What each game update changed under the hood, and what we learn taking Halo Campaign Evolved apart. Newest first.
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Nine classic maps and Yoyorast Island now look like they belong in Campaign Evolved: real terrain and grass, the game's own rock and trees, a living ocean and rivers, and Halo CE's lamps lit by Unreal. Drag the pictures to compare, then see how it was built and where the code lives.
The nineteen classic maps are lit by Unreal Engine while still looking like Halo CE. Their lightmaps are baked by our own solver at up to eight times Halo CE's resolution, and since 1.4.0 they have Halo CE's fog, MCC's teleporter and light shaders, and the right brightness. Here is how we got there.
All nineteen original Halo: Combat Evolved multiplayer maps, rebuilt to run inside Halo Campaign Evolved, with Slayer, Capture the Flag and your fireteam. Install them in one click from the launcher. Alpha testing starts now.
We diffed all 12,292 tags between CU3 and CU4, field by field: AI gunfights got a real rebalance, Jackals got new hitboxes, active camo got faster, and one new animated object appeared — a quiet gameplay pass the public patch notes never mentioned.
We diffed all 12,291 tags between the Steam launch build and CU3, field by field: B40 got the biggest encounter rework of any patch yet, A30's AI was given a new objective to push, and a dozen spawns moved a few meters. Plus: why the launch build is stamped "CU2".