I haven’t finished a playthrough enough to give a full review, but I just beat The Library and the mod so far is fantastic.

It makes a number of both subtle and obvious tweaks. It adds numerous new lore friendly enemy types, which is especially welcome with the flood as it makes them less of a boring slog to fight. It adds ODSTs alongside the normal marines. I really like the ODST visual which is at home with CE.

It adds new weapons to the CE campaign like a flame thrower (although to be honest I rarely use it due to how fast it goes through ammo) and sentinel energy beam guns that can be used. It even brings the covenant energy sword to CE.

The library didn’t feel nearly as bad as vanilla, with a lot of tweaks given to it.

There are invisible changes too like the assault rifle’s initial spread being way reduced, making it actually usable at midrange with short bursts. Hunters have been tweaked so that one pistol shot to their orange bit doesn’t kill them. Warhog handling is better, with it accelerating much faster, and marines will now even drive unoccupied warthogs to follow you.

Big recommend of this mod for a replay of CE, it’s available on the Steam Workshop page.

  • HadriscusEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’ve been watching Ruby’s last few livestreams, it’s amazing what he’s doing. The changes are much more in depth than what he did with CE : jackal shields, fighting marines when playing as the arbiter, revamped fight against the prophet of regret… he was working on the quarantine zone recently, which makes him over two thirds of the way through.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Is he doing anything about the swarms of Jackal snipers in Halo 2?i loved Halo 2, but you can tell Bungie got lazy in the campaign by just putting a bunch of snipers on god mode.

      • HadriscusEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Yes, I can confirm he mentions his adjustments to jackal snipers in “overhauling the covenant”

      • HadriscusEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I’m pretty sure he did, but not sure where he talks about it. You should try watching his older livestreams on the early levels, or his recent “overhauling the covenant” video.

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        In videos he has mentioned both reducing the damage from the sniper rifles so they aren’t one-hit kills, and allowing jackels to use carbines which will replace some sniper jackels.