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If you want to join a server with custom stuff (maps, weapons, ect) will you have to search for the map or mod on the web and download it or will it be like Half-life 2: Deathmatch and Counter-Strike: Source and download the stuff for you while you join?

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  • 11.17.2006 2:21 PM PDT
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Possibly. I like the sound of it.

  • 11.17.2006 2:37 PM PDT
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Download Halo Custom Edition for user created maps!
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You have to download it before hand. Unlike Steam based games, Halo's maps contain all the information to play inside the map. That includes the level, bitmaps, weapons, characters, animations, vehicles, and so forth.

With Steam games, everything but the map is on the players computer. So, all that has to be done is a download of the bsp/textures/so-forth

  • 11.17.2006 2:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: Zeph
You have to download it before hand. Unlike Steam based games, Halo's maps contain all the information to play inside the map. That includes the level, bitmaps, weapons, characters, animations, vehicles, and so forth.

With Steam games, everything but the map is on the players computer. So, all that has to be done is a download of the bsp/textures/so-forth


So the reason they never bothered with doing it HaloCE is it was too much to be downloading? So if they do the same with Halo2Vista, everything in the map file, we will be in the same boat?

  • 11.17.2006 2:45 PM PDT
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Download Halo Custom Edition for user created maps!
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http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=410
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Let me put it this way. If you want a quick download-from-the-server, you can forget about custom weapons/vehicles/characters/scenery/animations.

  • 11.17.2006 2:54 PM PDT
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Yeah, I really didn't like that in the games I played which featured that.

  • 11.17.2006 3:15 PM PDT
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The Halo Maps Website http://www.halomaps.org
The Halo Movies Website http://www.halomovies.org
The Halo CE Chronicles http://hcec.halomaps.org

Posted by: Darkangel XI
If you want to join a server with custom stuff (maps, weapons, ect) will you have to search for the map or mod on the web and download it


THAT is the 64,000 terabyte question I have been wanting answered since the announcement of the H2V game. There are some difficult technical issues to overcome to perform an in-game download like other games do and I suspect that it may not be possible to overcome them - Bungie could prove me wrong - but I suspect that it will be something like Halo CE where you will need the map first. That is why I upgraded my servers and added the Halo 2 Vista Maps section to the Halo Maps website.

  • 11.17.2006 3:50 PM PDT