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How to Disable or Customise Friendly Fire Damage on Your Left 4 Dead 2 Server

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Friendly fire damage in Left 4 Dead 2 actually scales based on your server’s difficulty settings (dealing 10% of a weapon’s base damage on Normal, and a punishing 50% on Expert). Because completely disabling team damage can make the game too easy, this guide will show you how to subtly lower these damage multipliers to prevent griefing without losing the tactical challenge

1. Log In to Your Panel

2. Stop Your Server

3. Select the ‘Files’ Tab

L4D2 Server Dashboard, Files Tab Highlighted

4. Select the ‘left4dead2’ Folder

Navigating to the left4dead2 root folder in the Cybrancee server file manager

5. Select the ‘cfg’ Folder

Opening the cfg configuration folder for Left 4 Dead 2 on the Cybrancee panel

6. Select the ‘server.cfg‘ File

Clicking the server.cfg file in the Cybrancee file manager to edit configuration settings

7. Add the Friendly Fire Commands

Scroll to the bottom of the file and paste the following commands on new lines. The default numbers are 0.1 for normal, 0.3 for hard, and 0.5 for expert.

Change these decimals to whatever percentage you prefer (for example, setting Expert to 0.2 instead of 0.5), or change them all to 0 to completely disable friendly fire:

survivor_friendly_fire_factor_easy 0
survivor_friendly_fire_factor_normal 0.1
survivor_friendly_fire_factor_hard 0.2
survivor_friendly_fire_factor_expert 0.2

Adding the survivor friendly fire factor commands to the server.cfg file using the built-in text editor to customize team damage

8. Save the Changes

9. Restart Your Server

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