Here: http://www.smokin-guns.org/downloads

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Default key (US keyboard layout) is the tilde character (~). The same key is used to close it.

Generally speaking, it’s the key placed under the ESC one.

With some systems and keyboard layouts, however, tilde is obtained by a combination of AltGr + the key at left of Backspace.

If none of these solutions works press Shift+Escape at the same time, this will bring down the console on any system.

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You simply need to add the caret character (^) and then a number, as shown here:

^1 red
^2 green
^3 yellow
^4 blue
^5 turquoise
^6 pink
^7 white

For instance, *LAME* Biondo is written: ^1*^4LAME^1* ^6Biondo

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In order to get cash and be able to buy your equipment, you can collect money that you occasionally find in the map.

You can also get money killing other players (the amount of money you get depends on the rank of the player you killed).

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The buy menu allows you to purchase equipment using the money you earn for killing people or for accomplishing your mission. By default, pressing the “B” key will open it. Navigating the buy menu is done with either number keys, or the mouse.

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To mount an already deployed Gatling gun, move behind it, point your crosshair at it, and when your crosshair turns yellow press the “use” key (default “E“).

Secondary Fire disassembles the Gatling gun so you can carry it with you.

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The scope is a device used for sniping and can only be attached to the Sharps rifle. If you own a Sharps rifle and a scope, then just press your “use scope” key (default Enter) to attach the scope to the rifle. Now you can zoom in by pressing the secondary fire button.

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Hold down your reload button (default “R“) and then press the primary fire button to reload the left pistol and the secondary fire button for the right pistol.

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For some weapons, definitely yes.
Have a look at the equipment in SG Manual, where “Primary Fire” means shooting with left mouse button and “Secondary Fire” with the right one.

Pistols: Remington 1858 Model, Smith & Wesson Schofield, Colt Peacemaker:
With secondary fire you shoot faster (though less accurate than with primary fire) leaving your opponent no time to counteract.

Shotguns: Remington 12 Gauge, Sawed-Off Shotgun:
Secondary fire = double shot (both barrels).

Bowie knife:
If you have more than one knife you can switch between slashing and throwing mode with the secondary fire button.

Dynamite Stick, Molotov Cocktail:
Secondary fire is used to light them.

Gatling Gun
Secondary fire disassembles the Gatling gun so you can carry it with you.

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Use dynamite.

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Apart from the fact that bots usually behave in strange ways (see Bots or Humans? ), you can say it watching the score table: bots have ping 0, and usually (but not in all servers) a gun barrel in the first table column (named “Skill”). The number of bullets in the barrel (from 1 to 6) shows how much skilled the bot is.

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To record a gameplay open console and type the command: \record
You can give a particular name to the demo file saved with the command: \record NAME (where “NAME” is the name you have chosen)
To stop recording use: \stoprecord
And to review the demo: \demo NAME — or use the visual interface of Smokin’ Guns (clicking on the book)

At least starting with SG 1.1b4, you can convert a demo to an AVI file. While reviewing the demo, issue the console command \video NAME (where NAME is the name of the AVI file you want to obtain). The AVI will be saved in the directory “videos” close to the “demos” directory.

Mainly as anti-cheat feature, BallerBude records the demos of all players that win a game or reach at least 27 points of score. You can find them in BallerBude‘s stats site.
If you’d like to watch one of BallerBude‘s demos, follow the directions at the bottom of their page.

Update: Another easy way to record video of the game is using the freeware called Fraps, available for download from their site. Really easy in use software, compatible with all recent Windows versions (from XP to 7).

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First of all, are you sure he is a cheater? It happens often that a newcomer, with no game experience and unaware of the basic rules, accuses other players to cheat only because of their skills.

When in doubt, spectate and record the suspect’s game (read how in another of these FAQ). Review the demo to see what he saw and to hear what he heard. When you are sure he cheated, write an email to server administrators. You should find email address opening ServerInfo window in game, or in server list; if you use Monster Browser or XQF, you can also find it there.

Mainly as anti-cheat feature, BallerBude records the demos of all players that win a game or reach at least 27 points of score. You can find them in BallerBude‘s stats site. If you’d like to watch one of BallerBude‘s demos, follow the directions at the bottom of their page.

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In SpecialBude you can climb every vertical surface. When you are close to the surface, just jump and climb. It’s fun!

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A handicap is something that penalizes you: you make less damage to your opponents while you become more vulnerable. It’s only useful to good players that want play at the same level of noobs.

To remove your handicap, type: ESC –> Player –> Handicap … and select “NONE”.

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Occasionally, it happens that the master server for SG is down, and your client can’t download an updated list of SG servers. In February 2012 the problem has become chronic, with the missing of the main master server. Read these threads in SG forum: Master Server, This is the end…, Serverlist of Monsterbrowser.

You can use SG console to connect:

• open SG console
• type “\connect [IP address]:[port]” (without quotes). Where [IP address] is the server address, and [port] is the server port. If no port is specified, the default port is used, that means 27960.

For example, to connect to Baller Bude you have to type: \connect 212.65.13.87:27960 or \connect 212.65.13.87.

Here are addresses and ports of most famous SG servers nowadays.
[Email addresses published here are public, and are obfuscated via JavaScript as a measure against bots. If you want yours to be removed please write to sg.biondo [at] gmail [dot] com].

[Last update: 06 Mar 2012. Probably a more up to date table can be found here: http://forum.smokin-guns.org/viewtopic.php?p=22862#22862]

Since the end of February the official mater server is "master.smokinguns.fr". Add the following line to your q3config.cfg in order to get the ingame servers list:

seta sv_master1 "master.smokin-guns.org"

If it doesn’t work, try one of the following new master servers:
seta sv_master1 "parttimegeeks.net:27950"
seta sv_master1 "master.q3alive.net"

Warning: not all servers are reporting to these masters yet. If you have added servers to your Monster Browser manually, some of them might disappear when you reload the server list.

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This is a really annoying problem, that luckily doesn’t affect all servers. While waiting for new release of SG that should definitely solve the problem, you can to edit your hosts file and add this line:

91.121.39.115 authorize.smokin-guns.net update.smokin-guns.net

This will be enough to let you connect.

The hosts file used by your computer to map hostnames to IP addresses. The hosts file is a plain text file, and is conventionally named hosts.

Its location in the file system depends on the operating system you are using:

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