Halo 3 - Never Before Seen Cut Weapons, Vehicles & Equipment In The Beta

[@doootuz]

The new shade turret has me like You’ll never capture the flag, NOT WHEN I SHIFT INTO MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!

[@voxelspec5647]

We should call the mini turret the “baby scarab”

[@tacticaldroid9189]

@@voxelspec5647 Ah yes, here we see a scarab with its litter of shades.

[@goku262002]

SOMEONE TELL POSTUMS!! I need these in a content update for MCC.

[@BanishedSilentShadow3318]

"I knew i should've added the turbos.."

[@MisterJohnDoe]

@@voxelspec5647 You mean like a locust?

[@Kiule2]

Everybody gangster till the shade turret starts walkin.

[@howmanybabiesdidNestleKill]

What the fuck is a TURRENT?

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Ever since Halo CE, I looked at those thing and thought "Those fuckers could totally start walking around" but they never did - I feel pretty vindicated rn not gonna lie.

[@gomzy6461]

@@howmanybabiesdidNestleKill pressed over a single grammar mistake

[@degeneratesupreme860]

@@howmanybabiesdidNestleKill it called a typo shit stick

[@shadowtear101]

Shade turret? Nah you mean baby Locust

[@HaloGrunt15]

Holy crap that shade turrent was cool. Maybe rejectedshotgun can re create it

[@kabob0077]

It and the Locus would be good additions, and the Cobra and Grizzly.

[@The_Blyatman]

Yessssss somebody tell him about this

[@PenetentOne]

I really hope so! Either that, or the Bungie restoration project!!! Makes me excited hahaha

[@lolcatjunior]

Maybe they can make the locus based on the shade turret animations.

[@databend6609]

Turret. Turrent is not a word. Unless that was a typo then carry on.

[@DavidJCobb]

In Halo: Reach, I've seen the name "excavator" used internally for the Sabre. Someone at Bungie must've really liked the name.

[@stevemc6010]

Weird name for a space fighter

[@StephenAMCook]

@Carlos Emilio Wow. That's impressive you remember that.

[@mulletevan7138]

Man we used to rip on Bungie all the time. But they made the best Halo. We'll see what 343i does with infinite. I won't be playing it I'll just watch it from my damn phone.

[@oxred9658]

Isnt there a leaked gun in Halo Infinite called the excavator?

[@JuiceboxCE]

@@oxred9658 Yeah, the name lives on 🤘

[@mattuiop]

Man I wish bungie kept the blind glowing floors

[@apocali3]

I was wondering what those blinding things are

[@kodredcud]

@@apocali3 I think it has something to do with water/terrain

[@QasimAli-to5lk]

Damn the original forge menu looks so good , I wish they kept the item preview images

[@thatsaysalotabout-man9547]

Yeah

[@empathetic4100]

I wish there was an option to add color to the halo 3 menu, it brings a lot of life to it in my opinion

[@QasimAli-to5lk]

@@empathetic4100 well , we do have mods now

[@spyrothelegendarypurpledra8786]

Honestly, those shade turrets would be terrifying. Imagine you're playing LASO and manage to get past an area with them in it then you turn around and see them chasing you down.

[@spyrothelegendarypurpledra8786]

@Edward Spassov Yes.

[@Spartan-sz7km]

Imagine it getting dropped off a phantom then it jumps towards you

[@BanHammerFromPhighting]

There should've been an elephant defense level in 3, where, on ur way to (dedicated area) The covenant spot you and try to stop you, and the walking shades would attempt to shoot at you, and youd be bombarded with elites in ghosts and revenants.

[@backtooth1018]

I’m imagining a cheesy commercial “You see THIS? ITS FORGABLE!”

[@RosheenQuynh]

"Marine? Did I give you permission to bitch?"

[@frostfrog6393]

“See that mountain? You can climb it”

[@CobaltSanderson]

No mention as to why the ground hurts to look at?

[@gavinrolls1054]

The executable is bugged

[@eclapsed]

I knew that was bubble shield instantly because of that story night trailer. I watched the trailers so much on my halo 3 zune

[@Approvedjoey117]

I knew it was the bubble shield since that’s where it originally spawns on the final version of the map lol

[@user-73a]

i knew the bubble shield because i had my wife dress like cortana and i fucked her

[@thatoneguywhouploads]

Holy cow, almost 14 years later, and people are STILL finding new stuff in this game. That blows my mind. Edit: my mistake, I just never saw this before. Also, cheese.

[@gavinrolls1054]

Bc these builds take forever to leak

[@10_MILES_HIGH_]

Watch some vengeful vadam vids on halo CE betas. Betas and pre release versions take aeons to leak

[@user-73a]

this was leaked in 2008 if you knew where to look. it's not new

[@gavinrolls1054]

@@user-73a thats pimps at sea, this is a different build

[@-Gal4xy-]

@@user-73a Yup what Gavin said. Nobody actually saved Pimps at sea sadly. This build is new and was found in a bungie devkit that was bought recently.

[@MatthewLarson578]

5:43 I bet they were going to name that equipment Andy

[@Espartanica]

Nah, because it actually blows up

[@MatthewLarson578]

Espartanica lol

[@bradleydeman165]

I don't think most of the objects would've been meant to be forgeable, rather they just weren't disabled for selection yet as is common in dev builds.

[@Stinger8800]

Shade turret "walker" is super cool.

[@NotKameron]

It looks like a baby scarab

[@jetpackdog3427]

@@NotKameron no. no it does not.

[@jamesdino1388]

@@jetpackdog3427 yes. yes it does.

[@MisterJohnDoe]

@@jetpackdog3427 Agreed. That would be the locust.

[@ebonkinght]

@Kameron Gatton The locust was a baby scarab this is more of its cousin 😭

[@tomahawkm4687]

Generalkidd: the grav lift is forgeable Me: wtf kind of witchcraft is this?!

[@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial]

shade turret: **starts walkin** everybody: my satisfaction is immeasurable and my day is saved

[@Spartan-sz7km]

Maybe it'll be added as a locust in halo infinite

[@TommyTwoThings]

Take a drink every time he said "forgeable"

[@Kirbylight2]

Maybe 343 could add these back into Halo 3 in a future update

[@blakebelladonna5100]

Really want them to add that shade turret!

[@aceskeletonne7446]

They did something like this for halo 2 classic with cut vehicles files being put back into the game so we might see something similar

[@NazmusLabs]

We still have 5 seasons to go (meaning 5 major updates.) So let’s hope!

[@MasterHall117]

At this rate, it’s bound to happen

[@strixnuktia186]

I think most people would rather have these added in over more armor

[@Noah-ost]

Also where did this beta come from? I can tell you're really excited in this video, but I'd like to hear more of the story behind this beta, and maybe you could experiment with more in this beta. You may want to consider doing a follow up video on this, it's really interesting.

[@russellbrown6888]

It was found in an Xbox 360 dev kit that someone purchased online. It's not the first time something like this was found, either: a Halo 2 alpha still running on the CE engine was found in a dev kit someone discovered in their attic, and it was even played on a stream with Frank O'Connor.

[@Ronderal]

"we al know the tripmine to be...um...just uh...the same. And it's the same in this build too." 10/10 script

[@sunburst8810]

He doesn't use a script and never has noob

[@CrunchyMaggots]

I feel like "were meant to be forge-able" is a bit misleading. It's probably more likely that active objects in the game world aren't locked by default (since that would probably be annoying to deal with during development), and the devs left going through the effort of locking forge canvas access to them later in development once they were closer to release.

[@koigoi]

Generalkidd is known to be misleading sometimes. Unfortunately...

[@jetstreamsampai474]

It ain't that misleading if he's actually forging it, it's just his initial feel for what might've been

[@ryzenfox5688]

I explored this stuff myself as soon as the beta was released, awesome stuff, there’s also references to a smoke bomb equipment and the guardian in the debug text.

[@Thesk8guy]

References to the Guardian, but probably no Guardian files left at that point right?

[@deltadude7417]

What do you call a superior sangheilli? An elite. I’ll go now. Edit: how is this making people laugh

[@QasimAli-to5lk]

No no this actually made me laugh

[@truth7693]

It actually made me laugh

[@ryanq.4799]

No wait stay!!! Your pun with save humanity

[@jetpackdog3427]

No wait that's actually pretty good.

[@MatthewLarson578]

Impressive. Most Impressive

[@iPlayiOS]

Seeing the cut forge content hurts my soul at a deep level

[@amajestictaco4679]

The binary on the zoom-in binoculars thing say "Dave"

[@AzraelFPV]

I would guess a lot of those items weren't mean to be forge-editable, and were simply awaiting removal of said ability.

[@yeehawj248]

Cool stuff General. I'm happy to see you continually put out content for these games

[@thatoneguywhouploads]

I see you everywhere on halo videos

[@Ezequiel-lh4ub]

OMG, once i had a dream about that turret walking i fucking knew it was kinda design to walk.

[@TheJedaiHero9000]

Now, that was fraking AWESOME! Really enjoyed watching this one, another one of my favorites I've seen. Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year, Generalkidd.

[@newtybot]

3:00 343 industries: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN!!

[@mulletevan7138]

You always discover something new on Halo. I'm really glad your channel exists dude.

[@kabob0077]

5:58 *A BOMB!*

[@Vorance]

The heritic banshee honestly makes a lot of sense as the place holder since there isn't a revision of it in Halo 3 and it would make finding all the old placeholder assets alot easier given their easy to tell visual differences.

[@Quyana16]

I love this channel, it itches my OCD. You answer alot of questions I don't have time to find myself.

[@EthanRom]

Man, Halo 3 could've been even way more epic

[@rapidpigz8238]

I think RvB uses that model of bubble shield in one of the animated episodes. The part where North yeets it over a building.

[@TMek42]

The untextured Mauler also appears in one of the Halo 3 ViDocs, I think in the Et Tu Brute one

[@BogdanIsMyNameo]

The trip mine used to also attach to the underside of warthogs magnetically. You wouldn’t be able to tell unless you saw the orange glow. The second the warthog moved, it would blow. Halo 3 public beta days are one of my fondest childhood memories

[@brokenstyli]

2:33 - The bubble shield from Starry Night was shown in the ViDoc Quisnam Protero Damno on High Ground, but it was using the Radar Jammer/Power Drain 3d asset. It was shown rolling down a hill. Looks like they used the same particle bubble effect and just changed the model.

[@filiperodrigofurtunatodias6852]

0:43 MY EYES

[@koto7551]

Its so cool to this this stuff after many years after its release, out of bounds easter eggs cut content before release is really unique.

[@mfspectacular]

That shade turret seems like it wouldve been useless, but having even half a team squad up with them would be hilarious

[@marcusfairhall8308]

Fun fact: the mauler, or excavator, was actually included in halo 3 ODST.

[@Mr.Moisty]

The floor is so bright XD

[@stef2090]

The way the shade turrets move is so creepy... Could make an awesome custom game where zombies spawn with no weapons and they have to get in the shade turrets and walk towards the human base and invade Would be like a fucking alien invasion or something War of the worlds

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

At this point, I'm more interested in learning about the development of the first three Halo games than actually playing them. EDIT: Saying something was "meant" to be in the final game because it's in a pre-release build implies intent that may not even exit. There's still experimentation that's going on, even that late in development and it's difficult to determine how all the competing visions at Bungie coalesced from what is essentially a single snapshot of the game's development timeline.

[@vic-20personalcomputer80]

Firefight was originally tested in Halo 3 with Master Chief fighting’s endless waves of enemies.

[@MrNotgoth]

Hearing the words "halo 3 beta" brings back a lot of nostalgia

[@oonmm]

The Shade Turret appeared to use the physics engine with its legs to walk. Look how it starts to tilt as soon as one of the legs pushes down on the curb etc, and how it doesn't have a linear movement speed but instead appears to be carried by each individual leg. No wonder it was cut.

[@213byron]

That shade turret is so badass

[@Wheels1138]

I remember playing a modded version of Valhalla on the 360 that had all those little trees scattered across the map like a small forest. Actually made it pretty impossible to do anything on the map since all those trees would get in the way, but I still saved it because it was an odd map. Might have to go set up the 360 again and see if there was anything else hidden there in Forge.

[@Noah-ost]

I guarantee those objects were never "meant to be forgable", bungie probably didn't code the functionality to make them not forgable yet. You should test to see if when you move them in forge and load up your custom map in slayer, will the object's new position be saved?

[@bradleydeman165]

Exactly, having them forgeable at this point in development makes sense as it would allow the dev to make simple adjustments to try stuff out. He should try to think a bit more from a developers perspective in these kind of videos as they'd clear up a lot of things and prevent myths from floating around.

[@DavidJCobb]

Official map variants like Snowbound's "Boundless," which alter seemingly hardcoded map objects, are implemented as Forge maps. These objects are "Forge objects," but were only meant to be used by the developers, not end users.

[@CAlex078]

It's likely that every object in the game has a flag that dictates if an object is forgable or not. I'd agree that it's unlikely these objects are meant to be moved (especially important map elements such as the guardian turrets and grav lifts) and that the issue is that the flags to disable them bugged, devs left them unflagged for internal reasons, or a mix of both. This kind of thing would not be uncommon 6 months away from launch on a project his big.

[@unkoonkootz5547]

When I saw that bomb I said ANDY

[@jacobbayers6364]

Why

[@whateverman_]

Everybody gangsta till the shade turret starts walking

[@bioniclefan117]

The mini shade turret looks like a mini scarab

[@Revamped117]

Why did I get a notification for this video 3 days later after I already watched it before

[@grimacethedrummer8378]

That throwable bomb would’ve been a perfect counter to Armor lock in Reach, would’ve been so satisfying to see some asshat pop out of armor lock only to be blown sky high moments later

[@jfls2113]

That bubble shield looks fucking fantastic

[@jetstreamsampai474]

The walking shade turret was my childhood dream since Halo 1 on the original xbox... I can't believe it was a reality.

[@specialk1416]

Tbh I always thought the bubble shield in the Starry Night trailer was just the generator part on top of the piece of equipment without the stand legs on the bottom. I had no clue it was a cut model lol

[@doubleback190xbox3]

What the. I knew there was a beta but this is new

[@SizzlingSquiggle]

What this video shows me is that Bungie and 343 industries has the ability to recreate very dynamic objects available in forge. Creating swinging gates, trees that sway when you hit them, etc...

[@vincentsavoretti2201]

I'm porting models out of the Halo games for... Reasons. It's an arduous journey, and your videos are keeping my ADHD brain focused on getting this shit done

[@thisiskt9210]

That shade turret concept probably evolved from the Halo:CE turret... Those legs are very similar to that; it's actually a quite interesting concept tbh

[@ninboy01]

Wasn’t there a Banshee on Snowbound in the public Halo 3 Beta? That prototype Excavator was directly inspired by a similar weapon in the pre-Xbox build of Halo CE, that served as a Covenant counterpart to the shotgun.

[@mythicpink]

The Halo 3 beta was an amazing thing to experience.

[@ThisBirdHasFlown]

Didn't think we'd be seeing an early Halo 3 anytime soon. Awesome!!!

[@monkeyt2675]

The bomb and shade turret are actually really cool

[@Ribbons0121R121]

ok that shade turret is a cool concept, only thing it needs its a turret base for the drivers seat

[@Ribbons0121R121]

dont know if this was ever noticed but the anti air gun in halo reach's oni sword base mission IS vehicle and walking up to it theres a prompt to "enter warthog gunner seat" but no matter how much you try you cant get in

[@lucywucyyy]

that shade turret is amazing i wish it was in the game

[@riptideanomy1024]

For the shade turret they might put the locust vehicle in the game that acts just like that. They can move and plant themselves on the ground for a stable aim, this could for the same with blisterbacks

[@Asas_TV]

absolute legend for finding this stuff

[@jewelsvevo8153]

I'd love to see this fully restored and playable honestly

[@SockyNoob]

Especially deleting those turrets lol

[@ThisHandleSystemCanGetNicked]

I always imagined a shade turret that can move. It is awfully slow though, so i'm not surprised they cut it.

[@lightningphoenix7155]

I loved trying to find all the secrets of halo in all of the games.

[@Born...]

Trip Mine is different in this build. It can stick to vehicles

[@krzysztofzaborowski8132]

Hi, is it possible to download this beta somewhere? do you have a link?

[@luger700]

It’s always sad but really cool to see how much content is cut.

[@melting_grrl]

In the original Halo 3 beta it was super easy to get out of the map. In Valhalla you could just fly a banshee out haha.

[@youaintasbadasyouthink]

Would love if someone would leak an early version of Halo Reach which had the original Battleground game mode they were going to implement

[@Espartanica]

I'm pretty sure Tip of the Spear's background was originally going to be a map. There's dozens of square kilometers of terrain to explore there.

[@LeTtRrZ]

This beta looks almost as bright as irl outdoors to my unadjusted gamer eyes.

[@randomvidsguy4118]

Nice vid my guy

[@Fallentoast345]

You haven't watched the full video and you're already saying it's a nice vid. The video is 10 minutes long and was uploaded just 4 minutes ago

[@truth7693]

@@Fallentoast345 So?? All general kidds videos are good

[@ShadyPenguin117x]

@@Fallentoast345 silence

[@deltaandgarfield870]

That AA wrath I saw it before on a halo lego set in a custom lego video I remember I wonder if they knew?

[@ThatOneOf3StrongholdPlayers]

That shade turret reminded me of a locust from halo wars

[@severecartoon7152]

Also, on halo 2 the oracle, your plasma rifle's overheat symbol on remastered

[@TheChadPad]

I was always disappointed we never got that version of the bubble shield! I would've loved for them to make it just like the one in the Starry Night trailer, but I'm sure they just were trying to rework it for gameplay purposes. The final version we got makes a better target to shoot at and destroy, but I think he original would've worked really well too

[@greggeverman5578]

Another legendary vid from the Kidd!

[@Lone77Wolf]

Shade turret, trees, bridge, window covers I think 343 should work on, because the versatility and usefulness that could be used with those is I feel alot

[@juanrafaelvaldezxd1899]

That shade turret with legs could have been the precursor of the mantis of Halo 4 because well in the archives of the Halo 3 vanilla or final in there are hidden graphics regarding the more specific weapons with which you did the most damage or chaos during a game There is a graphic of what appears to be a kind of modified version of the plasma cannon with the mantis text below it and compare them and they are quite similar, it is very likely that this is the mantis you are referring to and why well 1 as I mentioned before they are very similar 2 is in this multiplayer prototype version possibly they wanted to implement it but they discarded it in very early phases before launching the prototype a pity that I never get to be I hope this info will serve you generalkidd

[@jamesaseltine2756]

Very cool stuff man hope some salvage comes of this

[@jamesaseltine2756]

That original wraith is awesome would have been cool as an option not replacement like both parked side by side or one type on one side of da map one on da other an dat snow level was a nightmare a banchi might have been nice considering they are destructable specialy if u got da dual aa wraith

[@Thememermanwhoisafan]

Dope

[@___chief866]

Omg that shade turret would have been cool as shit to have

[@LeTtRrZ]

Seems kind of underpowered though. Maybe if they made it move faster or shoot fuel rod shots.

[@nomecognome6713]

I'm curious about the shade's range, attack and defense stats, because it's slow enough to be an easy target, might as well get a tank or a ghost. Makes me think about the mantis: yes looks cool, but powerful vehicles should have separate seats for balanced gameplay.

[@Turtle3000]

Good morning, Generalheed, thanks again for the upload!

[@LungoScrungo]

Spider Shade, Spider Shade, does whatever a shade turret can

[@BlatantThrowAway]

Any single player stuff? Would love to see the cut missions.

[@quackerdoodle2831]

The other trip bomb is Andy from RvB

[@GunterThePengu]

Should definitely make a video on what happens if you overload the beta copy may be able to find something interesting somewhere.

[@provingfiber8390]

5:37 It's Andy!