Halo 2 Cut Content Deep Dive: Vidocs

[@TheLegendaryBeta]

That unknown weapon looks like the CE homing launcher from Macworld

[@lpod7180]

The odsts on outskirts mustve been cut very late in production for whatever reason. The box art on the back of H2 even has a screenshot of chief fighting with them on outskirts

[@genericwhitekidthesecond4330]

I assume it's because they wanted the ODSTs to be introduced later in the game. Due to their status as the "badass" variant of the marines Bungie probably thought that they deserved a proper introduction later on in the game so that they could have their own time to shine rather than just them being a common thing. Makes sense to me atleast. The only part they failed at though is that they failed to build up the ODSTs in any meaningful way prior to Delta Halo. You see some ODST dead bodies on the first three missions but they aren't talked about or briefly seen. Also funnily enough ODSTs only ended up appearing once in Halo 2 because so many of their original encounters were cut.

[@trekker105]

It's possible they were added only for the purpose of making that picture. I know for a fact there's something similar with a hidden extra cutscene on Shutdown in Halo 4. It has no movement or audio, just a freeze frame of Chief pointing a light rifle at a Knight and some Watchers, but it's a one to one match to one of the pics on the back of the Halo 4 box.

[@TMek42]

My guess is they pushed back the ODST introductions when they pushed back the Brute in-game encounters since they were intended to spawn in Metropolis (much like that e3 build) iirc the Brute Plasma Rifle and maybe the Brute Shot are in the Metropolis tags

[@MrJohansen]

​@@TMek42 correct, the brute shot is also in the metro tags along with the bpr tag

[@archivey-h8e]

The game was just rushed, the ODST's could have had something simple like some scripting issues and needed to be polished. They just didn't have time. Could also be memory limitations, the texture pop in was already pretty bad and loading ODST's into the memory might have been too much on some levels.

[@texel76]

17:24 That giant creature is a Drinol/Sharquoi. A creature cut from HAlo CE that was also cut from Halo 2.

[@protocetid]

lol the Digsite Crew could end up restoring it yet again, would be pretty funny if it somehow also got cut from H3

[@texel76]

I think i put the wrong timestap ☠️

[@roflzwafflez117]

47:27 The Spectre's turret is also using a different projectile almost looks like a Beam rifle shot.

[@firedragon04]

0:50 - This guy 🤣 That would be Jason Jones 1:12 - Not a 'level editor' it's actually a 3D Modelling Program called 3DS Max 2:20 - This level in the background kind of gives me early Burial Mounds vibes.

[@lpod7180]

1 hr of hunterunt? Fuck yes. Cant wait

[@primusvsunicron1]

3:03 SMG is still using the CE Assault Rifle animations

[@Redlight7999]

You and Vengeful Vadam could make your own halo 2 uncut site dedicated to restoring as much cut content from halo 2 as possible just like the half-life 2 beta comunity does with half-life 2.

[@protocetid]

The Digsite Crew is restoring the cut mission Alpha Moon, when they make assets available then it’s up to the fans to make proto mods. There’s a lot of stuff to use for a proto Halo 1 mod, AFAIK there isn’t a lot enthusiasm to make it sadly, the Digsite Crew did make their own single map mod that restored a lot of material. They should give us everything including the early scripts for the plot so we can know exactly what they planned, there’s evidence Halo 1 and 2 underwent major cuts in terms of missions during somewhat late stages of development. They haven’t uttered a word about the scripts AFAIK.

[@mmfood97]

Its cool stuff but there's a reason a lot of this stuff was cut. They were cool concepts but not fully realized or well thought out, they were choppy concepts and not the most fun to play

[@archivey-h8e]

@@mmfood97 In Halo 2's case it's mostly just time and xbox limitations.

[@mmfood97]

@@archivey-h8e I dont think so, most of the things cut were not well realized or thought or had a significant role in the sandbox. Adding these things back would mean altering the game as a whole, testing them to see if they work or not, and then modifying them to fit the sandbox. Its the process of most these cut features didnt go through, thus they were cut and adding them back in feels out of place

[@monolith4653]

At 02:27 that map in the backround kinda reminds me of Containment which is a BTB snow map with triangular big fusion coils

[@trekker105]

19:16 yeah, when your banshee is as beat up as this one is, the cannons definitely start leaking like that in vanilla

[@shreksnow1918]

You should definitely do a part 2 electric boogaloo going over the guide books if you can find the time. That was definitely really interesting. Hopefully Halo 2 Digsite includes a lot of that stuff. This was entertaining. It’s crazy just how much stuff Bungie had planned for 2, but were unable to do that. Thankfully they reused a lot of their ideas in the other Halos.

[@simonlei2597]

the chinese ”欢迎到“ in 1:50 means "welcome to" , so it just a welcome board, nothing special, and love your videos btw

[@Hunterunt]

Ok thanks! Thanks for pausing on it too, for some reason the video was off a few frames so it was on the wrong screen when I paused there.

[@trekker105]

13:57 the sentinel that comes up to chief at the end of The Ark does something that looks a lot like this

[@lpod7180]

Very interesting stuff! Thank you for the video. Would definitely be interested in seeing the guide books covered. Idk if its a mandela effect but I swear I remember reading about a cover system in pre release article

[@texel76]

That's real tho. The article exist.

[@lpod7180]

@texel76 so you remember it too? I knew I wasn't misremembering. Do you recall where you read it? I think I did in gameinformer

[@Gin-115]

@@lpod7180 Still have my F.E.A.R demo disk 😂

[@sickSNIPE316]

"This guy talking"... bro... come on... These are the men who created the greatest game in existence, even on our knees we do not belong in their presence.

[@lpod7180]

Jason Jones

[@Rythaze]

that was literally my first thought, like damn at least call him by his name 💀

[@blckbeauty4406]

Right? Like, he is literally the project leader for Halo: CE & Halo 2, Jason Jones himself...

[@BongToker117]

The “fuel rod cannon” to me looks like the Halo CE for PC flamethrower.

[@primusvsunicron1]

show this to Ruby and Vadam

[@genericwhitekidthesecond4330]

Vadam watches this channel so he'll probably see it.

[@Spartan_Tanner]

8:31 the Gauss Driver does say that in the E3 build too, it's just hard to hear in certain instances, the E3 demo was definitely played multiple times.

[@Hunterunt]

Yea I rewatched it again, there is also Odst with you at the start in final E3

[@swolfington]

for what its worth the "level editor" at 1:10 is 3d Studio Max

[@gran_turismo_fan]

And I believe they used maya to animate various model animations to import into halo 2's engine. Like what Nathan was showcasing the brute on the warthog.

[@Climacticc_Chaos]

These videos are from the Halo 2 Collectors edition, wasnt used to promote halo 2, they came out with the release to see the behind the scene, and thats not just some guy talking! its JASON JONES! ;" 0

[@texel76]

54:51 apparently that's just a Sentinel Beam upside down. Well, the FP version of the weapon it's actually upside down in retail. So, that early footage was from before they decided to change the FP versio of the weapon to be upside down.

[@chciken]

38:30 Look at the tracking on the rocket. That thing basically does a 180 to the ghost.

[@Hunterunt]

yea, that stood out to me as well.

[@dermonch7959]

My Gawd, the Nostalgia....

[@trekker105]

25:56 Am i crazy, or does one of the Truth holograms on The Ark say pretty much this exact line?

[@haloboi09]

Neat lil video, good job dude :)

[@bromanche1614]

Ha! I was using the H2 mongoose files to implement it into CE and was confused by the suspension and how Bungie intended to animate it. Seeing the old vids is reassuring because they had the exact same issue I did!

[@TheLegendaryBeta]

That second picture reminds me of the storm from halo 3. Game was all supposed to be together.

[@Tyswave]

I love your videos ♥️ thank you so much

[@chciken]

Halo 2

[@Hunterunt]

Halo 2 movie

[@SeFu2006]

Lol I wish I could say halo 2 and get 6 likes lol

[@purporium6902]

Why your channel so small? It's do good :(

[@Foreign0817]

The secrets of Halo...

[@drewbiewatadooby108]

lol "this guy talking"

[@first001]

What's your opinion on Halo Infinite?

[@Hunterunt]

It looks very bad and bland but Ive never played it.

[@BlatantThrowAway]

You should do more research and actually make a script before recording.

[@texel76]

Constructive criticism i guess.

[@BlatantThrowAway]

@@texel76 I mean it with love. We don’t need another General Heed in this community. And I say that with love too.

[@psychan4025]

Maybe you’re just a dumbass tbh bc his video was pretty easy to understand and had a lot of content, plus he’s not saying “uh” every 5 seconds so I don’t understand the GeneralHeed comparison? We need less people like you in the community tbh

[@SeFu2006]

@@BlatantThrowAwaywhy is he so ashamed of his name? He calls himself general heed but it’s generalkid

[@BlatantThrowAway]

@@SeFu2006 He isn't ashamed. He used to be known as General Kidd when he was younger. He just decided to change it to General Heed when he grew up but kept the same GT.