Campaign in COOP Modus

[BH808303 0]

After some playing around in the campaign, i remembered a cool feature OFP had... playing the cmapaign (or all official mission for that matter) in COOP modus.

And the best part .. it evens works

depbo the campaign.pbo and u will get all missions/movies out of the campaign.

Copy a mission to ur editor location, modify it in the editor so it has mutiple players. Some mission need a adjustment in the victory conditions to end properly.

Save the mission as MP place the original scripts/briefings/music/etc back in the mission folder and pbo it.

Voila a real cool made mission in coop modus... enjoy

[sickboy 13]

Giving it a go, i'll let you know if in ArmA it's as easy as it was in OFP ;p

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Update:

Got all campaign and single player missions now as multiplayer missions. Time setting and viewdistance setting aswell.

Have tested for a while on a server, but not yet with other players... Will try tonight and will update

There do not seem to be greater or less complications than with OFP

6thSense.eu has the missions in the mission list, you (as any other coop lover) is welcome! Check the Introduction thread for info on how to play at our servers!

[gringoloco 0]

what the hell i do wrong ?? i unpbo the campaign folder and put the missions to mp-templates.. but i cant open in editor (No Entry... ) somone can help me ? tnx

[Oosh 0]

Any chance of someone hosting this for download?

[Timblesink 0]

Probably not, seeing as that would be re-distribution of BIS files... But I think I remember Placebo saying if the files didn't directly help warez-ers or people who didn't own the game legit, it'd be fine. Dunno, though...

[Millenium7 0]

Wait a minute doesn't ArmA support playing through the campaign in 2 player coop mode? I just remembered that but its not anywhere in the list when hosting a multiplayer game

Or is it yet to be implemented?

[sickboy 13]

Wait a minute doesn't ArmA support playing through the campaign in 2 player coop mode? I just remembered that but its not anywhere in the list when hosting a multiplayer game

Or is it yet to be implemented?

My best guess is that you found that option in the list of wanted features, not officially announced features, but don't me if i'm wrong

[450R 1]

No, that was definitely a promised feature mentioned by Placebo in more than one interview. Look here. I'm sure Google would turn up more but I don't have time...

You may have to complete the missions in SP to play them in MP.

[gonk 0]

so what happened to co-op campaign... was looking forward to that ? Feature left out ? Due in a patch ?

[madrussian 347]

In going to be mighty bummed if the Coop Campaign didn't ship with ArmA.

After all, it was definately listed in the official ArmA features list.

Some mission need a adjustment in the victory conditions to end properly.

And then some... based on my experience converting SP missions to MP I'd call converting the entire SP campaign to MP a major endeavor.  Even then there would likely be lingering issues that would need to be ironed out for some time to come that would spoil the fun (i.e. broken objectives, unforseen MP problems, etc)

...that is if indeed the community ends up having to create the Coop Campaign conversion.

I'd much rather play the Coop Campaign out of the box.  (with plenty of good ole industry standard quality control, etc)

Hurry up somebody and finish off the campaign so we can see if this official feature has been included!  

[gonk 0]

well no offical word from and BIS admin so I guess it was left out...

Reason... other missions that are locked (single Player) are greyed out.. not hidden.

Why would you lock or hide that... This would/is a selling point and one of the reasons to get the game. I hate locked missions/weapons ... very silly idea. You would let people play the campaign from the start as MP.

[Millenium7 0]

I read somewhere you have to play the campaign through to unlock it which just sucks i'd much prefer to play the campaign through with a friend. And don't leave out any cutscenes, intro's, outro's and so on in multiplayer it just spoils it

[gonk 0]

stop trying to finish just to see if a MP campaign is there... here is the email I got back from IDEA...

Hello,

I am sorry but Multiplayer campaign is not in the game.

With the best regards Robert Stipek

Hmm... very sad...

[mads bahrt 0]

I had an exchange of pm with Placebo on this matter. I'll quote the last message he sent to me:

I take this as a confirmation that you don't object to users distributing a MP-conversion of the included SP-campaign. Is this correct?

Correct.

So if someone has already made a conversion and MP-proofing of the existing missioins - please share. Otherwise I'll look into this at some point myself, although it may take moths before I have time for this.

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

Yea, this is awesome.... PM me if you want it hosted somewhere

[SlurrpyChillyFries 0]

i would be willing to take a handful. post here if you would like to help out.

[BH808303 0]

It's been a while since i checked this thread.

The reason i posted this because it's a easy way to create a solid coop mission with it. Which also shows some pro mission editing and scripting in a Arma enviroment. I used it to refresh my rusty OFP editing experience and in the process get some cool mission with it to play.

it's impossible to recreate a complete coop campaign with this method. The current MP engine doesn't support 'Campaign' modus. Just a collection of single missions.

Alot of ArmA Campaign mission aren't even interesting to convert to MP due to the style.

But i have to agree that it would be awesome to play the campaign in coop modus 'out'of the box'.