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Re: Found it!
By:Hyokin
Date: 9/12/22 4:03 pm
In Response To: Re: Found it! (ferrex)

: Such a trip--I wrote those scripts (and the comments) almost 20 years ago.
: Thank you for digging them up, and telling me where to find them!

I really enjoy your comments! I've definitely had a good chuckle while coding my own maps!


: Random trivia: if you poke through those scripts, you may notice the
: "e#" prefixes (which stand for "encounter#") don't
: start at 1. That's because oldmombasa and newmombasa were originally one
: mission, all the way from the Pelican crash to the teabagging Elite. A
: decision was made after I'd built and scripted that mission to separate
: them into more manageable halves, but it wasn't worth the effort to go and
: re-number everything...

Ohhhh! That's really cool, Ferrex! These are actually two of my favorite levels in the entire franchise!


: I wonder how many other tidbits I could dredge out of those script files? I
: hope I didn't leave any unprofessional comments in there, I don't think
: anyone ever expected them to be public...

I haven't seen anything *too* bad, but I can tell they were definitely not intended for the general public. lol

I really like finding the comments and old encounters, like the Drones spawning on the bridge after the Wraith encounter, that are still referenced in it!

Messages In This Thread

Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)9/8/22 3:35 pm
     Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.Louis Wu9/8/22 5:19 pm
           Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)9/8/22 6:34 pm
     Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.ferrex9/9/22 5:20 pm
           Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.Quirel9/9/22 11:39 pm
                 Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.ferrex9/12/22 1:39 pm
                       Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)9/12/22 2:06 pm
                             Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.ferrex9/12/22 5:35 pm
                                   Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)9/13/22 3:08 am
                                         Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.ferrex9/13/22 12:00 pm
                                               Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)9/13/22 1:44 pm
           Re: Halo 2 Easter Egg confirmed after 18 years.Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)9/10/22 4:01 am
                 I've got the mod tools. I'll hunt for it. *NM*Hyokin9/11/22 1:08 pm
                       Re: Found it!Hyokin9/11/22 2:08 pm
                             Re: Found it!ferrex9/12/22 1:38 pm
                                   Re: Found it!Hyokin9/12/22 4:03 pm
           !!Louis Wu9/13/22 1:15 pm
                 Re: !!ferrex9/13/22 7:46 pm
     GeezKermit9/25/22 10:40 pm

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