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Subject: It could SAVE halo CE
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Poll: Does this sound like a good plan to you?  [closed]
Yes:  83%
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Maybe:  11%
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No:  6%
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Total Votes: 18

One major problem with halo CE is that you can only see the maps you manually download one at a time, and there are so many that no one can get them all, and besides who wants them all.

What is needed is a system like the counter strike server list that shows ALL servers playing all maps, even ones you don't have, and all you have to do to join a game is click on the server, and the map auto downloads, it works when the server changes levels too.

With that it would make it easier to play CE and you could see everyone online, not just those for the maps you have. If it could be done I think gearbox or bungie or whoever should patch CE with a system like this.

[Edited on 5/15/2006]

  • 05.15.2006 5:01 PM PDT
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although i dont play halo ce, i think thats a good idea. pretty good idea beckgibbons. =)

  • 05.15.2006 5:05 PM PDT
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Well thanks for the kind words! Lets just hope those in charge feel the same way!

  • 05.15.2006 5:15 PM PDT

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Those is charge of Halo CE are Gearbox, and they have already said they would only support it if it consistently had 1000 players on-line. That ain't never gonna happen so we just wait for Halo2PC and see what the community comes up with in custom content then.

  • 05.15.2006 5:21 PM PDT

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Actually, if you turn on "Show Player Created Maps", you can see the maps that you don't have.

>_>

  • 05.15.2006 5:22 PM PDT
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sounds good to me! lets hope that system is installed in ce by the time there is a mac version hint hint gearbox

  • 05.15.2006 5:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: Iggwilv
Those is charge of Halo CE are Gearbox, and they have already said they would only support it if it consistently had 1000 players on-line. That ain't never gonna happen so we just wait for Halo2PC and see what the community comes up with in custom content then.



They WOULD have that many people if they had this system!

  • 05.15.2006 5:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: darthbob
Actually, if you turn on "Show Player Created Maps", you can see the maps that you don't have.

>_>


Wait, where is that, ive never seen it! And can you download them even if you can see them

  • 05.15.2006 5:25 PM PDT
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Yea I think that would be a great Idea



Posted by: ZC Tango
sounds good to me! lets hope that system is installed in ce by the time there is a mac version hint hint gearbox




HAHAHAHAHAHA a Mac gamer your silly. your very silly. your a silly man here have a pop tart


U were'nt serious were u?

[Edited on 5/15/2006]

  • 05.15.2006 7:17 PM PDT
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Hey Mac might be short on the list of games but they have halo and even though I prefer windows it is more secure

  • 05.15.2006 9:00 PM PDT
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how is windows more secure?

  • 05.16.2006 6:21 AM PDT
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Windows isn't more secure, there are more viruses made for PC"s while there are virtually none for Macs.

And showing CE maps you don't have would be a great idea, but I didn't know you could filter for it in the Options.

  • 05.16.2006 11:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: beckgibbons2
One major problem with halo CE is that you can only see the maps you manually download one at a time, and there are so many that no one can get them all, and besides who wants them all.

What is needed is a system like the counter strike server list that shows ALL servers playing all maps, even ones you don't have, and all you have to do to join a game is click on the server, and the map auto downloads, it works when the server changes levels too.

With that it would make it easier to play CE and you could see everyone online, not just those for the maps you have. If it could be done I think gearbox or bungie or whoever should patch CE with a system like this.

...its called Xfire

  • 05.16.2006 11:51 AM PDT
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Brilliant Mac joke:

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513

  • 05.16.2006 12:09 PM PDT
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You misunderstand me. I ment even though i prefer WINDOWN, MAC is more secure. that is what I ment. sorry

  • 05.16.2006 12:48 PM PDT
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Brilliant Mac joke:

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513


Haha! That's quite funny.

  • 05.16.2006 1:03 PM PDT
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the show player made maps is in the filters. turn it on and you can see all servers+all maps.

the problem with auto-downloading is there are 2 ways to do it:

1. download it directly from the host of the game

problems: LAAAAGGG... using bandwidth of the server to get your map, ESPECIALLY cause halo map files are incredibly large, would lag the server. if they set the bandwidth allowed for downloading maps to a real low number in order to avoid this, downloading the map would take forever. imagine 50 MB over dialup. yeah...

2. download it from a dedicated map server

problems: a: map submission. modders would have to submit their map to the map server before they could play it. this is bad because people wouldnt be able to beta test a map cause anyone could then download the beta and leak it. b: the server. map files are huge. absolutely huge. to serve these files as people need them would take way too much memory and bandwidth.

it would be a nice idea, but making it work would be too difficult. with halo 2 pc, though, perhaps there could be some kind of system like this... that would be cool. if they got the map file size down, it would work just fine.

  • 05.16.2006 5:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: possibleninja
Posted by: ZC Tango
sounds good to me! lets hope that system is installed in ce by the time there is a mac version hint hint gearbox




HAHAHAHAHAHA a Mac gamer your silly. your very silly. your a silly man here have a pop tart


U were'nt serious were u?


if i wasn't a mac gamer... then why would i be here? bungie is teh cool in the mac world, we had marathon, while the peecee folks had dumb... er, i mean, doom. (marathon>doom)
mac gamers had myth, while peecee gamers had borecraft... i mean, uh, warcraft. (myth teh pwns warcraft)

way back in the day, macs also had bungie's earliest games, including gnop, operation: desert storm, minotaur, pathways into darkness, and abuse.

uh... why would i not be serious, huh? i don't want your poptart, unless its mac compatible

Posted by: beckgibbons2
Hey Mac might be short on the list of games but they have halo and even though I prefer windows it is more secure


ah, the sweet voice of reason. he ment that macs are more secure than windoze.

Posted by: joe98200
Windows isn't more secure, there are more viruses made for PC"s while there are virtually none for Macs.


the voice of truth and salvation! if only all peecee users could be as fortunate.

Posted by: Master Kim
Brilliant Mac joke:

so are these. ">http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513[/u rl]


Haha! That's quite funny.


as a hard-core, kick-$$@ mac gamer, i have to say this:

that was pretty funny. but then again, [url=http://www.jhochwald.de/windxxf/windoof.html] so are these.


here's my fav: If Windows sucked it would be good for something.

and this is [url=http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/stuntmutt.html?type=main&am p;image=39] worth a look, too.

good ol' stuntmutt one one se7en jokes!
http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/stuntmutt.html?type=main&ima ge=84
http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/stuntmutt.html?type=main&ima ge=122
http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/stuntmutt.html?type=main&ima ge=92
http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/stuntmutt.html?type=main&ima ge=129
http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/stuntmutt.html?type=main&ima ge=141
http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/stuntmutt.html?type=main&ima ge=149

  • 05.16.2006 5:29 PM PDT
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*trumpets blast*
*procedes to download all halo CE maps I could find and puts them all into a single zip file*
*tuba explodes*

not done yet..... this is taking FOREVER!!! This may take a while, I can only download 2 maps at a time, my computer can't go higher than that or the data becomes corrupted. man I need a better computer.

EDIT: Oh crap there are over 700.

[Edited on 5/17/2006]

  • 05.17.2006 6:51 PM PDT
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You'd end up downloadin tons of maps, and that'll really slow down how fast the game boots up.

  • 05.17.2006 7:06 PM PDT
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at the rate Im going, Halo 3 PC will be out by the time i'm done. Everyone just play CE so that Gearbox will do something.

[Edited on 5/17/2006]

  • 05.17.2006 7:20 PM PDT

ya i dont like having to download like 50 versions just to b able to join that room they need up to 32 players and this autodownload system this system is how half life 2 and those source game have sooooo many player trust me i have them it is awsome so bungie make this lol and having only what is it 16 players thats 2 low for this 32 will get maybe more than thousands of players maybe millions lol so make it capable of more players

[Edited on 5/18/2006]

  • 05.18.2006 10:37 AM PDT