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Spicy's Halo 3 Alliance Rebalance

My second attempt at a Halo mod, and I hope I don't disappoint with this one.
I didn't get to play 3 much as a kid. Never had a 360, only a friend at the time did.
Still had some fond memories of it, but I saw an opportunity to put my own spin on things again like I did with Within Arm's Reach.

Starting from the top, yes, this mod is a rebalance mod, but I took the time to play it myself again and again to make sure it's playable. And that's not to say I didn't add a thing or two. Or remove a couple things.

Concordance was built around the Legendary difficulty just like Within Arm's Reach. I think Ruby of Blue said it best, and sorry for paraphrasing, I can't remember which video it was, but it was something like, "Legendary is the true difficulty of Halo." much like literally nobody ever cares to watch a video on Son of Sparda difficulty on Devil May Cry 5, EVERYONE wants to see someone tackle Dante Must Die. So I took those words to heart and they inspired my ideas.

Let's start with GLOBAL CHANGES
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- Enemies don't shred off 6/10ths of your shielding and 8/10ths of your health with a single pew-pew from a Plasma Pistol. The difficulty has be overhauled to where Chief and Arbiter are pretty damn sturdy, but when player-controlled are not invincible.

- There is *NO* Aim Assist or Bullet Magnetism except on very specific weapons not within the main arsenal.
You will have to be much more precise with your aiming to get through, but don't despair, many of the weapons have been overhauled to be a lot more accurate with their spreads.

- Your shielding recharges much faster and isn't stunned for too long preventing the recharge. Master Chief should be able to move from cover to cover without getting torn to shreds by a single plasma round to the thigh.

- Your health is now permanently visible. There is no reason, in my opinion for this kind of information to be hidden from the player. It's vital (heheh) information necessary for you to gauge whether or not you can survive moving around, or if you need to get to cover.

- Most weapons now show their currently loaded and reserve ammo when in the backpack. This way you always know exactly how much ammunition you have to work with.

- Dual-wielding has been disabled. Please don't kill me, but dual-wielding has felt so alien to actually use outside of the Noob Combos, and it was also marred down by the fact that in vanilla Halo games, dual-wielding actually had a DAMAGE REDUCTION PENALTY. Yeah. If you ever played 2 and wondered "Why don't these dual SMGs do anything despite the bullet output doubling" that's why. This also streamlined the balancing act without having to wonder "What about this/this combo, will it break the balance?" Trust me, you won't miss it.

- Many plasma/covenant weapons have recharging batteries. Just like with Within Arm's Reach, it was too much of a good idea not to reimplement.

- Some vehicles are in first-person. This is a bit experimental, but the only first-person vehicle that features weapons is the Ghost. If this isn't to player's liking, I'll change it back to third.

- I have MASSIVELY toned down the effects of the Gravemind and Cortana moments. They no longer impede your gameplay as much. Cortana moments are basically just echoes of Cortana in Chief's mind. You're no longer flashbanged and blinded by the suddenly bright blue-- ♥♥♥♥, my eyes always ache thinking about it. What part of that was a good idea? You're no longer slowed, the screen doesn't fade to black, Cortana doesn't show up, just her voice and a little animation letting you know it's over. As for the Gravemind moments, I've reduced the intensity of his moments to where the tendrils and the colorization shows up, but the screen doesn't shake at all except on Halo, as a once-time effect, but it won't make you feel nauseous playing because your screen's getting shaken around for MAXIMUM STALLING POWER.
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Special Thanks to the Halo Modding Discord. Really helpful guys for finding the answer to my questions.
Super Special thanks to Jafet Meza, Seamus Bradd, and Robbie Scias Johnson of the SPV3 team for reasons you'll just have to find out for yourself, but their rendition of a Halo song has snuck its way into this mod.