jeditobe1 wrote:It should only do that if you manually hack your UT2004.ini file and add in the Chaos lines...
Or...accept the default option in the UMOD.
Which in that case you have auto-enabled the mod.
Actually, I would say in that case we have made the Chaos mutator available in standard UT2004. One must use our custom shortcut, or the community tab, in order to 'activate' the mod.
Either way, the question would still apply. In one form or another. What's best way to make the map require the mod..., or perhaps, what's the best way to make the map at least require the mutator.
Hehe. Good question there Theseus314.
But as far as the other issue you mentioned Theseus, well..., I don't actually see it that way. But of course everybody has their own perferences. Naturally it's difficult to find two people to agree on weapons and "balance".
However, IMO you would not need to change your weapon layout at all, because I feel that what we have done is provided weapons that do in fact "work", in the spots that we have placed them in. So that we can play on any map (such as yours), and have it still play well. Again, "play well" is hardly something that we can measure with a ruler, or look up in a dictionary.
Anyway, just one man's opinion. I believe that if you design the weapon placement well for your map in vanilla, it will work great with our weapons added. One of the main things I run into with some maps and Chaos, would be for example "sky-hooking". Where players can use our grapple to hook open sky. Or "forced" translocators, which takes away the option of xloc-or not, like I mentioned in that other thread.
Anyway, you got us talking now.
Edit: BTW- we have been discussing if, what, and how we can add Chaos 'map-specific' features to the mod. So that folks like yourself would have neat 'toys' to put in Chaos maps that would of course require that the mod be running.
However, barring that, you could of course just change the name slightly, which is quite common, and then there would be no confusion on versions. Dunno if that's acceptable to your or not, but it should do the trick.