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Subject: Regarding Tombstone and Desolation Maps
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.

After the original xbox live support is cut for halo 2 xbox, where will we be able to download Tombstone and Desolation if god forbid those maps ever become corrupt or lost?

How will we be able to replace them, since they not included in the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack Disk.

  • 02.13.2010 10:52 PM PDT

Posted by: JB 199
After the original xbox live support is cut for halo 2 xbox, where will we be able to download Tombstone and Desolation if god forbid those maps ever become corrupt or lost?

How will we be able to replace them, since they not included in the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack Disk.
Good question, I have another. Do the other online servers (xbconnect) have map packs or are they reliant on XBL map packs that will not be available?

[Edited on 02.14.2010 12:07 AM PST]

  • 02.14.2010 12:05 AM PDT


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[/quote]Good question, I have another. Do the other online servers (xbconnect) have map packs or are they reliant on XBL map packs that will not be available?


other online servers???

  • 02.14.2010 3:55 AM PDT
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Posted by: Grumpy1
[/quote]Good question, I have another. Do the other online servers (xbconnect) have map packs or are they reliant on XBL map packs that will not be available?


other online servers???


They usually not reliant on map packs on xlink (which is identical from what I heard from xbconnect). Its usually up to the host of the game to decide.

  • 02.14.2010 8:37 AM PDT

Yeah, I know squat about online services. How do xlink and xbcon have all the maps? Does Bungie market the maps to them? Sorry for the lame questions but I'm curious.

  • 02.14.2010 11:08 AM PDT
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xlink doesnt provide any maps. its basically system link but through the net for those who can't afford to buy xbox live. Both xlink and xbconnect are pretty much a lan that allows people to play against people around the world for free, on any game system that has online capability.

Its basically playing custom games online without xbox live.

  • 02.14.2010 11:52 AM PDT
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Yeah, after a few years Tombstone and Desolation will no longer exist.

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  • 02.14.2010 5:50 PM PDT

Posted by: BOB570
Yeah, after a few years Tombstone and Desolation will no longer exist.


Man, thats so sad :( I remember being so excited for them coming out back in the day.

  • 02.14.2010 6:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: BOB570
Yeah, after a few years Tombstone and Desolation will no longer exist.


Man, thats so sad :( I remember being so excited for them coming out back in the day.
They are not even included on Halo 2 Vista, even though you get 2 PC exclusive Halo 2 maps, I still want Desolation and Tombstone, they're both awesome!

  • 02.14.2010 6:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: BOB570
Yeah, after a few years Tombstone and Desolation will no longer exist.


So basically we"ll only have until April to download tombstone and desolation. After that we screwed, since there will be no way to download em, or play em ever again if we lose em.

  • 02.20.2010 12:52 AM PDT

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Posted by: BOB570
Yeah, after a few years Tombstone and Desolation will no longer exist.


Its too bad they didn't even put them out until long after Halo 2 lost its luster with the community. They would have fared much better overall if they had come out in '05 instead of directly before Halo 3 was due to be released.

Luckily I have them on my HDD and will be backing them up on my second drive as well.

  • 02.20.2010 1:56 PM PDT
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Weird, I'm usually not visiting this forum that much anymore but dropped by to ask about the Halo 2 DLC. God forbid that the HDD crashes unless they're putting them on the normal marketplace.

  • 02.20.2010 5:47 PM PDT

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There's a h2pc port of tombstone (along with several other hang em high remakes). Desolation was a sucky map.

  • 02.20.2010 9:10 PM PDT