h2uncut 0.8 file

Welcome to Halo 2: Uncut, a Halo 2 mod that aims to restore as much cut content from this game as I feasibly can. For this mod, I wanted to take this multiple steps further compared to what was accomplished in the Juggernaut encounters mod. Not only am I going to re-enable other encounters and squads in general, but I'll also be re-introducing a whole assortment of other forms of cut content, as well as elements that appeared in the Director's Cut cinematics that were included with Halo 3's Legendary Edition.

This is NOT a rebalance mod. You're free to use these maps as a template to rebalance them yourself, but the main goal for the initial release of Halo 2 Uncut is to showcase what Halo 2 would have played like if it launched with all of this cut content.

FEATURES:

Weapons:

• E3 2003-style Single Shot Battle Rifle (assets by Sean T and Zteam)
• Halo 2 Alpha-style SMG (slower projectiles, but is slightly stronger and more accurate with controlled bursts)
• General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG, can be acquired by destroying human machinegun turrets)
• Suppressed SMG (is a starting weapon on Outskirts and Metropolis, is modified to pick up SMG ammo packs, performs the same as the regular SMG but has the benefit of being a lot quieter against the AI)
• Halo 2 Beta-style Needler (much faster projectiles)
• Halo 2 Beta-style Plasma Pistol (much faster charged projectile w/ AoE)
• Halo 2 Beta-style Shotgun (fires 5 extra pellets per shot with much more knockback)
• Halo 2 Beta-style Rocket Launcher (faster projectiles but worse tracking)
• Halo 2 Beta-style Fuel Rod Gun (faster projectiles that stick to enemies like Plasma Grenades before exploding
• Halo 2 Beta-style Carbine (36 round magazine, fully automatic, 324 reserve ammo, and rounds have considerable knockback)
• Halo 2 Beta-style Beam Rifle (uses less battery per shot, is more accurate when no-scoping, does less damage per shot)
• Handheld Plasma Cannon (can be acquired by destroying the mounted variants that are often carried by Grunts).
• Halo 2 Beta-style Shade turret (slight faster fire rate, uses a brand new projectile that's smaller and purple).

Vehicles:

• Halo 2 Alpha-style Ghost (both guns fire simultaneously and eventually overheat)
• Halo 2 Beta-style Banshee (both guns fire simultaneously and bomb has a lot of gravity)
• Pre-release Wraith (was likely prototyped between the Alpha and Beta builds, Plasma Pistol-like dual-fire mode with standard and charged mortars)
• Cut Falcon (appears on Outskirts as part of a restored set piece)
• Shadow (is drivable and will appear in more missions, uses AltSierra117's visual tags)
• Covenant Gun Tower (is now active and destructible on Outskirts and will appear in more missions)
• Halo 2 Beta-style Scorpion (drives slightly slower, co-axial machine gun has no fire rate build up, main cannon shoots faster)
• Destructible Phantoms

Campaign maps:

All of the available Campaign maps in Halo 2: Uncut feature previously-cut encounters, script lines, set pieces, and Director's Cut-style cinematics to showcase what could have been for this game.

VERSION HISTORY:

0.2:

• Initial Release
• Available maps include Cairo Station, Outskirts, and Metropolis'

0.4:

• Second release that is now compatible with the April MCC Update!
• New maps: The Heretic, The Arbiter, and The Oracle, along with the previously-released maps.
• Outskirts received a BSP edit that restores the destroyed highway after the Hunter encounter, modeled by Killzone64 and polished by Berthalamew.
• Outskirts and Metropolis received more encounter changes.
• The Shadow and the Grunts use AltSierra117's pre-release-style tags, grunt biped colors use older color codes that were found in the Heretic Grunt's biped tag.

0.5:

• Fixed an oversight where Brutes were holding Shotguns in cutscenes.
• Certain unarmed Marines on Metropolis now have weapons again.
• The Phantom and Covenant Gun Tower are now destructible.
• The Shade turret is like its Halo 2 Beta counterpart, firing a smaller, purple round at a higher rate of fire.
• The Flood Juggernaut has a new physics model, allowing it to actually fall to the floor after dying instead of freezing in place.
• Various encounter edits to The Arbiter.

0.8:

• Added support for Delta Halo, Regret, Sacred Icon, Quarantine Zone, Gravemind, and Uprising.
• New sentinel weapons! The Sentinel Needler, The Sentinel Grenade Launcher, and The Sentinel Charged Shot!
• New rendition of the Brute Shot based off of its appearance in the E3 2003 demo!
• Unused Flood Carrier form variant with a Jackal Shield slapped onto it.
• New Jackal Shield weapon tag that's only accessible through dual wielding, found by killing shielded Carrier forms!
• The Spectre is like its Halo 2 Beta self with a much less-accurate turret (still usable, just so happens to have a spread that encompasses the entirety of its reticle!)
• Added The Mongoose to Quarantine Zone! Features two of them for co-op fun :)
• Added medic marines to the Hotel Zanzibar section of Outskirts.
• Gun Tower destruction effect is no longer stupidly powerful against you.
• Added some unused weapon and crate placements on Metropolis (shoutout to MrMonopoli for pointing this out to me!)
• Made the Spec Ops Commander a more consistent presence on The Oracle, prevents him from disappearing.
• Fixed the first turret grunt's pathfinding on Cairo Station.
• Fuel Rod Cannon drops with more ammo.

CREDITS:

• Dragonflare921 for adding Halo 2 Alpha and Beta plugins to Assembly
• Sean T for the E3 Battle Rifle assets as well as the ODST helmet prop in the opening Outskirts cutscene
• Crisp for guidance w/ scripting
• General 101 for his unlimited patience w/ inquiries I had with the Halo 2 tools
• Berthalamew and Shelly Herself for helping me set up the flooded Metropolis tunnel section
• Killzone64 and Berthalamew for help with setting up the pre-release Outskirts Highway encounter.
• AltSierra117 for his various assets that were used in Halo 2 Uncut!
• OK for his medic marine tags!