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How to disable annoying ads on servers

By gringo and 1 collaborators

Guide on how to disable/mute annoying ads when you join servers, ingame sounds from plugins, and decrease loading times.

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Category: Characters, Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Secrets

Languages: English

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10 Jul, 2015 @ 8:19pm

31 Jan, 2020 @ 7:51pm

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Overview

How to disable ads playing when you first join a server

Annoying sounds(such as admin sounds)

Comments

How to disable ads playing when you first join a server

This is how to block video ads that servers put on their MOTD page(what you see when you first join a server)

Go to Options>Multiplayer>Advanced>Check "Disable MOTD HTML Mode", the first setting.

What this does is prevents the server from putting a webpage on their MOTD(which would include the ad)

Annoying sounds(such as admin sounds)

What this does is stops the server from downloading sound files, which are unneccesary anyways. This should also help loading times, as you're only downloading map files instead of sound files too.

Options>Multiplayer>Drop-down Menu>3rd option(orange highlight)

But what if I've joined the server before I did this and I still have the sounds?
Go to

, and delete all of the files in that folder. If you click the first one and shift+click the last you will select all of them.
Sub X: for whatever drive you have the game installed on(C: in most cases)

14 Comments

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Judge Ⓢ #FreeChitch 1 Jan, 2023 @ 6:45am

This guide is "out of date" since you cannot disable the MoTD anymore in Fistful of Frags.

Cheers.

Ray 16 Jun, 2022 @ 2:04am

There isnt an option like that for me in the menu, do you need to do something else to make it pop up?

B@con 22 May, 2016 @ 6:33am

Here's another way, which leverages wild cards and so should be more reliable.

1. Install Acrylic DNS Proxy on your Windows PC
http://mayakron.altervista.org/wikibase/show.php?id=AcrylicHome

2. Configure your active Ethernet or Wireless adapter to use 127.0.0.1 for your Primary DNS in your tcp/ip 4 setttings.

3. At the very END of your Acrylic Config File add these entries to your [WhiteExceptionsSection]

[WhiteExceptionsSection]
NAME1=*.pinion.gg
NAME2=*.pinionprizes.gg
NAME3=*.*.gg
NAME4= *.motdgd.*
NAME5= *.ptp22.*

Some of you *may* not wish to use the total block on the gg domain. My view is there will be nothing legitimate/desirable on a .gg server.

After doing this, the ads will try to display but instead they'll just time out - you will be able to immediately just bypass them (hit Go), and start playing.

[MO] Lead_Airplanes 26 Jan, 2016 @ 9:24pm

Unfortunately this also disables viewing the rules on many servers. So many times people on my server break the rules because they have HTML MOTD disabled. I believe it's off by default these days? I know voice chat is (which is silly, cos I never know who can hear me). I think the download type defaults to map only, too.

gringo [author] 29 Jul, 2015 @ 7:38pm

Put it into the guide incase someone else has the same problem

gringo [author] 29 Jul, 2015 @ 2:33pm

This is my story. 29 Jul, 2015 @ 2:06pm

Good shit, thanks man

gringo [author] 29 Jul, 2015 @ 1:52pm

X:\steamgames\steamapps\common\Fistful of Frags\fof\sound, delete the files in there

X: will be whatever drive you have it installed on

This is my story. 28 Jul, 2015 @ 7:07pm

Cool, thanks. Already rated your guide up

gringo [author] 28 Jul, 2015 @ 6:51pm

Yeah I'll try to figure it out in a minute

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