TUTORIAL: How to set side or faction in portal editor

Hey, this is great, thank you for posting it.

I have a question...would you know how to force the player on a team that has the higher number of bots? I'm trying to make a co-op mode where there are like 4-8 MEGA bots, and then 32 opposing humans + bots, to the fight them PvE.

I'm thinking something along the lines of a group of people vs. Terminators.

The only issue is...no matter what you do, when the server starts up, it always puts you on the team with the least amount, because of the servers rules to balance the teams, even if I FORCE people to be on one side...it just changes the sides that have the limited amount of MEGA soldiers.

Any help would be great!

Cheers,

D

Hello, 

have you tested this? 

EventPlayer isn't supported under the "OnGameModeStarted" Event. Thus this setup of yours will likely do nothing. 

What you want to use is the Event called "OnPlayerJoinGame" . If you see a warning triangle (!) you are most likely doing something wrong. 

@FastBuddhaWell done, sir! This worked! It forced me onto the right team. Progress :D

I'm currently developing a game mode, and I need all the AI to be [BF3 RU].

The problem is that it's a FFA gamemode, [SetTeamId] doesn't work in FFA. Any ideas?

what is RandomReal? @FastBuddha 

It's a function that returns a random number between a set minimum and maximum number. In the example i made here, 1 or 2. Could just as well have been 1-100 or determined by a variable on its own.

Hey @EA_Atic

Thank you for your feedback. This was just what I've figured out during my ten-hour trial. Unfortunately, I miss some stuff in Portal to get creative.

I'd love to use vehicles for win conditions. Alongside the option to make enemies defend them and the close area. Then we could make missions, like capture the helicopter and fly it to your base or destroy vehicles. I can think of an option to use friendly soldiers, making them captive that they don't get attacked, so I can free them.

To be creative, we need fewer boundaries. Please have confidence in your community! I don't know, why the logic editor is so restricted. Right now, all we get out of it is tweaked classic multiplayer game modes. But the potential is there, to turn it into more and something special. Even for single-player and coop. Right now it is the bare minimum of what I can think of.

I've put 5.5k hours into modding Arma. Here's my version of customizing a game, but with a more common interface to set things up:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2651774379

I know this type of modding will never happen to Battlefield, but more options in Portal would be great. I'm open to discussing and sharing my thoughts on the potential of Portal. I'm sure this would be a gold mine for great game modes, bring back players, and contribute to the long-term success, that BF2042 could need right now. Feel free to contact me.

Have a nice one!

-Chris