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How to play Call of Duty black ops 2 plutonium offline + Bot progression
By Lindeboombier
In this guide I'm going to teach you how you can play Call of Duty: Black ops 2 Plutonium offline and have XP progression with bots while not being connected to the internet.
   
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Category: Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer
Languages: English
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Guide Index
Overview
Install Plutonium 
Offline launcher 
Bots 
Customizing bots 
Video tutorial 
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Install Plutonium
First we need to install Plutonium for Call of Duty: black ops 2
Go to https://plutonium.pw/ make an account on this website as you will need this to install the .exe for plutonium.
When you have made an account, then head back to the main page there is a download button that will bring you to the download page.
Download plutonium.exe, you can save the launcher anywhere you want, somewhere convenient such as your desktop or the game folder.
Open the launcher, if smart screen comes up click More info, then Run anyway.
The launcher will now start the process of installing the client files.
Enter your forum credentials to login, the same account you just made.
Then we will need to setup the game, you can use Plutonium to play World at war, Black ops 1, Black ops 2 and Modern warfare 3.
Navigate to Black Ops 2, click on SETUP and then select your Black Ops 2 game folder.
The folder you need to select is most likely called Call of Duty Black Ops II in your steam install folder.
You can easily find it by going to the game in your library, and clicking on the gear on the left, then go to installed files, show file location.
Now Plutonium is fully installed.
Offline launcher
Next will be the offline launcher.
Go to https://github.com/JugAndDoubleTap/LanLauncher and download the latest version of the Lanlauncher
Extract the LanLauncher file onto your desktop, Personally I have a folder with both the Lanlauncher and plutonium launcher.
And launch the Lanlauncher it will bring up a menu that will ask you where you have your game installed.
This launcher will also work for Plutonium World at war, Black ops 1, Black ops 2 and Modern warfare 3. (Which I will make guide for as well on how to play offline with bots and have progression)
Just browse to the install folder of Call of Duty: Black ops 2 and save, then fill in your Username that you want to use in game and make sure you select the option for multiplayer.
Now you can click ''Launch T6''
You can use this launcher to start up Black ops 2 offline when you are disconnected from the internet.
Even if you are connected to the internet, it will skip Plutonium searching and installing of updates which will be important for the next part.
Bots
Now for Bots in MP style matches.
Go to https://github.com/ineedbots/t6_bot_warfare and Download t6_bot_warfare-master by clicking ''Download this repository.'' in the installation section.
Extract the t6_bot_warfare-master folder and drag the scripts folder found inside to C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t6 folder.
Then download the file from here ''https://www.mediafire.com/file/rbnfmhblxfpn7v0/bots_fix.rar/file'' and extract the file to your desktop.
Replace the "class.lua" File in this folder "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t6\raw\ui_mp\t6\hud"
Replace the "partylobby.lua" File in this folder "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t6\raw\ui\t6"
If you use the Plutonium launcher it will scan for updates and re-download the ''class.lua & partylobby.lua'' every-time, which means you have to keep redoing the last step, if you use the offline Lanlauncher you will not have this problem.
Now you are fully setup and done.

How to use :
In game go to public match and click on the game mode you want to play, it will bring you to the lobby screen where it searches for players that it will never find.
Now click on the button to open the console ` which is under the ESC and above the Tab button usually.
Type in when ready "xpartygo" and press enter.
In match press ESC, where you now have the new options to Add bots & change difficulty.
Customizing bots
Now in the match it will use random names for the bot players, the same as in private matches normally.
You can change the names by going to C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t6 and adding a textfile name ''Bots''
Here you can type in names you want to see in the match, each name can be a maximum of 15 letters/numbers/symbols before being cutoff, also these names wont have the trademark bot clan tag in game.

And now you are all set, again if you use the Lanlauncher only, then you don't have to worry about replacing the files ''class.lua & partylobby.lua''

Have Fun!
Video tutorial
17 Comments
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ti_teeth 13 Sep @ 7:42am 
Got it, thanks
Lindeboombier  [author] 13 Sep @ 7:27am 
@Ti-Teeth, I don't know to be honest, you would need to add a start-up command to Call of Duty so that when you play Plutonium/offline launcher, steam thinks its the actual COD, this way it also counts your in-game time
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3498474564
You can use this guide I made to do that, but even then Campaign doesn't need plutonium/lan_launcher, zombies mainly needs multiple people for achievements and in MP league play doesn't work, so I wouldn't know what achievements you would want to try to get.
I think it would be easier to get SAM (Steam achievement Manager) and use that to unlock the achievements.
want to do it as fair as possible, you can do the requirements and then unlock the achievement with SAM.
ti_teeth 13 Sep @ 12:49am 
Is it possible to get achievements using this method?
ᴅʀᴀᴛʜᴍɪʀᴇ 25 Aug @ 4:16am 
Ah that's a shame as TDM groundwar doesn't last as long as a domination game. I've heard you can make your own server and it seems like you could do it that way but I'm not sure I can be bothered doing that lol. Thanks again Lindeboombier, you've done a great thing.
Lindeboombier  [author] 24 Aug @ 7:11pm 
@ᴅʀᴀᴛʜᴍɪʀᴇ you choose the game mode you want like you would in normal mp and then when you reach the lobby, you use console ''xpartygo'' and it will take the top map in the vote pool, for groundwar it will always be random sadly.
there is no way of increasing player count
ᴅʀᴀᴛʜᴍɪʀᴇ 24 Aug @ 5:29pm 
Yo Lindeboombier. I took out the " from the links and followed your instructions and everything works perfectly. I can't thank you enough, I'd spent all of yesterday searching for how to get this set up but you're the only one with the information so thank you. Is there any way to make ground war into domination like in the other CoD's or is it always just team deathmatch?
Lindeboombier  [author] 24 Aug @ 12:27pm 
@ᴅʀᴀᴛʜᴍɪʀᴇ and did you do the media fire link as well in the bot section?, the bot warfare mod is to have you spawn bots, the media fire file is to have the options in the menu

Also how are you starting the game? if you go trough the Plutonium launcher, it will scan for updates and restore class.lua and partylobby.lua files to the plutonium versions.
That is why I use the offline launcher, it prevents updates but also makes it that I don't play with other players

Even with these mods installed, it still stays at 6v6 unless you start a match of groundwar

BTW all the links give that error because they have '' in front and end because at one point steam was removing all the links in my guide
ᴅʀᴀᴛʜᴍɪʀᴇ 24 Aug @ 4:06am 
i have plutonium installed and have already played MW3 with bots for 40 - 50 hours. Unfortunately the link to the offline launcher is flagged as malicious so i'm not clicking that just in case. I have bot warfare installed as per the instructions here and on the github page but in the ESC menu there's no options for bots. I do the xstartpartyhost / xpartygo stuff too. i can use the console to spawn the bots just fine but what i really want is to make it a 9 v 9 (17 bots) but it's capped at 6 v 6 which is a bit boring.
Lindeboombier  [author] 23 Aug @ 6:30pm 
@ᴅʀᴀᴛʜᴍɪʀᴇ just to be sure, you installed plutonium and it works? are you using the offline launcher? and are you going into public match, then game mode off choice, open the console and use ''xpartygo'' to launch into the match (this way you are the host of the match). then there should be a couple of new options in the pause screen saying, add bot, remove bot, fill lobby, set difficulty 1-3
ᴅʀᴀᴛʜᴍɪʀᴇ 23 Aug @ 12:58pm 
I've installed bot warfare but when I press escape nothing happens. Any ideas?