Flourish Duels

FLOURISH DUELS

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Flourish Duels turns MORDHAU free-for-all into consent-based combat. Nobody can hurt you until you agree to fight them.

 

HOW IT WORKS

• Aim at another player and flourish to challenge them.
• They accept by aiming at you and flourishing back.
• Damage is blocked until both players accept.
• Pending challenges never enable damage.
• Bots, third parties and uninvolved players cannot damage protected players.
• Self-inflicted damage (the "suicide" command) always works, independent of duel state.
• Duel status is shown through HUD announcements.
• Duel state resets when a player respawns.

HUD ANNOUNCEMENTS

• FLOURISH DUELS ACTIVE
• CHALLENGE SENT
• CHALLENGED
• DUEL ACCEPTED — FIGHT!

FOR SERVER OWNERS — SETUP

Dedicated servers do NOT read CustomPaks. Copying a .pak onto your server does nothing. The only way a dedicated server loads this mod is by subscribing to it by mod.io Resource ID.

STEP 1 — Get this mod's Resource ID from the info panel on this page.

STEP 2 — Open your server config:

Windows:  Mordhau/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini
Linux:    Mordhau/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/Game.ini

STEP 3 — Merge these keys into the matching sections. Do NOT replace the whole file, and keep the two headers separate — they are different sections.

[/Script/Mordhau.MordhauGameSession]
Mods=<this mod's Resource ID>

[/Script/Mordhau.MordhauGameMode]
MapRotation=FFA_ThePit
MapRotation=FFA_Contraband
MapRotation=FFA_Crossroads
MapGameModeOverrides=(("FFA_ThePit","/FlourishDuels/Blueprints/BP_FlourishDuelGameMode.BP_FlourishDuelGameMode_C"),("FFA_Contraband","/FlourishDuels/Blueprints/BP_FlourishDuelGameMode.BP_FlourishDuelGameMode_C"))

STEP 4 — Restart the server. Done. Players joining get the mod automatically.

IMPORTANT: MapGameModeOverrides must stay on ONE single line, however long it gets. Add one ("MapName","/FlourishDuels/Blueprints/BP_FlourishDuelGameMode.BP_FlourishDuelGameMode_C") pair per map, comma separated, all inside the outer brackets.

A ready-to-merge block covering all 17 official FFA maps is on GitHub — copy it from there rather than retyping it:
https://github.com/NobbyBo11ocks/FlourishDuels/blob/main/ServerConfig/Game.ini.example

CONFIG NOTES

• Mods= and MapRotation=/MapGameModeOverrides= are in DIFFERENT sections. Don't merge them under one header.
• MapRotation is one entry PER LINE.
• MapGameModeOverrides is a SINGLE LINE containing every (Map,GameMode) pair.
• Running other mods too? Add another Mods= line per mod. MORDHAU reads Mods= as one entry per line, NOT as a comma-separated list.
• MapGameModeOverrides forces this mode whenever that map loads — rotation, admin changelevel or direct travel — whether or not the map is also in MapRotation. Trim MapRotation to whatever subset you actually want to cycle through.

The 17 official FFA maps: FFA_ThePit, FFA_Contraband, FFA_Crossroads, FFA_Castello_New, FFA_Highlands, FFA_Grad, FFA_MountainPeak, FFA_Feitoria, FFA_Truce, FFA_Camp, FFA_Tourney, FFA_Taiga, FFA_Arena, FFA_Cortile, FFA_Noria, FFA_Arid_New, FFA_Dungeon

MODDED / CUSTOM MAPS

This works on community maps exactly like official ones. The game mode only cares that the map has a normal Free-For-All spawn layout (BP_MordhauPlayerStart actors) — not who made it.

THE PART PEOPLE MISS: a map mod is a SEPARATE mod, so it needs its OWN Mods= line. Your server has to load two mods — this game mode, and the map — before you can point one at the other.

STEP 1 — Find the map on mod.io and note ITS Resource ID (different from this mod's).

STEP 2 — Add a second Mods= line for it. One per line, never comma-separated.

STEP 3 — Get the map's TRAVEL NAME. That is the map asset's own name, like FFA_LowPolyDuelsArena — not the human-readable mod title. It's the name you'd pass to changelevel, and it's usually shown on the map mod's page or in its description.

STEP 4 — Add that travel name to MapRotation, and add a matching pair to MapGameModeOverrides.

Example — this mod plus one custom map:

[/Script/Mordhau.MordhauGameSession]
Mods=<Flourish Duels Resource ID>
Mods=<map mod Resource ID>

[/Script/Mordhau.MordhauGameMode]
MapRotation=FFA_ThePit
MapRotation=FFA_LowPolyDuelsArena
MapGameModeOverrides=(("FFA_ThePit","/FlourishDuels/Blueprints/BP_FlourishDuelGameMode.BP_FlourishDuelGameMode_C"),("FFA_LowPolyDuelsArena","/FlourishDuels/Blueprints/BP_FlourishDuelGameMode.BP_FlourishDuelGameMode_C"))

The game mode class path NEVER changes. It is always /FlourishDuels/Blueprints/BP_FlourishDuelGameMode.BP_FlourishDuelGameMode_C no matter which map you pair it with.

TROUBLESHOOTING MODDED MAPS

If players can't spawn, spawn with no gear, or fall through the floor on a custom map, that map is missing a proper FFA BP_MordhauPlayerStart layout. That's a map problem, not a Flourish Duels problem. Load the map on plain Deathmatch first — if it doesn't work there, it won't work here.