Hi guys,

The 1.8 patch features the ability to participate in a vote by just pressing F1 to vote yes. If you wish to vote no, just don't press the F1 key and your lack of vote will be interpreted as a 'no' vote.

Quick update regarding funny characters in names:
If you type in votekick, press Space and then press TAB, you can cycle through the names of people in the server. Just TAB through until you get to the person you want then hit enter. TAB'ing saves you from having to type the whole name
How to initiate a kick:
? Open your console with (~) or (`) key by default.
? Type in votekick playername (where playername is the name of the player you wish to kick) and press enter.
? You can also hit TAB to complete a sentence, so type the first few letters of the players name then hit TAB.
? A message will appear on screen: "Vote to kick playername initiated"

How to vote:
? Press F1 to submit your 'Yes' vote.
? In order to vote 'No', simply don't press F1.

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Information:
? Required Votes for successful kick - 51%
? Default timeout for kicked user is 10 minutes. You will not be able to rejoin the same server in that time.
? 3 minute cooldown before user can call another vote if unsuccessful.

Please let us know if you have any difficulties with the vote kicking system or suggestions on how it could be improved!

Thanks!

Ok thanks.Sounds interesting and geeky.

Ahh this is so it cant be turned around and used against non cheaters. Like what happen in cod 4. hackers just twisted it and then it vote kick who ever initiated the vote kick... nice idea.... also whats up with cvars?

While i do like the idea about being able to kick hackers unfortunently the little kids that dont know skills from hacks are gonna make us skilled players suffer i hope u guys have some measures on this feature to not have us players that are commited and skilled getting kicked for no reason.

Ok, waiting !

a close friend that is really good. and ppl think he hacks, which he doesnt. and probably if they have this feature, a lot of good players might get kicked out if they have an outrageous score.

Im concerned that the majority of players wont know how to use this feature and thus it will be useless. A lot of people have trouble comprehending a simple F1-F2 vote kick system.

If you are too good then donot play with noobs.They have every right to kick you.Play with your match or donot play.That how this world works.

Honestly, can you stop stalling and just give us the commands to votekick. The community isn't exactly all childish children with no knowledge of judgement.

The feature should be simple.. votekick kicks the player from the game.. that's all there is to it. We need to be able to defend ourselves against people ruining the game for us.

A long dragged out guide isn't needed. You're overdoing it, in my opinion, because it should be quite simple and straightforward in the process.

So please just post the commands. I can initiate a votekick with votekick PlayerName in the console however nobody knows how to vote yes.

There are more efficient ways of working this out Cry-Adam. I'm just coming from a business and common sense standpoint. Not some idiot whose whining on a game forum. (although there tend to be lots of those on game forums)

Im concerned that the majority of players wont know how to use this feature and thus it will be useless. A lot of people have trouble comprehending a simple F1-F2 vote kick system.
I wouldn't exactly go that far in judging people's comprehension. That's not the problem. The problem is the feature isn't straightforward or obvious at all and is currently buried deep within the command console.

Good i am waiting that guide, maybe we will finaly able to kick those cheater. \o/

(Expecially the one with the invisibility on when they use big weapon without the silence stuff.)

If you are too good then donot play with noobs.They have every right to kick you.Play with your match or donot play.That how this world works.

Thank you.

I'm a noob (but friggin' trying!) and would never vote off a great player (how would I learn then?), but its nice to hear someone say that. If I was good I'd be looking for those still better. If I was into "owning" lesser players, well, I might deserve to get kicked.

I'm not even into punishing cheats, I just want them to go away so I can enjoy my noobliness in peace. Great players dont ruin my day at all.... cheat paranoia sure does, though.

PS TY cry-adam for deleting my post on this topic and starting a proper one that addresses the issue "up top"

If you are too good then donot play with noobs.They have every right to kick you.Play with your match or donot play.That how this world works.

Thank you.

I'm a noob (but friggin' trying!) and would never vote off a great player (how would I learn then?), but its nice to hear someone say that. If I was good I'd be looking for those still better. If I was into "owning" lesser players, well, I might deserve to get kicked.

I'm not even into punishing cheats, I just want them to go away so I can enjoy my noobliness in peace. Great players dont ruin my day at all.... cheat paranoia sure does, though.

PS TY cry-adam for deleting my post on this topic and starting a proper one that addresses the issue "up top"

If a skilled player is kicking ass and its because theres lesser players with skill or "noobs" to say that doesn't give you the right to kick them cause of that see its these types of problems us skilled players will keep having people like you or others that would kick us just cause your not as skilled or new to the game.

Is it possible to disable this feature on your own server to stop people kicking you off your own server, and to prevent unwanted server administration from people unnecessarily kicking players? And also how do we enable the server admin reserved slot feature of this patch?

Normally this would be done in the config: set g_allowVote "0"
And: set sv_privatePassword "xxxxx"

I'm with Gameservers.com and was given a sparse config file that I have had to add other commands to myself, so can you guys possibly fill me in on the server config commands needed if that is what is required, or explain how these features work with Crysis 2?

Cheers

ill make a simple start guide here;)

press "`" to open console
type: votekick "nameplayer" to start a kickvote(dont include clan tags and i dont know if it works with partial names)
in console type: "vote 1" for yes
or type NOTHING AT ALL for a no vote(dont vote at all lol)

try typing in vote 10 it a says a yes to:P

normally there should be an option to turn off kick vote. If not we can expect to see it in next patch. And all the "skilled" players, if you have problem with it, use the matchmaking service

what about people having strange characters in their name???

I even saw a cheater with a smiley face in his nick

what about people having strange characters in their name???

I even saw a cheater with a smiley face in his nick

yeah, ehm, just forget it its like the best legal way of not getting votekicked^^

hopefully the guide will answer a question i am sure most people have: what stops them from coming back?

although i do have to admit that however frustrating it might be seeing a hacker come back repeatedly is quite funny

press "`" to open console
type: votekick "nameplayer" to start a kickvote(dont include clan tags and i dont know if it works with partial names)
in console type: "vote 1" for yes
or type NOTHING AT ALL for a no vote(dont vote at all lol)

try typing in vote 10 it a says a yes to:P

Good luck explaing it to the casuals: people who don't understand anything about pc/programming/coding etcetc. I just had an hacker with auto aim on( Note: impressive work with the anti-hacks, i'd love to see your code that try to stop them from auto aiming, having infinity energy, no reloading time and so on. Took them what 2-3 hours to bypass everything you did in these 2-3 weeks?). I thought, np finally we will **** them and kick the **** out of them. I was wrong.

It took me 5 mins to take his name down, since it had the char "|"(try to use that char while you are in the console...) in his name( Congratulation again to not forbid/instant ban usernames with stupid chars in it) and 5-10 mins to explain to the players in the server what to do(how to vote for example, which resulted in MAXIMUM FAILURE, most of them were just doing the following "y \1" or "y \\1vote" and other retarded things like that).

Before everyone understood what to do, the hacker left. gg

Seriously, couldn't you make it more harder for us? God bless your incompetence Crysis/Crytek.

Note: does not prevent kicked user from rejoining immediately. That's one of the failures of the inclusion of vote kick.

Another game another hack. So after explaining what to do i managed to get 5 votes(including mine). You need 7 votes and apparently you can vote even if you initiated the vote to kick X player. There is also a "cooldown" , you can't just spam it... 1-2 mins before you can attempt again to vote?

A console command kick system - just amazing. By the time you educate enough players to vote "yes" to kick a hacker for the vote to pass, the game will be over.

can you please ay somepoint make it quick and easier to use rather than having to press the button to open the console commands and having to type out 'votekick' and then players name, because so meny people have the most stupidly random user names that no one is going to be able to know their names without having to refrance to the hackers name, which you can't see once the console command is up.

basicaly is there a quicker more polished way of doing this?

Rofl!! Console kick system ... LOLOLOL