Online SP Co-op on dedi server?

[Zetki 10]

Has anyone figured out how to host the single player co-op on a dedicated server? If so how do you do it?

Thanks

[Blake 0]

That would be great, I've heard some reports that hosting the coop campaign slows down host's computer (even powerful one) quite a bit as it's taking all the burden as the campaign probably is quite more complicated than normal coop mission. Playing it on dedicated server would only slow down the server and let players play the game withou slowdowns. Splitting campaign into separate missions would be one way to play it on dedicated but that is not the same as having proper integrated coop campaign.

But then there is the problem of save games, some kind of small interface would be needed to load save games if players dont want to play it all over a gain.

A big custom coop campaign with dozen+ player slots is a really heavy load even most poweful multicore CPUs on normal playing-while-hosting method so I hope BIS will take a look on this issue.

Edited June 4, 2009 by Blake

[nedley 10]

You can unpack the missions.pbo file in the addOns folder of arma 2 to get the campaign missions. I tried it on my own system offline with a dedicated server though and when I joined, the 'Cooper' player slot (which is essential) is assigned to AI and you cannot switch it.

I assume with little editing knowledge you can change this, but I'm too stupid for that :rolleyes:

[Zetki 10]

You can unpack the missions.pbo file in the addOns folder of arma 2 to get the campaign missions. I tried it on my own system offline with a dedicated server though and when I joined, the 'Cooper' player slot (which is essential) is assigned to AI and you cannot switch it.

I assume with little editing knowledge you can change this, but I'm too stupid for that :rolleyes:

I think my friend tried this but im not sure it worked, Has anyone else tryed it and made it work perfectly? Or maybe he just couldnt be bothered changing every mission to edit Cooper

[nedley 10]

:confused: Come on people, there must be a way to do this.

[kFMkII 10]

Unpack the PBO, repack the individual missions, put them in the MPMissions folder, join the server, pick the mission you want, login as admin, use the command #reassign

[ovp87 10]

Just did that, the missions plays (at least the map loads etc.) however it doesnt seem to give you the secondary objectives etc. its more like a standard mp. game on the camp. map. you can also respawn if you die.. any ideas?

[ovp87 10]

bump.

[HOPEnSPIRIT 10]

This is the type of question a DEV needs to answer.