[cod] 1.3 patch the good and bad - iwd check sum will not be fixed.

[gadruid at bellsouth.net]

How many actually have active servers?  Ours is dead.  So I am removing it.  I see no reason to continue supporting IW when they will not support us.  Blatantly saying they are not going to fix this bug is the same as saying they are discontinuing support for CoD2 PC.  We can expect no more help from them.  Why should we bother to create map packs to support this game?  If the customers want CoD2, let them deal with IW.  

John Kennington
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> From: Dave Whitney <whitney321 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2006/06/07 Wed AM 10:46:12 EDT
> To: cod at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: [cod] 1.3 patch the good and bad - iwd check sum will not be fixed.
> 
> Just a thought...
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> Since the admins handle most of the costs of bandwidth, how about admin's creating a consensus driven map pack.  Pick a target size, and put enough maps in it to satisfy that volume.  Update it based on interest with a new version (this satisfies those who's fav's aren't picked 1st).  Maybe do a tag in the server's id line, ala mohaa and ckr1.1?
> 
> Dave
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> Quint van Drosthagen <cod at se-easy.net> wrote: The good news is that a lot of users will go to the 1.3 patch with these
> fixes... The bad news is that we are getting stuck with a big problem
> because combining means that a lot of servers are having the same maps
> combined in different names mappacks... So downloading will be a hell. (my
> mappack is about 60MB)
> 
> But now the bigger question... Nice that these fixes will arise in 1.3 but
> when will the fix be released... I can't find any news on that.
> 
> Regards
> Quint
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Landi [mailto:jim at landi.net] 
> Sent: woensdag 7 juni 2006 15:41
> To: cod at icculus.org
> Subject: [cod] 1.3 patch the good and bad - iwd check sum will not be fixed.
> 
> Just wanted to bring this to all of the admins here, which should be all of
> you ;)
> 
> IW has stated that the only fixes 1.3 will address are
> - Gamestate
> - PB Guid issue
> These are the only two things this new patch will address.  
> 
> The official IW spokesperson, 402 has stated the following in regards to iwd
> check sum issue.
> 
> "As I stated, we will be unable to release a fix for this issue, which is
> why this is a 'work-around' and not a fix.
> 
> It is not meant as a fix, but is the alternative and answer to not getting
> the IWD checksum error.
> 
> To answer Freeman's question. This means that we will be unable to fix this
> issue."
> 
> The work-around 402 speaks of is combining all custom iwd map files into one
> "map pack".
> 
> Ryan any comment on how this will effect the Linux 1.3 patch and is it
> possible for you to do some magic with these Linux bins?
> 
> Sorry to be the messenger of bad news, just wanted to let everyone know what
> is going on.
> 
> -Jim Landi
> Rudedog
> FPSadmim.com
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