Well, with the switch to that different server hosting platform and a number of uncertainties I figured I might as well release this for the like 10 people who still play rather than let it sit on my hard drive for no reason. I had hoped to finish it eventually but that's very obviously not going to happen at this point. It's definitely in the beta stage as there are broken portals, no final lighting, some weird temp shotgun that I don't even remember where it came from, and an assortment of other problems. But it's definitely still playable, and enjoyable. Everything was created by our small team, except for the turret which is a placeholder that never got replaced. I'd like to thank Con for creating the skybox and most (if not all) of the world textures, CtrlAltDestroy for various special asset implementation and engine trickery, Choking Victim for script/shader support (and I think he made the new power up assets), and ShadowSpartan. So here it is (sorry for the old dev name that never got changed). You guys still seem surprisingly active over here so hopefully you can get some use out of it as a lot of work went into it to get it this far. Remember though, broken portals = a lot of visual issues. They don't hurt gameplay that much though.

Oh and I should also mention that the map breaks the games max vert count for a level so that also causes some fun tearing!

Temp mirror until the Halomaps one goes through:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a23af6auo70j73b/cyberdyneb2.rar









Edited by PenGuin1362 on May 4, 2014 at 12:32 PM
Edited by PenGuin1362 on May 4, 2014 at 12:32 PM
Edited by PenGuin1362 on May 4, 2014 at 01:03 PM

Jesse is releasing his soon with H3 tagset.

Get HAC2 ffs there's always like 1000+ ppl online across all versions.


Also 0/10 would not touch with a ten-foot pole.

Stop being such a negative Nancy and put some effort into your project.

-nvm-
Edited by Mike Cyborg on May 4, 2014 at 02:31 PM

Oh by all means, it's wonky as hell. However there was an app someone was making a while back that fixed all the nasty visual tearing. I'm long disconnected with this community so I don't know if it released, if it did it increases the games rendering limit and prevents the nasty visual issues. But Conscars always wanted it to get out eventually and it's just never going to get done so here it is.

As for the effort, Mr. Sassy, this thing has sat dormant on my Hard drive for years now. I have no time for mods anymore and with the announcement of gamespy shutting down I felt I'd might as well dump it out there than let the files go to waste. Do with it what you will but I assure it is not a perfect experience.

Mike your server lags.



The app is called Hac2 and yes it's released.

It seems that portal errors are caused by portals which intersect with exact portals (not sure). Grav lifts are too strong and cause glitches. Everything else seems fine so far.

Edit: HAC2 doesn't fix portal errors. It just doubles the rendered triangle limit.
Edited by altis94 on May 4, 2014 at 02:33 PM

LoL I shot you with sniper in the grav lift and you went flying.

Plan B

Join this server: 208.67.252.150:2510
Edited by Mike Cyborg on May 4, 2014 at 02:40 PM

Lol. Cant wait for those pit mods with h4 tags/reach tags

I'm still waiting for a Foundry mod.

In a few hours I can make one and send it to u.

cant play much lag

YE RITE

Already did. Have fun ^.^

That's right you can't allow +portals to go through exact portals or they error.
When you import the wrl to show them errors it just looks like an overlapping surface where the portals
meet.

It just needs better lightmaps. Most of the panels on the ramps (and ramps themselves) are just scenery, which doesn't stop explosive damage (unless you place a collision plane near them for effect.

gives me an idea...
Edited by Jesse on May 5, 2014 at 02:00 AM

I pictured this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP2oWvh6I44

this map causes our server to have major connection issues. halo continuously gives the players the poor connection symbol and as soon as we switch to a different map everything is fine.

I don't know why when I saw this thread I couldn't help but laughing (not in the "I'm making fun of this" way, just out of shear random event of this finally reaching the light of day).
Edited by 1bobsam1 on May 5, 2014 at 04:12 PM