HOTFIX:
Fixed the 'elite' fp viewmodel for the mountain dew hand cannon
Renamed Reserve Garrison equipment to Portable Garrison
Removed Goo from ODST Garrison spawn
Added/moved Tips laptop on Tsavo Highway/The Ark/The Covenant
Added snack scenery to Frigate on The Ark
Placed a gold gravity hammer on Pelican Hill in the mission Cortana
Added a preplaced toolbox for the gold gravity hammer on Floodgate
Fixed a subtitle for 343 guilty spark on The Ark
Swapped out a dialogue line for Johnson on The Ark

SEE PREVIOUS CHANGE NOTE FOR UPDATE 1.7

Update 1.7

New equipment type: Portable Garrison
Spawn friendly reinforcements such as marines, workers, ODSTs, Elites
Rare chance of spawning Hero characters (miranda, johnson or shipmaster)
Reinforcements expire after 3 minutes (spontaneously combust)

Added new schematics to all custom weapons
Added new schematic for toolboxes and other equipment

Custom Font for new weapon pickup strings (showing schematics)
(Star denotes gold weapon, skull denotes supercharged weapon)

The following weapons are now dual wieldable:
Automag
Gold Automag
Silenced SMG
Needler (thanks to thefluffles for letting me use his dual needler animations)
Gold Needler
Uber Gold Needler
Needle Castor

Two new weapons:
Gold Gravity Hammer
Mountain Dew Hand Cannon

Existing Weapon Changes:
Descent Gun - removed overheat
Longer targeting range for tank/gauss turrets on the hornets
New reload animation for the gold shotgun

Character change for 343 Guilty Spark (he drank a redbull)

Lord Hood Boy now personally delivers gold weapons to the players
Lord Hood Boy will also throws traps at the player

Marines now drop gold weapon ammo packs
Elites now have cloaking and throw down deployable cover
Flare brutes now attach superflare to self when they berserk

Some floodcarriers now spawn flood pureforms on death

Red toolboxes now spawn in clusters
Updated toolbox spawn rates and balance

Balance changes to certain encounters
Optimized level resources

Slew of scenery updates
New changes to cinematic events + cutscenes
Johnson should now follow the player to the warthog on mission Halo
Reskinned scenery objects
Changed some ambient scripts

Dustin Echoes Changes
Delay shadow invasion event
Cut down all of the preplaced Dustin Echoes events
Reduced Dustin Echoes accuracy with the assault rifle
Individual Dustin Echoes now spawns as a goldmine trap
Added new spawn sound for Dustin Echoes

Add tip to bunnyhop for speed (crouch jump in succession)
Add tip to use reinforcements
Updated loading screens

Bug Fixes
Elites no longer spawn without weapons after landing on the 3rd tower on the covenant
Fixed the broken navpoint flags on the mission Cortana

Crows Nest: Moved script for LHB's door entry in the command center to a different thread (dormant script), fixing bug that broke the level. The original script allowed for the player to progress beyond the insertion index before the encounters were loaded in.

Updated tagset to better align with current build of mcc.
Fixes audio and visual bugs, as well as improves stability.

Setting the max game version to 1.3251.0.0 in anticipation for the MCC update later this week:
https://twitter.com/HaloSupport/status/1681086161832538114

JULY MCC UPDATE
Recompiled to work with July MCC Update (July 12th, 2023)

HOTFIX:
Resized loading screen images
Set correct mod version

UPDATE 1.6

New weapon - the descent gun
New weapon - the superflare spiker
Two new enemy brute variants
Custom grunt birthday party skull effect
Laptop placed at beginning of levels to display gameplay tips
New training text prompts
New loading screens with gameplay tips

Fixed bug where marines couldn’t fire all the gold weapons
Fixed bug causing forklifts and sheegulls to despawn with the player driving
Fixed bug causing toolboxes to despawn rapidly at certain parts of levels

Optimized level assets for whole campaign
Lowered trap spawn rate by 32%
Increased time delay for Lord Hood Boy to start throwing firebombs at the players
Nerfed dustin echoes health and spawn timing
Added jumping hunters and needle jackals to more levels
New combat dialogue for needle jackals

Increased ammo capacity for the gold automag
Increased spawn rate of the gold magnum
Lowered gravity acceleration for shegull bombs
Added the cutting torch weapon to the goldmine spawns
Increased spawn rate of invisibility/invincibility equipment
Marines sometimes drop gold weapon ammo on death
Further reinforced save points

New cutscene dialogue and assets
New level eastereggs
Removed traps from the very beginning of campaign

MISSION UI: New loading screen images

HOTFIX: Fixed Rallypoint BRAVO on the mission Halo

Version 1.5 Patchnotes

OVERALL MECHANICS
Added new movement mechanic "Crouch Boost"
^ use to avoid traps and hazards
^^ used for surfing
Slight adjustment of movement dynamics
Removed force pushback from mine explosions
^ makes vehicles more usable and prevents unnecessary death
More visual feedback when mines explode
Improved respawn time in coop (player not safe)
Removed Fall Damage
Increased grenade max inventory (4 per type)
New behaviors for Lord Hood Boy

NEW GAMEPLAY VARIETY
New Gold Weapons (Cindershot, Shield Cannon, Bloodshedder)
New Environmental Weapons (Carriable Shade Turret, Pylon Cannon, Needle Repeater)
Find the Lord Hood Boy Experience Official Flag on every level
New Enemy Types (Jumping Hunters, Bugger Kings, and Needle Jackals)
Visually improved flood infection forms (donning hats)

TRAP SYSTEM
New Toolbox Mechanic (Red Toolboxes) [These spawn traps with a chance of spawning powerful uber weapons]
Red Toolbox Traps include both familiar traps and some new ones [Golden soccer ball, giant tripmines, etc]
Increased survivability of the Confetti Bomb
Replaced the firebomb trap with two new variants (fire pyramid & fire diamond)

NEW UTILITY FOR PLAYERS
Utility "Sheegull" [cross between a banshee and a seagull]
New Healing Crystal mechanic [Crystals emerge out of the ground, spawn a regenerator effect when broken]
Firebomb traps now leave behind usable firebomb grenades [you will always have spares]
Bubbleshields now float above the ground [They also distract lord hood boy]
Improved antigravity device model [easier to destroy]
Campaign equipment spawns from mine impact [bubbleshield, autoturret, invincibility, invisibility]
New autoturret (Altarturret)

VEHICLES OVERHAUL
New Ghost vehicle [Invisible at a distance]
Upgraded Wraith vehicle [visual upgrades and effects]
New Chopper vehicle [Model overhaul, improved boost mechanic, spawns large tripmines on death]
New Scorpion vehicle [Laser Cannon]
New Vehicle "Low Chariot" [Scarab beam on sleds]

CUTSCENES AND WORLDBUILDING
Remixed Dialogue in the cutscenes
So many new cutscene gags
Greatly increased the number of references to Lord Hood
More easter eggs everywhere you look
Better environmental storytelling

CHARACTER CHANGES
Remixed dialogue in cutscenes
Made johnson 80% more sass
Made miranda 15% more goth
Made shipmaster 100% more recognizable

LEVEL CHANGES
More aggressive checkpoints on most levels
Lowered the number of Dustin Echoes (shadow spartans) that spawn
Fixed significant bugs (like the flood turning on arbiter before confronting Truth, hathog on trenchrun dying when landing jumps, certain weapons couldn’t break crystals, etc)
Designed new Roster for spawning weapons and traps (rebalanced weapon availablity and traps)
Better mine placement in claustrophobic areas of the map
Removed overlapping minefield zones that caused the players to be barraged with mines

LANGUAGE
Better language support [The pickup strings for new weapons/equipment will be shown in english for all languages]
Removed incoming grenade danger dialogue for all marines (some are obsessed with pineapples)
Fixed subtitles (removed cortana dialogue)