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Halo 3 ODST: Civility

The dark showers welcome you with cold unflinching arms. Step into the boots of a middle-class metropolitan-- locked in a fight of survival as you investigate, uncover, and reunite with your squad. You may not be an ODST-- yet-- but you might have what it takes to become one.

Donned in your police uniform, small pockets with little room to carry, You must take up the mantle and prove yourself in the face of ultimate stakes. It is here you really ARE just another "Rookie."

In Halo 3 ODST: Civility, you'll find guns weightier, punchier, deadlier, and an arsenal boiled down into the upmost potential. While stuck with Human weaponry, rest assured that every bullet now packs even more damage to ensure they meet the challenge.

Play Solo or with friends, you'll each have a unique weapon as you spawn in the Streets mission. Be warned that due to ODST and MCC inherently being silly, you won't "keep" your inventory every time you come back from a Flashback. Weapons should still spawn in their hidden areas throughout the City, though, so re-upping is not soft-locked.

Recoil has been increased dramatically; the bigger the gun, the bigger the buck. Keep your trigger finger steady and you'll have what it takes to wield such tremeandous power. For the heaviest guns, expect the need to literally pull your screen back to center as they rock your camera skyhigh with each blast.

Smaller firearms, like the pistol and SMG, retain a unique role in allowing you to carry more of their ammo, with less recoil than their bigger gunmates. Expect your faithful sidearm, the Automag, to be a workhorse for naked heads... and a last-resort for Brutes and other shielded enemies.

The AR and BR are now truly close relatives. Where the BR deals more damage, with more recoil, in a heavy burst package, the AR now offers a slightly weaker, slightly less accurate, but semi-automatic controllable platform. They even share sounds now, and you'll delight in the unique AR sound that's close but still different from its brother.

Stamina has been reworked, now costing you much more as you lose your "shield" and start taking Real damage. Darker, redder, shakier screens await if you linger too long in enemy fire-- your body may not falter in the heat of combat-- but your aim might!

The NAV mode has also been reworked to be less exploitable. In Vanilla ODST, it doesn't blind you nearly enough to have it on all the time. Instead of nightvision, you now have a SONAR-like sense of space and surroundings: hightlighting important guns, enemies, and allies, while retaining enough mystery that relying on it won't do you much good (it also looks badass).

Ammo for medium and heavy weapons has been dramatically reduced. Most weapons, save for the lightest, carry about 2.5 magazines. They hit hard enough that well-placed crosshairs and good strategy WILL lead to victory, so start practicing that discipline.

The Sniper, Rocket Launcher, and Spazer are now classified as Support Weapons, meaning you can effectively fight with 3 weapons now.

You may play any difficulty you wish: the difficulty setting merely changes how smart and aggressive the enemies are. At Legendary, expect to be flanked, flushed out, and pressed by all directions as enemies fight with sharper eyes, better grenade tactics, and better control over their weapons.

With this rebalance, I'm hoping to illicite a gameplay loop much more punishing, where searching for loose ammo, leveraging ambush and stealth combat, and embracing the world will lead to a richer ODST experience. It's not a perfect mod-- due to MCC and ODST itself being a ♥♥♥♥♥ to mod-- but I welcome you in this version of New Mombasa, and hope you can find treasure in this style of harder Halo.

If it gets too hard... bring friends. This mod

oh and one more thing: I fixed the Rain. It's rainier now. It looks awesome.