Vanilla Project Ares Mod

vPAM is continuing the legacy of the most popular competetive server mod for Call of Duty (2003). This project aims to be a more central hub to collect ideas and changes surrounding competetive gameplay.

Building

Build the default vPAM:

make
# or explicitly
make MOD=vpam

To build the WRS (EURO) mod:

make MOD=wrs

Running locally

Note: This will use and clean the $HOME/.callofduty directory.

A local server can be run if the server binaries are available. With the cod_lnxded located at /srv/cod/cod_lnxded use the following:

make BIN_DIR=/srv/cod ARGS='+g_gametype sd +set pam_mode match_aw' run

Or for WRS:

make BIN_DIR=/srv/cod ARGS='+g_gametype sd +set pam_mode match_aw' MOD=wrs run

History

PAM was first conceived by Michael Berkowitz (GaretJax) and last released version 1.08 in 2005. reissue_/zyquist built his 1.11 (2015) rPAM version supposedly on a 1.09 ClanBase and 1.10 CyberGamer version.

Many people have made their own versions, ranging from color adjustments to rule changes. Thus many different versions have been circulating in the community.

vPAM does not build on rPAM, but on a widely circulating version probably based on the 1.09 ClanBase version. To prevent confusion with other versions, vPAM will continue at 1.12.

Random resources

Patch info: https://web.archive.org/web/20050124024705/http://www.callofduty.com/patch/ Official Linux 1.5b patch: https://web.archive.org/web/20050125090626/http://download.activision.com/callofduty/cod-lnxded-bins-1.5b.tar.bz2 https://web.archive.org/web/20050404011412/http://inherent.infinityward.com/faq/

Punkbuster (guides): https://web.archive.org/web/20130217023131/http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-cod.php

Punkbuster

Get client values from server: /rcon pb_sv_cvarval fs_homepath Get server values from client: /rcon pb_cvarval pam_mode

Handy CVARS for debugging

arch: architecture (?) fs_homepath/fs_basepath: paths to game files. version: show build information. username: computer user

g_logSync: 1 to flush game log after print. logfile: 1 to console log, 2 to flush after print. // 1 = buffer log, 2 = flush after each print dedicated: "dedicated 1" is for lan play, "dedicated 2" is for inet public play developer: 1 to print developer stuff.

Commands

set: set cvar seta: set cvar and flag as archive (saves to default config) sets: set cvar and flag as serverinfo (shows up in server details for clients) setu: flag as userinfo (sent to server on connect or change) reset: unset cvar

dumpuser: show rate and snaps

echo: echo string.

GSC

takeallweapons

level - round duration; resets on map_restart (e.g. round end in SD) game - map duration; resets on exitLevel (map change)

fonts: bigfixed smallfixed default(?)

wbrague/vPAM