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Yeah, SPV1 is basically Halo CE with fan-made Halo 2 style assets. It's a mod from 2006 so it's very much a product of its time.

This is a simple mod I made years ago with the community modding tool called Assembly, and it works by having one of your armor abilities such as Sprint be modified to instead function as a camera toggle, meaning that at least with this method you can't have a standalone camera toggle button and an armor ability equipped at the same time. Another limitation is that this method doesn't allow you to zoom in third person. Some people have figured that out in recent years, but I haven't looked into it myself. Yes, this is on MCC PC. I never released this as a standalone mod as the intention with this is that it's a somewhat simple edit which you can implement to various versions of Reach, including overhaul mods. If all that sounds fine for you however, here's my tutorial on how to make this mod with Assembly: imgur.com/gallery/skl1vx9

This was vanilla. Maybe the 120 FOV looks off to you, or me playing on mouse and keyboard.

@@glowaru yes

In the version of Ruby's Rebalanced Halo 2 that I played at the time, yes. Vanilla, no.

@@glowaru Oh, that's cool. Thanks for clarifying.

The timing window is extremely tight, so you just gotta be fast enough.

Yes. You actually got me curious as to whether someone had made a video about this back in the X360 era and I did find one from 15 years ago, uploaded in 2008. This guy uses Spiker melee to fight this Chieftain in a 1v1 melee fight while the other Brutes watch on the sidelines: czcams.com/video/hLGEOtn8O5k/video.html As a sidenote; it's not a 1v1 fistfight though since this guy lets the Chieftain take out his Hammer, not to mention that the Spiker melee has more damage than the Plasma Pistol melee. My method requires constantly manipulating the Chieftain's AI through very specific positioning of yourself relative to the Chieftain's location, in order to force the Chieftain to always consider punching you to be the best option it can take; which is not 100% consistent but it's like 95% consistent. Also worth mentioning is the fact that I had a bunch of other custom rules that I imposed on myself which I detailed in the description to make it extra challenging and therefore extra satisfying to pull this fight off successfully. Nonetheless, that video from 15 years ago is great to see as proof that a 1v1 fight with this particular Chieftain was always possible ever since the game's original release.

In all fairness Bungie started the robot enemies, but I get your point.

I'm not too sure what one could find weird about this, aside from the fact that it's corrupted. If you, for some reason, want to play it this way, the description says so

Look up Stevieroth on CZcams and go to the video titled "CZcams.", which is a video response to CZcams deleting his MCC downgrade tutorial video. He has a link to his Discord server in the description of that "CZcams." video, where you can find that tutorial and use it to play any outdated MCC mod.

@@glowaru okok thanks

They could try.

Because since the very start of the fight and all the way to the end, I kept forcing his AI to prioritize using melee attacks against me by positioning myself at the correct locations relative to him at the correct moments. One small mistake on my part regarding this combat dance would've made him take out his hammer, and thus ruin the fistfight attempt; which happened about 300 times before this successful attempt that you see right here.

@@glowaru oh dude that is so cool, that's some strong dedication that's amazing

​@@the-quiver Heh thanks, I like doing these kinds of custom challenges in games every now and then when I come up with something I find worth going for. Shadow of the Colossus is where I did this kind of stuff the most (a few years ago) and I'm pretty proud of the cool stuff I accomplished, so I recommend checking out that stuff if you happen to wanna see more videos from me with this same dedicated custom challenge spirit.

1. Basically this fistfight is not supposed to exist. Throughout this fight I just keep being at certain ranges and locations relative to the Chieftain at the end of each one of his animations in order to forcibly trigger his AI to prioritize meleeing me the whole time. If at any point throughout the fight at the end of an animation an immediate melee hit became a small enough priority for him as the next action to execute, he would take out his Hammer like he's normally supposed to, making him end the fistfight; which I obviously didn't want for the purpose of this video. He's also basically guaranteed to prioritize melee if you're behind him, whereas being in front of him is risky cause there's a chance he'll want to use his weapon instead; that's why I had a lot of failures at the initial respectful bow part of the fight where RNG made him just take out his Hammer instead of punching me. The distance at which I chose to give him a respectful bow in this video is about perfect for persuading him to melee me; any farther or closer makes him more likely to take out the Hammer in my experience. So this whole fight was a bunch of constant AI manipulation with style on my part. 2. I was also surprised at the fact that I was unable to kill him with punches on Legendary difficulty with Mythic skull on. I'm pretty sure this Chieftain has entirely the same stats as any other Chieftain and I've looked at the stats in mod tools before, so I didn't think those stats would be enough for his health regeneration to outpace my punches. I do have a theory that maybe the Mythic skull also lowers the health regeneration delay on top of doubling the health; but who knows, that's just how I felt while fistfighting him.

@@glowaru wow, i completely forgot about the circle-strafing melee thing. Used to have fun just kiting brutes whenever they tried that backwards arm swing