Halo: The Master Chief Collection

About this mod

Better With Friends is a campaign mod for Halo Combat Evolved in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The main goal is to allow allies to accompany the player for as much play time as possible while also realistically integrating them into the world and scenarios.

Requirements
Permissions and credits
THIS MOD WORKS WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF MCC

THIS MOD IS ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGH STEAM WORKSHOP
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2899113462



FEATURES
 Marines accompany the player throughout the missions
 
A high focus on retaining vanilla gameplay
 
Reworked encounters
 
Scripted sequences
 
More friendly and enemy dropships
 
Vehicles driven by AI
 
Custom animations and cutscenes
 
Optional stealth section
 
Adjusted scenery and objects
 
Minor balance changes
 
Easter Eggs
 
Secret Legendary endings
 Minor legacy bug fixes


PATCH NOTES
Can be found here


INSTALLATION
1. Navigate to Steam\steamapps\common\Halo The Master Chief Collection\halo1\maps
2. (Optional) Backup b30.map and b40.map by either copying it to another location or renaming it (e.g. b30_org.map)
3. Extract the archives contents to the directory
4. Launch Halo: The Master Chief Collection with anti-cheat off
5. Load either The Silent Cartographer or Assault on the Control Room with graphics set to Classic in the options tab of mission select


KNOWN ISSUES
• Players may experience desync or crashes when playing in coop
• Marines may have trouble traversing certain areas and/or get stuck in tight spaces or on geometry
• Vehicles driven by Marines may get stuck or refuse to move if they deviate too much from their intended path or get pushed by the player
• The Silent Cartographer - After the Bravo 22 encounter the Marines on the hill will often fall off when trying to round the first corner on their way down
• The Silent Cartographer - Enemies during the stealth section may continue patrolling and not do anything even after the player has been spotted
• Assault on the Control Room - Players may experience a visual glitch consisting of flickering black lines near the end of the Warthog ride section
• Assault on the Control Room - Marines may sometimes refuse to get into Pelicans and have to be forcibly teleported into their seats



CREDITS
The entire Halo modding community
The creators of The Silent Cartographer Evolved for their expanded animation sets
The creators of Sanity Not Included
Bungie
343 Industries