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A cap for the wheel makes sense. But when I was younger to me, I thought it looked like some sort of hot dropped equipment pod, like a bigger version of what Reach/H2/H3's weapon pods are like.

I just wish the source file wasn't interlaced and didn't have screen tearing, could've squeezed a tiny bit more detail out of it. But yea word on the mombasa streets is we might get to see the digsite release before the end of the year.

I know, if I remember their reason correctly I think they said "old console and smart tv was hard enough to connect and it doesn't connect with our current day recording equipment" or something like that. People have been recording original xbox gameplay for decades, all it would of took is a simple google search, or even ask some content creators. Doesn't help that this was the only time they messed with it, and they acted like derpy children playing xbox for the first time.

That structure was meant to act like the forerunner ship taking off and you in a warthog would of driven at it just before the cutscene starts.

hmm, checking with the camera I don't see any evidence of some map overlay. The map in the end cutscene is the same as the one at the very beginning. Looking at your video I'm guessing that the cutscene has some trigger and scripting stuff affecting those things. Also keeping in mind that from the gameplay to cutscene, your player character gets teleported away somewhere, so that might also play a part also.

I also yearn, luckily, the word on the halo block is we wont have to wait that much longer. Apparently the target for the digsite e3 demo is sometime before the end of the year. I wonder if they'll have the release on the Halo 2 launch anniversary.

Nah, the space hole is a separate thing. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm guessing it's to do with how the reflection works, I bet it's because its basically an image that's sort of like the camera texture like when you see Johnson talking to Arbiter in that one cutscene but more like a fake version of the parallaxing reflections you'd see in the anniversary. I think those sort of textures were a bit taxing on the original Xbox. Well actually, I just checked with Uprising, the weird zooming reflections do happen on that levels water also just less noticeable because no ship. If I remember I'll show it off in the great journey vid. Also anniversary graphics technically does have a ship reflection but it's so so muted like its barely even their. But yea, I'm currently editing high charity so that'll be up soonish™, I try to upload these just before the weekend.

I've just seen your comments, so that "Cube" is actually just the interior section inside before the bridge, anniversary graphics are always loaded just teleported in when needed, even the interior of the boss fight is not that far away from it. It's actually a lot further down than it seems into the ground. Off screen animations happen like that usually because it's just easier with scripting to leave a certain animation looped instead of making them stop then teleport away and then back and then onto the next animation. Just a little dev laziness that doesn't hurt the end result.

@@JustinsaneS222 Cool, hope it's worth showing when you make the vid. Ha, lazy devs. I was hoping it was going to be some inhouse Bungie joke. Who could make the wackiest off screen animations lol.

@slobsky7237 I didn't even know about the regret one. But yea, I just had a quick look for the cube on great journery, I could only see the one in the sky. I might end up making a "things I missed" video after the great journey is done.

@@JustinsaneS222 Someone made a wireframe vid on Regret's cube back in the day but it's awkward to see. GJ cube is under the water near the bridge. A missing items vid is a great idea. There's a green orb on top of the temple on Regret. The cubes coordinates collection vid would be perfect for me.

oh, that green orb I've known about for a while, It's apparently a temp biped for regret who is wielding a plasma pistol, someone made a video already going into detail about it: th-cam.com/video/9V8OmK_GGJ8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=BCbPQIbn1Pxe7qFg But when I do make my 'things I missed' video I got a few ideas to keep things interesting for when I get to that. Also, to the best of my ability, I couldn't hunt down that cube on great journey, I went into the mod tools which brings up the wireframe when you go out of bounds and I saw no cube under the water near the bridge, I tried looking at different stages of the level and still no cube. If there's a video that can point me into the right direction I would appreciate it.

@@JustinsaneS222 Yeah, I've seen that orb vid, even left a comment on there. GJ cube is at 3' 05" on DrBizz vid. th-cam.com/video/cPxTY-20aVw/w-d-xo.html

@@JustinsaneS222 GJ cube at 3' 03" on DrBizz vid. th-cam.com/video/cPxTY-20aVw/w-d-xo.html

I had a 30second version but yea I thought, since I went through all that effort, I need to do it right. Happy Bungie Day.

If that meant getting paid to point out all the bad decisions, I'd give that a go. Halo tv show would be immediately cancelled.😆

@@JustinsaneS222 fr man. All they care about is booty cheeks, breaking lore and "representation"

@greenbean2222 nah, I quit 😆 As a lazy person, you can trust me when I say this is all the effort I had reserved for this year. 💀

Yea, spoilers those building are what you see is what you get. I think I do check them out in low poly mode like that in the next one I think. I was trying to keep to the level areas so I still had stuff to show in the next one.

@@JustinsaneS222 Haven't checked your next vid, yet, but Regret doesn't have 2 maps for the lake buildings, where we can explore the map in either loadzone, I think. On DH map 1, there's small rooms inside for trickers to break into (I found and entered both in SP). The rooms are visible in both graphics. I love it when you enter a room/tunnel, follow it to the end, clip through the final wall and renter room. It's the exact way I want it done, most don't do that but thankfully you do it for most rooms, awesome work.

@@slobsky7237 I had a quick check, I think I see what rooms you're talking about. If I remember correctly I think I might of missed them because the first time going through I either wasn't recording or something broke I don't remember, and so I think I was rushing it a little. I've had that happen like 2 or 3 times. I also try to rush some areas just to keep the recording length down.

@@JustinsaneS222 No worries, it's easily done. Most will probably find the vids too long, so, understandable to keep an eye on the time length. For me, as a tricker, they're almost perfect. Watching loads of community vids and putting tons of my own experimental work in, means I know 95% of the game. Could have done with your vids when I first started. Still, I'm loving them and even learning the odd thing. Keep 'em coming...

@slobsky7237 I'm not too sure what you're referring to. Are you talking about the cutscene area in the beginning? With that, that first area is completely separated by a BSP change, which means it's kinda its own level/map. Also, in the case of the skybox in the arbiter level, the skybox is a visual one, sort of like the sky is being green screened with the sky being rendered on it, it's on a different rendering layer basically. I think this only happens when they don't change the sky, hence the bsp change for the cutscene, and the sky is covering 360° of view like the space ones. Hopefully, that sheds some light. And hopefully, that was accurate. 😄

@@JustinsaneS222 Tbf, I don't know what I'm talking about, either lol. Should've said cube instead of box, sorry. I thought every level would need a physical cube that is hidden away somewhere but there doesn't appear to be one Cairo. Does it have a cube or is it camouflaged/invisible? Also, are they known as dev cubes or other?

Oh, generally speaking Dev Cubes would be the "gamers speak" for them, in this specific instance in the centre of the level the cube is just a reference point because a lot of stuff happens in the level, also in case you weren't aware the levels that use the same map were once intended to be an entire level, so that dev cube in the middle despite not having a reason or is needing to be in arbiter, it is because of the level oracle later when the map changes and the place starts falling and stuff like that. So yeah, dev cubes only show up for specific reasons, and aren't in every level. Typically it would make sense to have them not rendered but if the player/camera can't see them there's no real reason to make it harder for the dev that was making the level.

@@JustinsaneS222 Thanks. Always suspected the levels that use the same map were intended as one. First time I've heard someone say it, though. Right, onto the next vid...

@Ersymondequartiere312 I will get there eventually, im basically done with everything Halo 3 I think, Halo 1 & 2 stuff is just around the corner.

@slobsky7237 yea, scarab gun beam visuals and getting an angel to see anything just ain't gunna happen. Honestly though, that elite really should have been garbage collected, I got no idea how it was able to stick around nor do I remember/could see going back in the recording where that elite might have come from. Also, moving those phantoms sucked, spent like 2 hours figuring it out, it sucked even more when they fell.

@@JustinsaneS222 Great, I won't have to grab the S-gun for shooting the ball. Saved me some precious time, thanks. That's H2 for you, always half broken lol. Yep, welcome to tricking, nothing worse when long experiments fail. I once spent 7 hrs smashing several boxes around on Armory and I couldn't use the one custom CP until I got them to the required destination. Got them to where I needed, a few hits later and one box killed me lol, true story.

Yeah, was having too much fun exploring on this one that I forgot to check the rooms, but after I had already uploaded I just figured "eh, surely people would already know about those"

@@JustinsaneS222 Yeah, it looks fun. I'm confident you knew about them as you've probably done some practice runs before filming.

Green orb is the plasma pistol glow, as the entire model has its rendering just turned off. Red orb, I guess is just for the mood lighting. So I'm not 100% sure for all, but for certain cutscenes in Halo 2, it's been found that assets do load in one other default area somewhere and then teleported into position. But I'm sure there are a few cutscenes that just spawns them in the area when needed as I'm pretty sure that's how the Halo 1 cutscenes worked.

@@JustinsaneS222 Damn, I'm trying to use a nade chain reaction bomb during the cutscene to see if I can destroy or move the bipeds. Not sure they stay there or get moved.

If you're talking about your player model during the cutscene, then no. Basically nothing can kill it unless it can be forced into a kill barrier somewhere, but nothing really happens when you kill it, the game just respawns the player again if the scripts calls for it to move it or something. At least I think that's how it works. Also I'm pretty weapons/grenades get delete/despawned when the cutscenes start. But cutscene models are definitely killable though, the body usually just disappears the moment they died.

@@JustinsaneS222 DrBizz said similar for player models, he read in the scripts that they're invincible. When Cairo CS starts playing, it can even revert to last CP in some circumstances when we try to manipulate it. On QZ CS, I placed the auto firing SMGs to shoot the hidden Arbiter biped, looks like it might have killed him because it skips to the Gravemind scene. I've got the nade chain reaction to work on Cairo CS, nothing major happening so far but try to mess with Delta Halo CS, it will show a loading percentage screen while it cancels/resets any foreign/moved objects, same with Armory CS. Some CS do allow weapons in them. On Cairo, QZ and Uprising, I've got betrayal fights, NPCs floating and even full on battle scenes with some enemies in vehicles. All done w/o mods I might add. Take a look if you want, think you'll enjoy them.

It could've been just cut due to time constraints.

I was the same, hoping someone would do it. And not just quick glances at areas but actually have a good look. I had a good idea for Halo ce which I used, but basically no idea for the later games.. I thought maybe mods/mod tools? Luckily there exists just one person developing a camera tool that was intended to help out speedrunners that worked for exactly of what I was looking for. I've been slowly going through the Halo 2 levels hoping that by the time I finish Halo 2 they might update the tool for the other games. But yeah, Thanks for subbing and I hope you enjoy the binge :D

Looking forward to that! :D Man how I miss those OG menus in MCC..

I remember seeing the co-op demo as the coolest thing knowing that I could only afford to have one controller at the time

I remember seeing at 5:30 that drop ship dropping off a ghost and thinking, what the? I didn't see that happen.. well, better play it again to check :D

I worked with what I had. Wish I could have spammed them a little more, but budget for each map is really close to the limit.

I'm not sure anyone else would have put in the effort for something so simple, so that thanks is very appreciated.

Same, I also just miss growing up during the best times of halo/gaming history. Those times may never happen again, but I am grateful that it happened at all.

Yeah, I figured that was the case, I just wanted to see where the pelican was going 😃

That sounds cool. Don't know how well times will are gunna allow for that since I'm Australian and I usually only have free time after 6 pm, which is about midnight and beyond if you're American.

@@JustinsaneS222 yeah im from NA

Loaded so fast you could see the entire picture on the last few frames :D

So as you might imagine there are some limitations, this as you can see is a splitscreen co-op mod on pc. I haven't seen much mentions of the specifics of how it works. But a rough explanation is, the mod is enabling the original scripts in the base game and is forcing splitscreen and by forcing more players to spawn and then with the mod menu you can assign controller ports to each player if they are connected to pc. Because of the hacky nature, the extra players tend to not behave as normal, like no fall timer. The 1st/main player does have regular behaviour and is the only one with the option of either playing with KB/m or with a controller. The mod link and mod release video are in the description if you want have a closer look.

@@JustinsaneS222 Thanks for the response. I hope this becomes an official feature of the mod. It’s so cool

The setup for the mod is super simple as well. I might make another video showing the reasons why 343 probably gave up on the idea.

Its because Halo CE and 2 were originally built around 2 player coop and 343 never had time to work on this. For a number of years, I have been begging for 3-4 players to become a reality in some way for Halo CE and 2 at least because for many Halo fans, the 2 player limitation for those two campaigns would lead, especially new players, to assume all the campaigns can be played with 4 players in the entire MCC, when this is not the case. Now Splitscreen while its cool, is as close in modern day to having 4 player coop for CE and 2 Campaign for now (or even beyond that with this mod up to 16 players!). This is the first time since the original Xbox mod, that we now have a way to play 4 players on PC in these campaigns, but this is not going to completely suffice unless 343 officially adds in 4 player online coop (one person per device) for the campaign missions and rebalancing them to keep it challenging on the enemy side and player side (meaning more enemies is needed in every section of the missions). But now we have a way to play with 4 players now in some form through a mod, this is as good as it gets at the minute until 343 decides to overhaul the campaign missions to handle 3 and 4 players. Maybe a mod can be worked on by the community to overhaul the missions to increase the enemy count per section (and vehicles/health/ammo and weapons) that goes along with the splitscreen mod for now.

@@JustinsaneS222 I would be for seeing a video on the reasons why they gave up on this!

@Finger112 my latest video "quirks of 4 player coop" showcases the main issues. The main issues is as follows: The extra two players don't have initial spawns at the start of a mission, so they take up a "default/ai" spawn position or wait until the other two players move away from the initial spawns. Another is the extra 2 players aren't scripted to be moved away and back from a cutscene area so they can mess up the playback animations and sometime sequence break sections. The extra two players aren't scripted properly when it comes to pelican seating. Oh, and also, the extra players sometimes make the graphics flicker, and it's also removes the fall timer. And, to have this all work online for halo 1 and 2 coherently 343 would probably have to also rework the networking on top of all that.