[mod]Shared and Mainmenu

zwull · Post by **zwull** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:35 am

Apply these to the mainmenu and the shared.map. I made a post about this in the normal forums.

- · Post by - » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:37 am

whats this supposed to do?

ODSTSaber8 · Post by **ODSTSaber8** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:42 am

yeah knowing what the things do instead of saying just to apply them would definetly be a plus and prolly get more ppl to downlaod them.whatever they are are

zwull · Post by **zwull** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:47 am

I said that I made a post about this mod in the normal forums, but. . . If these are applied, the mainmenu will have single_player_shared.map and shared.map added to it, it will also not have a blue filter. When the patch is applied to the shared.map, it makes it playable by anyone. You must have your new XBL updates off when doing this, they prevent you from playing these maps. I applied almost identical mods, if not copletley identical, a few months ago, but I didn't have time to test these, although I am almost sure they will work. Tell me if they do.

PistonsMVP18 · Post by **PistonsMVP18** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:02 am

I didnt know u could play shared.map!?

PistonsMVP18 · Post by **PistonsMVP18** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:08 am

When i try to play shared.map i never am able to spawn

PigFarker · Post by **PigFarker** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:09 am

PistonsMVP18 wrote:When i try to play shared.map i never am able to spawn

Maybe thats whats the PPF for

Zenaku213 · Post by **Zenaku213** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:22 am

whats the map look like show some pics is it that one map with DIRT on the walls?

zwull · Post by **zwull** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:36 am

I don't have a capture card, could someone else take pics

xIFr0z3nIx · Post by **xIFr0z3nIx** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:46 am

WoW this sounds a weee bit BS ish but i'll waste my time and check it out anywayz if by some rarity it does work gj!

zwull · Post by **zwull** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:18 am

WTF DOES THAT MEAN!!!!!!!!!!! . . . I knew what it meant, I just thought that that was a really stupid thing to say.

awal · Post by **awal** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:37 am

BS ish = BullShit-ish and it does work but it was a waste of time

xenowisp · Post by **xenowisp** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:44 am

you can play it but its dumb. it was origionally a test thing for bungie. its a bunch of characters, ships, weapons and stuff just standing around. and the map freezes often

you shouldnt need to patch your shared.map to play it though only the main menu

"Element666" · Post by **"Element666"** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:03 am

xenowisp wrote:you can play it but its dumb. it was origionally a test thing for bungie. its a bunch of characters, ships, weapons and stuff just standing around. and the map freezes often

you shouldnt need to patch your shared.map to play it though only the main menu

wow i played single player shared but not shared, is there a diffrence?

zwull · Post by **zwull** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:31 am

Um. . . first of al, no you can't play shared.map without the patch. Second of all, single_player_shared.map doesn't freeze at all, unless you kill the flood. And third of all, neither single_player_shared.map or shared.map are test maps, they were made so that they didn't need to have as big of map files, for example, they wanted to have all maps load the elite and masterchief characters from one map file. Why would they put a test map on the disc anyways. . . to waste space?

zwull · Post by **zwull** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:34 am

Yes, the single_player_shared.map and shared.map are very similar.

jamesr66a · Post by **jamesr66a** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:36 am

zwull wrote:Um. . . first of al, no you can't play shared.map without the patch. Second of all, single_player_shared.map doesn't freeze at all, unless you kill the flood. And third of all, neither single_player_shared.map or shared.map are test maps, they were made so that they didn't need to have as big of map files, for example, they wanted to have all maps load the elite and masterchief characters from one map file. Why would they put a test map on the disc anyways. . . to waste space?

well the BSP was designed to test the charachters and stuff

The Swamp Fox · Post by **The Swamp Fox** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 12:34 pm

Time to clear some things up before a conflict brews...
shared.map is not a test map, but rather, a map designed to decrease map size, and along with it, loading time. single_player_shared.map is designed to contain any information shared across all maps, including campaign. The reason they didn't just use one shared map is that loading multiplayer maps without the shared cache ready to go would take 3 or 4 times as long as it currently does (which in my opinion is plenty long enough).
The stuff placed around shared.map would be weapons, powerups, MC, the arbiter, and elites. There would be no flood, no other covenant, being that none of those are used in multiplayer. The reason that anything is placed like that at all is that Bungie needed a way to get all of those objects into the map's hierarchy, and rather than make a "special-case" instance with these maps, inserting them into the scenario worked quite nicely.
Now, I can understand that single_player_shared may very well have been used to 'test' the game and/or the objects in it, being in that there is a player spawn there. However, I strongly believe that the map's main purpose is nothing more than to save time building, caching, and loading level-specific maps.

SODIS · Post by **SODIS** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:23 pm

Can you play on it?

HEADTRAUMA · Post by **HEADTRAUMA** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:49 am

SODIS wrote:Can you play on it?

Skim .....Skim.....Skim

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