
   

7. Add the following section at the bottom of the file:

   [GS1.Listener]
   Enabled=True
   

8. The Swat4DedicatedServer.ini contents should look like this now:

   [Engine.GameEngine]
   EnableDevTools=False
   InitialMenuClass=SwatGui.SwatMainMenu
   ...
   ;ServerActors=IpDrv.MasterServerUplink
   ServerActors=GS1.Listener
   ...
   
   [GS1.Listener]
   Enabled=True
   

9. Your server is now ready to listen to GameSpy v1 protocol queries on the join port + 1 (e.g. 10481).

   By default, that would be a UDP port, but it is also possible to use TCP protocol as well.

   Please refer to the Properties section below.

Properties

The [GS1.Listener] section of Swat4DedicatedServer.ini accepts the following properties:

Property	Descripion	Options	Default
Enabled	Toggle listener on and off (requires a server restart).	True/False	False
Port	Port to listen on. By default, listener mimics behaviour of the original gamespy query listener that binds a port number equals to the join port incremented by 1. For instance, if a join port was 10480 (default value), the query port would be 10481. You are free to set up an explicit port number, in order to avoid the default behaviour.	1-65535	Join Port+1
Protocol	Protocol the listen port should be bound with. It is possible to listen to both UDP and TCP ports simultaneously. To achieve that, set this option to ALL.	UDP, TCP, ALL	UDP