Halo 2 - Exploring Gravemind's Secrets

Time to explore the level Gravemind by going out of bounds and beyond the cutscenes, in an effort to reveal details about the game you didn't know before.
Achieved on Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Steam)
Playlist of more Halo Exploring:
• Exploring Halo Cutscen...
Tools:
Halo Checkpoint Manager 3.0.9d - ‪@Burnt-o‬
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[@JustinsaneS222]

I messed up the outro and made the audio a bit too loud. This video took more than 3 hours to render so im just gunna leave it.

[@slobsky7237]

9:42 I wish bipeds like this would be visible on Cairo's bomb room cutscene. 10:44 MC's biped in the background is easy to miss, haven't seen that one before.
There's a cool optical illusion of the Covie ship in the waters reflection on GJ. To see it, far back of the map above the waterline, left side only while looking at the mountain, start to move forward and the ship will appear bigger than the mountain. In case you didn't know. We don't get a similar illusion on Uprising, so, is the space hole area causing it?

[@JustinsaneS222]

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.