Normal and Melee Chaos games on one server - how to

[R.Flagg]

This is a slightly edited post of Jb's. He is referring to the Voting GameConfig menu in the Remote Web Admin

... hit the edit button (this is the place where you build the gametypes that map voting works with). Create a new game type:

Name - Should have something melee in it as this is what the clients see

Game Type - Use any CUT game type that supports melee

Abbreviations and MapPrefixes = should match that game type you picked

Parameteres - add this - bMeleeGame=True - (and add any other paramters you want here as well...maybe the instagib) a quick search of that gametypes section of your chaosut2.ini will show you the other paramaters you can use...I think they are delimited by commas but just a guess.

Then hit Update. Repeat for any other gamestyles/types you want to add to mapvote.

Ideally you would make two ChaosDM types. One with normal weapons and one with melee. That way the clients can vote on which they want to play.

Thats it

http://chaotic.beyondunreal.com/docs/im ... admin4.jpg

And it does work. We have already tested it successfully. This and more will be added to the server page of manual. (yes MassChaos, this means I'm not done yet, please do not start offline conversion yet )

[R.Flagg]

Further testing has revealed that, at times, in the words of heheman3000... "that bMeleeGame flag is passed around like a bag of wine...". In other words, we ended up in melee only during matches of DM, TDM, KOTH, or TKOTH that were supposed to be normal weapons.

So here's revised instructions:

<blockquote>1) If you wish to run a normal and a melee version of the same Chaos game type on your server, you must first use the Voting GameConfig screen to create two versions of that game type (giving them names such that you can tell them apart of course - ie: Chaos DM, Chaos MeleeDM)

2) Then, simply put bMeleeGame=True under the Options for one of them, and put bMeleeGame=False for the other one. </blockquote>

This has solved any issues we had with the 'bag of wine' melee tag.

And the pic I posted has been updated to correctly show this in action:

http://chaotic.beyondunreal.com/docs/im ... admin4.jpg

And again, this only applies to 4 Chaos game types - DM, TeamDM, KOTH, TeamKOTH - and only if you wish to run both normal and melee of one of them (or all of them) on your server at the same time.

[Romulus777]

Why won't it work on other gametypes like duel?

[jb]

Why won't it work on other gametypes like duel?

Duel does not support the bMeleeGame var. It has its own methods for melee games as you change the WeaponOpition var for duel. So make two duel games in your voting, one with melee weapons (WeaponOpition =0) the other one with normal weapons (WeaponOpition != 0)