Halo 2 Cut Campaign Mission Moonbase 

It’s pretty cool seeing Halo 1 assets, like the elevator buttons and lights on the walls, but in Halo 2. Oh and the light sticks!

Waiting for AlphaGasGiant restoration surely

That has parts feeling like they're from so many other levels, very nice

I wonder if it’s Basis which is also the setting for the map Burial Mounds

This cut map reminds me a lot of the flood level we got in the release version

good mission

Nobody has mentioned the blue barnacle creatures yet

Anti gravity could be used to toture people's put person in room and slowly increase gravity to crush persons dark in no but true

looks like halo infinite levels

Missed opportunity to have this place be a flood containment facility, deeper you go you find the covenant struggling to keep them locked up. Pretty cool concept

Mission: Go down to go up.

Id love to play the Halo 3 pre-release high charity mission from the Halo 2.5 build.

whats funny is that the grunts and jackels are not even wearing suits in space but the elites are

Moonbase, as with the other M1 missions, are less cut content and more concept and milestone levels. Also, Heed, the lore for this level is on the Digsite article.

Vadam has some more work to do on uncut

Wish mods were on Xbox so everyone could play this cut content that’s been releasing

There was this one kid I knew in middle school who told me that his dad worked in Halo 2's production. He told me that there was a moon base mission in development. Of course by the time Halo 2 was released, it revealed there being no mission on the moon; so I figured that the kid was just B.S.ing me at the time. Twenty years later I stumble across this video, and now I'm all like "huh... well look at that?!"

I strongly encourage everyone to take a look at the Digsite article, it's a fun read and gives amazing insight into the purpose behind these maps among other things. Personally I really want to see M1 Assault.

I have had reoccurring dreams about a videogame structure almost exactly like what is seen here and it trips me out. I'm certain I've never seen this cut content before.

I badly want to see the forerunner tank level I hope they release it one day

This video is like 10 times more watchable than most of your map overview because the footage isn't in fast forward. Maybe consider it for more videos. Not every second of footage needs to have narration over it.

Title’s a bit clickbait-y. Moonbase was a milestone concept-testing level. The concepts tested on this level, such as zero-G, would later be incorporated into Cairo Station. This level was never going to be part of the retail campaign.

If my memory's correct, this mission was supposed to take place with the arbiter I remember in a dev talk about Halo 2 they mentionned a mission that was supposed to be on the moon right before Sacred Icon, it might be this one

This would have been fun

This must've been during the time when the engine resembled Halo CE's engine than 2's. Considering the Halo CE assets being used. Also Pillar of Autumn Door!

The UNSC door was probably just a placeholder

Hey man, I don't know where to ask you this personally besides here. But do you remember a Halo channel known as CM Nier? Or CN Nier?? Idk it's been so long since I've seen them. They used to showcase tricks and glitches way back. You've been in this space as long as I can remember, I can't find any trace or talk about them online. It's been driving me nuts, I feel like I'm the only one who remembers.

NX1 ahh level (NX1 is a cut Call of Duty game, the only files remaining off it are of a mission on an invaded Moonbase)

It would be pretty sweet if they had a moon multiplayer level with reduced gravity.

If I were to guess, I'd imagine this was a precursor to before Cairo Station was in orbit, I think we saw that during the C3 Sabertooth storyboards?

Seems like they just transferred this over to the Arbiter's first mission on the gas giant.

We got zero gravity in halo 4's first mission when you send a gift in form of a bomb to a covenant ship

Really interesting level design, it's like a mix of Silent Cartographer and Oracle

It seems more like a forerunner type mission that’s meant to mirror the Arbiter’s Scared Icon level. Honestly if this made it into the game instead of the Gondola ride I would very much prefer it. Here’s my alternate take on how the story goes from that mission: Like the attempt to kill Regret went south and instead he got away leaving behind the super Carrier that blows you into the water. Or if not that another nameless marine,similar to Echo 419, comes to the rescue, and pulls you out in just the nick of time. Your objective remains the same, to kill the Prophet of Regret, and maybe extract some information out of him. It cuts away to the arbiter level and that proceeds just about the same way. Only difference is that he doesn’t get blasted down to the grave mind because well there’s no tension for the great schism just yet. We’re back to the Chiefs side of the story and they’ve somehow track regret to this remote forerunner base, and with some recon they find it’s some kind of saferoom like structure that prevents you from being obliterated by the halo array. Regret thought he keep that for himself but then chief comes along and essentially wreck the whole base trying to find him and at the end of this moon mission kills him in a cutscene. In some badass way. And in his dying breath, regret issues a command to truth and that’s when the great schism begins. Chief is then picked up by the same nameless marine and together they get word that Johnson and Miranda are captured and they’re going to High Charity to save them. The story then cuts to the Arbiter handing the Prophet of Truth the Index, this is the exact same second regret Sends truth that message and boom, instead of Chief being on High Charity it’s an Arbiter Level. The arbiter goes around high charity and rallies the elites and grunts who are now being hunted. Along the way, Rtas, reaches out and tell him where the Prophet is headed and that’s when he picks you up and fly in a phantom to the activation room. As they leave, they both witness the In Amber of Clad slipspace rupture. And Rtas says that same like again, “That Stench I’ve smelt it before” The Chief and nameless marine has flow into space and is on their way to High Charity and they realize that they’re in the middle of the great schism, they try to fly around the chaos but is shot down, barely hanging onto power they manage to crash the pelican onto the same platform where Johnson and Miranda was held captive before they were sent to surface. That’s where Miranda drops something, a distress beacon. After coming to the Chief and the nameless marine comes around and Cortana detects multiple marine iff transponders including the commander and they go on a rescue mission. That’s when they the Witness the In amber Clad flying in and notices the crash and flood essence start to pour out of the ship. Similar to Halo 3 Chief becomes stunned and Cortana says we need to get out of here. Essentially the rest of the story would play out very similarly just like High Charity and The Great Journey did. Cortana sort of chooses to stay behind because there’s some controls that need to be controlled and they were running out of options all the marines would die off one by one to the flood encounter and Cortana sees that she needs to save John at the very least. That’s when she forcibly sends Chief through that Power Coupling and we still get that memorable quote, “After I’m through with Truth” exchange. The Chief and Arbiter would never meet until at the start of Halo 3. It would kinda make a little more sense since at the start of Halo 3 Chief literally sticks the magnum up Arbiters Jaw instantly. I remember back then at the start of halo 3 I was like why did he did that don’t they know they’re pals since the gravemind cutscene.

Why wouldn't it be earths moon?

Bungie and 343 kept this deleted mission a secret until you found it

Was this supposed to be the cut alpha moon level ?

Vengeful vadam restore this cut mission

I would like it if someone would finish these missions.

It would be a fun flood containment breach map

So uh it's literally Moonbase Alpha

you have the best halo content 🙌

Is there any content from the forerunner tank cut mission?

Where can we download and play this?

This mission seems cool! I can imagine a huge fight with buggers would be fun/challenging in low gravity if you're jumping around and maybe there's a countdown timer so you can't camp too long :)

I see this map as try to get same plot twist from halo 1

i would’ve loved this mission as a kid

Playing it on my series X right now

Since we know this was more just a proof of concept than genuinely cut content i wonder what exactly Bungie were going after on this. Maybe a part of it was they were trying to expand the scale of Halo levels since that whole opening is impressive to imagine running on an Xbox.

I can see why it was cut.

Will you make a video showcasin the recently released H2 cut weapons and "equipment"? (The Flamethrower, Disintegrator, Mortar, Satchel Charges, Plasma Charges)

1:21 STRIKE!!!

It is possible this could have been simply a testing ground for the low gravity sections of Cairo Station. I see some similarities to Delta Halo as well in the elevators and general geometry and layout of the underground areas. Fascinating. Thank you for the walk-through. Good to see you're back as well. :)

I remember reading an OXM article that mentioned there would be a mission on Earth’s moon… this must have been it, but clearly wasn’t given the level of polish to integrate into the game… still very cool!

SECOND?

Halo 4 has a gravity section on the forward unto dawn mission where you see requiem!

This sounds alot like the types of levels in a 1994 game made by Bungie called 'Marathon'.

The interior looks like it can be used as the Forerunner Dreadnought when Chief boards it from high charity.

Mod for halo 1 svp 3.3

The fall down the hill while killing elites and grunts reminds me of the mission in 5 where you run down a guardian killing crawlers and soldiers.

Id like to see a mod where this is fleshed out and you go on a side mission to retake a forerunner research base from the covies.

So many maps and things for the old halo games awesome

whoever is in charge of 343 objectively killed halo but the fact they have a team for stuff like this is really cool. it's just a shame there's people like Kiki Wolfkill(ed Halo) running the show. She should have been fired years ago. Her and Bonnie Ross destroyed the franchise.

FIRST?

Boring aah level no wonder it was cut

Man this is cool this y H2 needs a ultimate edition with all the added stuff no need for remake And have H3 remaster

1:15 yeah because after H2 Bungie got Lazy, and Reach is Mid but made the vehicles and weapons art Retconned like the Fugly Banshee 👎