TACTICAL Covenant vs UNSC

A game mode for Project Reclaimer, the modding client for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It is a fork of Project Reclaimer's UNSC vs Covenant mode that tries to make the Covenant more fun to play: squads, a bigger reinforcement pool and earned vehicles. Full design: ARCHITECTURE.md. History: CHANGELOG.md.

Status: early prototype

UNSC-side work has not started. So far the mode only changes the Covenant side (reinforcement pool and income, a Jackal Major class, a free Grunt Heavy) plus two small features that apply to both teams (shared kill points and ally waypoints). The UNSC roster, costs and economy are unchanged from upstream.

• The mode compiles and loads. Only solo checks have been done, with no full-lobby playtest yet.
• Squad respawn on the leader did not work in solo tests and is off by default.
• Call-in vehicles are not started.

What you need

• Your own copy of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, with Halo 3 campaign installed.
• Your own copy of the Project Reclaimer client. This repo does not include the game, the client or any of their files.
• Windows and PowerShell.

The mode is developed against Project Reclaimer 0.9.23. Players need the same Project Reclaimer version as the server.

Build

1. Copy local.config.example to local.config and set ClientDir and ClientExe to your Project Reclaimer client. Set GameModesDir if you want to use the Avalanche test playlist.
2. Run scripts\build.ps1. It checks and compiles src\covenant-command.rvt with src\template.json into build\covenant-command.json.
3. Run scripts\deploy-local.ps1 to start a local server with the mode. By default it copies the built mode into GameModesDir and uses the Avalanche test playlist. With -Guardian it runs the mode on its own instead.
4. In a second window run scripts\play.ps1 to open the client, then join from the Server Browser.

Log results in docs\playtest-log.md.

Upstream files

The mode in src\ started as a copy of Project Reclaimer's UNSC vs Covenant mode, and edits to its logic are marked with -- CC: comments. The original files are not stored in this repo. To compare against the current upstream versions, run scripts\update-upstream.ps1, which downloads them into upstream\ (ignored by git).

License

The files I wrote are under the MIT License. The mode in src\ builds on Project Reclaimer's UNSC vs Covenant mode, which has its own terms. See Project Reclaimer for those.