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New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336445] Sat, 21 June 2008 14:35 Go to next message
GEORGE ZIMMER is currently offline  GEORGE ZIMMER
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So, while I know that City2 will be a new map, I was thinking, why not a few more? There's plenty of already modeled maps that never officially made it in, but were re-made as fanmaps. Maps like snow, sand, gobi, and etc.

These were interesting maps, so I'd definetly like to see them in as a patch. Perhaps not ALL of them, but a few atleast to spice it up a bit more than just one map.

And, although it may be a stretch, perhaps new game modes eventually like Westwood intended? Capture the Mobius, Sole Survivor, and etc would be interesting to see officially.


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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336447 is a reply to message #336445] Sat, 21 June 2008 14:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The new patch will introduce an auto download feature. I think it's better to limit the amount of new maps in the original patch and then have people download maps depending on the server they go on, no? It will also allow people still playing on 56k or 256k to download the main patch rapidly!

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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336450 is a reply to message #336445] Sat, 21 June 2008 14:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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That's true I suppose, I hope then that an auto-download feature won't be a major hinderence then to server owners (Some guy downloading a map wouldn't take up 50% of the bandwidth, etc).

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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336460 is a reply to message #336445] Sat, 21 June 2008 14:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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the auto download on maps should be easy to pause and resume etc...

some of the larger maps are 100 mb and with my connection that would take hours to download.


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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336462 is a reply to message #336445] Sat, 21 June 2008 14:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Map files are uncompressed, so I suspect some form of compression will be used to reduce the amount of data that needs downloading. This is just my assumption though, so don't take it as gospel.

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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336477 is a reply to message #336445] Sat, 21 June 2008 15:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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i say yes add more maps to add....the good ones without glitches
Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336487 is a reply to message #336477] Sat, 21 June 2008 16:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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This will most likely not be done in the patch, as the autodownloader will provide a way to get new maps, and play them. We don't want a huge patch that might fail to pass EA QA

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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336613 is a reply to message #336487] Sun, 22 June 2008 00:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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EvilWhiteDragon wrote on Sun, 22 June 2008 09:08

This will most likely not be done in the patch, as the autodownloader will provide a way to get new maps, and play them. We don't want a huge patch that might fail to pass EA QA

Compression of the map files is really efficient, and the time it would take to download and decompress a zipped file will be a lot faster than downloading the raw file on average connections.

I think you may be able to persuade the 7-zip team to allow you to use their algorithms if you try.


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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336639 is a reply to message #336445] Sun, 22 June 2008 01:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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As it is now the map downloading is set up in such a way that the maps don't neccesarily have to be downloaded of the same server as the FDS is running on.

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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336643 is a reply to message #336639] Sun, 22 June 2008 02:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ghostshaw wrote on Sun, 22 June 2008 18:55

As it is now the map downloading is set up in such a way that the maps don't neccesarily have to be downloaded of the same server as the FDS is running on.

Peer-to-peer?


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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336646 is a reply to message #336643] Sun, 22 June 2008 02:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Dthdealer wrote on Sun, 22 June 2008 11:14

Ghostshaw wrote on Sun, 22 June 2008 18:55

As it is now the map downloading is set up in such a way that the maps don't neccesarily have to be downloaded of the same server as the FDS is running on.

Peer-to-peer?

no,
the server can specify the location where from to download the map.


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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336689 is a reply to message #336445] Sun, 22 June 2008 06:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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How you gonna get around the fact that Renegade needs to be restarted for new maps?

Also with auto-downloading of maps, can this also work for skins?
Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336690 is a reply to message #336689] Sun, 22 June 2008 07:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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IronWarrior wrote on Sun, 22 June 2008 15:53

How you gonna get around the fact that Renegade needs to be restarted for new maps?

Peanuts. Resurrection already allows that.


Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336712 is a reply to message #336690] Sun, 22 June 2008 10:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I liked Oblivion's idea of having a seperate download location to download maps from. You click on a server of a map you don't have and you are redirected to the download location, you download the map, then join the server. That way you wouldn't be taking up the servers bandwidth and there will be no lag because of the person downloading. Thumbs Up

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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336719 is a reply to message #336445] Sun, 22 June 2008 10:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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That's in short how it will work, indeed.

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Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336790 is a reply to message #336445] Sun, 22 June 2008 14:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I like what I am hearing. If this is all successful I will finally be able to expand the map rotation on a more permanent basis.

Great feature and must for this patch. This one is a must have. In Love
Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336792 is a reply to message #336445] Sun, 22 June 2008 14:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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i would suggest some DM maps like "DM_Yodler" by DeathLink!
Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336948 is a reply to message #336445] Sun, 22 June 2008 17:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Please implement this in Reborn since there are so many fan maps. hint hint reborn(the coder)

Re: New Renegade maps with a patch? [message #336955 is a reply to message #336948] Sun, 22 June 2008 17:43 Go to previous message
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Muad Dib15 wrote on Sun, 22 June 2008 19:36

Please implement this in Reborn since there are so many fan maps. hint hint reborn(the coder)

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