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Pros:
Cons:
-malfunctioning weapons.
To elaborate, this might not happen to you, but it happened to me:
I shot enemies and marines in the head with the sniper rifle, beam rifle, and battle rifle and those bullets were never (or rarely) counted as headshots, even when fired from up close. The only time I was able to get kills via shooting at the head was when I turned on Grunt Birthday Party.
This could be because of difficulty, but I've seen Halo 2 Xbox Legendary videos and headshots with the BR looked real easy to obtain.
This could be because I modded, but this happened on unmodded maps, with and without Paulus dev trainer.
I suspect it might have to do with strong autoaim and/or magnetism, lag, bullet speed, etc. I don't know what caused the problem and went to desperate measures (I even modded some of the weapons to have no spread) and as a result, I uninstalled Halo 2 Vista.
-No option to disable decals and/or shadows. Although it's not a serious problem, I prefer playing Halo clean (I'm persuaded it reduces lag), and disabling shadows would have made the Blind skull more terrifying as well as improving performance.
-poor performance. I have a 4.1 overall performance rating, with 5.9 memory (RAM), 7.3 subscore for the processor, 5.3 subscore for gaming graphics, and a very large hard drive and I still had to disable anti aliasing to get good performance. If you have a lower performance rating, it's probable that you will also have to lower the resolution as well as turn off some other things.
-modding limits. Unlike Halo 1, there is no Eschaton for Halo 2. You have to use one of the provided tools or Gravemind and/or Mr. Mohawk. I haven't tried the provided tools but I think they're like the Halo Custom Edition tools.