Me and about 4 or 5 other people are working on this single player campaign series based entirely on and surrounding earth. This is basically what most of halo 2 should have been and is in a very early stage. We are just getting organized on the project, and there is no targeted release date yet. If you have any ideas for specific things to be in this campaign, post it here. The people currently working on it are the clan leaders of Iky and Esf, some members from both clans, and me. I will be working on the story(I think) and this is what I have.

Mission 1

You are in a ship very similar to the pillar of autumn orbiting earth. The ship is one of few remaining defenses of earth, and the covenant is working very hard to wipe the last defenses out. Several boarding parties enter your ship and attampt to wipe out the crew and get valuable info from the ship. You wipe out the boarding parties so the covenant cruisers open fire on the ship, so they can wipe out the spartan on the ship(they will use another ship for getting data) and it gets shot down. As the cruiser is blowing up, you race to an escape pod and get launched out of the ship.

In a cutscene shot in extinction, you get out of the crashed escape pod to find that the cruiser crashed near the pod. Some pelicans patrolling the wreck for survivors find you standing by the escape pod and pick you up.

Mission 2

The pelican takes you to new mombassa, only to find another covenant invasion. You wipe out them all. When it sees that you killed all the reinforcements, the covie cruiser over the city flies away. A longsword picks you up and follows it.

Mission 3

The cruiser stops over part of a military base(in downflow). The covenant are attempting to take the base from the humans, so the longsword flies to the hangar hidden behind the waterfall. You gear up and get into a peli. The peli flies as close as it can get to the cruiser without getting blown up, and drops you off. You kill the covenant that want to make a base here. The pelican picks you up again and flies away.

Mission 4

The pelican lands in the battle cruiser hovering over rpg beta 4-4. A crew member tells you that the covenant are launching an assault on all the bases. You get dropped off at one of the bases with a warthog. You wipe out the assault. The ending will take place right after this.
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 5, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 6, 2008 at 07:52 PM
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 7, 2008 at 07:18 PM

Some questions:
1) What type of weapons?
2) Release date?
3) Will this be something 'worth the wait' because right as I heard 'modded extinction' I lost hope.
4) nvm
Edited by ODX on Jan 5, 2008 at 05:24 PM

1: We haven't started that yet
2: Read the first post
3: Not sure...
4: I have no idea what you mean

We also need someone or something that can create some form of a conversation in the cutscenes, like close captioning, or something that simulates a voice somehow.

EDIT: The extinction level probably won't be very good, but we need some level to fill the gap between when the cruiser crashes and when you get to new mombassa.


Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 5, 2008 at 05:13 PM

We got all that, it's the voices we need help on.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the last part of mission 2 will be inside the cruiser, you make your way to the bridge and you hijack the ship. The majority of the level might be in there, since making your way to the cruiser was basically "fly to the other side of the map while killing things".
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 5, 2008 at 05:31 PM

ANOTHER EDIT: As the project moves on, I will update the storyline in the thread's first post.
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 5, 2008 at 05:45 PM

That could probably be a later mission, the 3rd mission is ment to take place on the streets of new mombassa.

are u sure u can do this by ur self..?

who are they anyway....can i see pics of their work?

The only work they do is apparently secret to their clans, but I'm going to see if they got that much skill. I will make sure it's still good whether the people participating are good or not.

EDIT: Forget about who is working on it unless you want to help, post what you want in the campaign, so I can make sure it includes stuff that most people like.
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 5, 2008 at 07:29 PM
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 5, 2008 at 07:29 PM

That's pretty much the extinction level, mission 2.
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 5, 2008 at 07:41 PM

Alright, so do you want to fly or drive to the cruiser in mission 2?

This would be a good idea if they weren't mods of other maps.

If you want a non-modded map, we need a good modeller so we can get forests, bigger new mombassa, better spaceship interior, etc. I am at least only choosing maps that people role play on a lot.
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 5, 2008 at 11:06 PM

You said you already have modelers.

I never said that.

That is partly why most or all of the campaign levels will be modded maps.

Is BCE out yet? If so linky please.

What do you mean by that? You bet you won't play as the chief? Well anyways, we have a halo 2 model for the chief so you will play as the halo 2 master cheif.

Massacre is right, this is a lot of work. Do you guys even know how to do some of that stuff for singleplayer? Also, the story has a lot of problems. In mission 1 there is no reason for the covenant to board the human ship. The covenant would only board it to get information, but they already have earth and the forerunner structures they want are on it. The ship would not crash as they would have destroyed it completely in space with their own ships. How would they steal and fly a covenant ship without cortana? and then take out an entire covenant invasion force? Why would they want a human base? I think you guys should work on one custom map first.

hes right lol

The first version of the stroy is complete, do you want me to give away the ending or not?



1. There are still human colonys out there that the covenant want to find and destroy in this campaign, so thats why they want to take over human bases/ships.

2. How do you think the pillar of autumn made it onto halo after the 1st mission?

3. You play as the chief. You have cortana.

4. How do you think the chief wiped out all the other assaults?
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 6, 2008 at 07:51 PM

1. The covenant have earth, the human home world, they could easily find information on human planets from computer systems on earth. But they wouldn't even bother as the great journey is about to begin.

2. the Pillar of Autumn made it onto halo because the covenant leader there thought it was too risky to fire on the ship since it was close to the ring, they might miss and hit the ring, damaging it. So instead they boarded it and hit it with smaller fighters.

3. so this isn't following halo2's story at all?

4. The chief is good but an entire invasion force? There would be too many even with human help they are heavily outnumbered, The humans are almost always outnumbered except for a few times.
Edited by adumbass on Jan 6, 2008 at 08:41 PM
Edited by adumbass on Jan 6, 2008 at 08:41 PM

This project sounds awesome.
Edited by Pingvinz on Jan 6, 2008 at 08:49 PM

1. In halo: the fall of reach, the covenant said their god sent them to wipe ut humanity.

2. Just after it was beaten up viciously in the battle of reach, those cruisers can take a lot of dammage.

3. Halo 2 sould have been completely on earth. So is this campaign.

4. What entire invasion force?

So still, do you want me to post the ending or find it out yourself?
Edited by someone not importiant on Jan 6, 2008 at 08:53 PM

1. Read contact harvest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_harvest I'm not 100% sure but the prophets made up that wipe out humanity stuff. The humans were detected as forerunner artifacts at first. In halo 1, 2 and 3 it seems they are way more interested in activating all the rings than hunting down humans.

2. There aren't many ships like the POA left in the first place. It doesn't matter if it can take a lot of damage, they would have blasted it to bits in seconds if it was not so close to halo.

3. If halo2 was completely on earth it would have seemed like a generic aliens invading earth game. The halo rings and flood are a big part of the story, the game is named halo after all.

4.

hmmmm if you want the covenant invasion to actualy be reasonable you would have to make there be different waves of covenant like in halo 2 you wouldnt fight like 30 elites you would only fight like 5 or 6 and then a phantom would come and bring more elites after about 3 phantom dropoffs you would have killed a good bit of covenant.

This is important because 1. your not invincible and you need time to recharge your shields
2.if you run out of amo your **** outa luck because you cant jus walk out into a battlefeild to pick up amo with 30 or 40 covenant shooting the crap outa you.
3.with that many AI throwing grenades and shooting would crete a lil slow down and minor lag
Edited by roxas3785 on Jan 6, 2008 at 10:40 PM

what is the order that the books go in? i might actually be interested in reading them but i want to make sure i do it in the right order.

The whole plot is on earth. Adumbass, this is not related to the plots of the other games, if I obeyed every single law of physics and every custom of the covenant, the campaign would be even worse.

thanks henry. so contact harvest is the last in the book series, and takes place before where Halo: Combat Evolved picks up right? sounds good. maybe ill get the books.

Chronollogically, Kiwi thinks Contact Harvest is the earliest.

becuase kiwis scentific like that too

well thats what i thought but he listed them in that order so i wasn't sure. maybe its like a prequel written after the other books. right?

Ya, it takes place 28 years before Halo CE, technically Fall of Reach is first. Contact Harvest seems to take place about the time Master Chief is 16 or so. Sargeant Johnson was a sargeant for 28 years, apparently. He holds a Battle Rifle on the cover, which is odd.
Edited by Kiwi on Jan 7, 2008 at 12:51 AM

Many problems with your story.

1) In the first mission you have the covenant trying to get data from the POA twin but then you have them trying to destroy it in mission 2. Wouldn't they still want the data?

2) In mission 3 the "Covie" ships weapons shouldn't be destroyed in its entry. It was made to do that.

3) If its a custom earth only campaign why are you modding multiplayer maps?