Unreal Coop with lives?

[Bloodshot]

Hey everyone, I'm new and i registered because I love Unreal 1, It's my favorite Unreal and i wish epic would make a sequel.

I have a question about coop though. Are there any mods/or any way, to make it so you only have 1 life while you play coop? Something that annoyed me last time - the game was too easy with a friend when we just kept respawning.

Either a way to set lives so when you die the level restarts would be good, or is there a mod that maybe makes it so you only respawn when your mate isn't fighting, and if you both die the level restarts? And I know we could just restart the level when we die, but doing that takes away from the fun (so please don't point that out).

Any help is appreciated. 

[Jâçkrâßßit]

Sorry, your out of luck. I've never heard of such a thing in my life.

[Smirftsch]

I like this idea, but haven't heard about such a mod either.
However, in 227f and soon 227g we have new difficulty levels, up to 6, older versions only had 3.
Start your server with "?difficulty=6", while 6 is really hard. Not sure if it can be beaten with 6 (and no other modifications) at all, at least alone in singleplay, in coop it shouldn't be a problem but way more challenging.

[Bleeder91[NL]]

Hmm, well there's a server where you have 3 lives, and you have a revive kit which revives dead players. When all is dead, server restarts. It's made with XCoop, so you might be able to get the code for it, and instead of 3 give only 1 life.

[hLk_Havok]

Jackrabbit had mentioned that idea to me as well when I started running a coop server recently. Not sure if he was coding something along those lines.

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http://www.oldunreal.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/ ... 1290048063

[Bloodshot]

Hey, can anyone package that Lives thing as a mutator possibly? The link in that thread is down, and I've never been too savvy with the Uengine.

I know the Quake engine well but that's probably because I played Quake first.

And, Holy shit just tried it on Difficulty 6 with a friend, we got our asses handed to us by the first brutes Question about difficulties - how do you carry them across map changes, because every new map it seems to revert to the original hardest (unreal) difficulty.

[Gizzy]

Hey, can anyone package that Lives thing as a mutator possibly? The link in that thread is down, and I've never been too savvy with the Uengine.

http://www.freewebs.com/unrealgizzy/UnrealSurvival.zip

Repackaged with a .INT so you can select the mutator from the menu.

[Bloodshot]

Thanks a lot. I've never known how to use Unreal 1 mutators (only UT) Where do i put the files? In system? and how do i select the mutator when I start my server?

EDIT: figured it out. Is there any way to select the mutator instead of running it from the console when opening a level?

[Gizzy]

Thanks a lot. I've never known how to use Unreal 1 mutators (only UT) Where do i put the files? In system?

The files go in your /system folder.

Is there any way to select the mutator instead of running it from the console when opening a level?

If you're running the server directly through Unreal's menus, swap to the UMenu console (go to advanced options --> drivers --> console and change it to UMenu then restart Unreal) and then you can add mutators when you go to start a new multiplayer game.

If you want to use them in SP, I'd start a new botmatch, change the gametype to coop, select the map and choose the mutator.