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This sounds alot like the types of levels in a 1994 game made by Bungie called 'Marathon'.

I took a closer look at the Wolverine. It can't possibly carry troops and have room for all its own parts/fuel/ammo storage etc. It seems designed as direct fire support for infantry or as part of a larger armoured formation. They could have a few classic 'Hogs for light anti-air/infantry duty, maybe a gauss hog as well, then a Wolverine as the primary firepower. That small unit could screen ahead for Scorpions or Elephant movements or be a very deadly threat all on their own!

This is so [BLAM]-in' cool! And I would characterise the vehicle as a (really depends on cannon size, intended role/ammo type) self-propelled gun,light tank or Infantry Fighting Vehicle. It could be a troop transport but those typically have smaller guns in exchange for more armour, space/support for more occupants! Either way, really great stuff, it is very exciting seeing this obscure content

I wonder if it’s Basis which is also the setting for the map Burial Mounds

Man this is cool this y H2 needs a ultimate edition with all the added stuff no need for remake And have H3 remaster

Seems like they just transferred this over to the Arbiter's first mission on the gas giant.

This cut map reminds me a lot of the flood level we got in the release version

Halo 3 still looks fucking amazing

I can see why it was cut.

Ill just assume Halo does have APC but gameplay wise it woukd be either awkward or OP having a more mobile Scorpion or Wraith tank

OOOOOOOF CLASSIC IS WAY MORE BRUTAL IMO! The way Cortana says “you know what he’d expect-!” Gets me every time. Something about her inflection there just really suits the urgency and horror of this scene

That has parts feeling like they're from so many other levels, very nice

Kinda strange how the UNCS never invested in artillery vehicles for large battlefields

It would be pretty sweet if they had a moon multiplayer level with reduced gravity.

I can see why Microsoft is interested in remaking the original trilogy in UE5. But i wouldnt trust 343 with remaking burnt scrambled eggs.

It seems more like a forerunner type mission that’s meant to mirror the Arbiter’s Scared Icon level. Honestly if this made it into the game instead of the Gondola ride I would very much prefer it. Here’s my alternate take on how the story goes from that mission: Like the attempt to kill Regret went south and instead he got away leaving behind the super Carrier that blows you into the water. Or if not that another nameless marine,similar to Echo 419, comes to the rescue, and pulls you out in just the nick of time. Your objective remains the same, to kill the Prophet of Regret, and maybe extract some information out of him. It cuts away to the arbiter level and that proceeds just about the same way. Only difference is that he doesn’t get blasted down to the grave mind because well there’s no tension for the great schism just yet. We’re back to the Chiefs side of the story and they’ve somehow track regret to this remote forerunner base, and with some recon they find it’s some kind of saferoom like structure that prevents you from being obliterated by the halo array. Regret thought he keep that for himself but then chief comes along and essentially wreck the whole base trying to find him and at the end of this moon mission kills him in a cutscene. In some badass way. And in his dying breath, regret issues a command to truth and that’s when the great schism begins. Chief is then picked up by the same nameless marine and together they get word that Johnson and Miranda are captured and they’re going to High Charity to save them. The story then cuts to the Arbiter handing the Prophet of Truth the Index, this is the exact same second regret Sends truth that message and boom, instead of Chief being on High Charity it’s an Arbiter Level. The arbiter goes around high charity and rallies the elites and grunts who are now being hunted. Along the way, Rtas, reaches out and tell him where the Prophet is headed and that’s when he picks you up and fly in a phantom to the activation room. As they leave, they both witness the In Amber of Clad slipspace rupture. And Rtas says that same like again, “That Stench I’ve smelt it before” The Chief and nameless marine has flow into space and is on their way to High Charity and they realize that they’re in the middle of the great schism, they try to fly around the chaos but is shot down, barely hanging onto power they manage to crash the pelican onto the same platform where Johnson and Miranda was held captive before they were sent to surface. That’s where Miranda drops something, a distress beacon. After coming to the Chief and the nameless marine comes around and Cortana detects multiple marine iff transponders including the commander and they go on a rescue mission. That’s when they the Witness the In amber Clad flying in and notices the crash and flood essence start to pour out of the ship. Similar to Halo 3 Chief becomes stunned and Cortana says we need to get out of here. Essentially the rest of the story would play out very similarly just like High Charity and The Great Journey did. Cortana sort of chooses to stay behind because there’s some controls that need to be controlled and they were running out of options all the marines would die off one by one to the flood encounter and Cortana sees that she needs to save John at the very least. That’s when she forcibly sends Chief through that Power Coupling and we still get that memorable quote, “After I’m through with Truth” exchange. The Chief and Arbiter would never meet until at the start of Halo 3. It would kinda make a little more sense since at the start of Halo 3 Chief literally sticks the magnum up Arbiters Jaw instantly. I remember back then at the start of halo 3 I was like why did he did that don’t they know they’re pals since the gravemind cutscene.

Bungie and 343 kept this deleted mission a secret until you found it

Hey man, I don't know where to ask you this personally besides here. But do you remember a Halo channel known as CM Nier? Or CN Nier?? Idk it's been so long since I've seen them. They used to showcase tricks and glitches way back. You've been in this space as long as I can remember, I can't find any trace or talk about them online. It's been driving me nuts, I feel like I'm the only one who remembers.

Boring aah level no wonder it was cut

you have the best halo content 🙌

That timberland remake looks really good

The UNSC door was probably just a placeholder

This video is like 10 times more watchable than most of your map overview because the footage isn't in fast forward. Maybe consider it for more videos. Not every second of footage needs to have narration over it.

Solitude looks like a mix between Ascension and Lockout

Imagine the machinimas we could have gotten on these maps

That apc looks identical to the Kodiaks from halo wars.

Do you know what this remind me of this remind me when duty remastered, and one of those missions win the SAS in the desert soldiers team up and then the guy there a get make information from killed himself, and as you can see, price has a red tag so this means that it’s a mod you are not slick little bro I see that tag and doesn’t even say captain price no it doesn’t💀

1:15 yeah because after H2 Bungie got Lazy, and Reach is Mid but made the vehicles and weapons art Retconned like the Fugly Banshee 👎

Here from the Shilt Show 😂🎉

Missed opportunity to have this place be a flood containment facility, deeper you go you find the covenant struggling to keep them locked up. Pretty cool concept

It is possible this could have been simply a testing ground for the low gravity sections of Cairo Station. I see some similarities to Delta Halo as well in the elevators and general geometry and layout of the underground areas. Fascinating. Thank you for the walk-through. Good to see you're back as well. :)

The fall down the hill while killing elites and grunts reminds me of the mission in 5 where you run down a guardian killing crawlers and soldiers.

Will you make a video showcasin the recently released H2 cut weapons and "equipment"? (The Flamethrower, Disintegrator, Mortar, Satchel Charges, Plasma Charges)

This mission seems cool! I can imagine a huge fight with buggers would be fun/challenging in low gravity if you're jumping around and maybe there's a countdown timer so you can't camp too long :)

Since we know this was more just a proof of concept than genuinely cut content i wonder what exactly Bungie were going after on this. Maybe a part of it was they were trying to expand the scale of Halo levels since that whole opening is impressive to imagine running on an Xbox.

jesus, slow the fuck down when you show off the maps. It's hard to watch this at .25 speed lmao.

Lmao bro slow down on the camera. Why are you zipping the camera around so fast. I'm watching this in .5 speed and i'm still getting motion sickness.

Id love to play the Halo 3 pre-release high charity mission from the Halo 2.5 build.

good mission

Halo 4 has a gravity section on the forward unto dawn mission where you see requiem!

It’s pretty cool seeing Halo 1 assets, like the elevator buttons and lights on the walls, but in Halo 2. Oh and the light sticks!

Nobody has mentioned the blue barnacle creatures yet

I strongly encourage everyone to take a look at the Digsite article, it's a fun read and gives amazing insight into the purpose behind these maps among other things. Personally I really want to see M1 Assault.

I badly want to see the forerunner tank level I hope they release it one day

whats funny is that the grunts and jackels are not even wearing suits in space but the elites are

Id like to see a mod where this is fleshed out and you go on a side mission to retake a forerunner research base from the covies.

Mission: Go down to go up.

Is there any content from the forerunner tank cut mission?

I see this map as try to get same plot twist from halo 1

Solitude is definetly a lockout/guardian/ascension vibe