CS:GO Modded Server

About

A single modded Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dedicated Server that you can change the active mod on the server from the admin menu and is setup for:

• GunGame +Turbo (get the next weapon straight away) +Deathmatch (respawn) +Quake sounds +Mario (on 3 kills)
• GunGame +FFA (free for all) +Turbo (get the next weapon straight away) +Deathmatch (respawn) +Quake sounds +Mario (on 3 kills)
• Pug Setup (competitive - alternative to WarMod, has captains who can pick team)
• WarMod (competitive)
• Scoutz Knivez
• Deathmatch Free For All
• Prop Hunt / Hide n Seek
• Retakes
• Wingman
• Multi 1v1
• Practice (record grenade throws etc)
• Minigames
• Death Racers (Wipeout) (Steam API key required)
• Jump Training (Steam API key required)
• Squid Game (Steam API key required)
• Red Bull Flick (only Flux map which has surfing and jump pads Steam API key required)
• Fortnite (Steam API key required)
• Go Kart (Steam API key required)
• Fall Guys (Steam API key required)
• WarOwl Teleport Gamemode (Steam API key required)
• Deathrun
• Surf
• Soccer
• Capture The Flag

Every time you want to boot the server, you should run gcp.sh (if on Google Cloud) or install.sh (on Linux) and it will ensure your OS is up to date, CS:GO is up to date, and pull down the latest patches from this mod (any updates that I push up).

Obviously, any changes you have made to the files in this mod will be overwritten so I have created a "custom files" folder where you mirror the contents of the csgo/ folder, and any files you want to tweak, you put in there in the same spot and they will always overwrite the mods default files. Read more about it here.

The simple quick setup:

1. Create your firewall rules
2. Provision your server on Google Cloud
3. SSH into server
4. Install mod
5. Install maps/sounds/models/textures for custom maps/mods
6. Create your custom files for hostname, admins etc
7. Ensure you have followed the steps for creating an online server or LAN server
8. Kill server if running ./stop.sh and start again gcp.sh (if on Google Cloud) or install.sh (on Linux)

Your server should be up and running!

Useful things to know:

• Access admin menu
• Changing game mode
• If you follow the steps above and use my default settings and config files it will automatically use my FastDL server so users download your assets quickly and takes the strain of the server.

Getting up and running:

• Running on Google Cloud
• Running on Linux
• Running on Windows

Mods installed

Mod	Version	Why
Metamod:Source	1.11.0-1148	Sits between the Game and the Engine, and allows plugins to intercept calls that flow between
SourceMod	1.11.0-6931	SourceMod is server modification for any game that runs on the Half-Life 2 engine
GunGame	1.2.16	Kill an enemy with the current weapon to get next weapon, first person to go through every weapon wins
DeathMatch	1.8.0	Required for GunGame to enable spawn protection and other things to the game
Quake Sounds	3.5.0	Plays sounds and displays text at certain events sometimes based on the number of kills
NoBlock	1.4.2	Removes player vs player collisions
csgo-pug-setup	2.0.7	This is a useful plugin for managing pug games, especially 10 mans/gathers
PugSetup RoundRestore	1.2	Restore the match to the previous round for pug setup
WarMod	20.07.15.1214	Used for competitive matches, and provides the flexibility to suit any form of competition, including large tournaments down to clan matches
Practice Mod	1.3.3	Private team/individual practice servers
KZTimer Jumpstats	2.3	KZTimer Jumpstats With Ownages & More!
Multi 1v1	1.1.9	Sets up 2+ players in separate 1v1 arenas, when all the arenas are done fighting, the winners move up an arena and the losers move down an arena
AbNeR DeathRun Manager	2.6	Automates Deathrun Server
Map configs	1.3	Load mod settings on map change for mods that don't have exec's on map change
Deathmatch v2	2.0.9	Custom deathmatch
Retakes	0.3.4	Site retake gamemode
Retakes Autoplant	2.3.0	Automatically plant the bomb at the start of the round
Retakes MyWeaponAllocator	2.3	This weapon allocator simulates different kinds of rounds
Instant Defuse	1.2.1	Instantly defuse the bomb if no Terrorists are alive and there is a sufficient amount of time remaining
RankMe Kento Edition	3.0.3	Stats
DHooks	2.2.0-detours17	Required by Practice Mod
SoccerMod	2017.5.5	Soccer gamemode
Command Time-Traveler	1.2.0	Run a command in the future
P Tools and Hooks	1.1.3-build20	Additional CS:GO Hooks and Natives
Gloves	1.0.5	Custom gloves
Weapon & Knives	1.7.7-2fa2527	Custom weapon skins
Accelerator	2.5.0-cd575aa	Crash Reporting That Doesn't Suck
Capture the flag	1.2	Capture the flag for CS:GO
Models in map	1.2	Allows you to place models in map. Required for CTF
Easy Downloader	1.03	Downloads and Precaches Files/Folders. Required for CTF
PropHunt	3.0.0	Terrorists choose a model and hide, and CTs try to find and kill them.
Sound Info Library	1.0.1	Better calculation of sound length and information required for PropHunt
SpeedRules	1.0	Advanced system to sync speed rules required for PropHunt
Simple-Downloader	1.0	Force clients to download files (audio for PropHunt)

Custom files

Any changes you have made to the files in this mod will be overwritten when the update scripts are ran. I have created a folder /custom_files/ in the root of the project, where you mirror the contents of the csgo/ folder, and any files you want to tweak, you put in there in the same spot and they will always overwrite the mods default files.

So this can be used to set the server hostname to something you want, set the RCON or serverpassword or set the admins of the server.

You can see an example of what I use on my server in the /custom_files_example/ directory, which sets the hostname, server image and admins.

For example; if you want to add yourself as an admin, that file is located /csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini. So to make your tweak to it, you would copy that file to /custom_files/addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini and add yourself as an admin at the bottom. Then when the update scripts run, it will copy your custom file at /custom_files/addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini and overwrite the default mod file at /csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini.

If you want to change the server name, or make any changes to any mod settings use the /cfg/custom_MOD.cfg as it executes at the end and can overwrite any setting. So if you wanted to change the server name for GunGame, you would copy /csgo/cfg/custom_gg.cfg to /custom_files/cfg/custom_gg.cfg and and write hostname "shipREKT GunGame +Deathmatch +Turbo" and any other settings you want and this file will overwrite /csgo/cfg/custom_gg.cfg each time the gcp.sh/install.sh/win.bat script is ran, and these settings will run at the end when you load the GunGame mod.

To generate this directory, you can run the gcp.sh script (if on Google Cloud), install.sh script on Linux once or on win.bat script on Windows where you extracted the mod zip and this is where you would put your custom modifications.

Creating an online server

If you are hosting an online server, you need to create a Steam Game Login Token, your server will not run online without this. Put this value in the STEAM_ACCOUNT environment variable or create a custom file for /csgo/cfg/secrets.cfg following the custom files steps (/custom_files/cfg/secrets.cfg) and set it in sv_setsteamaccount.

You also need to create an authorization key which will allow your server to download maps from the workshop. Put this value in the API_KEY environment variable.

Creating a LAN server

Create a custom file for /csgo/cfg/env.cfg following the custom files steps (/custom_files/cfg/env.cfg) and set sv_lan to 1, sv_downloadurl to "" and sv_allowdownload to 1.

Environment variables

Available via environment variable only

Key	Default value	What is it
API_KEY	changeme	To download maps from the workshop, your server needs access to the steam web api. To allow this you'll need an authorization key which you can generate here
MOD_URL	https://github.com/kus/csgo-modded-server/archive/master.zip	The zip for mod files to download and extract (defaultly this repo)
PORT	27015	Server port
TICKRATE	128	Server tickrate MM is 64, Faceit is 128
MAXPLAYERS	32	Max player limit
DUCK_DOMAIN	``	Duck DNS domain if you want to utalise the free service to get a domain for your server instead of IP
DUCK_TOKEN	``	Duck DNS access token to update domain when server boots
CUSTOM_FOLDER	custom_files	Folder of your own modifications to the mod that mirror the csgo/ structure and overwrite the mode files. More on that here

Can be configured via config file in custom files directory

These values can be set via environment variable or a config file in the custom files directory. Copy /csgo/cfg/secrets.cfg to /custom_files/cfg/secrets.cfg and write the values you want and this file will overwrite /csgo/cfg/secrets.cfg each time the gcp.sh/install.sh script is ran.

Key	Value	What is it
RCON_PASSWORD	changeme	RCON password to control server from console also remotely configure
STEAM_ACCOUNT	``	To host a server online, you need to create a Steam Game Login Token. Your server will not run online without this
SERVER_PASSWORD	``	If you want a password protected server

Maps

You can source your own maps and update csgo/mapcycle_* to match or you can use my bundled maps that my server uses.

Download maps

Linux:

# cd to "csgo" parent directory so you are in the same folder as srcds
cd /home/steam/csgo/
curl --silent --output "automate.sh" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server-assets/master/automate.sh" && chmod +x automate.sh && bash automate.sh

Windows:

Download, unzip and unbzip all the files with 7-Zip and copy the contents from the csgo/ folder into your servers csgo/csgo/ folder.

Playing workshop maps/collections

To download maps from the workshop, your server needs access to the steam web api. To allow this you'll need an authorization key which you can generate here and set API_KEY to the key.

The console command for hosting a workshop map is host_workshop_map fileid where fileid is the number that comes after ?id= in the workshop URL for example: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2433686680

The console command for hosting a workshop collection is host_workshop_collection collectionid where collectionid is the number that comes after ?id= in the workshop URL for example: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1092904694. This command will then download all maps in the collection and create a mapgroup out of them, then host it.

Fast DL

By default the download limit of CS:GO is capped at 20kb/s and also adds additional strain to servers if multiple clients are downloading files at the same time on map changes.

sv_downloadurl allows CS:GO clients to get custom server content (maps/sounds etc) at high speeds from web servers using HTTP which also takes the strain off the game server.

A bash script is included to make this process easy and automatically create the correct directory structure and compress your files with bzip2 and create a "fastdl" folder which you simply host on a webserver.

Create a custom file for /csgo/cfg/env.cfg following the custom files steps (/custom_files/cfg/env.cfg) and set sv_downloadurl to http://yoursite.com/fastdl/csgo, and sv_allowdownload to 0.

Windows users can download this and manually create the directory structure and compress the files. Anything in maps, sounds, materials, models and you need to keep the same directory structure. You should end up with something like:

fastdl
-csgo
--maps
--sounds
--materials
--models

If you use my bundled maps the env.cfg is defaultly setup to use my FastDL server so you don't have to change anything.

Running on Google Cloud

Create firewall rule

gcloud compute firewall-rules create source \
--allow tcp:27015-27020,tcp:80,udp:27015-27020

Create instance

Ensure you have all the settings for your environment variables.

If you have issues with the server not handling load, you may want to consider compute-optimized machine c2-standard-4.

gcloud beta compute instances create <instance-name> \
--maintenance-policy=TERMINATE \
--project=<project> \
--zone=australia-southeast1-c \
--machine-type=n2-standard-2 \
--network-tier=PREMIUM \
--metadata=RCON_PASSWORD=changeme,STEAM_ACCOUNT=changeme,API_KEY=changeme,DUCK_DOMAIN=changeme,DUCK_TOKEN=changeme,MOD_URL=https://github.com/kus/csgo-modded-server/archive/master.zip,startup-script="echo \"Delaying for 30 seconds...\" && sleep 30 && cd / && /gcp.sh" \
--no-restart-on-failure \
--scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append \
--tags=source \
--image-family=ubuntu-2204-lts \
--image-project=ubuntu-os-cloud \
--boot-disk-size=60GB \
--boot-disk-type=pd-standard \
--boot-disk-device-name=<instance-name>

SSH to server

gcloud compute ssh <instance-name> \
--zone=australia-southeast1-c

Install mod

sudo su
cd / && curl --silent --output "gcp.sh" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server/master/gcp.sh" && chmod +x gcp.sh && bash gcp.sh

If the installation has paused for a long time, restart the server and do it again.

Stop server

gcloud compute instances stop <instance-name> \
--zone australia-southeast1-c

Start server

gcloud compute instances start <instance-name> \
--zone australia-southeast1-c

Delete server

gcloud compute instances delete <instance-name> \
--zone australia-southeast1-c

Push file to server from local machine

For example a map:

On local:
gcloud config set project <project>
cd /path/to/folder
gcloud compute scp soccer_breezeway_lite.bsp root@<instance-name>:/home/steam/csgo/csgo/maps --zone australia-southeast1-c

On server SSH:
cd /home/steam/csgo/csgo/maps
chown steam:steam soccer_breezeway_lite.bsp
chmod 644 soccer_breezeway_lite.bsp

Turn VM off at 3:30AM every day

SSH into the VM

Switch to root sudo su

Check the timezone your server is running in sudo hwclock --show

Open crontab file nano /etc/crontab

Append to the end of the crontab file 30 3 * * * root shutdown -h now

Save CTRL + X

WARNING: If running an internet server; custom gloves and knives plugin could get you a temp ban

If running an internet server, and your Steam Game Server Login Token is tied to your account, Steam has banned the token plus a 30 day cool down for the account that created it in the past. Read about it here. There haven't been any bans in the last few years, and there are plenty of servers running these plugins, so do so at your own risk.

If you want to disable these plugins do the following:

Edit csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/core.cfg and change "FollowCSGOServerGuidelines" "no" to "yes"

Running on Linux

Make sure you have 40GB free space.

Ensure you have all the settings for your environment variables.

• If setting up internet server:

  Set environment variable STEAM_ACCOUNT to your Game Server Login Token

  Make sure you port forward on your router TCP: 27015 and UDP: 27015 & 27020 so players can connect from the internet.

• If setting up LAN server:

  Set environment variable LAN to 1

sudo su
export RCON_PASSWORD="changeme"
export API_KEY="changeme"
export STEAM_ACCOUNT=""
export MOD_URL="https://github.com/kus/csgo-modded-server/archive/master.zip"
export SERVER_PASSWORD=""
export PORT="27015"
export TICKRATE="128"
export MAXPLAYERS="32"
cd / && curl --silent --output "install.sh" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server/master/install.sh" && chmod +x install.sh && bash install.sh

• If running for the first time

  Once the CS:GO server has started close it

  Copy your maps to /home/steam/csgo/csgo/maps/ or you can use my bundled maps

  Update each /csgo/mapcycle_ file to match your maps

  Open /install.sh and after it dynamically creates cfg/env.cfg you there is commented out code that will dynamically overwrite /addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini with your own admins. Simply update the Steam ID's and uncomment the lines.

  Run ./install.sh again

When you join the server you can change game modes.

Running on Windows

Make sure you have 40GB free space.

Download this repo and extract it to where you want your server (i.e. C:\Server\csgo-modded-server). All the following instructions will use this as the root.

Create a folder steamcmd and download SteamCMD and extract it inside steamcmd so you should have \steamcmd\steamcmd.exe.

• If setting up internet server:

  Open \csgo\cfg\env.cfg

  Set sv_setsteamaccount to your Game Server Login Token

  Open \win.ini

  Set ip_internet to your public ip

  Make sure you port forward on your router TCP: 27015 and UDP: 27015 & 27020 so players can connect from the internet.

• If setting up LAN server:

  Open \csgo\cfg\env.cfg

  Set sv_lan to 1

Add admins

Run win.bat

Accept both Private and Public connections on Windows Firewall.

• If running for the first time

  Once the CS:GO server has started close it

  Copy your maps to \server\csgo\maps\ or you can use my bundled maps (you need to unzip them all)

  If you want to use my bundled maps and this server setup you can use https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kus/csgo-modded-server-assets/master/csgo for your your sv_downloadurl in cfg/env.cfg. Make sure you change sv_allowdownload to 0.

  Update each \csgo\mapcycle_ file to match your maps

  Run win.bat again

When you join the server you can change game modes.

FAQ

How do I add more bots?

By default bots are enabled in deathmatch, gungame, gungame ffa, retakes, scoutsknives and wingman.

The default is set to add 1 bot if only 1 human is in the server, and then if there is 2 or more humans there will be no bots.

You can overwrite the settings for the bots by creating a "custom file" for this file custom_bots.cfg.

If you copy custom_bots.cfg and put it in the custom_files/cfg/ directory (/home/steam/csgo/custom_files/cfg/ on default Linux setup) and you can modify it and change say bot_quota to 10 if you want 10 players at all times. When the server starts (on Linux and Windows) it will merge this file into the game cfg and it will execute every time bots.cfg executes.

You can also just login to RCON rcon_password yourpassword and use rcon bot_add_ct and rcon bot_add_t.

If you want to remove bots you use rcon bot_kick.

Failed to open libtier0.so

Failed to open libtier0.so (/home/steam/csgo/bin/libgcc_s.so.1: version 'GCC_7.0.0' not found (required by /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6))

This is because Valve ships their own copies of those libraries. As modern systems will have newer versions, you can safely delete the listed file from the server install. Do not delete the file in the system path (usually lib or lib32)*.

cd /home/steam/csgo/bin/ and rm libgcc_s.so.1 and restart the server.

How do I connect to RCON remotely?

Download SourceAdminTool for your OS (you can read about it here) and click Servers > Add Servers and put in the <IP>:27015 and when you see the server show in the list, down the bottom left type in your RCON password and click Login and you should be able to execute commands from the bottom text box i.e. exec gg.cfg

Why can't I set the server to start automatically with a mod loaded

Because the way the server is setup with several mods it's not possible. You can't use +exec in the server launcher as that executes to quick before SourceMod is loaded. You can monitor the server once it's started (via RCON) and then load a mod i.e. exec gg.cfg.

How do I restart the server quickly?

Run the command exec sourcemod/restart via the admin menu (Server EXEC > Restart), RCON or from the server console. It is best to restart the server when changing between mods as some code/settings aren't fully removed when changing between mods.

How do I update Metamod/SourceMod myself?

Periodically CS:GO will release updates which break Metamod:Source and SourceMod (the server won't start), and they will patch for the updates and release new updates. These need to be applied for the server to run properly. I will try to keep them up to date here which your server will automatically download if using my Linux gcp script but in the case I haven't updated them you can update them your self by checking the version I have bundled above and downloading the latest and putting on your server manually.

SourceMod

Download Linux and Window and in each folder do the following:

From /addons/sourcemod/ copy bin, extensions, gamedata, sripting, translations to your servers /addons/sourcemod/ and Merge All

Metamod:Source

Download Linux and Window and in each folder do the following:

From /addons/metamod/ copy bin to your servers /addons/metamod/ and Merge All

Acessing admin menu

Bind a key to sm_admin from console i.e. bind p sm_admin then press p and the admin menu should open.

If you want to add admins, the admins are located at the bottom of this file /addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini but we can't edit it directly as it gets overwritten when the mod updates. So we need to create a custom file following the custom files steps (copy the file to /custom_files/addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini) and add the admin(s) to the bottom i.e. "STEAM_0:0:56050" "9:z" save the file and if the server is running you will need to close the server and start it again (with gcp.sh/start.sh/install.sh/win.bat) so the custom file is merged into your server.

If you want to read more about admin flags you can do that here.

Changing game modes

Once you are setup as an admin, open up the admin menu and go to Server Commands > Exec Configs and choose a game mode i.e. "Competitive" and you need to change the map for it to properly kick in so open the admin menu again and Server Commands > Maps > de_dust2 and once the server changes map the new game mode will be running.

Running multiple servers

You can run multiple servers by modifying the launch scripts (install.sh/win.bat) and duplicating the lines that start the server and manually setting the port and optionally set the sourcemod path with +sm_basepath addons/sourcemod_custom +exec custom.cfg +servercfgfile customserver.cfg

Making changes to WarMod plugin

You need SourceMod 1.10 to compile and add the following into addons/sourcemod/scripting/includes tEasyFTP.inc bzip2.inc updater.inc zip.inc and copy the compiled warmod.smx from addons/sourcemod/scripting/compiled to addons/sourcemod/plugins/disabled.

On Windows: Open up a command prompt (Start > Run > "cmd")

cd /d C:\git\csgo-modded-server\csgo\addons\sourcemod\scripting
spcomp warmod.sp -o compiled/warmod.smx

Adding new maps to Capture The Flag

Type !props in chat to open the props menu. Stand where you want the T flag and click Spawn models > Ground (and Ground2 for CT) and a platform should appear in front of you. Enable Move models (On) and stand near it and grab it with your use key (E) and you can move it around. Rotate with reload (R) and push/pull with attack (Mouse1) and secondary fire (Mouse2). Once you have it on the floor, click Save models and close the props menu. Type !ctf in chat to open the Capture The Flag menu. Aim at the floor where you want to place it and push Spawn T flag and click Save flags and close the menu. Repeat this process for CT's and then reload the map and it should have the platform and flags.

License

See LICENSE for more details.