L4D Stats Options

[MonkeyFiend]

On the front page is a new link (in the quicklinks section) for Player Stats

The new stats system allow stats tracking on our L4D servers, including

> Kills/Deaths, accuracy, favourite maps/weapons/players etc.,
> Forum signature with stats data
> A ranking system (based on kills)
> An awards system
> Server chat and command logging
> Clan performance data
> Server population and trends

It's still in development, so expect lots of bugs. There's also a goodle maps page which shows where in teh world players are connecting from - at the moment the server hosts are reviewing some custom perl that needs to be installed to the server to make this work.

> L4D heatmaps: technically this works, but is disabled. A heatmap shows where players kill/die, identifying area's where they take damage or are ambushed. It's disabled for the time being because generating these images is throttling our webserver

An example:



Above you can see the routes where people kill stuff, fairly obvious I guess

thx.


MonkeyFiend

Nerd Note: The stats pages are ripped of an older free version of HLStatX,(Half Life stats system) a now premium (£6 per month) web engine. Because a lot has been rewritten to cope with L4D, there will be bugs

[K.]

hmmm is there a way of enabling the stats to show as you play the game? for instance instead of having to type top10 all the time lol

i;m not too savvy with hlstats , so is there a list of commands to try out?

also can the stats be tweaked to give more points for playing on advanced/expert? and maybe disable them completely for palying on "easy"

normal 2 points per kill
advanced 3 points per kill ?
expert 4 points per kill?

[MonkeyFiend]

For display of stats; do you want the stats being tracked live (kill by kill) or say at the beginning or end of a round?

I'll have to see what I can do with this, obviously people don't want to see others stats as it would be a big annoucey mess, so having live stats that were sent as private messages or similar.

I don't believe this exists in HLstats (or more accurately it would be in sourcemod) but I'm foolhardy enough to go madly adjusting stuff and see what happens


As for supported commands, many won't work as I took the last free dev version of the source code and bastardised it to work with the latest L4D, a lot of stuff was omitted or doesn't work with the game. Will try and piece together stuff that does work (or see if I can't some of the broken commands working too)

The points/difficulty things, I've not seen (hlstats being aimed at hl2/css etc., where people don't play coop ) any sort of code for this on the developers forums. The problem is kills are logged as kills regardless of difficulty, am sure there is a way to link these to the difficulty as a modifier, but again I'll have to do some research.

[K.]

any chance the stats can be tweaked slightly ?

if you could disable them if the server has the cvar sv_cheats 1

a member managed to kill 64 tanks in just under 3 hours play :/ which kinda buggers up the stats :S

i'm all for practice but i dont wanna practice killing witches etc and find i crown about 200 in just under a hour 1 day lol

[MonkeyFiend]

good point... will start coding for that now (doesn't seem to be any option built into hltstatsx but it shouldn't be too difficult to setup)

[ConTenDeR^]

I liek the heatmap, never seen that before!