Altering the Difficulty Settings

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Altering the Difficulty Settings

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According to Halo Wiki (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/), each difficulty setting both increases the effectiveness of the Covenant, and decreases the effectiveness of your Marines. Would it be possible to alter the difficulty settings to have both sides be as effective as they can be? I'm kinda tired of having all my marine buddies die by about 20 seconds into the fight.

BTW, I've never modded anything in my life, so a very basic, step-by-step kind of walkthrough would be tremendously helpful. :)
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Post by XLoneXWolfX »

I've wondered that too :shock:.

You could edit the marine's AI.
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I think this is something to do with the globals. Ask conure or Altimit, they'll know.
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Does it have to do with the mod, or is it part of a singal script? or something like this?
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bigshot007 wrote:Does it have to do with the mod, or is it part of a singal script? or something like this?
What are you talking about?
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Cryticfarm wrote:
bigshot007 wrote:Does it have to do with the mod, or is it part of a singal script? or something like this?
What are you talking about?
I second that. What the fuck are you talking about?
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All that difficulty information is in the globals.

Also I third that.
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Post by Warhammer3025 »

Andrew_b wrote:All that difficulty information is in the globals.
I'm afraid I have no idea what that means.
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globals.globals is the tag the contains all the single player difficulty (of the ai) information.
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Post by Warhammer3025 »

How can I edit it? And what values should I look for?
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bigshot007 wrote:Does it have to do with the mod, or is it part of a singal script? or something like this?
It's hilarious watching people try to act knowledgeable in retardation.
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Mr.Brightside wrote:It's hilarious watching people try to act knowledgeable in retardation.
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Post by Warhammer3025 »

I contacted conure, as Philly suggested, and they guided me to the Eschaton program and which files to edit, along with which specific parts to look at.

Some new problems emerge, however. While I can deduce the meaning of some of the values (easy friend vitality controls the health of your allies on Easy difficulty), the meaning of others eludes me (friend recharge? burst error? chance scale?).

Also, it seems that what I had thought was the problem, that being allies getting weaker while enemies got stronger, isn't the case. In all values, the enemies and your allies are the same (hard enemy damage = 1.4, and so does hard friend damage).

Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Post by bigshot007 »

Sorry, I was thinking of CE. Thats why yall didnt understand. Lol...

Anyways, I kinda understand.
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bigshot007 wrote:Sorry, I was thinking of CE. Thats why yall didnt understand. Lol...

Anyways, I kinda understand.
Dude, no.
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Cryticfarm wrote:
bigshot007 wrote:Sorry, I was thinking of CE. Thats why yall didnt understand. Lol...

Anyways, I kinda understand.
Dude, no.
Seriously. Get out of here if you dont think we know about CE scripting...No, youre not the first person to know how to script. There is no script that is

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(script continuous makeemstrong
(Player (Alies (Health (100))))
)
Listen here. You arent nearly as smart as some people here. You are just acting cocky. Now go learn how to mod PC before you go to fucking CE. Why i say this is you OBVIOUSLY dont know what your talking about. PC, or CE.

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Andrew_b wrote:
Cryticfarm wrote:
bigshot007 wrote:Sorry, I was thinking of CE. Thats why yall didnt understand. Lol...

Anyways, I kinda understand.
Dude, no.
Seriously. Get out of here if you dont think we know about CE scripting...No, youre not the first person to know how to script. There is no script that is

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(script continuous makeemstrong
(Player (Alies (Health (100))))
)
Listen here. You arent nearly as smart as some people here. You are just acting cocky. Now go learn how to mod PC before you go to *** CE. Why i say this is you OBVIOUSLY dont know what your talking about. PC, or CE.

//just hit the surface rant
I second that, I got totally lost in what you were trying to say bigshot.
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Post by Cryticfarm »

Andrew, not like that :p, like dis.

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(script continuous OMFGIRLIKETEHCHEESETISSCRIPTISTEHMOSTAWSOMENESTEVERYOUNOOOOOBS
(Player (Alies (Health (100))))
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Like dat.
And seriously, that will work, it just the script name.
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Post by Mody grunt101 »

Is the only thing you idiots gonna do is piss on this guy and not help the other guy? As for your problem. I suggest leaving them alone for now unless you notice problems.
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Post by Cryticfarm »

Dude, the script is right there.
EDIT: Nvm, thats not a function, silly andrew.
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