Why was the energy sword removed as a usable weapon in CE?

[Uncle Jon]

I just saw a short clip were the Master Chief was wielding it, but it's not usable in CE? Why was it removed?

[Dexious Emera]

It was never usable in CE. you probably saw custom edition

[Pyrocitor]

no version of CE has let you, outside of modded or custom levels in Custom Edition.
same with the campaign fuel rod.

[Adonis]

Are you referring to the 2000 e3 trailer? One can speculate it was prototyped in early builds but eventually never made it into the final game for one reason or another.

[Uncle Jon]

Originally posted by Rampant A.I.:

Are you referring to the 2000 e3 trailer? One can speculate it was prototyped in early builds but eventually never made it into the final game for one reason or another.

Probably, I was watching the Completionists video on Halo CE and I saw a snippet of Chief wielding the sword and I just wondered why it wasn't in the game.

[Pyrocitor]

Originally posted by Darunia:

Originally posted by Rampant A.I.:

Are you referring to the 2000 e3 trailer? One can speculate it was prototyped in early builds but eventually never made it into the final game for one reason or another.

Probably, I was watching the Completionists video on Halo CE and I saw a snippet of Chief wielding the sword and I just wondered why it wasn't in the game.

link it

[Uncle Jon]

Originally posted by Pyrocitor:

Originally posted by Darunia:

Probably, I was watching the Completionists video on Halo CE and I saw a snippet of Chief wielding the sword and I just wondered why it wasn't in the game.

link it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdyv5UjsVMs
at 1:55

[Robert F.]

Originally posted by Darunia:

at 1:55

That clip you saw is from E3 2000 prototype build video. At first, Halo CE was used to be RTS in 1999 and later change into firstperson shooter in 2001.

Bungie probably cut the idea for player to use the energy sword for gameplay reasons or probably overshadowed by a magnum.

[Carnageloser7]

they probably realized there's already a death star in this game and they didn't need a lightsaber jedi too

[Pyrocitor]

There are quite a few elements that got cut from Halo CE before its release. Extra weapons and enemies/creatures. There was even a big machete at some point.
In terms of the melee weapons, i think they might have dropped them to emphasise the fact that you could melee with any other weapon, which was a big change from the usual practise back then, of having to switch to a specific melee weapon.