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Kornman will my dream of a client that works with map downloading and MTV ever become a reality?

Map downloading is probably the single biggest missing feature from Halo CE that made it way less popular than it should be.

Awesome! One less thing for all of us need to be concerned about the lobby list and not need to worry about pirate users gain access to servers with key validation become no good.

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This update is a maintenance release, just to keep Halo working. There are no plans to ever add new features (that will be left to the modders).

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This is what I'm hoping for... It will be a big headache for us, modders, to create a different workaround or might break the existing hooks inside halo.


For those H-Ext users... the test build, both client & dedicated server, does crash due to winmm.dll could not find the matched sig in v1.0.10 build, rename the winmm.dll to winmm_.dll or something you can remember in order to allow Halo to run properly with H-Ext's loader disabled. I will post more info about this progress on H-Ext's thread.

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Originally Posted by Cortexian

Kornman will my dream of a client that works with map downloading and MTV ever become a reality?

Map downloading is probably the single biggest missing feature from Halo CE that made it way less popular than it should be.

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Yeah, I wish there was a way to patch eveyones client with big features like map downloading.

Last time I used map downloading I kinda like how HAC handled it better client side like if it was a built a in feature to the stock game. Is it still the same or is still different? Or is it being kept different out of respect for the developer that developed the OS version and the HAC versions Dev?

Example of HAC version

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We try not to hook the engine more than we need as it just complicates code maintenance and engine/OS states. Hooking that bit of the loading screen text would have limited us to one line too. Not sure how well that scales to maps that use the full 31 characters in their allowed name...

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Originally Posted by Cortexian

Kornman will my dream of a client that works with map downloading and MTV ever become a reality?

Map downloading is probably the single biggest missing feature from Halo CE that made it way less popular than it should be.

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OS has had map downloading support for a while now, so...

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Originally Posted by Kornman00

OS has had map downloading support for a while now, so...

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Was nobody informed? I recall a good while back that there was a test for it that was reported to be a bit...odd, but successful?

yeah. OS map downloading works freaking great man. there's some cases where it can't find the map in question as it seems to search for it on various sites but when it works, it works crazy well.

Great now my aimbot won't work, blast my MLG plan is out the window.


That said, great news this is being patched as well as community coming together to actually improve the game (albeit one step at a time).

No chance of SAPP style no-lead being added in any official patch? :saddowns:

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Originally Posted by Kornman00

OS has had map downloading support for a while now, so...

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I mean for everyone.

I'm guessing not since there's going to be an official update to keep the master servers working... But it's to bad we can't have one unified OS / HAC2 / SAPP client and server that all work gloriously together for great justice.

No one wants to download extra crap to make stuff work.

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Originally Posted by Kornman00

This is legit. I've been helping Roger and another person in the community (I'll let them speak up when they want) with the bug fixes and the MS replacement for the past month or so.

I'm glad I'll get to remove some bug fix code for the game from OS when I find the time to update it to 1.10 :p. One less thing to maintain on our end...

There were a few bugs that couldn't be reasonably fixed in this update though. 1) the slow memory leaks which sehe came across a few months back...not trivial to address). 2) the game not validating HS threads aren't overflowing their stacks (which it does in debug builds) which causes an obscure crash. This only ever happens in user created maps with crazy and deeply nested scripts, especially like the ones that are currently being developed in parts of CMT.

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Saw your name in the PCgamer press release.

KM00, literally the savior of halo.

Thanks alot bro!