How To Change Your Half Life 2 Deathmatch Server Map

This is what you do if you need to change the map on your Half Life 2 Deathmatch server.

Uploading Your Custom Map

Maps are commonly found from public FastDL repositories, or sites such as GameBanana. Your server will need to be restarted so our FastDL system can automatically sync your added files, this is required as these files will not be served to connecting users until a sync is completed.

1. Login to the Game Host Bros Panel and Stop your HL2DM server.
2. Using SFTP upload your map.bsp to hl2mp/maps.
3. Start your server.

Changing Your HL2DM Server Default Map

1. Login to the Game Host Bros Panel and select your HL2DM server.
2. Go to Configuration > Startup Parameters.
3. Find the Default Map setting and enter your desired map.
4. Restart your server.

Did you know?

You can also change maps while your server is running, simply type map mapname into your server console.