OK, since UBI has ignored our pleas to fix this game, I have taken it upon myselft to fix it for them. More to the point, to fix the game for us!!! And after several weeks of work, I have finally found a way to keep the dedicated servers in High Stakes mode.

Before I post the link to download this fix, I want to caution all server admins that there is no way to turn off HS mode in this fix. (Maybe there will be in the future but not at this time) So, if you do download this file, please backup your current SADS executable. (RainbowSixVegas2_SADS.exe)

Optionally, you could name the downloaded exe file something like RainbowSixVegas2_SADS_HC.exe and change the last line of your R6VegasServerLaunch.bat file to reflect the new exe name.

All you have to do from there is to launch the new .exe file with the same commandline options that you have used in the past and it's up and running.

A couple of notes:
1. The server WILL NOT be listed as a High Stakes server in the server browser, so you might want to change the server name to reflect it.
2. As I mentioned earlier, there is no way to turn off HS mode at the present time (I mean, why would you want to turn it off anyway?)

You can get this fix at the following link:
Vegas 2 High Stakes

Thanks goes out to the PAB clan for helping in testing this fix. Let's keep the Rainbow Six community rolling forward.


Now the part that I hate to have to say: By downloading this fix and using it, you agree to do so at your own risk, holding me harmless from any damages or loss of data or hardware either incidental or consequential...

Anyway, my hat's off to the programmers at UBI for leaving a product half finished and not working, and leaving us to fix it ourselves.

Great Job guys!


...sticky please.

Congratulation for that HS fix!

That makes me wonder... Where is the so-called high-stakes mode fix from TheNinjaBoy? Ah yeah, nowhere in sight! Now, it looks like we have really found someone who can actually help the community and provide tangible results...

Does this fix run with Punkbuster enabled?
Or does PB detect it as a cheat due to altered files?

Nice to see someone doing Ubisoft's job for them.

The upper levels of Ubisoft should hang their heads in shame, but it seems they have no morals so I would guess shame isn't in their vocabulary!!

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Originally posted by Lethal1940:
Does this fix run with Punkbuster enabled?
Or does PB detect it as a cheat due to altered files?

Nice to see someone doing Ubisoft's job for them.

The upper levels of Ubisoft should hang their heads in shame, but it seems they have no morals so I would guess shame isn't in their vocabulary!!

When I first did this fix, that question weighed heavily on my mind. But, as it turns out, PB does not seem to have a problem with it. Maybe because it's a server side fix?

Cool, thanks alot.

Congrats on the fix!

Just another thread to save in order to show people how lame Ubisoft is that they can't fix their own games when they have the source code but a gamer can.

I wish there was a way I could get my clan to go back and try this. We moved on to COD4 back when Vegas let us down and since COD4 allows map making, there is no way this game can have any life left.

Great job though, just too late for my group.

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Originally posted by AWC_Pest:
Congrats on the fix!

Just another thread to save in order to show people how lame Ubisoft is that they can't fix their own games when they have the source code but a gamer can.

I wish there was a way I could get my clan to go back and try this. We moved on to COD4 back when Vegas let us down and since COD4 allows map making, there is no way this game can have any life left.

Great job though, just too late for my group.

Funny you should say that. Not only did I not have the source code, but I'm not a programmer either.

name one other game on the pc that lets you play true , cqb, man to man combat, with no weapons of mass destruction or bunny hopping.. i wish bin osama would bunny hop for me when im sniping,,

no its rainbow for me and the pabs, high stakes
great job Wayz, and all those that kept the fire burning,, rainbow lives

peak a boo gaming community

quote:

Originally posted by pab.High.Stakes:
name one other game on the pc that lets you play true , cqb, man to man combat, with no weapons of mass destruction or bunny hopping.. i wish bin osama would bunny hop for me when im sniping,,

no its rainbow for me and the pabs, high stakes
great job Wayz, and all those that kept the fire burning,, rainbow lives

peak a boo gaming community

I miss CQB so much

I also fixed the game to play the way I want to as well. I went into the "Kellergame" folder and changed alot of stuff in there.

All LMG's now have faster reload times it was 6.967 secs and the enemy Ai's was 3.333 secs. Also gave them single fire mode

Assault/sub machine guns/shotguns/hand guns/SR25 SD now have larger ammo sizes and increased the weps performence. damage,penetration,range ect.

All Gadgets now have a count of 10 also the nades time to blow up is 1 sec less then Orig (so throw and move it!)

Now people are wondering why did I do this?

well very simple UBI knows about all the bugs and all hicups this game has and still nothing is done about it so I figure it's my game I bought it, they don't care so why should I care! PB can't ban me cuz all I play is Coop and sense I'm not cheating against real people I see no problem! plain and simple..

So to all of the people still playin this game have fun and when you see a terr think of them as being UBI and put one between thier f-in eyes.

peice all

Beautiful. Be careful though, ubisoft is probably going to steal this for their next game. Just thought I'd drop by and offer a friendly warning.

Ha! I'm used to that. Myself and a small group of other players figured out how to get the SADS server working when the game first came out. We posted our findings with complete instructions on how to get the server running and the next day, UBI released a "patch" for the servers. From what I could tell, they copied and pasted our intstructions into this "patch".

I'm still waiting on a paycheck from them... I certainly hope they don't pay thier programmers more than they pay me.....

THey should at least say thanks. you know what i mean 101Wayz.

Anywho, loaded your patched SADS up to our trinity servers and voila, it works.

Good job, I can actually play the game again without the spray and nade fest.

Many thanks from all of SCE R6 division.

*On a side note too, Thanks to Ninjaboy and his crew setting up servers too running HS mode for awhile too.

Edit. Nice sig neilthecellist.

Since there are some skilled people out there that are able to partially fix UBI's mistakes, I have a question.

Can someone make an option that will force teams to have matching uniforms and get rid of the coin over people's heads?

I would think this could be a server side only mod since the client must send the server what uniform colors the client wants and then the server must transfer that data out to all other players. What would have to happen is ignore the clients uniform color choice and force it to something depending on which team that person is on. The biggest glitch I could see is if you were able to look at yourself you would see the uniform colors you chose while everyone else on your team would appear to match each other. This would go great with the high stakes fix.