Halo 2 Had A Secret Hidden Map That Could Be Played On

[@that_one_helljumper]

This is what I like the most about older games is all the secrets which were unintentionally left behind during the making of them

[@WarwickkkT101]

"Unfortunately that was like 2 decades ago uh well maybe not 2 decades but almost it was over a decade ago, long time ago" - commentary gold

[@ABoxIsMyHome]

😂😂

[@ThisBirdHasFlown]

He constantly makes me sigh

[@theanimeman97]

Yeah, Kidd has always been weird with his commentary style. It's all off the top and recorded, I assume, in one take.

[@afanoflafear]

It was like a century ago uh well maybe not a century but almost it was over 50 years ago, long time ago - GeneralKidd

[@billtree52]

Halo 2 came out in 2004. It's closer to two decades than he's giving himself credit for. Haha

[@Gammaburst1298]

GeneralKidd isn’t a kid anymore, he’s GeneralMann!

[@privatedonut8579]

It’s GeneralHeed according to him now

[@Gammaburst1298]

@@privatedonut8579 Oh, forgot. This is a my B.

[@maxim13able]

It's generaltransgender now

[@BOCANE13]

This reminds me of the test sandbox for halo 2 that had physic tests and a mongoose. It was shown in the halo 2 limited edition documentary.

[@UnfixedPython]

Thats still a map I wanna play because I remember watching that bonus disc as a kid and I always wanted to mess around on that

[@JackJonValois]

I remember those fake videos back then saying you could unlock this map by beating the game on legendary with all the skulls on without dying, I tried too many times.

[@denniscobos3306]

Halo 2...LASO...without dying... I cherish my sanity too much to even attempt such a thing

[@jacksepticeye_fan084]

I actually have an Xbox OG with Halo 1 & 2. I'm gonna try this. I'm also over halfway through on heroic. Wish me luck!

[@aeronautisch]

good luck.

[@jezzaw1998]

Mate you should do a halo/cod boundary break series like shesez, you basically do it in small clips but if you did a bunch of this stuff in a big video would pop off

[@backtooth1018]

He tried barrier busters but didn’t keep it going

[@funkyreapercat5280]

Can you do anything with Thomas Lasky's AI in Halo 4's Reclaimer mission? Maybe try to get him to hold weapons or get into vehicles?

[@djjoe214]

I saw an old video about this map many years ago, haven't been able to find one since, good job!

[@benb9151]

Fallout 76 had players discovering the test room with every item

[@kevinferrin3795]

I was going to comment, this is most def a debug/testing room. Go in and shoot some enemies, find out whats working and whats not, exit and change some code, restart and test again.

[@HaedenBeck]

Funny how they have the prophets of truth and mercy but not the Prophet chairs (two versions, regrets and hunter cannon one) and no regret or flood regret.

[@bmxdude1337]

Halo will live on forever

[@TheChadPad]

It's awesome what you do, bringing back hidden memories from these games, cool things that we never would know about if it weren't for you. All of this stuff will be forgotten eventually, sadly. Thank you

[@Leoligaur]

Ive been around ever since 15000 subs and you've have grown into such a good man I'm proud

[@legendarymasterchief7620]

The room looked smaller to me at first. Wow.

[@Leonard.L.Church]

Hey cheif!

[@daka3785]

mind telling me what your doing in this comment section?

[@Leonard.L.Church]

@@daka3785 Escaping Caboose. He thinks we are playing hide and seek.

[@Kobalent]

Okay, given Halo 2's troubled development, I wonder if part of going into over-drive mode was to create the assets that changed between the scrapped E3 demo and release, so instead of making one or a few maps at a time, they were only doing the main "commits" to that map and then copying and pasting the tags into the missions (hence why some of the guns are inaccessible; probably had very few assets done like the model and texture so they disabled the player's ability to pick them up

[@Resolute.j]

Still so many secrets in our old beloved halo games.

[@AhuizotlXiuh]

Hey I have a weird question. I have a distinct memory of reading an article on Bungie net way back in the Halo 3 days or more likely leading up to it where they showed off images of Johnson's ragdoll being thrown down a pachinko-like series of pegs. I can't for the life of me find the original or even any reference to it. I doubt anything about it made it to the final game but do you remember anything about it?

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

Stuff like this is totally fascinating to me. Something about the idea of a game I love so much and thought I knew inside and out, still surprising me. Thanks General!

[@Spike-13]

That's so cool you found out how to do this again

[@McJobless]

My assumption of the reason why this is a "playable level" is because the map compiler ignores assets that aren't actually referenced, so the easiest way to overcome that is to make a simple box and chuck everything in. The reason the common assets are stored in a working MAP file is probably because reusing the existing format was way easier than building something bespoke for shared assets.

[@McJobless]

Bethesda games have levels like this, both as test maps that just weren't deleted, but also special levels designed to keep important NPCs and items alive but safe and hidden until they are needed.

[@BungieStudios]

Yes. Every Halo game has these maps and the other maps will not load without these. If you replace them with say another Halo's shared, you will get some goofy ass shit like Marines doing Flood growls.

[@FirestormDDash]

This map just highlights the sadness that no forge mode in all these years allowed you to place npcs. I always wanted to semi gmod halo. Make forts and put marines and elites in them. Watch them fight, etc.

[@BungieStudios]

AI is harder. You have to define behaviors and pathing for them. Halo CE had a separate tool called Sapien for that.

[@halinaqi2194]

If I remember right, in halo 2 the ai has to have custom firing positions set up, objectives and some scripting. The ai has to know where to take cover and where to fire from. It also needs to have conditions to know if they are losing or winning the fight. It also needs to be scripted to move from one encounter to the next. With those 3, you would be able to make a level editor (including a way to make custom maps and terrain is a bonus).

[@darphbobo55]

Dang Miranda Keyes is stronger than the tank lol

[@SamSquids]

lmao yet she can't take a Brute spiker to the back 🤣

[@batterysurf]

You are the greatest treasure hunter that ever existed!

[@idontknowidontknow5360]

You'd have to have a modded Xbox and replace a multiplayer map with single_player_shared.map and rename it to the original map you are replacing

[@21stcenturystops59]

I want to hear Jeff say, "Tackle the Jackle!" Or "Sniper no sniping!"

[@totallyahuman.2955]

5:27 General, what you are referring to is the developer room of the fallout and Skyrim series. And yeah, practically all of the games items is there.

[@MJRSoap]

It's likely this is both a Runtime map to find runtime errors when interacting with things and also served as a backup room to load when the game can't find a map file (say if a level transition is called but the next map doesn't exist yet, this loads instead).

[@LED_Lightbulb]

can you make a link to the information used in this video, or maybe create a text file on the how to for easy use?

[@IGoTNoAiMBoT]

lmao good fucking luck ive been asking for years

[@first001]

No he’s gonna gate keep

[@pian-0g445]

I think he said that he had to piece together information from various posts

[@decab4209]

This just brought back some fun ass memories. I love this. I can still play this on my xbox

[@SamSquids]

6:29 "Nano Machines, son" Miranda probably

[@ltraltier6009]

Why does he not mention the cut gravemind tendril enemy that is a remnant of the forerunner tank level? You can see it hover over the flood combat forms.

[@CameraPunk5049]

I think these were the original rooms bungie used to work on during the development of halo 2. In behind the scenes of the making of Halo 2 we get see how they used these rooms for testings.

[@kirkh4205]

i wonder if there is any way to port that to run in an emu of some type. You're running that on your Jtag?

[@spanishginger]

Cool! More treasure from halo 2’s spaghetti code.

[@seansheep5973]

How do I get it. I have an Xbox original with halo 2 and would like to play this map

[@HazardousAnimal]

wow a playable grey box map, can't believe it thanks mate...

[@badwolf2317]

The reason why it can’t be play on MCC is because MCC’s Halo 2 was basically created from the Halo 2 Vista. It’s the same with Halo CEA being the gearbox port of Halo CE.

[@BungieStudios]

The map is still there. It's just that MCC uses a different GUI. I'm sure there is a way to force load it on MCC PC.

[@noice3788]

You remind me of me because halo 3 was the only halo game I had for a long time

[@AliceUnbound]

Isnt there something like this with magnums that shoot covenant ai's and duel-wield smg's that shot spnrk rounds. I distinctly remember this??

[@tristanminor3443]

Can any covenant in halo 4 use any promeathian weapons?

[@Lahlooooouh]

This is super cool, I had no idea!

[@doootuz]

You should do a video on the beta shared map

[@343colt]

I love the content please keep up the good work and dont let haters tell ypu what you can and cant upload

[@spaceisyourmind3789]

Sad that Johnson isnt in this room

[@WonderMePartyStrip]

Killtrocity modded map packs unlocked this.

[@theskieshavefallen8408]

I remember these from back in the day.

[@ATP2555ify]

I knew about this since 07

[@IGAMER2]

How do you make to always find something new about halo?

[@Leftysrev3nge]

For the memories

[@THEGUARDIANSTACO117]

I noticed the Active Camo, Wraith, and Spectre are missing from the group. Any idea why?

[@AfterAllWeAreHuman]

Might be later development stuff.

[@kodredcud]

This is a map for every level to draw resources from; maybe they didn't need to be loaded in the game as much and as such just natively rendered in their respective maps?

[@KaptainKarizzma]

Very Cool. Never knew this existed!

[@ryanwoodworth1841]

There's not enough halo information on this channel

[@patrickreville4978]

So its basically the sample map that was on Vista

[@THEGUARDIANSTACO117]

He mentioned in the video it was not in Vista, only the original Xbox version.

[@patrickreville4978]

@@THEGUARDIANSTACO117 the sample map for the map editor that had every weapon including the silenced smgs which was exclusive to Vista was only for xbox

[@castilloespinoza9726]

cuando los tanques eran cheveres, un recuerdo muy hermoso. muchas gracias.

[@jeremiahgrayest]

this looks insanely good for OG xbox footage. was this on an emulator or something?

[@Mr_Him]

Fallout 76 has something like this. Players could get acess it through a console command

[@keenices1972]

This reminds me of the Debug Mode in Minecraft ngl

[@aleborke5420]

Hey, I think you should make a video on the new Easter egg they found recently On halo five at the beginning of the level (I forgot what it’s called) where you are on meridian but you are trying to get to the elevator. At the beginning if you immediately boost to a door behind you, than you will earn a warthog I am not sure about how the player count works or if it will happen with less than 4 players but all players need to boost there quick. Anyways you have covered most of the Easter eggs but this is new.

[@KzRDOCS]

HOW DO YOU KEEP FINDING STUFF WHAT

[@Huntist7]

Love your content

[@weliftnation2418]

When are you going to play halo with your subscribers?

[@daka3785]

*flip the banshee

[@eltrashooter2578]

So basically a dev map.

[@Aegis_Mind]

I wouldn’t even count that as a map 😂

[@coolkid-eq9zs]

good vods

[@regishwadum]

Key word: *had*

[@SloppokeymaX]

Ladies and gentlemen we got Em!

[@picneec13]

Generalkidd, please, take my wife

[@BungieStudios]

cheat_all_weapons cheat_all_vehicles

[@brokenbones78629]

Yea but check your Twitter DM

[@24halonerd]

Stayed up all night for this one boss

[@ブルーアーカイブが大好き]

Cool

[@skyblues8785]

look at that like ratio 👍

[@music-channel69]

You should link "those old forums" because you aren't giving them credit for this discovery.

[@durpydilo6570]

We call this new map A S S E T S

[@Cej4y]

early as