SPV3 is an ambitious love letter to the Halo series | SPV3 Review 

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When you mention the emphasis on space in the sky box we can’t forget seeing he Milky Way on the ark in halo 3

Hey, for the record, as someone partially involved with the audio team including working directly with Jafet Meza, I feel I need to address some details about the overall sound mixing and implementation. I can confirm that everyone involved with the actual music aren't the people that implement it in the game. Jafet doesn't touch the editing kit or any part of the Halo engine and his work is handed off to someone else. Who that is is beyond my knowledge (It could be the lead designer Masterz1337, or someone else, I'm purely involved only with the music.) There are parts of Jafet's and our work that are used in the complete wrong place instead of where they were intended to play, or were outright never implemented, this is partially responsible for the game audio often appearing constantly "bombastic" when that was never the intention. Some of the music cue placement in this mod is misplaced and the audio team aren't the people responsible for that, a significant few people in the music team wish they had more say over placement of triggers because it ends up poorly representing their actual work. There is a whole myriad of upcoming and completely overhauled tracks, several of which were already completed and were not put into 3.3 to avoid clash with what was already there, or for reasons unknown, which is why there's still a massive chunk of the older and outdated material. The newer tracks and updated ones have far more range and subtleties that complement the gameplay far superior to what the unfortunate result here has ended up being. Long story short the audio team would love a build with more creative control over the music cues and implementation, preferably by someone who actually studies and understands more about music and how it should and can be used to interact with and engage with the player and the overall game experience, lol

The old me would’ve lost my mind if this were a thing back during CE’s release. It really does make it feel like a whole new world, but the same one you knew, I love it.

The Library in SPV3 felt how the Library in the book is described

Lethality weapons: exist LNG: And I took that personally

Also the fact that THIS version of the mod lets you use the MCC version of Halo to install the mod instead of the old method.

When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty? Yes, yes I was.

Hope we can see more projects like this, I just wonder what they could've done with the other Halo games.

2:40 halo 2 high charity. Staring out into the covenant city and realising you're only travelling across two small towers

I see my divine influence is spreading. Nice mask.

Going on about one of my comments I’ve made before... I’ve always loved how Halo had a thin sky. When I was in school I would go in my backyard and stargaze in the night of California, while imagining I’m on a Halo ring. I got a deep sensation out of it and it really made me wonder what’s out there in our galaxy. “Do you ever wonder what’s up there?”

This update/version seems really good, cant wait to get it, i do kind of wish it had more 'fun skulls' like bandana or acrophobia etc. The game is clearly focused on being a bit nore difficult than vanilla CE, hence removal of easy and addition of a difficulty above legendary, so the skulls there are unique and make sense, i just wish some were a bit more... whacky

Its weird to think a decade ago I didn’t know what a halo was whilst SPV3 was being worked on but i was excited along with the community to see its release in 2021.

Another video, another smile on my face!!! Late night you beautiful man, I’ve said it before but you’re videos are absolutely the highlight of my week. Thank you my dude!

Why is Late Night Gaming adorable? He's like wholesome and innocent, man! Love this guy!

A few minutes ago I asked myself hey when does he get to talk about the update to spv3 and then I saw this in my feed thanks for the video keep up the good work!

Quite honestly, SPV3 is a mixed bag for me. There's a lot of new ideas that liven up the Halo formula for me and brought back fun I haven't had in a while (I had just finished a playthrough of Halo 4), but at the same time the artstyle felt like a lightly fried meme. The additions were mostly positive, but some stuck out to me as pointless, like the DMR, Battle Rifle, and the Magnum all serving the same role, not to mention the single fire on the battle rifle existing in the first place.

What I like about the SPV3 DMR is that they really leaned into it being more of a mini sniper. So not only does it sound super beefy, but it also causes enemies to flinch and stop shooting while they recover from the powerful shot. It's useful against Brutes which I believe flinch a lot less than Elites. I have a distinct memory of throwing a grenade at a brute that was advancing and then shooting him with the DMR to stun him backward so he couldn't dodge the grenade. Flinching and disrupting enemy firing patterns is also a HUGE component of a games' difficulty. So a weapon that can flinch an enemy that's shooting you as you run to cover (notably T&R's hanger) is useful.

My take on SPV3 is this: a very bloated sandbox but an ambitious mod. I don’t like Masterz1337 but he’s not the only person working on the mod, so I appreciate the work even if it’s not my favorite thing

I'm currently building a computer with my family (we're all getting to build one each), and when I'm done building it, I will get MCC on it and start installing mods, this one definitely included!

SPV3 is something I feel bad criticising. Cause I really did not like this, but you can see the passion put into it

The Autumn’s cafeteria has electric billboards POGGERS

SPV3.3 looks really good. I can't wait to see their next project or edit

I seriously wish my PC's motherboard didn't die.

imagine spv3 type mods for the other halos. I also want to see a brutal halo mod. we have brutal doom,brutal half life brutal quake (quake 1.5)

The suppressed weapons were not really for aesthetic purpose when I played spv3 on heroic difficulty ( Especially in the beginning of assault on the control room and many linear compact areas afterwards ) They really had their own tactical advantage

i love SPV3 and a lot of it, its just the graphics, both lighting and textures, just feel too dirty too me, not ugly or bad just dirty or grimey in a way i dislike i love halo reach's art style too i might add

I absolutely love the elite HUD shown at 14:21, it's reminiscent of the Halo builds from the 90s but with its own style and fits perfectly 👌

This seems much improved, having played SPV3 when you last reviewed it. Even with MCC on my shoulders I'm feeling inclined to give it a play. Aside from drive space I don't have much to lose.

The lens flares in this mod make me feel like I'm watching some weird collaborative project between J. J. Abrams and Kootra

11:35 you don't remember the gold hunters from ODST?

My biggest hope is that the MCC on Steam gets Steam Workshop support. Being able to easily install mods like this would go a long way to making them more accessible to the masses.

I don't appreciate the CE Anniversary soundtrack but love the spv3 and Halo 2 Anniversary soundtrack.

I love this transition: 6:30.

I like SPV3’s music because the grandiose music fits the saturated feel of the entire mod. The sandbox, the visuals, the environment, and the enemies are all fleshed out to their maximum potential. It only makes sense that the music should be too. The overbearing tunes make the experience feel right to me

Honestly, while it isn’t objectively bad, I just feel like overall it lost the halo image. The whole thing looks more like an over-modded Half Life 1 mega project. To each there own, but I feel like it really lost itself to try an stand out. It’s Like a fanfic that has grown so far away from the source material that it’s basically an original product wearing the rotting skins of its host.

I tried playing this on my pc that was able to run it 4 years ago...it died

This is the 3rd review of SPV3. How many more you gonna make?

343i is not going to take notes from this bc they know that some things just dont work like the BR and DMR being in the mod at the same time the magnums zone is still there... You see why i dont consider SPV3 to be the way to play Halo CE. *well fuck I sound like Noodle here*

Oh god, the Windows Cortana. Phenomenal.

4:29 Did they jackal just initiate a melee? Combat had evolved!

I have to say that the effort in this mod is amazing, but there are 2 things that i don't like: -They add stuff just because it looks cool, making some weapons feel kinda useless and/or out of place -The game sometimes looks amazing, and other times looks like a PS2 game with PS3 models (This last one is a little bit nitpicky, considering that it's all done on the Halo CE engine it's really amazing)

Careful LNG, starting to sound like IGN 11:14

Am I the only one feeling like the BR has a damn delay between click and fire?

looking back at SPV3 after playing infinite, It is kind of sad that a team of modders did a better job at materializing the "Infinite" possibility of a halo campaign then 343 with 6 years of development and MS's huge cash support

I tried this over the past few days - I wish I could see this how you do. I don't like it at all. I know it's a case of personal taste, but this left a bad taste in my mouth. I went in with good expectations, as per people's reviews of this game. I was just blindsided by an experience that left a horrible taste in my mouth. Love the video though mate. You've got an excellent mind for this kind of stuff.

Unrelated but I thought the thumbnail had a Mega Construx master chief figure lmao

I actually played this mod about 4-5 years ago but my notebook laptop couldn't really handle it so I ended up forgetting about it. But after getting a new laptop that can run every game I've played so far on Steam with high graphics I decided to get this mod again. It definitely changed a lot from when I last played it and for the better. I absolutely love this mod and am very happy I can fully experience it.

Did they take out the incest references tho? Looks awesome still

one thing i will say. the difficulty is fucking nuts. on normal it takes so many shots to kill a grunt and jackal if they arent head shots. plus the BR and DMR added to the game are REALLY bad. the covenant weapons are the best and if you play always go for the brute shot. the best of the covy weapons

What are you're thoughts on photo modes in games?

Started off as a lot of fun, but later became exhausting to play. Levels became way to long for my liking and some encounters have to many A.I.

11:00 It also feels thematically appropriate.

I haven't played much of 3.3, but some of the changes I've noticed are pretty dumb. I really hate how they decided to keep the assault rifle's low initial rate of fire, despite making the zoomed shots even slower. Another thing is having Johnson and the Marines at the beginning of the second mission. Obvious lore inconsistencies aside, it feels very jarring and kills the lone survivor atmosphere that the vanilla game had. The most bizarre change though has to be the revive mechanic. Masterz is very unabashed in his apologetics for 343's game design, and this is very clearly inspired by it's inclusion in Halo 5. After going back to regular CE, it's hard for me to enjoy how busy this mod can get at times. More doesn't necessarily mean better.

This mod is good, I played through most of it but deleted it recently. I loved the extended levels and the few levels that were completely re imagined were amazing, my issue was that calling it resource intensive is an understatement, when I played it I thought my PC was going to melt. Also, the level Keys is next to impossible.

Environment: Contrast 100% Sky box: contrast 500% Colors: All of them I’m sorry but I don’t think any of this looks good (coming from a concept artist perspective). I think the artists taking charge of SPV3 are the same type of people that think that slapping raytracing on everything is the end all solution to “good” graphics

This is great

I remember playing this mod a while back. Unfortunately, it didn't really meet the expectations set by some of the other content creators that sing this mod high praise. I might redownload the mod for the firefight mode, but I don't see myself playing through the campaign again any time soon.

I do wish they'd fix the bug where controller settings don't save. I play Bumper Jumper so I have to remap my controls every time I launch it.

What I think is awesome about the silenced weapons is that it actually adds a legitimate stealth option. If you're patient enough on say Two Betrayals, you can clear all those rooms of sleeping grunts and relaxed elites without them ever knowing you were there thanks to a silenced BR/SMG. I think it's amazing that a working stealth mechanic was added with those weapons

I loved it. But holy shit the flood are an absolute threat in thr outbreak levels.

Imagine if Halo 2 got an Spv3??

Speaking of SPV3. I did stream halo spv3.3 and found some new rooms in the pillar of autumn that wasn't there before in spv3.2. heh but got alot to run through.

Hey LNG, have you seen this new guy on RU-vid, Reclaimer Gaming, he makes fan fiction halo storys, and then voices them out, there great highly recommend.

Apparently according to Noodle The decision making to why a feature would be added was, and I quote “Because it was cool”

I would definitely say it’s potential is kind of held back by the engine they are using. The graphics feel held back, the gameplay could be rebalanced so you don’t have 5 different single shot weapons. I think they could have the DMR be the quiet stealth weapon than have the Silenced BR.

the map that the "b-team" made, TSC:E, i still consider to be better than SPV3. The visuals are less cluttered, the sounds feel beefier, it runs better, it has better lighting, enemy and weapon models are better, i overall vastly prefer it to SPV3. I think they went too far with SPV3 trying to add new stuff, and they probably should have stopped at around 60% of the features they implemented.

I feel like SPV3 is liked only because it's a giant fan overhaul for Halo CE. But, let's be real, if 343 made anything close to this it would be ripped apart.

If the grass texture on the ground outside is forming a visible grid, that’s a HUGE problem

I did a double take when I saw that needler reload

Hey LNG, Can you restore original Halo aesthetics in Halo 1 Anniversary using Reshade? I would love to see that.

This indeed pleases me

I love your videos

When you mentioned the weapon sandbox and its redundancies and over-supply of weapons, I immediately thought about my most rookie mistake when forging maps as a kid. I placed power weapons and sandbox weapons EVERYWHERE. Every base/building had a shotgun/sword, every tower, roof, or bridge had a sniper weapon, and every spawn area had at least 3 utility weapons. I remember my first map I was so proud of. But then during the playthrough, the weapons broke the map. I had 3 sniper rifles, 2 rocket launchers, 6 DMRs, 4 Needle Rifles, 8 plasma rifles and spikers, 2 shotguns, 2 swords, a gravity hammer, and 2 plasma launchers. It would've been fine for BTB fiesta, but I had built the map with the intent of it being 3v3 slayer. More isn't always better, and now I have an equation for weapon placement on maps. Weapons sandbox is the make or break for every map in Halo.

Wait is this seriously the final update of SPV?

I hope SPV3 will be on the mod support for mcc

For once I disagree with you. I share Noodle's opinion about SPV3. This mod is just a mess. It's quantity over quality. It did not felt like a Halo experience. The art is even more uglier than HCEA, the weapon sandbox is a mess, the levels are too long, etc...

Just finished the game yesterday. Amazing

Messy is definitely the way to describe this mod. Although it's overall an enjoyable experience, it does have its negatives. The point about the skybox is one that I do not see repeated often enough tbh. Halo CE had some of the best skyboxes in the entire saga, and I am glad that this was further improved upon in the mod, in the mission Halo. It's also what disappointed me with the Halo Infinite showcase. There didn't seem to be any gas giants, stars or nebulae in the clouds. Just some plain boring blue sky. Hope it's something they change by the time the game releases.

I'd love to see a passion project like this for halo 4. I'm a huge fan of the h4 story but having a 'classic halo' overhaul like SPV3 and seeing how fans would tackle the environment and story of the game would be very interesting.

Neat

Honestly I'm not a big fan. The enemies are always too bullet spongey and you're way too weak to withstand any real damage like in CE.

SPV3 looked like that high-school super star Diva that demands so much stuff. Looks great but hard to maintain, it's got ideas but I cannot for the love of me play it without my computer screaming for mercy...

My opinion on the whole soundtrack situation, I think that soundtracks like Halo 2 Anniversary’s and SPV3’s go good on their own, but in the campaign’s context, they just don’t fit the same as the original soundtracks.

absolutely loved it first time playing it was amazing my mind was thinking which way is this going to go in terms of scenarios the dialogue from the characters everything

I would be interested to see if 343/Microsoft payed the SPV3 ppl to make this an official add-on for MCC what improvements they could do with that money

I have yet to play SPV3 but based on what I've seen so far, consider me hooked (Now I have to see if the game will handle 2 GT 710's 32gb of ram and a 4th gen CPU plus a 120gb SSD and a 2tb hdd).

This game reminds me of one of those Fallout New Vegas "enhanced graphics mods" videos on RU-vid where they would have some terrible texture pack or character overhaul that made every single character, object, or texture the most unpleasant thing to look at (Master Chief's armor especially reminds me of one of those T-45/T-51 retexture mods from like 2014 that just looked horrendous). On top of that, they would also add in some dogshit ENB presets that would crank the bloom settings up to 11 and made my eyes bleed just by looking at them. It just looks really ugly

Hmmmmm.....as someone who really likes CEA/2A soundtracks, I never considered them grand.

Wait I've been out of the loop for a bit with Halo. What's SPV3? (Edit): So I installed it and holy shit it's fun. So glad I did a full legendary run with a friend on the MCC because that really prepared me for the difficulty on this too

The Greg of a scare the crap out of me I was like oh shit what's that oh it's just a Greg mask

SPV3 is special to me mostly in part to the fact that it encapsulates the mod era. the ability to mod games to this extent or at all is just unseen in AAA releases nowadays.

Am I the only one who thinks that SPV3 is a bit too bloated. It could have been Halo CE plus. Like taking stuff from the books as an added idea.

This looks awesome! I really hope this comes to consoles eventually, but I’m not holding my breath. It’s probably much bigger than Microsoft would allow.

I always wondered how Halo would be effected game play wise if you were given a third weapon slot in the form of a plasma pistol or magnum. Not designed to give you three slots, but a back up, last resort weapon to give you some breathing space incase you run out of ammo and are not in safe melee range. Or, a combat knife like in Reach. I know most of the time everything is dead before the need to find more ammo even crosses your mind, but with skulls like famine and that one that uses two bullets when you fire expend ammo quickly. Plus, having the side arm could allow you to hold onto a extra sniper clip or spanker rocket.

Problem: After clicking Load SPV3 a box says "A crash report for this exception has been saved to your OpenSauce Reports" If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.

after watching noodles rant on this mod i wont be touching it with a 10 foot pole.

I'm honestly glad I'm watching this at 3am

How do I download this for the Master Chief Collection?