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Call of Duty 4 - Frontlines
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author : Freddy Hajas
website : www.mods.hajas.org
mod : Frontlines
version : 5.0
update : May 2009
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Frontlines Highlights
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Awards

. The FPS game with the highest number of gametypes ever created
. Elected by Bash and Slash as the best COD mod of 2008
. The only COD mod at the Essential List 2008 of MODDB
. Two times featured at MODDB Webcast with lots of compliments
. Already released in 3 magazines! (PC Action/PC Games/Spiele from Computer Bild)
. Elected the MOD of The week in many sites like CODFiles, KGN...
. Two times on the Highlights of the month at MODDB
. Number 1 Server/MOD of Brazil (Also the biggest of the Country)

Main Features

. War Server with battlefields up to 101 territories
. 22 Brand New Gametypes (28 in total!)
. HER with realistic Blood, Gore, Pain, Damage & Physics effects
. 11 Weapons Modes to play different all the gametypes available
. Medic System with a Medic Perk to let you save your wounded teamates
. Intelligent Anti-Camping System coded to each gametype
. Full Rank System with Custom Classes + Create-A-Class INGAME
. Frontlines Duel, where the last 2 will dispute the round with knifes
. Frontlines Last Stand, a lot more realistic and fair to both sides
. Intelligent Server that will make everything random and easy to admin
. Help Mode, which you can play a realistic freeze-tag game in any team based gametype
. Multi-Language Support to really ANY language you speak
. Thousands of other features and options to let you do whenever you want


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CHANGE LOG
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5.0

. Help Mode (Realistic Freeze-Tag to all team based gametypes)
. Assassin/Spy (2 in 1 New Gametype)
. Assault (New Gametype)
. Docs (New Gametype)
. Escape (New Gametype)
. Escort (New Gametype)
. Flags (New Gametype)
. Hack (New Gametype)
. Hill (New Gametype)
. Nuke (New Gametype)
. Rescue (New Gametype)
. Targets (New Gametype)
. Unity (New Gametype)
. Uprising (New Gametype)
. Waves (New Gametype)
. Wrath (New Gametype)
. Chopper Damage Points
. New Light Infantry Mode
. Frontlines Map Changes
. Frontlines Hardpoints Streak
. Frontlines BombSquad now can disarm explosives and even revert claymores
. Chopper Map List (set the maps to NOT run Chopper gametype)
. Battlefront, Commander/VIP & Chopper also works in maps with just TDM respawns
. Timelimit to Duel: if they run instead fight both will be executed!
. Claymores removed during the Duel
. Frontlines LIVE Information
. New Optimized War Server Scoreboard
. Option to turn off obituaries
. UAV Perk: you can call now just ONE time in respawn gametypes
. War Server: removed option to set color of the teams (Axis=Red|Allies=Blue)
. War Server: team names now appears everywhere, not only at the final score
. War Server: Double XP during a War
. War Server: Option to turn off Obituaries just in the War
. Many small tweaks, fixes and optimizations

4.1

. Objective (New Gametype)
. Exterminate (New Gametype)
. Two new Wars to the War Server
. More options to config your War Server
. Now with HER it's almost impossible to die by nades impact
. Many small tweaks and fixes

4.0

. War Server
. Random Map Rotation
. Medic System
. UAV Perk
. Weapons Modes have now Random weapons when you not select yours
. New Silent Mode to Weapons Modes
. Option to turn off Desert Eagle in Weapons Modes
. Hajas Size Rotation have a new size : HUGE
. Now you can specify in which gametypes we will have Anti-Camping ON
. More 10 Spam Messages (20 in total)
. Claymores Lasers have different colors to each team (icons removed)
. Smaller Icons to BombSquad
. Many small tweaks and fixes


3.5

. [HER]Hajas Extreme Realism (even without Hardcore)
. Frontlines Damage Feedback (Pain Sounds, Blood, new explosions FX, etc...)
. Frontlines Last Stand
. Chopper auto config depending of the number of players
. New Tactical and Infantry Modes to Weapons Modes
. Option to turn off Hardpoints just in Weapons Modes
. Option to Create a Class ingame without the need to disconnect (take effect in the next map)
. Show icons to VIP, Commander and Bomber in the scoreboard
. Anti-Camping counting in Prematch period was removed
. Anti-Camping new intelligent treatment about vertical move
. Anti-Camping option to punish the player with points loss aside the self suicide
. Option to disable the KILL icon in Sabotage
. Option to disable all 3D icon or choose their size ingame
. Fast way to Record demos ingame
. Progress bars moved to a better place
. Auto-Balance and Change Classes Messages are now smallers and in the bottom left
. Auto-Assign master list - list with who can choose the team even with AA on
. FIXED Bug : When duel was brupted interrupted was causing bad behavior in next round
. FIXED Bug : Original Roundlimit bug fixed

3.1

. Chopper (new gametype)
. Option No-Repeat for Random Gametypes
. Option to have a Default Gametype for Random Gametypes
. Load server config file from menu for LAN gameplay
. Frontlines Tips
. Few tweeks

3.0

. Hajas Weapons (Bash, Pistol, Rifle, Sniper, Cop & Quake Modes)
. Random Hajas Weapons (with list setup)
. Random Gametypes (with list setup)
. Hajas Duel, the last two players will fight a duel to decide the round
. Hajas Size Rotation, the rotation and his rules are now relative to the number of players online.
. Hajas Anti-Camping - An Intelligent Anti-Camping System
. Hajas Drop - Drop ANY weapon that you are carrying when you want or die (C4, RPG, Claymore, Pistols, etc... inclued!)
. Disable Hardpoints Options (UAV/Airstrike/Chopper)
. Disable Options to : Frags/Extra Frags/RPG/Granade Launcher
. Battlefront remember orders from time to time (setup in seconds)
. Commander/VIP automatic change from map to map in the same rotation
. Get back to your pre-selected class after left the Commander/VIP post
. Show the name of the Commander/VIP to his Teamates
. Commander Hardpoints (Now Commander can call UAV, Airstrike & Heli more easily than anyone)
. Force Auto-Assign
. New Frontlines Menu
. Frontlines Theme Music at Menu
. Updated Menus with all the new maps
. Few other small tweaks in the old features

2.1

. Fixed server crash if scr_commander_next 1 and server only with Attackers in Commander gametype

2.0

. Hajas Invert Sides
. RoundSwitchSpawn to both gametypes
. Hajas Server Spam
. Commander/VIP ( 2 in 1 new gametype)
. Commander's orders by sound and message to Battlefront gametype

1.0

. Hajas Spawn Protection
. New MOTD
. Battlefront (new gametype)
. Custom Classes
. Full Rank System


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INSTALL
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Just unzip inside your COD4 folder, then will be created this dir:

COD4/Mods/Frontlines

there you gonna find these files

- DOCUMENT

. README_frontlines.txt (this file)

- FRONTILINES DATA

. mod.ff
. z_frontlines.iwd

- FRONTLINES CONFIGS

. frontlines.cfg (main configs)
. frontlines_gametypes.cfg (gametypes from Frontlines, random gametypes...)
. frontlines_maps.cfg (maps, rotations, weapons for rotations...)
. frontlines_weapons.cfg (weapons modes, random modes, allowed weapons...)

- WAR SERVER CONFIGS

. war_server.cfg (main War Server configs)
. war_load.cfg (where to input the War Server data to continue a big War)
. war_custom.cfg (exemple of how to create your own War)

- BASIC CONFIGS

. server.cfg (basic server config)
. gametypes.cfg (basic gametypes config)


If after your install there's someting different, you did something wrong. So do it again right! :D

If you had a previous version of Frontlines installed, just make sure to overwrite all the old files.

That's all! :P


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SETUP
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In your Server Shortcut Start add this line to it

+set fs_game mods/Frontlines

Then will be something like this:

C:\COD4\iw3mp.exe +set fs_game mods/Frontlines +set dedicated 2 +set net_ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx +set net_port 28960 +set sv_maxclients 32 +set sv_punkbuster "1" +exec server.cfg +map_rotate

In the config file frontlines.cfg you will find all the info about each var and how to use them.

Copy all your config files from your main folder to Mods/Frontlines then you will have the "same" server but now running Frontlines instead.

To load this CFG from your config just add the line below at the end of your server.cfg file

exec frontlines.cfg

With that will start a server with a mixed gametype rotation with all gametypes running.

If you execute this file with the server already running, you will need a map_restart to really start Frontlines.

You don't need to use the entire config file, you can just copy/paste all that you want to your server.cfg file

The Hajas Spawn Protection will work to any gametype (his default value is 10)

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CUSTOM MAPS
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Please put the Custom Maps in their folders ONLY as IW says!

NEVER put any IWD file into Frontlines folder, or you server will be in risk to crash at any moment!

This advice is to ANY mod you ever want to load at your server.

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AUTO DOWNLOAD
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If you want to setup an auto download to each one that connect to your server be able get the Frontlines mod,
please follow these instructions:

At your website on the serverfiles dir (http://www.yourwebsite.com/serverfiles)

create a subdir inside mods called frontlines and copy these files to there:

mod.ff
z_frontlines.iwd

so will be something like this

http://www.yourwebsite.com/serverfiles/mods/frontlines/mod.ff
http://www.yourwebsite.com/serverfiles/mods/frontlines/z_frontlines.iwd

ATTENTION! in the web ALL letters must be lower case!

then set this to your server.cfg file

set sv_allowdownload "1"
seta sv_wwwDownload "1"
seta sv_wwwBaseURL "http://www.yourwebsite.com/serverfiles"
seta sv_wwwDlDisconnected "0" (Note: Set this to "0")


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UNINSTALL
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Delete the dir COD4/Mods/Frontlines with all the files inside.


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HELP/SUPPORT
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Feel free to visit my site at

www.mods.hajas.org

and post any questions/problems in my help forum at

http://hajas.freeforums.org

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CREDITS
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Mod Design/Programming/Music:

. Freddy Hajas

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