That would have been incredibly cool If Captain Keyes was wearing Trooper armor for those cutscenes, Someone should add that as a Mod.

@KRawatXP2003

14 күн бұрын

Lol caption keys!

@basicmudkip5985

14 күн бұрын

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@IonicHyperspace

14 күн бұрын

Captain*

@KSI_Revelations

14 күн бұрын

@@KRawatXP2003 Thanks for the Correction Lol

@217adaptiveperspective

14 күн бұрын

I don't know why they didn't keep him in the Armor in the first place, he had it in Classic Apparently had it before the final version of CEA

the textures in retail CEA are alot more compressed and this build has alot more dynamic lights.

@colbyboucher6391

14 күн бұрын

Kinda love the straight-up Reach armor too. Actually looks better here than it did in Reach somehow?

Seeing an Infection form pick up an Assault Rifle and shoot it while Heavy Price Paid plays is something I never knew I needed in life. Also I feel like the Master Chief model and Level 2's aesthetic match the originals much closer, which is really neat. And the Maw Sky is so cool looking, it looks like the sky during Halo 3's ending to me.

@tbc1880

14 күн бұрын

Humanity when the flood starts trying again and infection forms start rocking rockets.

@ARavingLobster

14 күн бұрын

Isn't it just on the Marine's head and the marine Starts firing? The marines are just unfinished and invisible in this build just like in the intro cutscene?

@thatrandomzealot4773

14 күн бұрын

@@ARavingLobster That's a fair point, now thinking about it, that's probably what it is. But it is funny to think about an infection form shooting an assault rifle lmao.

@kaydenna5520

12 күн бұрын

Now I want a clip of it with nobody talking, just the music, like one of those shitpost videos that randomly appear on your recommended, only for you to never see them again

I feel like a lot of the lighting in this build looked better and more fitting to CE's esthetic.

@saricubra2867

13 күн бұрын

Ehh, no difference. Anything related to 343 Guilty Spark is still a dumpster fire on CEA, too bright, they removed the horror.

Correction - the final version uses Assault Rifle and Magnum models from Halo 3, not purpose made ones as suggested here. They did this due to receiving a lot of complaints after the trailer was released, they figured that Halo 3's models were much closer to the CE ones and would be suitable replacements without them having to make any new assets, although they didn't do this for any of the weapons that weren't featured in the trailer, like the rocket launcher or sniper.

@wearsjorge55

13 күн бұрын

A small missed detail on their part is the AR safety button. It's not on the H3 model so in CEA this awkward block just jutts out of the side of AR when swapping weapons

@bshap495

13 күн бұрын

@@wearsjorge55 It does feature a safety, it's just slightly higher on the receiver.

@user-73a

13 күн бұрын

@@bshap495 A higher orientation renders that an opinion.

@reguluscorneas1366

13 күн бұрын

It has nothing to do... But since you have Itsuki on your profile picture. I respect you a lot bro

@1SilverDollar

10 күн бұрын

Its a shame because the Reach AR has a more consistent shape with CE's AR than the Halo 3 gun did. Though the use of 3's magnum isn't so bad.

I bet that blood splatter was a cheeky position marker for Chief during the cut scene. Why they would need it is strange though.

@slvrcobra1337

14 күн бұрын

Maybe it was an early way to test the engine swap thing to make sure both classic and anniversary models line up?

@Leftysrev3nge

14 күн бұрын

@@slvrcobra1337 Nice. Good theory. Though I'm keen on the idea that Keyes gets annoyed if you fall out of line. "Let that be a reminder for the rest of you!"

@plzletmebefrank

14 күн бұрын

It might also be something for pre-loading the blood and bullet hole decals. And putting it in an easy and familiar place to double check it to see if that breaks for some reason.

I'm pretty sure the infection form firing the assault rifle is not that. Since it appears all the marines in cutscenes are invisible, I'm pretty that's the marine in that cutscene who gets attached by one and is shooting as he's trying to take it off, it's just because he's invisible it looks like the infection form has the assault rifle lol.

@ARavingLobster

14 күн бұрын

This is exactly it. They must have planned on having him fire his gun when he's frantically trying to get it off his head. He doesn't do that in the final version but they took a lot of liberties with these earlier cutscenes so that was clearly going to be their plan. That is his gun and the infection form is on his head, he's just invisible like all the other marines.

@hereticstanlyhalo6916

14 күн бұрын

@@ARavingLobster I think I've played halo ce too much, because when he showed that, I subconsciously immediately knew that it was the marine trying to take it off just like in the original and it had to be that he was invisible.

The guy who was Johnsons model I THINK is the guy you meet at the beach in New Alexandria, before you clear out the wraiths and activate the AA. That's the only black guy I can remember from Reach lmao

@cheesybiscuits2103

14 күн бұрын

Sgt. Duval

@cheesybiscuits2103

14 күн бұрын

Very good theory, could absolutely see that.

@GarceGaifia-mz8df

14 күн бұрын

Bien racista mi compa

@cheesybiscuits2103

14 күн бұрын

Not at all lmao

@JDotLoc

14 күн бұрын

@@GarceGaifia-mz8dfwhat is racist?

Imagine if they kept the Bang Bang Skull. And you had to use that in the MCC LASO Playlist. That itself could be fun or torture.

The thing that I find most jarring about the CEA graphics is how much more bright and colorful everything is, changing the art direction completely on some levels, especially in 343 Guilty Spark. It no longer had that creepy ominous vibe that the OG had that made it so memorable

@jialin7

14 күн бұрын

Ehhh I wouldn’t say colorful, but definitely bright

@PsychoMoFoGaming

13 күн бұрын

This game is where all the warning signs started. I told everyone 343 wpuld be the downfall of Halo when this game released but they where like "nah they wouldnt do that" and then they did...again...and again...and again.

@ZacTheFirst

13 күн бұрын

@@jialin7its extremely colorful

@ZacTheFirst

13 күн бұрын

@@PsychoMoFoGaming343 didn’t make Halo Anniversary. That was Saber Interactive

@PsychoMoFoGaming

13 күн бұрын

@@ZacTheFirst 343 lead the development, Saber interactive (a subsidary of 343) had hands on deck for assistance in development. Microsoft put their newly formed studio, 343, as the heads of the project as both a test and a way to give to new studio experence in the IP. The decision to make a CEA was made when 343 studios was created. Dont try and tell me the history, when i was there to see it.

I think the reason the water is missing in the early build is the developers saw the original Maw’s water behind the autumn and due to the textures intended to show morning light reflected off it, they mistook the sea for more sand. It’s like how everyone mistook the exploding pieces of flesh the mutants in Tomb Raider threw at you for fireballs due to the meat texture being so low res despite being taken from actual cadaver photos at a coroners office.

@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778

13 күн бұрын

reminds me how the heretics in H2A were mistaken as having gold armor when it was dust from the gas giant on stripped down elite armor

@MarioTheLiopleurodon

12 күн бұрын

@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 or the smoke above the library, which was actually an energy shield that had a broken texture on the gearbox port

That is pretty wild how much better it looks. It would have been pretty cool to have skin swaps on the AR or anything else that looks different in later halos.

I love that the "Pew Pew" sound eventually made it into Cursed halo

The actual f. This looks ten times better than what was released.

@Razgriz_01

14 күн бұрын

Yeah, they most likely had to turn-off or remove some of those details to make it run better on the 360. Would've been cool if it was re-enabled once MCC came out. Hopefully modders can figure out a way to get these stuff from the early build into the current game.

@Titan13335

14 күн бұрын

​@@Razgriz_01its not really possible to mod halo anniversary on pc, no mod tools

@Razgriz_01

14 күн бұрын

@@Titan13335 Yeah, thats the weird thing about CEA on MCC. They released all the mod tools for the Halo games. But not for the anniversary versions of Halo CE and Halo 2.

@Kobayashi9001_

14 күн бұрын

​@@Razgriz_01knowing 343 the mods will broke the games really badly

@Titan13335

14 күн бұрын

@@Kobayashi9001_ I doubt it, the mod tools for the original games that they've given us have been really good

I'd take a guess and say that the team probably had conflicting thoughts as to whether stay as close to the original game as possible, or iterate with some design changes. They made a big deal over how precise they tried to make things, which is nice but we can see the pitfalls of that through trying to mimick cutscene cameras, lighting systems, and color palettes of a simpler, more primitive art design. Add on some standard deadline crunch, and you get weird things like Keyes' 343 Guilty Spark's situation: an interesting placeholder that wouldn't be canonically accurate, but creating the proper asset isn't viable on their deadline; thus, the dress outfit ships.

the reach AR just fits so much better in cutscenes and looks so much better to me against shoulder

if I had to guess, they probably underestimated the fans intelligence and thought that people wouldn't recognise Captain Keys unless he was wearing his iconic uniform.

@Boxscot49

4 күн бұрын

You dont think people would recognize his voice?

The bandana skull wasn't a preorder, it was the grunt funeral skull. I know this because I remember getting the bandana skull on Silent Cartographer was a bitch with Halo CE physics

@Espartanica

14 күн бұрын

You can get the Warthog down there and stand on top of it, flip it and grab the skull through the ceiling of the room

@effen_aey_man

14 күн бұрын

@@Espartanica Like I said, getting that skull was a bitch with Halo CE physics

@ryujin9568

14 күн бұрын

@@effen_aey_man I remember 'nade jumping off a mate's head. Took us an hour to figure it out the first time, and the shitty Australian internet of the time didn't help, it really was a bitch

The Pre order bonus was the Grunt Funeral Skull :) But nice video! It's weird and cool to see this build after so many years

In the cutscenes, you can see the floating weapons but with no models attach to them, so my best guest is that the flood infection that shoots the AR is actually a marine model that get the flood on his back or on the side and he’s trying to shoot but due to the flood infection being heavy or trying to control him, that why the rifle shoots aimlessly, but, since the weapons has no model, it looks like the infection form shoots the rifle.

Dude the beta build looks super cool especially the cutscenes . It bringsa me back to that dark vibe from halo ce

i completely lost my shit with the parasite carrying the gun and shooting it in circles, and then in slow motion and with your comments was even funnier xD good vid as always General!

5:07 I think it's worth noting that without the sunset lighting and more desaturated colors, Halo actually looks more faithful to the original version. Of course it needs better shadows and is too bright but it's closer than the final version

when im trying to look up for music to study and my yt homepage hits me with the "The Never Before Seen Halo CE Anniversary Beta Build"

Thanks for showing this! If you find more interesting changes in this build, please do more videos on it. These earlier textures look a lot more faithful to Bungie's original visision versus what we got at retail.

Seeing Keyes in high def armor is cool!

I cant wait for this to come to steam workshop. If it does. Also i noticed there is more blood in this build.

The flood with the AR isnt shooting it, the marine is unloaded, but the animation is still there, giving the strange effect.

Captain Keyes in combat gear is hella badass.

I ended up realizing that the Flood Infection form that looks like it spawns an Assault Rifle didn't spawn it and instead is jumping onto one of the unmodeled/invisible marines. This is why the Assault Rifle is upright and spinning around like that. One of the other things that i noticed was that instead of the invisible marine holding a floating Assault Rifle like the others, this one ends up having there weapon attached to the Infection Form as if it were a placeholder for the animation or as if there are two animations that play out for that marine for some reason.

I would like to see more of the beta build please. It actually looked really good even though this version was unfinished it looks better than the finished one

5:07 the coloring feels so much more acurate here

Love when you make smoother camera movements like this👍👍

I think the pillar of autumn looks better in this than it did in release. I always thought the H1A autumn textures blended too much together making the ship geometry look kinda flat. These older textures stick out more, and man the lighting is much better. The ship lights are much more noticeable and the darker lighting just seems much more realistic for space.

I’ve seen something like this in a demo back in 2010, when they were announcing the game on KZread, and I was like, hey those are the weapons from halo reach, and when I got the game back in 2011 when it was released, I was shocked that the reach weapons are gone, well except for the assault rifle.

5:20 The pilot lmaooooo and the way general put it was super funny lol

I REALLY want that keys in combat and maw dawn/dusk skybox in a mod for MCC omg it would add so much..

The flood assault rifle scene is clearly the bit where one of spores attaches itself to a marine that is firing, just the marine here is invisible so its just the spore floating

0:51 bro pre looks so much better

@ryatt9365

14 күн бұрын

The sunrays beaming past the ring and less excessively colorful space looks great.

@someheavyonyoutube.

13 күн бұрын

@@ryatt9365 and the t posing elite was even better fr fr. but yea 343 should've kept that

Srgt. Johnson's face in the cutscene in the flood facility is cursed lol

1:40 Poor elite was shot up into space and died T-posing

Quick correction: the Bandanna skull was not a pre-order bonus. It is available on the level The Silent Cartographer, and was placed in an indoor section near the security override station. The special skull that you needed a code for was the Grunt Funeral Skull.

Imma be waiting for the master chief model comparison video... Great work as always!

I actually just realized but the Pillar of Autumn is actually using it’s original Halo Reach model in the early cutscenes to POA, cause notice the red markings on the hull which aren’t on the final version of this cutscene

I still remember rumors of the pimps at sea back on the old Bungie forums. I'm old now

Funnily enough it seems like the first 2 level preview images were an attempt at remastering the OG level preview images, but shot at different angles. 2:42. Pretty sure the preorder skull was Grunt Funeral. 10:42. In the normal scene the pod infector grapples Bisenti and Bisenti’s weapon goes firing wildly. Because most of the marines in this version of the cutscene are invisible, you can’t see this. The pod infector isn’t firing the AR: it’s Bisenti, you just can’t see him. Look at the angle of the AR in that shot.

Pre release reach rifle is 👌

That armor model looks so GOOD

I agree the older build looked massively better. It's such a shame because the final release ended up looking nothing like the original.

The visual language in this build looks a lot better than in the final release. The metal side of the ring doesn't have OTT blue lights, the level "Halo" looks more in keeping with the original colour pallet and the flood cutscene looks darker and scarier

THAT ELITE WOULD BE MASSIVE . . . Realistically taking into consideration how that perspective shot was took, that Elite is damn near half the size of a section of the Halo Ring. Thats FUCKING HUGE

Sargent Johnson looks like Bill Duke.

7:06 your idea was so shocking I had to smile :)

6:35, the blood pool looks like it was put there for debugging, like it was supposed to indicate where the player would come out of the cutscene

It’s honestly pretty infuriating how much better a lot of things from this pre release build look compared to what was actually released

Gonna be honest... this was the first case of 343 not sticking to their guns a lot of this would have been awesome in the retail.

@proggz39

14 күн бұрын

Disagree. Halo CE deserves a proper remake, not a Reach asset face lift

@Phantom_Aspekt

14 күн бұрын

@@proggz39 100% The Reach assets just don't fit with CE, a remaster that has assets done with the original styling would be amazing but I don't think we'll ever see it. It'd be nice to see stuff like the recreated CE models that Marcus Lehto did a couple of years back that update the original models almost perfectly.

@Elitesolider1023

14 күн бұрын

​@Phantom_Aspekt Or why not just make it look like a complete mix between reach and combat evolved And then everyone's happy.

@ZacTheFirst

13 күн бұрын

343 did not make Halo Anniversary. Saber Interactive did

@Connor8609

13 күн бұрын

​​@@Elitesolider1023That's kind of what happened and no one is happy. CEA is pretty hated.

Would it be possible to do a comparison video of all the cutscenes? As in, side by side

the infection form with the assault rifle is connected to the marine that pulls it (infection form) off the other marine in the final version of the cutscene so i'm pretty sure the rifle isn't attached to the infection form but the skeleton of the marine that should be there. although popcorn with guns would be awesome.

Damn Cant wait to see all the mods that will come from this

*Pew*

@_HypeR_7

14 күн бұрын

*Pew*

@TheAsh56

14 күн бұрын

@@_HypeR_7 Pew

High key the aesthetic and cutscenes look so much better in the prerelease version. Shame they decided to turn everything up to 100 in the retail version.

6:55 I suspect that bloodspot is a place marker for where Master Chief is positioned in the cutscene where he meets with Keyes

Cant wait for someone to finish and release this as a mod.

I believe the random blood splatter is there for when or if you shoot Captain keys and he falls there

2:37 the only skull here that was a preorder skull, was the grunt funeral skull. This is the first I’m seeing the “bang bang” skull though

The bang bang skull feels straight out of cursed halo

I need this to be playable.

My speculation about that mysterious blood splatter next to Keyes on the bridge is that it's a visual marker for the dev team to know where Chief will be standing when he arrives to trigger the cutscene. It's just a copy pasted prop from out in the halls where the Covenant are fighting Marines. The placeholder Johnson I think is a low resolution Sgt. Major Duvall from Halo Reach on the mission Exodus.

HaloBuildMessiah dropping hot builds dayum. Amazing showcase!

7:18 I guess the blood is there as a place holder for the people that work on the cutscenes? If I remember correctly it is the the place Master Chief stands in the cutscene and you get Cortana. So maybe they put it there as a reference?

3:08 that sounds like Sgt johnson impersonating the AR

can’t wait for this to get modded to the Mcc

as much as i love the warthog run at the end i wonder if they will make it more lore accurate. it was so much long than the pillar of autumn was supposed to be

lol the bang bang skull is hilarious

Can anyone remember with that one unused tech demo, playable cut scene was with master chief in the cave? I remember seeing a video when it came out, but I swear I can’t find it anywhere.

The blood was there to mark where to stand to trigger the cut scene

I think it’s the marine that greets you in exodus where you have to turn both aa gun on to save the civilian transports

the bang bang skull is cool

kinda looks like they used the blood splatter as a visual tool when not in the editor to see where the player would spawn in from the cutscene, simple little dev tool and trick

Johnson makes me think of Anderson in mass effect.. I don’t know why

Wouldn't it make more sense that the Reach models for the weapons were used in the remaster. The Autumn did leave Reach right before they found their first halo.

Damn a lot of things, especially the first cutscene for PoA, look sooo much better than what we got

Having Reach weapons makes sense since the Autumn just escaped from Reach.

This is really what the remasters should have looked like I. Also, remember the demo footage. And I'm like, why the hell did it not look like that? Especially since it took place after reach was his wife. I was glad to have the ma37 thirty seven assault rifle in the story I was very disappointed.We didn't get that in the final build.

8:30 is that the trooper that meets you after the Falcon trip on Exodus and asks you to turn on the AA Missile launchers?

6:43 I don’t know why no one ever believes me when I point this out but, I swear the bloody bullet holes are related to scripts for cutscenes and events. You can find them all over levels with less varied terrain like Maw, 343, and the Library.

Man. Feels like forever general kidd has been a kidd. Me too, me too. 😅 😌

The infection form grabbing the assault rifle is probably it infecting a marine

Would love to see these beta elements be included in a mod for mcc pc

This actually is pretty cool

Why the hell did they make space purple in CEA anyway?

Ma-an, I need someone from that team to be interviewed on why these cool changes never made it to retail.

They only way I ever seen this build was in the halo 10th anniversary and special edition Xbox magazines I was so hyped for it.

In the Official Release they replaced the Reach AR with the Halo 3 AR.

What happened between this build and the final version? So much of this build looks better than the final release.

10:18 the flood form doesn't actually pick up anything, it's the two marine who are missing models but their ARs are still present. Looks funny though.

9:18 imagine them wearing that on assault on the control room or two betrayals odsts in a armor of that color

The bang bang skull reminds me of the "human gun sounds" cheat from ts:fp. Shame it got scrapped

Johnson got all oiled up for his introduction.

Aw yeah, Canada day build for CE:A-