Cause I made a promise to people

You're the hero we deserve.

No, you are.
*hands project files over*

Good luck

I would have totally wanted to help finishing this a year ago, but seeing as I am liking working on custom stuff a lot more than porting maps I sadly don't feel like doing it anymore.

So this is on permanent hiatus. I'll work on it here and there but don't expect major updates. Takedown is my main focus. I'll finish this someday but today (or in a few months) won't be that day.

I'll release source files of what I have once they get cleaned up.
Edited by MatthewDratt on Dec 17, 2016 at 10:20 PM

Oh boy you know what that means.
Halo Reach styled Halo 3 Campaign {h2}{H4}
Edited by EtchyaSketch on Dec 17, 2016 at 11:26 PM

I hope one day someone make a REAL Halo Reach style campaign. With proper enemies, weapons, animated crosshires, widescreen oriented hud, armor abilities (like SPV3 did) etc. and with Open Sause. Not just "PUT THIS TAGS TO THIS MAP OLOLOLOLO!!! I HAVE HALO SOMETHIG STYLE CAMPAIGN WITH LOT OF GLITCHES AND BUGS BUT WHO CARES I DID IT!!!".
Edited by HeyPiRon on Dec 18, 2016 at 02:07 PM

Bungie made a real Halo Reach style campaign. They called it "Halo Reach" and released it for Xbox 360.
Edited by DeadHamster on Dec 18, 2016 at 02:53 PM

Not for Halo 1, not for PC.
P.S. *whisper* I have Halo Reach and Xbox 360.

If Ms didnt halo 2 vista as it is it would be easy to port h3 and hr to it, why? because the h2 blam! doesnt have any of these annoying limitations.

If Ms didnt released halo 2 vista as it is it would be easy to port h3 and hr to it, why? because the h2 blam! doesnt have any of these annoying limitations.
Edited by Halonimator on Dec 18, 2016 at 10:37 PM

I don't talking about PORTING HR campaing to H1 (or H2). I talk about proper "styled" H1 campaign. With real innovations and proper visuals. Complete transition from HR to H2.
P.S. *end offtopic*
Edited by HeyPiRon on Dec 19, 2016 at 11:13 AM
Edited by HeyPiRon on Dec 19, 2016 at 11:14 AM

HR uses a completely different enjin...tho so I doubt it would be as easy as you claim it to be.

W/E

Respect for this decision

Any updates on this?

I think that Matt has said release date was some time after his Takedown series. Quite honestly, we're both involved in our projects or those of others to which we have committed.
Edited by Jesse on Apr 1, 2017 at 03:22 PM

so.... today?

I respect that.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/npqcig4213i13w4/010_jungle_Handoff_6.28.17.rar/file

If someone has motivation to finish it let me know and I'll hand off max files. Otherwise project is ded

well that's sad

Am I the only one where the map gets stuck in the cutscene just after Johnson pulls out the chip of Cortana? Chief and Johnson suddenly disappear but I still see a floating cigar, the sound goes on but eventually when it's finished nothing happens

What even are readmes

Thanks

I've played it now, it was a short, but fun playthrough. Definitely one of the most beautiful single player maps out there, I can see why it took so much effort, good stuff
Edited by lolslayer on Sep 27, 2018 at 05:30 PM

I always see big beautiful projects like this being cancelled, what is it that kills them? Is there some process that is too time consuming and tedious that takes all the fun out of it?

well tool is not very friendly in general and once the motivation is lost no one wants to continue hoping tool wont screw you over after spending hours on something.

You start working 60 hours a week and between Takedown, Sierra, and CE3/HMU you really narrow down what is still fun to work on. Sierra would have had a lot more motivation still if I had done my original idea before Adjutant came out, which would have been to "remake" Sierra 117 kinda like how TSC:E is TSC instead of just a straight rip
Edited by MatthewDratt on Dec 6, 2018 at 11:59 PM

Matt can I ask, what exactly isn't done with Sierra 117? You already have the bsp, textures, halo 3 weapons, bipeds etc.

Is it the encounters? Scripts?

BSPs aren't done yet. Scripting and placing encounters is the next big thing. The last BSP is going to be a big pain. If someone could do that, really only left is scripting stuff in which shouldn't be terribly hard. Some issues also result of theres so much fking scenery that AI in H1 are stupid and just run into everything

Oh...OH... What was I smoking? Must have been a dream.

Yeah I seemed to of learned that the hard way... Me and my buddies have been working on some campaign missions and... Well our encounters and some of the scenery placements have been behaving... VERY strangely...

Imagine if Halo was like Fallout modding. NAVMESHING. Pain in the ass making triangles all around an area but my god, does it work flawlessly...

When you say the last BSP isn't done and is going to be a big pain, are you referring to Sapien or 3DS max?

Porting the last area with the structure over from H3 > Max > Tool. It just suxs

Well if anybody would finish the rest of it, I would be willing to look into the last BSP section for 3DS max alone.

But I'm also not just going to do that for no reason. So if somebody is interested in legitimately doing this let me know.

Oh oh oh! Let me guess... RED TRIANGLES! I wish there was a better alternative to Tool. Has anyone ever used the Far Cry map creators or Fallout GECK or Creation Kits? IMAGINE being able to simply mod Halo just like that... Ahhh everything would be right in the universe...

Ahh, engine bugs galore. Like in FO3/New Vegas, weapons that fire non-hitscan projectiles with explosions attached to them (e.g. missiles) will deal no impact damage. Or weapons that had the 'Ignore damage threshold/resistance' flag didn't actually ignore damage threshold/resistance, meaning that your sweet, mean chainsaw didn't do as much damage that it normally would if that flag actually worked. It was only until 6-8 years later that a third party plugin fixed these things, and a whole bunch of other things too.

The GECK editor is OK...when it doesn't crash at least. Plus, you have to make INI edits to allow it to load multiple master files. At this point, the geck extender plugin is pretty much essential for efficient use of the GECK.

The world editing tools are quite nice, quite easy for a beginner like myself to learn how things work, but the animation department could use significant work (as just one example, there is actually a limit - may or may not be hardcoded - as to how many reload animations total can be used in the game). Creators of custom weapons must keep into account animation compatibility, and even now years later, there's still not much documentation about how animations work in Fallout's Gamebryo, although there have been strides with some reanimation packs being released.

But yeah, I guess if Halo's SDK was similar to the GECK it'd open up modding to a wider community. Years ago I took a look at the HEK and was like '...lol nope.'