Ruby's REBALANCED Halo CE Mod! 

See the newest, and greatly expanded version of this mod here!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BGmZWccoM-o.html

"I made halo reach more like CE" "I made halo 2 more like CE" "I made halo CE...P E R F E C T"

“Amazing Ai” Rocket flood: “allow me to introduce myself”

Ruby: I want to make a 9/10 an 11/10 Cursed Halo: I want to end your whole existence.

With the Scorpion's accuracy buffed, I'd suggest maybe change it's reticule crosshair too. No more of that big, rectangular box!

12:35 There's a glitch you can use here. In the previous area, grab the camo, leave one elite alive in the narrow passage, and run straight to the lift. Cortana will call in more marines as if your previous fireteam was wiped out. Snipe the Shade gunners, go clear the narrow passage, and you have 10+ marines for the gravity lift fight.

Halo Shotgun, thinking back to CE: "Gods, I was strong back then!"

Glad to hear someone else tries to keep friendly/allied NPCs alive.

Fantastic. I've played Halo CE more times than I'm comfortable admitting, and every single change you'd made here is for the better. I love it.

I always thought it would be neat if when you melee'd with an overheating weapon it did a bit of extra damage from the venting plasma.

Halo mod tools for MCC are out, but it'll still be a little bit before I get around to remaking and updating this mod! I want to complete my current project of a big video brainstorming ideas for a Sonic Adventure remake. Then, I want to remake and update CE Rebalanced using its new tools. After that, then I'll get to 3~ :3 You can follow my progress on whatever project I'm working on over on my Twitter, link in the description!

343 needs to hire this man NOW! This BAMF gets it!

The AR in CE is such a weird dichotomy. I've never met anyone who outright hates it, because I mean how could you? It's basically a bullethose with which you can rush B cyka blyat. It's just soooo satisfying in its very limited useful range (which is like... 10-20 meters). That said, its called assault RIFLE, so why it has the accuracy and range of a Musket in the year 2500 or whatever was always baffling to me. Especially given that the AI marines still to try use it as though it is a rifle (ie: very short bursts). I always want to use the AR, but it is so, so limited in Vanilla to a few specific roles; it doesn't behave like the jack of all trades it should have been. Therefore, I'll probably give your mod a shot. Sounds good to me.

I'm thrilled that CE is getting so much love and dedication! Though I can't help but feel like this is changed to favor the player's life expectancy and convenience, as opposed to compelling game play. Either way, thanks for sharing what you came up with.

I just downloaded this. It's awesome. My favorite thing about it is that the assault rifle no longer sucks. It is now a completely viable weapon for medium range combat. I no longer feel restricted to the noob combo because of how useful every gun feels now. Fully recommend this mod!

this mod is a masterpiece and I will say that this is my definitive way of playing Halo CE from now on. it's absolutely amazing and it really feels like you tapped into bungies soul and brought forth all they wished to include and manifest in CE. It's absolutely amazing, loved every second playing it. You elevated this game to a another level, rarely do I say this for mods (the only other belonging to the STALKER community).

3:51 when she tells you she's home alone

Thank you, Ruby. Your awesome mods are part of the reason I finally got myself a gaming laptop. I love the commitment to keeping everything balanced, lore friendly and most importantly...great for Marine enthusists!

I would've liked to see multiplayer with this mod, it would be cool to see a CE multiplayer match without everyone using the pistol

I hope this works on Anniversary when it comes out for PC

Dude, you shouldn't have made the sniper rifle useless against hunter armor. The sniper rifle is classified as an anti-materiel rifle. That means it should shoot through hunter armor.

yeah, playing Halo from 1 to reach on legendary made me think CE is the best balanced of all bungies halos

Legendary Mod, I genuinely welled up when I saw wildlife on the ring in the second level. I hope OG Bungie devs have played this

"Which I do.. obssessively" I see you too reload checkpoint when you see a single Marine die.

Glad I found this wonderful mod. Barely scratching the surface yet, but the longer combat distances, where you can't simply outrange the enemy with the pistol and where the enemy is more aware of and willing to try to kill you, is amazing. A few things so far: while it does make the Needler more of a threat, I think the tracking range is a bit extreme, especially since it happens before red reticle distance. The Covenant being able to pepper areas with non-tracking needles from a greater range would be enough of a trade off, as long as they're able to still do that. The UNSC spawns at the evac encounters on Halo should be lowered to be no more than the max capacity of the Pelican (or even better, no more than the capacity of the lifeboats in the area minus pre-arrival casualties, as long as it doesn't exceed Pelican capacity) would be better, since it would leave less of them sadly standing around afterwards. Would it also be possible to attach your Warthog to the Pelican in the end cutscene? Always was weird it got left behind. Adding and enhancing encounters in general would be a huge improvement to the game, from more Covenant packing dropships and new encounters in empty areas, with more enemy types, vehicles, and weapons spread around to all of them (Jackals on the Autumn!).

I love this mod. The more competent friendly AI and accurized weapons have made vanilla Halo borderline unplayable by comparison. I was just driving a Scorpion in Halo MCC unmodded and was baffled by it's coax machine gun that is seemingly hanging from a bungee cord. I've played and thoroughly enjoyed CE and Halo 2 with Ruby's mods, and I'm really looking forward to the Halo 3 version being fixed.

"Pink Piece of Heaven" was my nickname in college

13:30 it would make sense that there were a ton of high ranking elites in a ship that big.

with the increased jump height you can get on top of the map in the silent cartographer (without sputnik). not much to do there, but its cool being on top of the island cause you can skip the 2 hunters and some more enemies on your way to the control room security as well as being able to get to the top of all the structures and sus

Glad the pistol is still the same : )

Pretty good changes but I think removing friendly fire for marines completely is a bit extreme.

The new AR, my goooooood its beautiful. I always noticed that the hidden spread was always bigger than the physical reticle, and i as looking for a mod to solve this, but this mod solved problems i didnt even noticed. Its amazing, and with the Refined maps being the base, it makes it look and feel nice

Honestly the change of AR Flood damage makes the AR almost canonically accurate, which is always nice.

I’ve been playing CE on the MCC, and there is one change that I would have liked to see, though I’ve only played through the game twice. And that is the rocket launcher flood. I found them to be quite frustrating since it can be impossible to tell what weapon they are carrying until you are too close to avoid it. Also, I am not certain that they will fire at any other target than the player. I don’t know what changes would keep the game balanced, but I would consider removing their ability to shoot at the player and just keep them as a melee attacker, and well as having them fire at the covenant or the player in a vehicle (though I don’t know if the two ever meet like that). Since you didn’t mention it, I am guessing that they are not considered a problem on higher difficulties or good players have their positions memorized, but I wanted to point it out as they frustrated me quite a bit.

Thanks for making this mod Ruby! I was waiting for something like this.

Did you try changing any checkpoints? I distinctly remember The Act Man brushing that off in his video on CE right before testing it myself. Truth And Reconciliation could really use at least one checkpoint between arriving at and going up the lift.

You should add the flood infection scripts as seen on Voxophonics ''The Flood: Forgotten Exile'' campaign mod.

Hey, just found your channel via your SA2 videos, only to see you do Halo mods, too! I'll be sure to try this out, but just from watching the video, I figured i';d give some input/feedback. - Very happy to hear about the AR accuracy buff, but given how wide the reticule is, it might be hard to even visualize where the exact center of the reticule is (I have this issue with a lot of weapons in CE, actually), so if possible, giving it an expanding reticule to visualize the actual spread would be cool. In general I think this should be a universal change to any weapon that has spread go up as you fire it. - This might require more balance changes , but i'd place the shotgun, sniper rifle, and rocket launcher in more maps in more spots, alongside hunters and sentienals in more locations, perhaps even before Guilty Spark shows up, or qalso making the fuel rod usable in campaign and adding in the flamethrower. CE's biggest flaw, and what makes it my least favorite Bungie Halo campaign, is the low amount of variety it has, both in terms of weapons, enemies, and environments; and while obviously envoirmental changes are probably outside the scope of the mod, having a wider amount of the weapon sandbox and enemy types in more maps would help this a lot. - Secondly, I forget if CE has individual needle explosions even when there's no supercombines do damage like in 2, but rather then emphasizing the damage the initial hits do, i'd emphazie the damage from those indivual small explosions. This is certainly more of a subjective thing then the AR reticule one, but I think it'd make it more interesting to have the guy be designed around that sort of "delayed damage" and making it so it's not a binary of "if you didn't get a supercombine, then it didn't do anything". This might make the weapon too powerful, though, so supercombines might need to be nerfed or outright removed, with the total damage from the delayed explosions of the same amount of needles of a supercombined adding up to enemies dying anyways. - I'm not sure how I feel about making the Hunter armor impervious to bullet damage, or reducing player health, but I'll see how it plays regardless. Off the cuff without having tried the mod yet, I'd just reduce, not totally get rid of bullet damage on hunter armor, and not do the health nerf at all. Lastly, where'd you learn Halo modding? I'd love to get into it myself!

You could add a spalling effect on the hunter armor with the sniper rifles, taking 4 shots to kill them when you pierce their armor but reducing the damage of the rifle by a great margin when it hits flesh, taking 8 shots to kill them. The sniper fires depleted uranium APFSDS rounds which in real life over-penetrate soft targets but when they hit armor they have huge penetration and shatter in many glass like sharp pieces which cut through everything inside a vehicle and they also have a pyrophoric effect, igniting everything in their way. Hunters just like the flood lack a central nervous system, they are a bunch of worms, they need to take a lot of hits before they can die and the best way to kill something like that is by burning, using explosives or high fire rate and high stopping power weapons (shotguns, hollow point bullets, machine guns). Make point blank shotguns, plasma grenades and needler super combinations deal a lot of damage to their exposed flesh. One thing about shotguns is that they are terrible against body armor. Turn them into flood specialized weapons, retaining all their damage against them while at the same time dealing 1/4 damage to all other enemies and 1/8 damage against the player since spartan armor has no gaps, but don't remove their damage against shields, make them the only anti shield projectile weapons and add them headshot damage in order to make them effective against the covenant but more tricky shots. Since covenant helmets are somewhat exposed I think shotgun blasts should be effective against their heads. It would make sense that shotguns would be effective against energy shields because in theory all those smaller pellets could overload shielding systems. Also reduce the damage of projectile weapons and and all human explosive splash damage against the player health by a third since MJOLNIR armor should be really effective against projectiles, explosives and fragmentation because it is very bulky and made specifically for fighting insurgents. Plasma weapons in lore are the thing which can really melt human armor. Plasma grenades melt armor and should keep their stats and direct rocket hits should always do instant kills. Increase player health by a bit instead of decreasing because MJOLNIR armor is very bulky and protective and Spartans should be very though. Add a 2x scope to the AR just like the pistol, and make them pistol like accurate with the first shots but make them lose their grouping with recoil, just like rifles are in real life. You could use them like the BR using short bursts. I don't know if the game engine allows it but add headshot bonus damage against enemies with the AR, just like in Halo 5. You could also make rockets home their targets when you hold the trigger after you hear a ping and release, just like the plasma pistol and add 8x zoom to them.

bro you don't know how happy I am playing this mod, better ar, more useful marines, better AI, this mod has everything! the spv3 mod i think it's not that cool because it throws away the feeling of halo ce, and this one don't, this one is SO much better.

A nice polish to perhaps the most polished Halo game

It's funny cause making Marines immune to friendly fire and having the enemies fire at you from a much further range are all changes that Infinite has

5:39 Wow, Inconvenient!

Are you able to save your marine buddies on 343 Guilty Spark when they get jumped by Infection forms? I remember them being unable to be saved once they are caught by one and any damage attempted on the infection form will only damage the marine.

OOH! You're using the Refined version! :)

Watching a marine bully that hunter was amazing.

This is so god damned impressive. Brilliant work. I love it. Thank you!

4:48, we all do, soldier. We all do

I spend a entire day to clear the game... dude keyes and the library are insane!

Might I suggest you make the sniper do damage to hunter's armor like the warthog turret does? The sniper fires larger caliber bullets than the warthog's cannon so realistically it would penetrate as well.

I absolutely fuckin hate the in lore reason for the sniper being useless against the flood. It makes no sense. Half the damage of being hit with a bullet is hydrostatic shock, and the flood is basically just jelly on the inside. The 14.5x114 round TODAY gibs people. I can’t imagine what it would do 500 years in the future. Flood forms should burst apart like sacks of rotten cottage cheese when hit with the Sniper rifle. Even hyper velocity APFSDST still impacts MASSIVE energy on impact. The cavitation bubble of the round flying thru a flood form would be like the size off a beach ball.

I reckon you should make Johnson invulnerable. Kinda breaks my head cannon watching him die in the game.

Ruby, I want to be able to wield fuel-rod cannons in ce if you can melee the grunts to death.

Annndddd I subscribed. Awesome video! Can you go into detail about adjusting AI behavior in a separate video!?

You have no idea how many frustrated tears I shed restarting a checkpoint cuz 1marine died on legendary in the first half on original Xbox . Thank god

I do not know if this is true but I remember Bungie saying that they were lazy and didn't have enough time to program enough Marine characters. Apparently, some of the Sgt. Johnsons you see are not Sgt. Johnson himself but are supposed to be a random black marine with the equal rank of Sgt. The lore apparently goes like this: Pillar of Autumn, you do not encounter Johnson. Halo, you encounter Johnson at the first life boat. Truth and Reconciliation, you hear Johnson in the beginning but he stays on the Pelican "in lore". The Silent Cartographer and Assault on Control Room, you do not encounter Johnson as he is present with Keyes. 343 Guilty Spark, the final time you see Johnson when you meet up with the surviving Marines. Again. I'm not sure if this is correct but I remember reading this sometime ago.

I love the rebalance on hunters especially because not only does it feel better but it also kind of makes sense. For example, the warthog turret doing full damage against their armor.... This is so fighting them on the road doesn't feel shitty but it also doesn't have to just be thought of as magic. I for one feel like it's implying the turret simply penetrates armor better, probably because it was designed to do exactly that. Armor-piercing rounds baby! And plasma weapons doing damage against their armor also feels like it makes sense for both balance and lore, because it feels like it's implying that the heat of the plasma is slowly cooking them behind the shell.

I need to get this game on PC again. Because damn, this is the definitive Halo game, I never cared for where the franchise went after. It must be said that the pistol was dang overpowered in this game, even in single player, you can just absolutely shred everything on Legendary.

you saved my run on legendary, now i can use the assault rifle just fine thx:(

Video compression absolutely murdered half the video.

This should be an official update for halo ce on the mcc

I too obsess over the marines.

I disagree with making the Hunters more vulnerable to plasma grenades. That was always a way to just ignore a Hunter encounter in any Halo game, especially CE that gives you so many grenades. I would change them so they have more utility, maybe they stun-lock hunters for longer or push them back or something.

3:51 that’s what The said when I met her.

I dont really think that the grunt needler fire rate should have been buffed that much because i always saw the elites to be the dangerous ones when they weild the needler. I saw the grunts as the ones that just didnt use it to its full potential.

3:51 i'm sure he stole that line from an adult toy website.

i either get a fatal error or if i can get it to work.... certain effects like jackal shields really spaz visually. I think the latest update broke it

*every halo rebalance after CE* - buff the player, nerf the enemy *halo ce* -buff the enemy, nerf the player

I love this mod it's just one thing in the campaign that pissed me off was the fact that marines CAN'T DRIVE THEIR OWN VEHICLES

7:04 WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *BOOOOOM*

I thought that the only balancing that needed to happen for CE would be deleting Rocket Flood.

originally i had jumped straight from ce to 3 and i had seen videos so i knew there were hunters. i kept my pistol to shoot them. i align myself dodge a hit and bang....... hes still alive ok 2 hunters and no power weapons thats amazing

I think the sniper should be able to damage the Hunters, it is armor piercing and has a bigger round than the Warthog's machine gun.

I'm going to buy a PC just to play this

The mod doesn't works, I replace the maps with the new ones, but it throw me a error message when I start a new mission, What can I do?

i know its not really what you've been aiming to do here and im not sure if its in your ability to mod but id love to see a mod where you play as a simple marine. or maybe each level has a squad of marines (squad size depending on difficulty of the mission etc) and when the one your playing as inevitably dies you switch perspective to the nearest surviving marine so as the squad acts as a sort of health pool. iv always loved the poor bloody infantry and would adore a halo game seen through the eyes of the regulars instead of the paragon of technological masculinity that is the chief

What's happening with manifest heart haven't been updated for a while

Love the needler change.

Opposite of Cursed Halo. Blessed Halo

This guy is a genius! Will download this!

Anyone notice marine on truth and reconciliation we way more aggressive and accurate than all others

6:00 wait, what tank section? I played the OG Xbox version (idk if I finished it), the PC Port and the PC Port from the Master Chief collection. I don't recall ever being in that tank O_o

Hey Ruby! Is it possible to use this mod in MCC with the Anniversary graphics?

Would be neat if you could restore the old school halo CE graphics from the OG xbox version. Might be pointless though since I think there's already a mod does that.

I have severe issues with CE where it keeps jittering and locking up. Does anyone have this issue and more importantly... a fix?

Can somebody please tell me how you are able to adjust the weapon view models

Hey Ruby hope all is well, with MCC season 8 out, and the modding tools following with it, are we going to see and updates to you're awesome rebalanced versions of the halo campaigns?

im still confused on how to download the mod, I've never downloaded a halo mod before

You know this is why one day I would love to try pc

This looks freaking awesome... Hope you bring it to MCC.

Hey Guys! Check out my mod right here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xIsvFEPlqi4.html It's Compatible w/ Ruby's Rebalanced Mod

Funnily, I have never used the tank. In my version I could drive it.

Bruh I can't even kill one hunter guarding the security room on silent cartographer with this mod. On normal...

Dudes, the link for the Custom Edition Version of the Mod was taken down, i think is now a lost media :c Someone has that versión of the mod? because i can't play the MCC cause i don't have resources

I love Halo

put your skills to good use with mcc on pc , sir......and we will all be grateful.............

The AR shouldn’t be a long range weapon, it is a close range gun in CE

I like those changes. Yet him still Looking for a Mod that gives us Marine Allies through the last 5 Missions of the game (idc how that fits the story) i love being around my Marine friends =)

AR's problem was the spread? Bruh, I feel like anyone who ever says that musta been playing a different CE than me, cause I never could kill a damn thing on higher difficulties with it unless I wasted several full clips on it, even if I was right up their face for no missed shots.

So, now that CE is out on Steam, you gonna take a look and see what you can do with that? It's be really cool if you could port this to Anniversary.