The Silent Cartographer: Evolved

[Ifafudafi]

hey, uh

do people still go here? do people still care about halo? we finished our mod:



it's the last halo project for a lot of us (including teh lag, siliconmaster, and myself), so it's kind of a special thing

here's the big release post with the download links and everything:

(Here are more pictures!)

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From the readme...

The Silent Cartographer: Evolved (TSC:E) is a ground-up re-imagining of the Halo: Combat Evolved map of the same name. The map comes with an all-new layout, a vast array of custom content, a reconstructed weapon set emphasizing improvisation and variety in tactics, and plenty of hidden secrets to discover. It is the final Halo CE project for many of CMT's members - a labor of love and hate spanning almost three years of development.

TSC:E makes use of Open Sauce, a community-made game extension that enables many new features, from upgraded visuals to new gameplay mechanics. Open Sauce is required to play TSC:E -- the map can't exist without it. At the time of writing, OpenSauce's public releases are available here: https://bitbucket.or...lease/downloads . The map requires Open Sauce version 4.0 (or newer).

Open Sauce 4.0 requires a properly-installed copy of Halo Custom Edition, updated to 1.10. See the installation guide if you don't know how to get these.

This map comes with a user manual providing information on difficulty and weapon usage (among other things). Evolved treats difficulty and many weapons differently from some other Halo games - which may be disorienting to new players - so be sure to read the manual!

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Issues encountered while playing the map may be reported in this thread.

The map does have a few rare (but known) issues, which will be addressed if possible in a maintenance release shortly after the initial launch. If you are reporting a crash, be sure to include your crash dump (if you have one). If the game crashes with Open Sauce installed, you can find the crash dump on your computer in My Games\Halo CE\OpenSauce\Reports\CrashRpt.

If you are encountering an Open Sauce-specific issue, please direct your reports to the issue tracker at https://bitbucket.or...ensauce-release .

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A short time after release (likely within the next month), there will be a public release of all source files for the map that we can reasonably organize and distribute. Until then, we urge you to use caution if you choose to extract tags from the map. Open Sauce and the HEK+ do not get along well, the HEK+ is known for corrupting tags in general, and there are many aspects to the Evolved tagset that have the potential to cause serious problems with other tagsets if you don't know exactly what you're doing. (We also encourage you to have a heart and give the map at least a little time to shine before you make CMt Evolved Reach_gultch). More details are provided in readme_for_ripping.txt.

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Map (MediaFire): http://www.mediafire..._release_1.0.7z
Map (Halomaps): [coming soon]
Open Sauce 4.0: https://bitbucket.or...CE_20150302.msi

[Siliconmaster]

Super excited it's finally out, it's been a fun time. Hope the few people still here enjoy it!

[Btcc22]

Is the UI made for 16:9 or did OpenSauce improve its widescreen HUD stuff?

Congrats on the release.

[FireScythe]

HUD scaling in OS respects screen anchors now.

[Btcc22]

Gotcha.

[Cortexian]

Since OS doesn't work with HAC2, is the OS map downloading feature just as complete of a database?

Played a little of this just now, looks great guys! Now finish remaking all the other maps! :P

[FireScythe]

No i'm more selective than that. I see what maps are being requested and being run on servers every now and again and add missing ones to the database. The only master servers running are Halomods.com and TheFieryScythe.co.uk and I can't afford the hosting for thousands of maps.

[EX12693]

Nice. How do I remove my old OS though?

[JackalStomper]

Awesome! Nice surprise to come to after work!
Shame this might be the last good quality mod release for halo PC though....

Nice. How do I remove my old OS though?

Could always just nuke your install its not like halo is a large game by modern standards.

[EX12693]

Could always just nuke your install its not like halo is a large game by modern standards.

Ended up doing that, but the new OS installer wouldnt recognize the old version as uninstalled, so I had to reinstall OS using the old setup tool and then re-uninstall it with the setup tool. What a nightmare.