Pardon Our (CMT's) Ignorance.

[jcap]

If you absolutely agree and promise with everything to make both, then I'll settle for the common ground.

I won't leave you in the dark with the task of making an installer. I'd take that responsibility myself to make it. If it works out as I plan, it will be damn badass too. All you have to do is provide me with the resources necessary to do so.

(I still think the best option would be a demo for 1.0, as long as we find the cause of OS crashing CE on startup.)

[Heathen]

If you absolutely agree and promise with everything to make both, then I'll settle for the common ground.

I won't leave you in the dark with the task of making an installer. I'd take that responsibility myself to make it. If it works out as I plan, it will be damn badass too. All you have to do is provide me with the resources necessary to do so.

(I still think the best option would be a demo for 1.0, as long as we find the cause of OS crashing CE on startup.)

I support the demo idea.

Even I, the cheapest fucker outside of Israel, gave up TEN WHOLE DOLLARS for this game.
Shit, if you want your money so bad, just steal the damn game from walmart.

Its just as bad as piracy and twice as cool.

Get 10 dollars. Get two friends with 5 dollars each. Walk dogs or baby sit. Suck a dick or two.
But if they are too lazy and cheap to go buy the game, for fuck sake don't cater to them.

[Rhydgaled]

I've already said this, but it appears to have been lost as the thread moves so fast, so I've reposted the more important part of my message.

Simple: You distribute the CMT sounds, bitmaps, and loc map files and the DLLs into one 7zip, and release it as Halo CMT, mapfiles not included. Then you have each map up for download with a readme stating that the maps will not run without Halo CMT.

I think this is a reasonable sugestion, especially if coupled with the installer app idea and a special page on the halomaps website explaining everything.

This page could have two columns, one saying somthing along the lines of:
"To get the basic version of the CMT SPv2 campaign without additional featues, but avoiding possible compatibility issues and installation difficulties simply download each of the map files listed"
and the other saying somthing like:
"For an expanded CMT SPv2 experience download the following package and run the installer app, or download each item seperatly from this list" (the list would just be so if sombody had a random problem with the installer app but understood where everything needs to go they could still get the open sauce version).
The package mentioned would be the "Halo CMT" package plus installer app and 1.08 patch. When this app is run it would ask for your HALO Custom Edition directory, then find out if the 1.08 patch is installed, if not it will install the patch. When you have the patch, it will put the CMT shared maps into the right places and the open sauce .dll and anything I've forgoten to mention. Next it will show a screen with a bunch of hyperlinks to halomaps, linking to each of the sauced campaign maps. If run again it will also detect if you already have all the pre-requisites installed, and skip right to this screen so you can get any maps you haven't yet downloaded.

Does anyone see anything wrong with that plan? Yes it allows the pirates to get their hands on the mod but if they can pirate the early versions I can't see why they couldn't get a pirate copy of v1.08. Even if v1.08 has some magic anti-pirate system, v1.08 users still get features like multi-team vehicles (boarding) and hopefully smaller map files and the Delta Halo pause menu.

[nooBBooze]

Idiot here,
I have 1.08 running on a >legit version of ce.

[Dwood]

A "demo" Spv2/Open Sauce would be awesome for 1.0, lol.

Maybe it would give Microsoft some initiative to update xD

[sevlag]

i second the idea for a v1 demo for thoe pirates, just like what they did with the halo trial marines runnign around a burning death island was funny to see

[Needles]

So would it try to upgrade me if I use version changer with a special v1.07? I really like yelo and bitter banana's FOV hack.

[ODX]

So would it try to upgrade me if I use version changer with a special v1.07? I really like yelo and bitter banana's FOV hack.

Using the Version Changer, you change your game version at the main menu. Therefore, you can change it to 1.08 and the game will think you're on it so the it won't try to make you update.

[Needles]

Using the Version Changer, you change your game version at the main menu. Therefore, you can change it to 1.08 and the game will think you're on it so the it won't try to make you update.

Ah ok, I was scared it would try to make me update before I get a chance to start the main game window with console.

[jcap]

You simply cannot use ANY exe other than 1.08, regardless of version changer. That means you cannot start the game with 1.07 and then change the version to 1.08 and expect OS to work. The game will crash on startup.

There is a chance, however, that Yelo Battery will be updated/included with the next release of OS. It would be nice to have a "fov x" console command to set an exact FOV value. If not, you can always use SkysTheLimit, by Limited.