Having just hit the milestone of serving 1,000,000 maps via HAC’s in-game downloader and serving well over 100,000 maps/month, it seems like a fitting time for a rundown of the most popular maps.
Bigass v2,104
Coldsnap
Ambush
Yoyorast Island
Delta Ruins
H2 Ascension
Hugeass
H3 Bloodgulch* (see note)
CMT Snow Grove
Extinction
Immure
ZTeam’s Sanctuary H2 PB2
[HSP] The Pit
H3 Valhalla
H3 Foundry
Corrupted
Helix Canyon
Garden CE
The Floods
Haloball
*Bigass v2,072 is ranked #8 if you included maps which have had multiple test versions released.
The Halo 4 medal pack has had slight adjustments to its animations and the audio files have been replaced with the high-quality originals rather than lower quality recordings than were previously used.
The Halo 3 medal pack received a small change to its script to correct an oversight (perfection can no longer be attained after a suicide or a betrayal) and a single sound file replacement.
You can download the Halo 4 medal pack here and the Halo 3 pack here. See this post if you need instructions on installing the packs.
2014
10.29
HAC 2.2.0.6 Update
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Increased the default number of visible objects from 256 to 1024.
Added a command, ‘visible_objects <number>‘, that can be used to control the number of objects drawn. Most users will have no need for this command.
Thanks to 002 for gathering the information required for this change.
Windows XP users will now be able to see the custom chat, although it’ll use an installed typeface rather than the featured one. This bug is caused by Windows XP itself and there isn’t a suitable workaround (apart from getting a newer OS), although you’ll be able to select your own typeface at some point in the future.
Some maps could cause the game to crash after downloading. This was a regression (plain English: it worked, then I broke it) introduced in the January update.
Forgetting to use an option (0/1/true/false) with custom_chat will no longer cause a crash.
Additions:
Medals.
Medals:
This update introduces a Lua scriptable medal system. To get the ball rolling, I’ve provided three example medal packs (click to download); Halo 3, Halo Reach and Halo 4. To install a medal pack, simply download it to your HAC folder under the ‘packs’ directory (create it if it doesn’t exist) but do not extract it. For example: