Halo Reach Evolved Patch files are complete and have been uploaded. I'm in the process of finishing Version 2, which includes Patch files for original Reach maps and an original colors version.
Hey, missions now take forever to load and near the 80% - 90% area of Validating, it takes me back to the main menu. Any idea what I might have done wrong with the install? Or is this just a game issue?
Hey what's up, absolutely great mod you've got here. I love it. I was just wondering if you're going to replace the dead Spartans on Lone wolf with Spartans wearing Mark V armor. Thanks so much!
In my game I actually have exactly what you're asking for. I only have 2 mods that affect Lone Wolf, this one right here and a mod called "Lone Wolf Tweaks". I'm not sure which one is the one that actually makes this change, so just install both and you should be good like me. Here is a link: https://www.nexusmods.com/halothemasterchiefcollection/mods/96?tab=description
Someone please tell me they know how to get this mod working again , I played reach from the beginning on xbox and all i could think is they dont look like a team of spartans , why arnt they green , thats not Mkv and my dreams came true with this mod , please bring it back.
Everybody listen up. I'm here to leave my comment and provide a tutorial on how I got this mod working again. I will tell you all how to get this mod to work so you can enjoy it. I'm very disappointed in seeing the lack of support for this mod, both from the creator and the comment section. Everybody complaining down in these comments about how this mod is "broken" or "outdated" is showing how ignorant and lazy they are, no offense. This is what shows HOW MUCH YOU PEOPLE CARE about this mod. If you don't care very much about the mod, then you are not going to put in the effort to get it to work like I have, you're just going to leave a short complaint in the comments and move on. I, on the other hand, care VERY VERY VERY much about this mod, and refuse to let it die, so I actually took the time to learn how to downgrade the MCC and install an older version of the game that works, AND am taking the time to give all of you a tutorial on how to do it. So here is the tutorial:
IMPORTANT: This only works with the Steam version of the game, sorry it doesn't work for the Xbox Gamepass version or whatever that one is.
1. Understand that this is going to take some time, like it might take pretty much a whole day/weekend IF you plan on downloading multiple/all of the campaigns/multiplayer maps in the MCC, which you don't have to do. Do not be discouraged by this, it is very simple and easy once you understand what to do, and absolutely worth it. From start to finish this took me from Friday night to Sunday morning to accomplish. One weekend is absolutely worth it to me if it means having and enjoying this mod for the rest of my life. Also understand as well this may require a LOT of HDD/SDD space if you want to have backups or want to have the new version and old version installed at the same time. You guys may not have to do this if you don't want to, but I currently have 4 copies of the game installed across multiple drives just to be safe. I will explain more about this later. You're probably gonna want backups just in case Steam decides it wants to update the game and break all your mods again.
2. Watch these 2 tutorial videos. This is how I learned how to get older versions of the MCC for mods that are outdated. I will give a text-based summary here of the steps you should take. Just watch and listen, and rewind and re-watch these videos multiple times if you have to, I know I had to many times because this was pretty confusing for me at first. I will also leave a para-phrased step-by-step list here that helps summarize the process he explains in these videos. All credit goes to Stevieroth for these videos, without him I would be lost and very sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzXf0AuLmA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkClcO5aJJo&t=189s
3. So now that you've watched all of Stevieroth's tutorials, you should pretty much understand mostly everything, and know what you need to do now. Basically in short, the first thing you have to do is figure out which version of the game you have to download for the mods you want to use. For this particular mod, the last time I personally played the game with this mod working for me was January 8th 2022, so that means we want to download the version of the game that was published last right before that date. If you look in the depots section on Steamdb > click on "MCC - Base Depot -- 976731" > then click on the "manifests" tab, you will see a list of all the different "versions" of the game that have ever been released. As of right now, the last version of the game where this mod worked is the one that says "30 November 2021 -- 1018723109337407870"
4. Now that you know which version of the "MCC - Base Depot" you need (which is just the Main Menu btw), download that shiz. How do you download that shiz, you may ask? Well that's what Stevieroth's "My Batch File" is for. He explains how to use it in the videos. You need to right click the .bat file and click "edit" or "Open with Notepad" and type in the numbers for the Game ID, Depot and Manifest, as well as your Steam login details. Then save the file and double click it to start the download. This must be done for each game's Campaign and Multiplayer maps that you want individually. That's why this takes like a whole day/weekend if you want them all. Keep in mind you don't have to download them all if you don't want to for whatever reason. If you exclusively want this mod only for Halo Reach, then you only need to download the Base Depot and the Reach Campaign, that's it.
5. Chill and listen to some music and smoke some doobies or something while waiting. No seriously, since you can only download one thing at a time (as far as I know, I didn't try more than one at a time. It might be possible if you try hard enough), you're gonna have to babysit the downloads, so as soon as one thing finishes you gotta be there to queue up the next download. It shouldn't be too bad though if you make it fun; I had a great and nostalgic time smokin' up my room, blasting all of the Halo OSTs all day and listening to classic early 2000's rock songs such as Headstrong by Trapt or Last Resort by Papa Roach, you know, songs with very similar vibes to Blow Me Away and fitting of the time when Halo 2 was new. I highly recommend it, it was honestly pretty fun.
6. After downloading the Main Menu and all the Depots for the Campaigns/Multiplayer Maps, now all you need to do is copy/cut and paste each of the game's Depots into the game's corresponding folder within the MCC hub folder from the Base Depot. There you go, congratulations, after putting them all together you now have your complete downgraded version of the MCC. Now you can install your mods to it.
7. Take the outdated mod and install it to the outdated version of the game. Follow the instructions provided in the description of the mods you want. For this particular mod, all you have to do is replace Reach's Campaign maps with the ones provided by the mod. Very simple and easy.
8. Profit
If I missed anything or left out an important detail, I'm sorry this was a lot to type. Again Stevieroth's tutorials taught me pretty much everything so if you watch his vids you probably don't even need my guide. If you have any questions or confusions about the tutorial, ask me and I'll reply when I eventually come back to this comment section every once in a while.
Also I really want to leave a comment of appreciation to the creator, Vokulahdov, for making this mod and not deleting it when it became outdated. This is by far, in my opinion, the #1 BEST mod and my favorite in all of Halo history. I love this mod so much that when I found out it was broken by the April 2022 Update I was devastated and NEEDED to find a way to get it back, because this mod alone is literally like 75% of the entire reason to even own the PC version of the game imo. I refuse to play the PC version without it, I feel sorry for anybody playing the PC version of Reach without it because it's so good and without this mod you may as well be playing the console version. I cannot express in words or text how much I love this mod, seeing Noble Team all green makes me beyond happy, it fills me with sooooo much immense amounts of joy knowing that I'm playing a slightly more canonical version of the game. Bungie's choice to break canon and give Noble Team's armor different colors really really pisses me off and it makes me sad that so few other people out there are bothered by it and so few people have actually used this mod. So I really want you to know, Vokulahdov how happy this mod makes me and how much potential joy it could bring to other people in the future so long as it's never deleted. If I was smarter I would have backed up by MCC back in January when I had all my mods working, but because I am a dummy, I didn't think of it and when I came back to play in May I found out a lot of my installed mods were broken. So after digging and finding Stevieroth's tutorials and spending a whole weekend figuring it out, I finally got my January version of the game back exactly the way it was and I'm so happy now. Thank you so much for not deleting it. I've been seeing comments around the Nexus of people telling the creator to delete the mod because it doesn't work, and that makes me so sad because they don't seem to realize that downgrading is a possibility. Please NEVER delete it. Just because it's outdated doesn't mean it's unusable. It just takes a bit more effort to get working. I felt compelled to make this huge comment and guide because I saw so many people giving up on this phenomenal mod because they are unaware that downgrading is not only possible but relatively easy to do. So I hope my comment helps some people enjoy this mod who otherwise would have given up or missed out.
P.S. - I would also like any and all Halo fans out there reading this to know that very soon... there is going to be somebody out there in the world who's VERY FIRST TIME playing Halo Reach is going to be with this mod. I'm just now getting one of my friends into the Halo series for the first time and I want their first time experiencing Reach to be with Noble Team all green, looking like the Fall of Reach cover art. Can you imagine that? Think about it... I honestly don't think ANYBODY else on the planet can say they've ever done that before. In the past, literally 100% of everyone in the world who plays Reach for the first time played the vanilla experience with Noble Team all having different helmets and armor colors. But now we live in a world where the PC version of Reach exists and this mod exists, so now we live in a world where people can actually experience a slightly more canonical version of the game on their very first playthrough. I just really wanted to share that fun fact with anyone interested, and I will probably come back to leave another comment about it after my friend finishes the game.
Amazing idea, shame it hasn't been updated though. My first thought was to make my Spartan a cool unique "black-ops" MkV with Black Visor etc... and then I wanted to be Mister Cheef helmet in this team of cool Mk5 Spartans hahaha. This is a great idea, I love the more "original lore" take with this. Even Jorge can keep his Grenadier imo as it's a Mk5 varient anyway.
It seems the OP has gone MIA and we need someone to patch the mod to work with recent updates. A shame because this is really cool and the only mod that does this.
Can you add m05 to the archives with the patches? The experience is incomplete without it and I don't want to download the entire campaign again just for one cutscene.
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Nvm, figured out it only works on Steam vers now.
https://www.nexusmods.com/halothemasterchiefcollection/mods/96?tab=description
IMPORTANT: This only works with the Steam version of the game, sorry it doesn't work for the Xbox Gamepass version or whatever that one is.
1. Understand that this is going to take some time, like it might take pretty much a whole day/weekend IF you plan on downloading multiple/all of the campaigns/multiplayer maps in the MCC, which you don't have to do. Do not be discouraged by this, it is very simple and easy once you understand what to do, and absolutely worth it. From start to finish this took me from Friday night to Sunday morning to accomplish. One weekend is absolutely worth it to me if it means having and enjoying this mod for the rest of my life. Also understand as well this may require a LOT of HDD/SDD space if you want to have backups or want to have the new version and old version installed at the same time. You guys may not have to do this if you don't want to, but I currently have 4 copies of the game installed across multiple drives just to be safe. I will explain more about this later. You're probably gonna want backups just in case Steam decides it wants to update the game and break all your mods again.
2. Watch these 2 tutorial videos. This is how I learned how to get older versions of the MCC for mods that are outdated. I will give a text-based summary here of the steps you should take. Just watch and listen, and rewind and re-watch these videos multiple times if you have to, I know I had to many times because this was pretty confusing for me at first. I will also leave a para-phrased step-by-step list here that helps summarize the process he explains in these videos. All credit goes to Stevieroth for these videos, without him I would be lost and very sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzXf0AuLmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkClcO5aJJo&t=189s
3. So now that you've watched all of Stevieroth's tutorials, you should pretty much understand mostly everything, and know what you need to do now. Basically in short, the first thing you have to do is figure out which version of the game you have to download for the mods you want to use. For this particular mod, the last time I personally played the game with this mod working for me was January 8th 2022, so that means we want to download the version of the game that was published last right before that date. If you look in the depots section on Steamdb > click on "MCC - Base Depot -- 976731" > then click on the "manifests" tab, you will see a list of all the different "versions" of the game that have ever been released. As of right now, the last version of the game where this mod worked is the one that says "30 November 2021 -- 1018723109337407870"
4. Now that you know which version of the "MCC - Base Depot" you need (which is just the Main Menu btw), download that shiz. How do you download that shiz, you may ask? Well that's what Stevieroth's "My Batch File" is for. He explains how to use it in the videos. You need to right click the .bat file and click "edit" or "Open with Notepad" and type in the numbers for the Game ID, Depot and Manifest, as well as your Steam login details. Then save the file and double click it to start the download. This must be done for each game's Campaign and Multiplayer maps that you want individually. That's why this takes like a whole day/weekend if you want them all. Keep in mind you don't have to download them all if you don't want to for whatever reason. If you exclusively want this mod only for Halo Reach, then you only need to download the Base Depot and the Reach Campaign, that's it.
5. Chill and listen to some music and smoke some doobies or something while waiting. No seriously, since you can only download one thing at a time (as far as I know, I didn't try more than one at a time. It might be possible if you try hard enough), you're gonna have to babysit the downloads, so as soon as one thing finishes you gotta be there to queue up the next download. It shouldn't be too bad though if you make it fun; I had a great and nostalgic time smokin' up my room, blasting all of the Halo OSTs all day and listening to classic early 2000's rock songs such as Headstrong by Trapt or Last Resort by Papa Roach, you know, songs with very similar vibes to Blow Me Away and fitting of the time when Halo 2 was new. I highly recommend it, it was honestly pretty fun.
6. After downloading the Main Menu and all the Depots for the Campaigns/Multiplayer Maps, now all you need to do is copy/cut and paste each of the game's Depots into the game's corresponding folder within the MCC hub folder from the Base Depot. There you go, congratulations, after putting them all together you now have your complete downgraded version of the MCC. Now you can install your mods to it.
7. Take the outdated mod and install it to the outdated version of the game. Follow the instructions provided in the description of the mods you want. For this particular mod, all you have to do is replace Reach's Campaign maps with the ones provided by the mod. Very simple and easy.
8. Profit
If I missed anything or left out an important detail, I'm sorry this was a lot to type. Again Stevieroth's tutorials taught me pretty much everything so if you watch his vids you probably don't even need my guide. If you have any questions or confusions about the tutorial, ask me and I'll reply when I eventually come back to this comment section every once in a while.
Also I really want to leave a comment of appreciation to the creator, Vokulahdov, for making this mod and not deleting it when it became outdated. This is by far, in my opinion, the #1 BEST mod and my favorite in all of Halo history. I love this mod so much that when I found out it was broken by the April 2022 Update I was devastated and NEEDED to find a way to get it back, because this mod alone is literally like 75% of the entire reason to even own the PC version of the game imo. I refuse to play the PC version without it, I feel sorry for anybody playing the PC version of Reach without it because it's so good and without this mod you may as well be playing the console version. I cannot express in words or text how much I love this mod, seeing Noble Team all green makes me beyond happy, it fills me with sooooo much immense amounts of joy knowing that I'm playing a slightly more canonical version of the game. Bungie's choice to break canon and give Noble Team's armor different colors really really pisses me off and it makes me sad that so few other people out there are bothered by it and so few people have actually used this mod. So I really want you to know, Vokulahdov how happy this mod makes me and how much potential joy it could bring to other people in the future so long as it's never deleted. If I was smarter I would have backed up by MCC back in January when I had all my mods working, but because I am a dummy, I didn't think of it and when I came back to play in May I found out a lot of my installed mods were broken. So after digging and finding Stevieroth's tutorials and spending a whole weekend figuring it out, I finally got my January version of the game back exactly the way it was and I'm so happy now. Thank you so much for not deleting it. I've been seeing comments around the Nexus of people telling the creator to delete the mod because it doesn't work, and that makes me so sad because they don't seem to realize that downgrading is a possibility. Please NEVER delete it. Just because it's outdated doesn't mean it's unusable. It just takes a bit more effort to get working. I felt compelled to make this huge comment and guide because I saw so many people giving up on this phenomenal mod because they are unaware that downgrading is not only possible but relatively easy to do. So I hope my comment helps some people enjoy this mod who otherwise would have given up or missed out.
P.S. - I would also like any and all Halo fans out there reading this to know that very soon... there is going to be somebody out there in the world who's VERY FIRST TIME playing Halo Reach is going to be with this mod. I'm just now getting one of my friends into the Halo series for the first time and I want their first time experiencing Reach to be with Noble Team all green, looking like the Fall of Reach cover art. Can you imagine that? Think about it... I honestly don't think ANYBODY else on the planet can say they've ever done that before. In the past, literally 100% of everyone in the world who plays Reach for the first time played the vanilla experience with Noble Team all having different helmets and armor colors. But now we live in a world where the PC version of Reach exists and this mod exists, so now we live in a world where people can actually experience a slightly more canonical version of the game on their very first playthrough. I just really wanted to share that fun fact with anyone interested, and I will probably come back to leave another comment about it after my friend finishes the game.
My first thought was to make my Spartan a cool unique "black-ops" MkV with Black Visor etc... and then I wanted to be Mister Cheef helmet in this team of cool Mk5 Spartans hahaha. This is a great idea, I love the more "original lore" take with this. Even Jorge can keep his Grenadier imo as it's a Mk5 varient anyway.
Mark V's the best helmet design imo