Profile of Rosbone

Can you add a on-screen display while in-game? Something that displays information with a toggle button so that people can turn it on or off anytime they want without alt-tabbing?

This has been brought up before and I started to look into it. I was hesitant to have code that reads your keyboard since that is what key loggers do (virus). But other programs do it (OBS, Discord, etc).

PROBLEMS
1) I have no idea how to do it. I am not a real programmer. More of an enthusiast.
2) I would need to add some extra stuff(DLLs, etc) to read the keyboard. And it may increase CPU usage.

QUESTIONS
1) Does the original CELO have an OSD option? I have seen sections in the code that call out OSD but it appears limited to 1080p. Could be scaling issues etc. Just curious if it works. If it works fine I can use that code in this version perhaps.

I will look into it again. I can see how Alt-Tab can be an issue for some people.

I have been slowly working on an OpenGL version that may help animations be smoother but will be more CPU/GPU intensive. That will also give me the ability to read the keyboard. I was planning on it being a separate version. So if I do an OSD version, it may be in that form.

TEMPORARY MAKOCELO WEB BASED APP

MakoCELO 4.32 Web Based Hack Job

To hold us over until Relic fixes the missing Steam ID and Ranks, we made a Web Based version (hack) that can get random automatch stats only. No ARRANGED TEAM stats.

There is not an install for this version. Just extract it from the zip file and place it somewhere that it can write its settings to (almost anywhere).

For best results, turn off the ELO cycle option. This tries to calculate the LEVEL of the player and where they lie in percentage to the rest of the players. Or you can turn it on and follow the following steps to get the maximum number of players for each game mode.

To get the ELO CYCLE working:
- Press the ELO button next to the Rank setup button.
- Press GET ALL APPROXIMATES. This will cycle thru all game modes on the Relic site to get max player counts. If you get stuck at the age gate, enter your age and continue. You may need to STOP SEARCHING and restart the GET ALL APPROXIMATES.
- After all 28 slots are filled select SAVE and EXIT.

The player RANK display will cycle thru showing Rank, Percentage Of Rank, and Level. These calcs are done when the new match is found. If you dont see them, manually CHECK LOG FILE again to force a recalc.

This is not a perfect fix, more like a wet dirty bad aid. Since we dont have Steam IDs, external web player cards are turned off.

Two great additions by using the web method:
- Click a player and the STATS area shows all their normal mode ranks, wins, losses, and % wins.
- You can see players ranks when spectating games.

EXAMPLE ELO LEVEL DISPLAY


EXAMPLE PLAYER CARD IN MAKOCELO

for the nerdies, what are the technical reasons for the increase in minimum fps?

I am curious what people think.

I never take the minimum number too serious. The PC is usually doing way more things than just playing Coh2. The game itself may doing weird things like caching textures or terrain, updating steam items, etc. Between Windows and Coh2 you are bound to get hiccups.

In the old days we would run tests at least twice. Windows may be caching things from the Hard Drive etc and the 2nd run was always a little better. Anti Virus software could be slowing things down as you read from disk also.

In the world they have a term for things that are reliable and will work exactly the same all the time: deterministic. Things like PLCs, Real-Time OS, etc. Windows is NOT deterministic. You cant rely on it to ever do the same thing twice.

but even this doesn't work for me - pushing the triangle button does nothing (inb4 full internet access granted).

The actual Relic leaderboards are down now so maybe that is the issue.

I can approve this bug with summer skin, Kasarov also said it uses some summer assets on the map. The rest (including portraits) is fine
In other words, the game uses camos from “summer” slots on this map

I just SPECTATED a match and saw this:


The other vehicles were winter skinned (different skin pattern). It has the winter portrait but not the skin.