Trying to determine, from the server side, what makes an object a "flag".

And by that, I mean when a player is holding the flag. If I look at the tag associated with that object, it's a weapon. And the weapon label in the tag is 'f' (0x66).

But does that mean that all flags on all maps always have a weapon label of 'f'? Or is there some other magic thing somewhere that makes the weapon a "flag"?

That goes for skull ball too, which has a label of 'b' (0x62).

What triggers Halo to treat these objects the way it does?
Edited by msalerno on Jan 25, 2016 at 01:06 PM

The globals tag lets you pick what the flag and ball are. Pretty sure you can make it anything and it will work as a flag.

Ah, I see, said the blind man.

Thanks a bunch for the pointer!

This, plus using a custom flag or ball may will cause issue with CTF and oddball if you are using same tag as a weapon to be (re)spawn in the map. Bungie/Gearbox didn't make a patch for this issue, even recent 1.10 patch. I, on other hand, am able to notice which object/tag is being used as an game usage such as CTF and oddball of course. In a third-party application there's a fix on server-side issue for it. Hope this is also helpful info.

Thanks! Yes, it is useful information. I am looking at this from the server-side.