Hi Im new so bare with me,
I use a G4 Mac and I was cheating (ok ok lock me away sherif ya got me) and I got to Sam's apartment for the second time (when it goes BOOM) and I started off with what looked to me like an MP5 automatic machine gun!  It was black, looked like the gun Bruce willis used in Die Hard, and was silenced (made a pfft sound when used) it only had 32 rounds or so with no extra clip! When I looked in my on screen inventory it was in the #4 slot with a picture of it!  I put in the "give all" cheat put it wasn't pictured then.  However, if I scrolled through the #4 weapons - I could select it. What gives???  I looked everywhere about this phenomina but so far nothing, please help me.

Thanks y'all

There have been 3 weapons added to the game since it was released; the MP5 in 1.01, and the Sig551 and Silver Talon in 1.02. The weapons were designed to be used in MP. But yes, with "give all" you can get them in SP, the pictures just don't show up in the menus.

-xmc

Detective AutoPilot is on the case!

Here is my full report:

Once upon a time in the ancient history of SOF-2, there was no MP5 in the game at all, but there was (and still is) a picture of one on the cover of the game.

Needing something to whine and biscuit eater about to Raven, some players relentlessly demanded that Raven add the MP5-SD to the game. Raven, being the nice guys that they are, obliged and added the gun in the next patch.

Since this is something that was added and not originally planned in the code, the only way you can get it in Single Player is through the Give All cheat.  That is also why it does not show up in the weapon selection Icons (though sometimes it does, but I don't know the exact circumstances that causes it to).

MultiPlayer is a different story.  There it is selectable as a primary weapon just like any other and can also be picked up in the DeathMatch games.

Don't worry about the Sheriff arresting you for cheating in Single Player, you can cheat yourself all you want and nobody will know or care.

But don't try it in MultiPlayer or you will be hung by your danglies and your family and their generations will be cursed and damned for all eternity.

Welcome to Soldier Of Fortune II, Double Helix and good luck, Soldier!

-=AutoPilot=-

Only problem with using the MP5 (and the other new guns) in SP is it's completely unsupported.  Meaning no one tested them in single player.  This could manifest itself in gameplay.  For example, the NPC sensitivity to MP5 gunshot sounds is probably not what we'd want it to be.

And I would tend to agree with AP that you're only cheating yourself in SP using cheats; try to solve it at least on the lowest difficulty first. :>  But that's your prerogative.  Frag on!

I'm an avid (read: addicted) single player RMG user and was wondering if it would be possible to get the new weapons into the RMG missions? I'd love to have new toys in there!!

put on the singel player cheats and type give all at the console.

Thnx, got that in the above posts. I meant real support so the weapons would be menu available. I guess having to tweak the AI at this point isn't in the stars?

'fraid not. Sorry.

I don't know about tweaking the AI, but you might, might just be able to get it in there by default in some of the text files defining missions.

For example, the text file menus\default_rmg_assassination_wpn.cfg

contains the following

set acc_ussocom 0
select wp_ussocom
select wp_m4
select wp_msg90a1

I don't know whether this is where mp5 lacks the support, but it might be worth a go. To see that file, you'll have to look in your base\*.pk3 with winzip. Extract the file, using folder names, to your sof2 base directory. Open it in notepad and try this

set acc_ussocom 0
select wp_ussocom
select wp_mp5
select wp_msg90a1

Thnx Booda, I'll try messing with that today. BTW, try PakScape for playing with PK3 files. Much easier and quicker.
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