There is a reason for this, as we have one mission planned where you only get to start with a set AA and never get to change it for the rest of the level. Also if we ever refine our AA system, we will swap the flashlight for other preset AAs.



I was mainly looking for feedback on the visuals, but
I will touch on this. We always start the player with 4 grenades when coming from a pelican, along with overpacked ammo like Bungie did in a few missions in the series (T&R and Nightfall sniper ammo for example). Once the grenades are used, the player can only cary 2 of each kind (8 total like the original). As someone stated, the pistol isn't in this map, the 5 headshot weapons are the BRG, Spec BR, DMR, Spec Sniper, and Particle Carbine.
Edited by Masters1337 on Mar 21, 2014 at 02:01 PM

As someone said before, the grid layout doesn't work well with halo's cruddy compression.

A bit curious about the SPECIALIST class and why it consists of only Covenant weaponry. I'm sure it's for fun, but that leads me to a question-

Assuming that a player would be going through the campaign missions one after the other, would it be possible to have a loadout option available that starts the player with the weapons they had ended the previous mission with? Of course, I'd expect the weapons to be topped off on ammo and grenades of whichever kind would be resupplied. You know, because fun?

If a player starts the mission without having gone through any past ones, then I guess the slot would instead provide a pre-set loadout. Was just wondering if this would be possible.

@Echo77: By 'shotty snipers' it means a shotgun/sniper loadout combo. It's a variant in team snipers.

Also, didn't we see this screenie a while back?

I still ask the same question- what is that grenade type in the final loadout? It appears to be some sort of black-hole-thingy- or is it just the plasma grenade?

I think that you should put magnum

I know, it just brought a mental image of a scoped shotgun to mind.

Ah, ok.

Lol, imagine that.
Edited by Hammad on Mar 21, 2014 at 03:57 PM

I think you guys should remove the grid looking thing. Also, are you guys not adding the visor mode anymore? If you guys are, could you guys make it so we can pick between flashlight or the visor mode for the loadout. Maybe you guys could do that for some of the loadouts so then then not all of them have the flashlight icon.
Edited by P3 on Mar 21, 2014 at 05:17 PM

I believe with some work it could be done, but it's not something I am wanting to spend time on or resources. Some maps are already in a constant state of script overloading, and we are trying to eliminate scripts, rather than adding them in. We also don't allow all weapons in all maps, which would further complicate things. Then you also have to link it into the widgets and such.

I do believe kirby once set something up to potentially do this though.


VISR is one of the Armor Upgrades (our take on Armor Abilities, seeing as many are not as much abilities but upgrade parts of the Chief's armor, such as radar systems, biofoam injectors and such). The problem presently with giving the player an AU at the start is that if they ever swap it out, they will never be able to return to the old one, and last time we messed with setting an AA via script we had some issues. Along with script overload problems, it's unlikely we are going to try to further investigate it as a feature.
Edited by Masters1337 on Mar 21, 2014 at 05:59 PM

Can you give us a hint about this 'new' weapon that you have not revealed yet?

Which one? Well regardless, they are both new takes on classic weapons from the main trilogy but with a needle based spin on them.

umm.. the first one..
?

That mouse icon is so basic. CMT doesn't even use fully custom assets. CMT sux

Most ofCmts sounds arent custom and probably ripz. Cmt sux.

is not that you're giving a contribution to as you want to see the mouse icon

So many trolls I can understand why waffles left.

I think the shotgun should have more ammo. If the sniper's allowed to be overloaded with ammo, why can't the shotgun as well?

All sound files except stock (which mostly involve AI) are in fact custom. How would you know that there rips since your not even on the team to begin with? How would anybody know that since none of you do any of the work or go into the work process or even use the assets. All of you newer members blatantly do this because: "oh I wnt to be on teh bandwaagon and lok kool, hur dur."



That is a old screen shot, we have a custom mouse just was not implemented during the time because we try to please this godforsaken community by showing pretty pictures just to calm you down. If you would actually use your brain you would think "oh, its not ready yet" or "oh, maybe there working on it now" instead of thinking everything is automatically done. Or even ask if there is going to be one. All of you and your stupid pride.

Oye. Watch what you say. You are being too unspecific by stating that. By saying that, you are including everyone including even your own team members to having stupid prides. I think everyone just needs to calm down. Don't want another, oh mi-geerrrd CMT ragequit again. CMT is doing a great job. It's just not to everyone's or maybe most everyone's taste. Maybe instead of showing old stuff or really in progress stuff, you guys should have shown present more purdy stuff to decrease negative comments on your work or progress.

Or they might just stop showing things altogether, because people demand images of a work in progress, then complain about how terrible the work in progress is to the point where the thread descends into an anti-CMT circlejerk.

I don't think showing "more purdy stuff" would decrease negative remarks whatsoever, because someone would either complain that it didn't fit their opinion of what it should look like, or they'd just bandwagon against it because they think it's funny to do so.
Edited by Echo77 on Mar 21, 2014 at 10:03 PM

But i said don't show really in progress stuff, not in progress stuff. Or maybe if it looks pretty enough and not look all pretty but have an off-ness to it that makes people stare at it and look at nothing else about it.

Wait when did waffles leave?

Don't worry. Everyone know that all breakfast waffles love anime! They can't resist it. Post anime somewhere and waffles will get here faster then an addict to a drug dealer! Jk jk. XD

I actually have thought of leaving before. The only thing that is really keeping me here is the Spv3 project and waiting for an actually good quality balanced released map.

You just perfectly described the past 191 pages of this thread.

I actually like the images they have shown.

He made a thread about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9iX-ouc1wk
Edited by Masters1337 on Mar 24, 2014 at 09:07 PM

Masterz thats soo cool!

I really love this idea, and I wish it could've been implemented in SPV3... x.x

...I wish it so much, I thought of a way to stubbornly keep it alive xP


I think that new addition could've worked out if you used remote detonators to destroy the weapons cache instead of directly destroying them yourself -and you activated it after you landed on the original BSP section.

Basically, something like this...



That way, I think you could preserve the stealthy aspects of the original BSP portion while keeping most of the ideas you already had.

What do you think? Do you think this could've worked (or at least be useful in some other part of your campaign)?

Well how it blew up was always something we discussed and never finalized, detonating it while you were on the way was one of them. We also had the problem of not being able to show the new area in the original BSP as well.

It's a pity, hypothetically it seemed like a really cool idea.

Man, that revised intro cutscene would've been pretty kick ass.

you should keep adding new areas so we don't know what to expect in the first run, or when we beat it... until the load screen shows up anyways

Some fun facts about b40.

-It has Honor Guards protecting the Control Room. Unlike H2 where they were one rank and just a visual change, ours come in 3 ranks and have a different type of shield than regular elites.

-The new last area which leads to the control room is larger than all the other exteriors combined in the map.

-Turns out Halo can only have 1024 squads in a map, we are at 1003 right now.

-Turns out there is an object name limit too. That's maxed out as well.

-We have also overloaded the scripts at one point, due to the fact the map has all the Vehicles and Armor Upgrades (our new name for AAs, since not all AAs are actually abilities you can use) from the first half of campaign.

Amazingly, we still barely have to scale our plans for the map back, other than having to make the last third of the map which was to be all new exteriors slightly shorter.
Edited by Masters1337 on Mar 30, 2014 at 11:52 AM

b40_part1
b40_part2

I don't see the point to making the honor guards into three ranks, when you already have all the other Elites. Unless all you want is to just have more stuff. But is that supposed to be impressive? I think most people on here are able to clone the actor variants, increase the numbers, and change the color. Probably in less than 10 minutes.

So you've added that much to one of the bigger maps? AOTC already had a lot of repeated environments. Are you going to take some of those out too? So that it's not just a bunch of filler? It sounds to me like this will just make the map drag on. If you're able to make this much new BSP, why not just redo the whole level like TSCE?

You say you're hitting all the limits like it's automatically a good thing. Of course, I haven't played the map. For all I know, every squad could be fun. But most of the new stuff in SPV2 was clearly just more stuff added simply because. Bigger numbers don't mean a better map. In fact, it tells me you're spending more time figuring out how to do more stuff, instead of how to do better stuff.

I don't want to be too harsh. There are a lot of things I like about CMT maps. But after this long I start to see the same bad things happen over and over. TSCE looked like it might have worked past them, but then I see you focused more on how much stuff you have, instead of the stuff itself. I guess that's why there's a different team working on TSCE. I'm still looking forward to seeing more SPV3 anyway. Maybe you can tell us more about the honor guard shields?