well everyone, here it is. my masterpeice. i present to you: A true firefight

Solitude Firefight













http://www.mediafire.com/?2j640ya2fqgqbxp

first to reach wave 50 gets a cookie. good hunting
please post bugs, if there are enough big ones, ill fix and release a new version

credits:

shadowslayer: scripting, rigging

credit for the elite has been split into 3 parts
032 Mendicant Bias (yoko) did the shaders and the biped overall
Teh Lag: for helping and animating
me: for starting the idea

Shade117 Pro: helping me perfect the phantom, and other things
Bungie: for the bitmaps and models, and for creating halo, not just a game, but a way of life
Mothergoat: for creating one of the most perfect maps for firefights.
Bourrin: mastercheif shaders

anyone else i forgot to mention, your work is very appreciated, without your tags, this wouldnt be possible.

a very special thanks to these three individuals

Shade117 pro: for animating the phantoms and helping me acheive perfection in its shaders, and for being a good friend, thank you

Dwood: for helping me in scripting, without your help, i would have not been able to fix the scripting problem i had, and this map would be dead. thank you

and to Moooseguy: for creating a very much needed new lightmap, and for a jackal shader fix. i will be helping him in his firefight that will be coming soon. thank you

i hope you guys have as much fun playing this as i had creating it. good luck guys.

Teh n00blets will get pretty upset tonight.

third post

Edited by Hs_crozzhair on Oct 10, 2010 at 09:20 PM

i gave you my phantom, i didnt help you make it. =/

edit: but i guess, you could say i helped you make it since i got it originally from you. nice work
Edited by Shade117 pro on Oct 10, 2010 at 09:21 PM

hhh, nobody cares its your opinion now we'll play it and see what we think

Ugh, it's using my horribly old PP animations >_>
I have new ones that are so much better too..

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like you did anything to contribute to the map.

im not asking for anyones opinion on my opinion and it wasnt my opinion, it was a statement.
So shut your mouth, newbie.

Fix the firefight, it was never polished. All it is, things were thrown in there. No real thought was put into it.

Pickup icons suck
One wave showed up, nothing else.

Why is there no variety at first? Like 2-3 elites the first couple waves, and give at least one jackal a carbine in the at first?

Told you pwner, you have to find the rest of the guys. There's like, 3 groups of them just kind of strewn around.

Agreeing though, the content is kind of just slapped in with no real work put in what so ever. AI (as mentioned above) sit around and don't necessarily attack you [to the point where I am right now].

They look just fine if you give them a reflection on the armor. don't be too hard on urself mayan :P

..............but yea as is they are dam ugly :p

Just got an exception. Please, fix the map and fix the pickup icons.

Overhyped map is overhyped?

Edit: Okay, played it. Map is cool and all, but everything feels VERY unpolished and unprofessional. It feels like a primary beta rather than a final release. I mean come on, the Magnum has like, 8 zoom levels that go nowhere, the pickup icons and strings are all wrong, etc. Beta testers could have done a better job pointing out those errors...


Edited by doompig444 on Oct 10, 2010 at 09:46 PM

i wasn't talking to you! i'm sorry if i replyed to the wrong person. i've played the map but, theres a few bugs i found 1.when i completed round it wouldn't start the next, so i push restart and i get 1 more round farther then the same thing 2. i had spartan lazor with 19bullets left i shot it and i died... 3.the pistol zooms like 8 times but it dosen't zoom anymore than the first.. fix those and i'll be happy oh and a nother thing it feels.. idk the grunts look bad and idk you really gotta fix those but good work.
Edited by goldensnake22 on Oct 10, 2010 at 09:49 PM

Yeah, I keep getting kicked out of Halo every time I go to play the dang firefight. Exceptioned on me twice.

that because you gotta use console map_name_solitudefirefight

Correction:
map_name solitudefirefight

And he is using it, says he just exceptions randomly.

Playing map with UNSC pistol and plasma pistol. I'm f***ed.

That's what I did. It keeps exceptioning on me every time I go play the map. When I get to a certain point in the map it will exception.

nobody else is having that problem, try re downloading the map, maybe it got broken somewhere

If I had to grade this map I would give it a B(8 out of 10). I liked the halo 3 phantom and elites. Sometimes I had to walk around and find the last few grunts though. Also the pickup items need fixing. But other than the minor stuff it was fine.

so far i've found a few bugs.

1(not a major one): grunts sometimes stay in the phantom, fall out and then die.

2(kind of a big one): enemy ai will not seek out the player, i have to go and find them myself.

3(very minor): pickup icons and string lists need to be fixed.

indeed. Those wer bugs that have been there since the beginning and have been there ever since.

oh, i thought he had fixed the ai seeking the player problem.

No matter what I do. Exception. I redownloaded the map. No Dice. Nothing, nada. So for now I give this map a 2 out of 10.

sorry dude. ill try uploading a new version i recompiled, maybe that might work

Yo pwner, nobody is exceptioning except you...
I think this map runs great save the strings and icons and the occasional ai hiccup.
8.5/10. Hopefully shadow would fix the strings and icons before halomaps uploading.

is it just me, or is the player forced to use a carbine the entire game. shotgun is useless since you'll get your ass kicked in close range combat, pistol is inferior to the br, br is inferior to carbine due to ammo shortages. ar/smg even more useless than shotgun.

yeah i love the map, it's just a shame that the shotgun doesn't have a ton of ammo, it is an epic weapon.

Okay here's an actual breakdown:

Weapons-
Slapped into the map with almost no work put into them aside from maybe some simple number changes in Guerilla. Most of the time I had to switch out my human weapons for something that the enemy drops because ammo is scarce/hard to find. I don't know why you're using that crappy arm skin as well, should have just used the one in Sandtrap.

AI/Encounters-
Brain-dead most of the time, just jumped out of their dropship and proceeded to either sit there in a circle and sing "Kum-bay-ya" around an imaginary fire, or wander around aimlessly until they got to a certain point. The grunts were cannon-fodder, jackal shields were a bit too big and made them hard to kill at longer ranges, and elites were just screwed up animation-wise.

The Map-
Okay, so it's not really YOUR map physically...but this really wasn't too good a map for Firefight to be honest. It's kind of small and cramped, with not too many good areas for an actual fight. NAV Points for 'weapon drops' would have been nice as I couldn't figure the map out very easily, and began wandering around being able to completely ignore the AI.


6/10

the phantom is cool though.

thats cause you made the cool shaders

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Edited by Dennis on Oct 11, 2010 at 10:18 PM

If there's going to be a fixing , ill be awaiting.

Edited by pepzee on Oct 11, 2010 at 12:28 AM