portal multiplayer mod
first you have to click find partners; then you have to choose between 3 modes;
2 players, 3 players, and 4 players. then it will start searching.
it will try to find people who search for the same mode.
then you decide (with the others) wich map pack your gonna play(every mode has different map packs and of course you can download map packs
) you play as a robot(the two co-op bots from portal 2 and 2 others that i still have to design).
Omnicoder wrote:
There's already a Portal: multiplayer mod.
yes, but is it with multiplayer maps?
I have actually seen a few attempts of making a portal coop/multiplayer-mod.
This one seems to be the most promising one:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/portal-multiplayer2
Also you can search Google and Youtube for "Portal Multiplayer" and find some more stuff.
It's all super hackish and I imagine it plays like shit. Just wait 4 months for proper Co-op.
Omnicoder wrote:
It's a code mod it isn't built off Portal. Portal crashes if maxplayers is larger then 1.
Not quite, it crashes if maxplayers is larger than 1 and you are near an open portal.
Also, NPC's are incredibly glitchy, physics are crap, and most portal maps are broken.
Me and stegarootbeer used to multiplayer portal on a map we collaborated on. We tried to keep it as crash free as possible by not having any npc's, no portals/portalguns, but lots to explore/do.
p0rtalplayer wrote:
Omnicoder wrote:It's a code mod it isn't built off Portal. Portal crashes if maxplayers is larger then 1.
Not quite, it crashes if maxplayers is larger than 1 and you are near an open portal.
Also, NPC's are incredibly glitchy, physics are crap, and most portal maps are broken.
Me and stegarootbeer used to multiplayer portal on a map we collaborated on. We tried to keep it as crash free as possible by not having any npc's, no portals/portalguns, but lots to explore/do.
I've tried it, it sometimes crashes instantly instead of waiting for you to approach a Portal.
msleeper wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think I am, they're just using the built in server-side plugin capabilities of Source. And since clients are 1 player servers, they're using that to cheat at things like artificially increasing maxplayers and creating additional clients. HL2:DM server ops do stuff to increase the max players from 16 to 32, which I used to do on my HL2:DM server.It's all super hackish and I imagine it plays like shit. Just wait 4 months for proper Co-op.
You may be (and quite probably are) right, I'm not too informed about server plugins. I should really do some research on them.
And yes, what Omni and p0rtalplayer were saying, I've co-oped with Stega too in Portal. I managed to crash it a few times quite easily.
msleeper wrote:
Just wait 4 months for proper Co-op.
msleeper wrote:
msleeper wrote:Just wait 4 months for proper Co-op.
Yes. Logically, THIS would be the time to make a multiplayer mod, as portal 2 would have multiplayer capabilities built in.