The LOST ARBITER LEVEL HAS BEEN RESTORED!

[@HiddenXperia]

ALPHA MOON IS FINALLY HERE! The lost Arbiter level we never expected to get has arrived, and it is SO SICK. Download Alpha Moon: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3366014540 Go listen to Neo Te Aika's amazing music he composed for it (and more): neoteaika.bandcamp.com/music

[@Kobe_Bryant_real]

HiddenXperia, would you perchance like to try my mod, Unyielding threat, it's a flood horror mod for Halo CE on the steam workshop.

[@MoonKnightH8]

Can you make a theory video on what if all the Spartan 2’s survived the argumentation and no budget cut and they had 300 Spartan 2’s to take down the insurgency and covenant

[@caidencanales]

Hidden I know you hate redoing the story but imagine they give us the original halo 2 Bungie imagined for us giving us this level with high budget cutscenes and this ending with Tartarus keeping the secrets!!! Dude it writes itself Bungie left ideas on the board unexplored, missions, cutscenes, characters, races all that could be used. No more about the Prometheans but more about the covenant maybe even a mission where Atriox is referenced or we fight the banished as a covenant character like the arbiter!!!!

[@Vipergametv]

Hidden Xperia is it for Xbox?

[@UNBROKENONYX]

At this point we are gonna have a whole new halo 2

[@trashjash]

Go check out Ruby's Rebalanced Halo 2 mod progress, that's almost exactly what it is shooting to be.

[@kgb1234]

Ima wait for forerunner tank

[@samiuddin7051]

Halo 2 - 2

[@Stuntmachine14]

Halo 2 - 2!

[@samiuddin7051]

@@Stuntmachine14 Yessir, that's what I said

[@anamericangrizzlybear8315]

Tarturus being the one to kill the heretic leader makes so much more sense So much more than the heretic leader allowing 343 guilty spark to reveal Halo's true purpose and then randomly attack the arbiter mid explanation I know some people say it wouldn't have mattered, and Arbiter would've never considered turning on the prophets this early in the story, but with him being killed by the Brutes completely removes this condundrum, now Arbiter can look back on this action taken by the brutes and how the heretic leader was silenced and make him begin to realize not all is as it seems, both before and after Tarturus's and Truth's betrayal

[@bottipaul6050]

to me it wasnt a betrayal per say it was a thing were the prophets went like if we cant have u noone else can bc tartarus and the elites were fighting on the power supremacy not hate as if a kid disobeyed their parents he gets spanked for fightin with his brother but the council tried to force prohpets to mantain their power by quitting and tartarus agreeing with generic halo infinite villian brute as they felt unfair treatment on elites hands and the elites felt underaprecciated and i also belive that elites skull on tartarus shoulder plate is heretic leaders but thats just me

[@JessHawk]

Not only that, it would have took place in the control room where Master Chief also learned the purpose of Halo, mirroring the first game. Would have been fun to see @HiddenXperia react to that but he missed that detail in his play through.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

The truth being silenced would make someone question. "why are they not letting me hear what the other side has to say? What's so wrong with hearing them out?" its common with cults that hearing the other sides opinion is seen as evil because it will contradict their cult of lies as its based on emotion and corruption not on real facts.

[@azurathian4342]

Half Jaw's voice reminds me of the Clone Announcer from Battlefront 2. This mod looks rad!

[@cecilemardinia]

enemy reinforcements are being depleted republic is in control of another command post

[@STUFFfromthegooddays]

That’s another command post under republic control!

[@The_Albino_Jackal]

3:50 it kinda gives Star Wars battlefront 2 vibes. That one guy telling you to get command posts and stuff

[@robo.2k]

Yeah he kind of sounds like Sev from Republic Commando

[@The_Albino_Jackal]

@@robo.2k yea, I think Sev’s actor is the same as the republic announcer from battlefront 2

[@Ddr207]

I was just going to say I think the voice actor is the announcer in Battlefront 2

[@Commander_Appo]

I can just hear that in Tem’s voice as the campaign announcer

[@0biWanJacobi]

@@The_Albino_Jackal holy crap i've played both games for years and never realized that!

[@ARandomSpecOp]

You missed this little detail but you can actually go up to the mortar cannons and place a little covenant charge in the power source and it’ll count down in covenant

[@texel76]

I never knew i could do that lol

[@HeinerGunnar]

I don't remember who, but one of the Halo 2 devs had confirmed in an interview that you are totally right: the vehicle section in Quarantine Zone was their way of reusing as much of Alpha Moon as they could (I think he said something like "85% of the geometry"). You can see the broken piece of building that you run across in Sacred Icon as soon as you get out the wall in this level for example (around where you mention the debris being meant to be pieces from the Halo)

[@chevronagon9912]

I knew the pizza cutter on Burial Mounds was meant to be wreckage, but I never realised how obvious the resemblance was to structures from the Silent Cartographer!

[@aweiner8667]

FYI its not early voices youre hearing. Its recorded lines from the digsite team that made the voice lines based on pre existing scripts

[@shull3559]

I am SO glad you brought up the secondary turrets on the wraith, many hours spent as a kid trying to figure that out 😭

[@NASCARDAWGYT]

Half-Jaw sounds like he’s about to tell me I lost a command post

[@TMek42]

8:10 one of the marketing features of Halo 2 was intending to be the destruction, both the e3 demo and some other press screenshots were to show off how the feature - like the cars, signs, barricades etc. My assumption is that this mission was from back when that was still a prominent marketing aspect. 11:48 correct, Quarantine Zone pulled from this cut mission and just swapped the biome - and Burial Grounds obv used a lot of the art and aesthetics from Alpha Moon

[@NoahR_]

I'm pretty sure the final boss room is supposed to be the wreckage of Halo's control room! You can see the entrance and the remains of the platform at 17:18.

[@Cptbetty12]

Oh yea it totally is, that's sick! Good catch

[@cyanspartan1757]

Just realized that the video is 20 minutes and 4 seconds long (20:04). And it's about Halo 2. Coincidence? I think not.

[@Musipict]

The Arbiter must have felt terrible guilt afterwards when he discovered that the "Heretics" were actually fighting for truth and justice. He must have felt great respect for Sesa Refumee and his brave followers.

[@anupewanupew3290]

A nehovoriac o tom ako bez váhania odťal hlavu mečom najlepšiemu kamarátovi. Po tom čo pri audiencii vytiahol meč na prorokov. Ak si dobre pamätám, tak práve za tento obetavý čin dostal velenie nad flotilou "zvláštnej spravodlivosti". A preto aj dostal možnosť stať sa arbitrom. Inak by bol popravený... + samozrejme na tento čin nadviaže mnoho udalostí... ...napr. plán na výmenu elitnej stráže nevyspytateľných Sangheili za Jiralhanae

[@bromodragone8405]

I think they cut it because they realized how stupid the Heretic Leader would have to be to fly into space in a non-pressurized Banshee.

[@ARandomSpecOp]

Idk man, I feel like in vanilla halo 2, arbiter and the spec ops elites already fighting in a gas giant with no life support systems, unlike the heretic elites, is already silly

[@halo43v3r7777]

I mean he could have used the Seraph fighter. Thats probably why that room existed in the first place before it got changed into the boss fight room. Was probably supposed to take the fighter to their base on Alpha Moon. The level was probably just cut due to the extreme time crunch Bungie was under at the time

[@bromodragone8405]

@@halo43v3r7777 And I also find it weird that the Heretic Leader apparently had no idea the Arbiter was following him until he reached the Flood Containment wing. I think before he boards his banshee, he'd acknowledge the Arbiter and tell his soldiers to kill him. "I wondered who the Prophets would send to silence me. An Arbiter. I'm flattered. Deal with him, my brothers, I will defend the Oracle!"

[@npcmike7252]

the narration in the beginning gave me mad armored core 2 vibes on the mission briefing and breakdown. love it!

[@jerrbear5958]

Half-life 2, and halo 2 celebrations!! Best games ever

[@chrisrichfield8906]

2004 was one of the best years in video game history, alongside 2007.

[@CharlesParnell82]

You know what would've been sick for games after the events of Halo 3, a full on Arbiter playthrough. Give the Chief era a break for a little bit and take the players on a voyage to Sanghelios and other Covenant owned colonies. Halo 4, 5, and Infinite could've been SOOO much different.

[@ShadowDragon-cw7wb]

I would loved to have gotten a Thel campaign prior to Installation 04 or a Covenant based Halo Wars but you're Thel on Reach

[@CommentedHere0]

I don't know If many people would play It. So It couldn't work. A ancient human war could be fun. Maybe It Is the same there.

[@mrschizo2837]

​@@CommentedHere0ODST, Reach, and Wars put such doubts to rest hard.

[@erdnaelarresaccor3450]

@@mrschizo2837No, because a full covenant campaign means no human weapons, which kills the whole weapon sandbox that is part of what makes Halo so great

[@ATP2555ify]

But 343 would rather put that stuff in books.

[@reeflawler1905]

There should have been an energy sword duel between the Arbiter the the Heretic Leader at the end. That would've been amazing. And honestly, I'd prefer this over The Oracle

[@LovelyDilly630]

The Arbiter missions were always my favorite. Uprising will forever be my favorite Halo level. But this looked insane! It built the world up so well. A truly unique level.

[@MarkMeridiusDecimus]

Everyone whines about Quarantine Zone/Sacred Icon in particular... i loved how damned to death you are but you still cut through the abyss. Even R'Tas is surprised to see youre alive

[@Crispy_DAWG]

@@MarkMeridiusDecimusSame, it was always my favorite set of levels. I always liked trying to get my jackal and grunt allies to survive the gondola section as long as possible. Always felt like a challenge. I just wish it also had Marines to fight to add to the brawl aspect instead of seeing them a few times throughout the level.

[@MarkMeridiusDecimus]

@Crispy_DAWG bruh Im game to rock halo 2 co op on pc anytime with you

[@Commander_Appo]

There’s a fracture where Xperia is playing through an unreleased level called “Oracle”. I can hear him talking about how the level must’ve been cut early due to multiple sections of just sitting in elevators and how the heretic leader started shooting at Arbiter out of nowhere.

[@Nifty_Noob]

DUDE This fleshed out actually would of been better than what we got. FUCK I MISS OLD BUNGIE

[@HyperShadow991]

blame microsoft for pushing an impossible deadline, they wanted to do a lot more but microsoft wanted a new game by christmas for holiday sales.....

[@Crispy_DAWG]

Not really. Bungie wanted to make a game beyond the hardware capabilities of the xbox. They had to scrap a lot because the game they wanted needed time and technology that wasn’t ready yet

[@ryatt9365]

@@HyperShadow991Regardless of the specific release deadline, the real issue was putting it on the Xbox in the first place. Even if Microsoft gave them more time, it wouldn’t have changed much as far as what Halo 2 is on a technical level. They needed the 360. And it sounds like a long wait but considering Halo 2 was going to be absolutely massive, basically 2 and 3 combined and then some, a 5-6 year wait is about right. I can’t say definitively that I wish that’d happened, just because I love Halo 2 and 3 so much already, but as far as Bungie executing their ideal Halo 2, waiting until they could get their hands on a 360 dev kit would’ve been the best bet. They were just too good for their time.

[@InnuendoXP]

At this rate I we're gonna have modders create that OG 40-level ringworld-spanning Halo CE campaign!

[@Criticmasterz]

That's the plan and we need that

[@jonmora2559]

to see new Halo 2 content is so incredible

[@ericprint3576]

What the hell I quit halo for years and I come back to a bunch of reclaimed lore damn! I picked a good year to come back.

[@AshtonLashley]

It's been 1 minute since the mod came out and immediately there is a new video

[@conallgarrison9095]

1:56 why'd he dump 5 shots into that grunt?

[@GJBricks]

That would have been a great level! Such a shame they couldn’t deliver the whole vision of the game.

[@kravman2471]

If the Halo CE remake is succesful, they should do the same with Halo2 but make the Halo 2 Bungie couldnt 20 years ago. That would justify a 70 dollar price tag. Just treat it as its own canon.

[@tech34756]

Ideally IMO they'd have two modes, the retail 'canon' storyline and the 'beta' storyline where we see the 'E3 New Mombasa', etc.

[@TheReclaimer7]

Honestly I really like watching hiddenxperia just play through halo games his commentary is really awesome. 7hanks man

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

He's like a kid in a candy shop 😅

[@TheLastArbiter]

I’ve always dreamed of seeing an alternate reality Halo 2 where they had enough time to complete their original ambitions… it seems this is becoming a reality thanks to awesome fans creators.

[@NyallPadre]

The early half-jaw voice HAS to be the Classic Battlefront 2 announcer for the republic.

[@tylerellis9097]

It’s just placeholder voices by the modders

[@DudioStudios]

Whoever is in charge of Halo needs to reboot the series from this point (Halo 2). It’s the only thing that can save it. I’ve been saying this FOR YEARS.

[@chrisrichfield8906]

So true. Halo 3 was a good game, but the story really wasn't the best part of that game. The gameplay and multiplayer held it up, but the plot was kind of shallow and sometimes annoying.

[@ThommyofThenn]

WOW it is so cool seeing those previously static air defence platforms tracking and firing on targets!!!

[@MoonKnightH8]

2:53 When a Jackal sniper 360 no scopes you

[@Curio117-ve7ou]

The Landscape a texturing also reminds me a lot of Metroid Prime 3.

[@Ddr207]

I think the voice actor is the announcer in Battlefront 2 and the voice actor from Republic Commando

[@andycorcoran3556]

I believe if you go under the guns after you lower their shield you can place a charge on them to detonate them as well instead of shooting them.

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

That brings me back to the old Medal of Honour games 😅

[@ryzenfox5688]

If you didn’t notice that last room in the mission is the halo’s control room flipped on its side and destroyed

[@XVII_RONIN]

This mission would be a nightmare on legendary

[@bryanwashere5010]

I have to buy MCC a third time so I can play the steam workshop mods. I originally owned it on my xbox way before it was on PC, then they said we'd have to buy it for PC also. What they didn't mention was that if I made the mistake of buying it from the Microsoft Store, I would inevitably end up needing to buy a Steam copy.

[@Criticmasterz]

Yep ❤

[@killzone64]

All the windows versions support mods. Ill ask the guys to post alphamoon to mod nexus. You can use nexus mod manager to install mods on gamepass and windows store versions

[@shinichi6235]

Dumbass

[@swagsterchief1957]

The dialogue you missed- after 7:03: (Context: half-Jaw(?) gets interrupted on the comms or in person over the comms. Then...) Elite A: "Deployed(?) weapons are ready." Elite B: "Those aren't my orders." Elite A: "He is the Arbiter. Which you (/watchyu) expect(?)"

[@xLordxHades]

The Half-Jaw voice sounds a lot like Sev from Star Wars Republic Commando

[@SleepyKurisu]

I was fully expecting that one Elite to take Xperia's Wraith and kill him using it and not the unmanned Ghost lmao

[@faerylnhiikira1053]

Same. That would have been amazing.

[@lightinthenight3835]

Theres a part after the credits where it says "sorry you didnt win, try again" in green letters on the bottom left

[@nickwhite6249]

The guy playing Half-Jaw sounds an awful *lot* like Sev from Republic Commando.

[@Ky-Nas]

That _early Half-Jaw_ voice sounds like the nanosuit voice from Crysis and I fucks with it so heavy.

[@andresbravo2003]

Alpha Moon is really something!

[@jordavlopez5777]

I think these released levels are some sort of test for the fans for what's coming in the remakes en UE5

[@A.A.ron_Ch]

4:02 I was very much reminded of classic Star Wars battlefront 2, specifically the announcer for when you played as a clone. "A command post has been lost, but not the battle!"

[@nicholasdelaney1407]

At this point we could get an entire custom level gamemode in Halo 2 with lost levels! 😂

[@almighty5839]

Imagine if arbiter or the heretic had lived longer to witness the great schism he most likely would have joined us and fought with us

[@djashovel]

(Star wars yuuzhan vs halo) Elite: DEMON!!! vong: HERETIC!!! (vong in star trek ) Borg: Resistance is futile Vong: ABOMINABLE INTELLIGENCE!!! Imperium of man: STOP STEALING MY RACISM AND MY LINES!!!!

[@nword9239]

What if halo 2 released in the state Bungie wanted it to? Honestly I think it wouldn't have changed much the game is still one of the best things in my childhood. Edit: They really didn't lie when they said they wanted maps as big or bigger than halo ce. Also funny seeing tartar sauce snipe the heretic leader, since he gets sniped by Johnson constantly at the control room. Foreshadowing maybe?

[@ThommyofThenn]

My friends. I quite literally cannot find words to correctly express how epic this is. Thank you Luc😊

[@Sqdlow]

this idea of AA guns was reused in the Storm/Tip of the Spear, no? The control room wreckage at 17:38 looks so sick imagine how this would've been with Bungie's polish :O

[@FairinArt]

The moment you blew up the debris in front of the Wraith my eyes went wide in excitement. This mod is legit I'm gonna play it asap

[@Gag1800]

Please, future Halo games, give us more playable Arbiter and Elite focused missions. The completely alien related missions like The Arbiter and Uprising were among my favourite missions in the trilogy, I was so sad when Halo 3 no longer had Arbiter missions or the ability to play as him outside of co-op (which I could never do anyway because I had no one to play co-op with).

[@MajorSilvaa]

This is so cool. I really feel like Halo 2 needed this or a level like it for the Arbiter. His story was far too Flood focused in the base game

[@Incred_Canemian]

Cool detail: The final boss fight room seems to be a control room, possibly what remains of the control room from Combat Evolved.

[@TimeSweeperAdam]

Something I don't know if you noticed, or at least didn't acknowledge, was the fact that the little fight at the end with the heretic leader takes place in a tilted sideways CE control center. It's hard to take it in since you're fighting but in the cutscene at 17:15 you can see where the bridge to the core and the door to go outside was on the ceiling.

[@Primalcacat]

Now all we need is the gravemind mission with the forerunner tank

[@HyperShadow991]

better yet what we need is the h3 mission where we vs the gravemind in a scarab but sadly that was never made in any capacity

[@jeremiahgrayest]

Forerunner tank was never made beyond being outlined

[@Ender__Wa]

Seeing this, I cannot believe it's only now we have proper access to this level....... Halo 2 is so cool. This level also looks gorgeous, especially Mirage. RiP boneless wraith o7. I swear, this would have been such a defining level for Halo 2 if it were kept the way it was, not to say what we got was bad by *any* stretch. This is just so much more cool to me. I think if it was kept, there'd be a much larger amount of specifically Halo 2 fanboys.

[@WinterKnight95]

My first introduction to the Halo series was Quarantine Zone. My brother and cousin were playing it on co-op and one of them had to leave for some reason. I immediately became obsessed with Halo 2, then went back and played original.

[@Brayhz99]

It’s crazy to see the instant raw comparison i remember playing the multiplayer level and now to realize it was a cut campaign mission :)

[@Beefercow]

Definitely like that the AA turret idea was carried over into later games into the series. So many ideas that didn't make the cut of halo 2's crazy crunch showed up later.

[@Hadgerz]

3:29 this is where they first used the idea for destroying that gun emplacement in halo 3!!!!!!!!

[@Diagrams]

Watching you play hurt my head, no ammo every time

[@SlikWick]

I love how Halo 2 had the Halo ring hexagons that were all over infinite 👀

[@SwappyPlays117]

FIRST. This is a good era of halo

[@bottipaul6050]

i really thougth that it was after heretic leader sent his holograms to fight the arbiter he took 343 GS with him out of that facility on the seraph bc those banshees werent able to do space flight only orbital unlike the seraph who can travel between planets but what do i know?

[@EluTranBF]

Just finished playing through it myself and just couldn’t stop smiling.

[@djashovel]

The Necrons: the ground you tread on is not yours Star wars And halo and mass effect, and Star Trek. And starcraft:💀💀

[@DerThinker]

This level gives me H3 vibes with how expansive it is

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

It's like if The Arc was made in Halo 2

[@ThommyofThenn]

Correct. The Beyond Thunderdome thing is actually from the 3rd film in the "Mad Max" movies. I love them all but 'Thunderdome' delivers so hard and realises its setting most completely!

[@Mikillow42]

Man, imagine if bungie were allowed to cook

[@Ovverflown]

After consuming all of this cut content especially for Halo 2, it makes me wonder why these missions and areas such as the Halo 2 warthog run were cut especially when they were already so polished. I truly believe Halo 2 would have been even more of a giant of a title if content like this remained, there’s a lot of cut content I really enjoyed

[@MASTERCHIEF117-CHIEF]

Oh my god this looks cool

[@albertoramos4312]

6:43 that was the coolest entrance I've seen in halo

[@TJVBernal]

I hope someone makes The Key of Osanalan comic lmao. The parallelism of arbiter succeeding in stopping halo and chief failing to assassinate the prophet of truth is a good contrast to the intro where one was being awarded and one was being punished.

[@alucardofthe9thcircle792]

17:25 this area is no doubts the ruins Alpha Halos control room, i recognized those ridges anywhere!!!

[@frostghost75_6]

Seriously, they NEED to make a Halo 3 and ODST remaster

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

I was watching this halo 2 mod that will change your prospective on the mission: Gravemind.

[@Coccyx69]

Man arby cant catch a break. A whole level to remind him of how how hard he got beat in halo 1.

[@ECC_GEKKO]

We just need a flushed out version of what it should be as another release to MCC.

[@JUNIsLuke]

It’s even cooler when you think about it like the fact that this is the arbiter walking through out his failure and the reason for him becoming the arbiter in the first place We also need a full halo 1 to reach story boards as commics

[@Saelestria-jd3uq]

2024 is full of wins right now...I man that's greatly exaggerated but still holy shit dig site team

[@Maxxisblitz]

When we talk about hopes for game remakes, this is the stuff we're talking about! Who *cares* that the canon says something else happened. This *should* be the canon section.

[@brunorp3552]

I think Alpha moon was genius since it would have hammered home the fact that you're walking in your failure to protect Halo as Arbi. Still great to finally play it even if it's 20 years late to the party.

[@fallupside]

I cant get over the fact his ammo management is so bad. You walked over a plasma rifle when your was allmost empty SHAAAAAMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE p.s love your content, I watch everything you post.

[@pikitis]

I found that many people took issue with how oracle ended, it just kinda didn't make sense so its really interesting to learn about how it was originally meant to end with Tarurus killing the heretic leader. Overall it makes sense why this level was scrapped but I wish it was retooled in such a way that would still have Tarturus still killing the leader at the end of oracle.

[@snakem4a164]

6:00 I've known for nearly its entire life span that burial mounds were the debris from Alpha HALO

[@_MaZTeR_]

If this game gets a fan remake with cut content included, would be nice to see this level in its full glory

[@explorantbias4209]

This level looks sick, very Halo 2'esque! That ending makes more sense than the ending of Oracle

[@riffraff5374]

This makes me wonder how bungie originally intended to introduce the flood. The oracle mission in halo 2 introduced the flood but this mission doesn’t

[@rustywilson7966]

The flood would have been introduced in a level called "Sentinel HQ," it was basically an older version of Sacred Icon

[@jaketheberge1970]

It would be nice if we got Earth Ark missions in the future too..

[@Installation00]

17:31 is that room supposed to be the Control Room from Alpha Halo, but kinda on it's side!?

[@warrior9six85]

Gotta be honestly, i was more in awe of the bump on his face

[@kraventhehunter1495]

Man, at this point, I need them to release the FULL GAME that Bungie originally intended. This all looks SO sick, I love it.