Cooperative Play

vic257633 · Post by **vic257633** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:49 am

Hey i'm kind of new, but i was wondering if anyone was working on a patch to play cooperative mode. I know its hard to do over the Internet, but maybe it would work over a LAN.

-Vic

SirLuke · Post by **SirLuke** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:52 pm

PPF patches only alter maps or weapons and the such. They can't exactly edit the actual game, E.G. make a realism mod for Halo, atleast not yet.
I've been trying to make it to where you can play CO-OP by activating the console(type -console at the end of the target line in the properties of your Halo SHORTCUT), and typing in "sv_map <singleplayer map here>", but I've run into a brick wall because it also needs something called a variant name, or game variant... anyone know what this is(no, it's not for PPFs, because Microsoft didn't program a modding command, to the geniuses who think so)?
So it basically goes:
sv_map <map> <variantname>
If I type in no variant name, nothing happens. If I type in some random crap, it says "wrong variant name" or something like that.

Hivemind · Post by **Hivemind** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:54 pm

dont worry, you dont need to ask who.. but co-op is being worked on.. but there is nothing even close to a garuntee.. just the fact that it is being worked on

Devanstator · Post by **Devanstator** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:11 pm

SirLuke, sv_map is a command intended to start a multiplayer game, so variantname indicates the game type to be played.

So sv_map bloodgulch king will start a king of the hill game on blood gulch with your computer being the server (not sure though if it is online or LAN server).

As far as I can tell, it won't load a single player map even if you have a valid variantname. Either campaign missions have their own variant or single player map names like a30 are rejected.

mewarmo990 · Post by **mewarmo990** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 10:00 pm

not knowing what "search" was, i posted another topic.
anyway, heres part of it, and its very true.

In the meanwhile, I will email Microsoft and Bungie and bug the hell out of them for a big patch that allows co-op play.

they'll probably flame me, but w/e

SuperHalo2Fan · Post by **SuperHalo2Fan** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:06 am

I dont mean to flame but you cant make coop mods

TsukasaZero · Post by **TsukasaZero** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:19 pm

Yes, there is a flaw (or a protection?) in Halo's netcode that does not allow for AI components to do the same thing on different computers. As to the research I have seen, no one has figured out how to get around this, but it is not impossible to get the reactions the same on all computers.

mewarmo990 · Post by **mewarmo990** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:45 pm

well i meant patch, not mod. a mod for a game like halo only changes skins and weapons. the only way as i see it is an official patch from the developers that let you play it. neways, in the meanwhile we can keep hoping...

Lemon_Head · Post by **Lemon_Head** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:25 am

TsukasaZero wrote:Yes... ...this, but it is not impossible to get the reactions the same on all computers.

Not impossible just improbable

this thing would be hott if they figured it out. they would prolly just have to script the actions of the bots, but after you play it alot you'd figure it out.
Or make one computer the "host" computer and it tells all the players on the server where the AI goes when the players encounter them... Idk really, sounded better in my head

maegus15 · Post by **maegus15** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:01 am

That would make MAJOR LAG. Because not only does everything have to load off the server. But then the AI movements would also have to.

Lemon_Head · Post by **Lemon_Head** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:08 am

Lemon_Head wrote:... Idk really, sounded better in my head

^^that's what i meant^^

maegus15 · Post by **maegus15** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:31 am

Yeah I know what you ment.

dilinator · Post by **dilinator** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:33 am

you cant play on singleplayer levels on multi because there are triggers on the level, multi code does not support it. conversions have already been made

maegus15 · Post by **maegus15** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:37 pm

Did you read all the posts or not???

halogodlex2 · Post by **halogodlex2** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:15 pm

lol nice sig ICE FIRE its funny

maegus15 · Post by **maegus15** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:26 pm

#1 Thanks

#2 ICEFIRE has no space

Haloking · Post by **Haloking** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:39 pm

I just had an idea: lets all go to here and send emails to microshit and bungie about hurrying up on the HEK and work coop.

HunterXI · Post by **HunterXI** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:29 pm

GARGILY FLARGILY!!!

you got that site address from me, right?

and just letting you know, the easier url is emailer.tk

but yeah

, lets all send mad emails to microshit for making us wait WAAAYYYYYY too long!

Lemon_Head · Post by **Lemon_Head** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:16 am

Uh, this will have a couple of blanks to fill in but,
we would have to come up with a way to get bots into mp(i don't know if you can already do this, but it's a must)
then we could take that AI, mess around with it a little, get the singly player maps to go into multi, then take the bots you would add when everyone is ready that fill the server up to its max player quotient...then randomize the bot models so you get elites, grunts and all them in a random order, then just let all hell break loose...

like it? just an idea, fill in the blanks if you can

HunterXI · Post by **HunterXI** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:07 am

yes, just a COUPLE blanks to fill out...

j/k