v0.2.3

Restart the game after this installs.

The session no longer follows you to the main menu

Opening multiplayer and leaving closed the session and then opened it again a moment later, so sitting on the main menu you were still advertised as hosting a deathmatch lobby you had left. That stands in front of the game's own co-op, which is not what somebody who opened the game to play co-op asked for.

A session now exists only while the multiplayer screen is open, and an empty one closes when you leave it by any route.

The player who started the match no longer gets left behind

Loading a level destroys the game's menus, and this mod was still trying to draw on them several times a second, waiting on each attempt, on the same thread that tells the other players you have finished loading. They heard nothing and waited. That work now stops once the match has the screen.

Honest about what a match currently is

Both machines load the same map at the same moment with the same random seed, and that works. Nothing about the players is sent between machines once you are in it, so you each play your own copy and cannot see each other. That is the next major piece of work. The README said "Built", which reads as more than it is, and now says so plainly.

While this is being tested

This build keeps a detailed log on every machine, so a problem that needs two or three people can be worked out from what was recorded rather than from what anyone remembers afterwards.

Nothing leaves your machine unless the install has been set up for it, which needs a file you would have to be given. When it is on, the status panel in the top right says TEST BUILD: SHARING LOGS for as long as it is. If you would rather the log stayed brief either way, put an empty file named quiet.on in the MultiplayerEvolved folder.

All of this is temporary and comes out when testing is done.

Install

Copy version.dll, MultiplayerEvolved.dll and the MultiplayerEvolved folder into Halo Campaign Evolved\Meteorite\Binaries\Win64\. Everyone you play with needs the same version.