"SourceTV offers the ability to have an unlimited number of spectators watching online games based on the Source Engine. SourceTV spectators are invisible to players and can't interact with the running game in any way. The camera view in SourceTV is controlled by an auto-director AI or a human camera man. The broadcast is usually delayed by a certain amount of time. This ensures that the playing teams can't use SourceTV to get any usable information about their opponents. SourceTV can also record server-side demos that contain the whole game with all entities and events."

A sourceTV relay simply takes your existing game servers sourceTV connection and relays it so that many users can spectate without affecting server performance. Typically when there are many spectators connected to the local game servers sourceTV it can cause latency and overall performance issues for the game server itself and in particular the spectators. A relay since usually external and independent of the game server can handle substantially more spectators, with up to 255 spectators per relay and in some cases multiple relays may be deployed for nearly endless spectator options.

Enabling SourceTV

tv_enable 1
tv_maxclients 20 (255 maximum, 25 or less recommended if local sourceTV)
tv_delay 90

In order for the bot to change you must cycle change maps (simply reloading the map). Connecting to your game server’s sourceTV simply requires connecting to your game servers IP but instead of using port 27015, use port 27020. In order to speed things up moreal game server customers can simply type: rcon exec sourcetv

Enabling Auto-Record

tv_enable 1
tv_autorecord 1
tv_maxclients 0

Automatically recorded demo files will be named after the map and date/time when the recording started (auto-YYYYMMDD-hhmm-map.dem). These files are stored on your game server under the cstrike folder.

Enabling SourceTV Relay

We understand the importance of broadcasting matches to your audience and you should as well. Nearly ALL game service providers charge their customers additional for Source TV & HLTV relays. Being a provider focused on the competitive gaming scene, we believe in providing our customers with whatever resources they need to be successful. As such we provide all Moreal customers with the option of using one of our high powered TV relays at no charge. Please contact support to have a relay setup for your match.