Halo 1 & 2 for PC
This topic has moved here: Subject: Halo CE 24/7 dedicated server
  • Subject: Halo CE 24/7 dedicated server
Subject: Halo CE 24/7 dedicated server
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Mods on power trips crack me up.

Why cant bungie admit they got Halo PC very badly wrong and left it to rot?

The Xbox 360. The customers are the beta testers.

Moderator Notice: This user has been blacklisted from this forum. Until the user is removed from the blacklist, all posts this user has made have been hidden, and all topics created by this user have been censored.
  • 02.24.2005 5:20 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Yah, CE is dying, and the only maps people seem to play are blood gulch.

I've also got a server running except during 3-7 Pacific time. Plays Autumn Slay, New Mombasa Classic, Fissure Falls, and Red Feather Ranch. I get 2-3 players sometimes, but that's pretty sad.

What can we do to bring life back to it?

  • 02.24.2005 6:38 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

hmmm..... may we piss off players from PC, so they switch to CE, but we must inform them first.

  • 02.24.2005 9:24 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Heyyo,

Fake clients (Multiplayer ai, bots, etc) man, I swear, they work miracles for good ol' Team Fortress Classic. I start a ListenServer all alone? not 1 person joins. I start a LS with 20 Foxbots? them players come flocking in and soon there's no bots and it's a 26 person frezy of pain. :)

Good luck convincing Gearbox to implement fakeclient support though. :\

  • 02.24.2005 9:26 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Well, taking what you've said on board I've set up a dedicated with 38 maps on the rotation... :) I have only included the best maps ever released, and a single map pack can be downloaded...

It's the best thing I can come up with on my own to get people interested, and I say it's not dead! Ok, granted, there aren't exactly loads of players on, but there would probably be more if people stopped moaning about it all the bloody time and actually tried to recruit more players...

What do you think I've been trying to do single handedly? I average five thousand page views a day, and I'm using 80-90gb a month sending out files... If no one is interested and there are no players, who's downloading?

Basically, if you want to play without getting kicked at the first map rotation because you don't have a particular map, just download the map pack and use my server... That's what it's there for!

  • 02.25.2005 1:48 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Hey, whoa. Im not having a dig, and as I have said before, our clan really did try to get people onto CE. When we had our dedicated server then, we ran CE.

So, do you bother with Halo CE now? I'm guessing not since all of that quote is past tense...

THIS is the main reason HCE is failing, and yes, I acknowledge that it's looking increasingly likely that it's going to dissapear into the depths of the internet. If more people stopped complaining about it and just went and played it, there would be two benefits... First, there would be players on and that in itself would bring more players into the servers. Secondly, it would dramatically lengthen it's life...

Look, I could really do with some help... It's too much for just a few of us... If you want to see Halo CE survive so that we can fully reap the rewards from what is being done with it now, get out there and KEEP recruiting...

Is it really that hard? I'm not going to post on this topic anymore... It just makes me angry...

  • 02.25.2005 6:22 AM PDT