jysk on 17/10/2011 at 00:26

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Playing this mod with a friend and its very nice.

Can someone recommend some FM's which are great for MP-Coop (2player) and work properly?



We have now played:

Thief2campaign: - works mostly good; glitches sometimes appear after a while of gaming and require a complete restart; some scripts (e.g. at eavesdropping) need to be run by the Host or it crashes
- a few missions dont allow save/load (crashes when loading) - e.g. in Trace the Courier
- in some missions readables dont work (mostly quest related ones like those containing codes for doors etc.)

t2x: works better than the original thief campaign, but saving/loading does not work in most of the missions

FM Seven sisters: - works great - saving/loading also works fortunately; quest relevant things should be done by the host and most of the readables cant be read by the client

However in Night 3 (mission3) of this minicampaign there is a bug which dont allows the players to proceed -> when destroying the 2 hearts the objective will not be fulfilled and the "door" in the temple at the graveyard will not open up. It only works when doing it alone without a client. The solution for that is the fact, that the engine/mod somehow can load asynchronous savegames and handle the resulting games, if they are not too different from each other. This happens because savegames are stored on both computers and it will load them even if they are a bit different (only the slot matters, he will even try to load them if their are completly different savegames from different missions, but this will result in a crash). For example a host can proceed in a game alone, doing some things (taking some loot etc.), saving it - and then it can be loaded together with a client who still has the old savegame, but the client will have less loot than the host and the taken loot will still be there for the client (but he cant take it).

So when using this for Seven Sisters you should do the following: The host saves a game when he still haves both hearts. He then gives this particular savegame to the client, who put it in his saves ordner (/netsaves). Then both host a game for themselves with this save and sacrifice the hearts in the seed, fulfilling the objective. Then both save the game on the same gameslot. Then the Host again starts a game, the client joins and then the host loads this gameslot. This should work and the objective should be fulfilled on both players.

This trick may be useful also in other FM's i guess. o;

jysk on 18/10/2011 at 16:12

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(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124169&p=2037572&viewfull=1#post2037572)

Giskard on 19/10/2011 at 05:22

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Try "When Still..." campaign. It has very-very large maps!

zencd on 24/11/2011 at 22:33

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Me and my friend used to play MP successfully but the third player can't join the game (he is unintentionally disconnected from the game). Is there any solution for that?

The build was 210. Will try 218 later.

Giskard on 28/11/2011 at 18:12

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We could play with 3 players without any serious problem. Use the newer version!