Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Official Halo 2 PC Suggestion Thread
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see below.


[Edited on 2/19/2006]

  • 02.19.2006 5:57 AM PDT
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McKeegan:

Even though I realize you were joking, I am one of many who see this as a blatant attempt by the EVIL Micro$oft empire to cash in on unwitting fans. I'm perfectly happy with my system, and was hoping that they would port H2 to XP, and develop H3 for Vista, as would make more sense.

I am not gonna shell out my hard earned dollars for a new OS, just so I can play H2. I like Halo, don't misunderstand, but this kind of thing is bad for business. I'm probably not the only one out there who feels the same, either.

  • 02.19.2006 5:59 AM PDT
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You will get vista, maybe not for h2pc, but you will get it.

  • 02.19.2006 7:18 AM PDT
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I'm new here and i don't have patience tou read 15 pages.
Becouse of that, and becouse i only have a PC, can anyone do me a little summary?

  • 02.19.2006 11:29 AM PDT
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Well, if you want asummary of whats been talked about here go look at the first post, as the first post is being editedall the time to include what people like, at the start of the thread only around maybe 13 ideas where there now its around 24 now i think. So that should help a little bit.

  • 02.19.2006 11:33 AM PDT
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Oh, ok... (this was embarecing)
A little, but not too much, off topic:
Halo 2 is coming to PC? This topic make me believe that my dream will come TRUE!!

I don't know, and i don't want anyone to say me, nothing about the story of Halo 2 becouse i'm waiting for that day i will find Halo 2 in stores.

  • 02.19.2006 11:40 AM PDT
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24. Be able to make your own server like Halo 1 PC.
25. No more glitchy loading where stuff is untextured or missing for a split second.
26. Even more in-depth custom gametype making.
27. New maps that are very cool (ex. more urban that are larger than the ones so far, large wildernes, bigger Midship type maps)
28. Make the elites speak Covie and go Wort Wort Wort!!
Why can Johnson understand what Arby says? And why does he speak english?

  • 02.19.2006 12:15 PM PDT
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Because aliens in the Halo series speak english, and some portugese spanish (rofl). But it would be nice to have nice large urban maps. A good one that is made for Halo CE is this new one called Chronopolis(mispelled), u can find it @ www.halomaps.org , id think this would be perfect for Halo 2 PC. But I cant wait and see what good mappers will put together for Halo 2 PC.

  • 02.19.2006 12:33 PM PDT
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you spelled it fine. That is not the best example of an urban map for halo 2 pc. Maybe something similar to H2-New Mambasa.

  • 02.19.2006 12:45 PM PDT
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Heres a good idea, anyone who has been on bungie.net for over than 6 months gets a subscription to get it free...Like that'll happen heh...I can dream though.

  • 02.19.2006 4:13 PM PDT
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lol, what subscription?

  • 02.19.2006 4:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nematoad20
A Map Maker that is similar in function to Valve Hammer Editor, instead of having to build your map in max, have it buildable in a programe like this so that one program can do evrything, Building the map, Populating the map, Texturing the map, lighting the map and of course compiling the map.

A map maker like this would make many more people able to make new maps for Halo 2 PC a whole lot easier to make for people that do not readily have acces to 3ds MAX, now i do have MAX bit i would much rather see a small map maker that has alot of functionality all rolled into one little program.

O and for the anti cheat thing, release the game on something similar to steam, so that those caught cheating you can ban that user ID from the service and the hax0r would have to buy a whole new game :)




Just please for the sake of all things holy dont make it as buggy as Hammer. I swear I cant count the times I have had bugs with that, and of course that fiasco not too long ago with it not able to load properly at all.

  • 02.19.2006 9:27 PM PDT
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wow 11 pages already.

i can imagine micro$ofts ad campaign. a pendulum swinging in front of your face.

"You will buy vista. Vista is your friend. Vista likes you, and you like vista. Vista is good. You want vista. You will go to the ends of the earth to find vista...."

  • 02.19.2006 11:17 PM PDT
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Yes, I still don't see what the fuss is about. It's just XP Redux. Why can't they just develop H3 for Vista, and let existing XP users have H2? Don't they realize that users like myself aren't gonna go out and buy Vista just so they can play one game? This is gonna be bad for sales, I just know it.

  • 02.20.2006 8:08 AM PDT
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That, and the fact that what I've heard about Vista points out that all XP games will NOT be supported by this new OS. So forget about using any games you may have on your current setup.

I'm also really leery about Micro$oft's habit of rushing product to market without first working the kinks out. Look at Windows 2000 and ME, for example. And the Xbox 360 bugs... Eww ICK!

  • 02.20.2006 8:12 AM PDT
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My info source: G4 tv, particularly "Attack of the Show".

So there.

  • 02.20.2006 8:13 AM PDT
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Broadband only is bullcrap, i play halo pc fine and im on dial up. A matter of fact, i beat most people i play on dial up.

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  • 02.20.2006 8:58 AM PDT
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Its not a matter of how YOU do, its a matter of how you affect others.

I wouldn't completly trust AOTS, they are always on the negative side on things microsoft.

  • 02.20.2006 1:40 PM PDT
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No one has ever complained to me though, about me lagging others. And even if i do lag others, there ping still wouldnt be as high as mine, so what u complaining about.



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  • 02.20.2006 2:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: SM Shadow 17
No one has ever complained to me though, about me lagging others. And even if i do lag others, there ping still wouldnt be as high as mine, so what u complaining about.


You only lag others because of H1PC's -blam!- awful netcode, my main gripe with 56kers in FPSs is that they're impossible to hit due to their lack of bandwidth. And it's not your ping that's high, it's your latency, ping is the command to find out latency.

  • 02.20.2006 2:55 PM PDT
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Reclaimer34:

[qutoe]I am one of many who see this as a blatant attempt by the EVIL Micro$oft empire to cash in on unwitting fans[/quote]

tell me all the bad things that gates has done (with decent proof). all i can think of is that he charges alittle more than is nessesary, and he isnt as "charitable" as he could be.

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25. No more glitchy loading where stuff is untextured or missing for a split second. 28. Make the elites speak Covie and go Wort Wort Wort!!
Why can Johnson understand what Arby says? And why does he speak english?


so basically instead of having the game stream, and thus have almost 0% loading screens, you would rather wait for a cinematic and the following level to load? what the hell. the textures snapping in is alittle annoying, but i think the benefit of never having to wait for the campaign to start (or restart), is worth it. The elite in multiplayer does yell and sound pretty covenant, but the reason why Johnson can understand the arbiter is because the arbiter is speaking english. all of the covenant can speak english. in the books the very first contact from the covenant was an english transmition. besides even if the covenant couldnt speak english it would be retarded to sit through a arbiter cutscene wondering what the hell everyone is saying. also, even if johnson couldnt understand coventant, he would still be able to sense the conflict between the arbiter and tartarus.

A new urban map would be realy nice, but a problem witht that would be getting lost and not being able to find anyone. i think that is why turf is so small.

Just please for the sake of all things holy dont make it as buggy as Hammer.

as buggy as hammer? what about steam? steam sucks major ass. its so slow and it has to do those crappy updates all the damn time, when ever i wanted to sit down and play half life 2 i would have to go and do something else while i wait. as for cheaters, theres never really been a big problem with cheating online, other than aim bots. god damn aim bots.

and reclaimer, just make one damn post. its not hard, seriously, one of your posts came 1 minute after the last one. its called edit.

-Fooluaintblack

  • 02.21.2006 4:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: The_Blackness
as buggy as hammer? what about steam? steam sucks major ass. its so slow and it has to do those crappy updates all the damn time, when ever i wanted to sit down and play half life 2 i would have to go and do something else while i wait. as for cheaters, theres never really been a big problem with cheating online, other than aim bots. god damn aim bots.


Steam is possibly the greatest thing to happen to online gaming in years, it standardises a server browser that works, it provides a stupidly fast update and release system and has removed pretty much every cheater from every steam-based game. It's not buggy (at least not normally, it can have its days though), and those updates you complain about, would you rather have a totally FUBAR HL2, or wait 2 minutes for a 10mb patch to download that makes the game oh so much better. The downloads don't take ages unless you're downloading a new game, and even then it's only 2 or 3 hours. Unless of course you're on 56k, but then tbh you shouldn't be gaming on source.

  • 02.21.2006 7:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Reclaimer34
Yes, I still don't see what the fuss is about. It's just XP Redux.


This is not entirely true. Vista is a new OS, with everything that the word "new" implies. Yes, it will have many of the same features, capablities, etc, etc, of XP, but Vista was coded from scratch. Brand new. I'm not saying that the entire OS was pure-coded for 400 million lines, but they are in most ways, not similar at a code level.

MS realized that they needed to do something new, something drastic, in order to keep up with hardware advances, as well as challenging hardware to advance, in order to remain top dog. They know that an XP "upgrade" won't suffice. This has been made manifest by the fact that the base Vista code (In its very early stages) has been scrapped more than once. Consider also that Vista has been over six years in development! That's not an upgrade, that's an overhaul.

Why can't they just develop H3 for Vista, and let existing XP users have H2?

This is actually not a bad idea. You've got my vote. Unfortunately, we are dealing with Microsoft. They can do whatever they darn well please with their products; nothing we can do about that :-(

Don't they realize that users like myself aren't gonna go out and buy Vista just so they can play one game? This is gonna be bad for sales, I just know it.

Also not entirely true. There will be many fanboys out there that will purchase Vista just to play H2PC. There will be many fanboys out there that will purchace Vista just to have the lastest and greatest OS available.

The fact of the matter is, eventually, a slight majority (Don't worry, Apple and Linux/ and F/OSS will still be around) of the PCs in the world will be running some variant of Vista. Just like it is with XP today. When XP was new six years ago, most people were hesitant to get a copy. I was. I didn't get a copy of XP until 2002. I probably won't get a copy of Vista until 2008.

Regardless of what I say, what everyone else says, Vista IS the newest in OS deployment, it WILL be actively distributed by PC manufacturers. XP WILL eventually be unsupported by MS.

If there was no progression, where would we be as a civilization today? We wouldn't.

  • 02.21.2006 1:19 PM PDT
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I didnt get xp till 2005! Not going to wait that long for vista I hope.

  • 02.21.2006 2:21 PM PDT
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about the map editor. I hope they just give us the same tools they use *except the 3d studio program, we need to buy that ourselves*. I hope they dont give us a nerfed and watered down version of a so called "map editor" liek other fps games do. I want to use the same hodge podge *and awsome* tools that bungie uses. This will prevent thousands of wanabies from making box maps and flooding the map sites with their ads and whatnot. Currently I am making a Halo CE map *its Halo custom edition for you newers* and it is forcing me to use what the bungie team used. This forces a steap learning curve and prevents the masses from producing mediocre maps *or at least limiting it*.


*although the halodev team is doing an awsome job on promethius. I hope they will be able to work in support for halo 2 pc/ce*

  • 02.21.2006 5:36 PM PDT