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Subject: The Unsung Maps of Halo CE
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I noticed that in Halo CE, lots of people are just playing either Coldsnap or Halo 2 CE Wartorn or Hugeass. Thing is that those aren't the only maps out there! There are some really good quality CE maps out there that you are missing. This thread is dedicated to the "unsung" maps of Halo CE. Believe me these maps are worth the download. So free up some space and get ready to be awed.

LAST UPDATED: Tuesday June 26, 2006

Sniper Canyon Redux: A great map! Looks like it was part of the actual game! There are many winding passages and a beautifully designed exterior. It's a large map, and is great for CTF. It's easy to get lost, but hey! Getting lost is fun!

Download | Screenshot


Lost Cove: Another great map! It is well designed and detailed. A Forerunner Complex can be found. Red and Blue bases are built-into the cliff walls and there are lots of teleporters and tunnels to explore on this beautiful sunset map.

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Portent: This map is set on an icy moon. There, a scientific expedition discovered a well-kept Forerunner structure. (blah blah blah ull find the whole thing on the site). The structure is extremely interesting and is worth just looking at. If you're looking for a good map with insides and outsides this is the one to get!

Download | Scree nshot (Sorry this one is kinda small because I couldnt copy the full-sized image on halomaps.org)


No Remorse: A beachfront structure with many passages. A great slayer map by the H2CE team. A must have for Halo 2 CE fans. If you missed this one, man then you haven't seen a good map.

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Gauntlet: A grally great canyon map. Excellent design, and lots of creativity thrown into this one. There are two new weapons, the XM8 Rifle and the XM8 Plasma Cannon. They're not overdone, and will be fun to play with.

Download | Screenshot

Concealed: A nice snowy-canyon map of great quality. There are many winding underground passages and a large snowy exterior to get lost in! Very fun for CTF games.

Download | Screenshot


Fissure Fall: A KICKASS map! I will kill you if you don't get this one. VERY FUN! Okay, I'm being over-reactive. But seriously, get this map. A remote river has worn away the thin shield of stone that once concealed this cave from the outside world. It has revealed an ancient Forerunner facility, still mysteriously powered. And worth fighting over.

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Casualty Isle: A thrilling Death-Island style match, great for 6v6 Deathmatches. The design is ingenius. There is an extensive underground interior with twisting tunnels and passages. A great map by Arteen.

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Desolate: FireDragon's Desolate is a must-have. A tiny island contains a long-forgotten Forerunner structure of unknown purpose. Firedragon's Map Pack can be downloaded here This is just one of tons of awesome made by Firedragon.

Download | Screenshot


That's all I have now, but I will keep looking and I will add to this list!

[Edited on 6/27/2006]

  • 05.14.2006 5:46 PM PDT
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Nice maps, plus from the screenshot, the sniper canyon redux looks the best out of them all.

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damn man, nice pics. although i dont have CE (and i probably will never decide to get it), these maps are just good ol' eye candy. i cant stop looking at them, i feel like im playing in the maps...lol xD

  • 05.14.2006 6:48 PM PDT
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To a moderator: I'm having difficulty editing my posts. For some reason i edit one thing and the it adds spaces to stuff like the bb code messing it up.

  • 05.14.2006 6:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

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Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

It does that to everyone, and has been doing that for a while.

You just have to reedit them every time you edit the post.

  • 05.14.2006 6:58 PM PDT

No Remorse really isn't unsung, I have seen ppl play on it alot. As for Gauntlet, that I agree with. Its a really, really fun map and I love playing on it when I get the chance. Too bad not that many people run it. I would host my own games, but sadly my computer is wrack and won't let anyone join my games.

  • 05.15.2006 4:20 AM PDT
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Mothergoat has some really good CE maps.

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It's a shame HaloCE never took off. There were some really cool maps.

Castle to castle had crossbows and mideval weaponry

Island Hop had two islands and there were hovercraft and an underwater bridge you could walk across. Weapons would fire underwater.

Streets of Earth City was a large urban setting that had a flyable pelican

Pipeline had some crazy stuff like a mine thrower, music gun and two 'mechs' that would play the Power Ranger theme when you got in them.

There was one that was called halo_hq or something like that. Each team had a 5 story office building as a base but if you went through this port is would take you to this huge race track that had 8 'turbo' hogs that would go like 300mph.

  • 05.15.2006 7:39 AM PDT
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I gues I am pretty slow to getting Halo CE and getting on Bungie and what not. I am not really a skillful person on the computer. But lately I have been working with my Halo. I have Halo CE installed and I am loading new maps in. And it is soo sweet, I don't know why no one would want it!?! But never the less, I will keep on playing, if you all really want these maps to be up more often. I would be glad to host a sever, if someone could give me some info. on dedicated severs, mostly casue I just don't wanna read the fourms...just kinda want a cheat version of it. But if anyone would help me, and give me a list of maps, like I will use the ones K-121has posted, I would be glad to host for the time I can!!

  • 05.15.2006 7:54 AM PDT
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YoYorat Island is a awsome map to play on, a big break from what a lot of people are use to.

  • 05.15.2006 8:33 AM PDT
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Although Custom Edition had great potential, many of the custom maps out there have an amateurish quality, and for every good, balanced map which offered hours of great multiplayer fun such as Needleosity, there were a dozen of half-baked, bug-infested maps with unbalanced mods that had plasma pistols shooting out fuel rods and assault rifles that fired tank shells.

And even maps like Coldsnap, which I found interesting to play in, are too big for just sixteen players. Not to mention the incredible frustration that happened when -blam!-s changed from their team to yours, dropped a bomb at your team's spawnpoints, and then switched back to the other team so the ensuing explosion that took out you and all your teammates counted as kills, not betrayals, for the bastard who kept bombing your spawns. That is one major flaw in this map, and although I'm not saying that all maps should be perfect, but such unbalanced gameplay sucks.

I just wish that people would invest more time into their maps/mods, so we could have more great maps like Mothergoat's Decoy.

  • 05.15.2006 11:23 AM PDT
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Thanks for the list. I had to delete my Halo CE maps when re-installing it because it didn't work. Now I can download the good ones!

By the way, Hydration is a REALLY good map if your RAM and graphics card can handle it on full graphics settings.

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Yes I know of Yoyorast.

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No Remorse is shiney :P
I feel like holding a huge game on snipercanyonredux, but my internet isn't that good...

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  • 05.15.2006 6:14 PM PDT
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Man, this reminds me, we need a Maw Gathering with CE. With Mother Goat's maps it'd be tight.

  • 05.16.2006 11:53 AM PDT
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Posted by: lpjuunin
damn man, nice pics. although i dont have CE (and i probably will never decide to get it), these maps are just good ol' eye candy. i cant stop looking at them, i feel like im playing in the maps...lol xD

I would suggest getting it, because if you end up hating it, you can uninstall it with out messing with the original Halo, and you can keep playing regular Halo even with it installed. It is an interesting expansion, but it needs more players. If we could get more people like you, then it would make for some sweet games.

  • 05.16.2006 12:08 PM PDT

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Posted by: joe98200
Man, this reminds me, we need a Maw Gathering with CE. With Mother Goat's maps it'd be tight.


We need a server to do that. I can't go back and forth between PC and CE on mine, it would require a reinstall each time.

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Posted by: joe98200
Man, this reminds me, we need a Maw Gathering with CE. With Mother Goat's maps it'd be tight.


We need a server to do that. I can't go back and forth between PC and CE on mine, it would require a reinstall each time.


So then why dont we get one?

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With Mother Goat's maps it'd be tight.
I know! Hardly anybody has ever come to any of my games on the CE servers when I host a Mother Goat map. MG's maps are well-balanced and provide tons of fun, but it's a shame that it's so hard to find a good server rotating these maps. Decoy is lots of fun and balances the weapons in a great way.

  • 05.16.2006 12:33 PM PDT
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add in mew mombasa and snakes living room. those are both good for CTF

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Posted by: GaIap
add in mew mombasa and snakes living room. those are both good for CTF


h2-new mombasa isn't really "unsung", as everybody plays it....

  • 05.16.2006 3:13 PM PDT
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Ya, everybody on CE keeps playing the -blam!- maps like Coldsnap and Hugeass. MG's maps are much much better, but are underrated by most CE players.

  • 05.16.2006 3:18 PM PDT
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I'm adding quagmire to the list....

  • 05.16.2006 4:26 PM PDT
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hey guys, i just bought halo pc today, how do i add these maps, and how do i play halo 2 ce? please explain

  • 05.17.2006 10:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: D14BL0
hey guys, i just bought halo pc today, how do i add these maps, and how do i play halo 2 ce? please explain


Just download Halo CE wich is a free multiplayer version of halo. Install it then take your custom maps that you download off of http://haloce.gearboxgamezone.com/ such as Halo 2 CE Zanzibar
unzip em and put them in your halo CE map folder.

forgot to add, you can also DL halo CE from that site. That and you need the same maps as the other players other wise you get droped when the server switches to a map you dont own. which tends to be a pain in the but when your looking for a rematch and the server switches to a map you havent installed yet and you have to download it.

If you asked me the HEK wasnt exactly an ideal tools for edititing


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  • 05.18.2006 2:44 AM PDT

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