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Halo CE: Lore Accurate Edition

NOTICE: If you are stuck in infinite loading screens make sure your Halo CE multiplayer add-on is installed.

Ever wondered what it would be like to play through Halo: Combat Evolved with lore-accurate weapon damage and health values, mimicking the Chief’s story in the novel The Flood? This is the mod for you.

Gameplay Tips:
-1v1 fights are manageable, but being outnumbered or caught in crossfire without cover can quickly overwhelm you.
-Keep your Marines alive. With a Spartan drawing fire, they become nearly unstoppable. Without them, survival becomes much harder.
-Try out all weapons. With lore accurate balance, even weapons like the Needler can be surprisingly effective, even without supercombines (few things in real could stand being impaled by 3 large shards that explode and the lore supports this.)

How Lore Damage Was Achieved:
This mod adjusts weapon and entity damage/health values to align with Halo lore, based on extensive research across novels, comics, and other sources.
-Lore weapon damage varies widely (depending on the author and dramatic intent).
-To balance this, values were averaged into consistent “middle ground” figures.
-Final weapon damage vs. unit types is included in an image with the mod.

Note: The Mona Lisa story describes combat forms very differently from other sources, so its damage portrayal was not incorporated.

Technical Details:
-All .Model_Collision Geometry vitality set to 100.
-All weapons’ .damage_effect base damage set to 100.
-Weapon-specific damage modifiers were tuned to produce lore-accurate kill shot counts per enemy type.

Difficulty Tuning:
All difficulties use lore-accurate damage values, but differ in AI behavior:
-Easy, Normal, Heroic: Same damage but AI accuracy and firing speed scale with difficulty.
-Legendary: Sharper accuracy, faster firing speed, and slightly more enemies for an increased challenge.

Non-Damage Adjustments To Bring Gameplay Closer To Lore:
-Assault Rifle: Higher precision when feathering shots. Continuous fire causes bloom.
-Plasma Rifle: Faster firing, closer to later Halo games.
-Needler: Faster fire rate and projectile speed, consistent with other games.
-Magnum: Increased firing speed.
-Flood: Fire weapons more frequently and aggressively, though with poor accuracy to reflect their reckless style.
-Human Flood: Better with human weapons, worse with Covenant weapons.
-Elite Flood: Better with Covenant weapons, worse with human weapons.
-Headshots: Any weapon can kill with a headshot if the target is unshielded.
-Grenades: Increased blast radius.
-Ghosts: Faster, reflecting lore as speedy scout/attack vehicles.
-Enemy AI: Engage from much longer ranges.
-Marines: Fire longer bursts and engage from greater distances.

Feedback & Updates:
If you strongly disagree with any damage values and can provide a lore-based source I may have missed, feel free to reach out and I will look into updating the mod accordingly.