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I hope you can help me to understand something because it's puzzling me... Where has the enthusiasm for Halo CE gone? I would've thought that with the release for H2 on the XBox, PC players would continue to move forward with CE, but that doesn't appear to be the case. More often than not, when I look at the CE servers that are up, there's just loads and loads of empty dedicated servers filling my screen. Where's everyone gone? To say it's getting a bit lonely out there is a major understatement!

Personally, I'm not ready to give up on the game yet, although I must admit that I've withdrawn my dedicated server... after watching it for a week and nobody joined! Come on people, when was the last time you stopped off at the CE servers? The maps that are being released now are much better than some of the chafe that has been released before and they are more anbitious.

Please don't let Halo CE die! It can be so much...

  • 12.14.2004 8:09 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

I know, HaloCE's better, now with the delagginator.. but it's too late dude, no one cares to try HaloCE cause they consider it "too big of a download" when that's majoir bs cause BF Vietnam v1.2 patch is 250MB... gearbox not making HaloCE an official patch was their fault. If they intergrated the 2 I'm sure there'd be no problems.

I thik one of the major reasons people avoid HaloCE is cause gearbox no longer supports it... which sucks cause it's already better than HaloPC big time, but still needs some work...

Yeah, some of these new maps are great. Siege is my fav Halo map now, it whups bloodgultch in fun (it's a good map, but my fave used to be that Death Isl map), and just provies a good gameplay.

But some of the new maps sucks... most notably Zanzibar... the programmers for it messed up... new guns don't work right, ghost just flips around and dies when boosting, and dual wielding weapons look weird when looking at someone olding them... if they released a fixed version of it I'd download it, but right now I'm deletin' it from my comp... it seems to be messing up my other maps cause I can't see bullet trails anymore....

I'm trying to get my clans into HaloCE... it's a slow process, but I've converted 2 already... just like, 14 more to go.... and since my comp won't reinstall HaloPC, I don't have any choice anywho. :p

  • 12.14.2004 9:52 AM PDT
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It's a major bummer though dude. I know what you're saying, but it doesn't make it any easier to take! I mean, for example, if people started to notice some of the newer maps like X2 Mudslide and Ravine, both really good maps, they might start coming back. There are others aswell, like the new Red Feather Ranch etc that I feel would help kick start the game again!

C'mon people... it's worth another look...

  • 12.14.2004 10:10 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

I think our best hope dude is to get the whole HaloCe community on the Delagginator. I'm sure everyone would flock to HaloCE if they knew that there wasn't any ghey lag, and the netcode was more like the one of the Half-Life series. One of the best netcodes around...

So muff? I think we must spam as much HaloCE servers... we must get the word out to all Halo mod sites, to every halo site for the love of god...

I'll try getting some clansites tnite to get the delagginator, wish me luck that they don't just ban me. :p

Another great map we both forgot to mention was Fissure Falls. GREAT map, takes skill to navigate efficiently, very nice specular lighting (though it still saps the life out of my game, I still like it...).

You had a DS muff? did ya throw on the delagginator? if not, try to start one up with it, and put the delagginator in your server name, preferrably at the start to advertise your DS's superiority. I tried joinin' one of the official delagginated servers... but no luck, says "Your version is older than the servers..." which doesn't make sense sice there's no updates for HaloCE... still v1.00 right?... maybe the delagginator does mess with haloce a bit, but should be solveable

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I decided to check out your site for fun and... ROFL!!! complex!!! w00t! Gonna have to try that one out once I get home!!!! :)

What other Goldeneye maps have you made!?!?!!?!?!???

wuahahaha!!!!! blockfort from mariokart 64!!! w00000ttt!!!! wow! now you really made my day dude. :)

[Edited on 12/14/2004 10:31:53 AM]

  • 12.14.2004 10:23 AM PDT
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I don't make maps... Never really tried either. All a bit much for my little brain to handle...lol! I thought that it would just be so much easier to try and make the maps available... How wrong was I...I have my hands full all the time trying to track down maps that I don't already own. I did have (or rather I still have) around 280 maps, but there was a problem with a few of them when it came to the uploading. They worked on my comp, but somewhere in the transfer process they got messed up.

As for my dedicated server that I was running up untill about a week ago, I did have the delaggonator running. It does seem to make a difference, but if people don't want to join the game in the first place there's not a great deal I can do...

As far as spamming the servers is concerned, I can't do that. It would just annoy people, they would kill me a few times while I'm typing and then that's it! I'll be stuck there because I would then have to kick thier arses! Hehehe...

Just one more thing... You said in another post "if I'd been here as long as you...". Did you look at my join date?...

[Edited on 12/14/2004 10:44:47 AM]

  • 12.14.2004 10:41 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Lol, ah, so you've been here longer, meh, they just pissed me off too much man. the constant naggin' n' stuff eh? I don't understand why if they hate HaloPC so much, that they come here and try to associate with us yaknow? they have their own forum, go there... Ya don't see the taliban liking the states.. do they live there? heh, probably not. Ya know, it just doesn't make sense... then again war never really made sense to begin with...

Well, I found out why those EPgamer servers give out that "client is older than the server" stuff.. they switched to HaloPC, saying "We switched to HaloPC, let's face it HaloCE's dead... D.E.A.D..." pretty sad when their incredible mod for HaloCE was the best thing that Happened to Halo on PC since it was ported to PC, and they no longer support it...

  • 12.14.2004 11:20 AM PDT
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Well, I'm hoping that when the H2 thing blows over (meaning when it isn't as fresh...) some of those players will come back. I just don't get where all the PC gamers WITHOUT an XBox have gone. I mean, during the daylight hours for me here in the UK, Halo CE is completely empty! It does tend to pick up a bit when all the stateside lot come on, but that doesn't really start to register here untill at least 2AM through to about 7-8AM...

Just as well I'm nocturnal, eh?

  • 12.14.2004 11:30 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Yeah halo's becoming a desolate place... I know there's a Halo-UT mod in the makings called "Project Torlan" or something like that. Once it's done? HaloPC, and HaloCE? forget aboot it, I'm converting to that n' buying UT2k4. Think aboot it: better graphics, more players (UT2k4 supports up to 32! that's double the Halo!!!! w00t!), runs better (the Unreal Warfare engine's preattly heavily optimized, runs nice on my comp), and more Halo fun (they're making a pilotable Pelican... the PELICAN man! that's a cream-dream! the one on HaloPC was cool but diddn't fly right...

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link!: http://torlan.forerunners.org/

now, check out this pic: http://torlan.forerunners.org/images/screenshots/buffy/HaloUT .jpg now tell me this mod ain't a cream dream, c'mon, I dare ya. ;)

http://torlan.forerunners.org/images/screenshots/buffy2/HaloU T19.jpg now this pic I like, it shows you how horrible the xbox textures are compared to clean, crisp PC textures, PC pwns j00 $box. ;)

[Edited on 12/14/2004 11:38:17 AM]

  • 12.14.2004 11:35 AM PDT
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Still nobody tells me wither CE stands for Combat Evolved or Custom Edition



  • 12.14.2004 12:51 PM PDT
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Its Custom Edition
DUH

  • 12.14.2004 1:03 PM PDT
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It stands for custom edition. Have you not polayed the game before?

  • 12.14.2004 1:04 PM PDT
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I have, but I still use the demo of Halo, because more people join quicker, I've used CE once, and full Halo (NonCE) about 5 times out of couple hundred for netplay games.

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  • 12.14.2004 1:07 PM PDT
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I don't get it... Why would you choose the demo over the full game?

  • 12.14.2004 1:15 PM PDT
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Simple, impatience
(AKA I want to play, and I want to play now), like I said more people join, and join faster.

[Edited on 12/14/2004 1:37:01 PM]

  • 12.14.2004 1:36 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

Another advantage to the demo is it's version 1.02, ahh, that was a great patch, these newer ones seem to lag halo down more actually...

  • 12.14.2004 6:42 PM PDT
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I've never even seen the demo so I'm not really qualified to comment on it. It just seems bizarre that a demo would be better than the full game!

  • 12.15.2004 3:00 AM PDT
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Yeah. Have you guys seem just how many servers are up and running in the demo version? Golly! It's crazy. People are just to lazy and broke (not trying to be mean or whatever), I guess, to dish out 25 bucks to get the actual game, which offers more of a variety than just the same level played over and over again (I'm talking about the multiplayer).

I own both the full and demo versions, and I generally tend to use the demo version most often when I feel like just jumping into some action and killing some people; I use the full version when I get tired of those people who keep jumping into the damn banshees when I tell 'em they're not allowed!

[Edited on 12/15/2004 8:54:13 AM]

  • 12.15.2004 8:51 AM PDT
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I own both the full and demo versions, and I generally tend to use the demo version most often when I feel like just jumping into some action and killing some people; I use the full version when I get tired of those people who keep jumping into the damn banshees when I tell 'em they're not allowed!

  • 12.15.2004 8:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: BadBoy787512
Yeah. Have you guys seem just how many servers are up and running in the demo version? Golly! It's crazy. People are just to lazy and broke (not trying to be mean or whatever), I guess, to dish out 25 bucks to get the actual game, which offers more of a variety than just the same level played over and over again (I'm talking about the multiplayer).

I own both the full and demo versions, and I generally tend to use the demo version most often when I feel like just jumping into some action and killing some people; I use the full version when I get tired of those people who keep jumping into the damn banshees when I tell 'em they're not allowed!

This one likewise has both versions; If I do a LAN only party, and all the other people have full Halo, then we use the full thing. In the demo, I don't care if they use banshees or not; I can usually kill them pretty quick.

  • 12.15.2004 9:03 AM PDT
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Well, yeah, I understand, I can too. It's just that it is pretty annoying. I mean, do they not understand simple English? I can dispose of them rather quickly, it's just that most of the time, it's my team that suffers.

  • 12.15.2004 9:05 AM PDT
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Me thinks I'm gonna have to have a little look... Putting that aside for a bit though, any chance we can get back on topic? It would be really cool to see people back into CE and just having some fun. As much as I love HPC, I actually believe HCE to be better... especially when playing Ravine (my favourite map of the moment).

  • 12.15.2004 9:10 AM PDT
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My experience says that about 90% of everything usually is crap....
Evidently there there are a lot of people who are illiterate, and like being retards in teamplay, what I hate worse than banshees are team killers.

[Edited on 12/15/2004 9:26:38 AM]

  • 12.15.2004 9:25 AM PDT
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Well, I don't know if that's aimed at CE, but when I run a ded, tk'ers find themselves out on a limb... WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!

  • 12.15.2004 9:33 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Hmm, too bad your ded's in the uk cause then my pings would be high, like 130... that's almost unbearable in HCE, unless you have the delagginator going (like you say you do) then I'd be willin' to play onnit... but you have to have blockfort on that server. :p

I can't belive it... no mario music for the blockfort man, I almost cried when I booted it up. :(

Hehe, ya know what've made it better? if there were some green shells runnin' around the map, tha'd make it even more crazier. Anywho, it's still a fun map, lots of hogs, lots of fun. :)

As for tking? yes, it's ghey on both HPC and CE cause that darn tking banning code sucks, it has no memory, so tkers leave n' rejoin servers, and then tk summore, and the good players tk him back as instinct and get banned... thank god my team can be organized, lol, we got 1 tker banned before on HPC, now he doesn't even dare to slap us around, lol, we tamed the beast, and it felt good my friends, very good. ;)

  • 12.15.2004 9:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: Muffmeister
Well, I don't know if that's aimed at CE, but when I run a ded, tk'ers find themselves out on a limb... WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!

If the Demo had the console it would make it easier to keep out TKers

  • 12.15.2004 9:55 AM PDT

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