Modacity Gamenight 2, vote for the maps you want!

[Cortexian]

I've created a 16 map map pack for the next two gamenights, now obviously that's too many maps for one gamenight so this poll is to determine which ones we do for gamenight 2.

Please vote for 8 maps that you would like to play, here are their individual maps on HaloMaps in case you want to check the mall out before voting!

Camtrack-Arena-FX02 (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4463)
casualty_isle (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1861)
cmt_Snow_Grove (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2731)
destiny (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4681)
dmt-ohh-timber (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4173)
Garden_CE (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4863)
helix_canyon (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1854)
LostCove (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=393)
revelations (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4992)
sciophobia (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4204)
Sneak (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1243)
TLMP-Snowtrap (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5257)
TM_Immolate (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4880)
WartornCov3 (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=414)
Yoyorast_Island (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1144)
z_sanctuary_h2_pb2 (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2768)

The 8 maps with the most votes will be used for the 2nd gamenight, the other 8 will be used for the 3rd gamenight.

[hry]

cmt_Snow_Grove (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2731)
dmt-ohh-timber (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4173)
helix_canyon (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1854)
LostCove (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=393)WartornCov3 (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=414)
Yoyorast_Island (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1144)
z_sanctuary_h2_pb2 (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2768)

[ejburke]

You might want to stagger the results so that both gamenights have maps that people want to play. For instance, you could have the odd-placing maps (1st place, 3rd place, etc) for one and then even-placing maps (2nd place, 4th place, etc) for the other.

[Cortexian]

You might want to stagger the results so that both gamenights have maps that people want to play. For instance, you could have the odd-placing maps (1st place, 3rd place, etc) for one and then even-placing maps (2nd place, 4th place, etc) for the other.
Good idea, will do.

[TeeKup]

Pretty much all of those except Wartorn and Snowgrove.

[Pooky]

Pretty much all of those except Wartorn and Snowgrove.

Pretty much this. Prefer maps with more interesting layouts over the

1. Go through teleporter

2. Strafe back and forth with pistol

3. Die

4. Repeat

gameplay that characterizes all Wartorn and Grove variants.

[Cortexian]

Try not doing that on Wartorn, there are vehicles and vehicle paths in the map for a reason.

[Pooky]

There are vehicles on Gulch too, that doesn't stop the primary form of gameplay from being "teleporter- strate strafe strafe- repeat". If you find something that mindless and repetitive entertaining then, well...

[Amit]

Will somebody be putting the maps in a pack? If so, make sure it's super compressed so it can be downloaded quickly and not take up much bandwidth :D

[phantoms]

Try not doing that on Wartorn, there are vehicles and vehicle paths in the map for a reason.
12345, people who don't learn that they'll die if they go through the teleporter deserve to get raped repeatedly.
Wtc3 leading the pack :}
Pooky, stop bitching about you being bad at halo and l2play

[TeeKup]

I wouldn't call repetitive mindless actions game play ...or even entertainment but whatever.

[phantoms]

I wouldn't call repetitive mindless actions game play ...or even entertainment but whatever.
Its Halo. Don't play then, all the maps are basically the same. WTC3 is about control of the cove, but in order to actually win the game vehicles are necessary..
You also seem to forget that this won't be random pub scrubs, everyone participating actually knows how to play.

[Amit]

Pooky, stop bitching about you being bad at halo and l2play

Careful now, you don't want to sound like a childish bastard.


Its Halo. Don't play then, all the maps are basically the same. WTC3 is about control of the cove, but in order to actually win the game vehicles are necessary..
You also seem to forget that this won't be random pub scrubs, everyone participating actually knows how to play.

If I remember correctly, you are still considered a random public scrub. Seriously, WTC3 is not really a map that promotes good gameplay.

[Higuy]

I like WTC3.

Also yay Garden! :)

[Pooky]

12345, people who don't learn that they'll die if they go through the teleporter deserve to get raped repeatedly.
Wtc3 leading the pack :}
Pooky, stop bitching about you being bad at halo and l2play

Whoever said anything about me being bad, or dying a lot from said pistol strafing?

Ask teekup about the time he joined a random gulch server I was in and I had 200+ kills and like 3 deaths from strafing back and forth with the pistol. Because strafing back and forth with a single weapon in a single spot for hours on end makes me good at video games. Do you try to be this dumb or does it just come naturally?


Its Halo. Don't play then, all the maps are basically the same. WTC3 is about control of the cove, but in order to actually win the game vehicles are necessary..
You also seem to forget that this won't be random pub scrubs, everyone participating actually knows how to play.

All maps aren't the same, not even slightly. Damnation for instance contains virtually none of the same type of gameplay as Blood Gulch, Chiller doesn't remotely resemble Wartorn, etc. Good maps are much more interesting than repetitive ones. I don't have anything against playing Wartorn for the sake of nostalgia, but I'm still not voting for it because I find the gameplay tedious.

[phantoms]

Careful now, you don't want to sound like a childish bastard.



If I remember correctly, you are still considered a random public scrub. Seriously, WTC3 is not really a map that promotes good gameplay.
I was in HIV. I'm not a random scrub lol. WTC3 promotes teamwork, solo flagging is near impossible

Whoever said anything about me being bad, or dying a lot from said pistol strafing?

Ask teekup about the time he joined a random gulch server I was in and I had 200+ kills and like 3 deaths from strafing back and forth with the pistol. Because strafing back and forth with a single weapon in a single spot for hours on end makes me good at video games. Do you try to be this dumb or does it just come naturally?

All maps aren't the same, not even slightly. Damnation for instance contains virtually none of the same type of gameplay as Blood Gulch, Chiller doesn't remotely resemble Wartorn, etc. Good maps are much more interesting than repetitive ones. I don't have anything against playing Wartorn for the sake of nostalgia, but I'm still not voting for it because I find the gameplay tedious.
You're bitching about it, you're bad. Suffice to say that in my many years of playing against real CE players (Devour, Boket, Katana) and me dying countless times on the Cove. I still loved every single second of it.

Getting 200 kills and little to no deaths on BG is pretty pathetic.. why would you even put yourself through that? I haven't seen that kind of Hill-whoring since KITSUNE. I'm sorry that you were sitting on your own base the whole time or just on the hill. I can pull out big numbers too.

Halo is a simple game, Damnation has a few choke points which when controlled greatly help your team. Blood Gulch.. same thing. Just because they don't look the same doesn't mean they have the same basic gameplay. If you use the same strategies you will usually win.
In conclusion, just because Hive regs raped your little boy bum on wartorncov3 doesn't mean the gameplay is repetitive.. it means you don't know how to play Halo. Piling bodies through the tele is dumb ;)
/thread

[TeeKup]

You talk and have the same mindset as every single Brofag on xbox live. My god I suddenly remember why I stopped playing this game.

[Pooky]

In conclusion, just because Hive regs raped your little boy bum on wartorncov3 doesn't mean the gameplay is repetitive.. it means you don't know how to play Halo. Piling bodies through the tele is dumb ;)
/thread

Once again, this never happened. It's very possible to be good at something and still find it boring.

You are an idiot.

[Patrickssj6]

Hey Phantom, just stop posting.

[Donut]

bitching makes you bad? if so, im the worst video game player ever.

worst at life too :downs:




....:saddowns:

[TVTyrant]

Halo's gameplay is pretty unbalanced/repetitive all around. Its fun to play because of the ridiculousness of it all. A 3sk pistol? LOL. An assault rifle that at 3 feet has stray bullets missing? LOL. The physics? LOL. The point of the game is that its fun and silly. At least thats why I always thought it was fun. You want sophisticated gameplay, play a different game.

[Pooky]

Halo's gameplay is pretty unbalanced/repetitive all around. Its fun to play because of the ridiculousness of it all. A 3sk pistol? LOL. An assault rifle that at 3 feet has stray bullets missing? LOL. The physics? LOL. The point of the game is that its fun and silly. At least thats why I always thought it was fun. You want sophisticated gameplay, play a different game.

I disagree, Halo 1's gameplay is actually more balanced than most modern games IMO. It can be pretty graceful and elegant too, when on the right maps. Damnation is my favorite map because of the near-perfect flow, I can move all throughout that map killing and taking objectives without stopping to breathe for a second (or at least I could, back when I actually played this game).

[TVTyrant]

IDK, I think the modern standouts like Battlefield BC2 or TF2 beat it on the balance of play aspect, and both are much more sophisticated. Halo CE is an ancient wonder, and because of that it has some serious drawbacks. I think the class system in those games makes for a much deeper, and more entertaining, multi-player experience as far as combat goes.
On the other hand though, the chat in Halo is the lolziest for sure. I think people chat more in Halo than in any other game. And because there were only so many servers up for so long, it really developed a strong community within the game itself. When I play TF2, I might see like 2-3 people I have played with before. When I played CE on ye old CMT BanFree, I knew just about everybody that was on there at any time, and that was awesome.

[Pooky]

IDK, I think the modern standouts like Battlefield BC2 or TF2 beat it on the balance of play aspect, and both are much more sophisticated. Halo CE is an ancient wonder, and because of that it has some serious drawbacks. I think the class system in those games makes for a much deeper, and more entertaining, multi-player experience as far as combat goes.

What you call more sophisticated, I call overly complicated. There's a virtue in simplicity, just because the game isn't bogged down with excessive class options or metagame systems doesn't mean there isn't depth to it.



On the other hand though, the chat in Halo is the lolziest for sure. I think people chat more in Halo than in any other game. And because there were only so many servers up for so long, it really developed a strong community within the game itself. When I play TF2, I might see like 2-3 people I have played with before. When I played CE on ye old CMT BanFree, I knew just about everybody that was on there at any time, and that was awesome.

I take it you've never played Jedi Academy before. Halo's chat has nothing on that game, you should try it.

[TVTyrant]

I don't mean there's no depth, I mean there's less. You may think over-complicated, but the ranking up and earning weapons or the new way you build items in TF2 makes it a much more rewarding game in my mind. That said, they're still not as fun as the old Halo CE servers were.

On Jedi Academy: Maybe I'll have to check that out. What year did it come out/where to get?

[Amit]

I was in HIV. I'm not a random scrub lol.

This is Modacity Game Night. I've been at Modacity for 4 years. Never seen you here once. I very much doubt most of the population here knows who you are either. All to god I thought you were like the one person who joined our forum solely based on the adverts in-game. I was pleased with this until you started posting bullshit. Just because somebody can get a high k:d it doesn't mean that they stood on a hill and farmed kills. Most of my kills come from fucking shit up at the enemies base (shotgun recommended).

OMG Jedi Academy Multiplayer was crazy.

...so when is the next game night? I thought it'd be today :smith:

[Cortexian]

phantoms is [HIV]Blind...

Next gamenight will probably be on the weekend or next week. Just want to get a good census of map votes.

[Cortexian]

Jesus, stop arguing.

My entire point originally was that there's nothing compelling you to conform to the so-called "standard" form of play. I know when I'm playing I like to try new things, take vehicles out for a spin, etc... Just because YOU are the one that likes to always go through tele, strafe, pistol-whore, die, repeat, doesn't mean we all are. Granted there are SOME maps made specifically to cater to the pistol-whore lifestyle, but if there isn't an alternative usually the map is pretty boring.

[TVTyrant]

Jesus, stop arguing.

Just thought it needed to be reposted.

I'm liking how this list is turning out, except I've never played most of these maps lol.

[Bastinka]

Are the dates just going off from the date of the Original Post?

[Cortexian]

There's no date yet set for the second gamenight.

[Arteen]

I vote for these 8 maps:

Schwinnzno1alpha01a
Wartorn_Cove
WartornCove2
WartornCov3
W4rtornCove
Snowtorn_Cove
Grove_final
CMT_Snow_Grove

[phantoms]

arteen you forgot
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1588

[Patrickssj6]

How about this one? (My first ever and last map xD)
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1035

[Amit]

If you guys wanted to throw more maps in, you should have done that in the suggestion thread. This thread is for voting for maps.

[Patrickssj6]

If you guys wanted to throw more maps in, you should have done that in the suggestion thread. This thread is for voting for maps.
Amit, nothing against you personally you are a cool guy but sometimes your post a little bit stupid :S /diplomatic

We are not being serious.

[Amit]

Amit, nothing against you personally you are a cool guy but sometimes your post a little bit stupid :S /diplomatic

We are not being serious.

lol shit, I was in no place to judge if those maps are any good or not, so I wasn't really sure if you guys were serious.

[TheGhost]

Please make the dates known on the front page posted at least 1 or 2 days in advance. I would like to get some HaloCE action in with you guys. Last time I went on it was a bunch of people shouting in Spanish in all caps.

[phantoms]

Please make the dates known on the front page posted at least 1 or 2 days in advance. I would like to get some HaloCE action in with you guys. Last time I went on it was a bunch of people shouting in Spanish in all caps.
85% of the population is now mexican.
Thanks Guys.

[sevlag]

what about that map with the rotating skybox?

[Hotrod]

what about that map with the rotating skybox?
Which map is that?

[Pooky]

Asteroid had a rotating skybox. Only one I can think of.

[sevlag]

Asteroid had a rotating skybox. Only one I can think of.
yeah the one with the two weird bases and its primarily banshee combat

[Hotrod]

Any idea when this is gonna happen? I dunno if this makes any difference, but if you guys are feeling generous I'd ask you to have this at any time that isn't during the week of the 21st (or the weekend before/after) since I'm gone. Then again, I don't want to tell you guys what to do :P It's just that I really enjoyed the last Modacity gamenight (and it was the first one where I was able to attend) and don't want to miss the next one :)

[Cortexian]

There will be an announcement at least 1 week in advance. We're ironing out server-side issues still.

[Hotrod]

Oki doki then, I'll keep an eye out for the announcement.