I play it once in awhile. It's a complete overhaul of a mission, either way. And it's an amazing mission on it's own.

Replay-ability is peak. And so is this.

Much obliged.

*no time -- "now time" also works though

Wait people still play this after the actual chapter came out? Just joking, check back in an hour and resubscribe, I'll have this back up and running in now time

Sorry to pester but I think the mod needs updating to work again after the newest MCC update.

this is a super interesting interpretation. real or not in the beta, more heretics always are appreciated

it's alright

Had a really great time with this one! My favorite part was the soundtrack selection, every song worked was placed phenomenally. Encounters were really fun and nearly all the additions are amazing!

I have three nitpicks tho:
1) You are given way too many allies that it erases any sense of challenge whenever they are with you. I'd say cut down about a third and it would feel less like the game is playing itself (although it did lead to some pretty cool moments).
2) I hate shielded grunts, which is just a personal thing. Giving them a shield goes against their design philosophy in my opinion. I say forgo the shield and bump up their health a tad.
3) The end kinda fizzled out. The large group of heretic hunters and sword elites kinda took my out of the experience. That's the one encounter I'd rework because it feels out of place.

Other than those three things, outstanding job! Best of luck in future endeavors.

@Checkpoint Guard Some more adjustments to the new heretic spectre's FX

Ooo, saw this update. Anything new or just bringing it up to date?

No problem! Hope everything works out

Sorry about the update delay guys, I've been having some pretty bad internet problems lately. As soon as it clears up I'll be sure to get this up and running again

map needs to be updated to work.

can you update the mod please

needs some fixes pretty cool tho

Yeah I wanted to try and imply that the Heretics dug too deep when they were excavating Halo's wreckage and whatever flood biomass might have survived formed the Juggernauts there. I'd like to figure out a way to convey that idea a lot better later down the line

Mission was a banger, hoping we can see the Sacred Icon tie in sometime as well. Only weird things to me were the presence of several Juggernauts but no regular Flood, and the surprising lack of humans up until the very end. 9/10 will play again.

Update coming

Would love to play this mod, but it doesn't seem to show up unfortunately.

Map no longer shows up due to the recent bug with the MCC

Nice work Sgt Stacker! I really loved all the cut weapons/vehicles/NPC's. I wonder if there'd be any way to rework Halo 2 to somehow add this level to the campaign in between The Oracle and Delta Halo like how it was supposed to be in the old Halo 2 storyboards, though I guess it wouldn't make much sense to have essentially the same level twice.

I noticed a few bugs:
I tried driving the Heretic Spectres but none of the NPC's would hop on them with me.
I saw a Brute riding on the side of Halfjaw's Specter after they were dropped in and he was pulling a T-pose, do these Brutes not have an animation for riding shotgun?
Maybe it's just me, but the Fuel Rod Specter gunner REALLY sucks at aiming, I imagine this is to compensate for it being OP but I don't think it ever hit anything smaller than a Wraith, I would sit completely still and wait for him to hit something but he always fired way off to the side. The bois riding shotgun wound up doing most of the heavy lifting in combat.

I've noticed the AI just stands around and stops working at times. Is this a known issue? There's also some other issues like the Sentinel Needler using H2U's HUD positioning, Miranda pulling out SMGs to start with the cutscence but then switching to PRs. And other things. I'd say the mod also has problems with being too difficult, but maybe that's just vanilla Halo 2 Heroic doing me in. I also find it hard to really understand what's going on. I appreciate the effort you put into this, though. And all the assets you made for it/put into it.

Oooo, are you gonna make Delta Halo and Regret in the same style as what you had for Alphamoon? Or a different theme, but with the same groups involved? Either way, I really look forwards to it. You've made some really good mods, with the scale of battle much bigger, I look forwards to seeing the scale of these new ones too.

I have that in mind for a mod of Delta Halo and Regret that I wanna do

No problem! I'd like to hear what you think about my ideas as well if you'd be interested in something like that? Or expanding the Humans in this mod at all beyond the very end? I think it'd be a fun mixture to have Heretics and Humans fighting the Covenant, throughout the whole mission.

Ah whoops, I think it's because the old heretic spectres were just the covenant ones with the "damaged" permutation applied to them. I'll get that fixed up right now, thanks for letting me know!

Update seems fine on the most part, the changes makes sense, and the Heretic Spectre looks nicer. Only thing that seems off, is the area that has the Covenant Shadow after you leave the Sentinel Foundry, a few of the Heretic Spectres are without their guns, spawning in. Besides that though, everything seems good.

Even if there's a problem with making a 1st person model work, could even do it in 3rd person. Lot of mods are doing that lately, but it works well!

Update's working fine, gotta say, this mod's outstanding. Gives me a fun idea, honestly. Imagine this mod from the human's point of view, given this is sort of 'debunked,' non-canon stuff, it'd be fun to play as maybe a Marine or an ODST survivor from Installation 04, communicating and working with the Heretics fighting against the Covenant, like 343 suggested them to do in that one anniversary terminal, the story more or less going along the lines as the Heretic Leader agreeing with him, and doing so. Probably would be difficult though, as it'd make sense for the mission to start at the end and go to the beginning, map-wise, but I'm sure starting from the same point and going to the end just like in the normal mission could work, too.

Thanks for letting me know, there's a new update coming as soon as I'm done playing through it and making sure everything's working. Hang in there!

I'm getting infinite intro scenes, no matter if I skip it or let it play, it plays the intro again and again.

Alright, to try and avoid having to remake this I updated it through Excession. Fingers crossed that this works

God, it's even worse than I thought. I'll have to completely remake the entire thing because of this scenario resource crap.

@Revenant MK II
Yeeeeah, unfortunately it's gonna take a little while longer to update this. Halo 2's editing kit has a terrible "resource" system, which basically means that if you make a copy of a map and edit it, your backup will end up broken because of it. So I basically have to remake all the AI encounters from the ground up before I can update it.

Is this mod still inaccessible? Not showing up the Halo 2 Modded campaign menus.

Thank you for your patience folks, I'm having all sorts of internet problems right now that are preventing me from uploading the fix to make this playable with the new MCC update.

In other news: With how well-received this has been, I'm considering making a heretic-themed mod for Sacred Icon to go with this

@Kialda Nope, this is 100% on my end. I'll update it to work once I figure out why my H2 Guerrilla keeps crashing on launch

i could be missing something obvious here, but it is not showing up in my campaign menu.
either that, or maybe the mcc july update broke it
i have subsribed and running with no eac

Awesome Mod

Epic! Keep up the great work!

Keep up the good work i really like the way your going with this

I absolutely love this mod, debunked or not, a whole campaign with this level of overhaul would probably be the 'go-to modded Halo 2' experience, above even Vengeful's.

wow, what a complete clusterfuck.
10/10

@Sgt Stacker I just tried it right now on nexus, and i think the recent update broke the mod yet again :/

Mcc really be makin it difficult

@B U F F Y The one on the mod nexus might still work, I'll be happy to re-upload it there if not though

You gonna drop a manual copy of this by any chance? I love this mod and i wanna try and change some stuff in assembly

Okay, whatever you did seems to have gotten it working.

I have no issues when i played 4 days ago or so, perfect mission loved it 100%

Can anyone else confirm the issues with it?

That's weird, I updated it and it popped back up on my end.