Hi everyone,
I’m curious about the halo 4 update I just got today. I downloaded it blah blah. But what does it do exactly? Can someone please tell me if they know? And also, is there a link on halo waypoint to go to see what the updates do for my own interest?
They took away the free Crimson DLC map pack that everyone downloaded. Funny how they can fix something like that in a week because it is costing them dollars, but can’t seem to fix simple game glitches like super grenade throw and boltshot reload glitch nearly that fast…
Dropping maps into a game is pretty easy. They’re just environments of geometry and meshes and in some cases, animations. There’s nothing to it. The most amount the game does to read a map is the 15 seconds whilst you sit in the pre-game lobby.
Changing a glitch with a gun or grenade requires some code changing and because the glitch wasn’t seen before the release of the game, they have to figure out how to fix it quickly whilst the glitch exists.
Also, in some cases, changing code in one part of the game may cause problems and glitches in other areas of the game, so fixing the problem with the boltshot may causes a problem elsewhere with another gun or the way you run or anything else, so everything has to be tested.
Lastly, they won’t update the game with one or two fixes. They’re do a whole bunch of stuff and tell us what and do a thousand other thing in the background we don’t think twice about.
> They took away the free Crimson DLC map pack that everyone downloaded. Funny how they can fix something like that in a week because it is costing them dollars, but can’t seem to fix simple game glitches like super grenade throw and boltshot reload glitch nearly that fast…
Telling it to ignore a specific thing that they already know exactly how it works is pretty easy, at least compared to figuring out why an engine bug is occurring. No where near the same scale of work needed to ‘patch’.
> Dropping maps into a game is pretty easy. They’re just environments of geometry and meshes and in some cases, animations. There’s nothing to it. The most amount the game does to read a map is the 15 seconds whilst you sit in the pre-game lobby.
That’s not quite how it works. It isn’t really reading the map when it’s ‘loading’, it’s copying and storing it in it’s entirety to the RAM (flash memory). The cached map (the exact same data as the full map file) is constantly accessed while you are playing the game, and contains the majority of what lets the game run. Things you think of as the engine doing, are really the engine reading info from ‘tags’ in the .map files, everything from your pause menu, to the current challenges, to gravity, to…well pretty much everything in the game.
What you are talking about is known as the ‘bsp’, the map geometry, and is only one of thousands of tags in a single map.
I was exaggerating between how easy it is to drop out maps here and there to fixing game assets such as how a weapon works
Sometimes, I hate these forums and the replies I get. Can someone please tell me how to check up on the updates?
> They took away the free Crimson DLC map pack that everyone downloaded. Funny how they can fix something like that in a week because it is costing them dollars, but can’t seem to fix simple game glitches like super grenade throw and boltshot reload glitch nearly that fast…
They like to **** you over.
> Dropping maps into a game is pretty easy. They’re just environments of geometry and meshes and in some cases, animations. There’s nothing to it. The most amount the game does to read a map is the 15 seconds whilst you sit in the pre-game lobby.
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> Changing a glitch with a gun or grenade requires some code changing and because the glitch wasn’t seen before the release of the game, they have to figure out how to fix it quickly whilst the glitch exists.
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> <mark>Also, in some cases, changing code in one part of the game may cause problems and glitches in other areas of the game, so fixing the problem with the boltshot may causes a problem elsewhere with another gun or the way you run or anything else, so everything has to be tested.</mark>
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> Lastly, they won’t update the game with one or two fixes. They’re do a whole bunch of stuff and tell us what and do a thousand other thing in the background we don’t think twice about.
I’ve noticed that since they’ve patched the boltshot reload glitch, the “doubleshot” glitch after a boltshot burst seems to happen more often. Not sure it’s related, but it kind of ties in to what you just mentioned.
I hate the fan base on these forums.