So, this is a fun mod and I love the premise, I just have a few nitpicks for feedback.

1. Encounters are pretty rough, especially with the vehicle sections in outskirts.

2. I feel like the hero in each mission doesn't take an active "leadership" role. As in, the player is required to walk into the next section when we've always seen chief and the arbiter doing that. I sat waiting in certain sections to see if the chief and arbiter would move forward (which is what they indeed do in vanilla) and I as the "supporting" character had to initiate the next sequence.

Encounters too difficult as an ODST

please make this a full campaign. I would pay for that

On the feedback side, I do have some notes which I hope will be helpful:
- Equipment is mapped to same button as visr, meaning it's used up every toggle.
- Some encounters are very difficult considering the ammo available. The initial holdout segment - having an engineer right off the bat at the first chokepoint was rough considering how small the area is + ODST reduction of bullet damage against shields + and how beefy the engineers are by default
- Chief gets stunlocked by drones. He pulls out his knife and just stands there
- Chief's pathfinding breaks down between sniper alley and the warthog.
- Because of H3 and ODST's vehicle damage mechanics, the vehicle section wrecked me. Plasma shreds player health in vehicles, which there are now more of. Enemies have increased range. The entrance to the highway resulted in a lot of deaths on normal with all the ghosts, Prowlers, and phantom. In the tunnel 4 of the cov bus bolts will kill me on Normal + their range is longer

Appreciate the sandbox mixes! Having the jackal shield, equipment using elites, pulse carbine, etc. makes it feel very fresh. That and fighting alongside the Chief!

@funnyAnyway Ah, me too Halo 2 remains my favorite, but, honestly if it's you who made the map from A to Z, gg to you again, it's rare, when I don't report anything negative about a mod, but gg to you bg, can't wait to see your other projects

@Sulli Thank you very much I am glad you think the mod is cool and well done! I put a lot of time and work into my mods and I am glad that people see that come through. I script, port, animate, and create everything myself I don't work with anyone else or like to use anyone else's tags or work. I am currently creating a huge update for my Halo 3 mod but will definitely come back around to this mod as Halo 2 is my favorite.

@pickle tickle Thank you very much I am glad you enjoy the vehicles and think they fit in. My goal is to first make things fun for the game but a close second is to have things make sense and look/feel like they would be in the Halo world.

Frankly, your mod is very cool, really well done. It feels like we’re right there with the referee. I don’t know if you made the whole map yourself, but congratulations! I hope a sequel is planned — I’m rubbing my hands already. 8/10.

i absolutely love what you did with this. especially the vehicles. they fit in so well and actually look like things id encounter in universe and not some random thing someone made.

ahh I see

@ryanbailes06 I was following the tradition of playing as a different unit from the first mission. I wanted it to kind of be the same story but from different perspectives and characters. Not entirely sure yet but I might have you play as a brute in some missions or a marine or something else. I don't want to make it feel too different than playing with the original characters but still something new and to bring in those new characters.

funny what made you have the player play as an zealot honor guard instead of arbiter

Love it. Plays a bit slowly, but considering it's fun, I don't mind too much

What I do mind is the elephant turning speed. Please put the turning speed and angle higher so I can properly ball out with the thing.

nope thats fine all your mods are good in there own way and i understand how hard it is with coding and the time it takes we all move at are own pace mods can have trial and error but that is what makes it interesting to play and fix every thing you have put in your mods are good in there own parts keep up the good work

@shortywendland Yeah sorry about that it's on my list of things to change in the next update but might not be for a while because I'm updating my Halo 3 mod a lot.

other then that 10/10 for envermental story telling

@Tj Thank you very much that means a lot and I'm glad you enjoyed the missions. It definitely does take a lot of time and work but I'm glad you could see that and it payed off by bringing you joy again for Halo!

the weapon trade for the cops still isnt tradable but is confusing because of the firendly allie spawn rate being more random

This... this is something I didn't think could ever be done, you added the best parts of every halo and made them work and feel like they were always suppose to be in one game, just playing the first level gave me so much joy and love for halo again, just like I remembered playing on the OG Xbox, I know this must have taken alot of work and time but to bring life back to halos story, I feel it is worth it, thank you for this

honestly love the ce halo 2 and halo 3 npcs dialogue it fits so well keep it up and hope the other maps come out

@Darkfyre Thanks for letting me know! It's because of the physics for the lich itself is blocking it. I need to adjust the physics model to allow players into that section more.

The heretic Lich side gunner seats have some sort of invisible wall, a co-op player cannot enter the gunner seats. You can blow up the guns and use them on the ground though. Would be nice if it was a co-op vehicle!

@kcgarcia26 Thank you very much I'm glad it looks good to you! Make sure to turn your gamma to 5.7 so it's not too dark if you play. For some reason MCC makes the level a lot darker than it actually is. I do want to keep working on the project and anything that anyone donates is greatly appreciated and helps support me to keep working on it. My current paypal is in the description of the mod. I honestly have been thinking about opening up a patreon and posting all my work in progress stuff and tutorials for people who want to learn and polls and all that. Just would need to know what people are interested in and make sure it's worth it for people. Thank you again!

bro i haven't played this yet but i love what your doing and it looks bad ass!! and if a payment is required then im on board

@Divinus Prime I am glad you're excited about it and I hope to but I have to take it one mission at a time. It's a lot of work and takes a lot of time to do it properly how I want to. Definitely plan to keep working on it a lot though.

DUDE PLEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSEE Make this a full campaign. I BEG YOU!

dw just played another odst mod yesterday that had equipment too so i just bound visr to down on the dpad

did you have making anothzer mods for halo?

very nice good job bro

good job, i had fun playing these missions, however, some turrets attached to the covenant vehicles need damage balancing.

What's the reasoning behind the low movement speed ramping up? Personally, I don't feel it adds to the experience.

I got stuck in outskirts when I jumped down the broken "crater" when you first fight all those jackal snipers. I think the low jump height is the crux of the issue.

@Big fish Thank you I'm glad you think the mod is so good! I definitely have to balance the shadow out some more and I need to move the crate that blocks the olifaunt by a hair haha.

@Bodyguard Thank you very much I'm glad you had fun with the mods and enjoy them all and appreciate the work that goes into them!

@Vaderfan1 You should just have to download this one it is the most updated and I marked the other as outdated.

@kelly fop Sorry about that I never really play with controller just because I use keyboard in all the tools. What is the equipment button in vanilla ODST?

@Jayzinski Make sure you're playing with anti cheat disabled and you're looking under the campaign for Halo 3 ODST NOT Halo 2.

How do you even play this mod? I can't get the missions to show up in my game.

pretty neat but equipment and visr are both bound to left bumper on controller 😭

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there's no audio

Wish these would all just be in one mod instead of having to download multiple different mods.

Man why is everything you make so freaking awesome lol. Loved fighting with Arbiter as another cool elite. Keep it up as always dude all your revamps are just such a blast to play with the crazy amount of work and effort you put into it.

Game freezes on the Arbiter level, after the door down into the diagonal square downward 'staircase', I play with 13 skulls on, on herioc or legendary. Its the point after you get reinforcements in the lobby and take out the 2 hunters... when moving down at the first bit / soon there after, some kinda glitch. Played 3 times, 3 freezes. I will try with Thunderstorm off now.

+++++ Absolutely incredible mod!
The encounters, new friendlies/enemy AI, deployables, weaponry and particularly the new vehicles were super fun. My first play was Legendary on both missions and Outskirts takes the cake for best level, much thanks to the extra pieces conveying the assault on Mombasa. Looking forward for more on this as there is not enough Halo 2 love.

Some opinions of mine:
- 'Shadow' vehicle becomes hard to board gunner seat and impossible to enter driver seat if allies drive.
- 'Shadow' takes obscene damage on Legendary, especially from Ghosts, Choppers and other 'Shadows' leading to very awkward hide & peek with allied AI. If no armor, you'll die in about 3-5 shots.
- Oliphant cannot pass through 'Scarab' scene blockade. </3
- Jump height as ODST feels way too restrained and compounds with the strange, new accelerating run speed.
- the run speed build-up as ODST; punishes strafing too often, has me hold W and use mouse for directions for best output.

@Falcon only one of the missions or both? I would try uninstalling the mod and verifying steam files for the game and then reinstall the mod. Also make sure anti cheat is off.

@12151209MS It's because I've added a whole new mission to it and if I just did an update of the old mod no one would see it except the people that still have the mod downloaded or favorited. I like to make it as a new upload that way anyone can see it that might have not played it the first time or have just already uninstalled the old mod so they can't see it had an update. All in all it just helps people see it so they can play if they want to.

i swear this is the third time you've did a revamp of this mod. any reason why u dont just update the old one instead of a completely new upload? no hate just curious lol

Hi, I crash as soon as I load this mod, is there any explanation for this?