[LivesForeverPlus Coop]

I host from inside the game, but I have the NOLF2_ExeMods_1.0 installed.

 

Edit: Well I was hoping I was doing something wrong. I read in another thread that the entire campaign had been completed in coop, which implies there aren't any game-stoppers like that, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

[LivesForeverPlus Coop]

Okay so I don't know if this has been discussed before, or if this is the right place, or what, but...

 

First of all, being able to play the coop missions is fantastic, and it's exactly what I missed about the original game. I bought it mostly for the coop play! Most of the LivesForeverPlus maps work alright, namely in Japan and India, the trailer park, and the first super soldier one in the base, but not all is well.

 

I noticed earlier when I loaded a mission in multiplayer without a friend, everything worked just fine, like I was playing it singleplayer, but the minute my friend came in, the cutscene wouldn't play properly. So here are my issues:

 

-The Director's Intercom / Phone

Whenever he talks to his mother in the cutscene, the movie gets stuck and practically stops, forcing me to skip.

 

-Cutscenes involving Cate's plane trips don't play properly

With another player in the game, they just don't play. Playing singleplayer reminded me they even exist.

 

-Russian Missions Freeze Character and/or Cause Mouse Problems

When a mission starts, I frequently have to be stunned before my character snaps out of its frozen animation, and at others my mouse doesn't move the camera (snaps harshly in 45 degree

increments)

 

-Russian Missions with Missing Status Bars

Sometimes in the Russian missions, the armor and health bars are little nondescript manhandled cubes?

 

-Crashes On the Singleplayer Unity Mime Mission

 

I think that's it. The UNITY mission is as far as we've gotten, since it now crashes at that point, which is a bummer. Otherwise, everything works, and it's been a joy to share this game with my friend who had never played it before (plus it's nice to be playing with someone who shoots straight and takes care of business while I'm hugging the floor for the fourth time!), but obviously the experience has some holes. Are these problems something I've done wrong, or anything that can be fixed in the mod somehow? I was overjoyed to find out this was possible, and even more so to discover there's a save/load system in the game. It works so well at times it's almost as though Monolith had this planned out from the beginning, but never actually got around to making it a reality.

 

Edit: I forgot one.

 

-Cate is Invisible During the First UNITY Cutscene

Being briefed by Lawrie and Barnes and the short general guy, you can hear Cate, but she's not there.

[Shall we petition Monolith to distribute NOLF2 on Steam?]

Well it would need to have our Livesforever mod and stuff included in the version that would be sold by steam.

 

That would be a dream come true, but I'm not sure it would happen. There'd probably be more luck with Good Old Games, with their slew of extras they put out with the old stuff. I have such good memories from this game, since it was such a gathering place of friendly people who just wanted to have fun. If it were to come back, I would be all over that like right now, if not sooner.

[Shall we petition Monolith to distribute NOLF2 on Steam?]

Still, there's a problem. Even if NOLF is released online (I would buy it again if it were on Steam to really go full circle), people are going to

jump online and wonder where the multiplayer is, because the master server was shut down. How do you counter the fact people buy and play the game,

but don't know where to get the tools to play it online? And that brings up another interesting question. While digital distribution gives life to

games that typically die and are forgotten, would GoG or Steam sell the game, knowing its multiplayer function is incomplete?