Project Cartographer Feature Add-ons to Halo 2

• 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