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[porottaja]

First true part of my own custom campaign is ready. If you have played my previous AI mods, you will notice how much more advanced this is compared to those.

You can enjoy cutscenes with music and voice acting, gameplay on custom themed bsp with music, hud messages and chapter titles, and use custom + stock weaponry to kill custom + stock Covenant AI. Lots of scripts!

Story:

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The beginning of the story and previous chapter.

Teams on the moons succesfully disabled energy shield protecting the Covenant military science research planet. Now Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon teams and 3 unnamed 3SO teams launch assault on the planet. SuperSpartan Commander transports Team Alpha on the planet with his personal stealth prowler, while other teams use longswords.

(Members of Team Alpha are L42-Alpha, R78-Xi, R101-Omicron and S257-Sigma.)

Now it is time to start the real mission.

General gameplay:

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This is SP map, so it plays like normal Halo campaign. Follow ingame instructions to advance.

You play as L42-Alpha, the most skilled 3SO and the leader of Team Alpha. For gameplay reasons your health and shield are same as in normal campaign. Also, you won't have infinite clip on Killer. Run speed and jump height are also normal.

You have invisibility as your armour ability. Press flashlight to use it.

Custom weapons and AI:

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Usable custom weapons are Assault SMG, Killer, White Death and Plasma SMG.

Custom Covenant AI you meet are Skirmishers, Elite ultras, Hunter rangers, Grunt heavies and Jackals with needlers. Jackal majors' shield colour is now red to separate them better from minors.

Using this mod:

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This is SP map, so you need to go to the console and type "map_name chapter1" without "-marks to play.

You have finished the map when game says that you don't have map named "chapter2".

Pictures:

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Bridge of Prowler:

Alpha is awake:

Meet the captain:

That greyish-transparent thing above LZ is your stealth prowler:

Multiple objectives:

Jackal majors have red shields:

White Death drops white elite:

Tunnel within visual range:

Visual inside tunnel:

Great ranges:

Elite with Skirmishers:

Press flashlight to activate:

Don't panic:

Supercarrier above the city:

Credits:

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porottaja - everything except couple downloaded tags mentioned below
{NP} Final - making the custom music tags
DSalimander - Covenant carrier tags
OpsY - awesome Prowler v2
DMT - original Jackal sniper tags that were transformed into Skirmisher by me
doompig444 and creator of [H3] Sandtrap - Assault SMG model, bitmaps, shaders and animations
Spartan 234 - h2 cyborg biped for SS commander
Spartan-094 - h3 cyborg biped for SS major
warthog is from yoyorast island

Mr. Download

Updated Download

Edited by porottaja, 18 July 2011 - 04:11 AM.

[The Cereal Killer]

Alright I'll try it out, I especially love trying out custom solo maps.

If you have played my previous AI mods, you will notice how much more advanced this is compared to those.

Yeah I know how that goes, I find myself saying that with every new thing I make, lol.

[WaeV]

This looks fantastic. I wish my CE worked.

[The Cereal Killer]

Played it and here are my [cough]incrediblyintelligent[/cough] thoughts

Gameplay:
You had a story set and worked toward it without needless interruptions (aka excuses to make the player do other stuff along the way), yet I thought there were a bit too few obstacles. It seemed at some points that the Covenant organized their troops just so a path was formed through them

I would have liked a bit more instruction as to what I was supposed to do at some points; other times I felt that you positioned the nav point too far away, and should have used a series of nav points forming a path to the end instead of one nav point denoting the final destination.

Cutscenes:
The cutscenes weren't bad for a start, they were better than any of the cutscenes I did when I first started (oh lord). I understand that the soldiers were supposed to be robots, and that is why the voice synthesizers were used, however it still felt awkward. And in mentioning that they were robots, the turning was once again non-animated I suppose to add to the effect that they had quick lock-on speed, but it made it feel incomplete rather than adding to the story.

The camera was positioned and oriented fairly well throughout.

Various:
I noticed some problems with the way the songs looped, and at some points it seemed they were abruptly cut off. Some songs were quieter than others which felt weird, and "Unyielding" was so quiet I barely heard it.

The tag choices you used were not bad, the white sniper feels odd and untextured though. The gold plasma rifle is pretty nice. Passenger warthog was a bit weird-looking, and didn't sit right with me somehow.

I liked the rethemed bsp, it looked very nice

[porottaja]

I wanted to make the first chapter to be like tutorial chapter, so not much fighting.

Did you notice any grammar mistakes on hud messages or dialog?

You can adjust music volume on sound settings.

White Death is mostly designed to winter combat or for the use of white SuperSpartans.

[The Cereal Killer]

No I didn't notice any grammar or spelling mistakes, and that's one thing I forgot to mention. Holy tits... I can't tell you how many I've seen where the first message is something like "go 2 ur armurry n get a wepun" /facepalm

I know the music volume can be adjusted, I'm saying that the different tracks had different volumes of their own, when my volume stayed the same.

[porottaja]

I made a bit updated version. AI behaviour was corrected a bit. It is also now available on Halomaps.