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I remember being younger and being so sad because I always saw youtubers playing Halo Wars modded and now with Definitive Edition I get to play those mods too :D

At least with Star Wars stormtroopers still look like stormtroopers. In my opinion while I certainly don't approve of alot of what's been done with Star Wars I think Halo is 1000x worse.

@@BrokenCircle1 Ngl I now agree with that, W content and even tho mcc is bad, I recommend mythic overhauls for 3, 4, Reach and ODST, Havoc or Revolved for CE, and Vanny's Recut for 2, the best versions of every game are modded by the fans. ❤️‍🔥🥳

Unfortunately, a lot of franchises have been mishandled because of shitty management. COD, everything EA and Ubisoft touches, Star Trek, the MCU after Endgame, and many others.

@@BrokenCircle1 And master chief still looks like master chief, that's not a good argument. SW been dumpstered a lot worse than Halo, but Halo has suffered badly too.

He does? @@Hlieyto

So do I, after reading Contact Harvest Tartarus just seems like a whiney kid.

I feel most of the time the controller limitation is overstated. I use one.

The reason keyboard and mouse is superior is because you have far more precision when you control/select your troops. Numerous Keyes allow you to easily assign different groups, abilities, and building types to different hotkeys. It also allows you to angle/turn around buildings when making new ones (something that happens in free building rts games). If you try to have all that on a controller it will be super clunky and won’t work half the time. The. On the other hand you’ll get what happened with Halo Wars where it has the depth of a puddle. I had a lot of fun with the series, but after delving into more advanced games in the genre I now realize the games are VERY bare bones. They’re the kind of thing I can ONLY recommend to someone that’s both new to the genre, and a big Halo fan. If you’re not either of those there isn’t much there for you, other than maybe playing with the controller just to see how well that works. The second game is a definite improvement that adds more depth into the buildings (mini bases are more useful with them having 2 slots for specialized units, instead of 1. There’s more turret types. Along with certain campaign missions and Firefight having turret/wall sockets at key choke points around the map), more u it’s, abilities, and making certain changes to production to add more depth. Sadly, it’s still limited by the controller. Otherwise the devs could’ve gone all out (the pc version allows you to put units in groups, but that sadly doesn’t go far enough). For anyone reading this I’m not saying you can’t like the games. I’ve had a lot of fun with both, and am still able to get a kick out of them through mods (love how a lot of HW1 mods backport the best features and balancing/production changes from HW2 to HW1). I’m just saying in the retail form they aren’t very good rts games, and the mods are held back by the game’s core design.

@@shreksnow1918 I think you missed my point. Great points though.

Part of the reason why Bungie was so against Ensemble using the IP was because Microsoft gave Ensemble permission to use it WITHOUT consulting Bungie, remember that Bungie still had the rights to the Halo IP during this time not Microsoft so for Microsoft to pull this crap on them and just expect Bungie to play ball must have been insulting to them. Edit: also, let's not forget that Bungie first thought of doing an RTS with the Halo IP before settling on Combat Evolve.

From what I can tell, there's a problem that becomes apparent in Arcadia City. Someone thought it would be a cool idea to have an Elite with an Energy Sword slicing through civilians, rather than a Brute Chieftain. Ever since, the attitude against the Elites has been 'Nope, cannot ally with them'. I mean, they're literally called Brutes, to distinguish them from the Honor Guard and Elite pilots, because they're the ones to do the butchering, when you can't get the Jackals and Grunts to pass as a credible threat. I mean, let's face it. Ripa the Arbiter in Halo Wars was smart enough to question the Prophet in the second mission. Imagine how much better the game and lore would have been if he'd outright refused to destroy the Holy Forerunner site, and the Prophet had to go to the Brute Chieftain instead. As far as Halo Wars goes as an RTS--it was my first RTS. I later played Civilization and Starcraft, and as far as I'm concerned, it still holds up. No idea what people are talking about. You reckon that's nostalgia bias?

I've gotten this with all of the new leaders. There is AI for them, but it's hit or miss whether or not it actually does anything.

Thanks for watching. I do other Halo stuff too but I do want to cover more stuff like this.

Thanks for watchijg

I generally don't like mods like that my reason being if I wanted to play Halo I'd just boot up Halo and vice versa. I tend to like mods that fit the feel of the existing game and add to it rather than turning it into a whole new game.

Ah, I'm yhe opposite lol, total conversions are totally my thing. Although Fallout 4 is one of the weakest platforms for that tbh

@@PetrusEksteen Eh I've tried them before. I remember at one point I modded Starbound to basically be a soup mod of loads of popular franchises mixed in and I found it took away from the base game and just felt bloated.

@@BrokenCircle1 Yeah fair, that is pretty much what happened to my last Fallout 4 playthrough lol although the biggest issue with that game is the base quests anyway. Luckily in the Skyrim modding scene most authors tend to make stuff lore-friendly anyway (avoiding most of the armor and character mods, that is... lol).

Sins of the Prophets. I've thought about it but I'm not sure. It's definitely a cool mod/game but SOSE to me has always been kind of boring. Only having space ships with very limited empire building elements has always kind of just left me wanting more but not in a good way.

No I did not run any shaders. It might be part of the mod.

Yes it does seem to be linked to the amount of units, maybe why the pop count is lowered. I've played Sins of the Prophets. Pretty cool though I always find SOSE gets boring pretty quick.

Who or what is soundsmith?

@@BrokenCircle1 another youtuber

Follow the instructions on the mod page. Worked fine for me.

@BrokenCircle1 OK, awesome and there weren't any mod managers that go along with it? If there aren't any, my monkey brain will be pleased lol

There is. It's a bit rough and only space I think

@BrokenCircle1 It's currently space only or at least the last time I checked on it. There's actually an older one that was never finished and I think that one's currently in a better place

HW2 was meh in my opinion and the bad thing is it wasn't even really worked on by 343 all that much it was another company. Forge by modern standards is kind of pathetic. Games have had level editors far more in depth than Forge since the 90s. Sure it's a nice feature to have but at the end of the day its incredibly limited.

@BrokenCircle1 The first Halo wars was definitely more fun but Halo wars wall not worked on by 343 was still pretty okay in my book as for Forge I get what you mean but Halo Reach Forge was totally fun best time ever,Halo infinite Forge well its impressive with what you can do it still sucks I just like the A.I mechanism never done that on console before.

Iirc having played the mod before it does work with the Microsoft store version

As far as I'm aware all mods work with the Microsoft store version of the game. I suggest using The firebase/halo wars de mod manager because it makes things much easier

Fair enough. There are other mods that allow for bigger ones I willl try out and showcase in the future.

@@BrokenCircle1 sweeet. c:

​@thefluffles6384 Hey out of curiosity have you tried out any of the mods for Dawn of War 2?

@@heylookitsbilly8407 DOW 2 Elite Mod is a pretty big multiplayer mod but after a while I just don't find it fun. I'm not that great at it but sometimes the units just melt away too quickly when you look away If you're really fast yeah sure it's not that bad you have to play it for a while It sucks you in and once you play a couple dozen games you get tired of it real quick well for me, the only thing that keeps me playing the mod from time to time is the sheer amount of salt it produces within my blood stream. There are some mods out there that added base building to it just recently but that is mostly for ai battles unless you've got frens, bunch of more funner mods like lore accurate space marines, orks and guard etc... I think the better 40k rts would be for the men at war assault squad 2 mod in all honesty. I think Dawn of war 2 is like a proto Company of Heroes and in all honesty It's just so slow at the same time if that makes any sense just meh. If you like that's cool I appreciate it, it's a great game and maybe if I gave it a fair try back in the day I would have liked it but the small armies no base building, meh.

@@heylookitsbilly8407 not sure if my 1st message is got through but yes it was a bit long winded but yeah some mods good some mods no.

100% agree. HW2s art style looks like a mobile game. All these people saying it was a return to classic...I don't get. Also HW2 felt gimmicky and in some ways is more simplistic than HW1 (Think no variations of cover, no neutral bases, etc)

Oh god what did you say?

​@@BrokenCircle1 Said they needed to be fired for doing a horrid job.

I got banned from MCC discussions for saying something along the lines of “Nobody gives a fuck, 343” because they keep posting all this “Disability” or “Pride” month half assed bullshit instead of actual updates

@@giygas9305 Exactly, other than a coating for infinite [which is just a garbage pattern that ironically mocks them by making it a "special" coating], and the nameplates, there's no actual representation, if they wanted to make genuine pandering, they'd have just made an obtainable free helmet that'd refer to the adaptive controller as a gungir variant. I got banned from there for saying their games don't work and they play like a pre-alpha. "DID I JUST OPEN A DEV KIT INSTEAD OF THE FINAL PRODUCT?" Moment I hashtag Fire343 or complain about them at all, boom goes the dynamite in their tiny brains.

I do agree Wars 2 wasn't as good as people said

Sure. The channel Discord link is in the description.

Leader overhaul is the one I tried getting working, but apparently can only use it with a working Steam version. It seemed like alot of fun.

@antiwave5294 What are some of the things you plan on doing with your mod? It’s always interesting seeing people’s different idealized versions for various games.

​@@xIcyStarzz-yz7myAbsolutely does work with MS version of the game. Suggest using the Firebase/Halo wars de mod manager which can be found on moddb