Deleted Level Sections in Halo You Can Still Access 

8:50 that room was used in the final game. It appears in the mission cortana aboard High charity but its been altered to be flood infested, its also the room where the hidden cortana terminal is. :)

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That ark cutscene room is also used in cortana

This is cool but... It doesn’t explain the disappearance of Chief and Cortana’s son, Cortano 117

Apparently, Reach was originally gonna have a multiplayer mode where you have Elites vs Spartans in Sabres and Seraphs in a space battle, but was probably cut due to time constraints. However, the code for flying the Seraph was left in the game, which is why you can fly it in Long Night of Solace. This is also how they added the Seraph as a proper vehicle into MCC Forge without having to make new code for it, and you can tell it's Bungie's unfinished code because it's missing quite a few HUD elements

the "too large" cutscene room 8:31 was used in the level Cortana, you can get a couple of active camo's and a grav hammer, there is also a secret terminal in the bottom room on that level Edit: You look at where the secret terminal would be at 9:00 also, one of the skulls are there too

2:00 if you read the book “the flood” it was meant to be four, but likely shortened to make the level more enjoyable.

Generalkidd is such a chill dude who manages to post something new every day somehow

8:30 Isn't that the non flood version of the Cortana Terminal room? It looks alot like it The camera even pans over the area where the "terminal" is located in Cortana

I personally like how halo 2 ended with the arbiter. It just feels authentic and unique. It worked too

12:00 - The opening part of the E3 demo with the medical "tent" structure was reused on the multiplayer map Turf, and many of the assets that Terminal were also in Headlong as well. That E3 demo was basically turned into 3 separate multiplayer maps in addition to the latter half of Metropolis in the campaign.

Rocketsloth, how's the search for the meaning of the odst glyphs? Will there be an update video soon?

Lowkey, that Halo 2 beta build looks almost like the art style of New Mombasa in ODST.

It's kind of hilarious how nearly half the comments here are about that cutscene room also being used in Cortana. Maybe read through the comments to check if your comment already exists, lol.

Just break into ske7chs house and play the halo 2 e3 demo

You later see the hidden covenant room from the ark is in the flood mission Cortana, but more floodified, it has the exact same layout, you traverse it twice, once getting through, and the second time when your escaping High Charity

I really wish we had that e3 demo for the MCC no one had made it for a mod, I heard someone was trying but thats it

One thing I always found interesting about Halo 3. The level called Floodgate was originally intended to be a full length level with chief searching through the crashed covenant ship to find cortana. Bungie ended up moving all that map content to the Cortana level later in the game. This is why Halo 3's high charity is so cramped and claustrophobic compared to Halo 2's cavernous, grand high charity. Because they just used the geometry from the inside of that covenant ship on Floodgate

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I mean, if you ask me, Generalkidd is a pretty cool guy. I have a recording of him singing barbie girl (you know where to look) if you wanna see it.

So you're telling me we WEREN'T supposed to drive the warthog through the tunnels?

i just wish they would finally fix the 1st person animation for the battle rifle in Halo 2. The left hand is floating and and isnt gripping the rifle. its that way in anniversary graphics, too. while walking, you can see the left hand stay still-ish but the battle rifle floats above the hand slightly.

8:28 The Shadow of Intent's bridge was modeled in such high detail because it was reused as the Cortana Terminal room in the level Gravemind.

This is exactly what we’ve been waiting for Rocket Slot and Generalkidd

Hey I just want to say your videos are by far in the top I have ever watched and I want to say thank you for making such incredible content, you re inspired my interest in halo and allowed me to have more fun playing the game so once again thank you!

It’s pronounced General Heed 😤😤 But fr so cool that you guys collaborated 😄

There was a cut mission from halo 3 where master chief was supposed to be in a hornet flying around a forest (like in the map Guardian) shooting down sentinels, but idk if this is true

8:30 room is in the cortana mission, its ther room were you gotta climb some flood tumors to grab the skull

Wait, that Forerunner city looks exactly like that giant Forerunner structure I've ones seen in my dreams a while back...

Damn, makes me wish for a new game: Halo 2 Remake. Not to be confused with H2 Anniversary, Remake would feature a ton of cut content including missions and stuff, while having the glorious H2A graphics. Such missions would be: -Covenant ship; Chief takes the bomb from Cairo Station and blows up the CAS Assault Carrier like in original Halo 2. This time, however, the blast launches him into another Carrier that he must destroy. After blowing it up, Chief makes his way to the In Amber Clad and continues as normal. -Outskirts plus; Features a much larger version of New Mombasa and includes parts from the H2 E3 demo. -Metropolis plus; Same as above, would feature a larger version of New Mombasa and potentially parts from H3:ODST. -Library; When Chief jumps in the lake to avoid getting glassed, he is instantly grabbed by the gravemind. A level was supposed to take place between the death Regret and the Gravemind cutscene. Remnants of this level can be seen in the intro to the cutscene, as chief is being dragged through the hallway. -Warthog run; The warthog run at the end of Halo 2, now professionally added back in and finished. Then also Halo 3 Remake. This game would have the Anniversary treatment of graphics overhaul while also adding cut missions, such as guardian. Who would want this?

9:21 it's also technically the same room from the mission Cortana but without the flood restructuring

Wasn’t the room in 9:20 in a Multiple map. I’ve seen videos somewhere I forgot where though

Anyone know the source for the photos of the Forerunner "city" geometry at 7:12? That extra geometry at the Ark Cartographer always intrigued me, since its such a huge construct that a lot of people just won't see in normal gameplay.

the one where you clip thru the rock in theater mode looks like a room from cortana, perhaps its just left over from building that asset

I personally am glad from a narrative and structure standpoint that we didn't have a warthog run in Halo 2. It gave a change of pace from the first, and strengthened the bookends-feel for the run in Halo 3. I'm also afraid that people would have panned it as unoriginal and forced. From a gameplay perspective though and in hindsight man I wish it was in there and we got to play it

8:29 not sure if you noticed, but the part youre talking about is a part of the level cortana in halo 3, like when you drop down early in the level after the part where you can see the pelican you end the level in. (there's even an achivment for exploring that part "it was the coins fault")

9:00 this place is in the middle of the mission : Cortana

9:02 reminds me of this one room in the mission Cortana in Halo 3.

Yo I didn’t realize that people didn’t have as much access to the halo 2 demo. My original Xbox halo disc is one of the platinum hits versions and has the demo of halo 2 on it

9:07 that room is on the cortana level covered in flood flesh.

I love still learning new things about ODST after all these years

7:24 Forunner Halo 3 Initial release date: September 25, 2007 Initial release: February 16, 2010 Halo 4 Initial release date: November 6, 2012 Edit 8 months later: Shadow troop carrier at 12:16

The room on the ark is actually seen on cortana, which means that if it is the room for the cut scene at the end of floodgate, then it's actually on high charity. Maybe high charity and CAS class carriers have the exact same room somewhere on each of them.

8:10 - The Bungie devs actually talked about this during the Halo 3 Legendary Edition commentary. It was going to be set on the moon around the gas giant originally.

@9:19 that's a room in the level Cortana (where you get the Cortana terminal) as well as the cutscene background in The Ark. It's used whenever a scene is supposed to take place on a Covie Ship Bridge. The geometry is used in game just a little overgrown with Flood

At 9:00, this is the same room as the location of the Cortana Terminal on the mission Cortana which explains why it is so detailed.

9:20 that big room is also the room you find cortana's terminal in Halo3. With added floodstuff obvs

what is crazy to me is the first room works in anniversary graphics, does that mean the anniversary is a literal texture swap and all the assets in that room had an anniversary version? or did they actually remodel it in newer graphics

9:18 that level geometry appears in the level Cortana, it seems they removed the flood geometry for use in cutscenes

That out-of-bounds section you showed off on The Ark that looks like some kind of Covenant control room looks an awful lot like the section of the map Cortana that I always get lost in.. just less Flood-ified. I feel like most of the inaccessible parts of the Mombasa Streets level are there to help sell the realism of the world beyond the barriers that block the player. The more detail the developers put into those areas, the more the player feels like they're really running around the streets of an abandoned city and the less they feel like it's just another level in a video game. Or in Data Hive, where there's all of those rooms on the map outside of the path the player takes while following the NMPD officer. Having more level outside of those Covenant shield walls in Mombasa Streets makes it feel more realistic than simply having tons of locked doors.

8:29 that cut scene room is a playable part of the Cortana mission later on in the game

08:50 I think this is the room I see for a second (when playing co-op with a friend, me being the Arbiter) in the beginning of The Ark (where you sit in the pelican). This has happened every single time

7:03 one problem i agree. Once in awhile, three games in a row and you know there would be a lot of complaints

Quite a few people are getting Old Mombasa and New Mombasa confused with each other.

I never expected a collab with Generalkidd, one of my favourite Halo youtubers.

The first room is like an almost exact replica of one of the room you go through while escaping halo and you escape the structure that guilty spark killed Johnson in halo 3

HALO ODST is the darkest Halo. It's raining a lot in this game. ODST is also pretty empty.

Its interesting that halo 4 seemed to kinda take the aesthetic for the guardian map for a lot of its areas, not the same exact look but the over grown plants clashing with the sliver forrunner buildings

The cut e3 demo level of halo 2 was actually intended to be its own separate level but it had some pretty big scripting bugs if you deviated from the set path of the level, leading bungie to scrap it entirely.

The covenant room behind the rocks looks like one of the places you can see in the flood level when you enter the covenant crash site to destroy it.

the room behind the rock is actually used in the mission cortana, it the room with the secret cortana terminal! and yes it is also if un floodifyed it is the cutscene room!

That section from Halo 3's "The Covenant" looks like a section of Halo 3's "Cortana" level without the Flood coverings. It looks like the section with Cortana's terminal (The Coin's Fault achievement in MCC).

If anyone is wondering. The covenant ship Bridge is used on the mission high charity.

The room from @9:00 looks like a non-food infected version of the room on Cortana where you can get a terminal and skull. Ive forgotten which skull exactly, but that is the exact same room layout.

8:50 I dunno if you know this but this room was actually repurposed from the 2001 game Barbie Secret Agent, specifically the Egyptian market section.

That "The Ark" room looks like a tile from a room in "Cortana" - specifically where you can find a terminal where Cortana talks about Chief's childhood. It was probably de-flooded and used as an asset for the cutscene?

I remember when they got into that E3 2003 demo of Halo 2 and they got into that prototype version of the cut oracle level. Also the that cut part in halo 3 that is used as a cutscene location was reused in the mission cortana, but now it's covered with flood biomass.

8:29 they used that for part of the mission Cortana

Pretty sure that hidden area (that does look like it is used in the cut scene) is used in the level Cortana just all Floodified. It's the room where you find the last Cortana vision about it being the coin's fault.

Just a random thank you Rocket Sloth, i've watched so many of your videos and they've all been the most entertaining!

That Forerunner "city" concept from Halo 3 would have been awesome to see ingame, even if we only ever saw it off in the distance. Some spoilers here, but it appears in the Halo Legends episode Origins part 1, which is honestly an awesome use for cut content that few people would probably ever see otherwise.

the cutscene room on the ark is very similar to the room on the level cortana where we find the "dice made me do it" cortana audiolog

the secret room in the ark was used as the cutscene room but the reason it was so detailed was because it was a reused asset from the mission cortana

9:00 That's the same room you run through on the level Cortana in Halo 3 I believe, the one that takes place in High Charity after its taken over by the flood. It just isn't overrun like it is when you run through it. It's weird that it's out of bounds like that but you do actually go through that room during gameplay.

I'm glad halo 2 didn't finish with a warthog run as it may have felt monotonous and it was nice to return to one in halo 3 to finish the trilogy

The cutscene room on the ark is used in cortana as a flood infected version so it would make sense that parts of the normal one would have areas for gameplay rather than just a cutscene. It seems likely that the room was made first for the level cortana and then was used for the cutscene on the ark.

So that big room from the arc is also used in the level Cortana except there's blood crap all over the walls so it's not cut and that's why it's so detailed

On the ark on halo 3 there is a huge. I mean huge area outside that ship. It is just in space there is nothing there but compared to most levels it is significantly larger and has a full surrounding skybox. RejectedShotgun should be releasing a map in that area soon and it'll be the biggest playable area in halo 3 by far. If you want to go to it remove the kill barriers from the zone and poke yourself to the co-ords 0,0,5 iirc and if you go outside the ship you will be in it. Copy the mulg and whatnot from a forge map into it and save it as a multiplayer map go into forge mode and then hop in a banshee and check it out. If you want an early peek. Just search on RU-vid how to use forge in campaign mode on halo 3 and it'll give you a solid guide on how to use assembly to do it. I believe this area was intended for battles in a very large ship or something that moves very quickly because the size of it is unbelievable.

8:28 that is clearly the area from the level Cortana, just without the Flood infestation.

In the room at 9:25 , you actually visit it; it’s one of the rooms on high charity as well and is full of flood spores and things. It’s obviously not the same room, but I guess it was repurposed

The ark room you're referring to with the theatre mode glitch, actually looks identical to a part in halo 3 cortana. Go through and compare it

8:57 that looks like it was on high charity

The secret room on the ark that he showed is also a room on cortana where you find her terminal if you know where to look for it

8:50 That secret room on the Ark is actually a room from the map Cortana

Nice vid, pure speculation but have to wonder if like the cortana cutscene room is so big because of different departments during development ie the cutscene developers ask the level designers for an area with certain features and style but otherwise they probably have little idea how it will be used. The long vents in ODST seem to be common for spawn points so the enemy is spawning far away from the player so its outside of radar range etc. The early Halo 2 gameplay looks mint but have to wonder if they had to simplify it and cut it down due to hardware requirements.

bruhhh what how did you even find these. great vid tho

8:30 That room is an old multiplayer map in Halo 2 on the original Xbox Live DLC

that beggining room on the ark is actually the room in the level cortona about halfway through that has been taken over by the flood.

After Ubisoft Sofia released AC Rogue, I thought good games needed at least two years to be passable. The fact that halo 2 was made in under a year, and that long ago as well, really changes my mind about that.

Makes me wonder about Halo 5's cut content. Like Halo 2, 5 had a lot of changes made during development even after trailers were released.

The Ark room was where the active camo was on Cortana right? It just was reused as infected I think.

Seriously GeneralKidd is one of the best halo channels ever

8:55 pretty sure this room is supposed to be covered in flood gunk, when you are retrieving cortana from high charity...

The covenant ship bridge room that you showed looks identical to a section on the level Cortana. You find a terminal and skull in it and fight a few flood tanks if you remember what I’m talking about. They must have reused it and blocked some sections in the level it was placed in

That room on the arc is in Cortarna, just with a lot of flood biomass

the big covenant room from the ark cutscene is one of the rooms from the flood cortana mission

Great Videos. How do you come up with so many video ideas? Can you have a crossover with Generalkidd?

I think I've been in the Two Betrayals extra reactor room. I just assumed it was something I already dealt with or would deal with in the next level with the map

The pelican one was probably going to pick up the spartans at the end of clearing out the landing zone and you and the civilians were going to get in and see the combat taking place and hear the civilians comment on the destruction as your dropped off at the outpost to activate the AA guns