- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I can see the ambition present in other modders to keep Halo alive, especially if Halo SE comes through. Who knows, that could come out incredibly well. It has taken them a long time to make what they have so far, and from what I hear it is coming along really nicely.
I'd be willing to devote a lot of time this summer to some modding, if anyone else is interested. Currently, my schedule is impossible. I get about 4-6 hours sleep, maybe, every night, and I'm in a bit of a crunch with too much going on. If we can get a plan going right now, and we all devote a bit of time to getting better at HEK and 3ds Max, we could all produce something pretty incredible.
To keep this alive, we need to stray a bit from the 'just another ce map' path. The flood of simple download->unzip maps can get monotonous, granted many are great. I'm not suggesting embarking on an SE-sized adventure. That has taken experienced modders months and months. We need to do something just a bit different. Vietnam. That project flopped with my last group because people got lazy. but it was going places. We had the helicopter as the banshee, and had some awesome weapons. All we needed to do was edit those more, get a larger map with the tunnel system we had devised, and thicken the foliage and add some new elements like rice paddies and such. It had potential, and I may still have the bitmaps, textures, and level geometry.
Any other great and original ideas? I will say Recon did not jack this thread at all. Like I've said, no more updates will come, at least in my mind that's an impossibility right now.
What does everyone really want out of Halo right now? Technical fixes, new maps?