COD4 Console Commands are a great tool to improve your Call of Duty experience. To open the console simply press the ~ key which is located directly below the escape key. I see a lot of people online trying to type commands into chat, this doesn’t work, you need to open the console. Then you can type in the commands, note they all begin with the key, located directly above the Enter key.

Lets take a look at some of the more useful and commonly used COD4 Console Commands.

cg_drawFPS 1

Displays your FPS (Frames Per Second) in the upper right hand corner. The higher your FPS the smoother the game runs, the lower your FPS the choppier the game runs.

cg_drawFPS 0

Turns off the FPS display in the upper right hand corner. Note that that 0 turns off any command while 1 turns it on.

cg_drawlagometer 1

Creates a graph in the lower left hand corner of your screen. For the top meter in the graph you want it to be mostly blue. Blue means you are refreshing in sync with the server and everything is going good. Yellow is bad, it means you are out of sync with the server. Don’t panic if you have a little bit of yellow, but you still want most of it to be blue. For the bottom meter you want it to be green. Green means your packet transfer is smooth, red and yellow are bad and means your data transfer is flaky.

cg_FOV 80

This changes your visible field of view from 65 degrees to 80 degrees. It essentially moves you back so you can see a wider area. The drawback is that everything then appears smaller. I don’t know if it is better to have a larger FOV, I think it is mostly based on personal preference.

All COD4 console commands:

Points of interest
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com_maxfps “125″
cl_packetdup “2″
cl_maxpackets “63″
rate “25000″
snaps “30″
cg_drawFPS “Simple”
cg_drawFPSLabels “1″
cg_drawLagometer “1″

Commands
/serverinfo – This command shows the server settings and configurations.
/map

– This will load the given map.
/map_rotate – This will load the next map of the rotation. This is set in the ‘sv_maprotation’ file on your server.
/map_restart – This will restart the current map.
/fast_restart – This will restart the current map just like /map_restart but is much faster as it will not load the map again. It will just restart the map.
/status – This shows information about the connected players. This includes the client ID, score, ping, GUID, name and IP address. The ID and name can be used for the following commands.
/tell [player id] – This will display a message to a specific player. The ID is given with the /status command.
/clientkick [player id] – This will kick a player according to its ID (given with the /status command).
/kick [player name] – This will do the same as the /clientkick command, but this command requires the player’s name. However, some names are very difficult to enter (with colour codes etc.), thats why the /clientkick commands is easier in use. You can use ‘all’ as player name, this will kick all players from the server.
/onlykick [player name] – Does the same as /kick as far as I know.
/banClient [player id] – This command will ban a player according to its ID. The player’s GUID will be added to ban.txt.
/banUser [player name] – This command does the same as the /banclient command. However, this requires you to fill in the player’s name, it is therefore advised to use the /banclient command (names can be long or contain colour codes).
/tempBanClient [player id] – This will temporary ban a player using the player’s ID. The length of a temporary ban can be changed in the server configuration file.
/tempBanUser [player name] – This will temporary ban a player using the player’s name.
/unbanUser [player name] – This will unban a user according to the player’s name. If the player’s name appears more than once in ban.txt, you can edit the file and remove the banned player manually.
/dumpuser [player name] – This will give information about the player.
/killserver – As the name says, it will shut your server down.

RCON usage
It is very likely that you are not playing at the same location (IP address) as your server is. Thats where we use RCON (= remote control) commands for. Using RCON is very easy, just add ‘/rcon ‘ in front of the commands above (removing the ‘/’ of those commands). But before you can use RCON, you will have to login:
/rcon login [password] – Fill in the password of the server and you can use RCON commands.

Examples of RCON commands:
/rcon map mp_pipeline
/rcon status
/rcon banclient 5

More (useless) commands
/serverstatus – This will give you information about the server settings and a quick list of online players.
/serverinfo – This will give you some diversified about IW settings on your server and some useless information.
/systeminfo – This will give you a list of the settings your server has.
/clientinfo – This will give you information about the yourself as client.
/showip – This will provide your IP address.
/cmdlist – This will show a complete list of commands available.

The actual creator for the mentioned video game will be Treyarch which is produced through Activision. Black Ops is considered one of the most extreme, clenching and also thrilling video game within the Call of Duty series. Treyarch declared that supporters can expect enhanced match making, along with improved Create-A-Class for extra character personalization.

The organization’s supervisor, Mark Lamia also stated that they’re committing the entire two hundred employees to work tirelessly with Black Ops. They’d undertaken innovative challenges due to the fact that they would like to take a step unique of the things they generally do. In the high level realm of Black Ops all of us can experience the background from WWII as well as today.

The title on the video game indicates top secret, much more of special forces activity as compared to front-line combat. Gamers will spend minimum time battles though the head character is going to definitely be within a top secret goal. The overall game is going to be filled with tasks that will bring players toward Cuba along with South America that may also focus on the Cold War as well as Vietnam.

This Cold War period will certainly include Vietnam, Russian Hills, Frosty, subterranean area and anything in the middle. Gamers will be provided the opportunity to experiment being a participant with the Special Air Service, the compartment with CIA sanction armies, throughout a nearby battle inside a quest visiting Iranian Embassy from the decade of the 80′s.

Zombie setting is additionally incorporated in which gamers may take down armies of zombies that happens to be a favorite element within Call of Duty: World at War. This kind of incredibly thrilling and beautiful fresh video game contains rappelling from a helicopter upon SOG tasks and also stealthy expeditions inside the Ural Mountains.

Fresh guns will also be contained in the video game such as the Crossbow that is utilized by mutually stealthy take downs and even forceful tip supplementary flame shot, M202 rocket launcher as well as Incendiary shotgun. Furthermore a SR-71 Blackbird, a fun drivable vehicle which is completely manageable will be a fresh element in the video game.

At the same time, Black Ops includes better looking fire & smoke, sharper pull range, much more effective characters, snowsuit troops inside wintery environments, ramming helicopters, men in bandannas plus great illumination. It’s going to be offered for Ps3, Xbox 360 system, as well as for PC the same as the prior collection.

What’s new in Call of Duty 5: World at War Patch 1.5:

• 3 new MP maps: Banzai, Corrosion, Sup Pens!
• 1 new Zombie map with a new weapon (the Wunderwaffe DG-2), flaming Hell Hounds, new traps, and more: Shi No Numa!
• CO-OP hosts can now kick players from their lobby
• Improved dog spawning in MP
• Addressed an issue with Zombie pathing
• Fixed an instance of the player model displaying incorrectly
• Some unhandled exception errors have been addressed
• Improved server browser’s refresh functionality when the Source is set to ‘Favorites’
• Added support for CODTV
• “cg_DrawFPS 1” now only displays FPS and cg ms/frame
• Added RCon command “teamstatus” to display players’ team information
• Mods: Added joinsquad script function
• Mods: Players can now join CO-OP lobbies that are hosting map names with more than eighteen characters
• Mods: Users can now load custom maps when the usermaps folder contains fifty or more custom maps
• Mods: Removed the loading of duplicate assets that contributed to the ‘2048 materials’ error
• Mods: Increased the amount of mods displayable in the Mods menu
• Mods: Fixed a crash related to the mod.arena file

Click to Download the Call of Duty 5 World at War 1.5 Patch

To me the ovalish shape and lines look like a fingerprint of a thumb; but feel free to share any other theories you have. No other weapons have dirt smudges of any sort and the smudge is on a part of the weapon that the players hand never touch when reloading. My theory is that one of the game developers scanned their actual fingerprints and threw that image on the Uzi. Do any site members have experience in identifying fingerprints or access to a fingerprint database so we can try to figure out who the prints belong to? In any case feel free to comment with your own thoughts/theories.

AimBots – An automated program like the own in the video above that aims puts your sights quickly and perfectly on the target players head. Most aimbots while efficient at getting kills, are extremely easy to identify because the rate of kills and number of headshots are so unnatural. There are aimbots which try to be more natural looking, but to an observant player they are easy to foil.

WallHacks – A program that shows enemy players silhouettes in bright colors through walls and all types of materials. Wallhacks are often coupled with aimbots to get even more kills. It is more dangerous and difficult to stop when wallhacks are used alone. As long as the player doesn’t make it incredibly obvious that they have an wall hack by getting a huge amount of kills with bullet penetration, they can claim they just got lucky or they saw knew the enemy thanks to a UAV. People that use hacks are usually not this subtle about getting kills, because their end goal is to be the center of attention. If you suspect someone is wall hacking though try equipping UAV Jammer and a silenced weapon, if they continue to get unbelievable kills through walls chances are they are wall hacking. Take a look at the video below for an example.

Speed Hacks – Also related to lag hacks, essentially a hack that allows the player to move more quickly than anyone else. Speed hacks can be done by messing with the data packets as they travel to the server or by simply hacking the game to make you move faster. This can make players move at light speed or appear to disappear and reappear across the map. Lag hacks can be difficult to stop because the player can just claim that the server or his internet connection is causing the issue. Even then though lagging player can just be kicked.

Glitching – The only hack that doesn’t require some sort of external program or support. Glitching is simply taking advantage of problems with the games coding, whether it is jumping outside of the normal map area or being able to see through walls on some buildings. Glitching is banned on most, but not all servers and is easy to prevent and identify if the server has spectator mode or kill cams enabled.

Stopping hacking and aimbots is important for the health of COD4 and any other video game out there. So what can be done to stop hacking? Monitoring systems like Punkbuster are easy to get around and often cause more problems for legitimate players. Unless they improve by leaps and bounds hackers will be able to stay ahead of them. The best solution is vigilant players and server admins. In particular the voting system in Call of Duty 4 which allows a majority of players to kick a hacking player is a good start. At this point though the voting system is hackable to rig the voting which means it to is far from perfect. There is no perfect solution, the best thing you can do is minimize your risk by playing with players you trust and an active administrator.

1. Blocking Doorways – It only takes one guy to sit in the middle of a doorway and create an impassable traffic jam. Eventually the problem will be solved when an opponent tosses a grenade into the doorway and kills everyone, but it that isn’t exactly an optimal solution. Sometimes you will get lucky and simply asking the blocking player to move will solve the problem. If friendly fire is on knifing them in the back also works.

2. Aimbotting – Besides hurting the other team this actually pisses off everyone on your team too. That’s because you in your infinite aimbotting skills are stealing all of your teams kills. Aimbotting in Call of Duty 4 is cheating and bad for everyone, don’t do it.

3. Team Killing – Blatant intentional team killing is an obvious problem, but solvable by simply kicking the player. Unintentional team killing by a wild bullet or nade is a much more difficult problem to solve though. The person that got shot is angry that they have to wait respawn, and shooter should feel guilty for both hurting their team and wasting the time of their fellow gamers. The solution is to turn off Martyrdom and not blindly spam nades in hope of getting a kill. If you really like those things though you can always play on servers where friendly fire is off.

4. Not Going for the Objective – This is a big problem on Call of Duty Search and Destroy servers. If the player is facing what they perceive as insurmountable odds they will just camp out instead of trying to plant/defuse the bomb. They usually do this to try and keep their KDR high. If you want a high KDR you should be playing Team Deathmatch where a high KDR is the objective, not Search and Destroy. Not playing Call of Duty correctly is selfish, unfun, and guaranteed to annoy all players involved.

5. Fighting in Text/Voice Chat – Having insane 10 year olds screaming terrible insults at everyone in voice chat is annoying, but when seemingly mature adults to it it’s even worse. In that same vein racial slurs and excessive profanity are equally bad. Just remember no matter how real it is, Call of Duty is a game.

6. Breaking Server Rules – Server rules are there for a reason, and by joining a server you should expect to follow the rules the people that pay for the server decide on. If you don’t like these rules just leave and find another server to play on. Remember game servers are private essentially owned privately, so you cannot invoke your First Amendment rights to act like a jerk.

7. Being Terrible at Call of Duty – This is the most forgivable offense of the 7 listed here, but still something you should try to avoid. Everyone knows that player who just can’t seem to grasp how to play the game, they accidentally throw themselves off 3 story buildings, don’t know how to use their weapons and just generally are bad at Call of Duty. Everyone was a noob at one time though, so the best thing you can do is encourage the player to keep on trying and give them a couple of tips to improve at the game.

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Awhile back I made a post to give everyone an opportunity to ask any question they wanted about this site and Call of Duty 4 in general. Questions that may have not fit in the comments sections of other posts but were still relevant to Call of Duty. You can view the original post here. I didn’t get many questions in the comments section, but received quite a few by email. So are those questions, with my responses for everyone to see.

Whats the overall best weapon in Call of Duty 4?

The many unique game and map types coupled with the relatively even balance of weapon strengths make it difficult to choose one weapon as the best. Just my answer is not a total cope out, I will give in what my opinion is the overall strongest weapon in Call of Duty 4. That weapon is the RPD. With Stopping Power in normal matches it two shots the enemy and in hardcore matches it one shots without any aid of perks. Couple this with a high rate of fire and low recoil with the grip and you have yourself a pretty strong gun. Again there is no single right answer for the overall best weapon, but this is my opinion on the matter.

I really like your site, what can I, as a reader do to help improve it?

The goal of this site is to help people improve at Call of Duty 4, so if you read the site and learn something you have already helped this site and Call of Duty 4 overall. Beyond that linking to and discussing articles on the site with others via online forums, the comments section, email or carrier pigeon is a great way to accomplish the end goal of helping people improve at Call of Duty 4. In regards to the comment section please feel free to argue or disagree with any of the articles, they are not always right and everyone including myself cant benefit from a little spirited debate.

What perks and weapons do you feel are to overpowered and should be removed from gameplay?

I would remove Martyrdom all together and maybe nerf the 3x Frag Grenade perk. The general concept behind Martyrdom isn’t terrible, having some way to still kill people after you should be dead can be a cool and balanced perk. Last Stand was the correct way to fulfill this idea, it is easy for other players to answer, doesn’t contribute to the huge amount of stupid explosions going on. On that same note I would tone down the power level of 3 Frag grenades somehow. With even a small number of players the game can quickly to degrade to people lobbing grenades over walls back and forth without any real interaction going on. Games like that aren’t fun and do not properly test the skill of players

If you could add one perk to the game what would it be?

I would add a perk called “Longshot” that increases the range of weapons by somewhere between 25% and 50%. It could serve as a possible replacement for Stopping Power on Assault Rifles and Sub Machine Guns and bring out of the dungeon of underplayed weapons.

I have trouble seeing enemies before they see me and therefore spend a lot of time getting shot, how can I change this?

Seeing the enemy before they see you is one of the most important aspects of Call of Duty 4. Even if you have great aim and can hit a watermelon from across the map that won’t help you if you get shot without being able to see who did it to you. Playing the game a lot will get your visual senses attuned to seeing targets even when they are heavily obscured and camouflaged. You also have to get in the habit of checking corners and rooms before you enter them so you don’t walk into an ambush. Finally listening closely to sounds basically lets you see through walls and around corners. This isn’t possible for all games like 30 person TDM matches where explosions are happening every second. But in other games like Hardcore Search and Destroy the game can become totally silent at times, and even the slightest motion can tip of the enemy to your location.

I hope you found these mailbag questions helpful, feel free to post any more questions you have or email them to admin@cod4source.com and maybe we can do another one of these.

Then there is the comparison between the OpFor and Marine clothing in Call of Duty, which is totally imbalanced. All the Marine clothing classes have nice beige desert colored clothing that blends with the generally beige maps. The OpFor on the other hand are mostly stuck with bright red hats and clothing. Take a look at screenshots below of the two sniper outfits for the Marines and OpFor if you don’t believe me. The OpFor sniper is placed at a significant disadvantage because you can spot that red hot without a scope from a mile off. This is more of a disadvantage for OpFor snipers but many of the other OpFor clothing classes are also brightly adorned in red. Now I don’t know whether or not this is realistic, but it presents a pretty huge game imbalance that really shouldn’t be there even if it is accurate in real life.

This imbalance can be helpful though. For instance if you are looking for that little extra edge in Call of Duty 4 clan scrimmages, you might consider opting for the Marine side. That said this is just another example of how realism doesn’t necessarily guarantee good gameplay.

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