Advanced COOP FA

[D4E_Omit]

So there is this mod, which makes players share teams and eco like in PA. It used to work back in the day but it is not compatible with faf . Now my question is : could a modder take a look at this code (its in the mod vault names Advanced coop fa) and try make it compatible with faf? I'd love to play some teamgames like this for fun, it'd add a whole new level of teamwork and ecomanagement!

[Tokyto]

IF you mean that two players play as one acu (one color and stuff) its already possible to do

1) enable cheats and one of the players go to observer
2) alt+f2 ingame, and double click on player you want to play as, and you can conctrol his units/everything

[D4E_Omit]

IF you mean that two players play as one acu (one color and stuff) its already possible to do

1) enable cheats and one of the players go to observer
2) alt+f2 ingame, and double click on player you want to play as, and you can conctrol his units/everything

Obviously, except this would end in cheat war and with annoying cheat messages popping up.. I suppose you've never played PA? On PA you have a shared armies mode, which does exactly what it says : it lets you share eco and armies with your teammates, they could just take over your base whilst your microing a battle, I think this would be really cool for FA and if I remember right this is exactly what this mod used to do.

[Tokyto]

Ah, i get it now, didnt rly understound it earlier, and ye, i never palyer PA But this sounds pretty interesting indeed

[Ze_PilOt]

It does it with cheats enabled, as described.

Also, while it seems a good idea, it's make for a terrible gameplay (you are fighting your teammate more than your enemy).

[Sheeo]

I've been looking into doing this.

Unfortunately as it currently is, you can only do it with cheats enabled. It's trivial to make a mod where you just both get acus in one army, but currently the engine doesn't support having the game setup so multiple command sources can control the same army.

I think it's great for teamplay, but it does require voice-chat or at least well cooperating players.

It also enables some funky starting builds that you'd never do with just 1 acu.

[Ze_PilOt]

Still not see the big difference with two different ACU spawning at the approximate same place, and sharing their eco (while a mod that canshare commands is probably not possible, sharing eco is).

You could even enable the give command to works with ACUs too, and make some special ending conditions to accommodate all this.

Actually, you could make a mod so that one player can request sharing on an unit, and on the other end a command that auto-accept it.
So you could take the control of any unit by clicking on it.

[IceDreamer]

Except that will be plagued with errors because giving a unit actually creates a new one.

[ZLO_RD]

IF you mean that two players play as one acu (one color and stuff) its already possible to do

1) enable cheats and one of the players go to observer
2) alt+f2 ingame, and double click on player you want to play as, and you can conctrol his units/everything

Obviously, except this would end in cheat war and with annoying cheat messages popping up.. I suppose you've never played PA? On PA you have a shared armies mode, which does exactly what it says : it lets you share eco and armies with your teammates, they could just take over your base whilst your microing a battle, I think this would be really cool for FA and if I remember right this is exactly what this mod used to do.

maybe i do not know everything, but if you just start like this, with one acu and two people control one army, then get rid of cheat message, and ................ done! just like in PA

[D4E_Omit]

Yep, I'm pretty sure this is exactly what it does, make a workaround for assasination mode and just turn off the cheat message. But I'm pretty sure that it doesn't work with faf due to the integrated mode (new lobby I guess), would be cool if this could be fixed because it'd be epic on some maps and COOP would become way more fun (dont have to share mex)