Modifying the difficulty settings

Is it possible to tweak the difficulty settings in the singleplayer campaign? Stuff like modifying the player's shield strength, or changing the damage/accuracy of jackal snipers. If it's possible, I'd very much appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.

It's very obvious that Bungie spent a lot more time balancing the easy and normal settings than they did heroic and legendary. The result was that the latter two settings ended up being extremely frustrating, uneven, and generally unenjoyable experiences. If I could just tweak a few settings, though, I think I could change the gameplay in the higher difficulties into something better than the unplayable mess that it is now. You might disagree (in which case I'm in awe of your tolerance for frustration and tedium), but hopefully you can understand why I might want to do this.

Welcome to the forums.

Assuming you have an app that can read Halo 2 Vista map cache files, and edit the data tags within them, you'd have to poke around many, many different tags to change what you want.

However, I haven't gotten anywhere near Halo 2 Vista, and anything I know is based on how Halo CE works.

In the globals tag, there's a variety of difficulty parameters under the "Difficulty" block. I'd play around with those.

And what program should I use to modify that tag?

H2Kornman00

Open the program and browse for the tags/globals/globals.globals tag.

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H2Kornman00

Open the program and browse for the tags/globals/globals.globals tag.

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Alright, thanks. I'll see what I can do with this.

That doesn't really help him being as we can't compile SP maps...

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Originally Posted by Inferno

That doesn't really help him being as we can't compile SP maps...

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You can probably edit it using that "Gravemind" app, if he has the plugins mapped out correctly that is.

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H2Kornman00

Open the program and browse for the tags/globals/globals.globals tag.

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H2EK< This one is better.;) Unlocked EK FTW:party:
Gravemind > Use this to Edit your Campaign map. you should find the difficulty values in the [Matg] Tag.

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Originally Posted by Shock120

H2EK< This one is better.;)

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Are people supposed to have that? I wasn't aware anyone publicly unlocked it. Who uploaded this?

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Originally Posted by Shock120

H2EK< This one is better.;) Unlocked EK FTW:party:
Gravemind > Use this to Edit your Campaign map. you should find the difficulty values in the [Matg] Tag.

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Who released this? I can't find it on halo maps.
What can this do, how much is unlocked?

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Originally Posted by beele

Who released this? I can't find it on halo maps.
What can this do, how much is unlocked?

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all of it. Its on Halomaps.com not .org
Downloads > Applications > Halo 2 Vista

What kinds of tags can be built with this?
And, if all tags can be built, does it still use the cache files when compiling maps?
And, if the above is possible, will KM00's and the ghosts tag extractor be released?

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Originally Posted by Pyong Kawaguchi

What kinds of tags can be built with this?
And, if all tags can be built, does it still use the cache files when compiling maps?
And, if the above is possible, will KM00's and the ghosts tag extractor be released?

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"This versions of H2EK has been completely unlocked. You can now create all tags and edit all tags with this version."

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So this includes sounds and such, but, what about exporters?

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So this includes sounds and such, but, what about exporters?

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No Exporters. :(

Any ideas as to who developed this?
Btw, do you have aim or msn messenger?

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So this includes sounds and such, but, what about exporters?

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You can't actually create sounds, models, physics models, collision, etc. with any of this. That's just an unlocked guerilla.

Assuming from what you said, you'd need an exporter, correct?

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Assuming from what you said, you'd need an exporter, correct?

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No, you would need an unlocked H2tool.exe. Which doesn't exist, since the code to import models has been removed.

I see, btw, this also does not bypass the shared map file for edited tags, now say, we had all tags extracted from the shared map files and the mainmenu into the tags folder, and then we deleted them, what would happen? Would it not compile? Or would it compile with the new tags?
BTW, is there a way to change the globals tag to something else, such as globals1.globals, and have it function as if it was a modified globals.globals tag?

If you want modified stock assets to appear in your map, you need to rename them. It's just like Halo CE, only now it's almost all tags instead of just bitmaps and sounds.

how will the game know that when I dont have a globals.globals to use the globals1.globals tag?

Probably not. Just modify the matg and hope that it's not in shared.map.

In the multiplayer globals tag there wasn't anything that I saw for speed and such, most of that was just in globals.globals :S
and globals.globals is in shared.map

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H2EK< This one is better.;) Unlocked EK FTW:party:
Gravemind > Use this to Edit your Campaign map. you should find the difficulty values in the [Matg] Tag.

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This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks. Now the only problem is that there's no difficulty setting for enemy melee damage. It looks like I'd have to modify the damage values directly. Can anybody tell me if that's possible, and if so, which tags to mess with?

its in the jpt tags.