商店页面
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
全部 讨论 截图 艺术作品 实况直播 视频 创意工坊 新闻 指南 评测

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

商店页面
Halo: The Master Chief Collection >  创意工坊 > orangastang 的创意工坊
69 个评价
Halo 2: Lore Accurate Edition
描述 讨论0 留言61 改动说明
   
奖励
收藏
已收藏
取消收藏
Engine: Halo2
Game Content: Campaign
文件大小
发表于
更新日期
8.794 GB
10 月 5 日 下午 12:53
11 月 10 日 下午 4:31
10 项改动说明 （ 查看 ）
创建者
orangastang
离线
查看所有 23 个合集（也许有些被隐藏了）
7,232 不重复访客数
982 当前订阅者
223 当前收藏人数

订阅以下载
Halo 2: Lore Accurate Edition

描述
Play through Halo 2 with lore accurate weapon damage and health. Legendary is recommended.

Recommended Difficulty
  • Recommend Legendary.

Deliberate Lore inaccuracies
Several lore inaccuracies are acknowledged but deliberate for various reasons:
  • Spartan Shields: Not fully resistant to ballistic weapons like in lore. Adjusting shield/armor damage tables for the brief encounters involving the Chief and enemies with human weapons wasn't worth the extensive effort and testing required.
  • Vehicle Durability: Lore-accurate vehicle health made the campaign unreasonably difficult in testing due to plasma weapon effectiveness and encounter design. The standard Halo 2 system (vehicle health tied to driver health) was retained. If there is significant demand, I may upload the lore-accurate variant.
  • Brute Plasma Rifle: Modified to function as a distinct weapon rather than a faster-firing Plasma Rifle.
  • Tartarus: Health increased beyond lore for balance, as a lore-accurate boss fight ended too quickly.
  • Movement Speed: Spartan and Elite speeds were left unchanged. Lore-accurate movement felt unnatural in-game and risked breaking mission triggers.
  • Player health still regenerates. I don't have the knowledge needed to implement a visible health system with med-packs like in Halo CE.
  • Johnson and Half Jaw being immortal is not lore innacurate. They're too badass to die, even in the lore.

Gameplay Tips
  • The Arbiter’s armor and shields are weaker than the Master Chief’s Mark VI Mjolnir. Keep this in mind when controlling the Arbiter.
  • The player still has regenerating health but regeneration time was increased significantly.
  • Flood are highly aggressive. Their ranged accuracy is poor, but they excel in close combat with relentless melee attacks. Avoid letting them close the distance, as they will berserk at melee range.
  • The scale of conflict in Halo 2 is far larger than in CE, featuring heavier infantry presence, especially Elites. Marines provide stronger support than in vanilla but are vulnerable to concentrated precision fire.
  • Try out all weapons. With lore accurate balance, even weapons like the Needler can be surprisingly effective, even without supercombines (few things in real life could stand being impaled by 3 large shards that explode and the lore supports this).
  • Take out drones as fast as possible if you're alone. You've been warned.

How Lore Damage Was Achieved
This mod adjusts weapon and entity damage/health values to align with Halo lore, based on extensive research across novels, comics, and other sources.
  • Lore weapon damage varies widely (depending on the author and dramatic intent).
  • To balance this, values were averaged into consistent 'middle ground' figures.
  • Final weapon damage vs. unit types is included in an image with the mod.

Difficulty Tuning
  • Easy, Normal, Heroic: Same damage but AI accuracy and firing speed scale with difficulty.
  • Legendary: Sharper accuracy, faster firing speed, slightly higher enemy damage and enemy count for an increased challenge.

Non-Damage Lore or Balance Adjustments
  • Battle Rifle (BR): Converted to semi/full automatic fire. The original semi-automatic functionality was underpowered due to Halo 2’s shorter engagement ranges, limiting the BR’s effectiveness.
  • Carbine: Fire rate increased; now limited only by trigger pull. This adjustment compensates for shorter engagement distances and provides parity with the BR.
  • Shotgun: Extended effective range and tighter pellet spread, making it a more reliable close-to-mid range weapon.
  • Brute Plasma Rifle: Fires in rapid five-shot bursts. Delivers high damage output but risks overheating with sustained fire.
  • Flood Combat Forms: Attack more aggressively with increased weapon fire frequency but reduced accuracy to reflect their reckless fighting style. Rely heavily on relentless melee attacks if allowed to close distance.
  • Headshot System: Any weapon can deliver a lethal headshot against unshielded targets.
  • Explosives (Grenades, Fuel Rod, Rocket Launcher, Wraith Mortar, Scorpion Shell): Expanded blast radii. Visual effects in Classic graphics adjusted accordingly.
  • Ghosts: Increased speed to reflect their role as agile scout and attack vehicles in the lore.
  • Banshees: Faster and capable of firing while boosting, reflecting their strafing tactics and lore-accurate maneuverability better.
  • Enemy AI: Engage at longer ranges with significantly increased rate of fire, creating more challenging encounters.
  • Marine Allies: Improved combat effectiveness through longer bursts and extended engagement ranges.
  • Phantom/Cov Turrets: Increased fire rate to match what's seen in some cutscenes.
  • Hunters: Now fire fuel rod blasts instead of the vanilla continuous beam.

Notable Campaign Changes
This modification rebalances and refines nearly every campaign level in Halo 2 to bring the experience closer to lore accuracy while maintaining a fun and challenging sandbox. Enemy composition, marine presence, and weapon loadouts have been adjusted to reflect the narrative more faithfully. Below is an overview of key level changes:
  • The Heretic: No changes.
  • The Armory: No changes.
  • Cairo Station: Additional Marines stationed throughout the facility to emphasize its role as a human stronghold. Elite Zealots now guard the Covenant bomb.
  • Outskirts: Marine presence increased to reflect the human city setting. Enemy numbers expanded with more Grunts and Jackals. Select Warthogs replaced with Gauss Warthogs.
  • Metropolis: A parked Ghost has been placed near the Gauss Hog encounter to address the issue of the Hog driver being eliminated by Jackal snipers before reaching the player.
  • The Arbiter: Heretic forces field a wider variety of weapons to enhance encounter variety. Because needlers and Carbines are less effective against shields in the lore, so more weapons were needed to increase difficulty. AA Grunts now fire at a much faster rate, making them a credible anti-air threat.
  • The Oracle: Cables can be cut with any weapon, not just the energy sword. More frequent enemy spawns during the elevator fight sequence. Heretics carry much more anti-flood weaponry throughout the level.
  • Delta Halo: The opening sequence has been overhauled with an increased number of ODSTs and new enemy composition.
  • Regret: In keeping with the lore, the Prophet of Regret can be defeated in one to two melee strikes, regardless of difficulty.
  • Sacred Icon: Flood encounters have been expanded to better represent lore. The player will meet scattered Marine forces throughout the mission. The Flood defense wave section has been redesigned to create a tenser, more engaging challenge.
  • Quarantine Zone: Marines appear near the end of the mission as they race toward the Icon, with some holding defensive positions. Note: the Flood AI during the moving platform sequence is bugged in the official mod tools and could not be corrected.
  • Gravemind: Additional Marines are in the holding pens.
  • Uprising: Minimal adjustments have been made.
  • High Charity: Flood presence significantly increased to reflect the fall of the city. The Covenant’s final defense at the Dreadnought portal has been heavily reinforced, though they will ultimately be overwhelmed by a never ending tide of flood.
  • The Great Journey: The final boss battle has been expanded to include multiple waves of Brutes and Elites entering the fray.
61 条留言
< >
Nick Dickem 8 小时以前 
If this mod at least plays anything like the Halo 2 mod, I'm sure it'll kick ass. I just gotta get my Halo 3 mods to work, for some reason they don't show up. Hopefully I get that squared away before the mod drops, I'll be looking out for it
orangastang  [作者] 9 小时以前 
@Nick Dickem

I'm about 70% done with the H3 mod as we speak, and while its not lore accurate, a lot of people complained about vehicles so I've made it much harder to kill passengers in Warthogs and Prowlers so that they're at least viable. I'm selfishly keeping Banshee and Ghost health lore accurate because I actually love lore balance on those but in H3's sandbox it's less of an issue. And thankfully Brute vehicles in lore are simple and heavily armored so the chopper and prowler are quite viable.

So all in all, vehicle combat in H3 is much more forgiving than previous entries due to the encounter design and lore inaccurate vehicle buffs.

Hope you enjoy it more when you play it.
Nick Dickem 11 月 16 日 下午 1:55 
I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for your future mods, seeing a lore accurate Halo 3 would be kickass
Nick Dickem 11 月 16 日 下午 1:55 
@orangastang I'm not super well versed in the expanded lore of Halo so I wouldn't know, but this mod is definitely a fun experience (probably would've been easier if I had realized earlier how OP the needler was lmao), but man some of those vehicle sections got tough. I actually had to stick to Heroic . That said, I think this mod is a good example of how modern Halo should feel. On older consoles the slower more methodical trading of damage worked fine, but on PC having the ability to carve your way through a batch of enemies while still needing to play it safe feels like the best way to go, rather than focusing on the enhanced movement stuff. I don't know if you ever plan on making a fork of this mod, but if there was an in-between between the changes in this mod with some stronger vehicles so those sections play more like vanilla, I would almost consider that the definitive way to play Halo 2.
orangastang  [作者] 11 月 16 日 上午 9:37 
@Qsfff Originally I modified the script to kill him in one hit (to be lore accurate). It was a good challenge and a funner encounter. But the changes made the original Bungie script more unstable and prone to making him unkillable, so I had to revert my changes.

On Legendary, with the OG script and number of times you need to hit Regret, the number of reinforcements were truly oppressive, making it a game of luck with the odds completely stacked against the player, so reduced the reinforcements.
Qsfff 11 月 15 日 下午 9:34 
Banshee is super fun to use when it is normal conditions, and i didnt noticed any problems with regret, but no reinforcements make him very easy
But i guess this entire mod is just easier version of Halo 2 so it is fine
orangastang  [作者] 11 月 15 日 下午 8:22 
@Qsfff oh and just in case you come across it like many others have, the Regret boss fight can occasionally soft lock where he never dies. But that's due to Bungies scripting, not mine.
orangastang  [作者] 11 月 15 日 下午 8:21 
@nick dickem Glad you enjoyed it. I honestly cant play vanilla anymore after making the mods because everything feels like a bullet sponge. As for the vehicles, in lore plasma weapons are nasty, eat through armor, and come in small packages. This does mean that in universe, many small vehicles fold under fire to them. And after my research, the Ghost has shockingly low armor compared to how it's portrayed in the games. With its thin armor in a universe with extremely destructive weapons, its a speedy glass cannon.
orangastang  [作者] 11 月 15 日 下午 8:16 
@Qsfff for Scorpion, I'll give it a look. I do t think I changed the speed or if I did, it was actually faster.

For the Banshee, I'll also take a look but I wonder if its the increased speed of the Banshees interacting with the scripts to fake storm physics during the station freefall. It is possible to get to the objective though, so its annoying but not a softlock.
Qsfff 11 月 15 日 上午 9:13 
During banshee segment on Oracle boosting makes banshee go down fast