Allowing Spectate In COD4 Help Please

[Crazy56]

Hey gang,

I know I posted this over at IW, but I wanted to post it here as well since this is an awesome forum for server admins. I am having some issues with spectate on my COD4 servers. Below are the DVARs I have, but I am not able to spectate anybody. Even in HQ, when you die, you stay where you are dead until you can respawn again. You can look around, but cannot move. I want to be able to spectate my team. I also want to be able to leave my team and spectate a player, but cannot do that. When I go into spectate, I go to a certain part of the map and can't move, I am just able to look around.

Here are my DVAR settings I have on all my servers:

set scr_spectatefree "1"
set scr_spectateenemy "0"
set g_inactivityspectator "0"
set scr_game_spectatetype "1"

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.

[fkrdiscostu]

Change the setting in: set scr_game_spectatetype "1" to a "2".

[Crazy56]

I have it set to 1 already, but I will give 2 a shot. I will report back if it works or not. Thanks

[OEW Batman]

SpectateTYPE, not spectateFREE.

set scr_game_spectatetype 2

2 allow floating spectate, that's what you want. "1" is fixed spectate mode.

[Number7]

Hey gang,

Here are my DVAR settings I have on all my servers:

set scr_spectatefree "1"
set scr_spectateenemy "0"
set g_inactivityspectator "0"
set scr_game_spectatetype "1"

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.


These are invalid for CoD4:

scr_spectatefree
scr_spectateenemy

[Crazy56]

These are invalid for CoD4:

scr_spectatefree
scr_spectateenemy

Yeah I gathered that already...thanks lol

[Number7]

Yeah I gathered that already...thanks lol

Perhaps it will help other admins who have invalid vars in their config too :)
I hear that the g_inactivityspectator has also been removed from CoD4..

[Crazy56]

It's a true shame IW (Or any other game maker for that matter), doesn't release a comprehensive DVAR list of what can and can't be turned on/off in their games. They're the ones who know their graphics engine better than anybody, so they should be the one that releases a list instead of relying on people like you all to bust your humps looking at code to decipher what they have changed or added or taken away.

[Busterking]

We have internal ladder matches and we have our members watch the matches in spectate, now there isn't such a setting it seems.

I'm not a happy camper with that one.

[Crazy56]

Hopefully someone will find a fix to this, because that's how we demo suspicious players.

[Stec]

Hopefully someone will find a fix to this, because that's how we demo suspicious players.
Seriously. I also hope they re-add this most basic spectating functionality. Always frustrating when they take away perfectly good and useful features.

[OEW Batman]

Hopefully someone will find a fix to this, because that's how we demo suspicious players.

It IS fixed. Actually, it was never broken. Change the value to "2" and you can float or spectate as you're used to. Works fine.

set scr_game_spectatetype 2

[Crazy56]

Thanks that works fine.

[Busterking]

It IS fixed. Actually, it was never broken. Change the value to "2" and you can float or spectate as you're used to. Works fine.

set scr_game_spectatetype 2


For some unknown reason, this is broken for many of us. When I applied this to our servers, the dead players can also spectate the enemy players. I don't know if some of us got a corrupted file but it's just not working.


By the way, I am trying this for the search and destroy and also sabotage gameplay mode.

[Crazy56]

Yeah there has to be a 2nd command somewhere that allows to "dead" spectate on team only. anybody have any ideas?

[OEW Batman]

Yeah there has to be a 2nd command somewhere that allows to "dead" spectate on team only. anybody have any ideas?

Setting the value to "1" supposedly enables Team Only/Player spectate. The problem is that disables "free" spectating for admins. We need a mix of the two modes, when in spectator mode it is free, when assigned to a team you can only spectate teammates.

[Crazy56]

Setting the value to "1" supposedly enables Team Only/Player spectate. The problem is that disables "free" spectating for admins. We need a mix of the two modes, when in spectator mode it is free, when assigned to a team you can only spectate teammates.


EXACTLY

[Number7]

Could possibly be modded once we get the maps\mp\gametypes\_spectating.gsc :)

[woowoo]

Has anyone found a resolution to this issue pointed out in this thread?

The allowed settings are:

set scr_game_spectatetype "1" //free look
set scr_game_spectatetype "2" //spectate team only
set scr_game_spectatetype "3" //spectate, but dont look at anyone else at all

The problem that I'm having is that if I set it to "2", when you're in spectate mode you can't spec a specific person to ensure they are not hacking.

If I set it to 1, you can now spec anyone when in spectator but as a player you see both teams when dead - which can give away someone's position.

What I need is for when you're on a team you can only see your team when dead, but if in spectate mode you can see everyone.

Any suggestions?