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Subject: Reason: Why Halo 2 Vista was Delayed / Recalled
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"In the Attempt to gain peace, There will always be War."

I think i found the Reason, Half of the Single Player maps are missing. I got upto Gravemind and it asked for the DVD, Then still didnt load, so i checked the map files and the DVD, there is nothing past Delta Control level.

[Edited on 05.24.2007 12:55 PM PDT]

  • 05.24.2007 12:54 PM PDT
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same thing in my folder. lol

[Edited on 05.24.2007 1:02 PM PDT]

  • 05.24.2007 1:01 PM PDT
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"In the Attempt to gain peace, There will always be War."

How do I send my copy back to microsoft to get the Final Copy when it comes out? or will there be a Mail-In Proof of Crap thingy i have to do to get a New DVD Set all together.

  • 05.24.2007 1:06 PM PDT
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lol...oh dear.

This isn't good.

  • 05.24.2007 1:08 PM PDT
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"In the Attempt to gain peace, There will always be War."

Posted by: Romanticide
lol...oh dear.

This isn't good.


Indeed, It Isn't

  • 05.24.2007 1:11 PM PDT

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God I wonder more and more if this game was ever tested at all. This goes down in history as the greatest fumble of a (crappy) port ever.

  • 05.24.2007 1:14 PM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Delta Control is the last level. Gravemind is Forerunner Ship.

  • 05.24.2007 1:23 PM PDT
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"In the Attempt to gain peace, There will always be War."

It suxs...

  • 05.24.2007 1:29 PM PDT
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That's interesting.......

Well, I guess I should be thankful that I got a good copy. I beat the campaign already. Mine is probably a copy with tray and play problems though. Thankfully I'm never going to use tray and play with this game.

  • 05.24.2007 1:30 PM PDT
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"In the Attempt to gain peace, There will always be War."

Can You upload your maps to a Upload site please?

  • 05.24.2007 1:33 PM PDT
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You might want to restart the game and see if it solves the problem.
Did you eject DVD along the way?

  • 05.24.2007 1:35 PM PDT
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"In the Attempt to gain peace, There will always be War."

The Maps Ain't on the DVD or in the folder, I can't play it without the maps.

  • 05.24.2007 1:37 PM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Did you not read what I said? Delta Control is the final level... there shouldn't be anything past it dude. As for why it's not loading, I don't know, but you do have all the maps.

  • 05.24.2007 1:49 PM PDT
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Do all of the files end with the .map extension? If Tray and Play is not finished you will be prompted to put the DVD back in until it is finished and you'll have temporary map files until then. There is also a progress indicator on the bottom of the main menu screen.

Here is the list of single player maps:
00a_introduction
01a_tutorial
01b_spacestation
03a_oldmombasa
03b_newmombasa
04a_gasgiant
04b_floodlab
05a_deltaapproach
05b_deltatowers
06a_sentinelwalls
06b_floodzone
07a_highcharity
07b_forerunnership
08a_deltacliffs
08b_deltacontrol

  • 05.24.2007 2:02 PM PDT
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"In the Attempt to gain peace, There will always be War."

I'm going to reinstall but I don't think all the maps are there.

  • 05.24.2007 2:23 PM PDT
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Oh my it looks like Halo 2 Vista has gone from released to indefinately delayed in under a week.

  • 05.24.2007 4:37 PM PDT

Not indefinitely delayed, just delayed for another week.

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  • 05.24.2007 4:42 PM PDT
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Ya pretty sure thats all of the maps.

  • 05.24.2007 5:27 PM PDT
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I don't know if its true for all of the early copies but I just got past the wall

*spoiler*Arbiter gets zapped*spoiler*

and it asked me to insert my DVD right after the cutscene. Now it just kicks me back to the main menu. It seems the talk of missing content might be true :(

edit: Ok it seems that it fubar's your checkpoints but you can manually select the next chapter via the menu and get on with the single player game.

[Edited on 05.25.2007 12:09 AM PDT]

  • 05.24.2007 11:25 PM PDT
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

Similar thing happened to me. Right before starting the Gravemind level, I got the "insert your original Halo CD" message and it wouldn't play my saved game. Bummer. I played the game in the Xbox and believe me, the Arbiter does not end there and once you get to finish the game (if you haven;t done so in the Xbox already) then get ready for some trollin' in the forums.

The missing map connundrum It is easy to solve though. If you try re-load your saved game, it will tell you that the data doesn't match live, so you can either continue without achievements or restart the level. DO NOT SELECT EITHER.

Cancel everything (I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del) and re-launch the game, This time choose to start the game by selecting the level. It will prompt you that your saved game will be lost. That's OK. In the list of available levels, you will see the Gravemind level available. Select it and the story/game will continue. You can check my gamertag (Waldo15) so you see I indeed went past the Gravemind.

I can list now how many borked things are in the game. It is not that is unplayable... is just that the Experience is far from painless...

  • 05.25.2007 12:09 AM PDT
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*sigh* Ok I can actually start the Gravemind level now but surprise I'm getting driver crashes (multiple times in a row even after shutdown/reboot) durring the intro.

  • 05.25.2007 12:37 AM PDT
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According to Microsoft the recall/delays are caused by a content glitch which contained partial nuditiy... rofl...
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task =view&id=5757&Itemid=2

  • 05.25.2007 3:27 AM PDT