They weren't guaranteed to have the navs in the first place, for unsupported maps. So they could just generate the nav for it.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Saul Rennison <[email protected]>wrote: > What about if they want to host the map on a listen server? > > > > Kind regards, > Saul Rennison > > > On 29 April 2013 00:55, Essay Tew Phaun <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The option to turn it off would be nice at least. I haven't noticed a > > difference on the client end from using blank navs. > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:32 PM, 1nsane <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The nav files have extra data in certain games like CS:S (place names) > so > > > the clients would need those files in order to display that data. > > > > > > TF2 might have something similar as well, previously nav files were not > > > sent in TF2. It happened with some update. > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Essay Tew Phaun <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > The clients don't need these nav files for the bots to function on > the > > > > server. Some servers serve the nav files as empty from a fast > download > > to > > > > get around sending it. This is bad because now the client has a nav > > file > > > > that doesn't actually do anything if they chose to play locally. > > > > > > > > With all the recent optimizations and separating map downloads from > > other > > > > file downloads + SteamPipe, this change makes sense. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > > > > please visit: > > > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
