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Subject: The Official Halo2Vista Bug/Patch list
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Posted by: lpjuunin
Argh! Anyone who does not speak the proper Queen's English on this "pitiful" land of the Maw's, must be...SHOT! Or if their name happens to be Fuzzy Bunny! Yargh!
The British and American vernaculars of the English language are quite different, especially with spelling. Since most of the people here do not speak the British vernacular, it's off with our heads!

  • 06.06.2007 3:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: lpjuunin
Argh! Anyone who does not speak the proper Queen's English on this "pitiful" land of the Maw's, must be...SHOT! Or if their name happens to be Fuzzy Bunny! Yargh!
The British and American vernaculars of the English language are quite different, especially with spelling. Since most of the people here do not speak the British vernacular, it's off with our heads!


Gah! I have been beaten by me own words. Off with...their heads!!!

*runs and hides*

  • 06.06.2007 4:08 PM PDT
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Sorry, I know the last of this argument was on page two, but the Carbine does have a limited rate of fire, and that limit is higher on H2V. I happen to have a much faster trigger finger with a controller than I do with a mouse, but on Xbox, the Carbine is still slower. This may not be a problem, because, as Master Kim said, this may balance the Battle Rifle's ability to easily BXR, double shoot, etc, but it is something that was altered during the porting, nonetheless.

  • 06.06.2007 5:36 PM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Posted by: Iggwilv
I have noticed that sometimes when I go into browse the servers aren't showing. I have to shut the program down and get back in. One thing I have noticed is that if I go into Live first to check messages and who's on it will work after that. I'd like to see if anyone else has had this happen.


Damn, you too? I thought that was just my internet being crappy. What I usually do is create a game and back out of it. After that, usually the servers will start showing up. And I tried your solution (opening the guide), and that seems to work too.

Posted by: got milk12
Sorry, I know the last of this argument was on page two, but the Carbine does have a limited rate of fire, and that limit is higher on H2V. I happen to have a much faster trigger finger with a controller than I do with a mouse, but on Xbox, the Carbine is still slower. This may not be a problem, because, as Master Kim said, this may balance the Battle Rifle's ability to easily BXR, double shoot, etc, but it is something that was altered during the porting, nonetheless.


The carbine in Halo 2 Xbox was already a faster killer than the BR if you hit every shot... making it faster has only made it twice as good as the BR. As for BXR/double shot balancing, a weapon shouldn't need to be balanced against another weapon's glitches.

Also, the only button combo not possible with the carbine is the double shot.

[Edited on 06.06.2007 6:43 PM PDT]

  • 06.06.2007 6:41 PM PDT

Theres a bug that sets your refresh rate back to 60 every time you go into halo 2 because it doesn't save if you change it. Also for some reason I can't bind my middle mouse button to anything, and also every vehicle's mouse sensitivity is very low (or default) If you set your mouse sensitivity to 10 (I don't know why I doesn't go higher than this) vehicles still have a default sensitivity, and it's really glitchy with this one turret since it's x axis sensitivity is changed, but the y axis sensitivity seems to be default, so I always have to move my mouse off the mousepad and moving it several times for the wharthog or ghost to actually turn.

[Edited on 06.06.2007 7:00 PM PDT]

  • 06.06.2007 6:59 PM PDT

Posted by: DeathsShadow77
resolution support: add support for resolutions such as 1440x900 and other resolutions left out


I guess your in the same boat as me, this is what setting I am looking for. What are you running now. I think I have mine on 1280 x 720, but it looks a bit pinched. Whats a good 16x10 resolution?

  • 06.06.2007 8:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: lpjuunin
Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: lpjuunin
Argh! Anyone who does not speak the proper Queen's English on this "pitiful" land of the Maw's, must be...SHOT! Or if their name happens to be Fuzzy Bunny! Yargh!
The British and American vernaculars of the English language are quite different, especially with spelling. Since most of the people here do not speak the British vernacular, it's off with our heads!


Gah! I have been beaten by me own words. Off with...their heads!!!

*runs and hides*

Who is going to be the one beheading everyone? And if you tell me fuzzy bunny, I will go strangle you, put you in ICU, then go half-life on a certain bunny that is fuzzy. Have a nice day! (Last time I will go off subject.)

  • 06.06.2007 8:30 PM PDT
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By Chaosenemy: Also, the only button combo not possible with the carbine is the double shot.

Actually, the Carbine is capable of a double shot. It's just pointless to use it. : P The Magnum and the SMG are capable of double shots, too.

[Edited on 06.07.2007 8:09 AM PDT]

  • 06.07.2007 8:07 AM PDT
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As mentioned, I'd love to have ragdolls turned on with more than 8 people aswell as crouching while moving.

Also, in the game "Armed Assault" you can change the FOV on the fly to fit in whatever kind of screen you have.

I'll make a video of it later and YouTube it, but I think Halo 2 Vista should have this so wide-screen users can play at 800x600, 1024x768 (basically the ability to play at 4:3 resolutions but have a correct FOV for the screen). You may ask "Why would you play at such a horrible resolution?" - answer: slow computer and/or badly optimized game.

  • 06.07.2007 8:38 AM PDT

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Posted by: got milk12
By Chaosenemy: Also, the only button combo not possible with the carbine is the double shot.

Actually, the Carbine is capable of a double shot. It's just pointless to use it. : P The Magnum and the SMG are capable of double shots, too.


Well, yeah lol.

  • 06.07.2007 11:43 AM PDT
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not sure if anyone has posted it but why didnt they add real achievements to try and get? why can you only achieve up to a runing riot and a killtacular? another thing is viewing full servers even when I select view full severs it still doesn't show them. fix the frame rate issues and then the mouse issues

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Posted by: Chaosenemy
As for BXR/double shot balancing, a weapon shouldn't need to be balanced against another weapon's glitches.
And, you know, the glitches shouldn't be in the game to begin with, but hey, things don't always go as they seem. :/

Posted by: got milk12
By Chaosenemy: Also, the only button combo not possible with the carbine is the double shot.

Actually, the Carbine is capable of a double shot. It's just pointless to use it. : P The Magnum and the SMG are capable of double shots, too.
Indeed, I was going to point that out. It would be quite pointless and difficult unless you were polydactyl.

  • 06.07.2007 1:02 PM PDT
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Before Iggwilv starts skull crunching and everyone goes off topic to kill Fuzzy Bunny, I would like to put in my "constructive" criticism for Hired Gun. I would also like to ask if they have a website, so we can take this topic straight to them.

1.Auto Aiming-The xbox 360 controllers (which shouldnt even be used, because this is the PC port, and if you have a controller, just go play it on a console) have auto-aim like crazy. They can take out even a good Mouse and keyboard player. Hired gun should really take that out to force the controller Acolytes to use the Mouse and keyboard.

2.Less Glitches With Live features-this game didnt have achievements and all that raz-mataz when it first came out, but you don't need to show that. sometimes its almost impossible to get some achievements, and the servers and stuff get laggy and glitchy if you display them sometimes. And sometimes when you open the guide and try to communicate with a player that you didnt load their picture of, it locks up. This happened twice with me.

3.More Display features-this one speaks for itself, get widescreen, like 1360x768 and such. And if the video tools aren't used, just take them away. The resolutions pretty much control the graphics, so please make them more fined tuned.

4.Get a website-If you don't have one, get one for a place to put updates and allow us to comment and complain on the gane.

5.Make a map editor-or at least provide a free download to 3ds Max. Because we could simply make it on a map editor and add the tags in then, rather than having to run like 4 applications to make a map.

I don't know if they read this, but they should.

  • 06.07.2007 1:29 PM PDT
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argh they need to fix the lobby so that it shows full games (even when you click view full servers in custom match it still doesn't show them), its not helpin the game when people think theres half a dozen people playin ;)

  • 06.08.2007 7:08 AM PDT
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Anyone have a problem with turn speed?

If i turn up the speed to a level that is fine to walk around with, the vehicles all need about four goes across the mouse mat to turn one corner. If i turn it up to allow me to actually steer with the mouse, the MC turns around with the slightest touch of the thing.

...and.... can i have the banshee rod gun on the right mouse button? In the options all "second weapon" settings point to the right mought button and NONE point to the middle button ... yet to fire i have to use the middle thing! Grrrr

No fun with vehicles.

  • 06.08.2007 2:51 PM PDT
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I'd like to update my post about the Demon achievement.

I found out it's not buggy, just could stand some extra wording.

To get the Demon achievement, you have to survive an entire campaign level on normal, heroic or legendary AND you cannot use the save & quit function. The game seems to view save and quit as being identical to dying. I tested this earlier this morning and got to the scarab in metropolis without stopping, then used save and quit. Reloaded the campaign at the same point and finished. No deaths, no achievement.

Did it again, didn't save and quit at the scarab, finished with no deaths and got the Demon achievement after the cutscene.

  • 06.08.2007 2:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: Captiosus
I'd like to update my post about the Demon achievement.

I found out it's not buggy, just could stand some extra wording.

To get the Demon achievement, you have to survive an entire campaign level on normal, heroic or legendary AND you cannot use the save & quit function. The game seems to view save and quit as being identical to dying. I tested this earlier this morning and got to the scarab in metropolis without stopping, then used save and quit. Reloaded the campaign at the same point and finished. No deaths, no achievement.

Did it again, didn't save and quit at the scarab, finished with no deaths and got the Demon achievement after the cutscene.


Ahhh! So did they mean it to be that way or is that a bug? Hmm....

On another note I tested one of the other issues someone was having. Browsing Games will not display full servers. This is set as a default and cannot be changed. The Custom Game however is where you can specify that you want to see full servers, certain maps, certain varients, etc. Think of the Browse games as a quick button that shows you all servers that aren't full and if you want other filters go into Custom Games. One thing I did find lacking in the Custom Games section is there is no filter for ping. I can't spercify that I only want to see servers that have three bars, or two or more bars. This is something that has been a staple in FPS's

I have also ran into a couple problems with the Quickmatch. Twice now I have pushed the Quickmatch button entered a server and.....no one else is there? Wtf? Matchmaking matched me up the NOBODY???!! I glad my self-esteem is OK or I might slash my wrist.

The other thing is that I leave a server because I hate Sword matches. I get out hit Quickmatch and.... I'm right back where I started the in Sword game I didn't want to play. You need to put some logic in there that says do not send the player back from where they just came from.

Anybody else agree with that?

[Edited on 06.08.2007 4:41 PM PDT]

  • 06.08.2007 3:22 PM PDT
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Why did they remove 'Superbounces' (superjump .. but thats ok)????

I loved those things, I still do them all the time on halo 2 xbox ..

  • 06.08.2007 10:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv
On another note I tested one of the other issues someone was having. Browsing Games will not display full servers. This is set as a default and cannot be changed. The Custom Game however is where you can specify that you want to see full servers, certain maps, certain varients, etc. Think of the Browse games as a quick button that shows you all servers that aren't full and if you want other filters go into Custom Games. One thing I did find lacking in the Custom Games section is there is no filter for ping. I can't spercify that I only want to see servers that have three bars, or two or more bars. This is something that has been a staple in FPS's

I have also ran into a couple problems with the Quickmatch. Twice now I have pushed the Quickmatch button entered a server and.....no one else is there? Wtf? Matchmaking matched me up the NOBODY???!! I glad my self-esteem is OK or I might slash my wrist.

The other thing is that I leave a server because I hate Sword matches. I get out hit Quickmatch and.... I'm right back where I started the in Sword game I didn't want to play. You need to put some logic in there that says do not send the player back from where they just came from.

Anybody else agree with that?


I agree with everything there.

My biggest problem is that Quickmatch. Not only is it useless, but it's broken (see Iggwilv's post I quoted). I really don't understand why Halo 2 xbox's working matchmaking system couldn't be implemented instead of this Quickmatch nonsense. I guess they weren't expecting very many people to be playing this game.

As for not showing full servers... I completely forgot about that. There could be thousands of people on right now and I wouldn't even know it. Looks like 60 or so to me. Obviously you can't join a server that's full, but not showing it by default seems a little pointless. Couldn't they have just made it an option?

And btw,

Wtf? Matchmaking matched me up the NOBODY???!! I glad my self-esteem is OK or I might slash my wrist.

LOL!

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Posted by: EagleEye2101
Why did they remove 'Superbounces' (superjump .. but thats ok)????

I loved those things, I still do them all the time on halo 2 xbox ..


...So people wouldn't cheat...

And anyways, I thought they were still there. Aren't they?

[Edited on 06.08.2007 10:29 PM PDT]

  • 06.08.2007 10:28 PM PDT

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JUMP FEET FIRST INTO HELL!!

Posted by: Master Kim
Superbounces-There's no real straight-forward way to explain this, so let me elaborate: Superbounces are glitches in the game which allow you to reach locations of extremely high elevation (i.e., the towers in Ascension). This gives a person an insanely unfair advantage if he has a sniper rifle, as he will have a huge vantage point and see almost all of the map--it is also much easier to snipe people when you're on a higher position. If you're playing against inexperienced players, and if you land your headshots consistently, it will take them forever before they can see you and counter-attack, assuming they can get to a sniper rifle before you get to them first.



u cant super bounce on halo2 vista i me and a party of 15 have tryed but they dont work so u can stop complaining about it.

  • 06.09.2007 12:10 AM PDT

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Posted by: EagleEye2101
Why did they remove 'Superbounces' (superjump .. but thats ok)????

I loved those things, I still do them all the time on halo 2 xbox ..


ya they are fun me and some other people that know all the super jumps wanted to so show the noobs whats up but none of them work which was -blam!-.

  • 06.09.2007 12:12 AM PDT

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OK just quit Halo2Vista because some loser was consistantly delaying the game in the lobby. This need to be fixed. I'm sure it was the same tool, so if someone delays the game three times in a row it should send them to the lobby. At the minimum it should tell us who is doing it so we know who to kick and give bad rep to. I think the person last night didn't want to face the blue team(staticx, cmarvel, myself and 2 other nubs) because we were kicking ass and taking names. Actually Static and cmarvel were kicking ass I was following behind them taking names and shooting the wounded. I waited about 5 min!!!!!! for the idiot to stop before I gave up and quit. Did you guys ever get the game going? Unacceptable.

  • 06.09.2007 1:06 AM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

I quit, in fact I was going to post on this same subject. Like every other decent online game, this one needs a vote feature, not only kicking people but maps and game types as well.

[Edited on 06.09.2007 1:59 AM PDT]

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Posted by: c_marvel360
u cant super bounce on halo2 vista i me and a party of 15 have tryed but they dont work so u can stop complaining about it.
Because crouching is harder...

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if someone delays the game three times in a row it should send them to the lobby. At the minimum it should tell us who is doing it so we know who to kick and give bad rep to.

Posted by: staticx576
I quit, in fact I was going to post on this same subject. Like every other decent online game, this one needs a vote feature, not only kicking people but maps and game types as well.


^^Best suggestions ever. I had a similar situation a couple days back where someone was complaining they wanted their friend in the game, but it was full, so they just kept delaying the server launch, over and over. Between that annoyance and the gametypes that are loaded on the launch servers.. we REALLY need a vote function.

  • 06.09.2007 9:03 AM PDT