I plan to release a new DLL with a few bug fix and minor enhancement:

• (DONE) report the accomplishment of mission goals to the WorldServer.
• (DONE) send challenge mode information to Quake2 servers
• (DONE) create a betatest forum group in place of the actual hack
• (DONE) Change process for joining a game: In regular mode, no more return to the StartMap when a player join. In Challenge mode, only able to join somebody when he is in the StartMap.
• (DONE) Add a little skull in the co-op HUD to differentiate challenge mode from regular in screen-shots.
• (DONE) Differentiate "Regular" servers from "Challenge mode" servers in the "join" menu (add a "[C]" before the name).
• (DONE) Now weapons can be dropped for sharing with teammates. The counter part is that weapons no more stay when picked up.
• (DONE) Always reset the inventory when in StartMap
• (DONE) Send the Makron name in place of "noclass" in events messages.
• (DONE) Create a new StartMap with a set of button linkable to goal through xmlrules, for allowing dynamic interaction with the WorldServer.
• to be completed...

Update: "Next release before the end of 2009" replaced by "Next release, early 2010"

Don't expect too much for this new DLL, I'm impatient to finish it and restart coopordie2 development.

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I am waiting for it
Will the invisible monsters bug (aka teleporting monsters bug) be fixed?

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i don't thing it will be fixed.

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@ANDREI and KEMPER: I have edited some parts of your messages. I'm sorry but I won't allow these jokes in this thread.

No it won't because as far as I understand it, it is an engine and network protocol limitation about entities number.

The only solution is to reduce the number of additional monsters and items. It will be done indirectly by adding buttons in the startmap to select xmlrules: press A for official xmlrules, press B for ANDREI xmlrules with bunch of monsters, press C for classic game...

If somebody want to betatest the last DLL, let me know. I will create a special account for you and send you the file.

In fact, with Quake2 the "join" menu is client side, so I can't modify it. And when a server reject you, it's the way it works. You can type "map startmap" in the console to return to it. But I admit it is not very nice.

On the server side, if the player who host the game return to startmap, all the players already in the game will stay connected and the new entrant will automatically join.

Like previously mentioned, the menu is client side. But I will take a look if it's possible to change automatically the name of the game in case of challenge mode.

Without any return to the Startmap when a player die, "coop or die" will be no more "coop or die", no?

oh, alright

I can't find any good solution for managing the arrival of new players in challenge mode. If we want to prevent it outside the StartMap, the player who try to join need to be rejected in this case. Then, he is stuck in a full screen console and need to type "map startmap" if he want to restart in solo.

The good thing is that when trying to join a server, Quake2 retry until the player stop it. So if the server return to StartMap, the player will join automatically.

This is that type of problem that make me think I must stop to try any enhancement of this mod...