what's the difference between /map and /devmap?

(shrift) #1

I did a search of the forums, but I couldn’t trim the search results enough to find what I was looking for.

Everyone says to use /devmap to load testmaps, but I’ve been stuck at the Connecting screen when I use that. However, /map loads it. Why is that?

(=DaRk=CrAzY-NuTTeR) #2

devmap loads stuff up differently and lets you use things like developer 1 to make tracemaps etc etc…

(TFate) #3

Devmap is like a “cheat” mode, it allows you to access certain things and view things which can be handy for developing maps and doing other things. For instance, normally /cg_debugbullets allows you to see where bullets hit on a player which otherwise would definitely be cheating.

EDIT: If you’re having trouble loading devmap you had better load the map from in game. E.g. instead of loading from the menu, first start up a normal map and then try doing a devmap. I had the same problems.

(urgrund) #4

but I’ve been stuck at the Connecting screen when I use that

try
/sv_pure 0 before /devmap

(Bearcat) #5

You can also get stuck in the connecting screen when using /devmap if you have too many .pk3 files in /etmain…its some sort of a bug. Delete some and try again.