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Happy Birthday and Happy Retirement!!  May the remainder 2023 be the most restful year for you.

New Chimera Versions are out, R932 fixes the download screen bug issue. R333 is out, but Vap addon the original strings data to it.
https://halorng.net/Addons/chimera-1.0.0r933.00d2fa7e.7z

To download from the newer map repo with Chimera you must put this

> download_template=http://www.haloarray.net/{map}.map
Under this inside the chimera.ini

> ; URL template used to download maps ; - Supports valid RFC 3986 URLs ( scheme://[username:[email protected]]server[:port]/path ) ; Replaces: ; - {map} with the map name ; - {game} with the game type ("halor" for PC, "halom" for CE, "halod" for trial) ; - {server} with the current server's IP address ; - {password} with the password for the current server ; - {mirror<x,y,...>} with each comma-separated value until one works. ; The default is the HAC2 / HaloNet map repo. ;download_template=http://maps{mirror<2,1>}.halonet.net/halonet/locator.php?format=inv&map={map}&type={game}
 

Be on the lookout for an update for Chimera soon (hopefully this weekend). Major issues was the map repo and reconnection/error on connection bug.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/631949444316659742/1062880831120617472/Halo_2023-01-11_18-46-15.mp4
 
Repo is up att, dealing with some bugs and waiting on Chimera reconnect bug to be fixed

This is going to take a while lol
 

So the map repo backup is still happening, we are literally working on 3 of them hopefully.
Currently before the current decided to bite the dust (don't really know what happen, it's just offline like usual).
 
We have 3 individuals, including myself; downloading and making it more reliable available. 
This will take some time sorting making sure we have at least a good chunk of the current one.

Welp here we go at backing up HAC2 Map repo...

my login details were still saved on Chrome ❤️

Merry Christmas !!!

I believe I have every chance of winning this month's raffle!

The sun never sets on the Silent Cartographer

Now with 5G!

Finger lickin' finger lickin'