Okay dudes and dudettes, I've finished my newest modern weapons mod and it is running like glass on our Modern Weapons Custom Maps server at 67.106.77.244:28960. Please check it out and let me know what you think.

My original Modern Weapons mod was based upon Tally's mod. Over time, I changed the way the guns shot (mostly ammo and recoil), removed the MAC-11, and eventually added a souped up Kar98, M1carbine, and MP44 with all customized sounds. So the guns were M4a1, AK-47, SIG552, M40a3, Kar98, M1carbine, MP44, and UMP. I later added TNT and fiery smoke grenades but they were glitchy, so I took em back out. Of the top 5 modern weapons coduo servers, 4 are using this mod (the 5th is using the Zoxo mod).

What I did in this newest version of my mod, was remove some weapons and pull in some weapons based on those in the Zoxo mod. I changed a few things about the guns and mapped them differently weapon-wise, but basically, if you like playing them in the Zoxo mod, you'll love 'em here. Ah, the sweet steely touch! So the guns now are:

G36, MP5, M4a1, AK-47, Dragunov Sniper, Kar98, M1carbine, and UMP. (No other server in the world contains this weapons mix!)

The mod also includes our very own {MOB} custom compass, and you may catch one or two other little goodies I added along the way. Enjoy!

And as always on MWCM, if you dislike any of the maps, or know of maps you'd like to see there, just speak up.

Frag on!

I got on for a couple of maps. The server had a good crowd along with a couple of MOB players. Enjoyed the Carentan map a lot but it is hard for an old man to keep up with those faster young folks.

The last time I checked, the inactivity kick was still in place so parking in the map to keep the numbers up will not work. It may not be necessary anyway given the number of players I saw on there this evening.

Old Man Mike

One crazy sniper rifle.

Oh yeah... luv that Dragunov Sniper!!! And man, with this new weapons mod, I'm having trouble keeping up with the action too!!! Wow!

As for the inactivity kick, that's just for people who are actually in the game but are not moving at all. After a couple-a minutes, you're kicked.

But it doesn't pertain to spectators. You can put yourself in spectate and stay there forever, or until I restart the server each morning, lol.

Ah, I missed that. Our COD2 servers are setup so that an idle person in game is first moved to Spec and then will stay there until the reset. In any event, I will try to do some parking on MWCM for the mornings that I don't have thunderstorms rolling thru.

Old Man Mike

Snowy Park must make a comeback!!!

Ok Steel,

First off, thanks for keeping a good server going. I know that a lot of work goes into just maintaining this thing. Now I am going to go against the grain here with your new mod. Main point is I liked your other mod better as it was different than what is out there. I like the new maps but I can play this new mod all over other servers so you haven't brought anything new to the table. I liked your old mod and your server cause it was unique, something different from everyone else. This mod is on many servers out there. Maybe it got stale for you, I don't know but what I do know is I constantly saw your server at least half or all the way full with the old mod so I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish. Maybe just keeping up with the jones's, but I don't like the jones's so that is why I came here to play. Could you please pm me or just respond here with the reason for the mod change? I am curious.


So if it is going to stay which it probably will, some comments that again will go against the grain. Dragonov Sniper, now we have a spray-n-pray sniper gun, takes the skill of aiming out of it. I like the other sniper rifle cause it took some real skill to run around with it and kill the folks with the full auto's. I'm sure though the masses will love it though cause it gives them the ability to point in the general direction and hold down on the trigger.


So if you are looking for feedback I will cast one vote for the old mod to come back. Thanks for all your hard work and I know you can't please everyone.

OMG- I thought it was pretty awesome. The one map I found really dark.. (not sure of the name of it). It alot of up and down ... when you're on the roof it's really great, you can just kill the other team when they try to get up. But I was on the wrong side and it took alot of power to get back up top.

The guns are amazing and the fast pace keeps you at the edge of your chair.

Downloads took me about 3 mins..(not bad). The sniper rifle is amazing->my favorite, especially if you find a good place to hide and ping them off as they run out of spawn. The AK-47 is the weapon of choice, I must always have one in my purse...LOL

Trip wires....I like, especially when a player is victim to mine...LOL

Great job Steel!!!!

T/A6Pak

Hi Rock, thanks for the great feedback.

There are several reasons why I made the new weapons mod. One thing is that I just retired in March and now have more time for playing with/on MWCM.

Also my main goal for MWCM has always been for it to be #1, translation, full of players. From its beginning in Nov 2005, til about Dec 2006, it was the #1 modern weapons server (re: www.game-monitor.com), and always around 25th or so of all coduo servers worldwide. It is now 4th of all modern weapons servers and about 60th of all coduo servers worldwide.

Whereas the server used to be full 24x7 most of the time, it had become 12 or so players during the weekdays, and 20-something on the weekends, very rarely getting full at all. And lots & lots of time of sitting EMPTY...... dreaded black-hole death to any server.

Thinking about coduo aging, ergo fewer players playing, it's not a good thing to let a server also slip in its number of players and spend increasing amounts of time empty. It was time to either turn it around, meaning attract more players, or shut it down and walk away. I chose to give one last try to save the old girl, and made this new mod.

I beg to differ with you when you say you can play this mod anywhere, lol. As a matter of fact, like I said in my original post, of the top 5 modern weapons servers, four of them are running one of the previous versions of my modern weapons mod, the one you like better (you can always identify my mods, as they've got "steel" in the filename).

There is no other server in the world with my new mod mix of weapons (until someone decides to use it on their server too, lol). I looked through the player stats for nearly the whole last year and kept the most popular guns and replaced the least popular guns. And I replaced those guns with some based on what I saw and really liked in the Zoxo mod.

So far, my new mod has once again filled-up the server. Heck, it's full right now, on a Tuesday morning! Been a long time since that's happened.

Keep in mind that an empty or poorly populated server is NEVER fun to play, no matter what mod or maps it's running. It attracts no one and is not worth the time or expense to keep it going.

Again Rock, thanks for your feedback. I will be keeping my eyes and ears open about the new mod. If at any point it seems the majority of players want the old mod back, boom, done.

No disrespect intended by my post at all Steel not that you took it that way anyway (Just wanted you to know that). I was just speaking my mind. You are more in tune with the numbers I am sure. As for the weapons, I was speaking from a general sense. For example (and remember I am not a server admin just a user) As an example I think "40 n over vets" plays with the similar mod/weapons maybe not exact but similar, ie MP5, UZI, where you have the Dragonov instead of the Sako, Remington. I think it is like AWE v2.1 or something like that. Once again I am not into all the details that I am sure you are aware of. I am sure I will play it here at times maybe not as much now. I know my son who plays as "Son Of...." doesn't care one way or another about the mods so he will still be on alot.



Yes, I see fewer numbers playing UO these days as well. Not sure if people have gone to 2 yet or other games and the numbers are just split up. I know I recently got 2 and BF2 as well. Don't much care for BF2 and COD2 well that is a whole new critter in a way. I hope people havent been scared off by COD2 ie. left UO, tried 2, didn't like it and went on to an entirely different game. Game dispersion may be why numbers have fallen off. Our servers too have seen drastic numbers fall off. Servers that normally had 25 or more players now sit empty. Kudo's for trying to keep UO alive and kicking.

@*USS* Sgt. Rock

At the end of your posted, you said Kudo's for trying to keep UO alive and kicking.
What do you man trying to to keep it alive? I never knew it was dieing. To me and alot of players UO is 10 times better then COD2. I been on lot of servers, that have no lack of players.

@Steel

I tryed your MOB server lastnight for the first time and I had a hell of a good time. It was 4am EST in the morning and the server was pack, i was shock to see so maney on at that time in the morning lol.

Hey Barkmann,

Thanks man, glad you had a good time.

Unfortunately, coduo is definitely dying, very slowly, but it's true. It's the same as what happened to Spearhead when COD came out. The die-hard MOH players said that Spearhead was 10 times better than COD and refused to believe Spearhead was on the way out.

Here are the stats: At any point in time there are this many players playing:

1,500 COD
5,000 CODUO
10,000 Condition Zero
11,000 Day of Defeat (regular and Source)
15,000 BF2142
20,000 COD2
26,000 BF2
144,000 Counterstrike (regular and Source)

There are other games too, but those are the basic military shooters. I don't have any stats to back me up, but I'll bet you that 2-3 years ago, CODUO was in those upper ranges for # of players.

(Rock, thanks man, no offense taken. 40novervets plays the full zoxo modern weapons mod, a hefty 60MB download. I don't like the full zoxo mod because it's too fat and gives each side different weapons... I want each side to get the same weapons, to keep things even. Anyway, sorry you are so upset by the new mod, I really am).

Heck Steel, I'm not upset, just sad. Change happens in life and we adjust. Yeah I have seed as big as like 47mb downloads for a single file on that mod. Man, CSS sure is popular.

Take care.

I DL'd the mod, and then I could not get back in to the forest....
I had to delete a file, and then I was back.
anyone else having these issues?

That happened to me before. My quick fix is to mumble obscenities, but then just exit out UO and go back in. That normally fixes the problem for good. If that doesn't work, just delete files.

It wouldn't have been anything to do with the mod, because I always put mods in upper-level sub-folders where they cannot interfere with the rest of a players coduo. If you go on a server where the mods download into your /uo/ directory, it is going to mess with you going on other servers.

However, MWCM may be running some custom map that doesn't play nice with Tuchola. When you play custom maps, it's typical to have to delete some out to be able to play others.

Played some last night. It's been a good couple 3 weeks since I've been on. Enjoyed a map or 2. I really like exploring new maps. Keeps things fresh for me.

Need more time to better evaluate. But so far it's great. Only problem was a file error loading the next map. Interferred with CZ's weapon mod file. To tired to bother deleting and reentering the game last night, went to bed instead.

One more comment regarding your statement "It is now 4th of all modern weapons servers and about 60th of all coduo servers worldwide." - Steel

This is a reason to shut it down??!!?!?!?!?!?!? What, are you mad?!

Yep, as steep of a spiral downwards that MWCM was on, if it continued, I would be advising to shut it down. I'd already discussed it with Old Man Mike.

I mean, it's one thing when the clan wants to start up various servers in the server box, to see how they will do. The clan rents that whole server box, so no big deal. But MWCM is not in the MOB server box, so it needs to earn its oats each month.