Halo Online - ElDewrito 0.6 - Official Release Trailer - General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stf0XDmCAz4

/r/HaloonLine

Ayy, made it in the trailer.

Excuse me, but this is a HALO CUSTOM EDITION community. We don't talk about eldewrito here. PS. Death to facepunch and halo online eldorito

Please don't rip this site apart, facepunch is only family I have

Hope you guys enjoy! This has been 2 years in the making and represents what we've been working on. Countless bug fixes, feature improvements, and more. It's like an entirely different game, if you tried ED in it's current (shitty) form, then give this a shot. You'll find it much better.

Looks like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CsUyz4eQnE

I've never tried this. How easy it is to get setup and start playing?

Very easy, head over to /r/haloonline and you can install the current 5.1.1 version. (Though I would recommend waiting until Friday before hopping in since 0.6 fixes many bugs and adds loads of new features that are currently missing in the 5.1.1 release)

Its a drag and drop, don't even need to install. But wait for Friday, most likely you are going to redownload it fully as the old updater is shit and part of the reason there wasn't smaller updates since 0.5.1.1

This took me completely by surprise. And this is an update to an existing product? Holy shit, how have I never heard of this? How the fuck is this even legal?

Its a mod for a F2P game that went under while in closed alpha, that was russia only. That happened in early 2016.

It wasn't legal, at first. Saber Interactive fucked up when Halo: Online was announced, and I can't remember if it was at announcement or right around the release of H:O in Russia, but they accidentally left a pre-release version of the program accessible for direct download from their site in the background. People dug it up, had the game with no attachment to the game's servers/shop, began circulating it publicly, and then Microsoft struck it down with a DMCA. Once Halo: Online went under not long thereafter because a F2P Halo game in a market like that was bound to crash and burn, the people with the pre-release version rose up again, became Eldewrito (a pun from the program/engine being called Eldorado), and allegedly fell under freeware under Microsoft allowing fan projects and games so long as they don't charge for money and didn't have to compete with a now-dead product. All the better too, because H:O was a mishmash of Halo 4 assets and gameplay tweaks slapped onto an improved Halo 3 engine with no Forge and no Dual-Wielding or proper Equipment. The Eldewrito folks found most of Halo 3's gameplay code lying under the skin-deep changes, though, and modded H3 assets and code back in. No Theater mode, but everything else multiplayer-wise is perfectly functional, Custom Games included. I guess most of the work since the earlier days has been further restorations like the aforementioned dual-wielding, and improving the UI so that it isn't just Gamepad-requiring Xbox menus dug out from the H3 code.

They also found certain assets in the game since Johnson and the Marines were used on the title screen for a bit before 0.5 Technically, all Human NPCs functioned but the maps didn't have AI paths On top of that, some assets and code for playable Elites was found (maybe only in the ms30 build though) but they couldn't get it to work.

I've already had a lot of fun with ED and can only hope that it gets even more popular with this release. I'll be checking it out for sure.

Holy shit I know what I'm doing Friday.

Looks like download link for 0.5.1.1(that isn't the torrent) is having issues, possibly due to a huge influx of people trying to get it right now

holy fucking asscrackers that looks amazing

man, i havent played halo online since eldewrito was a little babby, looking forward to trying this shit out again! (also pls tell me i can center the crosshair)

oh cool, they got rid of those fuck-ugly halo online spartans(?)

It's a mod you can get after you install, along with H3 weps and many H3 sounds.

yes, in the 0511 release the setting was in eldewrito_launcher.exe also @FlandersNed why haven't any of the preview videos used the H3 weapons alongside the armor? It just looks wrong.

TBH I kind of liked them Best thing would probably have been to get the original skins in along with those, but iunno if that's possible.

im pretty sure the halo 3 spartans are the default now theyre a mod in 0.5.1.1, but every piece of promotional material and dev images for 0.6 shows halo 3 armor being used

Which is good because Halo 3's design was the best, everything after got too complicated imo

I have never played any newer Halo games after Halo 3, so I'm curious of how things got too complicated in your opinion.

We used to run some old versions of this at our quarterly LAN, I think I was the one that helped pitch it initially just for fun and it turned into a regular thing. After time and updates it became even more of a mess to get working (compatibility mostly, internal LAN support that was baked into the game helped out a lot really). So it was sometime last year when we dropped the game from the event Hopefully 0.6 makes it great again

This has been great so far, my only complaint would be that on a lot of servers the audio is a second lagging behind when a shot is fired, and the UI is messy. Otherwise its amazing though

Like the way the armour's look. Halo 2 and 3 were sleek but still powerful looking. Everything afterwards looks like Michael Bay Transformers with assault rifles and space guns

Okay but can you play as elites