How to Add an Admin to Your BATTALION Legacy Server

BATTALION Legacy has no admin list with SteamIDs. Instead there is a single admin password for the server: whoever enters it through the in-game console is an admin. So you do not need to collect any IDs – you simply hand the password to the people who should get admin rights.

Set the admin password

1. Open the dashboard
   Open the dashboard of your server and switch to the Settings.

2. Enter the password
   Enter the password you want in the Admin Password field.

3. Restart the server
   Save the change and restart your server. The password is passed on at startup and therefore only takes effect after a restart.

Enable the developer console

You enter the admin commands through the in-game developer console. It is disabled by default and has to be enabled once.

1. Close the game
   Close BATTALION Legacy so your change is not overwritten when the game exits.

2. Open the configuration folder
   Open the following folder on your PC. You can paste the path straight into the address bar of the Explorer:

   %LOCALAPPDATA%\Battalion\Saved\Config\WindowsClient
   

3. Open Input.ini
   Open the file Input.ini in a text editor. If it does not exist yet, create it.

4. Set the console key
   Add the following two lines at the end of the file:

   [/script/engine.inputsettings]
   ConsoleKey=Tilde
   

5. Save and start
   Save the file and start BATTALION Legacy again.

Log in as an admin

1. Join the server
   Join your server. How to find it is described in Join Server.

2. Open the console
   Press the ~ key in the game to open the console.

3. Log in
   Enter the following command and replace <password> with your admin password:

   Server.Login <password>
   

4. Result
   From now on the server accepts your admin commands. If nothing happens when you run a command, the login was not successful – check the password and log in again.

Use admin commands

All admin commands start with Server. and are entered in the same console. Upper and lower case do not matter.

Command	Effect
Server.Login <password>	Logs you in as an admin
Server.ChangeMap <map> <mode>	Switches to a different map and game mode
Server.Config.<variable> <value>	Changes a server setting at runtime, for example Server.Config.NumBots 0
Server.KillBots	Removes the bots from the current round
Server.Announce <message>	Shows an on-screen message to every player
Server.Pause	Stops the round timer without blocking the players

Kick and ban players