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Heya, It has been noticed that in our attempts to combat the trolls on the servers, a good deal of our player base either does not know the correct commands to catch these people, or can't access them fast enough to help us in removing them from our servers, so I have crafted a short guide, as well as some binds so that you can quickly and effeciently record demo's for your administration staff!
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So the first thing you need to know is how to record a demo once you have got one of these players on your server. The basic way is to enter your console and type record Troll. You might need to turn your developer console on so that you can access this (default key is your tilde ~, the key right above tab, to the left of 1) To turn it on, go to your Options, then keyboard, Advanced, Enable Developer Console.
(This is the Dev Console for you Newer folk.)
This will start steam recorder. Do not worry about size! Steam demo files are incredibly small and the recorder (on most computers) causes 0 lag.
Next thing you will want to do (especially if its a particularly bad/blatant troll, is grab their steam_ID. Do this by opening your console again, and typing in Status. Search through the list for their name and save it for the admins. This makes it so they can't just change their name and hide.
Once you have finished recording or an admin has taken care of the situation, open your console one final time and type in stop. This will stop the demo recorder and you can go about your day!
Here are some easy binds for you so that you don't even need to open your console to start demo recordings, incase you want to act quickly.
Open your console and type these binds in.
bind "KP_end" "record Troll"
bind "KP_pgdn" "stop"
Please note that demo files will be saved by default to your steam/steamapps/{your steam id}/team fortress 2/tf directory, and can be accessed there at a later date for any purpose (read: uploading to show the administrative staff).
You can change them from the KP_(whatever) that I use to whatever key you wish. I find using the NUM pad keys useful as they arn't used for anything in TF2. Just be sure to place the key you want inside quotes. Also, you don't have to record the demo as Troll, you can rename it to whatever you like.
These binds will make it so by pressing 1 on your Numpad you will start recording a demo, and pressing 3 on your numpad will stop the demo. Easy and fast!
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A final note, We know trolls can be irritating, and we want to remove them from our servers as fast as possible but please, Do not tell them if you have gotten an admin to log on/they are in transit. USually this just results in us having inconclusive evidence, or we can't get their steam ID so they just come back a few days later. Hopefully this guide will alleviate both of those problems, but it doesn't help when they are gone by the time an admin arrives.
