Project Cartographer Feature Add-ons to Halo 2

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  • Networking through the LAN browser, of course. Join lag gone.
  • In-game account system with auto-update feature.
  • Custom guide menu (HOME key or selected from the main menu)
    • Advanced Settings:
      • Customize HUD/GUI:
        • Field of View
        • Crosshair Offset
        • Toggle Ingame Chat Visibility
        • Toggle HUD Visibility
        • Toggle First Person Model Visibility
      • Other Settings:
        • FPS Limit
        • Toggle Discord Rich Presence Integration
        • Toggle Non-Host lobby xDelay
        • Toggle Game Intro Video Visibility
        • Toggle Whether Keyboard Controls work in-game (for advanced usage of game in the background)
        • Toggle Raw Mouse Input
        • Toggle Auto Eject When Vehicles Flip Over (Host Activated)
      • Toggle Game Skulls
    • Credits
    • Update Game

  • Cartographer game variants which are enabled by creating a Slayer game variant, with custom variant specified in the title
    • Zombies - Zombies/infection mode. Be sure there are no weapons on map, no vehicles, and no team changing allowed.
    • Infection - as above
    • GunGame - Guns change as you get more kills
    • H2X - Changes certain Halo 2 PC weapons and the game engine to match their behavior to Halo 2 Xbox
    • RvB - Forces Red and Blue team only. Players cannot change to the other teams. Deprecated as of update 0.6.5.0 for dedicated servers. Use the team bit flags in the config file

  • Hotkeys
    • Console key (F10) - In game console, currently in a limited state. Unfortunately having the console open does not stop game input, please be patient with it.
    • Note: This key only applies to US keyboard layouts. If you have a different keyboard, please remap the key in config file %localappdata%/Microsoft/Halo 2/halo2config1.ini .
      • List of console commands:
        • reloadMaps - Reloads custom maps without having to restart the game
        • resetSpawnCommandList - Reloads spawn commands from the commands.txt file in game directory
        • spawnNear <item_name> <count> - Ex. spawnNear scorpion 10 . Items should spawn near your biped. Some maps don't play nicely. See commands.txt for spawnable items. Only the host / dedicated server can spawn items.
        • spawn <item_name> <count> <x> <y> <z> - Ex. spawn scorpion 10 50 50 50 - IDK how to get the coordinates, good luck with that.
        • logPlayers - Host command, see all players in your game
        • kick <peer_index> - Kick a player based on peer index found with logPlayers
    • Function keys
      • F2 shows onscreen debug menu.
      • F3 shows debug and prints help.
      • F7 aligns the window to a screen quadrant grid and sets window borderless.
      • F8 toggles windowed/borderless mode.
      • F9 toggles hiding the in-game chat menu.

  • halo2configX.ini
    • Allows you to change and set most of the console commands, and edit other cartographer options. Found in %localappdata%/Microsoft/Halo 2/. File contains detailed description of features such as
      • Raw mouse input
      • Skip intro videos
      • Change game language
      • Toggle controller aim assist
      • FPS limiter
      • Field of view (FOV)
      • Crosshair offset
      • and more...

  • Map Downloading
    • Similar to the GFWL implementation. Allows players to download custom maps when they join a server that is running a custom map.
    • Maps can be downloaded in pre-game lobby while the game is in progress\
    • Maps are downloaded from our custom map repo
    • There can only be 50 maps in the custom map folder: %userprofile%/Documents/My Games/Halo 2/Maps Custom map limit removed as of update 0.6.5.0
    • Custom map folder: %userprofile%/Documents/My Games/Halo 2/Maps

  • Split-screen
    • halo2.exe can be opened multiple times in order to simulate split-screen.
    • Multiple halo2config ini's are automatically created
    • *Only Xinput compatible controllers work for anyone not nominated for "disable_ingame_keyboard = 0" in "halo2config#.ini" (usually instance 1 aka player 1). *the (Duraz{no,00}.ini or x360{ce,00}.ini) file will need configuring the first time it is generated in terms of controller (port=? or PAD?=?).

  • Other changes
    • Projectile speed of most weapons are increased in order to combat issues with hit registration.
    • ESRB warning at game startup is removed
    • Halo 2's window can be resized independently of game settings
    • Halo 2 can be played over Remote Desktop Connection
 
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