Better With Friends - A Halo CE Campaign Mod

⭐ — (51 endorsements) 📥 1,345 downloads 📌 v2.2.0 📅 7/28/2022
🟠 Updated over a year ago

By GoodLuckCairo · Campaign

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 4/30/2025 📅 Created: 7/28/2022

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 3.8% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #57 of 585 Campaign mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

Better With Friends is a campaign mod for Halo Combat Evolved in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The main goal is to allow allies to accompany the player for as much play time as possible while also realistically integrating them into

THIS MOD WORKS WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF MCC

THIS MOD IS ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGH STEAM WORKSHOP

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2899113462

FEATURES Marines accompany the player throughout the missions

A high focus on retaining vanilla gameplay

Reworked encounters

Scripted sequences

More friendly and enemy dropships

Vehicles driven by AI

Custom animations and cutscenes

Optional stealth section

Adjusted scenery and objects

Minor balance changes

Easter Eggs

Secret Legendary endings

Minor legacy bug fixes

PATCH NOTES

Can be found here

INSTALLATION1. Navigate to Steam\steamapps\common\Halo The Master Chief Collection\halo1\maps

2. (Optional) Backup b30.map and b40.map by either copying it to another location or renaming it (e.g. b30_org.map)

3. Extract the archives contents to the directory

4. Launch Halo: The Master Chief Collection with anti-cheat off

5. Load either The Silent Cartographer or Assault on the Control Room with graphics set to Classic in the options tab of mission select

KNOWN ISSUES

• Players may experience desync or crashes when playing in coop

• Marines may have trouble traversing certain areas and/or get stuck in tight spaces or on geometry

• Vehicles driven by Marines may get stuck or refuse to move if they deviate too much from their intended path or get pushed by the player

• The Silent Cartographer - After the Bravo 22 encounter the Marines on the hill will often fall off when trying to round the first corner on their way down

• The Silent Cartographer - Enemies during the stealth section may continue patrolling and not do anything even after the player has been spotted

• Assault on the Control Room - Players may experience a visual glitch consisting of flickering black lines near the end of the Warthog ride section

• Assault on the Control Room - Marines may sometimes refuse to get into Pelicans and have to be forcibly teleported into their seats

📊 Mod Details

Game
Halo Mcc Mods
Author
GoodLuckCairo
Version
2.2.0
Downloads
1,345
Endorsements
51
Category
Campaign
Created
7/28/2022
Updated
4/30/2025

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