Pillar of the Damned - HALO CE "Unyielding Threat" Mod

[@clockehvac1240]

GOING TO INSTALLATION 05 INSTEAD OF INSTALLATION 04.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

_Oh man, just when I thought this war couldn't get any worse..._ - Master chief (probably)

[@GreyMattersAnimation]

This is an amazing mod! The flood in halo is already horrible. But the flood invading the Pillar of Autumn while everyone is still trapped in the ship before it ever reaches the ring just feels so terrifying. The introduction was amazing.

[@UnscMinus4118]

This is Echo team the airlock chamber is secured...Hold on ...something's contact! Multiple contacts! All over!..This is Echo team help! Help! They're breached our - aahhhhhhh!!!!

[@pvt.jonwallace]

_slippery noises intensify_

[@SamsarasArt]

I like how it went from the level we knew to a nightmare

[@StopFlaggingVideos]

9:50 now THAT'S a flood attack voice comms, that sounds like hell. not whatever that B-movie stuff they gave us during the Jenkins recording

[@AJediSurvivor]

They got the Jenkins recording idea from Alien believe it or not.

[@pinkinthesushi]

You’re complaining about work that was done in 2001

[@StopFlaggingVideos]

@@pinkinthesushi I’m not talking about audio quality. I’m talking about capturing the chaos and terror of a first flood contact. The original was like a campy horror movie. Modders show how different and well done things could have been, makes you wonder why the developers didn’t go as hard

[@inderezzed8454]

In all honesty, if this had happened, the Autumn would have been entirely overrun before it would even touch the ring's surface, or perhaps self-destructed before touchdown, once Keyes understood the nature of the Flood (most likely before they even reach the Bridge). It's extremely likely there would have been extremely few survivors in the lifeboats, with possibly 2 or 3 of them infected to take over the ring's surface and the remaining survivors.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

OR the Covenant, upon hearing of a flood infestation aboard a human ship heading to a holy ring, decide to throw all safe fire protocols to where they belong and blast the Autumn out of existence

[@inderezzed8454]

@@pvt.jonwallace It'd actually be more likely that with Cortana's ability to wirelessly tap into Covenant technology as show in Truth and Reconciliation, any communications from Covenant boarders on the PoA would not be able to transmit what's going on inside the ship until Chief and Co. left it.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

@@inderezzed8454 well...in the books a Covenant A.I was able to outsmart Cortana and send a message to nearby covie ships orbiting Reach because she was way to spread out in a captured ship's systems... I can see the Flood presence all over the Autumn and the panicked screams for help and the dying distracting her too much to focus on what the Covenant are doing.

[@jacobweatherford4696]

​@@pvt.jonwallaceyou make a good point plus its arbiter leading this fleet and hed be smart enough to kill the autumn and just take heat from the prophets after on why he may or may not have damaged the halo ring.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

@@jacobweatherford4696 damn it I want an entire timeline based on this mod NOW

[@seva809]

Damn such an awesome Flood introduction. Kudos to the mod author.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

indeed, he really pulled it off

[@slackingstacker]

Wow, this is like a more refined version of that super old Gearbox Halo PC mod that replaced all the covenant with human flood. Great stuff!

[@eltony4318]

23:41 you may never notice this, but this part is both horrible and sad: that soldier, was fighting alone, in the dark, with no way out, surrounded by unknown monstrosities, some of them were used to be his friends and mates some moments ago, and he had seen how they turn into that deformed entities. Yes, he fought bravely but pointless, at the end he die giving one last horrible and desperate crying in a indescribable pain, with one last thought into his mind that is fading away: what’s happening, why? And you, the only one that could helped him, you are there, just standing, watching…

[@michaelcroff7097]

If I recall correctly, the Autumn had no set out on its mission yet when Reach was attacked. While the Chief surely knows many marines, it’s unlikely he ever made close friendships with soldiers on the Autumn. Besides, as he was moved around special missions his entire career. Basically used like a piece of equipment, spending most of his years in cryo storage.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

If I could have broken that glass I would have tried...but level design made me watch

[@eltony4318]

@@pvt.jonwallace hehe take it easy soldier, I was just joking out, I know you would try IRL, and sometimes as just like IRL is that way, level design simply doesn’t help.

[@MDE_never_dies]

That marine definitely went to Valhalla

[@noWo5HISta]

I couldn't stop laughing at this subtitle. "CORTANA: sound\dialog\flood\flood_scream!"

[@pvt.jonwallace]

maybe I should turn off subtitles...

[@GleepActual]

Happy you enjoyed the mod, were gonna have a small hotfix for "Halo" soon.

[@discoendymion985]

LETS FUCKING GOOOO. Love your mod. Very atmospheric.

[@JanoschNr1]

The moment seconds before the flood attacks when he did hear them real close would have been the perfect moment to introduce the ingame map wich plops up with a couple of few moving red dots that suddenly rush towards you, giving a even greater moment of scare and dispense, otherwise fantastic mod!

[@GleepActual]

So the issue is mostly on scripting, its alot to pack into POA since its so small.@@JanoschNr1

[@Nephalem2002]

OH GOD.

[@SynthLizard8]

One of the biggest killers of tension in horror is frustration. The first encounter is far from fair being ambushed like that in a tight space, with the original first encounter, you are given a wide open space and only set upon by infection forms, slowly increasing in number with the combat forms being introduced as the fight progresses.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

to be fair I was actually trying to save some of the Marines. in that regard going for the infection forms first is CRUCIAL since if they latch into any NPC they're good as dead. The combat forms coming from behind was bs tho, since...you came from there

[@Sweat_Tyler12]

TL;DR:it adds to the horror. It actually makes it better because your fighting this parasitic virus that latches onto anything that’s alive and turning almost all of it into these super natural ungodly creatures that only (in their Farrell stage) know to just target,infect/eat/kill anything with good biomass and turn it into one of them. And no one at the time knew what these things were. For all they know they came from whole different universes (and it is actually very like in lore that they have completely destroyed and infected whole other galaxies) and you barely have any space to move wich adds to the intended horror element of the flood and this mod in general.

[@Chezeehat]

Unarmed Deck crew, would be armed deck crew if I was chief. "Grab a gun, point the loud end at the gribbly things."

[@wingsofvoid]

brother this is lowkey cool! makes me kinda wanna reinstall my mcc

[@CFlRlVAGE]

bro this mod looks amazing love the horror aspect of introducing the flood on the pillar of autumn

[@discoendymion985]

Just to add but this mod has updated the first mission again, this time adding quite a few new story elements people should enjoy

[@Stone-faced]

I love finding videos with thumbnails that look like they were recorded in early 2000’s

[@JanoschNr1]

The moment seconds before the flood attacks when he did hear them real close would have been the perfect moment to introduce the ingame map wich plops up with a couple of few moving red dots that suddenly rush towards you, giving a even greater moment of scare and dispense

[@pvt.jonwallace]

GOD DAAMN IT MAN , That actually would have been nuts!!

[@JanoschNr1]

@@pvt.jonwallaceGlad you like my Idear! :D

[@LordFindogask734]

I love this. It feels like one of those creepypasta stories in which the game starts to become corrupted and play differently, perfectly fitting for the Flood.

[@daftzeta3671]

I don’t think chief would have made it off with all of the boarding parties feeding the flood, plus ALL of the autumns crew, had this happened, chief would have turned into a horror final boss. Fresh out of cryo and still relatively low on ammo, with flood in combat armor that can tank some of the shots impact from his bullets, most of the crew that we find on the ground of Halo usually don't have armor. Fireteam charlie and many other survivors often don't in Halo, Fireteam Zulu members are hit or miss, Johnsons Squad, and Keyes squad, all often don't. Makes it more difficult when what your shooting at is coming at you in numbers and can take more shots, even if it is a tad squishy, every shot counts. Chief is a monster on the field but when there's that many that still have armor for him to contend with....he's gonna run out of ammo.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

I did die like a dozen times in that corridor with the three marines, so your point is valid. he will have had a hard time facing such a foe after being asleep

[@HideyoshiKinoshita84]

​@@pvt.jonwallaceTo be fair you were doing stuff like melee'ing combat forms or freezing up in a corner while they shot at you.

[@rellymillz6556]

Im a simple man you post, i watch ,nd leave a like at the end

[@Jedisage909]

Nice. This should be turned into a horror movie

[@squishymusic9723]

There's a lot of fun and clever bits they did with this mod, do wish they had kept the motion map for some of it to heighten that.

[@sturm9087]

This is an old version of this mod isn’t it? In the newest update you never actually make it to the bridge or get cortana and it has more custom dialogue.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

you have me intrigued....

[@sturm9087]

@@pvt.jonwallace Yeah hes working on updating the second level to be more consistent lore wise with the first. Said he plans for the master chief to join up with cortana later in the game. The first mission has a slightly slower build up to the flood than this version which is interesting.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

@@sturm9087 just id a try of the new version, I sincerely prefer the original.

[@Sweat_Tyler12]

Everybody gangster until the popcorn starts runnin

[@pvt.jonwallace]

*popcorn noises intensify*

[@CommissarChaotic]

This is so freaking cool.

[@christophercollins9473]

Cool take on an old level

[@warbrand2]

oooh you should show off the most resent version. changes the story abit.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

I'll think about it, I did try the new version and I didn't really like the voice acting and cutting off parts of the level

[@Rawska]

the part where he shoots the marine with a shotty 7 times to save him from the flood spore when he coulda shot it flood to pop it

[@pvt.jonwallace]

Shotguns has spread....I was going for the infection form...

[@connorking6852]

You can’t shoot the flood form off once it already attaches sadly

[@yaz2928]

this is awesome

[@pvt.jonwallace]

IT'S A SLAUGHTERHOUSE

[@cripplingdepressiongaming]

is there or is there going to be more to this mod on the other levels?

[@pvt.jonwallace]

so far the author has only made 2 levels

[@michaelcroff7097]

The books suggest it takes a while to become a combat form. Otherwise this mod rocks

[@pvt.jonwallace]

*Halo 3's Flood transformations would beg to differ...*

[@dr.calacas6787]

​@@pvt.jonwallace The Flood evolves through the Halo games from CE to 3, dividing the evolutionary process in 3 phases. If I remember correctly, with an active gravemind the flood can infect other life forms in a matter of seconds and infect dead bodies as well. That's the third phase. In halo CE there wasn't a gravemind, so they were at phase 1, infection was way more slower and they couldn't use vehicles yet. In the first phase of infection, the flood's objective it's to gather as much biomass as possible to make a gravemind, thing they were almost successful to do in Halo CE if it wasn't for the chief.

[@H377SC4P3]

@@dr.calacas6787 So that makes the appearance of the Flood here that much more terrifying as this suggests that somewhere there already exists a gravemind. 😳

[@dr.calacas6787]

@@H377SC4P3 Indeed my friend, that's the most horrifying part. Something out there already found the flood...or maybe the flood found them and used them to make a gravemind

[@leonardodaniel-e3u]

What happenend the level 6

[@pvt.jonwallace]

level 6?

[@darkangel970]

@@pvt.jonwallace he said about the story secuence, in level 6 is where the flood must appear for first time but since the flood appeared in level 1 (map 1) then the story of level 2 to level 6 must be edited.

[@pvt.jonwallace]

ah of course, so far there's only two levels available...whether the author makes an entire campaign overhaul is up in the air, I am too wondering how Guilty Spark will be treated.

[@Ahhkiba]

Bro needs to activate windows 🤣

[@WereWhusky]

Activate Windows. Go to settings to activate Windows.

[@Endymion]

your use of the Assault Rifle hurts me.....short controlled bursts...get better accuracy

[@tommyhill7645]

First rule of skill-at-arms is to have fun

[@GummyKermit]

The ce ar doesn't really work like that. Its always a random spread.

[@Endymion]

@christophercalabro347 I've been using the halo 1 AR since it came out. If you burst it. You can hit targets at range. Look at how the marines fire with it. Point blank hold the trigger. It had a skill ceiling lol

[@survivorlaststand9882]

10:18 how to cook

[@orionfrost]

You play like a bot with fragmented programming code 😂

[@pvt.jonwallace]

yeah I had a ChatGPt gamer extension running on the background

[@greyman2835]

hermoso

[@Sweat_Tyler12]

Is it free?

[@pvt.jonwallace]

All mods are free my dude, if you have Halo MCC on steam you can download and play them through the workshop

[@clockehvac1240]

16:54 16:53

[@bagudicksanandres1983]

9:07

[@MrBuck117]

Good mal Player zzzz

[@RW1A]

Honestly i was hooked until the flood part. Now its just- meh.

[@moalex6617]

I get the player is trying to show everything the mod has made changes to, but I swear you spend too much time looking at stuff that nobody cares about.

[@connorking6852]

I think it’s the other way around. What’s the point of making video showcasing a mod play through if you just speedrun every encounter and don’t see all the things the mod even does?

[@moalex6617]

@@connorking6852 Damn, it's been so long since I've seen this video, I forgot most of what I saw. What I was trying to point out is the guy looking at the floors and corners like they're anything new we're supposed to see. Looking at the flood mod aspects were great, but looking at something we haven't already seen already was just a bore.