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Subject: new maps exclusive to halo 2 pc

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wht i want to ask is why? why couldnt it be included in the map update for the halo 2 for xbox

  • 05.09.2007 9:37 AM PDT
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Because those maps are for the PC version, not the XBOX version.

It's not like they could just let xbox users download the maps for their xbox, because the maps wouldn't work on an xbox. The maps are for the pc version.

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  • 05.09.2007 9:46 AM PDT
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Posted by: Link Gray
Because those maps are for the PC version, not the XBOX version.

It's not like they could just let xbox users download the maps for their xbox, because the maps wouldn't work on an xbox. The maps are for the pc version.


dont be dumb

It has nothing to do with if they would work on xbox. same game engine, same weapons.... Its not like halo1 with the flame throw and the plasma cannon thingy.

Chalk this one up to marketing. why buy a 3 year old game and it have nothing new. New features are slight bump to graphics. which youd expect on a 512 video card anyway. achievements. and 2 new maps that xbox players wont get to play.

My question is are Tombstone and Desolation in this? I dont think so. 23 maps, 2 are pc exclusives.

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yep not gonna be in there. counting the halo2 map pack maps you get 21. Tombstone and Desolation made 23 for xbox. PC users get 2 maps that xbox users dont, so my question is will pc users get those two maps or will we have to make them on our own?

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  • 05.09.2007 10:57 AM PDT
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Download Halo Custom Edition for user created maps!
Link
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=410
The few, the proud, the leet.

They have code in them that causes the CD in the drive of an xbox/360 to spin to zero mass and create a black hole, thrusting it into the future ten temporal cycles. With the radius of the disk, you wouldn't be seeing it for about three and a half years when it will just appear back in the same place. You'd want to move your console during that time, because if you dont and you have another disk in there, the convergence of the matter in such a small amount of time is likely to cause enough heat to push the materials making the disk past their boiling point. You dont want to be around when that happens.

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Chalk this one up to marketing. why buy a 3 year old game and it have nothing new. New features are slight bump to graphics. which youd expect on a 512 video card anyway. achievements. and 2 new maps that xbox players wont get to play.

My question is are Tombstone and Desolation in this? I dont think so. 23 maps, 2 are pc exclusives.

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yep not gonna be in there. counting the halo2 map pack maps you get 21. Tombstone and Desolation made 23 for xbox. PC users get 2 maps that xbox users dont, so my question is will pc users get those two maps or will we have to make them on our own?


Dude.....out of the 5 new features of H2V, you only listed the 3 most meaningless ones.
The ONLY reasons I'm getting H2V:

1. Mainly because of the map editor. I can't wait to edit this game, make new maps, and bring some of my favorite maps from other games into it.

2. The new online system, which allows me to play whatever I want to play, instead of having matchmade games forced down my throat. That's the main reason I don't play Halo 2 anymore. Matchmaking. I hate it.



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  • 05.09.2007 12:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: King ATO

Dude.....out of the 5 new features of H2V, you only listed the 3 most meaningless ones.
The ONLY reasons I'm getting H2V:

1. Mainly because of the map editor. I can't wait to edit this game, make new maps, and bring some of my favorite maps from other games into it.

2. The new online system, which allows me to play whatever I want to play, instead of having matchmade games forced down my throat. That's the main reason I don't play Halo 2 anymore. Matchmaking. I hate it.



ok, ill appologize for forgetting the map editor, that should have been on my list.

Theres no matchmaking? LAME, i hope thats not true.

  • 05.09.2007 12:46 PM PDT
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matchmaking on the xbox is what keeps me out as well. Hate it!! But the PC version looks pretty slick.

  • 05.09.2007 1:03 PM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

Pc matchmaking isn't the same as console matchmaking, obviusly besides the fact one is called Pc and the other console. But it would be hard to do for the pc because of the private servers, for instance on XBL Msoft owns and monitors all the servers Msoft uses (and the Xblers). So as you can see it would be very difficult, but definately not impossible. Just hard.
But I'll let someone that knows way more about this subject explain it, because I don't know every aspect of it.

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Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Pc matchmaking isn't the same as console matchmaking, obviusly besides the fact one is called Pc and the other console. But it would be hard to do for the pc because of the private servers, for instance on XBL Msoft owns and monitors all the servers Msoft uses (and the Xblers). So as you can see it would be very difficult, but definately not impossible. Just hard.
But I'll let someone that knows way more about this subject explain it, because I don't know every aspect of it.


i was under the impression Halo2 pc would connect to those servers (pc version to pc version only) to have MatchMaking and ranks too. if im wrong im wrong and it doesnt matter eitherway, but i thought it would have that feature

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Yea it's still gonna have matchmaking just like on Xbox. But it will also have all custom games available to choose from and play, instead of just your friends custom games. At least this is what I've gathered from various sources.

  • 05.09.2007 1:42 PM PDT
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Reasons to Buy H2V

1-Most of the people here do not own an Xbox, let alone Halo 2, this gives them the chance to play Halo 2
2-Map Editor
3-Far better control over games
4-Less "OMG U R NUB" 11 year olds
5-Mouse/Keyboard
6-Better Graphics
7-There are seven reasons to buy the game

Also, we get two maps because you get two new maps. Xboxers would only get our maps if Tombstone and Desolation were being released on PC

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Posted by: terran_shadow
wht i want to ask is why? why couldnt it be included in the map update for the halo 2 for xbox
Don't be narrow-minded, things are exclusive for a reason.

  • 05.09.2007 4:04 PM PDT
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Here's how Microsoft looks at it. Buy H2v and get uplift, district, and a map editor. But no tombstone desolation.
So go get H2x for those maps, but no uplift, district or map editor.
I know! Buy both! Hehehe, I am a genius...

  • 05.09.2007 4:07 PM PDT