Playing these custom maps is too much trouble

(Machine for to kill) #1

This has probably been beaten to death already but I’ll keep on beating it maybe some change will fall out.

I can’t log into these stupid servers with custom maps. I want to play some of these maps because they look good and interesting but everytime I try to log into a server hosting them it never recognizes those identification strings properly (what’s it called?). I always have to redownload the map from the server and after I’m done redownloading, download it again since again it doesn’t recognize the map that i just downloaded from it. So after doing this about 3 times for each map, hopefully you manage to get into the game, but even then you get errors and more often than not your game crashes.

Somebody’s got to fix this because it’s becoming really annoying. It’s annoying for me with a cable connection (up to 200K download baby) I can’t imagine how annoying it must be for people with 56k connections.

(ND80) #2

I’ve never had a problem on any of my custom maps servers. I used www redirect, the maps d/l very quickly and the game starts just fine.

(Vengeance) #3

All i really play is customs and i have no problems what so ever with them. The customs have prolonged my enjoyment of the game :smiley:

(Dingo19) #4

Come to ND80’s New maps: 66.98.130.98:27964

As he said, you should have no problem getting in, and you will have fun.

(Machine for to kill) #5

How come I’m the only one getting this problem? And it happens every time I try too…

(SCDS_reyalP) #6

Autodownload seems to mess up regularly for some people. The simple solution is to make a note of the filename, and go download the file from one of the map websites.

(Garfo) #7

custom maps r getting better and i love playing custom maps :beer:

(The_Jesus_Zeppelin) #8

arnt there supposed to be a new 6 set of official maps coming out?

but i cant stand 90% of the custom maps, their littered with stupid. most of them have structures or building that do no purpose, and mg nest, that do no good. ammo and health cabnites in the worst place. there jsut poor;y made and latly i dont even check them out unless i think they have a cool name or somone says ther ok.

(sniser) #9

I had that too. And no one could help me either. I downloaded some maps from the web and stuck 'em into the folder, and just kept trying… and now it suddenly works. Maybe it’s some servers that are set up crappily? I don’t know, but I really suggest you keep trying, just hit alt-enter and browse the web or something. It’s annoying, but it’s worth it… some custom maps are really great!

(The_Jesus_Zeppelin) #10

alrite ive asked this question about the dl rate before, so here…

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5287&highlight=

that should answer your questions about that, but as far as custom maps, dont even bother, there 90% crap. try to find threads about good custom maps or sites that review their maps they put up for downlaod. there are a few out there that do that.

(Machine for to kill) #11

my donwload rate is always fine. I’m talking about servers not recognizing my version of the maps and forcing me to redownload.

(The_Jesus_Zeppelin) #12

well thats just sucks for you, it seems like both of us got a shit end of the stick, i have crappy downlaod rate and you have no server recognition!

but the only thing i can think of when somthing like that happens, is if the map has been edited and named the same thing or if when you initally downlaoded it the dl wasnt complete.

(sniser) #13

LOL? Do you mean 90% of all customs ever made (that might be true) or 90% of the maps played on servers?

(The_Jesus_Zeppelin) #14

90% of all customs that IVE played, thast my opinion based on expeirience that ive had.

(sniser) #15

Well I didn’t play so many customs either, but I only saw one which sucked baaad (and never saw it again), the other ones which I remember are Nachteinbruch, Rhine Bridge and Temple3, and they look great.

(The_Jesus_Zeppelin) #16

some of the ones that are professionally made are decent, because the people actually knew what they were doing. and rhine bridge was cool but ive only played the beta for temple and i really liked desert fortress.

(Sick Boy) #17

If you like warmap kind of maps nachteinbruch and frostbite are really great, if you want big-pub-fun-maps go for tank, resurrection,rhinebridge or temple.

About the download problem: I have it too, but not on every server.

(The_Jesus_Zeppelin) #18

i just dont think theres alot of future in custom maps, im sure sooner or later 1 or 2 will become ungodly popular, but i dont see that for a while.

SOMEONE DOESNT HAVE AND AVATAR!!!
if ya need one i got all teh good ones.

(Dingo19) #19

I like nearly all the custom maps.
They may not all be perfect, but at least someone got off their ass and made them.
Props to all the map makers, good or bad.
It’s too easy for some to be armchair critics. Make a map, have it played on a good server and then become a critic.

(The_Jesus_Zeppelin) #20

thats not true at all dood. ive made some maps before, and they were horrabile, and i realize and im sure most of us realize that its very difficult to make a map. and were not dening that, its just most of tyhe custom maps do blow hardcore like a pornstar, its as simple as that. and i refuse to play them just because some shmoe put in some hard work and it still came out like asscheese. that not a good reason to play it at all.

from what yoru saying i cant go out and watch a movie and then say if i liek it or not because some light guy put in hardcore hours lighting a scene! but the reality is, these guys need our opinion. so they know what there doing wrong and also so they know if they did a good job or not.