It'd be cool to see like a slideshow of all the past cmt members and everything each of them did to contribute to the team. Like a memorial and a family tree all mashed together into one.

Organization to die for.

So, anything else new?

the first modeling work for part 2 of campaign has been started, as part 1 of campaign is mainly waiting on the art teams to be free. And jesse is working on b40 areas but due to real life stuff with me progress has been slower than we'd like.

also I finally saw our grunt high poly, looks pretty awesome, hopefully you guys will see the final one in the coming weeks.

How are they?

Oh that lag, he loves breakin' stuff to look tough.

If their is one thing i love doing most in halo is killing a Good looking grunt instead of some old looking ones.

B40 has some odd degenerates that prevent lightmaps from running, so I need to fix those, but like Masterz said, real life stuff is (getting in the way?) not allowing us to progress quickly. I've got finals THIS week, so I can't afford not to study and such.

By the time the weekend rolls around, more of us will be able to focus on the maps.

sexy song

you guys should bring back the apparition, and bring back the original sniper speed
Edited by rcghalohell on May 7, 2014 at 09:51 PM

Original sniper speed?

The apparition wasn't really that great a vehicle to start with. There has been some discussion of bringing back the needler ghost, but nothing more than that as that was never really a great vehicle either.

I liked it, and the halo 1 sniper firing rate, not the firing rate that was perminant after h3

We never changed the speed of it. Our sniper is stock in behavior but with a slightly lower firing speed and slight recoil. The main idea was to make it less effective vs elites, as Elites are more rare in our mod than the stock game, and we've done a few things to make them more difficult through behaviors. The sniper through can kill most brutes with a single headshot, the only exceptions being those who have some sort of shielding.

What have you, DOOONNNEEE??!?!!! D:

I'm sure he's got a good reason.

at least make some sniper fights... or give the enemies a beam rifle... or give the flood some snipers so we can go "HOLY CRAP!" when we see one


will there be any easter eggs? or Lost references? like the numbers in the POA?
Edited by rcghalohell on May 8, 2014 at 10:57 PM

Flood shouldn't have snipers, as it detracts from their overwhelming hivemind space-zombie character. It even bothers me to think of a flood form reloading a weapon. But yeah, having enemy snipers is a gameplay element missing from Halo CE.

Can Halo CE even make that (effective AI snipers) work?

I know I've played maps before that have nice Jackal snipers. Whether SPv2 or whatever SPv3 betas I've played, or other maps, I know I've seen them before. I dunno about actual sniper though, but a cheap "you just got shot and instantly have no shields" doesn't seem very fun. Given you can make them have iffy accuracy but even then, eh.

There are Marine snipers, aren't there?

It might just be me, but I've never seen them being effective snipers before (at least on Normal/Heroic)...?

Oh, I dunno. I haven't ever sat back and watched them, I guess. I do know that they're quite effective in the passenger seat of a Warthog, though.

We have brutes and skirmishers added to the mix, elites aren't always at the center of encounters anymore.


The covenant have 3 long range weapons, 2 of which we've announced. However, the "Savage Covenant" as well call them will use the human sniper rifle (as well as other human weapons), the Jackals in particular. The "Savage Covenant" will only be appearing in 3 missions in the second half of the game.

There will be eggs, some are already implemented and others will be added in near the end. I've had a lot of fun hiding AA's and skulls in places which let you play through the levels multiple times with some unique experiences that you normally wouldn't have, POA with the Active Cammo or Sprint if you know where to look.


H4 did a great job with the snipers.


As it stands now, the human combat forms retain their ranged combat behaviors and slowly advance on the player while shooting with ranged rifles. No plans to make them marksmen though.



Marine snipers are pretty bad ass, especially Johnson. Speaking of Johnson, we've now given him extra durability, so he will often always live through fights, but he can still be killed. He's been given a slightly bigger role in the game, and his character no longer appears in missions when he is story wise unable to be there. By the time you get to TSC, he already has his own story going on with Keyes and the flood.
Edited by Masters1337 on May 9, 2014 at 01:04 AM

flood behavior, ive noticed its either melee then shoot, or shoot the way towards you, then melee then shoot. either way, that vicious arm comes a swingin

I'm betting that some easter eggs are hidden on the POA are either in the dark tunnel hall way thing, or inside one or some of the launch pod bays thingys.

You know what would be cool? If I could shoot captain Keyes and still beat the mission, except I'd have to murder marines and covenant alike.

If you killed Captain Keyes early on, you would ultimately be unable to beat the game. You need his neural implant to blow up the Autumn.

Of course you're right, but I'd like to be able to dispatch of the ships's captain in POA without having all the doors lock and invincible marine AI barge into the bridge. It'd be a nice addition to have the player go rogue if he chooses (like he can in all the other missions,) and fight both the UNSC and Covenant in the first mission.

Yeah, like, you have to fight the marines and the covenant while trying to get to a life pod before the POA is over taken. Then when you turn the hallway where you could see the life pods at the end of the level, they all launch. Then you would have to defend yourself in a firefight as groups of covenants attack. And make it so that when you walk past the life pod section and to the back of the area down the hall from where you get all those grenades, then there are explosion from the life pod launcher place and then the covenant deployment thingy jams it, like the first encounter where there was the marines are standing in front of the life pod place and the covenant destroys it and deploys. You know what I mean? There would be a few waves until they destroy the POA and it explodes because Captain Keys didn't get to manually pilot it.

That would be so sick.
edit: there's your Mythic difficulty, master chief vs all with legendary-buffed enemies.
Edited by xnx on May 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM

So the brutes have that ragdoll sorta animation for the death, will all the other characters get a similar treatment?

Remember how Chief takes the implants from him after he becomes part of the Proto-Gravemind?

Chief could do that on the bridge too.
Edited by Dumb AI on May 12, 2014 at 11:53 PM

He couldn't have known that he'd need to have them in order to destroy the Autumn's reactors and blow up Halo in order to slow the spread of the Flood and prevent the ring from wiping out all sentient life in the galaxy. They didn't even know what Halo was at that point, let alone that it was host to a parasitic hivemind.