thebluecrusader – The BEST Halo Game You’ve NEVER Played

Remember the days when gaming wasn’t just a Pastime but a revolution at the Forefront of that Revolution was Halo but before Halo 3 there was a custom game that defined a generation United Clans and created Legends this is the era of Halo custom Edition back in the

Early 2000s back when Lan parties were still a thing online gaming had really started to take off and amidst this newfound chaos something was brewing Halo Combat Evolved had been released to critical Acclaim on Xbox and PC and with it some time later emerged Halo custom Edition a modded version of Halo Combat

Evolved with custom content and Maps a game that would become a phenomenon in its own right back in those days along with early steam there was also xfire a gaming client with a friends list and various other features like an in-game overlay and clans I was part of a clan

Called tge which I’m pretty sure meant the gaming Elite kind of cringe but that’s typically how it was back in the day and Halo custom Edition was at the height of its legendary status enter Game Spy some of you may be too young to remember Game Spy but it was basically a

Master server that so many of our favorite old school games used for their multiplayer architecture for their dedicated servers something also used by Halo CE and custom Edition Clans faced off battling for high-stakes Supremacy it was epic and incredible Halo custom Edition was kind of like the wild west

This was a day way before the modern anti-cheats a time where you could flick open cheat engine or a trainer and just super jump or Aimbot online but of course it wasn’t as common as you’d expect because back then there was kind of still a sense of Honor but beyond the

Servers in these tools Halo custom Edition was about creativity as his heart the best custom maps on this game were not just levels but art in themselves some of the coolest Maps which I remember on this game were cold snap Extinction and yorast Island cold snap was a large icy Plateau which had

Mountains at its three edges with a large crevasse splitting down Center this map had a bunch of War Hogs with long swords and jets to fly across the map with raised platforms and teleporters Extinction was a Desert Hot Zone with an enormous UNSC space cruiser hovering above it it’s a map that

Reminded me a lot of the Halo 3 campaign map sarville highway there was a whole bunch of vehicles like scorpion tanks missile Jets scarabs pelicans and ghost War Hogs then there was yoras Island perhaps my favorite of the maps due in fact to how weird and wonderful a shape

Was this island was less of a warm up and more of some kind of a Sci-Fi space track or theme park island with a large spirally ramps warping around it with tunnels and caves engraved in the Rock huge ass was a very large level on a

Flat grass type set of terrain with two different hanger bases for the two teams situated in the mountains Each of which that were filled with classic Halo Vehicles particularly some of the ones that were cut from the game mostly flyable ones like the stealth bomber aka the long sword they even imported H3

Foundry which was a map based on Halo 3’s Foundry map the abandoned Traxxas Warehouse complex in the third game where much of the best bungee.net Maps were made on when Halo custom edition first hit the scene it was like a playground no a canvas just waiting to

Be painted on but let’s take a moment to appreciate how far we’ve come since those early days the community has been the backbone of this evolving Masterpiece relentlessly pushing updates to fine-tuned gameplay mechanics patch bugs and improve the overall experience did you ever wish you could go beyond

The campaign missions dream no more custom missions have arrived and they’re as diverse as the community creating them this firefight mode which emulates the Halo 3 ODST firefight and it takes you out on a completely different Journey it strangely feels like ODST but with just a little bit more dated

Graphics but it still plays really well at the heart of the modding Community though is the Halo editing kit which is more commonly known as HEK think of it as the ultimate toolkit for any aspiring game designer or modder with of HEK you go from a player to a Creator designing

Your own Maps creating custom game modes and even tinkering with AI Behavior or vehicle and weapon properties a slightly developers handed you architectural plans and said go wild there were some crazy mods made back in the day with HEK and I even tinkered with it a lot as a

Kid to make things like flying ghosts or snipers that fight rockets on Blood Gulch but what if you wanted to go beyond just creating Maps enter developer mode this is not for the faint-hearted it’s like peeking behind the curtain of a magic show and getting your hands on The Magician’s Secrets

Developer mode allowed you to manipulate the game’s code in a sense giving you the power to alter game mechanics by entering in commands commonly used to test user created Maps or gain special powers this could be achieved with certain utility tools that toggled it on

Or off or just by creating a shortcut to the game with custom launch parameters open source which is a mod for CE is an extension that enhances the game’s capabilities allowing for more advanced modifications through scripting new rendering techniques are an entirely new game mechanics with Community creators stunning visual overhauls intricately

Detailed custom maps and fresh gameplay experiences spv3 AKA single player version 3 is perhaps the most adventurous of mods for custom Edition and it was absolutely revolutionary when it released I go as far to say that it’s less of a modern more of just an entire transformation of the entire game itself

The mod is a masterpiece full of new weapons redesigned enemies and even entirely new levels gone are the days of the limited arsenal of the standard assault rifle the Magnum Plasma Pistol and a few of the other weapons in spv3 you have an expanded Loadout which brings weapons from all of the other

Halo titles and some from the lore and some made by the mod developers and the enemies they’re smarter tougher and they come with new variations that will challenge even the most experienced veterans from improved AI Behavior to revamped level design every aspect of combat evolves original campaign has

Been Revisited and found fine tune to create a gaming experience that’s both nostalgic and fresh Halo was always more fun when you had a friend to play with Co-op evolved takes the Cooperative experience to a whole new level with seamless multiplayer integration preventing laggy connections and sync issues and allowing for multiplayer

Campaign play the mod offers all new challenges which is designed specifically for Cooperative environments imagine taking on hordes of Covenant with specialized player roles for each of your squad or solving puzzles that require true teamwork Co-op evolve takes the essence of Halo multiplayer and then infuses it with a more competitive Spirit that’s

Revolutionary you can choose to stick to the main campaign or just Venture off into custom Community design missions it’s really your choice and the mods easy to use interface means playing with friends is super simple on one corner we have Halo custom Edition a Community Driven legend in the other the Halo

Master Chief Collection a more polished official compilation of Halo titles for the PC including Combat Evolved in in remastered 4 lovingly maintained by 343 Industries but how do they stack up against each other firstly I’d say they’re two different animals and probably shouldn’t be compared one reason is that one is a community

Passion project which doesn’t have thousands of dollars of funding the Microsoft backed AAA game Studio has and also because they have completely different missions and objectives to each other but it’s interesting because both have a good level of modability Halo custom Edition has so many great mods from graphic overhauls to content

And campaign-based mods it’s incredible what’s available from the many years of its user generated content on the other hand we have Halo MCC which on its PC version has been constantly maintained and patched and updated and in the recent months with the release of the MCC modding tools now has a thriving

Steam Workshop chock full of amazing mods from cursed Halo to Halo 3 Combat Evolved or even halocraft AKA Halo Minecraft it’s come a long way ever since model swaps and other capability these were made possible but it shouldn’t have to be a choice both have their own unique strengths and selling

Points and since Halo custom Edition is completely free it’s also a nice alternative to those that own the original disc and want to have some fun on a budget did you ever play Halo custom Edition do you have any great memories on the game share your stories

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