HAC 2 Development

Note: If you’re having problems since updating to 1.10, please remove all other mods to ensure that the problem is actually related to HAC 2.

Note #2: If you’re experiencing an ‘error 126‘, attempt installing the latest Direct3D9 from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=35

Aside from 1.10 compatibility, here’s the list of changes:

Bug fixes:

• The sightjacker will no longer advance by two players at a time when using the keyboard controls.
• HUD colour resets now save correctly.
• Field of view preferences had a small chance to reset if the game didn’t exit correctly.

Changes:

• The sightjacker will now automatically continue to track your target after respawning.
• The BSP upgrade is now available for all game versions rather than just CE 1.09.
• The HUD colour shortcut key has been moved from F9 to F8.

New features overview:

• The particle limit has been increased by 50%.
• Active camouflage now renders correctly on Nvidia cards (not tied to 1.10).
• Scope blur can be disabled via a console command without requiring the disablealpharendertargets config.txt mod.
• Resolution selection is no longer limited to a maximum of 1600×1200 (not tied to 1.10).
• Your resolution in windowed mode can now match your desktop resolution.
• The game now has a windowed-fullscreen mode.

Active Camouflage:

The full active camouflage effect will now display correctly on Nvidia cards by default. If you wish to revert to the old effect, you can use the console command camo_fix 0.

Scope Blur:

Scope blur can now be toggled with the command scope_blur 0/1. This removes the need to add the potential undesirable disablealpharendertargets option to your config.txt.

Resolutions & Windowed-Fullscreen mode:

The requirement to specify the -vidmode argument has been removed with a fix to Halo’s video options to allow for the selection of all supported resolutions.

Additionally, when running the game in windowed mode (-window), users can toggle between windowed and the new windowed-fullscreen mode by pressing alt + enter. As with other games that offer a windowed-fullscreen option, your game resolution must match your desktop resolution to be able to enter windowed-fullscreen. The reason for this limitation is simply that the window scaling used by Windows 7 and up makes the game look awful if it has to be stretched.