ODST Free Aim

Halo 3: ODST's campaign with free aim. Your mouse moves the gun and crosshair around the screen. The view only turns once they reach the edge of a box around the centre, like the free aim in older shooters. Bullets go where the crosshair is.

What you get

• Every ODST campaign mission, single player. A mission list opens when you press Play: Prepare to Drop, Mombasa Streets, Tayari Plaza, Uplift Reserve, Kizingo Boulevard, ONI Alpha Site, NMPD HQ, Kikowani Station, Data Hive, Coastal Highway and the Epilogue. It remembers your last pick.
• Free aim: the crosshair and the first-person gun swing inside a 14° × 9° box before the camera follows.
• The game's own crosshair, gun and aiming stay in step: whatever the crosshair is on is what you hit.
• F7 turns free aim on and off. Cutscenes and vehicles play as normal.
• Box size, re-centring and the toggle key can be changed in OdstFreeAim.ini.

What you need

• Halo 3: ODST Mod Tools - MCC, free on Steam if you own Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The first Play unpacks the tools' own campaign data (about 16 GB more on that drive, a few minutes).
• Halo: The Master Chief Collection with Halo 3: ODST installed. Your ODST dialogue bank is copied into the Mod Tools once, because the tools ship without voices.

How it works

It plays in the Mod Tools' standalone build of ODST, which runs the campaign straight from the tools' data, and adds a small add-on to it. The add-on shifts the game's view off-centre, the same way the engine already places its lowered crosshair. MCC itself and its anti-cheat are never touched. It's a developer build of the engine, so expect the odd rough edge (the standalone build has no main menu and no network play).

Made by moddingman398-hue with Claude (Anthropic) as the coding agent. MIT licence; uses MinHook (BSD-2). Halo 3: ODST is © Microsoft / 343 Industries / Bungie. This is an unofficial fan mod that uses your own copy of the game.