Aliens vs Predator

Tech Notes

Keyboard configuration issues

When you get to the “name your character” screen, press Esc to return to the main menu. Choose Configure and set up your keyboard, mouse, sound and video configuration. Mplayer notes that the multiplayer settings are independent. Return to the main menu, choose Multiplayer, name your character and play.

Once the multiplayer configuration has been saved, later Mplayer sessions should only require you to set your name before entering the game.

Saving settings for AvP online

1. Join an Mplayer game.
2. Choose your profile.
3. At the “Enter Name” screen, press Escape.
4. Check the multiplayer configuration settings and adjust them if necessary.
5. Select Multiplayer. The nickname from the selected profile should appear.
6. Continue into the game using the saved multiplayer settings.

The Mplayer guide also gives a shorter procedure: find a game, join the game, select the profile, press Escape at the Name Character screen, select Multiplayer, confirm the profile name appears, and continue into the game.

Host migration issue

If the original host leaves after launch, AvP can migrate hosting to another player. The historical problem documented by Mplayer is that somebody entering later from the lobby may still try to connect to the original host IP address and time out because the host has migrated.

Mplayer recommends gathering everyone before launching, or hosting a new game and waiting for players to join before starting.

Button meanings

The Mplayer Tech Notes describe the lobby and connectivity indicators as follows:

Symbol	Meaning
	This person is the Moderator to whom you have good connectivity
	You have good connectivity to this player who is "Ready to Play"
	Your ping time to the moderator is still being computed
	Your latency to this person is still being computed. They are "Ready to Play"
	Your latency to this person is still being computed, and they are not "Ready to Play"
	You have excellent (low ping) connectivity to the Moderator
	You have excellent connectivity to this player, but they are not yet "Ready to Play"
	You have excellent connectivity to this player who is "Ready to Play"
	You have terrible (high ping) connectivity to the Moderator*
	Your latency to this person is terrible (high ping) but they are "Ready to Play"*
	The person is playing the game

How to join a game on Mplayer

1. Historically, players started AvP through the Mplayer entry under the Fox/Alien versus Predator program group.
2. The client opened the AvP intermediate page.
3. The player selected the Aliens vs Predator retail lobby.
4. The player selected a game room using the room/lobby controls.
5. Selecting the room entered the game.

How to create a game on Mplayer

Select Create Game, enter a room name, set the maximum number of players and optionally password-protect the room. Confirm the settings to create and host the room.

How to launch

1. A player creates a game room in the Aliens vs Predator lobby and waits for the other players to enter.
2. The moderator launches the game.
3. At the AvP multiplayer screen, each player chooses a race while the moderator chooses the map.
4. The moderator chooses the remaining settings and starts the match.

Known bugs

Mplayer listed no known bugs.

Text Chat

The text-chat control can be changed through the in-game control options.

Voice Chat

The AvP Tech Notes list no separate in-game voice-chat control.

Control / Hotkeys

Controls are changeable through the game control options.

Disconnect behavior

The Mplayer guide states that the game handles player drop-outs and host migration. After the moderator migrates to another player, no further drop-ins are available.

Specifications

• Pentium 166
• 32 MB of RAM
• 28.8 modem
• 2 to 16 players

Official Leagues

There are currently no active leagues. The original Mplayer league sites are no longer active, but this section is being kept in case new LIvVE leagues become available in the future.

Forum

The original Mplayer game forum is no longer active. Continue the discussion in the LIvVE Aliens vs Predator forum.