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Swedish Legion Voice Chat Server

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:18:52 -0500

The SL clan has our own dedicated server that will show up in the internet server list if you are running Call of Duty 4 version 1.5.

While this server is usually open only to members of the Swedish Legion clan, on special occasions, we allow regular visitors and friends of the clan to use it as well.

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Here's the server info:

Server Name:	sl-vent.gotdns.org
Port:	3964
Username:	your assigned Ventrilo username
Password:	your assigned Ventrilo password

Here's how to set up your Ventrilo client to talk to the Swedish Legion voice chat server:

1. Download the Ventrilo client from here.

2. Launch the Ventrilo client application on your computer. The main Ventrilo window appears:

The Main Ventrilo Window

3. In the main Ventrilo window, click the arrow to the right of User Name (circled in red above). The Setup User window appears:

The Setup User Window

4. Click the New button. The Setup new user window appears:

The Setup New User Window

5. Enter the user name assigned to you. (If you are a member, your user name and password were sent to the email address you used to register with our web site when you joined the clan.)

6. Click OK. The Setup new user window closes.

7. In the Phonetic text field, enter your in-game name (without the "SL!" portion). Click the Play button next to this text field to hear how your phonetic name will sound to others when you join or leave the voice chat server.

8. Click OK. The Setup User window closes.

9. In the main Ventrilo window, click the arrow to the right of Server (circled in blue above). The Connection Editor window appears:

The Connection Editor Window

10. Click the New button. The Setup new server window appears:

The Setup New Server Window

11. In the Name text field, enter the Server Name above.

12. Click OK. The Setup new server window closes.

13. In the Hostname or IP text field, enter the Server Name above.

14. In the Port number text field, enter the Port number above.

15. In the Password text field, enter the user name assigned to you.

16. Click OK. The Connection Editor window closes.

17. In the main Ventrilo window, click Connect. You should now be connected to the Ventrilo server.

Note: Your user name and password were sent to the email address you used to register with our web site when you joined the clan. If you have forgotten or misplaced your username and password, email anyone in the SL! senior member group for assistance.

Adding the SL Game Server To Your Favorites List

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:55:28 -0600

This article describes how to add the Swedish Legion game server to your Call of Duty 4 favorites list so that you don't have to manually find it in the list of all available servers each time you play.

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To add us to your favorites list:

1. Start Call of Duty 4.

2. In the main menu, click Join Game.

3. Click Source: Internet at the top of the servers list and change it to Favorites.

4. At the top, click New Favorite:

5. In the IP Address field, enter sl-game.gotdns.org.

6. Click OK. COD4 adds the favorite. You should now see us in your favorites list.

Using Custom Maps

Thu, 07 May 2009 08:38:58 -0500

In this article, I'll describe how Swedish Legion serves custom maps, and show you how to use them.

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Often, players of Call of Duty grow tired of the standard set of maps included with the game. Luckily, third-party map developers are allowed to extend the game by creating custom maps and providing them to the gaming community as add-on modules to the base game.

Understanding Custom Map Ranking

In order to serve custom maps to you, the game server must run what is called a "mod" (short for "modification"). Besides allowing a server to serve custom maps, mods use their own ranking systems, which means that player ranks are initially reset to 0, and a separate rank is kept for each "mod". So when you connect to our server while it is running the SwedishLegion mod, your rank will be different than it would be when you connect to our server (or any other server) not running a mod. Your rank for non-mod servers is safely saved so that you don't lose your ranking on non-mod servers.

Playing on Custom Map Days

Swedish Legion has selected a few choice, good-quality custom maps to serve to you. We run these custom maps on certain days of the week. See the console messages in-game for announcements of which days are "custom map" days.

Obtaining Custom Maps

The custom maps we serve are hosted by this web site for fast downloading. With reported download speeds of up to 800 kbps, maps hosted on this server may be downloaded as fast as just 2 or 3 minutes. In contrast, maps hosted on a Call of Duty 4 game server are limited to only 13 kbps, which translates to extremely long download times. There are two ways to get the custom maps we serve:

Automatically Downloading Custom Maps With Call of Duty

This is the preferred way to get custom maps, because it is completely automatic, with less potential for human error. To automatically download custom maps with Call of Duty:

1. Start Call of Duty 4.

2. At the main menu screen, click Options:

3. Click Multiplayer Options:

4. Set Allow Downloading to Yes:

5. Connect to the Swedish Legion game server on any custom map day, and your Call of Duty application will automatically download and install the custom maps as the game server plays them.

Manually Downloading and Installing Custom Maps

For those who do not want to use the preferred automatic method, we provide ZIP archives including all of the map files for every single custom map we serve. After downloading each ZIP archive, you will need to decompress it, and then move all of the map files into the correct directory within your Call of Duty data folder, as described in detail below.

Manually Installing Custom Maps

It is important that you place the map files into the correct folder, or your COD4 client will still try to download them from the game server. Maps typically consists of three files:

mapname.iwd mapname.ff mapname_load.ff

These three files must reside in a folder named the exact name of the map, and that folder must reside in a folder named "usermaps", which, in turn, must reside in the Call of Duty data folder on your computer. With the files in the correct place, your COD4 client will not download them from the server (unless a map on our server has changed since you downloaded it).

For Mac users, the Call of Duty data folder is typically at:

/Applications/Call of Duty 4/Call of Duty 4 Data/

For Windows users, the Call of Duty data folder is typically at:

C:Program FilesCall of Duty 4

Mac Examples:

/Applications/Call of Duty 4/Call of Duty 4 Data/usermaps/mp_burgundy_bulls/mp_burgundy_bulls.ff /Applications/Call of Duty 4/Call of Duty 4 Data/usermaps/mp_burgundy_bulls/mp_burgundy_bulls_load.ff /Applications/Call of Duty 4/Call of Duty 4 Data/usermaps/mp_burgundy_bulls/mp_burgundy_bulls.iwd

/Applications/Call of Duty 4/Call of Duty 4 Data/usermaps/mp_village/mp_village.ff /Applications/Call of Duty 4/Call of Duty 4 Data/usermaps/mp_village/mp_village.iwd /Applications/Call of Duty 4/Call of Duty 4 Data/usermaps/mp_village/mp_village_load.ff

Windows Examples:

C:Program FilesCall of Duty 4usermapsmp_burgundy_bullsmp_burgundy_bulls.ff C:Program FilesCall of Duty 4usermapsmp_burgundy_bullsmp_burgundy_bulls_load.ff C:Program FilesCall of Duty 4usermapsmp_burgundy_bullsmp_burgundy_bulls.iwd

C:Program FilesCall of Duty 4usermapsmp_villagemp_village.ff C:Program FilesCall of Duty 4usermapsmp_villagemp_village.iwd C:Program FilesCall of Duty 4usermapsmp_villagemp_village_load.ff

Welcome!

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:49:48 -0600

Welcome to Swedish Legion! To access content on this web site you need an account. So start by creating an account. Once your account is created you may find these areas of the site helpful:

Learning about our servers:
read the SL Clan Servers article
Learning about custom maps:
read the Using Custom Maps article
Joining our clan:
read the Public > Recruiting > How To Join forum post