Articles - Matter of Fate: The Spartan Edition Collection (Halo, Myth, Marathon Remastered) mod for Halo: Combat Evolved

Ancient. Epic. Mysterious. Become the eternal champion and relive the Song of Bungie, retold and resung anew. Somewhere in the heavens, they are waiting. In a collection of over 7 games and hundreds of fan maps, find yourself starting back in a universe full of dark secrets from forerunners long past and eat the path against hopeless odds. You are fate itself. The collection includes Pathways Into Darkness, Marathon, Marathon 2: Durandal, Marathon Infinity, Myth: The Fallen Lords, Myth 2: Soulblighter, Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. In addition, the collection also includes Marathon Eternal, Phoenix, Kindred Spirits, Rubicon, Red, Evil, Trojan, Tempus Irae, Apotheosis X, Myth 2: Chimera, Mjolnir Project, Halo 1.5, Lumoria, SOI's Singleplayer Adventure, Operation Takedown, Cursed Halo, Halo 2: Cortana, and so on. Also included are fixes and new additions for each individual game, such as Halo supporting quick saves, Marathon 2/Infinity supporting music, restored cut content, and more.

Intro

Hey there! Welcome to this week's roundup of the YouTube, where we covered a so-wrong-it's-right switch-up mod and a modernised modpack!

What if everything was just a little bit...wrong? That's Half-Life 2 Mirrored, a mod with a simple premise that in execution creates a very, very different way of playing the game! All of Half-Life 2's levels, models, and content is flipped. Where Gordon once took a right, he now takes a left - and you'd be surprised just how much this premise can change an entire game.

Halo: Combat Evolved has had a storied modding history, being - until quite recently - the most moddable of all Bungie's classic titles. Spartan Edition represents the status of CE modding in the modern day - a platform for content ranging across all games in the franchise, many graphical improvements, and new content that has made CE fresher and fresher to play since the mod tools first came out.

That's all for this round-up. What do you think about the mods listed? Feel free to discuss below and check out the YouTube for more videos past, present, and future!

Well, sequel time already, huh? Welcome back, I guess. I'm sure you missed me more than I missed
you. Unless you didn't, in which case... Anyway, things have changed around here since last time, so they dragged me back at great expense to explain... what's up. First things first. Combat Evolved: Spartan Edition is a full repack and does not require either Halo: Combat Evolved (also known as Retail) or Halo: Custom Edition, since both are considered unsupported by both Microsoft and 343i, essentially rendering them neglected in terms of support for newer hardware. In fact, Spartan Edition comes bundled with both Retail and CE executables, running in a uniquely modified engine that unites both and the player can pick which one to run. No stone is left unturned in this mod. In contrast to MCC, Spartan Edition offers new accessibility features such as quick saving and quick loading, alongside customizable color correction, the ability to activate slow motion and fast forward on hotkeys alongside camera controls, hundreds of maps for both single and multiplayer, restored content, 4K resolution support and a lot more.



Spartan Edition comes in four separate parts : Engine, Singleplayer, Firefight and Multiplayer. Engine is just the base game and the original 19 Halo PC multiplayer maps, plus the campaign and a selection of campaign map variants.
To play more custom singleplayer maps, firefight mode or MP maps, you need to download the other parts. Otherwise, the game will run without requiring to download the additional parts, thus the game can be played with Part 1 only.