wazerstar / csgo-modded-server

Modded CS:GO Server with WarMod, GunGame, FFA Deathmatch, Retakes, Minigames, Deathrun, Surf, 1v1, Practice, Kreedz Climbing and Soccer for Windows and Linux and can automatically be setup on Google Cloud.

CS:GO Modded Server

About

A single modded Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dedicated Server that you can change the active mod on the server from the admin menu and is setup for:

• GunGame +Turbo (get the next weapon straight away) +Deathmatch (respawn) +Quake sounds +Mario (on 3 kills)
• GunGame +FFA (free for all) +Turbo (get the next weapon straight away) +Deathmatch (respawn) +Quake sounds +Mario (on 3 kills)
• WarMod (competitive)
• Scoutz Knivez
• Deathmatch Free For All
• Prop Hunt / Hide n Seek
• Retakes
• Wingman
• Multi 1v1
• Practice (record grenade throws etc)
• Minigames
• Squid Game Steam API key required
• Red Bull Flick (only Flux map which has surfing and jump pads Steam API key required)
• Deathrun
• Surf
• Kreedz Climbing (this must be changed to as the first mod. It can't be loaded after another mod)
• Soccer
• Capture The Flag

Getting up and running:

• Running on Linux
• Running on Windows
• Running on Google Cloud

Mods installed

Mod	Version	Why
Metamod:Source	1.11.0-1145	Sits between the Game and the Engine, and allows plugins to intercept calls that flow between
SourceMod	1.10.0-6522	SourceMod is server modification for any game that runs on the Half-Life 2 engine
GunGame	1.2.16	Kill an enemy with the current weapon to get next weapon, first person to go through every weapon wins
DeathMatch	1.8.0	Required for GunGame to enable spawn protection and other things to the game
Quake Sounds	3.5.0	Plays sounds and displays text at certain events sometimes based on the number of kills
NoBlock	1.4.2	Removes player vs player collisions
WarMod	20.07.15.1214	Used for competitive matches, and provides the flexibility to suit any form of competition, including large tournaments down to clan matches
Practice Mod	1.3.3	Private team/individual practice servers
Multi 1v1	1.1.9	Sets up 2+ players in separate 1v1 arenas, when all the arenas are done fighting, the winners move up an arena and the losers move down an arena
AbNeR DeathRun Manager	2.6	Automates Deathrun Server
Map configs	1.3	Load mod settings on map change for mods that don't have exec's on map change
Deathmatch v2	2.0.9	Custom deathmatch
Retakes	0.3.4	Site retake gamemode
Retakes Autoplant	2.3.0	Automatically plant the bomb at the start of the round
Retakes MyWeaponAllocator	2.3	This weapon allocator simulates different kinds of rounds
Instant Defuse	1.2.1	Instantly defuse the bomb if no Terrorists are alive and there is a sufficient amount of time remaining
RankMe Kento Edition	3.0.3	Stats
DHooks	2.2.0-detours17	Required by KZTimer
KZTimer	1.100	KZTimer is a powerful, feature rich SourceMod climb timer plugin for CS:GO servers
SoccerMod	2017.5.5	Soccer gamemode
Command Time-Traveler	1.2.0	Run a command in the future
P Tools and Hooks	1.1.3-build19	Additional CS:GO Hooks and Natives
Gloves	1.0.5	Custom gloves
Weapon & Knives	1.7.1	Custom weapon skins
Accelerator	2.5.0-cd575aa	Crash Reporting That Doesn't Suck
Capture the flag	1.2	Capture the flag for CS:GO
Models in map	1.2	Allows you to place models in map. Required for CTF
Easy Downloader	1.03	Downloads and Precaches Files/Folders. Required for CTF
PropHunt	3.0.0	Terrorists choose a model and hide, and CTs try to find and kill them.
Sound Info Library	1.0.1	Better calculation of sound length and information required for PropHunt
SpeedRules	1.0	Advanced system to sync speed rules required for PropHunt
Simple-Downloader	1.0	Force clients to download files (audio for PropHunt)

Maps

You can source your own maps and update csgo/mapcycle_* to match or you can use my bundled maps that my server uses.

Download maps

Linux:

# cd to "csgo" parent directory so you are in the same folder as srcds
cd /home/steam/csgo/
curl --silent --output "automate.sh" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server-assets/master/automate.sh" && chmod +x automate.sh && bash automate.sh

Windows:

Download, unzip and unbzip all the files with 7-Zip and copy the contents from the csgo/ folder into your servers csgo/csgo/ folder.

Playing workshop maps/collections

To download maps from the workshop, your server needs access to the steam web api. To allow this you'll need an authorization key which you can generate here and set API_KEY to the key.

The console command for hosting a workshop map is host_workshop_map fileid where fileid is the number that comes after ?id= in the workshop URL for example: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2433686680

The console command for hosting a workshop collection is host_workshop_collection collectionid where collectionid is the number that comes after ?id= in the workshop URL for example: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1092904694. This command will then download all maps in the collection and create a mapgroup out of them, then host it.

Fast DL

By default the download limit of CS:GO is capped at 20kb/s and also adds additional strain to servers if multiple clients are downloading files at the same time on map changes.

sv_downloadurl allows CS:GO clients to get custom server content (maps/sounds etc) at high speeds from web servers using HTTP which also takes the strain off the game server.

A bash script is included to make this process easy and automatically create the correct directory structure and compress your files with bzip2 and create a "fastdl" folder which you simply host on a webserver and set your FAST_DL_URL on your server to something like http://yoursite.com/fastdl/csgo.

Windows users can download this and manually create the directory structure and compress the files. Anything in maps, sounds, materials, models and you need to keep the same directory structure. You should end up with something like:

fastdl
-csgo
--maps
--sounds
--materials
--models

If you want to use my bundled maps and this server setup you can use https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server-assets/master/csgo for your FAST_DL_URL linux environment variable or sv_downloadurl in cfg/env.cfg for Windows. Make sure you change sv_allowdownload to 0.

Updating Metamod/SourceMod

Periodically CS:GO will release updates which break Metamod:Source and SourceMod (the server won't start), and they will patch for the updates and release new updates. These need to be applied for the server to run properly. I will try to keep them up to date here which your server will automatically download if using my Linux gcp script but in the case I haven't updated them you can update them your self by checking the version I have bundled above and downloading the latest and putting on your server manually.

SourceMod

Download Linux and Window and in each folder do the following:

From /addons/sourcemod/ copy bin, extensions, gamedata, sripting, translations to your servers /addons/sourcemod/ and Merge All

Metamod:Source

Download Linux and Window and in each folder do the following:

From /addons/metamod/ copy bin to your servers /addons/metamod/ and Merge All

Acessing admin menu

Bind a key to sm_admin from console i.e. bind p sm_admin then press p and the admin menu should open.

If you want to add admins, you need to edit this file /addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini and add the admin to the bottom i.e. "STEAM_0:0:56050" "9:z" save the file and if the server is running run sm_reloadadmins and reconnect to the server.

If you want to read more about admin flags you can do that here.

Note: /addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini will be overwritten by my script defaultly each time install.sh runs so once you have install.sh on your server you may want to update gcp.sh and comment out the curl line which downloads the latest install.sh as it shouldn't change too much.

Open install.sh and after it dynamically creates cfg/env.cfg you there is commented out code that will dynamically overwrite /addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini with your own admins. Simply update the Steam ID's and uncomment the lines.

Changing game modes

Once you are setup as an admin, open up the admin menu and go to Server Commands > Exec Configs and choose a game mode i.e. "Competitive" and you need to change the map for it to properly kick in so open the admin menu again and Server Commands > Maps > de_dust2 and once the server changes map the new game mode will be running.

Running multiple servers

You can run multiple servers by modifying the launch scripts (install.sh/win.bat) and duplicating the lines that start the server and manually setting the port and optionally set the sourcemod path with +sm_basepath addons/sourcemod_custom +exec custom.cfg +servercfgfile customserver.cfg

Making changes to WarMod plugin

You need SourceMod 1.8 to compile and add the following into addons/sourcemod/scripting/includes tEasyFTP.inc bzip2.inc updater.inc zip.inc and copy the compiled warmod.smx from addons/sourcemod/scripting/compiled to addons/sourcemod/plugins/disabled.

On Windows: Open up a command prompt (Start > Run > "cmd")

cd /d C:\git\csgo-modded-server\csgo\addons\sourcemod\scripting
spcomp warmod.sp -o compiled/warmod.smx

Adding new maps to Capture The Flag

Type !props in chat to open the props menu. Stand where you want the T flag and click Spawn models > Ground (and Ground2 for CT) and a platform should appear in front of you. Enable Move models (On) and stand near it and grab it with your use key (E) and you can move it around. Rotate with reload (R) and push/pull with attack (Mouse1) and secondary fire (Mouse2). Once you have it on the floor, click Save models and close the props menu. Type !ctf in chat to open the Capture The Flag menu. Aim at the floor where you want to place it and push Spawn T flag and click Save flags and close the menu. Repeat this process for CT's and then reload the map and it should have the platform and flags.

Running on Google Cloud

Create firewall rule

gcloud compute firewall-rules create source \
--allow tcp:27015-27020,tcp:80,udp:27015-27020

Create instance

You need to create a Steam Game Login Token and set STEAM_ACCOUNT to the key.

To download maps from the workshop, your server needs access to the steam web api. To allow this you'll need an authorization key which you can generate here and set API_KEY to the key.

If you don't want to make a preemptible instace; remove --preemptible from the below command.

gcloud beta compute instances create <instance-name> \
--maintenance-policy=TERMINATE \
--preemptible \
--project=<project> \
--zone=australia-southeast1-a \
--machine-type=n1-standard-2 \
--network-tier=PREMIUM \
--metadata=RCON_PASSWORD=changeme,STEAM_ACCOUNT=changeme,API_KEY=changeme,FAST_DL_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server-assets/master/csgo,DUCK_DOMAIN=changeme,DUCK_TOKEN=changeme,MOD_URL=https://github.com/kus/csgo-modded-server/archive/master.zip,startup-script=echo\ "Delaying\ for\ 30\ seconds..."\ &&\ sleep\ 30\ &&\ cd\ /\ &&\ /gcp.sh \
--no-restart-on-failure \
--maintenance-policy=MIGRATE \
--scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append \
--tags=source \
--image-family=ubuntu-1804-lts \
--image-project=ubuntu-os-cloud \
--boot-disk-size=40GB \
--boot-disk-type=pd-standard \
--boot-disk-device-name=<instance-name>

SSH to server

gcloud compute ssh <instance-name> \
--zone=australia-southeast1-a

Install mod

sudo su
cd / && curl --silent --output "gcp.sh" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server/master/gcp.sh" && chmod +x gcp.sh && bash gcp.sh

Stop server

gcloud compute instances stop <instance-name> \
--zone australia-southeast1-a

Start server

gcloud compute instances start <instance-name> \
--zone australia-southeast1-a

Delete server

gcloud compute instances delete <instance-name> \
--zone australia-southeast1-a

Push file to server from local machine

For example a map:

On local:
gcloud config set project <project>
cd /path/to/folder
gcloud compute scp soccer_breezeway_lite.bsp root@<instance-name>:/home/steam/csgo/csgo/maps --zone australia-southeast1-a

On server SSH:
cd /home/steam/csgo/csgo/maps
chown steam:steam soccer_breezeway_lite.bsp
chmod 644 soccer_breezeway_lite.bsp

Turn VM off at 3:30AM every day

SSH into the VM

Switch to root sudo su

Check the timezone your server is running in sudo hwclock --show

Open crontab file nano /etc/crontab

Append to the end of the crontab file 30 3 * * * root shutdown -h now

Save CTRL + X

WARNING: If running an internet server; custom gloves and knives plugin could get you a temp ban

If running an internet server, and your Steam Game Server Login Token is tied to your account, Steam has banned the token plus a 30 day cool down for the account that created it in the past. Read about it here. There haven't been any bans in the last few years, and there are plenty of servers running these plugins, so do so at your own risk.

If you want to disable these plugins do the following:

Edit csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/core.cfg and change "FollowCSGOServerGuidelines" "no" to "yes"

Running on Linux

Make sure you have 25GB free space.

• If setting up internet server:

  Set environment variable STEAM_ACCOUNT to your Game Server Login Token

  Make sure you port forward on your router TCP: 27015 and UDP: 27015 & 27020 so players can connect from the internet.

• If setting up LAN server:

  Set environment variable LAN to 1

sudo su
export LAN="0"
export RCON_PASSWORD="changeme"
export API_KEY="changeme"
export STEAM_ACCOUNT=""
export FAST_DL_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server-assets/master/csgo"
export MOD_URL="https://github.com/kus/csgo-modded-server/archive/master.zip"
export SERVER_PASSWORD=""
export PORT="27015"
export TICKRATE="128"
export MAXPLAYERS="32"
cd / && curl --silent --output "install.sh" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server/master/install.sh" && chmod +x install.sh && bash install.sh

• If running for the first time

  Once the CS:GO server has started close it

  Copy your maps to /home/steam/csgo/csgo/maps/ or you can use my bundled maps

  If you want to use my bundled maps and this server setup you can use https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server-assets/master/csgo for your FAST_DL_URL linux environment variable.

  Update each /csgo/mapcycle_ file to match your maps

  Open /install.sh and after it dynamically creates cfg/env.cfg you there is commented out code that will dynamically overwrite /addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini with your own admins. Simply update the Steam ID's and uncomment the lines.

  Run ./install.sh again

When you join the server you can change game modes.

Running on Windows

Make sure you have 25GB free space.

Download this repo and extract it to where you want your server (i.e. C:\Server\csgo-modded-server). All the following instructions will use this as the root.

Create a folder steamcmd and download SteamCMD and extract it inside steamcmd so you should have \steamcmd\steamcmd.exe.

• If setting up internet server:

  Open \csgo\cfg\env.cfg

  Set sv_setsteamaccount to your Game Server Login Token

  Open \win.ini

  Set ip_internet to your public ip

  Make sure you port forward on your router TCP: 27015 and UDP: 27015 & 27020 so players can connect from the internet.

• If setting up LAN server:

  Open \csgo\cfg\env.cfg

  Set sv_lan to 1

Add admins

Run win.bat

Accept both Private and Public connections on Windows Firewall.

• If running for the first time

  Once the CS:GO server has started close it

  Copy your maps to \server\csgo\maps\ or you can use my bundled maps (you need to unzip them all)

  If you want to use my bundled maps and this server setup you can use https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server-assets/master/csgo for your your sv_downloadurl in cfg/env.cfg. Make sure you change sv_allowdownload to 0.

  Update each \csgo\mapcycle_ file to match your maps

  Run win.bat again

When you join the server you can change game modes.

How do I connect to RCON remotely?

Download SourceAdminTool for your OS (you can read about it here) and click Servers > Add Servers and put in the <IP>:27015 and when you see the server show in the list, down the bottom left type in your RCON password and click Login and you should be able to execute commands from the bottom text box i.e. exec gg.cfg

FAQ

Why can't I set the server to start automatically with a mod loaded

Because the way the server is setup with several mods it's not possible. You can't use +exec in the server launcher as that executes to quick before SourceMod is loaded. You can monitor the server once it's started (via RCON) and then load a mod i.e. exec gg.cfg.

Loading Kreedz Climbing

KZTimer can't be hot loaded anymore like every other mod in my collection #12.

So the solution is to have it always load with the server, and based on the map type to unload it if it's not a KZ/bhop map.

If you want to play KZ, you must do it as the first mod after the server has booted. You can't do it after another mod. So when the server starts up, via admin menu, RCON or server console run exec kz.

If you want to play KZ AFTER having another mod already loaded (i.e. GunGame) you need to restart the server and then load it, you can do this by running the command exec sourcemod/restart via the admin menu (Server EXEC > Restart), RCON or from the server console.

How do I restart the server quickly?

Run the command exec sourcemod/restart via the admin menu (Server EXEC > Restart), RCON or from the server console. It is best to restart the server when changing between mods as some code/settings aren't fully removed when changing between mods.

License

See LICENSE for more details.