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darthshearer

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If you dont have the all the maps a certain server is using, when you connect will it download the maps?
 
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adams901

Guest
no, it will just disconnect you (well that has been my experiance anyway)
 
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Brass Monkeys

Guest
no unfortunately not. Thats what I like about Valve's "Steam", downloads the map if you havent got it ..

... could Game.Net do a similar thing?
 
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Deadmanwalking

Guest
Originally posted by Brass Monkeys
no unfortunately not. Thats what I like about Valve's "Steam", downloads the map if you havent got it ..

... could Game.Net do a similar thing?

Thats not steam thats Half-Life ;)
 
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Brass Monkeys

Guest
errr. yea. DOH :)

Im sure it was Steam, but then I havent used it in ages ...

apologies in advance for mis-information .. I am a demoted back to n00b
 
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Deadmanwalking

Guest
They are more or less the same thing but half-life has been doing it since... well forever. Along with alot of other games. Q3 and its numerous mods/games.

Anyway that method is pretty useless with all but the smallest maps as you get such slow speeds from direct server download compared to standard FTP/Website downloads.
 
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xane

Guest
Even Quake II had that facility, for both maps and models/skins, in fact it wasn't until later you could actually disable it, so you didn't have to wait 1/2 hour to play a game whilst the 15 variations on the Cartman skins got on your machine.
 
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Cdr

Guest
Although it would be nice for the maps to auto-download as in most Quake engine based games, it is however, impractical. Have a look in your DC maps folder, the size of the maps range from a pityful 64kbs up to a huge 94mbs (with the 'proper' DC maps being the biggest). Personally I'd rather not have to download 94mbs of map at each map change - not only would that map be over by the time you've downloaded it, but it'd be pretty boring sat at the map load screen for 30 mins.
 

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