Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

515 ratings
Gashnor's Cursed Halo Reach (1.3)
54
13
6
5
9
6
3
8
2
7
7
7
3
3
3
5
4
4
3
2
2
2
2
   
Award
Favorite
Favorited
Unfavorite
Engine: HaloReach
Game Content: Campaign, Multiplayer, Firefight
File Size
Posted
Updated
12.150 GB
Feb 29 @ 7:42pm
May 1 @ 10:12am
6 Change Notes ( view )

Subscribe to download
Gashnor's Cursed Halo Reach (1.3)

Description
Welcome to Gashnor's Cursed Halo Reach!

As of patch 1.1, this now also supports every Firefight map! Fiesta also includes every single weapon in the sandbox for use as a possible spawn, so play as much as your heart desires!

As of patch 1.2.1, this now also supports Forge World. You can now mess with all of the weapons, vehicles, and equipment on your own or with a group. Patch 1.2.2 fixes a few weapons overlooked in the initial release of Forge World. It also adds "Test Dummies" to test weapons of Spartans, Elites, or Grunt Spartans.

A mod inspired by other cursed greats, like FatMan703's Cursed Super Mario World in 2010, or InfernoPlus' Cursed Halo in 2019. The mod changes up the entire game's sandbox, including weapons, vehicles, equipment, cutscenes, and even characters.

Play as a Spartan that can't sprint forward, play as a MJOLNIR-wearing Grunt that sends out peaceful negotiators that explode when dealing with the Covenant, play as a spooky undead Grunt that needs to deliver Captain Keyes' drink, and much more! Featuring 71 unique weapons, both new to Halo Reach, and ported over from Gashnor's Cursed Halo 3. Grab one of four generations of Xbox consoles and unleash
nostalgic chaos on the Covenant, drive new vehicles like the new Shopping Cart and NMPD Police Cruiser, or grab some armor abilities like the crop duster and Octo-Sniper Pack.

This is the culmination of thousands of hours of mod development, encompassing every mod I've ever made. Weapons from Halo 3 and ODST are back, as well as several fan favorite vehicles. Throw some F-Bombs at the enemies, featuring dialog effects recorded by the likes of MythicJaqui, abyssquick, TrouzrSchnauzer, and even the legend himself, HiddenXperia. The cosplaying grunts from Gashnor's Gruntpocalypse return to fight alongside the vanilla Covenant, featuring Grunts dressed as Hunters, Elites, Brutes, and even the Guta. Experience new encounters on levels, new cutscene modifications, and much more.

I'll be adding Firefight and Forge World MP in a future update so people can mess with the sandbox on their own.

I've modified some elements of cutscenes. Reach is a little weirder than prior games, so I didn't edit as much this time around since the audio is preset. For example, if I were to cut out a second of a scene, the rest of the cutscene would have audio desynced by a full second. So...

Cutscenes that have content altered:
  • Mister Actual (In full)
  • Summer Probability (Intro kind of, but 2nd cutscene after riding the Falcones)
  • Day Trip To Reach Tahoe (Both have minor modifications)
  • Just the Tip (Intro section small modifications, outro cutscene with bigger modification)
  • Battle For Space Normandy (Light modification to intro cutscene, addition to spaceship launch cutscene)
  • Business Trip (Intro)
  • The Night Life (Absolutely watch the outro cutscene)
  • Ice, Ice, Baby (Absolutely watch the outro cutscene)
  • Epilogue
  • The Column of Late Summer (Intro cutscene, Keyes cutscene most important)

These modifications to cutscenes range a bit, but I definitely tried to do what I could amidst the other modifications for the mod and think they make some silly additions. Levels not included weren't touched yet

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

F-BOMB RECORDINGS:
  • HiddenXperia
  • abyssquick
  • MythicJaqui
  • NiftyNoob
  • TrouzrSchnauzer
  • Vidyamon
  • SevPixel
  • redhead3031
  • wamulet
  • GrimmProgress
  • SaruchiChinaru
  • FateIsEscaped
  • Arrrash
  • MightyN0ob
  • SQLace

HELP WITH FEEDBACK AND TESTING:
  • abyssquick
  • NiftyNoob
  • TrouzrSchnauzer
  • Vidyamon
  • SevPixel
  • redhead3031

DEVELOPMENT:
  • Crisp for developing the Foundry add-on for Blender, making custom modeling in Reach easily accessible
  • Zeddikins for development of the Font Packager to create custom pick up prompts in game
  • Marcus Lehto for designing the modernized Mark V model and releasing it for free, used on the Mark V MJOLNIR Grunts

MISC:
  • snapchipper for providing reference images of the Halo 3 Xbox 360 for me to make textures out of
  • GeneralKidd for providing reference images of the Halo 3 Zune
  • SnackQuest for upscaling the Grunt skin texture for first person use
  • 343 for the spooky skeleton Grunt released originally for Halo Infinite as a weapon charm

My Personal Links:

Want to learn modding? My source files are available for free!
Popular Discussions View All (2)
15
May 3 @ 3:59pm
Bugs? or features?
Lord Nate
5
May 12 @ 10:18am
PINNED: KNOWN ISSUES
Gashnor
127 Comments
Gashnor  [author] May 13 @ 12:43am 
I've attached a recent video I edited showcasing every weapon. If you've been curious on functionality of any of the weapons in the mod, every thing should be covered there!

Thank you all again for playing and the support. I'll be uploading my developer source files very soon on NexusMods as well for any aspiring modders to look more deeply into everything I've modified.
Gashnor  [author] May 1 @ 10:18am 
Patch 1.3 is live now. If you play co-op, make sure everyone sees "1.3", or else you'll have the game crash from the discrepancies in the versions.

Thanks also for everyone for the support, hitting 20k subs in 60 days is crazy! I'll keep monitoring stuff and patching where needed!
godon fleaman Apr 29 @ 8:05pm 
this will be my first time playing halo reach ohoho
jaastq Apr 28 @ 5:17pm 
The audacity must be seen to be believed.
haloissus Apr 27 @ 11:01am 
wecom to reach nobl team sorry my brin cells have dided cus of cursed halo ce:steamsalty:
Rogue One Apr 12 @ 12:07pm 
Since it's the only one of the Bungie era games that hasn't been touched yet, do you plan on giving the Cursed treatment to Halo 2?
Gashnor  [author] Apr 11 @ 3:36pm 
@Dopple Firefight already exists in this! If you go to Reach Firefight custom games and modded maps, you can play with my sandbox! You can even use fiesta and all 70-something weapons can be spawn weapons!
dopple Apr 11 @ 2:25pm 
Amazing mod Gashnor, thank you for creating this masterpiece of chaos. If you're up to the task, a firefight version of this would be insane :MCCLEGENDARY:
YT.BadlandsActiveDangers Apr 9 @ 1:02pm 
nevermind, somehow uninstalling gruntpocalypse fixed cursed reach. I have no idea what im messing with rn
YT.BadlandsActiveDangers Apr 9 @ 12:56pm 
none of the starfox stuff showed up for me in long night of solace. is there another mod I need?