HON’s Wiki # Team Fortress 2 (TF2)

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Contents

• Resources
• Installation
• General Configuration
  • Command Line
  • Configuration Files
• MvM Configuration

Resources

• CFG.TF

Installation

Use Pterodactyl.

General Configuration

• App ID: 440 (Steam Game Server Account Management) or 232250 (Pterodactyl)
• Game name: tf
• Resource usage:
  • vCPUs: 1 (min)
  • RAM: 1GiB
  • Storage: 10GB

Command Line

In addition to the default Pterodactyl command arguments.

• +sv_setsteamaccount <token>

Configuration Files

Config dir: tf/cfg/

autoexec.cfg (example):

hostname ""
// Optional, set to an email address
sv_contact ""
// Leave empty to disable rcon
rcon_password ""
sv_password ""

server.cfg (example):

// Time in minutes per map, use 0 to disable time limit
mp_timelimit 30
// Maximum number of rounds to play per map before forcing a mapchange
mp_maxrounds 10

motd.txt and motd_text.txt:

• Contains the full MOTD shown to players when joining the server.
• motd.txt may contain HTML and is used by default.
• motd_text.txt is used if the player has disabled HTML MOTDs.
• If motd.txt contains any HTML/CSS/JS, it will be rendered using some ugly default font and opaque background.

mapcycle.txt:

• Lists the all maps in the map pool.
• Use tf/cfg/mapcycle_default.txt as a reference.

MvM Configuration

For more info: Steam Support: TF2 Mann vs Machine Server Overview

1. Set +maxplayers 32 on the command line.
2. Add only MvM maps to mapcycle.txt.
3. Set +map mvm_decoy (or another MvM map from the map pool) on the command line.
4. (Optional) To allow matchmaking, see the Steam Support link above.

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