You're an idiot. It's from our system that lets us drain the PP age (and let it recharge). No one is stating that it's a feature, or that it is anyones fault but our own. There is just no real way to fix it without further stressing the scripts.

Replying to DSalimander means he's already won

I'm getting frequent crashes in a particular BSP on AotCR.
https://mega.nz/#!6ZYxVKZD!aNqYN_XYJPrpoSoen0PgrC22BMfYwse3pbTLeMD6dWY
Crash report here.

My favorite thing by far was the Silent Cartographer Evolved mission, which I know wasn't made by CMT. But nonetheless, fun!

wut

Now that's a name I haven't seen in awhile. Good times.

I believe there was a team split, most of the Silent Cartographer Evolved creators left, and to my knowledge.. CMT and Masterz were mainly the marketers/public figures

Really did enjoy the new imagination of the level!

Wondering that too actually. I haven't played this and nor will I ever but imgs and vids with the google grass look really grusome.

Also CMT did make TSC:E just half of it split away after masterz got too demandi- sorry I mean after life got too much.

So legit, how many years will we have to wait for part 2? Realistically, probably 3-4 right? The first half was 5-7 years, and I heard they have most of the human and covenant content down so it'll be a lot quicker, ONLY 3-4 years

Can't say I'm that hyped knowing that it'll be 2020 most likely when this finally concludes

Any other Halo projects on this forum?

I played the new SP, it's so amazing, I love what you did with the BSP sections. However there are some bugs I've already notice but I will defitantly get back to you guys later if I do find them again.

I do agree about the sentiments of the grenades. I found out very early on that I had to play extremely conservative as I'd keep getting killed with grenades..

Also agree about the Hunter guns... Found that the orange one was risky to use because it requires constant accuracy and along with the charge up time, it makes you very vulnerable.

Really felt like PoA could have used a Maw type vehicle section... Not a timer scenario... Just some vehicle areas that mirror the sections driven in the Maw. You wouldn't come up against any covenant vehicles, but it would be a good change of pace.... Overall PoA was solid I thought.

The new sections in Halo were solid too. Can't complain about much there, except for my system's obvious struggle playing through the Alpha Base big battle.

Loadouts made Truth and Rec pretty fun. The wraith at the gravity well was an interesting addition... Was it the right decision? I'm not sure. It felt well paced and in tune with the waves of enemies coming down the gravity lift... And the couple banshees escalated that intensity well, but not to the point of it being broken. But I'm not sure if it was necessary... A rather trapped space for a large vehicle like that. But it did provide a different experience no doubt... The rest of the mission was pretty much the same level design, but the new weapons/enemies/etc changed it up a bit.

Truth and Rec was pretty solid, pretty much the same as the original.

But boy... That Evolved version. First time I've played it, and boy was I impressed. Simply just an amazing experience, fantastic level design... Had me on the edge of my seat in so many areas. It was crazy, following the path but I didn't know where the hell I was going... Hell I still don't know what the whole island looks like, because in the original version, you knew where everything was.. The place was one big easily drivable island.. But this just had me following a path cluelessly, flying off jumps, into dark caverns deep inside the island while I'm getting shot at.... EPIC.

AoTC... Pretty much the same. Grizzly Tank is inaccurate as hell. I was sitting waiting for the new sections, only to find out it was at the near end of the mission. The first expansive new areas was kind of interesting, but a little lackluster... But the next one was simply epic... Shame my poor system had the framerate at like 10... Loved the idea of fighting up the mountain and thus to the whatever you call it (control room spire)... I liked this setup, because it actually forced you to fight your way up the structure, whereas in the Vanilla version, it was race to the banshee and fly to the end of the mission.

I'm interested to see what will be done with the 2nd half of the campaign.

TSCE was by far the highlight.

See I actually like posts like these. I did notice your posts in the subreddit but right now most of my time there is helping people who have incorrectly installed the mod, or are encountering bugs but I can touch on much of this here.

AOTCR has some of those long empty halls, simply because we ran up both against the AI squad limit (1024) and also the amount of object names needed to do things with vehicles (also why some people get that exception when certain vehicles get recycled). We designed the last area first, and then had to bridge it back to the stock areas. It's easily the one area of the mod where I feel it's really a let down, but isn't fixable without massive retooling.

Graphically, the choice not to use DLMs comes from just how time consuming they would be to do for 30+ areas. We also purposefully wanted new areas in the original levels to blend in with the old in terms of quality (I think we hit the mark pretty well, with the exception of POA which has the misfortune of being the only missions based off it's SPV2 predecessor). I tend to think our exteriors overall look much nicer than TSC:E's with that missions interiors being absolutely gorgeous.

Cortana unfortunately, has always looked that bad. The problem is now she actually looks more like a person, which doesn't mesh well with her ancient animations. I have yet to see anyone report keye's clothing textures glitch, so if you could provide some pictures that be great.

Elites were made tougher as they are now more rare.
Skirmishers bring a new enemy movement speed to the sandbox.

If you are against being challenged by the game... well I don't know what to tell you as I don't really understand why you'd play games in the first place. In fact most of the rest of your complaints seem to be very general complaints about the sandbox, and I don't know what to say other than big time campaign players seem very happy with the way it's designed. The original grenade is much more grenade happy than anything else in the series, which is what we did aim to retain.

That said, what we have planned in Part 2 I think will appeal to you.

I don't know where the hate is all from, it isn't like you had to pay to play this mod so why are you all so angry?

I feel the alpha base section could have been so much more.
The first impression you get is pretty good. Huge base, large playspace.
But the gameplay itself just doesn't get that exciting. Squads of marines just remain safely inside of the very tall wall's confinues. Not that much threatening action is actually going on outside of the walls either.

I feel the area could have been much more exciting. By lowering the defensive walls and posting marines on them, a real awesome defensive firefight could have ensued. A dug-in scorpion for example could have also been a real cool defenside asset. Oh and I thought ODSTs captured the alpha base according to the books, but I can imagine perhaps tagspace got in the way here, or this takes place after the capture.

It just doesn't meet what I had imagined the alpha base to be like after having read the books. Bit of a shame.

On Alpha Base in Halo, I seem to get an exception every time I attempt to enter the building. First time I threw a grenade in the door and it exceptioned, if I got out of a vehicle near the door it exceptioned, if I tried to go through the door I got an exception.

Sounds fun and all, but yeah. Can't play it.

E: oh and the gauss gun should be basically hitscan by the way. The only reason there's an explosion when it impacts would be because of the kinetic energy by way of it going insanely fast.
Edited by Skidrow925 on Jun 28, 2016 at 12:24 PM

I'm listening, and I agree with a lot of what you said. I'm hoping I get a shot to visit some of those areas that weren't up to par with the rest of the levels.
Edited by Jesse on Jun 28, 2016 at 05:20 PM

yeah wolves sure like to eat grass.. @Masterz1337, im not sure if anybody has asked, but i am curious as to why you opted to break cheats? i have beat legendary and am chugging my way thru noble (which is sufficiently difficult omg) but the most fun i've ever had has been bump possessing ai to make them invisible or carry different weapons, teleport vehicles where they definitely shouldnt go etc. so im just curious: is there any way (or dev trainer) i can get those hours of endless fun to work on the current mod? and yes i am fully aware these cheats can and frequently do crash the game, but i figure if you beat a level on the highest difficulty, one should have a right to ef around.. just curious


also:
thornbeast as well at some point?
and with windows 10, for long tunnel portions on aotcr where you couldnt add ai, add dialogue! windows 10 cortana can be tricked into saying just about anything so use that to your advantage, record it and add it as something story related!
Edited by roviet1337 on Jun 28, 2016 at 07:44 PM

Add that to the fact that le wolves already appeared in SSA.




"cmt only uses custom content"

I don't know who made the blindwolf but I got to be honest at some point. The animation, texture and the model looks sooo much amature. CMT team should have at least worked on that wild life at least. And the thornbeast I saw on this forum looks way top quality for CMT and its getting worked on by haloanimator. Thanks to haloanimator for making that thornbeast model and the animations

But as master said, bigger bipeds don't operate really well. Maybe bungie regret for wasting their time for making a bigger biped that won't function well, I think OS would function well with it. I mean who knows?

credits:

Sshers Original HD model
Halonimator Animation, Low-poly, texture, sound and tagging

Nitpicky
1. There are two Thornbeats, one by Sshers, one by Hunter, the prior sucks, the latter is only in hunter's hands (afaik)
2. Halonimator didn't make that model, that was Sshers' work. Still done poorly, at that.
3. I've refrained from commenting thus far but those animations suck. They're fluid as hell yeah, but they're terribly done and Halonimator, for as much potential as he has, wont fix or take crit generally. No point.

You know...
SorrySoldOuts grammar has become horrible since his last account.
I can't even decipher what he's trying to say with that last sentence.

Not even squinting helps. :(

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

I WONDER WHY.

The Particle Carbine in the SPV3.0.0 Release has a messed up display shader that references an old texture, and causes the appearance of two displays at once.

In case anyone cares (and for the purposes of ripping tags) I have uploaded the fixed version that was originally supposed to be included.

https://www.mediafire.com/?10cfer4usjirc94


Here is a screenshot of the issue.




Here are pictures of the displays.

Original:


New:

Edited by Jesse on Jun 29, 2016 at 12:08 AM

It looks like the normals are better in the second photo too.

The first pic is a screen cap of a YouTube video showing off all of the SPV3 weapons.

Second is the Particle Carbine, but I believe at the time I was not using OS to compile the CMT test map.

motion blur in games is far beyond aids, js. FOV of 70 isn't too bad but iirc the animations are made a way to be purposely nauseating if you play at anything less than 90.

I need to ask: what does LASO stand for?

Legendary All Skulls On.

Seems like Windows defaults to power saving mode...
After setting Windows to performance mode, I can now get up to 330fps and the worst parts of A30 run at 30fps.

I think the idle animation where they stand there and look around is fitting and necessary, but how about an additional "crouch" animation where they bend their heads over and pick at the ground. They don't have to be eating grass. The same animation can be used as they stand over corpses, or in the many ponds in the level to look like they're drinking.

I've been critical of the blind wolves since before release, and hope they get basic aesthetic updates eventually in the ways people have already said.




I imagine that's exactly the kind of thing they have planned for "No one left behind."

Well that's not really an excuse for something that could have been alot cooler.
The reason Alpha base is what it is is because there was not enough level designer - artist feedback and iterations. Or just a lack of inspiration and/or vision.

While I have never liked the idea of people being able to cheat through the mod, what ultimately ended up making them be disabled was that it would severely damage the players game state, in an irreversible way. The minute a cheat was turned on or used, it could create a crash later on, disable certain weapons from working, make other scripts malfunction in ways we couldn't understand. In the end, it was better to disable the cheats, rather than have someone try and use them only to have things internally start crashing around them, ultimately causing parts of the mission to potentially stall..

No, you need to set the motion blur to maximum (things get crazy)

And set the FOV to 40 like a real man.

Hide the HUD

Use OS to move all the weapons out of the way (should be easy with the 40 FOV)