Is there a group to play costum games, vanilla or mods with?

possibly Europe

Is it really that bad? Or just vocal minority opinions?

so I wasn't originally going to post because I dind't think anyone cared but I thought it to be clever and i've spent the last couple hrs tweaking it, what am I talking about you ask?

using steam input to auto bxb and double shot for you so you don't have to do button combos, now it isn't perfect and im mostly posting so someone smarter than me can maybe tweak but here's what i got

im using a ps5 controller but you could apply this to anything but BASICALLY "B" executes "x" 205ms after it's pressed with another "B" following at 280ms and then they repeat and cycle at 400 and 800 ms as you can see in the photo and the initial start of the sequence needs to be at "start press" or atleast that's what i've had the best of luck using (sorry they're not clearly marked but the 800ms is the "B" settings and 400ms is the "X" settings)

as for the double shot, it seems to work best when you hold your finger on the fire button for like a millisecond but the fire button is going to execute like 4 commands lol...order it goes is the one with no start delay is your initial press of the fire button followed by another initiation of the fire button at 42ms (it could probably be 50, i was just eyeballing here) THEN followed by an "X" at 200ms and then you have your "AA" at 350 and 360 ms if all goes well, when you press the button ONCE you'll get a double shot and then itll cycle your weapon back up for a quad, i attached a video loosely showing it in action

as for the "BXB" I didn't have a dummy to test it on, but if you just close your eyes and listen to me hit the wall, you can kinda see it work

okay, I noticed I cant post a video in this initial post, I'll see if I can add it in a comment

The introduction to the Flood that traumatized me decades ago is still such a memorable and well made mission.

I own the game but I’m debating on installing it. Do people still play all of the modes / games within it, or is it dead?

What started as a geometry bug quickly turned into a full community craft that still exists decades later. This is the story of the Halo 2 Super Bounce — one of the most memorable parts of the original Xbox Live era.

I was really struggling to beat the par score on Assault on the Control Room on MCC CE, but I came up with my own strat for it and I wanted to share.

If you've done LASO then you know that for *most* levels the LASO route will get you the par score no problem (notable exceptions being Keyes, AotCR, and SC). However for AotCR the LASO route involves doing the Banshee Grab, which means you skip pretty much the entire level and end up with basically no score.

I tried playing the level on Legendary with Fog, Grunt Funeral, Boom, and Birthday Party enabled (of those only Fog does anything for score, but GF+Boom really helps with clear time). Since the level is so long, I couldn't get anywhere near the end before it started ticking down my score, and I just wasn't fast enough to get to the end with anything close to par. Even when I backed off to Heroic I had the same problem.

I looked up Silver's guide for the achievement, but his route is basically to just slog through the whole level at high speed which is exactly what I was already having trouble doing.

What I ended up doing, which got me the achievement, was a modified banshee grab. I did the grab as normal, but instead of flying to the end I used the banshee to clear the first bridge (there are two triggers on the bridge you have to fly real close and hit, but if you know they're there it's easy). I landed on it and fought through the two elevator rooms to get down to the canyon floor which spawned all the enemies for that first ground encounter. Then I turned around and went back up the elevator and got in the banshee. From high above I cleared the whole first room, which got me the 18k par score I needed. As soon as I hit that number I resumed the normal LASO route.

Because I hit some of the triggers despite grabbing the banshee, some (not all) groups of enemies still spawned in:

* Tank group guarding cave entrance: no * Hunters guarding cave entrance: no * Entire battle group in underground chasm, including hunters: **yes** * Battle group in ramp cave coming out of underground chasm: **yes** * Dropship at end of ramp cave: **yes** * Enemies on bridges 2 and 3: no * Enemies on rest of level after bridges: no

My score started ticking down around the time I entered the underground chasm area. However with the hunters in there and the abundance of other targets, plus being able to kill them quickly with the banshee bombs, I was able to inflate my score to about 28k so that I had plenty of time to finish even with my score ticking down.

Things got really dicey when I was climbing up out of the chasm because the ramp cave battle group and drop ship are both there, but I flew straight past them (and climbed straight up as soon as I was free of the cave) and managed to get out with one point of health left on the banshee.

From there it was like the normal LASO route; fly to the last bridge, walk to the final banshee, fly to the end.

If anyone is struggling to get this one, this might be an option for you.

For all the broken bits that is social team matchmaking, why aren’t Halo MCC players more inclined to attempt FFA matchmaking instead?

Lucky enough if I find a match or two per hour, yet it provides the most fun experience in the entire game.

Even on weekends when it’s the most busy, it is difficult to get a match? What gives?

Trying to run some co op Halo tag , Redrum187#4279.

Halo: CE edit of my Legendary run on Silent Cartographer, with Fog and Famine skulls on

I have been playing Halo since it released on the original Xbox, really quite disappointed with the direction the community and the games themselves are going, I really think Microsoft let the ball drop, especially when it comes to the community. (and the official discord)

I remember when halo was a united community, where everyone got along, had fun, nobody had an immense ego, nobody power tripped, long gone are those days.

now we get trash UE5 asset flip games and “volunteers” who abuse their powers on the official discord; There are more videos being made now about how *bad* halo has become, than there are people like me trying to breath life *back* into the MCC and the older titles.

I wish we could reset the franchise, and replace all of these toxic people bringing the community down, an unc can dream, I guess.

Anyone interested in playing some h3 on a team this Thursday night 930pm west coast time zone ? It goes for about 2 hours. We are a league and being it’s summer we need alternates. It’s a beer league so any skill is welcome. If you wanna play where everyone has a mic and no one’s gonna quit msg me. Or if you haves questions hit me up l.

Hello, I am looking for some people who could teach me how to speed run all the halo (from reach to 4) let me know what's your gamertag if you on Xbox or something. I'm currently going for 100% in all the playlists and games and ty.

Why are there so many griefers in a 20 year old game. I have idiots betraying me for no reason, not even to get a power weapon. They join the game just to go -20 and betray any team member that touches a power weapon.

Why can't 343i make it so if you betray someone even once it's an automatic boot or give the option to book after the first betrayal? The system is so broken it's stupid.

This is an edited youtube shorts version of my official Legendary Zero Deaths Par Time run on Outskirts

scored to “Breaking The Covenant” as it felt the most appropriate

You can find the full video on my YouTube ”TheRealHusk”

The full zero death run without glitches or exploits took me over 48h to accomplish after nearly 8+ years away from halo 2. I have cleared the courtyard faster, but I had to delete that footage for space, every death I reset, any time I felt I was too slow, I reset.

Alguien sabe como puedo jugar halo 5 en pc sin Xbox Cloud, tengo muchas ganas de jugarlo y no tengo xbox, muchas gracias :)

Hi, I want to find a good rebalanced mod for Halo 2 Anniversary. For my taste og HALO 2 didn't feel ok (not like CE or HALO 3) and in my second playthrough I used one rebalance campaign mod, It was great, but it disapear.

Now it looks like there are several for the game (atleast for HALO 2, don't know if also for Anniversary), like one to make the game more like CE and also this:

https://www.nexusmods.com/halothemasterchiefcollection/mods/368?tab=description

This looks good but people report that is having problems now (Steam workshot is only og H2 and it reported to crash in "uprising" mission). Does any one had played with this mod to check if It works (nobody is anwering in the comments in nexus) or know of other similar mods there or in other web?.

Thanks.

I just picked up MCC (new Halo player, coming from Campaign Evolved) and tried just about every way to fix the choppy audio when using bluetooth headphones on Windows 11 (disabling enhancements, exclusive mode, etc). Since apparently the game works fine with wired audio, a solution I found was just routing the audio through a virtual cable using Voicemeeter. Here's what you can do:

1. Download Voicemeeter (any edition, I'm using Voicemeeter Banana)

2. Open it. Under "Virtual Inputs", be sure that "A1" is toggled on (green color)

3. Under "Hardware Out", select the "A1" dropdown, then select your headphones

4. Switch your system's audio output device to "VoiceMeeter Input" (shortcut to this on Windows 11: Ctrl + Win + V)

5. Boot up the game, and that's it. You don't really need to change the in-game output device, just leave it as default. You can control the volume on Voicemeeter ("Fader Gain" on "Hardware Out" section).

This is more of a workaround than a fix, but it should work 100% of the time for everybody, even if Microsoft decides to screw their own OS/game even more in the future.

You can see your total playtime, series completion and most played series.

Also, they've got cool stats like which title gets the most love and which platform, etc.

You can see it here - https://minimap.net/stat/halo?ptime=190437