Halo 2 Beta Part 1 [PtoPOnline]

[AzZa2289]

Are there any missions? Like say, the one from the E3 demo?

[Borman18]

@AzZa2289 Unfortunately, no. It is strictly a multiplayer beta, with only a few maps. The e3 demo will be hard to find, as I doubt it left Bungie's development kits, and being that they were heavily involved with Microsoft at the time, they are most likely to follow common procedure of destroying old stuff. Not to say that it won't pop up, but it could be a while. This was originally distributed on a disk, making it much more common.

[YouArentValid]

@Borman18

How do we play it if xbox live 1.0 doesnt exist anymore?

[Borman18]

@YouArentValid You dont. I never played it on Xbox Live anyway, only Partnernet.

[MrJoysiq]

If anyone wants the beta PM me. Borman18 is a tight ass for not giving to the community..

[Borman18]

@MrJoysiq Right, Im a tight ass for respecting the wishes of the original people who had the disk. Anyway, its publicly available and hacked over at betaarchive, no need to listen to this fool.

[PorkyBot07]

Got the beta... now how do i play this? it says i need network connection

[kizikMC]

back in 2004, first time when I used to play Halo 2 it was BETA!!! damn

[menaceblake]

Notice the "Saved Films" tab in the menu...we got screwed for years.

[DJAYCE37]

4:11 to skip the downloading part

[taitai907]

There was a Halo 2 Beta?  o.0

[HaloSpartanG13]

@taitai907 Yes, it was an internal MS beta on a retail disc. And there were several other betas too. They got leaked, and some people have copies. Others find them on random green or white debug xboxes.

[CortanaFTW]

ha original xbox ftw

[Overdosage]

0:18 Why...why...why...why...why...­why...why...WHYYYY?!?!?!??!?!?­! AAAAARRGGHHH why was this not in the final game?!?!?!? Holy SHIT these kind of options aren't even in Halo 3 or Reach! Arranged games? Optimatch? This game could have been so much...

A formal letter I send to MGS (Microsoft Gaming Studios): Take your thumbs out of your hairy asses and realize...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REALIZE...RUSHED GAMES= BAD

And if a game is good enough for a sequel, FUCK OFF and give them the time they need.

[DANTEandSTEVEN]

@Overdosage it just goes to show they could have done ALOT more with halo 2. infact most scraped ideas from halo 2 went into halo 3 and reach. like armour and stuff.

[KillerShock120]

What I would like to know, is why is a Halo modder like me not get this?

why is it the best modders of the entire Halo, have their fucking hands on this, I bet they pass it around in a circle of cool kids.

Aww, well, they halomodding community is dead.

I never got this ever, I guess I am jealous and envious.

[zeokight]

i didnt know halo2 had a beta

[TheLizzardOh]

@zeokight It was a private beta.

[ALFONSO8202]

uvieras cortado el video cuando estabas descargango el mapa

[kubilay701]

Real Halo2 beta wow :D

[feedthefishy]

Borman would you ever sell the halo 2 beta files for private use?

[TesseractDigital]

Man, they need to bring clans bacl

That was the reason why Custom games could actually be fun back in the days of Halo 2, while custom BTB is impossible in Halo 3.

[halo239]

saved films? wow wtf... theater mode in halo 2?? can someone tell me why this is in the video ?

[SyZToMoVERloaD]

Did anyone else notice the saved films option?

[tatertruck124]

I obviously didnt know what I was talking about

[TeamRedz]

half of the video is downloading, why did u just skip the download part

[tatertruck124]

this beta was built on August 21st 2007 just so you know.

[turb030031993]

@tatertruck124: I always thought the date in the build tag was the date you were playing on.

@Borman: Is this still playable even though XBL has been shut down?

[xSathya96x]

@tatertruck124 Just cause the video was posted then doesn't mean it was made then

[MsKLeader]

sweat this has theater on it

[AzureHoBo]

Did anyone else notice at the bottom of the Main Menu screen? It said "Saved Films." Seems like Bungie thought up a lot of ideas for Halo 2 (like the Mongoose)but didn't implement them until Halo 3.

[uninspiredml]

@AzureHoBo

firefight was supposed to be in halo 3, not odst

yeah i agree, their deadlines were a little early, i wouldve waited for extra features.

[andrewwk6]

@AzureHoBo they said that in a halo 3 vidoc. the hardware wasnt ready yet. the xbox had a small hard drive so there wouldnt enough space to save lots of films.

[RainbowAlpha]

is there any way to download halo 2 beta on xbox 360?

[WizzardOfGlue]

i played halo 1 online on my xbox, i was one of the few to get xbox live too at the time

[SpartanElite095]

Orly?

[WizzardOfGlue]

yeah why don't you believe?

[WizzardOfGlue]

your pretty messed up man :/

[SpartanElite095]

Messed up for not believing that some guy with the screen name "WizzardOfGlue" had Xbox Live for Halo 1 back when it didn't exist?

[WizzardOfGlue]

so you judge before you even know me

[SpartanElite095]

You're the only person in the world who claims it and you have no evidence to prove it.

[WizzardOfGlue]

thats true, but who can really

[tinkred9]

what do you mean messed up i love halo how do you think its messed up!?

[WizzardOfGlue]

i love halo too, what are you talking about?

[tinkred9]

i thought you meant you didn't like halo....

[WizzardOfGlue]

i love halo, i have all three of them. and im going to get the halo reach one. i didn't get ODST

[tinkred9]

..............i can see that.................

[WizzardOfGlue]

whats with all the dots? really kid. im not your enemy

[KeviNguyeniSexy]

yeah odst wasnt very good of a game. i thought it wouldve been fun to go around the city on ledgenary with 4 of my friends but it was boring aftretr i beat the game. ijust wanted to share that :Dlol but yeah odst isnt worth it but if you want the reach beta you should get odst plus you get the whole halo 3 multiplayer experieence.

[WizzardOfGlue]

i just want to buy the halo reach, it looks different you know? and new armor! and elites! i cant wait to see what they'l do with the elites! maybe they'l have those gold ones in again!

[KeviNguyeniSexy]

yeah but im just saying if you want to get a taste of reach first you HAVE to buy odst. beucase it gives you an early beta for multiplayer.

[TheSonicWarrior]

is there any date set for the reach beta so i can mark it on my calendar lol

[blackwingz55]

i thught u need to have bought halo 3 ODStTto be able to try the beta for halo reach

[Halomaster7720]

@TheSonicWarrior yes may the 4th

[noobking111]

I think odst is fine. yes, it was kind of a let down. but it's not a bad game. I mean it. some games just flat out suck. there was one game that I rented and I did not even play it. the cut sceen was SO bad (and long) that i just ejected the game and sent it back. right there on the spot. games time in my hose: 12 minutes. time played: 7 minutes. ( it was all cut sceen. i did not even finish the movie) cut ODST some slack. even every now and then some odst just hits the spot.

[BAQPenuin]

@noobking111 whats the name of that bad game that sucked

[noobking111]

@BAQPenuin I dono. it was a long time ago. it was for the wii tho. some kind of mini game thing.

[Sebas3440]

Because Halo 1 DOES NOT HAVE XBOX LIVE SUPPORT. Dumbass.

Unless you count Xbox Connect.

[WizzardOfGlue]

lol i dont even care anymore dude, get on with your life :)

[FantasyJam]

The website no longer exists... well, it's a search engine spam site now.

Any chance this beta stuff could be leaked somewhere?

[Borman18]

The site is just a placeholder for the domain, not spam really since I still own it :P And no leak

[Xenlex777]

@Borman18 I have the Halo 2 BETA.

[givemerockbitch]

fag

[Saberwind45871]

do we really need to watch the load screen?

[DarkSplank]

DAMN this needs to get leaked to the public :D

[Arcadia117]

we all know they rushed halo 2 imagine if they had more time to make this great game godlike

[LoticaStudios]

Mainly because they kept pushing the release date, and they had to release it some time.

[Runnerrmejor]

Halo 2 had a divine spark that was lost in Halo 3... and its ok, Halo 3 had to be different.

My cousin got the Halo 2 beta for my birthday, shit I was really happy. I have this game since 2004 and I still playing it as I did the first day.. xD!!!

[allforall48]

show us some campaign

[OblivionOfHumanity]

halo 2 beta had mongoose?

[omnion1990]

halo 2 was SUPPOSED to have a mangoose, always it was in the desgin. but then they got greedy and the REASON why they held back on halo 2 was because they were going t make THE perfect game, but everything they held back on was to be the content for halo 3 thats why h3 is bad ecause those bits are the add-ons for halo 2 originally.

[OblivionOfHumanity]

well halo 3 isnt that bad, i mean i have it, and its pretty awesome

[masterpiraka]

They held it back because it didn't work yet.

Are you honestly trying to say Bungie fucked up on purpose?

[omnion1990]

it did work, they trialled it to a group of 100 people. also the sword worked in the halo 1 beta, perfectly. yes they did fuk up by purpose so there would be some for people to look forward to in the next halo games from h1.

[masterpiraka]

Most of the stuff they held back the first time was ass when they were actually released weapon wise. The Mongoose is okay, but the game didn't need it. As for save films, maybe there wasn't enougn marketability for it because barely anyone had XBL at the time.

[omnion1990]

no... loads of people had xbl, there were thousands of people on xbc waiting for xbox live. like a million people were on the first day of halo 2 online, i know because i got live as well. and they pulled back theatre back the xbox wasnt powerful enough to support it. but the other things they fuxxed up on.

[masterpiraka]

I mean before Halo 2. People just didn't have faith in the feature.

Also theres what you said....which kinda contradicts what you said earlier, but....

It's still true.

[omnion1990]

lol before halo 2 there was no xbox live multiplayer at all. and nothing contradicts, sine that was the first time i mentioned theatre mode....

[masterpiraka]

You said that Bungie held back the features they did to make us anticipate the next one more. Also, there was Unreal championship.

[omnion1990]

ye they did... hence why i didnt mention theatre mode as one. they held back vehicles, weapons, and forge.

[masterpiraka]

Forge wasnt invented in H2.

[omnion1990]

editing maps and installing to hard-drive was, but they scraped it then people started modding the maps for xbox.

[keyransolo]

I saw a "Saved Films" option, does that mean H2 could've had a theatre mode too?

[roguemods]

Yes, removed due to the fact it was too buggy, i really want this beta, i have the H3B but i gootta crack the XeX first :(

[numafan101]

the XEX?

[roguemods]

like an exe for an xbox 360, when u run a disj the 360 sees the XeX and runs it, i edit them and play them.

[TheHaloMan2009]

The beta looks alot cooler then the real game lol

[ThunderCurls]

Wow. Such a great game. It surpasses Halo 3 by loads.

[keyransolo]

Agreed

[Gredran]

i miss halo 2. the campaign was way sicker than halo 3 and if i played it, i'd just have a huge feeling of nostalgia with maps like ivory tower and burial mounds

[Antiapplekid]

The menu system is cooler like this

[Gredran]

agreed

[legendy2j]

wow i miss those good old days when halo 2 was the best.

[pbstare59]

yea

[PIKACHU49386]

hey theres always Halo 2 Vista

[greenblobo9]

so true... halo 3 kicks ass but there was something about halo 2 that felt much better...

[lucas3177]

spawning with an SMG, my fave wep, fighting elites, more primitive weapons, vehicles and enemies, yea, lately ive been wanting to play halo 2 online..

[greenblobo9]

HELLYA =D I own halo 3 but though halo 2 multiplayer isn't as good as halo 3's multiplayer for its time it is way better. and also i like halo 2's singleplayer better then halo 3's

[UK31337]

Where did you get this?

[Borman18]

Just gotta know the right people

[halo676]

make a vid of beta campaign mode please

[mmprouty]

or download it on xbox live not 360

[greenblobo9]

oh please i would die to have this

[prettythang11]

omfg you need to downlaod it thats why people played beta then buyed halo2 and they didnt downlaod lockout thats why they fail to load map

[Borman18]

Again, no it isnt. Id love to be able to program my own interface, my own Xbox Live, my own vehicles, my own game, but I can't. This is a legit beta build.

[neodos1]

This is fake..

[Borman18]

Uh no its not. Its a beta build

[neodos1]

Oh where can i get it?

I just want to look at the mainmenu wgit and skin tags to recreate some transitions and animations of the beta menu into the halo 2 retail as i made a lot of research on wgit,skin and wigl and released some plugins, i know the map structure is not the same as h2 retail but i can handle that.

I know xdk i nedded and and create a partner account, i just hope that people stop beign so egoist and can share it just for research purposes i don't plan on ripping anything.

[Borman18]

Its not an issue of being an egoist. Its an issue of peoples jobs being on the line, and I would never risk someones job just because some modder wants to steal content and illegally release it

[neodos1]

I didn't said steal, just see how some wgit tags are setup, also i understand that for the people's job but then don't post these videos, it's normal to see people like me fooling around to get this then so don't complain, yes you probably are going to hear things about me trying to get this... but really these kinds of things are anoyying to the entire modding community just showing things that people can't get, only a little select few people that is the "l33t" that's my opinion.

[Borman18]

Releasing videos doesnt have any sort of way to trace it back to the original owner ;) Mod a menu similar if you like, but theres no reason to look at the actual item. Ive worked hard to get things like this, and the other betas that I post, and I release what I can, when I can. I won't ruin my reputation, or potentially someones livelyhood, just so someone can make a menu, or try to hack something into a game.

[neodos1]

But there's actually others modders that have it and that are making fun modding it...

Apps have been made to mode the beta, if not we wouldn't see the mongoose on the other vieo, the question is do you reallt have the right to have a Pnet account?

:/

so i am tried of poeple callking what i to get illegal when they are doing it.

[Borman18]

Theres a difference between having it, and releasing it. Simply put, Ive been told not to, and I keep it that way.

And yes, I do. My site is down right now from too much traffic, but when its up, you'll see me using the same exact XDK for many things, many betas, many of which Ive released to the public personally.

[GTTeancum]

Like you said, modders have all the ability to do this and more. So a video should be plenty, since about the only difference is the menu. Everything else you can get in a mod, so don't bug the poor guy for something he can't give out.

[XANA8446]

the old xbox is cooler!

[micah9639]

yeah but 360 is more advanced with all the new techno crap they packed in the 360 I'm sure they didn't have much room for pretty stuff

[gordan99]

Saved Films!!!

[xHaloBoyx]

what the hell?? i didnt know there was a beta either lol

[mr0ska]

there is a beta of every game its just usually not shown to the public

[blondeannie26]

Hey dude congrats on being part of the few people able to play this, very cool indeed!  Too bad Bungie didn't have more time to work on Halo 2 (and Halo 3). Fugin microsoft

[SixtyGrunt]

I'm pretty sure this is bungie.

[bladesofury2]

i never knew there was halo 2 beta

[xxode315]

imagine halo 2 if they actually had time to do everything they wanted. saved films!

[Borman18]

There is no way to download or otherwise obtain this.

[fullmetalmc]

hmm there must l mean maybe a modder could make copies of it dont ask me how l wouldnt kno

[Borman18]

Modders dont have this disk. Simple as that

[fullmetalmc]

ahh but if they did? but of course l can see that some ppl r more selfish than others

[Borman18]

Its not about selfishness. Its about people keeping their jobs.

[xlxmikevxlx]

thats heaps better menu man

is there a way to download this?

[wiggafab]

The have the entire download of "Lockout" sequence in this vid?... wow! Could it be any longer?

[Borman18]

Its called documentation. Get use to it.

[Borman18]

I dont know

[xlxmikevxlx]

oi man howd u get it? i wanna try it out ay

[haloelite11215]

u can't get the disk. it was only avalible for people on xbox live a long time ago. For exapmle like halo 3 beta people got to play on that. it was DLC downloadable content.

[fullmetalmc]

l has Halo 3 beta l wish l could play it tho....

[illegalprogram]

halo 2 beta had better menus other than alpha

[lilaXmAn]

there was a halo 2 beta???? when did this happen???? X[

[Borman18]

Long long ago. And no one was invited to it. It was closed, bungie only (unless they invited the press)

[lilaXmAn]

greedy bastards...but tehy did make the best game ever

[haloelite11215]

old but it looked color like this

[Borman18]

Old? No? I took the footage in August, it cant be old

[xXPcCXx]

WTF? H2 Beta?

[10aug]

lol

[Favian117]

this vid must be old

[PokeOnic]

*over

[PokeOnic]

Wow, i prefer halo 2 beta of the real game.

[slyester33]

WOW :o

[sergd259259]

yea the had a halo 2 beta just like they had a halo 3 beta

[Kenkas15]

lol

[jimjim435]

WTF HALO 2 BETA

[Infantpuncher]

???

[fullmetalmc]

do u hav the beta???? pls tell me!!!

[fullmetalmc]

dude awesome beta goodness

[woo9876]

how did u get that