More noob questions!! yay!

[S7_Viper]

Alright then. I have now brought 2 more people into BS. We all ran through the startup procedures tonight in ventrilo a few times. I am going to teach anyone who wants to join the game from my team (http://www.syndicate7.us) how to do the basics as we learn together. That leads me to a few questions.

 

1) Can I make a mission like the Shooting Gallery mission for training that is coop? Can I edit the one that is there and if so what makes it mutiplayer. I have looked through the editor and cannot find it.

 

2) If I cannot use that mission I want to make my own, can I just add more player helos, and host a multi?

 

3) Who is renting servers out for us?

 

4) And the best question IMO, there are 30 people viewing the forums pretty much at all times. There are TONS of posts fresh every day. I figured there would be a hundred people playing at least. I see only 10 server with scattered people playing, no more then 8 in a server... and half of those are locked. With such a active community, am I missing something?

[nemises]

Hiya Viper:

 

1) Yes, you can edit shooting gallery. For each multiplayer person you want to be able to join, you must add in a KA50, set to "start from parking" (or whatever you prefer) , and set to "Client" (Player is single player only..all multiplayer players must be "Client"). You shoudl also change the KA50 that is allready in there to "Client" from Player, and get rid of any AI wingmen if there are any.

 

2) you can also make your own very easily. As above, create as many KA50's as you like all set to "Client".. all have seperate waypoints, so you will need to set waypoints for each client individually.

If you wish to have them take off from an airfeild, put them near an airfield, and set the first point to "take off from Parking" for cold start, or "takeoff from Runway" for a warm start.

You can also add in a FARP and have them takeoff from there instead.

In order to be able to re-fuel and re-arm from FARPS and have external power and raido, you must put certain vehicles within 150 Mtrs of the FARP..this info is in the GUI manual. Airfields automatically have all of these services.

 

3) Not sure if anyone is, but if it is just you and a few buddies, then you should be able to host it no rpoblems. Pick the person with the Best available bandwidth first, then the person with the fastest CPU and most memory to host (usually the same person ;) ).

Make sure the person hosting has Port Forwarded or Port Triggered ports 10308 TCP and UDP. Make sure all clients mutiplayer speeds are set low (ie 128/128) if you are joining over the internet.

Have the host check his Internet facing IP at http://www.whatismyip.com/ as that is the IP you will need to connect to.

Of course, you can allways join an existing server like the 159th and fly together..just make sure you are all on the same VHF2 frequency so your datalinks will talk with eachother.

 

4) I suspect a lot of people just run servers with their mates ...as it is a game suited for Co-op and small groups, rather than big setups. To develop a map that can withstand 24 peoople connected, and play ok for 10 hour + at a time takes a LOT of hard work to make, which is probably why you see so few.

If you host a server, but have it set to "LAN" , it will not advertise itself on the server browser in game, and I expect many people do this for privacy.

 

Cheers and good luck

Nem

[S7_Viper]

You rock man, thank you for the help!

[S7_Viper]

Me and a teammate got into the Shooting Range mission on a hamachi LAN tonight... we have developed a few more questions.

 

1) Do you guys use the collective brake?

 

2) How do you turn the weapons systems off, and go back to the original nav mode?

 

3) How do you cage the shkval? And set it back to standby?

[IvanK]

Q1 Rarely only when trying to hold alt with Collective already set to maintain 0 Vs

 

Q2 ... hit the Tgt reset switch (Backspace)

 

Q3. .. Set Shkval to Boresight (RCTL I)

Edited January 25, 2009 by IvanK

[S7_Viper]

One more, you guys rock.

 

How do you slave the shkval to the HMS? I saw it on the dev video, but now I cannot find it.

[Schnarre Aggro]

HIHO..

 

first of all u have to turn on ur HMD/S (helmet mounted device/sight)

 

2. Press "O" to switch on the Shkval

 

3. and last : if u want to move ur Shkval slaved to ur head u just have to keep pressing the "O" button while looking around. if u release the "O" button the Shkval stops at once.

 

greetz

schnarre

[Sunjah]

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4) And the best question IMO, there are 30 people viewing the forums pretty much at all times. There are TONS of posts fresh every day. I figured there would be a hundred people playing at least. I see only 10 server with scattered people playing, no more then 8 in a server... and half of those are locked. With such a active community, am I missing something?

 

Personally, I would say I qualify as a "Severe Disliker" of multiplayer. I come to the forums to learn and hear opinions, but I have yet to ever play a game that is multiplayer that I enjoy. From my standpoint, it is MMO's, not piracy, that has done the most to kill PC gaming. It is not dead yet, but when the CEO of EA says he will never again authorize a game that does not have an MMO component, that spells doom for the fun games, in my opinion.

 

Thank goodness for Bethesda!