Friends - I have just updated Burial Mounds Heretic Hunt to be compatible with the latest MCC patch released yesterday. Everything should be fully functional with this mod once more. If you encounter anything I may have missed, feel free to let me know! Be aware - previously saved map checkpoints that you may have had will no longer be available. Enjoy!

@III AVIATOR III Yes I see what you mean, only the Brutes seem to be effective against the Hunters with melee, but only when the Brutes go into a frenzy.

@Wesker I think I know whats happening here. Bungie forgot to give the Heretic Elites the ability to inflict melee damage. That and the Hunters just heavily resist any kind of melee damage in H2. Heretics should be able to damage enemies and the player with the sword, but not regular melees.

Something really funny happened I was watching a Heretic Elite with an energy sword fighting a Hunter, but no matter how much he sliced at the Hunter he could not damage him, then the Hunter just smashed him away with his shield.

Btw if you need custom tags I share a list of download links (nexus links and Discord links)
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@Atomic Maybe in a future update a 3rd Flood Faction can be added. In the meantime check out my Containment Breached mod. There is plenty of Flood action in that one.

can we get flood aswell?

@Jesus I understand. With the next update I’ll improve things with some custom content and vehicles.

Ho no I liked it but it could be funnier adding custom stuff, there are tons of new tags out now

@Gang Thank you for that compliment! It is very much appreciated! Stay tuned - it is looking like I'm going to have another awesome H2 AI mod coming out later this week if all goes according to plan.

Another absolute banger map good sir. Looking forward to future content from you as always. You are doing a great service to the Halo community!

@Jesus That's a shame you don't like the map. Sorry to hear that.

Lack vehicles and new weapons IMHO

@rylan Thanks for that feedback and suggestions. I’ll look into potentially adding some of those ideas into the next update of this map and all my H2 maps going forward. I’ll also see about maybe adding them into my older H2 maps.

Switches work a bit differently than the ones in H3 and Reach, so I’ll have to explore ways to get them able to apply player traits and command the AI squads.

The dialog issue is a funny one. The allied AI communications for any Elite or Grunt refers to the player as the Arbiter, even if you are a Heretic. The Covenant will refer to the Heretic player as the demon, as that model uses the Chief’s player slot in the game engine. I can of course consider making the Heretic player use the Arbiter’s profile if it is that annoying. It is kind of too minor in my opinion to devote resources to fixing.

@sonicx0398 Interesting. The bots should be about equal when playing on Heroic and Legendary. It is only on easy and normal where your allies should get a bit stronger in supporting you. At least during my testing, I found that the sides are just about equal no matter what team I was on. This was just with me sitting back and watching the AI fight themselves. I implemented a wide range of AI types that can be spawned with each group, so perhaps this is partly the cause. Of course when I started to assist my allies is when the fight shifted in my team’s favor. As for the snipers - they will always have excellent aim against the player. Against other AI, their aim isn’t as consistent.

Also something weird I've noticed is as the heretics the covenant will refer you you as the Demon. The heretics will refer to you as Arbiter when on the Covenant team tho so I find it odd it's not like that for both sides

Also 1 last thing: the heretics grenade throw is screwed and uses the ai one where they hold it for a second. Covenant player is fine and throws immediately so it's just kinda super annoying. Maybe just modify the biped so the grenade gets thrown once you press the button? Even if it still does the animation that would be better, plus heretic elites can't thrown grenades anyways so it wouldn't affect anything except you

For all of your Halo 2 mods, I'd suggest either greatly increasing the players health, or adding a switch or something maybe on the map ceiling that makes you invulnerable. At least maybe a powerup that grants a permanent overshield that recharges. The amount of times u just get insta killed while trying to mess around is insane and this map specifically is very easy to get surrounded and clapped by some random grunt or dual wielding elite.
Even on Heroic the second your shield goes down you're dead and even Acrophobia can't save you from carbine shots.

Also maybe put another switch that toggles the player to be undetectable by ai so I can fly around with Blind and just observe without being harassed.

This game ain't got theater and there's no game mode settings like Forge and Firefight to cheat with.

If you can't get the switch thing to work because Halo 2 is weird then a simple unlimited camo and overshield sitting on top of the ruins should be fine

I hope you understand what im saying, its like attacks are different from friend and Foes. Thats basicallly what im saying, like if your Aliies have snipers, there attacks are bad compared to snipers from enemys on legendary which is crazy accruate and crazy crazy.

@III AVIATOR III One thing I notice and I notice this with all Ai in Halo 2, is that the ones your Friends with, are less crazy then when you aganist them. Lets say the heretics are aganist you they so strong and how they attack but with they aganist you, when they attack for you there firerate is different and less then when aganist you. On Legendary. This is only on legendary. Just by going to both team and observing these there agressive attacks, Idk why my team doesnt do the same when im on there side, like how they are when they not on my side.

@Tacospartan711 Thanks for that compliment! I very much appreciate it!

Hey man just gotta say thanks for the awesome mods that you put out there. Keep up the good work.

@RightMeow Thanks! You can customize the map with the skulls and all 4 difficulties. It really is fun to mess around with them! I made 2 other maps for H2, see my playlist right above the description.

chaotic on a higher difficulty, i like it! hope to see more maps in the future!

@marks no problem enjoy!

thx for this homie

g smacks sounds like they lack any affection in life

two dorks below me

if it gets popular I DO NOT CARE I WILL HOLD THIS SECOND PLACE AS LONG AS I CAN

we will be forgotten in this chat

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