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Posted by: MuggyBasilisk
Kira,
Whether you're a troll or not, I just want to point out that your comments as a supposed software developer hold little-to-no water.
First of all, splitting up a mesh file and having some code to re-assemble it would not consume very much space. The sum of the parts of the mesh file would be the same as if the file was in one contiguous piece, and the code to reassemble it would be very small and simple. A very small amount of overhead to disguise something on disc.
As well, you keep saying "if it were on disc, it would have been found by now." There are many simple ways you could hide mesh files... it could easily be compressed on the disc with a modified compression algorithm (thereby re-using the existing decompression code and not "wasting space" as you put it) which would essentially result in it being encrypted. This would hide it from plain sight.
Those are both very rudimentary tricks (all of which you've completely overlooked, despite your *expertise*).
And finally, you say they could not make new armour available because it's hardcoded on a per-map basis. Again, you need to think a bit. For example, say a map is hardcoded to allow armors A,B,C. You say it can't use armor D, because everything would need to be rewritten.
The easier way to do it? Overwrite armor A on the harddrive with armor D (but calling it armor A) and then it will be used. Yes, you'd clobber Armor A, but not a big loss, and a very simple way to implement what you deem is "impossible".
It's the nature of patching software. You replace a binary file with an updated version with the same name. Software development 101 (but you know this, right? :)
Sure, the scenario above describes a situation where the user has installed Reach on their harddrive, but that's not a stretch, and it sure wouldn't be the only HD-only aspect of Reach.
I'm not saying this is what has been done, just pointing out that something you claim is "impossible" would be easy to do.
To start, i am not a software developper nor do i recall ever saying i was one.
I studied in web design where we had some of the courses focus on mostly java/php.
For the file being in numerous pieces, i'm saying what is my opinion, i'm not claiming to be right, but so far, excluding you, people have replied to me with little or no arguments to my posts other then feeling the need to call me a troll.
Your post on the other hand, is well constructed and you obviously seems to know more than me in this domain, one in wich i still have lots to learn.
I said, and will keep on saying, if it was there on the disk, somebody at this point in time would of found it, maybe not right away, but it would.
You're giving out to moders out there everything they need to be able to look into the Reach files, the disk itself.
Encrypted or not, the game has been out for 8 months now? Not 8 days.
As for the patching idea, don't forget we are talking about a game, not a computer software where you can remove/add options with each new versions.
People, obviously, want the "Defiant helmet, or bob helmet", but would everybody feel okay to have to give something up for it?
You would want to add new stuff to the game without attracting more complaints towards you.