Risk of Halo

A new survivor for Risk of Rain 2: the Spartan. He wears Master Chief's armour and fights with Halo's weapons, against Halo's enemies, to Halo's music.

Two weapons, always. You start with the MA5B Assault Rifle and the M6D Pistol and swap between them with your special skill. Both reload and never run out of reserve ammo.

Scavenge the rest. Enemies you kill sometimes drop a Needler, Plasma Rifle, M90 Shotgun or M19 Rocket Launcher. Walk up and press Interact to trade it for the weapon in your hands. These have limited ammo, and when one runs dry your starting weapon comes back. Walking over a weapon you already carry takes its ammo.

Halo's enemies. Some of the game's monsters are shown as Halo: Combat Evolved's enemies, with Halo's own models, animations and voices. They keep their Risk of Rain 2 behaviour, health and hit area, so the game plays the same; it just looks and sounds like Halo.

| Monster | Shown as | |---|---| | Lemurian | Grunt with a plasma pistol (its fireballs become plasma bolts) | | Elder Lemurian | Elite with a plasma rifle | | Stone Golem, Stone Titan | Hunter | | Beetle, Beetle Guard | Flood combat forms | | Acid Larva | Flood infection form | | Imp | stealth Elite with an energy sword | | Imp Overlord | Elite commander with an energy sword | | Hermit Crab | Jackal with shield and plasma pistol | | Lesser Wisp, Greater Wisp, Solus Probe | Sentinel |

All other monsters are unchanged.

The details that make it Halo

• Land seven needles in one enemy for a supercombine explosion.
• The Plasma Rifle runs on a battery and overheats if you hold the trigger.
• Plasma grenades stick to enemies.
• An energy shield that recharges when you stay out of danger.
• An ammo counter next to your skills.
• Three skins in the loadout: Mark V green, Blue Team and Red Team.

Halo's own models, animations, sounds and music, from your own copy. If Halo: The Master Chief Collection is installed through Steam with Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and its campaign, the mod reads from your copy while the game runs:

• the Spartan himself is Halo's Master Chief model, moving with the Commando's animations; the skins colour his armour through the model's own colour mask, the way Halo colours teams;
• the weapons in the Spartan's hands and on the ground are Halo's models, and so is the plasma grenade. The assault rifle and shotgun are held against the shoulder with both hands, the rocket launcher rides on the shoulder, and the left hand goes where Halo's model says Master Chief's left hand belongs;
• the enemies above are Halo's models, moving with Halo's own animations and speaking with Halo's voices;
• every weapon and the shield use Halo's sounds;
• Halo's music plays in place of the game's: the title theme on the menu, the Halo theme at character select, quiet pieces while you explore, battle pieces during the teleporter event and boss fights. The classic 2001 score is the default and the Anniversary remaster is a setting away.

Nothing from Halo is in the download. Without Halo the mod still works, with a recoloured Commando as the Spartan and Risk of Rain 2's own monsters, look, sounds and music. Each part (body, enemies, weapon models, music) can be switched off in the mod's settings file.

Good to know

• Single player. Multiplayer lobbies have not been tested.
• Halo's enemies stand about as tall as the monster they replace, so some are larger than life. Their attack animations are the closest ones Halo has, and attack effects other than the Lemurians' shots (flames, lasers, shockwaves) are still the game's own.
• The Spartan moves with the Commando's animations; the two-handed hold on the long guns is laid over them, and the pistol, Needler and plasma rifle stay one-handed. Halo: CE's Master Chief has no finger bones, so his hands keep the grip Halo sculpted. You can also drop a rigged .glb model of your own into BepInEx/config/HaloSpartan/model and set Body = own.
• The mod only reads from Halo's folder and never runs alongside Halo, so Halo's anti-cheat is not involved. To decode the music and the voices it loads Halo's own sound library from your MCC folder.
• Some screenshots were taken with a free camera so the Spartan can be seen from the front; in play the camera is the game's own, behind him.

| Input | Action | |---|---| | Primary | Fire the weapon in your hands | | Secondary | Plasma grenade | | Utility | Thruster dash | | Special | Swap weapon | | Interact | Trade for a weapon on the ground |

Open source (MIT): the full source and design sheets ship next to the plugin. Halo © Microsoft Corporation, music by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori; Risk of Rain 2 © Hopoo Games / Gearbox. This is a free fan-made mod, not affiliated with or endorsed by either.