- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Master Kim
Mods for HPC have so much potential to do so many great things, like balance the weapons, make the assault rifle more powerful and more accurate, make the fuel rod gun less powerful, make the plasma rifle better by increasing it's rate of fire and make it so it won't overheat as fast.
But nooooooooooooo, they have to make assault rifles with bottomless clips that shoot tank rounds, pistols that fire sniper rifles, teleporters that spawn you thousands of feet into the air, ooh, and my favorite, flying warthogs that fire spartans.
Well, there is a certain amount of limited entertainment to going into a server by yourself, making a pyramid of spartans a thousand feet high, and blowing it apart with your bottomless tank-shooting AR. Doing this on public servers.... is incredibly lame. Most of the BBT_MOD_MAX_DANGER and _INFINITE_DEATH sorts of things are things that a person could create in an hour using Sparkedit. Anyone with the skills, finesse, cleverness, and general map-know-how is either making maps for CE, or was hired by Bungie long ago. Most of the public server modders are just egotistic, attention-starved little boys who think they can beat Bungie at it's own game.
I'd like to see H2PC with a filter on the Internet lobby to toggle showing servers running modded maps. It wouldn't be that hard, every time you start a server it can simply scan your map, and determine whether it's the same as the original. It does it on CE, I don't see why it cant be done on PC.
Good guys win;
Bad guys loose:
And as always....
England Prevails.
Edit: That's cool enough to go in my sig.
[Edited on 8/16/2006]