• Extract the .zip to your /UT2004 main folder. Make sure to keep the folder structure.
• Press F5 the first time you join a UTComp server to configure and save your UTComp settings.
• Press F5 and click on the ready button to start the game.
• Help for those settings is located in the Client Side Settings section below.

• Extract the .zip to your /UT2004 main folder. Make sure to keep the folder structure.
• In your server ini, (ut2004.ini by default) add the following line anywhere in the [Engine.GameEngine] section:
  • ServerPackages=utcompv12rc2
• Load the mutator, using one of the following options
  • Using Webadmin, in the Mutators section, click in "utComp version 1.2" and restart the map.
  • Using Webadmin, in the Server console section, type in servertravel DM-DE-Ironic?Mutator=utcompv12rc2.MutUTComp
  • In game, log in as admin, and type in admin servertravel DM-DE-Ironic?Mutator=utcompv12rc2.MutUTComp
  • On The server command line, add in ?mutator=utcompv12rc2.MutUTComp
• Some settings can be configured by editing ini files: Help for those settings is located in the Server Side Settings section below

v1.2 RC2:

• Fixed a bunch of client side settings not saving

v1.2 RC1:

• Completely redesigned F5 GUI
• Completely new scoreboard with weapon stats, spectators, and net efficiency
• Added Full colored names support
• Fixed clientside AutoDemorec not working in v1.1a
• Fixed spectators being able to call new votes
• Fixed spectators causing warmup to end prematurely
• Fixed Brightskins in Onslaught (hopefully they work 100% this time)
• Fixed a bug with diseappearing turrets in onslaught
• Fixed a bug with goalscore 1 in Capture The Flag
• Made the default public text chat spam protection time less restrictive
• Added option to disable UTComp brightskins serverside
• Added option to force epic skins clientside with red, blue, and purple colorchoice.
• Added serverside option to disable Double Damage (bEnableDoubleDamage=false)
• Added vote on serverside UTComp brightskin settings
• Added vote on serverside hitsounds setting
• Added vote to enable/disable Warmup
• Added vote to enable/disable Double Damage
• Displays a message when someone votes yes or no in UTComp voting
• Increased maximum number of Gametypes in voting to 10
• Added serverside AutoDemorec
• Added serverside option to limit the maximum players in voting
• Added a check to automatically disable UTComp in Assault, Invasion, Last Man Standing and Mutant gametypes
• Added a check to disable warmup in CTF-Bollwerk2004-Pro due to a bug with ut2003 Jump Boots
• Serverside settings are stored in your server ini instead of utcomp.ini

v1.1a:

• Fixed timer randomly staying to 00:00 after warmup

v1.1:

• Fixed powerups sometimes not spawning at the correct times after a game started.
• Removed team overlay temporarily due to bugs
• Added option to disable head brightskins serverside
• Warmup now works in Onslaught
• Fixed team hitsounds
• Fixed warmup scoreboard, doesn't show kills anymore
• Fixed adrenaline after warmup
• Fixed the clock in time-limited warmup mode, it now shows the correct time before a game starts
• Fixed the Deathmatch 1v1 with LG gametype to also remove superweapons (not possible with epic's lightning guns mutator)
• Fixed the ESC key sometimes not working in the GUI
• Minor tweaks to brightskins

v1.0b:

• Added option to disable team overlays serverside

v1.0:

• Changed the Mutator Name to UTComp
• Added Warmup Mode
• Added Customizable Voting
• Fixed Stats on auto-screenshot
• Added screenshot mask
• Fixed Translator overlay effect
• Fixed Custom hitsounds not saving

TCM v1.0c:

• Removed custom-texture support
• Improved Clan-Member highlighting
• Added auto-demorer
• Added auto-screenshot
• Added non-console based Stats
• Improved CPMA-style hitsounds
• Added support for custom hitsounds
• Added hitsound volume control
• (Hopefully) got rid of any random skins not being colored

TCM v1.0b:

• Updated Brightskins with support for custom textures
• Added head coloring for brightskins
• Added Clan-Member Highlighting
• Added support for Many Forcemodel Choices

TCM V1.0a:

• Completely new BrightSkins implimentation
• Removed Vehicle Brightskins

TCM V1.0:

• Initial Release

All of those settings are found in the in-game F5 menu. If for some reason the mutator doesn't automatically bind your F5 key to that menu, you can type in mymenu in the console when connected to a UTComp server to bring it up.

• Brightskins
  UTComp brightskins are probably the most important feature in UTComp, and allow you to set bright colored skins to players, to increase visibility. By default, Epic has included "Brightskins" in the game already, but those are quite complicated to set up, (you have to change several options in your ut2004.ini and user.ini) and frankly aren't all that bright. If, for some reason, you prefer those Epic skins to the UTComp brightskins, or if the server disables UTComp brightskins, the mutator will automatically use Epic Brightskins without modifications to any ini files, as well as allow some basic configuration. Note that in gametypes that aren't team based (deathmatch), players will show as the Red color if you use Red/Blue based skins, or as the Enemy color if you use Teammate/Enemy based skins.
  • Use UTComp skins
    • Allows enabling or disabling of UTComp brightskins. If UTComp skins are disabled client side, "Epic Brightskins" will be used instead.
  • Base on Enemy/Teammate
    • If checked, you can set a color for your own team, and a color for the enemy team, regardless of whether they are on the blue or red team. If unchecked, you can set a color for the red team, and a color for the blue team.
  • Red Team Color (if Use UTComp skins is enabled)
    • Allows the player to set a specific color for the Red Team's bodies, using Red/Green/Blue sliders. If Base on Enemy/Teammate is enabled, this section changes to "Teammate Color" and allows you to set a color for your Teammates.
  • Blue Team Color (if Use UTComp skins is enabled)
    • Allows the player to set a specific color for the Blue Team's bodies, using Red/Green/Blue sliders. If Base on Enemy/Teammate is enabled, this section changes to "Enemy Color" and allows you to set a color for the ennemies.
  • Red Team Color (if Use UTComp skins is disabled)
    • Allows you to select a Epic Skins color (Red, Blue or Purple) for the Red Team. If Base on Enemy/Teammate is enabled, this section changes to "Teammate Color" and allows you to set a color for your Teammates.
  • Blue Team Color (if Use UTComp skins is disabled)
    • Allows you to select a Epic Skins color (Red, Blue or Purple) for the Blue Team. If Base on Enemy/Teammate is enabled, this section changes to "Enemy Color" and allows you to set a color for the ennemies.
  
  
• Colored Names
  Colored names in UTComp use an "override" system, which basically ignores what your actual name is. To set colors, you set specific colors to letters in your name, for example, you set your first letter to red, your second to blue, and so on. When you change your actual name, (either through the setname console command or in UT2004 menus) the color scheme stays.
  • Color Selection
    • Selects what should be colored by color codes. This is intended for very slow pc's, where colored text might bring a noticeable fps hit. The choices are:

    Disabled: No Colored text

    Minimal: Only on messages

    Medium: Messages and Scoreboard

    High: Adds red/blue death messages

    Full: Everything Colored

  • Letter Selection
    • Allows the selection, through a slider, of the letter for which you want to change color.
  • Letter Color
    • Allows the player to set a specific color for the letter selected above, in Red/Green/Blue format.
  • Reset Colors
    • Resets every letter to the default white setting.
  
  
• Models
  Forcemodels allows you to lock the models on teammates and ennemies to a specific player model, regardless of what model those players picked. Just like brightskins, models can be set on a red team/blue team basis, or on a Teammate/enemy basis. "Epic Force models" can be set without the UTComp mutator through ini file modification, but it's got two major drawbacks: You can't use every model built in the game, and you can't force a different model for teammates and for ennemies. UTComp's forcemodel implementation allows for both. Note that in gametypes that aren't team based (deathmatch), players will always show up on the Blue/Enemy Model.
  • Enable Forcemodel
    • Enables or disables Forcemodel. (duh)
  • Forcemodel on Enemy/Teammate Basis.
    • If checked, you can set a model that will show for teammates, and a model that will show for ennemies, regardless of whether they're in the Red or Blue teams. If unchecked, you can set a model for players on the red team, and for players on the Blue Team.
  • Red Team Model
    • Allows you to set a model for the players on the Red Team. If Forcemodel on Enemy/Teammate Basis. is enabled, this changes to "Teammate model" and allows you to set a model for teammates.
  • Blue Team Model
    • Allows you to set a model for the players on the Blue Team. If Forcemodel on Enemy/Teammate Basis. is enabled, this changes to "Enemy model" and allows you to set a model for ennemies.
  
  
• Hitsounds
  Hitsounds are a feature that play a "beep" type sound when you succesfully hit an enemy with any weapon. Optionally, CPMA type hitsounds can be enabled, which modify the "beep" sound pitch depending on how much damage a shot you fired did to the enemy. For example, a minigun bullet does very little damage, and plays a very high pitched sound, while a lightning gun headshot would play a low pitched sound due to the very high damage. (Think about double damage+redeemer...) This is especially useful for splash-damage weapons whose damage isnt constant, (grenades, shock cores/combos, flak balls, rockets) as you can guess from the sound how much damage you've done. (As opposed to having to guess from the distance of the hit relative to the enemy's position) This can also be disabled serverside, or limited to line of sight. Line of sight hitsounds only play when you can see the enemy on your screen, while regular hitsounds will play even if you fire a rocket down a hallway randomly, and hit an opponent 15 seconds later while you're in a completely different part of the level.
  • Hitsound Volume
    • Allows the player to set how loud hitsounds should play. To completely disable hitsounds clientside, set this to zero.
  • CPMA Style Hitsounds
    • Enables or disables hitsounds that change pitch according to the damage the shot did, as described above in the Hitsounds description
  • Pitchmodifier
    • Allows modification of the Pitch on CPMA hitsounds. The higher the scroll bar, the higher the pitch modification.
  • Friendly Hitsound Fike
    • For custom friendly hitsounds. Type in the name of the sound file in packagename.nameofsound format.
  • Enemy Hitsound File
    • For custom enemy hitsounds. Type in the name of the sound file in packagename.nameofsound format.
  
  
• Voting
  UTComp's voting system allows players to vote on gametypes, along with maxplayers, as well as Enabling or Disabling server side brightskins, server side hitsounds and warmup mode. When a player calls a vote, the other players get a message to indicate a vote is in progress, and can vote yes or no to the proposed changes by pressing F5. If a majority vote yes, the changes are applied. Note that brightskins, hitsounds and warmup voting require a map restart/change map to take effect.
  • Change Map
    • Changes to a new map.
  • Change Gametype
    • Changes to a new gametype and map. You can select a gametype from the drop down list, type in a map name (required), and select maxplayers. The number to the right of the maxplayers box is the maximum players allowed on the server. If you try to vote to something higher, it will default to that number.
  • Brightskins Mode
    • Changes the server's brightskins setting. The choices are UTComp skins Disbaled (Disables UTComp skins entirely, and defaults to Epic Brightskins), Full UTComp skins (fully enables UTComp skins for bodies and heads), and Body Only UTComp skins (enables UTComp skins, but not colored heads). This requires a map restart after the vote passes.
    • Hitsounds Mode
      • Changes the server's hitsounds setting. The choices are disabled, enabled Everywhere, and Line-of-sight only. This requires a map restart after the vote passes.
    • Warmup Mode
      • Changes the server's warmup mode from unlimited warmup to disabled warmup. If the server uses time-limited warmup, "enabled" goes to time-limited warmup instead of unlimited warmup. This requires a map restart after the vote passed.
  
  
• Miscellaneous
  • Stats
    Controls settings for the scoreboard stats.
    • Separate alt/prim stats
      • If enabled, scoreboard stats will be displayed in two different tables, with the primary weapon function on a table on the left, and the secondary weapon function on a table on the right. If disabled, Both primary fire and secondary fire stats will be on the same table, separated with slashes.
    
    
  • Auto Demo Recording
    Auto Demorecording records demos automatically once warmup ends (or when the game starts if warmup is disabled) of every UTComp game you play.
    • Enable Auto Demo-Recording?
      • If enabled, demos will automatically record when a game starts.
    • Demo Mask
      • Changes the names of the demo recorded. %d = date, %t = time, %p = player name, %m = map.
    
    
  • Auto Screenshot
    Auto Screenshot takes screenshots automatically at the end of every UTComp game you play.
    • Enable Auto Screenshot
      • If enabled, a screenshot will automatically be taken when a game ends.
    • Screenshot Mask
      • Changes the names of the screenshots recorded. %d = date, %t = time, %p = player name, %m = map.
    
    
  • Clanskins
    UTComp clanskins are a variation to brightskins, which allow you to set specific colors on specific teammates. This can be useful for public tdm/ctf/ons servers, where you could for example set it to show all teammates with names starting with abc (or whatever your clan tag is) on a different color, to tell who your clanmates are. Another example would be to set up a specific color for each of your teammates in a TDM game, so you could tell who's who without having to read the name over their head. If serverside UTComp brightskins are disabled, this is also disabled. Note that the descriptions below will use clan abc- and abc-playername as an example of teammates whose colors you would want to change.
    • Clanmate box
      • Allows selection of which Clanskins should be modified, up to a maximum of six.
    • Clanmate name
      • This is where you specify the name of the player whose colors should be different. If, for example, you want abc-playername to have a different clanskin, you would type in abc-playername in this box. If you wanted all of clan abc- to have a different color, you could simply type in abc- in the box and it would apply to all players whose names start with abc-.
    • Clanmate Color
      • Allows selection of the color that the name in the Clanmate name box will change to, in red/green/blue format.

• echo

  Allows you to print a message on your screen, useful for scripts. For example, echo hello world! would print hello world! on the player's screen.

• notready

  Used to remove yourself from "ready" state, in warmup mode. When every player has typed in ready, the game starts.

• ready

  Used to notify the server that you're ready, when in warmup mode. When every player has typed in ready, the game starts.

• setvolume

  Allows modification of the main game volume from 0 to 1.

• voteno

  Votes No on the current UTComp vote (does't work with Epic's map/kick vote)

• voteyes

  Votes Yes on the current UTComp vote (does't work with Epic's map/kick vote)

All of those settings are located in your server ini, which by default is ut2004.ini, under the section [utcompv12rc1.MUTUTComp]. You need to start your server at least once for the [utcompv12rc1.MUTUTComp] section to be created, along with its default settings.

• ServerSideEnableHitsounds (default: 1)
  • Enables or disables hitsounds.

    0 = All Hitsounds disabled

    1 = All Hitsounds enabled

    2 = Line of Sight Hitsounds

    Note that this setting takes priority over the Client's settings. If you disable hitsounds entirely serverside, the clients cannot have them on regardless of the setting they use. If you use serversidehitsounds = 1 or 2, then the clients can either turn them off or use the selected server option.

• ServerSideEnableBrightskins (default: 1)
  • Enables or disables brightskins.

    0 = UTComp brightskins disabled

    1 = UTComp brightskins enabled, but bright player heads disabled

    2 = UTComp brightskins fully enabled

    Note that this setting takes priority over the Client's settings. If you disable brightskins serverside, the clients cannot have them on regardless of the setting they use, and Epic Brightskins will be used instead.

• WarmUpTime (default: 0)

  Timelimit for warmup mode in seconds. 0 = Unlimited. This is ignored if bEnableWarmup=False

• WarmUpHealth (default: 199)

  Sets the health players spawn with during warmup. This is ignored if bEnableWarmup=False

• maxServerPlayers (default: 12)

  Limits the number of clients that can be voted through UTComp's "Max players" voting box. This is useful for rented servers, if you don't want clients to vote for a MaxPlayers number higher than you're paying for.

• mode

  Allows you to modify the default game modes or rules for UTComp voting, or add new game modes, up to a maximum of 10. If, for example, you wanted to add a new "Bombing Run" game mode, you would create a new Mode= line after the current modes, and configure the proper settings. Example:
  Mode=?game=xgame.xBombingRun?timelimit=20?goalscore=0?minplayers=0?mutator=utcompv12rc1.mututcomp?friendlyfirescale=0,weaponstay=true
  This system is very flexible, and allows for just about any combination of settings to be voted. If you want to disable a mode from the voting options, just delete the appropriate mode= line.

• ModeName[x]

  Allows modification of the gametype name that displays in the GUI for the clients. In the previous Bombing Run example, you would change the first empty ModeName[x]= line to "Bombing Run" to make it display Bombing Run in the UTComp voting menu.

• ServerDemoMask (default: %d-%t-%p-%m)
  • Modifies the name that Auto Serverside demorec demos are named. %d = date, %t = time, %p = player name, %m = map.
• votingtime (default: 30)
  • Number of seconds it takes for a UTComp vote to time out and fail if not enough players vote.
• bONSwepsinwarmup (default: false)
  • Enables or disables additionnal onslaught weapons in warmup mode. This is automatically enabled in onslaught, and by setting it to true, can be enabled in any other gametype.

    True = Onslaught weapons enabled in every game type

    False = Onslaught weapons disabled

• bEnableWarmup (default: true)
  • Enables or disables the warmup mode.

    True = Warmup Enabled

    False = Warmup Disabled

• bEnableServerDemorec (default: false)
  • Enables or disables automatic server side demo recording. This is disabled by default, to save on disk space for servers. (Recording a demo of every single game played on a server ends up taking quite a lot of hard disk space!

    True = Server side auto demo recording Enabled

    False = Server side auto demo recording Disabled

• bEnableSkinVoting (default: true)
  • Allows clients to vote on the ServerSideEnableBrightskins setting.

    True = Allow clients to vote on Brightskins

    False = Do not allow clients to vote on Brightskins

• bEnableHitsoundVoting (default: true)
  • Allows clients to vote on the ServerSideEnableHitsounds setting.

    True = Allow clients to vote on Hitsounds

    False = Do not allow clients to vote on Hitsounds

• bEnableWarmupVoting (default: true)
  • Allows clients to vote on the bEnableWarmup setting.

    True = Allow clients to vote on Warmup

    False = Do not allow clients to vote on Warmup

• bEnableDoubleDamage (default: true)
  • Enables or disables the Double Damage powerup. (Also known as amp)

    True = Double Damage Enabled

    False = Double Damage Disabled

• bEnableDoubleDamageVoting (default: true)
  • Allows clients to vote on the bEnableDoubleDamage setting.

    True = Allow clients to vote on Double Damage

    False = Do not allow clients to vote on Double Damage

• The wrong buttons highlight in the upper section of the GUI. The button you clicked should always be highlighted, but this doesn't work 100%. Note that the menus still work as intended.
• Net Efficiency on the scoreboard is wrong in Capture The Flag and Onslaught. (it counts points you get for capping flags, building nodes, etc.) We're looking into a fix for this, but it might not be possible without switching the mutator over to a full featured gametype.
• Spectator box on the scoreboard displays webadmin and demorecspectator as actual spectators. Those names could be filtered, but this could be abused by players.
• Epic's F3 player stats do not fully reset when UTComp warmup ends. This could be fixed, but it would create massive lag when a game starts. A workaround is being investigated.
• In Onslaught, if you have "Show Map" set to either "Immediately" or "When body is still", your Escape menu will pop up when the game countdown starts after warmup. You have to manually close it with ESC before the game starts, it does not go away on its own. Game countdown has been made slightly longer (from 9 seconds to 15 seconds) because of this.
• The Core health in warmup on ONS-Dawn displays 56% instead of 100%. This is because the mod automatically heals the core back to 5000 health every second on warmup to prevent it from being destroyed, yet ONS-Dawn's powercore has 9000 HP instead of 5000, for some reason. This doesn't affect gameplay: when the game starts, it goes back to its original 9000.

• What does FAQ mean?

  Frequently asked Questions.

• Map voting is already built in the game!

  We know. But one thing that's missing in epic's implementation is the ability to turn mutators on/off. For example, 1v1 games are typically played with the No Adrenaline mutator enabled, while Team Deathmatch is played without it. You can't vote it on/off with epic's mapvote, effectively making it useless for multiple gametype servers. With UTComp's voting, you don't need to set up multiple ports for various gametypes anymore, you can just set up one utcomp server, and let the players choose their own gametype through voting. If you don't want players to play a specific gametype on your UTComp server, you can disable them. (Look at the Serverside Settings section for instructions)

• Why did you change the name of the mutator from TCM to UTComp?

  TCM stood for TempCompMod, which was a mutator built as a temporary replacement until the TTM crew would release TTM2004. For various reasons, we felt like this mutator got good enough to be considered a full featured competition mutator, and a name change was needed to reflect that. Another reason is that there was confusion between TCM and TTM. This isn't the case anymore.

• Do you guys have anything to do with Q3Comp or QWComp?

  Other than the fact that the names are similar, no. Those were great mods, however :)

• I'm having issues with Assault, Last man standing, Invasion or Mutant gametypes!

  This mutator's main focus is in competitive gametypes (hence the name UTComp), and currently those gametypes definitely aren't popular enough in competitions to warrant the extra developping and testing time. As of version 1.2, UTComp automatically disables itself on those gametypes, so you can still switch to them without having to disable the mod manually. Assault support might be added eventually, but it's pretty low on the priority list right now. And we don't think anyone plays Last man Standing, Invasion or Mutant competitively at all. In fact, at the time of this writing, there are currently zero online servers running Last Man Standing. Therefore, it's not a major concern at this point.

• Where's the team overlay?

  Sadly, the team overlay implementation that was in 1.0 and 1.0b had some major bugs, and needs to be rewritten from scratch. This might or might not happen in a future version.

• "Something" doesn't work!

Did you read all the questions in the FAQ, as well as the potentially relevant sections in Client Side Settings and Server Side Settings? If the answer to your question is not mentionned anywhere, try contacting lotus or dnx3. (Contact info at the bottom of this page) Please make sure that your UT server is working properly: we do not have the time to answer basic UT server questions, only UTComp specific questions. If you need any info on setting up a UT server, I suggest reading the tutorials on The Unreal Admin Page.

• I used F5 as my "strafe left" key. Now this mutator binds it to pop up the UTComp menu automatically! I can't strafe left anymore!

  You gotta be kidding.

Main Programming, Design: Aaron "Lotus" Everitt
Team Overlay Programming, New Scoreboard, Graphics: Anthony "ono" Pilger
Design, Testing, Documentation: Joel "dnx3" Moffatt
And many, many more for load testing.

If you need to contact us, you can find us on the irc channel #dz, on irc.enterthegame.com. [mirc6 link]
Updated info should be up at http://www.teamdemise.com/utcomp in the near future.