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Subject: Halo CE Why so Empty!!?!?!?!?!?
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I heard so much great stuff about Halo CE and have just got it and 40-50 servers!!!!
I heard of the lack of player but I was exspecting more like at least 200. Normal Halo has about 600-800 servers
makes halo CE look like crap!

  • 03.02.2006 7:13 PM PDT
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That's because all of them are playing Halo 2 CE. If you dont have a map anotther server does, it wont show up. Try getting H2_Zanzibar and H2_New Mombassa. Most of the players are there.

  • 03.02.2006 7:15 PM PDT
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im only getting pings with 42 servers through xfire's server browser. if you have show user created maps on in filters, then you will be able to see them regardless of the map.

thing is... no one really plays CE

  • 03.02.2006 7:30 PM PDT
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I dont like it because it takes to long to load and it not for mac and there isn't enough ppl or cool enough places for it.

and problem with it is if you want to play the game you must have the same map you server has they should find a way around this so only the server needs the map.

  • 03.02.2006 7:55 PM PDT
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tell me... how can you play on a map your computer doesnt have? if you didnt notice, map files are extremely large, and if the server sent the map to your computer every time you connected, then you would waste the server's bandwidth and make very long downloads. The halo client program needs the local map file to run... without it it wouldnt work.

  • 03.03.2006 12:49 AM PDT
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I have had some great games in CE lately particularly on the diesel servers (thank you whoever you are) but it can look pretty empty. I am in the UK and have found that the later at night I log on the more servers/players there are as it seems to be supported by USA players mostly.
Also the more maps you collect the more chance you have of finding a game.
YoYo Rast island seems popular right now, (lost very lost)
It is worth the effort because the players are generally better than average and really know the game so I have learned a lot (and died a lot but always in fun and novel ways)
The more maps you have the slower the load time but its not that bad, in fact about the same as a level load in Far Cry (if Far Cry loads at all!)

  • 03.03.2006 4:03 AM PDT
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Best place for maps that i have found is halouniverse no need to register just have a security code for every map you download but what the hey, there arent any popups or anything like that atleast not that much!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.03.2006 7:55 AM PDT
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Halomaps.org is the best. It depends on what time of day you are connecting. Since most people who play ce are in the US or Canada, and to a lesser extent europe, you may have troubles finding alot of people at certain times of the day.

  • 03.03.2006 12:02 PM PDT
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Really? First time I downloaded CE on my old PC, Hugeass servers were everywhere, though I hadn't downloaded anything but the game.

  • 03.03.2006 2:10 PM PDT
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tell me... how can you play on a map your computer doesnt have? if you didnt notice, map files are extremely large, and if the server sent the map to your computer every time you connected, then you would waste the server's bandwidth and make very long downloads. The halo client program needs the local map file to run... without it it wouldnt work.

that is exaclly the problem.

thats a bad thing? because there are no hackers on there, unlike HaloPC

but halo 1 ce has cheats unlike halo pc so there is no point in hacking.

  • 03.03.2006 5:44 PM PDT

OMG
Master Chief w/o his Helmet!


Stosh <3's me vicariously... at least someone does...

Posted by: EvilPickles
I don't think a new map has been made in months (has there??)!

There are new maps coming out every day...

http://www.halomaps.org

  • 03.04.2006 6:46 AM PDT
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WHO THE -blam!- WANTS 600 servers!? What use? It would only become laggy!I have halo ce and i have a lot of fun! anyway here is my servers name:Tony Hawk's pro Halo

  • 03.09.2006 12:03 PM PDT
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What was the website? www.halouniverse.com? it didnt find it so pls write down what is it exactly!

  • 03.09.2006 12:14 PM PDT
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the website is: www.halo-universe.com

  • 03.21.2006 3:03 PM PDT
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I can't play on Halo CE anymore since Service Pack 2 makes it incompatible with it. I can never play Halo CE on Windows XP again because nowadays EVERY FREAKING EDITION HAS SERVICE PACK 2 IMBEDDED INTO IT! So I can't "uninstall" service pack 2, so to speak. So I can't play Halo CE.

But I never played on CE much anyways, and I never bothered to download Hugeass, because I just didn't like the name.

  • 03.22.2006 4:11 AM PDT
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what do you mean you cant play with sp2? I can play it with sp2 most everyone plays with sp2. so what is the problem?

  • 03.22.2006 6:27 AM PDT

This is not a Fugazi signature.

Check the gearboxsoftware.com forums for your SP2 problem- you need to update your strings.dll or something... also make sure you don't have an init.txt in your root folder unless you're running a ds off of your machine.

The reason Halo CE is so empty is because most people just wanna play the old maps, but for new content it's worth it... also Halo 2 came out and we lost a lot of players that never came back. Anyway, you can still find games if you pick a good server and wait a few minutes. Also come visit other forums like gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com and find other people who play Halo CE. That forum is the home of most of the people who are developing new CE content, and they all play often- also halomods.com, but they're going more toward Halo 2 xbox modding lately, so I haven't been there much.

  • 03.22.2006 7:26 AM PDT