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

[[OL]YODA]

What about taking the CoD2-DVD (or -CDs whatever you have wasted your money
for) and put it into the trash can?

Sorry, but will it ever run smooth? Our forum is full of questions - iwd sum
name mismatch, PB GUIDs, udpdating problems with PB for servers and for
clients (ever tried the ingame update option? Doesn´t seem to work very
well), DirectX 9-problems, connection problems and so on... What about the
last errors in Q3-Engine, will this be handled, too? I don´t believe that
CoD2 is secure til a test has proven it, I wish I had the knowledge to test
it... (And what about CoD and UO, there are running servers, too, and there
are also bad bugs, will it be a unrealistic dream to get an update for this?
Oh, yes, I think so, ´cos you can´t make money anymore with this games...)

MapPacks, nice thing, we use one, too - ours has 85MB - our server has a lot
of visitors and we pay the traffic by ourselves - and we have no unlimited
traffic. We are thinking about to close our server or secure it with a
password, as we don´t see any sense in this all - if you change the server
you have to download maps you still have downloaded several times, as
everyone seems to use an own MapPack and own MODs... And admins who save the
maps into main-folder are helping very well to create the iwd sum name
mismatch error, really nice thing... This can´t be the right way...
If you make an update of the MapPack, then a lot of people have to download
it - and again the traffic goes up...

Just a question: CoD - pk3 sum name mismatch - isn´t it the same error like
in CoD2 iwd sum name mismatch?
Why didn´t they think for it while programming CoD2? They fixed it in CoD,
so why they can´t do now? There were able toe recreate the mistake, so they
should be able to patch it again...

We have tried to get contact to AV as we didn´t get any answer in the
IW-Nations-Forum - AV answered by asking for my phone number and that´s it -
they tried to call me onle ONE time (and they knew I am not at home when
they called) no more calls, no mail, no letter - nothing then silence since
two months after receiving our letter - AV and IW seem to have no interest
in helping their CUSTOMERS, so why should we do more and more work if we can
expect nothing then only more problems we have to deal alone with?

Thomas
aka [OL]YODA
www.opferlamm-clan.de
  -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
  Von: Dave Whitney [mailto:whitney321 at yahoo.com]
  Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 16:46
  An: cod at icculus.org
  Betreff: RE: [cod] 1.3 patch the good and bad - iwd check sum will not be
fixed.


  Just a thought...

  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


  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

    -----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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