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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To assign a command to a particular key, open console and use the command \bind.

Examples:
\bind j “buy weapon_schofield”
\bind k “buy weapon_peacemaker”
\bind F4 “say Hi!” // (will produce a chat message onscreen)

These are the names to use for weapons and other objects:
weapon_winch66
weapon_lightning
weapon_sharps
weapon_gatling
weapon_remington58
weapon_schofield
weapon_peacemaker
weapon_dynamite
weapon_molotov
weapon_knife
weapon_shotgun
weapon_sawedoff
weapon_winch97
item_boiler_plate
item_belt
ammo_bullets
ammo_cartridges

You can also put your binds in your q3config.cfg file, in this case without slash/backslash (be sure to back-up it, before editing).

Examples:
bind j “buy weapon_schofield”
bind k “buy weapon_peacemaker”
bind F4 “say Hi!”

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Config files (.cfg) are text files which contain settings, scripts and binds for Smokin’Guns. SG inherited this system from his big predecessor Quake3 (see: http://www.quake3world.com/q3guide/configs.html).

The one config file everyone has is q3config.cfg, located in:

* Linux: ~/.smokinguns/smokinguns/
* Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/SmokinGunssmokinguns/
* Windows: %APPDATA%\Smokin’ Guns\smokinguns\
[- under Windows XP it expands to \Documents and settings\username\Application data\Smokin’ Guns\smokinguns\
– under Windows Vista or Windows 7, it expands to \Users\username\Appdata\Roaming\Smokin’ Guns\smokinguns\]

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You can get more maps upgrading your installation to the Beta version and downloading them from BallerBude FTP site.
To upgrade your SG installation, follow the directions you find in BallerBude site.

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In multiplayer online video games, ping refers to the network latency between a player’s computer (client), and the game server. [Wikipedia]

Playing on-line is a non-stop dialogue between your PC and the server: the server sends to your PC the position of every player in a particular moment and your PC sends back to the server your position.
As an example, suppose that Biondo is falling down the top of the church in No-name City:
– Biondo’s PC informs BallerBude server that he has left the roof and is floating in the air
– BallerBude informs other players’ PCs that Biondo is not on the roof any more, he is floating in the air.
These informations need time to travel through the Net. If you have a slow Internet connection — because your network is busy downloading something, or because you are playing in a server far away from your location — you don’t get the updated information in time and mistakenly see Biondo still on the roof. You shoot him with your 2 Colts but you don’t kill him because he isn’t there any more.

Bad Internet connection = bad (high) ping. Generally a ping higher than 100 is considered a bad ping.

The effects of a bad ping look worst when you use precise weapons, while with high spread weapons (like dynamite or Sawed-Off shotguns) they are apparently less penalizing.

Some factors that might affect ping include: Internet connection speed, the quality of a user’s Internet service provider and the configuration of firewalls. Ping is also affected by geographical location.

If you want a better ping play in servers close to your location, change type of Internet connection or choose a better provider.

Some player change the values of cl_maxpackets, cl_timenudge, rate and snaps in q3config.cfg file to lower their ping (search SG Forum for this).

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TheDoctor explained them to us in these words (More on BalleBude stats):

Obviously, BB stats try to measure how good players are. However, one should keep in mind, they represent just one of many possible metrics and no metric is ever perfect. What I mean here is, it is possible for a very successful player winning almost every game to be not in the top ten, while somebody who does not win every game has a higher score.

The following values are considered by BB’s Xlrstats: skill, ratio and kills. Skill is the default ranking value.

Kills is the number of opponents a player has killed.

Ratio is calculated by dividing the kills of player by the number of deaths of the player (“kills/deaths”). A high kill ratio is an indicator for players who have been constantly performing well over their whole account life time. One can optimize ratio by playing very carefully and defensive, possibly by camping at good camping spots. The optimization strategy is obviously to survive as long as possible while killing other players. Ratio is a long-term value meaning, if you have a series of bad games, it will lower your ratio and it would take the same amount of very good games, to let ratio reach the previous value. In other words, it is possibly to ruin your ratio for a long time.

Skill, compared with ratio, is a much more dynamic value. Each player has a skill value (default 1000) and killing an opponent adds skill points while dying reduces skill points, both relative to the skill relationship between the player and it’s opponent. If you kill a more skilled player, you earn more points, while you lose more points if you are killed by a nobody. Similarly to the ratio, it helps if you don’t die often. But if you are really hell-bent on optimizing your skill points, you first have to check the skills of the other players before you would join a game. If you play against overrated (=”overskilled”) players, you will quickly earn points while you can lose many points if a good player decided to create a new account, starting with skill 1000. The skill value will react very quickly to your current level of playing, so one shouldn’t play if one is not a hundred percent focused.

Xlrstats support even more complicated metrics, e.g. one could define that a knife kill is more skilled than a sawed-off shotgun kill. Currently, these features are not used.

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See also: Graph of *LAME* Clan Members’ Skills and Graph of *LAME* Clan Members’ Ratio.

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You can post your question in the comment form below, or you can post it directly in Smokin’ Guns Forum.

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