Yeah, looks like some sort of system issue regarding preloading of plugins for the game. This should only affect users of unusual or subpar systems. Like the guy in that video looked like his system was really sluggish, which may be part of the problem.

Or it could be Optic causing it.

what dev kit is that?

hmm, i didn't want to mention this but i have a problem with the quarantine thing, i use it and everything is fine, but there are times when the letterbox stays, and HUD never comes back, i remove the letterbox and put the HUD manually but i'm still unable to use zooming on weapons and i can't see nav points, that's the only issue i'm having, any ideas? o.o
Edited by ChBgt909 on Sep 24, 2012 at 01:19 AM

You're supposed to die when the quarantine goes off. The issue is probably caused by you making yourself immune to damage.

oh hang on, u r using the command 'map_name firefight_descent' rnt u? i mean ur not trying to play this map through 'slayer' or 'ctf'.......... right?

I didn't know if that even worked. O_o

moooseguy,pepzee i think i discover what cause that...old or obsolete video card drivers?i think this because i try another game and say that i need to get new video card drivers,and i try the same game ''homewold 2'' on another pc(this time dont show me the error about old drivers)and dont happen any problem when i load firefight descent on halo,could be old or bad video card drivers the problem?

99% of all SP maps can be loaded through the MP section (which crashes the game).

no i'm not using any cheat, the enemies are still able to kill me, the first few times i played the quarantine did kill me but now it doesn't o.O and i lose my hud and all the stuff i told you

If the game is crashing when loading to many resources, you should probably try using the objects_predict command. I never use it, seeing as SP maps seem to load whatever resources they need and pause when thats loaded. Perhaps it was more of an xbox thing than PC, since Xbox's all had a set amount of Ram and vid RAM? At least that was my experience with SPV2. Haven't encountered it with SPV3 though, might be an OS thing. Do you have any reports of non OS users experiencing any pauses while content tries to render on screen during the gravlift scene?

Perhaps the object_predict command would do it, I have no idea. The whole situation is just baffling to me. I've never heard of a map where you had to go play multiplayer for a few minutes to go play a singleplayer map. No one in our testing group (including you) ever ran into this problem, it was tested on both OS and non-OS and it worked fine. I just can't imagine the problem being anything other than a hardware problem.

As for the RAM the original Xbox has 64 megabytes of RAM, and the person getting the exception has 4 gigabytes of RAM.

Mind you I don't know what systems our testing group has, so perhaps 4 Gigs or RAM isn't enough, as I have 6 gigabytes and it runs fine.

As for OS I'm uncertain. For both OS and non-OS there is only a slight 5 frame rate drop during the cutscene for me, which is almost unnoticeable. It's like their systens have to "warm up" or something first. This is just the strangest problem.

Thanks for the ideas though, we'l make sure to use the object_predict command for our next map.

Also can I ask how much RAM you have? I'm wondering as you were in out test group also.
Thanks.
Edited by Pepzee on Sep 27, 2012 at 01:19 AM

Say Pepzee, I probably won't be around to help with that map. Life things are taking priority, and I haven't touched (or reinstalled) HEK since I reinstalled Windows. Gaming-related things are gonna be taking a backseat for quite a while.

How much vid ram does it have, not that it probably matters much? The object_predict may have been something the xbox needed but wasn't required or is used on PC/CE. Korn would be able to answer that better than me though.

Are you positive all your music is correctly compiled and tagged?

The slight frame drop probably is a result of whatever it is loading, I'm sure through some trial and error you could figure out exactly what's causing it.

I actually have only 3GB of RAM, but I believe my card has 512. Could be wrong though, I just bought the best card for under 100 at best buy, don't even know the name off the top of my head. It's current gen though.

Edited by MoooseGuy on Sep 27, 2012 at 03:19 AM

Dude, nice remixes.

found three of the tracks for you
convenant dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIBxN5vwxjc

never forget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbdXhIyzbw


in amber clad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhuL9uFN9Dk

these are same exact songs in map to get mp3 use this site http://www.listentoyoutube.com/index.php simply copy youtube video link and it will convert it to a mp3. I will look for the other remixes if someone would tell me the name of the other songs used.

Oh that reminded me. Me and MoooseGuy agreed after the map had been out a few months to revel the easter eggs in the map. As we did spend some time on them and we didn't only to have a few people find them and have our work be wasted.

This guy did a good job on showing all of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1K2mQUpFMo

If you want to find all the easter eggs yourself though that's fine with me, just don't watch the video and keep searching!

As for the songs, not all of them are on youtube. We only got a few of them there, others were found throughout the deepest depths of the internet. I'll talk to MoooseGuy about potentially uploading the songs to youtube. Looking back on it now I suppose it would of been better to see if it was possible to include the .mp3 files in the .zip package.

Well I guess that's all. All good things come to an end, and I'm sad this project is over, I had a great time making with MoooseGuy for you guys. Hopefully me and MoooseGuy can work on a project for you guys in the future if time will ever permit it again. All I hope is that you guys enjoy playing the map as I did.

here is a RAR file that has the three songs in mp3 format http://www.mediafire.com/?rgvgo2w0zpb3r9t

ahh, thank you, i hadnt seen that video

Those are some nice elaborate easter eggs.

Why thank you Mr. Lode. A lot of that elaborateness was actually Pepzee's idea.

The music in the map was indeed found in all corners of the Internet, and once I get a good provider again, I'll upload a zip of the wav's for you guys.


Remember...
One does not simply
Beat Firefight Descent
Edited by MoooseGuy on Nov 19, 2012 at 09:13 PM

Is there something ur not telling me??????? can I really beat Firefight Descent? I wanna know the truth.

I had fun working on this mod, thanks again moose, BTW I hope all of you liked my work on this custom HUD. Hopefully there might be another project with moose I can work again.