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Subject: What other effects were lost?

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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

Still working on getting my new PC set up, have to buy only a couple more things to hook it up. But I recently watched a H2V Montage video, in it, there was no ragdoll effect . Is there any other things that were pulled from H2V?

  • 01.18.2008 6:34 PM PDT

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Nothing. Halo 2 Vista is one lackluster port... it even has the virtual keyboard the XBox version has. Jeez, it's lame. Don't get it.

  • 01.18.2008 8:10 PM PDT

The only reason it doesn't have ragdoll physcics is because there are more than 8 players in multiplayer. They turn off the ragdolls on 8+ players to have a smoother gameplay.

  • 01.18.2008 10:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

The server hosts do? Or does the game? Because on Xbox that doesnt happen.

  • 01.19.2008 12:39 PM PDT

I dont know. I think they turn it off is to have the smoothest connection. The Xbox only has to have the game running and one or two background tasks. A computer has lots of background tasks and turning off ragdolls will save system resources

  • 01.19.2008 1:32 PM PDT

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what's ragdoll..and one thing i noticed gone is ground specular, no more shiny ground, or no more shiny metallic surfaces, ever see hang em high beta? a h2v custom map.

  • 01.20.2008 2:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: madkiller92
what's ragdoll..and one thing i noticed gone is ground specular, no more shiny ground, or no more shiny metallic surfaces, ever see hang em high beta? a h2v custom map.


Ragdoll effect is basically a "realistic" death scene, instead of a pre-set animation, a ragdoll affected death is aware of its surroundings...so when a dead body hits a wall for example, it'll slump a little, as if it's sitting, instead of the usual "wicked witch of the west" effect you see on Counter-strike.

Don't be fooled though...some ragdoll effects are beyond horrible. For example, the ragdoll effect in Splinter Cell makes the dead bodies look like they're giving themselves an oral...you know what I mean. ;D

  • 01.21.2008 8:05 AM PDT

Posted by: lpjuunin
Don't be fooled though...some ragdoll effects are beyond horrible. For example, the ragdoll effect in Splinter Cell makes the dead bodies look like they're giving themselves an oral...you know what I mean. ;D

In Battlefield 2, a guy got sniped, and his body splinted like he was cut in half, just like those Halo moments on Hang 'em High, die, fall on the edge, look all nasty and like you got vacuumed. Call of Duty 4 actually has a good rag doll, at least there's a setting to turn off rag dolls...

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  • 01.21.2008 2:42 PM PDT
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To the question about 8+ ragdoll being present on the xbox, it is. You just haven't noticed it but it is.

  • 01.21.2008 2:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

So... ragdoll on 8+ players is an option? Sounds like it...

  • 01.23.2008 1:05 PM PDT

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Anybody no how to get ground specular? the ground has bad graphics and can't get bullet holes put in it. the ground has gotten worse.
my grpahics crad: nvidia geforce 8600 256mb vram with dx10, i don't think i should have graphics problems...

  • 01.24.2008 3:02 PM PDT
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actually the 8600 isn't a good card. It doesn't surprise me that it's not working to put on speculars.

  • 01.27.2008 7:11 PM PDT

Posted by: DC Spartan
So... ragdoll on 8+ players is an option? Sounds like it...

Well, yes in Call of Duty 4. But no in Halo 2.

  • 01.28.2008 5:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

Posted by: Ryanman7
actually the 8600 isn't a good card. It doesn't surprise me that it's not working to put on speculars.
Lies. The 8600 is fine, it can work speculars. I can run H2V with my 8600 on high settings with a solid 80 fps. Thats 1337.

  • 01.29.2008 4:18 PM PDT

Lies! My 8600 runs about 40 on High everything at 1280x1024 Fullscreen

What Res you running?

  • 01.29.2008 4:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: DC Spartan
Posted by: Ryanman7
actually the 8600 isn't a good card. It doesn't surprise me that it's not working to put on speculars.
Lies. The 8600 is fine, it can work speculars. I can run H2V with my 8600 on high setting s with a solid 80 fps. Thats 1337.


Lies. The 8600 barely outperforms a 7600 for double the cost. It's in no way worth what you paid for it (or, if you're a dell/hp noob what you paid extra to upgrade to it).
And like the poster above me said, what Res you happen to be running? and pics/vids or it didn't happen.

  • 01.31.2008 2:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

Posted by: Wakeboy1337
Lies! My 8600 runs about 40 on High everything at 1280x1024 Fullscreen

What Res you running?
Same resolution, and full screen. And still, I get 80 FPS on H2V, on Halo 1, I get 120 FPS and shots of 230.

  • 01.31.2008 3:35 PM PDT

H1 and Halo Custom edition name: madkiller92
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U also lose co-op. And found out that some places were intentoally made wihtout speacular,i still get nice specular on amour and wepons, and meattalic obejects and walls too, but the gorund? ugly. And they still dont have 3-d grass yet. still the h1 grass.

  • 02.01.2008 8:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

Posted by: madkiller92
U also lose co-op. And found out that some places were intentoally made wihtout speacular,i still get nice specular on amour and wepons, and meattalic obejects and walls too, but the gorund? ugly. And they still dont have 3-d grass yet. still the h1 grass.
But Halo 2 for Xbox has all that, 3-D grass, ground specular and such? It'll grind my mind for a bit if this is true...

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  • 02.03.2008 6:07 AM PDT

H1 and Halo Custom edition name: madkiller92
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I can play bishock cod4 and crysis, quake 4, hce, and h1 speculars on higest sttings that look much nicer then h2 one's. Idk y h2 wouldn't have much ground specular unless it didn't have it already. All vehiles, weps, and amour are great with spaeculars, so are aliens and humans. Bu the gound is my only problem still with the h1 grass, and specualr can be beautiful, but not all ground and meatal things have specular. I can play crysis, bioshock, and cod4 and hce and h1 and quake 4 with beautiful speculars. what's a hearoic and ledgendary member? i just became one lol

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  • 02.05.2008 5:34 PM PDT