Bad times...

[stunt_man]

I just started playing Halo CE again and it's bringing me back to the old days...

It's a great game, and it's far from dead, but there's something missing.


I didn't start playing again to join servers hosting 24/7 coldsnap, hugeass, blood gulch, other stock maps, etc, etc...

Here's whats missing:

Wartorn Cove, Cliffhanger, New Mombasa Classic, Yoyorast Island, No Remorse, Siege, Church, Mystic, Portent, Island Hop, Immure, Snowtorn, Blood Islands, Zanzibar Classic, Launch Bay, Abyss, Red Feather Ranch, Fissure Falls, Solitude, Outpost Rio Classic, Casualty Isle, Camtrack Arena, Quagmire, Corrupted, Lost Cove, Nightcamp, Halo HQ, Fission Point, Claustrophobia, The Narrows, Victory Island, among a gazillion others.

What happened? Is it just because it isn't convenient to go and download maps that servers don't host them? Seriously, if I want to play Blood Gulch I'll just play Halo PC.

I know I'm not the only one who feels this way...

At least I hope not.

Thoughts?

[Rentafence]

it's far from dead

See the reason why you're wrong below:




Here's whats missing:

Wartorn Cove, Cliffhanger, New Mombasa Classic, Yoyorast Island, No Remorse, Siege, Church, Mystic, Portent, Island Hop, Immure, Snowtorn, Blood Islands, Zanzibar Classic, Launch Bay, Abyss, Red Feather Ranch, Fissure Falls, Solitude, Outpost Rio Classic, Casualty Isle, Camtrack Arena, Quagmire, Corrupted, Lost Cove, Nightcamp, Halo HQ, Fission Point, Claustrophobia, The Narrows, Victory Island, among a gazillion others.

[Segnaro]

The closest you'll get to playing a full server with those maps is i believe rams game-night's , every now and then.

[Cortexian]

The problem is this:

The game never shipped with any way for players to download custom maps straight from servers or external download locations in-game. The only way to get custom maps is to manually download them, un-archive them, and then place them in your maps folder. The vast majority of "noobs" that play Halo CE can't be bothered to do that more than a few times, that, or they're just to stupid to understand how to install custom maps... Therefore the majority of the servers out there are hosted on "popular" maps that most of the "noobs" actually visit.

This topic has been run into the ground since the games release.

I'm starting custom map days/nights on my server now as well, it will still be Blood Gulch 50 cap ctf most of the time, but every Monday or second Monday I'll be switching it up to a mapcycle of 5 custom maps.

[stunt_man]

Cool, what's your server called?

And I'm aware of the reasons, but there used to be all kinds of servers hosting custom maps, now they all host the same boring ones.

I think I just needed to vent my frustration, I just played on a server called RealWorldCE and I had a good match of No Remorse.

And it's not dead...

Not as dead as H2 Vista anyway...

[Limited]

Use version changer and change to 1.0, theres alot of custom maps there

[blind]

i love stuntman!

[sevlag]

yeah realworld is great, dwight basically has (i think) every custom map made in that server's rotation
it also seems like the yoyo island serverws are dying too...thats just sad

[Cortexian]

Cool, what's your server called?
Check my signature. :downs:

[Ki11a_FTW]

Freelancer, host red feather ranch and ill be there all day

[Alwin Roth]

When Some halo 3 maps get released people will play them, since anything with halo 3 seems to get played alot.

the Realworld servers host some of the old maps which is nice,
and so does The Gathering (TG)

[Hunter]

When Some halo 3 maps get released people will play them, since anything with halo 3 seems to get played alot.

the Realworld servers host some of the old maps which is nice,
and so does The Gathering (TG)

Has a decent Halo 3 map even been released yet?

[TEMPTii]

Has a decent Halo 3 map even been released yet?
Well there is Quid Pro Duo (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15989) and CMT_Snow_Grove is very H3ish as far as the weapons go.

[paladin]

I dont think QPQ will have H3 weapons. Scooby said he might have a variant with with ODST though.

[TEMPTii]

I dont think QPQ will have H3 weapons. Scooby said he might have a variant with with ODST though.
Should make a SP varient.

[Lateksi]

TG and Realworld servers are my favourites but they're European servers so you don't usually see American folks there.