To combination of the mist in high charity, plus the plasma weapons occasionally creating a striking contrast, and showing slight silhouettes of the flood was terrifying when you had no idea where you were.

tbh, I found the gameplay in H2 to be really monotonous

The only part that really stood out to me was fighting the flood inside the quarantine zone

Flood were very challenging in Halo 2 and also fun to play against. I don't know why alot of people say Halo 2 is very bad gameplay wise, to be honest I thought it was one of the best. Of course it had its issues here and there but overall it was an amazing game.

I loved it for things like Easter Eggs and tricking. (IWHBYD SKULL....SO MUCH FUN...)
And I love that Halo 2's library wasn't as annoying as the original.

If you are actually planning on doing the Arbiter missions (truthfully), then I have something that I recommend you should put in there;

In the Arbiter's missions throughout Halo 2's campaign, the player never fought against the UNSC troopers. I think that this was a major flaw, because if it really was supposed to be a genuine experience from the Covenant perspective, then the Arbiter should have fought the marines in game at least once.

That's my opinion, and I think it'd be good to implement a battle against human foes in H2SPP's Arbiter missions (assuming they'll really be done like kirby suggested, and it's not just some joke).

I think Bungie just wanted to avoid confusing the player, or creating some sort of dislike in playing the arbiter.

Yeah, there are no plans currently to do arbiter missions, but I agree it was silly for bungie to let you play as the Arbiter and not fight humanity.

this, plus killing the good guys doesn't strike me as being something that would've been a popular interest among the designers of halo 2. Not only is it kind of heartless but it is counter productive to be killing members of the faction you've been fighting to save for two games already.

But then again I'm the kind of guy who has never purposely killed one of his own marines ingame, so the whole idea of fighting unsc to me is kind of disgusting.

That would actually be a very interesting concept.

There have been other video games where the player takes the role of villains and performs that very task.



But that was one of the main missions the Covenant had (Arbiter included) at the time period that the Arbiter levels take place.




If that were to be the case though, I don't think those humans should be UNSC personnel, because I think they were informed of the scale of the Flood's threat, and instructed to eliminate any Flood form they find instead of experiment with them, right?

Either way, that's a decent idea, and I doubt anyone would protest against this if those humans weren't good guys in the first place.

There have many cases where humans decide to try and control something they clearly can't (in video games and in real life)


Dead Space: Tried to control/understand the Marker
Halo:ONI member tries to study and control the Flood on the Mona Lisa
Edited by Dumb AI on Apr 9, 2013 at 11:54 PM

^Alien series. There are always the 'behind the scene' characters who would secretly attempt to 'capture' and 'experiment' with a xenomorph. I'm sure the same can be said about the UNSC.

well, it's a new halo ring (and it has been shown that the rings cannot contact each other anymore)

I don't see any reason as to why they wouldn't be with you

probably greet you with the same disposition as 343

but 2401 is kinda corrupted, and he leads the alpha halo sents

Meaning it'd be likely that he would also instruct them to attack the humans?

Bump.
Put overshields and active camo in the campaign like Halo 1.

I think the OP already stated that he's planning on putting many elements from Halo 1 in these maps, seeing as how he suggested that Halo 2 had significant flaws in most areas. The lack of overshields and active camo (minus the Arbiter's missions) might be one of the things he was hinting at.

The CMT tagset is the one being used, and the encounters are going to be different than they were in Halo 2, of cours things are gonna be added and or removed.

CMT and Classic. Also due to recent developments, we will be doing a H2ish version as well.

Wootwoot! This is what we wanted... lol

This is what the Halo map community has waited for for centuries!!!
Finally, we're able to make it possible

Btw, will there be fake ragdoll physics for death anims? I want to see my spartan slide, flip and smash her head into the earth, everytime she dies. That was the beauty of Halo 2/3.
Edited by AllySuzumiya on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:31 AM

Didn't Kornman manage to make fake ragdoll anims for deaths with OS?
http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?10685-OpenSauce-SDK-for-Halo-CE-1.08

The way you make fake ragdoll death anim's is by going into 3ds max and create a ragdoll for the MC model. Experiment, get some good shot's, export and compile. And ingame they look like real ragdolls. Until they're on the ground and shooting\hitting them does nothing. Lol. But it's the closest you can get.

Waffles beat me to it :P
Edited by grunt_eater on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM

To be honest, the authenticity doesn't bug me. I wouldn't be bothered in the slightest if I saw them used in people's maps. And I know it's 5 years old. It's age isn't relevant but the topic is.

Let's not fight about ragdoll physics. Even if it is relevant to the topic (seeing as how this was a blatant part of Halo 2's game play), arguing about it is going to make this thread un-enjoyable, and it might make Dennis lock the thread.

And that of course, would be a major bummer, seeing as how a few are looking forward to seeing updates on these maps.

I know this is a bit off-topic, but what about the easter eggs, and skulls on Halo 2? Like the grunt birthday party skull for example. Is there any way to implement that? And if so were you going to include them?

It will depend. Sorry for the lack of updates everyone. We will have something to show soon, and I promise it will result in O_O.

O_O

0_0

Can't wait to see what it is...
Edited by klasher1000 on Apr 30, 2013 at 02:49 PM

0_0

I can't wait either.

O_o

Just because everyone else is doing it.

Many "0_0"s just happened in a row

O_O

Someone is going to combo break this.

Just cus

o_0

I hope for good update