It sounds relatively simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s going smoothly so far.
(Image via redditor M0niak1.) Growing pains “Just the idea that we could possibly get Halo 3 on PC was exciting enough for me to join the project, and others saw it as a great starting off point to create a new Halo Custom Edition.” That disappointment made him get involved with the project. Not only does it have only three maps not from other games, it has no single player component, no Forge, and from what I have seen, no custom game support.” “ to the complete lack of a game that Halo Online is on its own. “Of course, my excitement was quickly killed when I saw some of the ‘features’ that Halo Online was bringing to the Russian market.” When Fish uses scare quotes around “features,” he’s talking about the free-to-play mechanics and microtransactions-but not just that. “Hearing that Halo Online was more or less a modified version of Halo 3's multiplayer had me extremely excited,” Fish said.
If Halo works on Russian PCs, it will work on every PC-and there’s no DRM in the world that can stop that from happening. Hearing that a new Halo worked on PC was enough to light the fire. These long-time fans were introduced to Halo or Halo 2 on consoles, then moved over to PC and brought their love of Master Chief with them. Once you download the file (named, naturally, Halo.zip), and run the Eldorito updater, the game is severed from the servers that run Halo Online as a standing, free-to-play service for Russian players.įor people like Fish, the allure of a Halo game on PC was huge. Instead, Eldorito has a subreddit, which directs you to a shared Google Doc, which links you to an executable posted on the New Zealand-based file sharing site, Mega. If it did, Microsoft would likely detonate it with a lawyer-bomb-as it proved this spring when it issued a DMCA takedown notice on in-game video recorded with the mod. The Eldorito version of Halo Online doesn’t have a website. I spent a week chatting with one of the modders to learn more about a project that, for better or worse, is the only version of Halo we’re likely to get on PC any time soon. Because Halo Online is built over the top of a more-or-less complete version of Halo 3’s engine, the Eldorito modders have been working to pull what they really want from the shell of Halo Online: Halo 3 on PC. Named as a portmanteau of El Dorado, the name of the Halo Online executable, and Dorito, Microsoft’s favorite corporate sponsor, Eldorito has been programmed over the past few months by a group of between ten and twenty modders. They created Eldorito, a mod that cracked the Russia-only restriction within a week of Halo Online’s reveal. When it finally came to the PC again earlier this spring but was region-locked, fans moved fast. For years, Halo was a crucial console-exclusive system-seller for Microsoft.
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