(my gamma is fairly high - 7.5). Enemies are still hard to discern

It's like a nice mashup of T&R + Silent Cartographer!

Pros:
- I really like the custom cutscenes
- Nice atmosphere
- Creative use of old geography
- Engineers drop overshield
- Plenty of sniper ammo with high capacity (80+ rounds!)

Cons:
- I know it's meant to be dark to take advantage of night vision, but the enemies seem hyper aware of me in the dark, whereas I can only see them when scoped. Hunters, Zealots, Fuel Rod Grunts, Turrets.
- Many zealots...perhaps too many

Interesting re-use of an existing mission. Gets pretty difficult but I had fun.

Holy crap this is hell good. Fresh encounters on a classic map. Halo CE just keeps on giving.

thank you

@sniper945 for the xmas tree and grunts to spawn you must keep all marines alive on legendary, then after elevator you will earn bottomless clip to have fun on the respawning dudes on your way up to the survivor, the xmas tree is one floor under the survivor.

I agree tbh, if you can beat it easily on legendary, what the hells the point of even playing it on that difficulty

it's supposed to make you wanna scream

Interesting map. Is there a way to find the Christmas tree?

@leonardingus IV not unless you make the custom animations for it, then i would as bonus content for letting all marines die

can gay sex be added

I added support for splitscreen coop hacks, Did i break anything doing so?

In coop, after the cutscene with the elevator, I get stucked out of bounds, without possibility of moving, shooting or launching grenades to respawn near teammate. Gamebreaking

Oh and I was thankful for the sniper marines. They were the only reason I was able to take out the wraith and clear sections where enemies surprised us. Also the plentiful sniper ammo spread around, godsend.

Really awesome! Played through on legendary and kept all my guys alive. Well... I lost one because the wraith spat out one more shot a second before it died but that doesn't count. I love a nice challenge with cool, new encounters. I do wish I could've used other weapons, I did use the pistol but extremely sparingly. I also wish there was a rocket launcher or something for the wraith lol. Had to flank wide around and spam it with all of my plasmas and then cross my fingers that my sniper would be able to finish it quickly. So close to keeping all my boys alive

This was a pretty unique and fun mission! For everyone ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about how dark it is, go into settings, video, scroll down to video settings, select gamma, than adjust the sliders as you see fit
Anyways again this was really fun!

Darkness make it harder to see increasing the difficulty.

@hexthat how is lowering the difficulty going to make the darkness any better? Maybe increase the light strength in the mission or increase the brightness of the flashlight.

People complaining too dark even with the flashlight 3x normal distance.... just for you I recommend playing on easy. Legendary is supposed to be impossible, why it is called "impossible" internally... just cause everyone makes noob friendly maps dont mean im going to break what tiny bit of challenge this is. IMO if 100,000 players play a map less then 10,000 should beat it on legendary.

way too dark and is way too reliant on the sniper, the elite spam was not very fun and forces you to pick them all off from a distance before anything else.

Mini mission is a good idea

I'm glad others enjoyed it, I watched my cousin do a play through and the end is way too empty so ill be adding to this before moving onto my next map.... next map will be kind of boring ( you just drive around delivering different stuff)

Liked this mission! I am looking forward to playing any more custom missions that you release for us. Keep up the good work!

After some fixes and lowering the difficulty to normal this mission is playable
I really like the concept and the work you put into this and I really really appreciate the people who put up into making custom missions for halo CE
keep it up! ^^

I really liked the darkness tbh, made me rely on my wits more than anything, looking for subtle glow of armor lights and weapon lights, too often most night time stuff just looks like a cloudy day, but this is more what id expect from night time illuminated barely by a gas giant XD, the way it's reflected in the ocean is awesome

I just felt like sharing this, at one time there was 9 zealots in that spot in legendary but i had to cut it down to 5... i kept running out of ammo

The first snipe battle is far less then was commissioned he wanted it very hard and lots and lots of dudes to snipe, but halo 1 engine just cant handle.... id throw nades and they would just disappear with no boom... the original concept was going to have you keep the marines till the very end but they die too easy and kill themselves making it near impossible... as the mission is now its actually possible to unlock the grunt xmas party....

there is a small firefight like part of the map if you are able to keep all your marines alive, if you can do it on legendary then you can unlock the grunt xmas party

The flashlight's visible range is so short that I can't see at all.

Did you try using your flashlight to walk around?

yeah it is

Game is so dark I can only move using sniper night vision

I like the concept and everything but 5 zealots and no marines ain't fun.