Difficult Coop

[DownLowRecka]

I have tried coop with 2 to 4 players, but it is very hard to beat a chapter.
We run out of ammo constantly. Any suggestions on how to get through the game?

[Mkilbride]

Well, I have a modded server I run(For the mod, as the Stand-alone doesn't work)

What I basically did was up the damage of guns by 20-30%. Also, I put Headshot damage @ 3x. Can you believe in Co-op they turn HS damage to 1x? So that all damage, head body, foot, ect, is the same? I can't.

To accomidate for this, I made bosses abit harder, upped enemies health a tiny bit, but not much. My server was always pretty popular because of this. Some could say I made the game easy mode.

However, I was annoyed with the default settings of trying for an hour to get past one level because an enemy just absorbed all of your bullets. We're supposed to run, lol, but that's no fun.

[DownLowRecka]

could you guide me on how to do that because 1x head shots in co op mode isnt right?

[Mkilbride]

Go to your Cry of Fear directory. find skill.cfg - browse it over and you can find alot of values to change.

I don't care if there is 4 people - Headshots should do extra. Always, no matter what.

[DownLowRecka]

Okay great thanks we will try that. We also edited the config to start with shotguns with lots of rounds.

[Mkilbride]

Hmm, I dunno about doing that. But yeah, I just liked it so that...guns felt more useful. Default it sucks. You got 4 guys, 2 have guns, 2 melee, you waste all your rounds killing 2 enemies and 6 are attacking you - they do enough damage to take you out in a few hits, it just ends up not being fun.

[BitAngel91]

If I may ask, How are you running Co-op mode, a friend of mine port forward it, 4 of us were trying to play but we couldn't get Co-op mode to run at all. If you are suggest hamachi, I'd have to say this game sucks already. but if you have another way to connect, Please help with intructions.

[᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼]

Originally posted by Freddygm91:

If I may ask, How are you running Co-op mode, a friend of mine port forward it, 4 of us were trying to play but we couldn't get Co-op mode to run at all. If you are suggest hamachi, I'd have to say this game sucks already. but if you have another way to connect, Please help with intructions.

*Player A hosts a server.
*Player B, C, and D open the Steam overlay, right-click on Player A's name and click Join Game.

That's what my brother and I do, because well, that's the only thing we could do to get a co-op game going. I don't know about port-forwarding, we never do that since we're in the same house.

[BitAngel91]

Any way to do it over the internet and not Lan or Hamachi?

[᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼]

Originally posted by DownLowRecka:

We run out of ammo constantly. Any suggestions on how to get through the game?

For my team, we have a rule of using tonfas/nightsticks as much as possible. The only time we'd bring out guns would be:

*Some/All of us are fairly low health.
*Simon spawned. <--You'll notice it when his health bar appears along with some creepy music plus a crapload more monsters than usual (like 4 flygares in the same spot)
*Flygares are present.
*Tallers are closing in.
*We're caught off guard by those speeder-type monsters who managed to close in on us.
*A sawcrazy is present.
*A watro pops up. <--In some cases, we decide to just run past it and take some damage instead of killing it.

Of course, these rules of ours aren't followed all the time. But we tend to stick to these in the name of ammo-saving. I'm not sure if ammo and weapon spawns adjust to the number of players, but for just the two of us, there's ammo every now and then.

Originally posted by Freddygm91:

Any way to do it over the internet and not Lan or Hamachi?

I'm not a tech buff so I can't answer that accurately. I can say, however, of the two computers used to play CoF, one's a desktop PC (this hosts the game) directly connected to the router while the other's a laptop that connects wirelessly. Does that count as over-the-'net?

[BitAngel91]

No, if you guys are playing from home, That is not internet. It's still Lan. But thank you for your very detailed information how ever you went beyond what I ask. Tho I admit I wont rub you off because I don't want to waste your time with everything you have type down for everyone. Thank you very much. But if you ever find a solution to play online through the net without Hamachi, Please inform me. Thank you

[DownLowRecka]

We actaully just open the console and type command: connect 66.###.##.212 (to whatever the IP is who's hosting the server). Works everytime. The guy that hosts the server for us forwards all nessassy port that are in the planning guide . I have him also mod the config files so we can all have shot guns with tons of ammo

[Atlas]

Originally posted by Mkilbride:

Well, I have a modded server I run(For the mod, as the Stand-alone doesn't work)

What I basically did was up the damage of guns by 20-30%. Also, I put Headshot damage @ 3x. Can you believe in Co-op they turn HS damage to 1x? So that all damage, head body, foot, ect, is the same? I can't.

To accomidate for this, I made bosses abit harder, upped enemies health a tiny bit, but not much. My server was always pretty popular because of this. Some could say I made the game easy mode.

However, I was annoyed with the default settings of trying for an hour to get past one level because an enemy just absorbed all of your bullets. We're supposed to run, lol, but that's no fun.

In the skill file, which line changes the multiplayer options? Would it be sk_monster_head4, because it seems to be the only one with a value of x1 instead of x3, but I'm not sure if the ones with "4" after them are just the harder difficulties.

[The Guardian Adapter]

i wanna play coop, i installed himachi, jus dont have neone to play with, add me and let me know if u wanna have some fun w this game

[Motta [ARG]]

i think the host can set this commands on his console to change difficulty:
difficulty 1 it will set the server difficulty to 1 wich means easy, 2 means normal, 3 means deaficult (sorry for ♥♥♥♥♥♥ speeling) and 4 means nightmare

[Mkilbride]

Actually.

1 = 1 player
2 = 2 players
3 = 3 players
4 = 4 players.

Really simple stuff.