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Subject: I need help--there are alien sound effects on Blood Gulch!
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Yeah...so I tried joining a blood gulch server today, and guess what: in the background sound effects, besides the bugs chirping, you can hear faint growls of elites...I dunno what's wrong with the game, I never noticed those sounds until now...you can hear them only on Blood Gulch, no other level...can someone tell me what's up with these weird sound effects?

[Edited on 11/17/2006]

  • 11.17.2006 7:19 PM PDT

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but on a serious note I never heard elite noises....

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GAHHHHHH!!!!!! *dies*

  • 11.17.2006 7:31 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Never experienced that. I'd sure like to know. :D

Sorry Zawaz.

  • 11.17.2006 7:33 PM PDT
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Dammit...I hope there's nothing wrong with my game...I did notice quite a bit of scratches on my disk, but I seriously doubt scratches would scramble sound effects...

  • 11.17.2006 7:34 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Well, mine also has a few scrathes, and well the Campaign is somewhat screwed... not getting off subject.

I'd say you should just learn to live with em' or try cleaning the CD daily.

  • 11.17.2006 7:45 PM PDT
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I know sometimes the banshee sound effects loop for me on blood gulch, after a pilot gets shot down, but I've never heard elites.

  • 11.17.2006 10:44 PM PDT

Posted by: Ryukage
What? Play a game? FOR FUN???
This concept of fun confuses and infuriates me!

Huh..I suppose its a possibility that the game is loading a sound file that shouldnt be there, but who knows? As long as its not affecting game play, it should be ok.

  • 11.17.2006 11:26 PM PDT
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Uh, I though the sound files were copied to the HD during install? Otherwise, WTF is sounds.map for???

  • 11.18.2006 12:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: Pet0sh
I know sometimes the banshee sound effects loop for me on blood gulch, after a pilot gets shot down, but I've never heard elites.


Same thing happens to me. The pilot gets shot down and then u still hear the Banshee going

  • 11.18.2006 5:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: noobnoobnoob
you probably have a mod on

just reinstall halo
Hmm...alright I'll try that then...it could just be that all those custom maps I download are starting to cause problems on Halo PC...

It was so weird though...I'm walking around and I hear all these elites yelling, so I start looking for them, and a blue teammate asks me what the hell I'm doing...I say "Do you hear elites?"

"Dude...there's something wrong with your computer..." LOL...

  • 11.18.2006 7:30 AM PDT
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Okay I'm gonna try something else...these are the things I've already tried:
1--Polishing the disk
2--Cleaning the disk
3--Scanning Halo PC for viruses
4--Scanning the Blood Gulch folder for viruses
5--Turning my computer off
6--Unplugging the gamepad
7--Reinstalling Halo PC

Now here's what I wanna do...I want to copy the blood gulch folder, delete the old one, and replace it with the newer one...can somebody explain to me how to do that without permanently losing blood gulch?

  • 11.18.2006 7:57 AM PDT
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To get bloodgulch back without reinstalling all of halo do this. You need winrar or winzip for this. Go under search and select your disc drive with halo in it. Search for the archive files with "cab" in there names. I believe blood gulch is in number 3 but can't remember for sure.

  • 11.18.2006 8:12 AM PDT
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Delete your maps and reinstall should've done it... That's a really weird issue. Either bloodgulch.map or sounds.map is modified, most likely. Other than that....uhh...audio drivers? I really don't know.

  • 11.18.2006 8:28 AM PDT
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Personly, I don't see why your complaining. Hereing elites in the background sounds cool! But, if you really wanna get rid of them, try getting a newer version of bloodgulch. I don't know a lot about this sort of thing, but couldn't someone just upload there un-gliched version of bloodgulch and have you download it?

  • 11.18.2006 9:35 AM PDT
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It is uploaded, though I doubt I can legally provide a link.

  • 11.18.2006 11:51 PM PDT
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I think your sound file got corrupted and merged the elite sound with the blood gulch background noise. I did that with bitmaps when I was applying new skins and now my warthog has no taillights, but my hog looks sweet. Im not sure what you can do if reinstalling didn't work, that would mean your CD has the corrupted sound file too. Go on campaign and see what the elites sound like, if they sound normal only bloodgulch background probably is corrupted, if it also sounds like the bloodgulch and elite, elite and bloodgulch probably merged. That happened to the rocket launcher noise on mine, *gathering exception data*.

  • 11.19.2006 7:02 AM PDT
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Could you post the sounds with youtube or something?

  • 11.19.2006 9:00 AM PDT
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Vitamin, have you played on a different server with Blood Gulch on it? It's possible that you were playing in a modded version of the map. The best way to test if it is just you is by creating an "empty LAN" game of Blood Gulch.

  • 11.19.2006 9:43 AM PDT