The Lost Halo Game HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND... (And it's PLAYABLE!)
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- After 20 years, one of the most iconic long lost versions of Halo that was thought to be locked away forever IS NO LONGER! Thanks to the mod team, Digsite, a version of the iconic 1999 Macworld Halo announcement, the world's first ever look at Halo, has been recreated using the bones of that very build and many more, and today, we're going to play it...
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There are those that said this day would never come. What are they to say now?
I think this map would work as a battle royal map for infinite
When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?
How can I play it?
@@tsavo1239blinded?
@@kromedome420paralysed? Dumbstruck?
Bravo to the digsite team, and props to 343 for actually releasing this stuff. Can't wait to play this
343i can only do good things that are un related to the current main line game :P
Nah I have fun with Infinite too
@@dianavespid937 It definitely seems to be a management issue as MCC is probably not under as much control as the main game, I really hope they have fixed that now
Like, it's amazing just how mixed 343s output are. They're honestly far and away the best developer out there at terms of support for the legacy content of their franchise. Like no one else does this stuff or works with modders in this way. But then their handling of the main franchise is so much more mixed. I do genuinely think there are good aspects to all the new titles they've made, but then there have been bad things in all of them as well.
Lmao the only good thing 343 does is piggyback off of everything Bungie does..
343 is one useless game dev. I'm sorry but I'm not impressed.
From a buggy mess with missing content, to the definitive Halo experience with restored content, It's crazy how far the MCC has come since 2014
Yep!! To think its almist 10 years old
We now just meed the og credits restored! We need to send the team feedback!
Definitely not the definitive experience and I’m not saying that to be a hater. There’s just some thing and functionality from that old games that still isn’t present.
@@NazmusLabs Before that, I would really, really love, to be able to play Halo 2 on the remastered grpahics without huge FPS drops. I can't believe it's still not functioning and nobody is talkin about it. Yeah, I don't own a series X but come on...
@@IsuiGtz I didn’t have an issue with halo 2 anniversary with the new graphics even on my eight year old PC (4th gen Intel quad core processor and GTX 1050Ti)
What are you systems specs? What is your resolution and target frame rate?
May Allah (S.W.T.) bestow upon you His Blessings and Guidance; Ameen.
If 343I is fully supporting this mod team then I hope they'll port it to the Xbox. We've now gone full circle with Halo getting more love on the PC then consoles.
It’s kinda making me frustrated that most of this recent update has only been getting love on PC, but I feel their pain now. I hope to play all of the unreleased content on console some day
That's how it felt back in the day when Halo 3, ODST, Reach, 4 and 5 skipped PC (except those were full games...) 😂. Don't worry, i'm sure they will port it eventually, maybe they could also bring over some multiplayer maps from the Steam Workshop as official releases on MCC.
@bballskiller I think the problem is, they can't add this stuff to the base game as they've been working on it with modders. And as modders aren't paid, they can't add it to the paid version of the game without some serious ethical issues. As for just paying them, it's also sadly not that simple. Rights issues are a pain.
Big agree !
@alexlyster3459 isn't the PC version also paid version though as well? I don't think there's any free version of the MCC, unless you count Game Pass but even then you're paying for that.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; The division of 343 that was left with the MCC is utilizing all the resources at their disposal with the Halo franchise and doing so with love and care.
This is what happens when you continue to support/update a game with passion rather than just for a paycheck/deadline. It's like the second coming of Halo Custom Edition and I love it.
@@MrHalohunter24 fr and i also cant wait for what InfernoPlus is cooking up
I still think some of the cosmetic BS they added is dumb and hurts the tone of the game. For a long time I didn't really think about it until I saw a "Mister Chief" visor in a Halo Reach video.
Like I'm not usually a guy who talks about games and is hyper-focused on preserving artstyles or how a game's cosmetics can affect its tone, but some of these additional cosmetics are _so_ cringe that its horrible. It's like more campy than Fortnite stuff. I get that all the new cosmetic shit is optional but like... why not add armors that expand the original style of the game. I think the fact that some of that new cosmetic shit is in there at all is just bad because it's like the game is being a cashout. Like it's "HEHEHEHE LOOK GUYS MISTER CHIEF" to a game from 2010 that was like very committed to keeping to its tone (to the point where the grunts don't even speak any english in the game). It just feels like... disrespectful to the original game _and_ bad design because like, art you add to a game should enhance the overall feel of the game, it shouldn't cringey shit that clearly doesn't fit in that you have the option to "turn off"
I'm 100% fair and I'll give them credit on other aspects but I feel like this is something that is an issue that is kinda unrecognized. It's one thing for 343 to have their own games where they embrace that sorta "comedic"/"meme" style with things like cosmetics. Like if Halo 5 wants to feel like fortnite or modern COD in its "collect all the stupid loot so you can be silly to your friends" style, I guess you can still criticize that for "not feeling like Halo" but that's a different discussion. But to add that shit into an old game that is completely departed from your new style, it just hurts the experience of that older title, it's bad from an art perspective, and its disrespectful to that game. It would be like adding all the weird neon gimmicky camos from the newer COD games into like Call of Duty 4 where its aesthetic was intended to be gritty
im glad 343 has redeemed themselves at least a bit
The ”harpoon gun” as you say is called the spear gun. Meant for underwater combat. Its projectile sticks with someone and then explodes.
After it was cut the plasma grenade was made from its functionality
The skewers underwater long lost cousin
You do know a harpoon is just a modern spear right ? I don't think it was necessary to correct the name. It's the same shit
@@skrotaa3187 Harpoons have ropes attached to them for reeling in their target.
Is this available on pc ?
@@Ap3xs0u7 yes
So glad to see this game finally popping back up after all these years
Apparently the Alien Snipers ARE made out of Lekgolo worms and are just another form!
I’d call them Scouters. With their actual name being “Matlho”, Tswana for “Eyes”. Since I’d imagine that due to Lekgolo bonding these two Snipers somehow share a field of vision.
I'm actually glad the Digsite devs had you keep the end a mystery, I'm 1000% downloading this mod and I'm especially excited for when they get to H2 and H3's cut content!
the only thing he didnt show was a control room, but then still showed 75% of the cutscene. kind of a let down of a "play it for yourself to see whats around this corner :)"
Can u let me know what it was ? I’m a console only player I won’t get to play it
@@KingKong_7 its just a forerunner control room, looked very similar to the ones we actually saw in retail CE. looked a lot like the one cortana pops in to stop you from firing the halo ring, so i thought maybe there would be, like, an early version of cortana or something. nope. just pushing a button in the control room, then walking out, where this video shows how you leave.
@@candidklutz5056interesting… I wonder why the devs didn’t want him to show that? Doesn’t seem too climactic. Perhaps there’s some secret in there?
The control room is in the other map you can download called Spasm
Funny how we're more interested in MCC updates and older cut Halo games than the new ones 343i puts out
Because 343 succ
It would be amazing if they fully port it into MCC instead of just through mods
I think it would work even better if the game was in 3rd person to resemble the mac game more too MAYBE even with it's old HUD
What would complete it for me personally is a type of command system like H5 has, but in the form of an RTS unit control to send marines to parts of the map, to almost play like a hybrid between the RTS and 3rd person version of CE
343 already mentioned they're working on bringing stuff from dev builds they've found to MCC.
@@Chonkems i think 343 means to bring them to mod tools not in the game be cool they add a browser for modded maps
I hope it is fully ported to MCC, I’d love to play this as a console player
@@pandorasactor9910 They expressly said they were looking into adding them to at the very least, Forge, if not their own gamemodes.
@@Chonkems hope so be fun
I remember learning about this early build back when I was a kid and it was known as "The Halo Before Halo". It was more mysterious than the actual Halo games we got.
Seeing it being played rather than viewing a gathering of clips and photos is surreal.
The dialogue and VA is insanely good
U really can tell when a team is focused on making the game fun
Learned a ton of Halo lore from you from years ago and still watch you, much love
I WANT TO SEE MORE. They need to create more levels. I would honestly play this and I don't play Halo anymore.
Woah woah woah... You mean to tell me that SPV3's Assault Rifle was a faithful recreation of the prototype Halo version? Never even knew that was a thing. And spartan teams? How cool would it have been to have allies that didn't just keel over from the slightest breeze? Or to face off against an early iteration of flood spartans with regenerating shields like the flood elites from Halo 2? It would be nice to see someone make a mash up of this version's assets with Halo 1's maps along the lines of SPV3 with a few extra maps to facilitate the extra stuff.
On a side note: it would be nice to have the machete be an alternative melee attack that can be activated once found, like a temporary upgrade for that map only similar to DOOM's berserker pack.
The lighting looks so good, reminds me of the Mass Effect remaster in the legendary edition. They nailed it perfectly, gives that warm feeling
Fun fact: the pelican absolutely was meant to be driven… just not by the player. All the vehicles and NPCs in cutscenes are playing back possession by the devs, so they had to be drivable to record those.
You could drive them in halo custom edition. I remember maps back in the day where you could drive all the space vehicles, jets, pelican, covenant ships, scarab.
yeah but those were modded@@DabutCHeR3000
@@DabutCHeR3000 Yeah but that wasn't like a native thing modders had to modify the tags used for cut-scenes versions of the Pelicans to be playable.
Thanks Digsite Team and 343i, it wasn't 343i's obligation to release this forgotten content, but they still did it, and I appreciate it, I really don't think Bungie would have done the same.
Bungie would have been busy releasing content for their current game. Not hiring 3rd party studios to release another company's unreleased content
@@skettinbutter3635Which proves 343i is superior when it come to preserving legacy Halo. Thanks for confirming.
May Allah (S.W.T.) guide you and bestow upon you His Blessings; Ameen.
@@NazmusLabs343i has spent 10 years destroying Halo
@@NazmusLabsbased
@@FlamespeedyAMV Not the same people 😉
343i is just a shell. It’s the people in it that is of significance.
Insane how this level is straight up Halo Infinite 20+ years before Halo Infinite
I think Joe Staten commented some time ago how Infinite's open world was what they wanted to do so darn long ago but never could.
21:52 I reckon they could very easily fit in with the Banished as another of the species they found on Zeta Halo. They really don't look too far from the Harbinger or the Skimmers if you just give them some red armour.
I could also easily picture the big guys wearing heavy, red Banished plate-armour escorting a Wraith like those Elden Ring troll carts.
DUDE!! This is awesome! It’s really crazy that this sandbox from 1999 that never made it to light had a better and more faithful open world in atmosphere, playability and content than Halo Infinite in 2021. And it didn’t even know what Halo would truly look like yet. The groups of marines going through stuff and physical storytelling seems more invested. The terrain is more alien and intriguing. Of course it is a bit barren but that is to be expected. It was a tech demo. But it honestly seems a more interesting Halo open map than infinte’s to me. The enemy groupings look challenging like with the shades and wraiths on the mountain. There are many mission and objective variations
I kind of wonder if a megastructure like the Halo Rings *should* look barren. As they're artificial, whose only lifeforms are artificially imported.
After millions of years (and not billions) I'd expect some evolution but not a lot, and I'd expect many of the initial lifeforms to have died out.
@@zimriel I never really thought about it that way. I always kind of wondered why the forerunners made them ecosystems at all when their function was to destroy life. I think it had to do with flood research in different climates and the library.
Just got done playing it and I can see how everyone got addicted to this demo. It was the best experience ever. That you DigSite Team 🙌
Seeing this just makes me enjoy Infinite's campaign even more because it's clearly just a modern version of this, which is really cool.
The sniper pistol is the real form of our beloved Magnum, a true master of distance and disguise!
Halo Infinite is basically this, but not constrained by the technology of its time. I would very much like to see this recreated in Infinite.
Joe Staten actually said in his first blog post on Infinite: Halo Infinite is what bungie envisioned 20 years ago but couldn’t make due to technology limitations.
This map just proves it was not just some marketing talk to sell infinite.
May Allah (S.W.T.) guide you to Islam and bestow upon you His Blessings; Ameen.
@@NazmusLabsI'm sorry but infinite is NOT what Bungie envisioned and it's still an ass game lmao
@@NazmusLabsForge for Infinite is amazing and I’m still making so many new things. Definitely aiming for a CE look on my next one. Maybe have an Orion Suite lying around.
@zakkarystory2352 I mean, not totally, but this does prove that it was the sort of open world they originally envisioned. Story aspect wise, yeah, I'm sure they wanted more. Infinite is fine, but basically nothing really happens. If 343 can take the gameplay of infinite, and add a story more like Halo 2 in the next one, DAMN that would be amazing.
@@zakkarystory2352 I feel like it is, but minus the godawful battlepass/customization systems, and the lackluster story for the singleplayer.
Love the Tribes shout-out. Such a good game, skiing down mountains and shooting exploding frisbees, so nostalgic.
I thought I was the only one who tempered that game
If i remember correctly. Pelican/Phantom AI didnt work, so they basically recorded someone piloting them manually and used that instead.
Didnt think to much about that funfact I heard a while ago, but Makes perfect sense they are fully flyable if that was there method.
I swear to god this actually looks like something I saw as a kid (I was like 5-6 when this would've been out). Like, that opening alone with the cutscene and ascending up that hill definitely feels like something I saw briefly when I was little. I remember even saying to whoever was playing, "you gotta save your friends!"
I don't remember if it was my dad or if we were at his friend's place or what, but I swear I've definitely seen this. Even growing up after becoming a Halo fan and later seeing the old Halo teasers from the Macworld announcement, I always remembered seeing that old version of Chief. This is definitely blowing my mind right now, I honestly dunno if I'm just crazy or what but I definitely have a vivid memory of the opening sequence alone.
21:20 Xperia is channeling his inner Steve Irwin, breaking down the lore of the hostile creatures whilst mitigating their attacks
Can I get a Crikey?
This is like a dream come true, I remember watching the developers playing around with these early versions and wanting to play it. I always liked the idea of a fan made halo game using the 1999 assets for everything with a large map, I am so glad that they did this. Good job digsite, you have my respect
Midway through the video, realize this island has more interesting things happening then in Halo infinite.
Man you are exageraiting a bit.
It's like a prehistoric Infinite over world map. Pretty crazy.
I was so hoping this wasn't a mod so I could play on xbox
I never thought I would see the day…. I wasn’t around in 1999 or even 2001, but I’m super happy that we get to see it now.
THANK YOU DIGSITE
Damn, was this the inspiration of halo infinite?? This is what halo campaign should be about, huge maps, thrilling intro to the stage, open war fight… so cool and most of all, freaking marines!!!
Wow dude that is so awesome to see this and I really want to play it myself. I was geeking the whole way through with you bro. I'm glad you're still giving halo the love it deserves!
That so awesome they're bringing it back in such a way! Great video, it was fun watching your reactions to this wild content
Those guns are SICK! Wow, all would have been amazing additions to the actual game.
I'm hoping that one day, we will see mod support for the custom game browser.
I'm excited for all these constant uploads. your cursed halo (again) videos have reignited my love for this franchise! (we don't talk about the tv show or 5 of course)
Just seeing Spartan NPCs fighting with you that aren’t invincible story characters like Halo 5 is so cool
its pathetic how there is more biome variety in this 1999 tech demo than the 500 million dollar halo infinite
Now we just need Digsite for Halo Wars. I wish that E3 demo was a thing. I can dream dammit
A digsite for infinite would be nice although considering all the stuff that was cut (2/3 of the campaign if I remember correctly) you would need a small army of extremely passionate people to bring back those cut 2/3
@@memeboi3448 Oh boy we missed out on some more FoBs to take over? What a shame, do we really want MORE of that "story"?
@@mrcroob8563 I do
If I remember correctly the Kestral was recreated with a new design by Mega Bloks along with a few other initially non-canon designs and its design was then canonized by 343 a bit later. Shows how big of fans the Mega Bloks designers were/are still
Really really beautiful this type of halo, the biodiversity of species in only one level, and the amount of variety and vastity of weapons and enemies is really well done, including the importance of a mystic planet.
Will they ever add this to console? I just want it in the actual game, I feel like I miss out on so much cool halo things because I don’t have a pc
I share the pain
It would be cool if this was added as it's own game to MCC on all devices for the 25th anniversary
This shit feels so unreal man
The Covenant snipers are a form of Lekgolo. I'd be surprised if they weren't canonized.
I love to see this. Really hope the music gets released by itself at one point also. Sounds so good.
After all those years!!! I am really hyped!
This is amazing! Really hope they port this and future dig site ops to console. Would be even cooler to have Marcus Lehto or anyone from the CE team play this and give dev insight into the concepts behind each of the weapons, vehicles, etc.
absolutely DO NOT take a shot every time he says "surreal"
PLEASE
I didn't think there'd be so much to this. Incredible stuff.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Mac version of Halo supposed to be 3rd person? Not at all to take away the amazing work that has been made to bring this back to life, truly remarkable!
Strategy game, then to third person, then to first person. You aren't wrong but you aren't quite right
@@ryancleaver6613 this is what it was supposed to look like on release on Mac? I mean is this a remake or is it the original.
@@ryancleaver6613The Viper was in since the RTS stage, I think I remember seeing it in old "gameplay" of that build.
@@TrenderoftigerWell, the graphics have changed a bit but most of it is _probably_ what the game would have looked like.
Theirs a test version of this map with all the enemies and weapons available, and some of the weapons due setup a third person view.
I remember getting this game on release in 2014 and now seeing how far it’s come it’s just incredible who would have thought, to the digsite team and 343 I give them big props for standing by this game for this long I’m so happy we get to see all this!
So cool that they did this! Excited to try it out hopefully this weekend
I would love to see a Halo CE remake that featured stuff from Halo Reach, Combat Evolved, and stuff from this older build of Halo. Imagine the amount of awesome content.
This looks so incredibly cool to play, it gives a feeling of discovery that is not very common in current Halo games, and part of the enjoyment I think comes from the big open areas to use vehicles you encounter around, not many trees or rocks allows for much vehicular fun in combat, but also the fact that some vehicles feel overpowered helps to enjoy combat against large enemy numbers. Really really cool!!
Getting to the control room gave me chills. Maybe they can do the E3 2000 Demo next.
Happy you are posting about this!
I really wish the humans had a counterpart to the EnergySword. The knife animations are always badass. I wouldnt care if it was just the knife he already carries. Let me see it. When Chief runs out of Ammo, he has to resort to stealth and silence.
Someone should make a custom campaign using these vehicles, weapons and enemies.
It's 100% gonna happen now, someone will use it eventually
Halo Infinite looks like it took a lot of inspiration from this level, vehicles and weapons.
I hope they make 343 will give them backing to make a full halo release with multiplayer and a full campaign cause this is just insane. I love the halo CE engine and how the game looks and plays
10:00 Dude, ever since I saw the movie Starship troopers that had the UNSC assault rifle with an under barrel shotgun. I have ALWAYS wanted AR’s that had that and more in Halo, it would make the assault rifle MUCH more flexible in combat! Against armor or groups? Grenades. Close quarters, shotgun. So much utility and effectiveness.
As a poor non pc gamer I will be very sad if this doesn’t come to Xbox in the future
pretty sure it might be coming to mcc
The explosive harpoon is basically the upgraded skewer from halo infinite lol
IT'S HAPPENING STAY CALM!
That clip of master chief pointing a pistol at the elite’s face and making the elite put his hands up is hilarious
A dream come true. Its so cool we can check out the old Halo stuff hands on
It amazes me that there are things like this to draw from in the Halo universe but we get what we got with infinite
Xbox and Microsoft Store Mcc users crying in corner 😢
You look about as giddy as i'd expect from someone reawakening their flame of childhood nostalgia. Its pretty damn great!
This stuff filled me with such wonder as a child. Nostalgia!
This is incredible. May god, this is incredible. Finally something good happened for Halo fans. Thank you Digteam the only part of 343i that doesn't deserve to be fired.
I only wish this didn’t need mods but still, I love to see what Halo CE could’ve have been
Felt like I was playing an old Halo Infinite, such a cool mod. I’ve always loved the scale and mystery of CE era levels
What Halo Infinite's world should have been!
The assault rifle reminds me of the mp5 from half life, due to having a grenade launcher on a full auto weapon
Have searched for years to find these files, amazing that it has been resurrected will archive a copy myself.
Damn! At this rate the MCC team will get Halo 2 Classic working in the pstencil engine!
This open-world design - freedom to use any vehicle, any weapon and simply travel across a fully-open map, engaging in enemies, random objectives & objects _at your own leisure_ - is what _Infinite's_ Campaign should've been all about 🗺
That's infinites campaign
@@memeboi3448 no it isn't it's almost that but it's not
@@deethwarrior how is it different besides this has the placement of objectives randomized and infinite has more then just hills with the odd small tree?
Aside from the randomised objectives (which don't actually make a difference anyway), that's literally what Infinite's campaign offers.
@@tTaseric and infinites campaign has more diversity in the areas you can explore
This is so cool, I think I like the Marine's voice acting here more than in the final game
Man, we have the early mac world Spartan armor in MCC already as an unlockable, but i'd like to see the early Elite model as an unlockable skin as well!~ 😆
Literally finished playing this. Takes me back and man do I feel old now.
Something so hilarious about an elite sticking its hands up and peacefully surrendering
I’ve actually played this version of the game through early beta tests. Many years ago good to see it again.
Man, I'm really digging this Marathon/90s to early 2000s scifi style of Halo. I wouldn't mind if they made a spin off of Halo with CE graphics but in a newer engine that simulates said graphics while allowing Infinite sized missions, but retaining everything about the cut content.
There were some insane Custom Edition maps with fully functional pelicans and scarabs.
Very comfy :) Great vid :)
Sits back - “I’m just happy you’re happy bro.”
its crazy this game has been missing for 20 years and you found it and our the first to play and show us. did you get an award?
Oh man, old Halo has so much Marathon in it. The SMG in particular both looks and feels like something straight out of a Marathon TC.
Need to get my hands on that soundtrack. Really gives an old school Halo vibe.
This looks amazing! I'm glad they kept the bulk of the original design style. I wonder if the weapons here are intentionally "better" because it's essentially a demo. Does this one seem to follow the same basic storyline? Could you keep us updated about the upcoming non-Steam release?
My first experiences with Halo: CE and Halo 2 were on PC, but since then, I've preferred the console versions, so I'm hoping that will be released, too. This opens up a lot of options for future games, too. We don't really see much from the Marines' perspective in the series. An ODST or Reach styled game going back to Installation 04 telling some stories would be great!
This is a blast from the past. Real cool that we can now play this lost Halo game.
Following the very early development of Halo was badass! I remember the website where they would show off new stuff they were adding into the game. This is a lot of stuff I remember from that site.
I hope that most if not all of the cut weapons, enemies, and vehicles in this can come back in a future game in some way!