borrowed from "doom"

Just giving you guys some ideas if you want to use old halo2 stuff.


The build's MainMenu, IMO, It was a lot better then the retail build's menu. This was simple, but slick looking.


My player model, It's got a cool emblem that was left out of retail, pictures of more emblems that didn't make retail are in the directory.


The problem I faced, everything was blocked except Xbox Live, and the Options menu's from the first picture.


This was my first glimpse of the beta maps, the very first time I got it to load right when I spawned, took a quick snapshot.


Network information, was pretty cool to see that it actually tracked all the info for LIVE and Local play.


The Halo 2 Flamethrower, Note the H1 HUD bitmap in the upper left hand corner. The flamethrower was mostly finished beside some hud issues, and the flame effect absolutly sucked, worse then the H1 PC flamethrower by far.


Flamethrower, as you can see, not perfect, sinking into the ground... or wheel in this case.


Can you say disintigrator? This was mostly finished too besides the fact that it lacked a texture. It acted like a Covie flamethrower in a sense, the actual effect was pretty nice. This uses the exact same arm animations as the sentinel beam did in the retail build of Halo 2.


A better view of the gun in general, whacked and took a quick picture.


Another view of it, managed to get it hanging off the edge, otherwise it would sink into the ground a bit, just like the flamethrower, so I tried to get a good shot of it as a whole.


One of the MANY glitches I found in the beta, if you walk forward and look down while facing a wall, you could see through it :P.


And who can't forget the mongoose? I'll describe how it was at this build of Halo 2 a bit later on.


All the vehicles actually in the beta, or is it? You will have to wait till a later time for me to show the last one, It's never been heard of, or revealed to the public... as far as I know o_o (And I know a lot)


MEGA BOOST! These crazy big flames shot out the sides of the wraith when you boosted, was pretty funny.
Moving along to different maps then zanzibar...


Different beam rifle scope, it also had some crazy glyphs running along the side, I thought it was pretty cool, but the oval was knida dull.


Sadly the beta had a fall timer, you fall for too long, you die. As you can see, this happend to me a few times.


Halo 1 reticule anyone? The main tank shell also had a bit of an arch in the beta, wasn't completly straight as it is in retail.


Some more mongoose's because I am sure a few of you would love to see as much as you can of them.


Spartan Bino's, I thought they were kinda cool.


Floating bruteshot? No Sword? D:


The big platform was really weird, it wasn't affected by the gravlifts below, and the gravlits didn't even affect a person, they were just for looks apparently. The platform moved really slow and you could stand on one side till it tilted all the way down, then you could run up it and jump off before it barley even moved back to normal, was slow and lethargic ;p


Health packs! Saw these floating around a few maps.


Weird light in the middle of lockout turned me blue, was kinda neat.


Can you spot what's missing? ; )


I don't remember these being lighted, so I took a picture of it, thought it was a nice touch.


The fully charged plasma pistol shot had a large splash radius, it kinda makes a little mushroom cloud that lingers for a few seconds. It would drain anyone's shields within quite a distance, as you can see, it took mine out.


No more plasma pistol punch, it seemed more or less like he slapped people with the thing o_o, guess that wasn't manly enough to keep in the final. Plasma pistol seemed like the most glitchy weapon in the whole beta though, I'll detail it later.


More dinking around with the mongoose in the secret labratory o_o, it's wur secrhetz hide.


More mongoose.

old.

Eh, these are just from that site that someone (Lone I think, might have been Nugga) posted a link to. It's in the vehicle WIP topic.

Read his post. Just here for references and brainstorming

Does anyone ever care about Halo2 anymore?

The dates on the screenshots are pretty recent but halo 2 beta isnt really special anymore. Anyone with a modded xbox 1 can get it from xbins.

What no Falcon?

Pity we only saw a drivable human flying vehicle in Halo 3......... If they did not take out the falcon then............ Less people saying SHEE NOOB?

Was this a multiplayer beta, like the Halo 3 beta? I got into Halo 2 late tbh
Edited by Marka Haiyana on Mar 30, 2009 at 08:40 AM

Yep this was the multiplayer LIVE beta

Well I'm sure it's new to some people, so why don't you grow up and don't post unless you have something constructive to say?

Scott, you have an xbox1 dev kit? Or did you get it to run on a retail console?

whered u get this beta? i want to try it out :D

It was a LIVE beta so you won't be able to try it out. Unless there is a torrent and you illegally modded you Xbox but even then I doubt you could play it.

:(

beta looks alot better than actural

i Think is impossible to make Ui.

Any weapons and vehicles.
Is possible just someone Like to much on Halo 2
Edited by zanghfei mac on Mar 30, 2009 at 08:05 PM

Tell.

i think the hornet and apc used to be in halo2
might be wrong

The Falcon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgh0FHnPOo

So have alot of people...I was pointing out that the vehicle this guy thinks is a big secret is actually well known.

Scott is just parroting what Doom has already posted, CV knows a lot more than either of them.

I never said I was sherlock.

Yo cho"c"king victim what up...
anyways I was wondering what does the desintigrator actually do?

I'm happy the Falcon was cut. It doesn't really look like an aircraft that can hover like the hornet. It would have looked really close to the Pelican if it did.

I'm surprised nobody's tried to recreate the disintigrator.

I thought about making it, but it doesn't look to pretty. Looks more flood than anything.

Wait, those pictures were taken very recently... it appears he's signed into Live as well

How did he not get banned?

Maybe he played it on the old Xbox with the old Live.

The halo 2 beta can only be played on an xbox 1 dev kit. Dev kits use an alternate network called partnernet, not xbox live. That's why he wasn't banned.

can you pm me on how to get one choking victim?

I think thats ilegal lol
Edited by pwner5889 on Apr 3, 2009 at 06:36 PM

Okay, I figured as much. I knew about dev kits and partnernet, I figured that was the case.

My copy of the beta doesn't let me sign in :saddowns:

Maybe he participated in the Beta, and has it. Or he modded an xbox file to reobtain it.

It was leaked from bungie a long time ago, and you need to have the devkit xbox, as well as the files. people arrn't going to just hand out the beta files though.

unless you beg and plead or somehow get super friendly with one that has them.