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anyone who's played more than you has no life

anyone who's played less than you is a noob

To be honest, is there anybody who didn't want this to be released officially? I mean, halo 2, produced with the Halo One engine....

I have a new respect for Bungie, and i apologise for all the -blam!- i said about Halo 2 on these very forums when it was first released. I am happy with the game they have produced, and so should they be.

As for this mod... Awesome.

  • 02.08.2005 9:12 AM PDT
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lol i remember when stefander, malf me and zex made the team originally:D
those first builds were great:P
Good work guys, it turned out nice.
Though i am still glad i left after the merger, didnt like the way things were being handled.
oh well.

  • 02.08.2005 9:13 AM PDT
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I still love you guys! I'm glad you finally got recognition for all your hard work.

  • 02.08.2005 9:49 AM PDT
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Yeah, there were originally 2 teams... Stefander, JamesD, MonoxideC, ZexGX, Madrox, cold_Fusion, GHL, and myself...
Nitrousoxide's team consisted of himself, Mrs Doublefire, Farsight, Kornman, Kerr Halla.. (and anyone else I forgot..sorry).

Most of us lurk in a halo modding chat room, and when Stefander saw the E3 2004 halo 2 demo, he wanted to recreate zanzibar. As soon as we had access to the tools, a group was formed to try and achieve this. We knew there was another team working on a Halo 2 style map (new mombassa) but we didn't know that they were also working on zanzibar.

We started our project, and things were going well. I remember the first times we got some of our models in game, and especially the first beta when we got the sword into the game. Stefander had modelled an awesome recreation of the base, and we also had camp froman in there. That was about it... the rest was a badly textured surface that was pretty damn boring. I actually built that build, meaning that i compiled everything into the .map file (using the very unfriendly tool.exe). We played for hours slashing each other with the sword etc. We took a few screenshots, and then released them on the gearbox software forums.

I think it was by this time that one of our team members found out about the other team's zanzibar. When we saw a picture of what farsight had modelled AND got ingame, we were amazed. It was around then that the idea came about to get the two teams together into one...share information etc. The best parts from each BSP that had been modelled would be used to create the final (obviously after alot of tweeking).

At first I was all for the merge, however, after a few days I began to see that some members weren't being as...friendly as they could be. Communication was limited. Members from the team would only contact other certain members that they knew, and some never visited the IRC channel that we had set up. I only knew nitrousoxide from the other team, so apart from updates by him, I was pretty much left in the dark about things. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the guys aren't good people (I play with farsight on Halo 2) but by this time I was getting pretty annoyed, and 3D modelling was getting boring for me. In the end I decided to quit, (about a day after GHL quit), and that was the end of my involvment in the map.

A few months passed by, screenshots were released by the team, then one of their beta testers leaked the map, which sucked ass big time. This obviously upset the team members, seeing all their hard work given out withour permission by some little kid who was probably about 10 years old. Once all that mess had been cleared up after about a week, the team released a big update saying it was about to be released very soon... and a few days later we got the link for the download (i got it like 30 seconds early because JamesD posted it in the halo modding chat room :P) and many many servers were set up. The player numbers for HaloCE (which had been low for quite some time) quadrupled that night as everyone got on to play the best CE map of all time.

What this team did, with such complex tools, limited support, a collapsing community (there were alot of guys who would flame the team for not releasing public betas of their map) was amazing. Things like this had never been seen before in Halo. They had everything... a moving wheel, boosting ghosts, dual weilding SMGs, the sword, a hog horn and the gauss hog. Not to mention custom animations, all new weapons, and the fact that the map looks almost identical to the real thing. AND they achieved it all before Halo 2 was released.
This group of people deserve everybody's respect and admiration, and I think they have made a massive tribute to bungie's fine work.
Anyone who hasn't played this map... do it now. All you need is a copy of Halo PC, and then you can download Halo CE for free. I don't know how much Halo PC costs over there in the US, but it's well worth what you'd pay over here for it to play such a great map.

Thanks go out to all of the team for bringing such a great map to us.

  • 02.08.2005 10:10 AM PDT
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I love the Idea for Halo 2 for PC. But this doesn't make any sense how Halo 2 is coming to PC already kind of when nothing new has been added to Halo 2 for xbox. I think Halo 2 for PC is awsome but I still want to see some updates for H2 for Xbox.

I mean I remember that they said that they are going to update the playlists every week. Ha! They haven't done such a thing in a few months. It's kind of starting to tick me off how little Halo 2 has been updated.

There is a number of things that I'd like to see and to have and alot of other people I'm sure would want in Halo 2.

Like, the battlerifle as spawn weapon for matchmade games. You can't do crap with the SMG.

Heres an example. You start a Team Slayer match and you run with your little smg to try and get the Rocket on Ivry Tower but some guy beats you to it. BAM, can't do crap with the SMG. But if you started with the Battelrifle then it would be more even and balanced. Thats what made Halo 1 and the Pistol as starting weapon such a great thing.

If anything if I could only have one thing changed in Halo 2 it would be making the Battlerifle starting weapon in Matchedmade games.

I am not saying I don't like the Idea of Halo 2 for PC. Like I said I think it's really cool.

I just wish that Halo 2 would be updated with some new stuff alot more.

I don't want Halo 2 to be one of those games that never get updated and get thrown to the side and left alone like alot of other games. And to me it seems it's starting to.

  • 02.08.2005 10:13 AM PDT
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where can i buy the game, im soooo excited woohooo

  • 02.08.2005 11:21 AM PDT
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Nice mod. But I have Halo Mac so I'm fuxxored.

Oh yeah if you're wondering why CE hasn't caught on so well the fact that it has absolutely no Mac support might be a contributing factor.

"We're forwarding all changes in the code"
My ass you did.

  • 02.08.2005 12:31 PM PDT
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omg. wow, this is really awesome. cant wait to play it, it looks so hard ass
imagine if it was also ranked, like in XBL. hopefully it iz ranked, and a friends list is gonna be avalible. but other than that, sweet game.

  • 02.08.2005 1:03 PM PDT
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i think that is really amazing even if the graphics arnt as good but that is still
very good

  • 02.08.2005 1:08 PM PDT
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i actullay hate the idea for halo to go on to computor cause whats the point of putting only for xbox on and without xbox live on it it would be very boring when you have completed it. i mean people buy a xbox just for the halos cause there such good games but if they came out on pc people would stop buying a xbox

  • 02.08.2005 1:12 PM PDT
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no not really. as u sed earlier, the grafics arent as good as the xbox version. there is no voice communication, which would be sweet if there was. xbox live will have things the pc version wont have

  • 02.08.2005 1:19 PM PDT
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-blam!-, that is sweet... The time they put into that...

Great job guys

I should have thought about that... If i got into modding and such I would have a better chance of getting into a company like bungie.

you guys are my inspiration

  • 02.08.2005 1:21 PM PDT
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go for it even though the graphics suck

  • 02.08.2005 1:22 PM PDT
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hurry up and show me my stats wat is taking sop long its been 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i need to see if im close to my next level

  • 02.08.2005 1:27 PM PDT

Extremely latest... This is new to me, and if I had Halo PC this would be the first thing on my list. I want it anyway though.

  • 02.08.2005 1:31 PM PDT
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too bad Gearbox screwed up halo pc so bad.... I mean... I used to love halo pc (and halo custom edition) but it was unsupported problem after problem. I know Microsoft and Bungie had roles in the "failure" of what could have been an absolutely awesome followup to the xbox version of halo. But then again...

Bungie intentionally noobed down halo 2. Frankie even admitted that a 40 year old mom could play the game and get kills, and they made it that way on purpose.

  • 02.08.2005 1:32 PM PDT
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H A L O 2


ROCKS SO HARD

  • 02.08.2005 1:37 PM PDT
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"Who needs Half-Life 2...." this is u
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2005-02 -05

  • 02.08.2005 1:42 PM PDT
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[color=lime] wow people using their FREE TIME can create Halo2 levels faster then Bungie can and they actually get paid for it. How sad...LOL[/color]

  • 02.08.2005 2:02 PM PDT
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Meh, as far as I'm concerned CE has been dead. I'm in TWL and we dropped CE because everyone agreed it was not anywhere near as good as PC. Besides the new maps I was not very impressed at all with the gameplay. It had alot more random lag than PC. Thus I uninstalled CE a while ago. I'd like if this was an update for PC, minus all of the downsides of CE which I wouldn't play if it was the only game I had.

  • 02.08.2005 2:09 PM PDT
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Looks pretty good. I like how the armor gets that shine. Oh, and I played the CE map Zanzibar, and I must say, 5/5 stars.

  • 02.08.2005 3:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: TheVidmaster
Nice mod. But I have Halo Mac so I'm fuxxored.

Oh yeah if you're wondering why CE hasn't caught on so well the fact that it has absolutely no Mac support might be a contributing factor.

"We're forwarding all changes in the code"
My ass you did.


Actually the MAC community is a small percentage of the several million that bought Halo PC, so really thats not why Halo CustomEdition hasnt caught on.

Custom Edition was not required to be done, but gearbox spent there own time and money in making the Custom Build. There just couldnt be support for it. Also too much confusion with Bungie/Ms it couldnt be added on to the PC version thats why it hasnt caught on.

Any way thats just a summary of it, im not going to go into it here on this forum.

Any way good job halo 2 team, you guys have really come far!

If anyone has any questions about Halo Custom Edition. Visit the Gearbox Forums for more info about other new maps, and more halo 2 ce info.

  • 02.08.2005 5:20 PM PDT
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I saw it at my friends house today, and I'm not that impressed.

If bungie wanted a Halo 2 for PC users it would of made one.

But, I do give respect to the guys who made it. Must have taken months.

And all you fanboys who are -blam!-ing about Halo 2.....

Its a game. Its not going to be perfect. If you dont like it return it.

Also bungie has other things to do than only halo 2 maps and such.

  • 02.08.2005 5:33 PM PDT
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Why won't the program open for me? I try to open it but nothing happens. My system should meet the requirements. My computer is less than a year old.

  • 02.08.2005 6:07 PM PDT
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hey you guys if you come out with the new gavity gun for this game dont you think you shoud have it a downloadable content for xbox liv4e users? i mean you cant leave us out even after a whi;e you cant leave the xbox users out of the deadl so that we have to buy that game i mean what if we arnt compatable with that game then dont you think we should b able to use the extra stuff and maps?..... ps update halo 2 i mean we need new maps too and we need new guns after you are done with this game plz refere to us in the game and give it to us too thank-you.

Posted by: SketchFactor
Want to play Halo 2 on your PC? Well, now you can, sort of. H2CE is a custom mod that brings all the new hotness of Halo 2 to the world of Halo PC. Meet the team behind this impressive project and see how they're taking matters into their own hands to ensure that PC players can experience Halo 2.

  • 02.08.2005 6:23 PM PDT

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