Halo 2 Anniversary - Total Audio Restoration

This mod reverts all audio in the Halo 2 Anniversary campaign to classic, rebalancing both editions to reproduce the Original Xbox soundscape as closely as possible.

Where Anniversary edition provides new audio, I've conservatively kept only the additions that enhance the atmosphere while remaining faithful to the original game. The full list of changes is below.

Changes

• []Music - Restored & rebalanced.

  []Weapons - Restored & rebalanced.

  []Vehicles - Restored & rebalanced.

  []Characters - Restored & rebalanced. Preserved the following faithful additions:

  []Hunter Footsteps: Weightier in Anniversary. Decreased volume for subtlety.

  []Sentinel Enforcer Rocket: New launch sound when rocket fires that makes Enforcers much less disorienting to fight. Changed to a quiet thump and decreased volume for subtlety.

• []Environmental Tracks: Halo 2 Anniversary adds phenomenal ambience and environmental tracks throughout the campaign. From subtle clangs and groaning metal on Cairo Station to distant small arms fire and explosions in Old Mombasa, the additions overwhelmingly work. This mod preserves those subtle background improvements while reverting the important classic foreground tracks. For example, the first mission's MAC gun load/firing sequence, doors, plasma shields, alarms, and elevator sounds have all been restored. This approach has been consistent throughout the campaign and brings subtle life to spaces that otherwise sound hollow/desolate in Anniversary graphics.

[]Download  Halo 2 Anniversary - Total Audio Restoration. 7z  and use 7Zip to extract. This will produce a folder full of .map  files.

[]Navigate to <steam games>\steamapps\common\Halo The Master Chief Collection\halo2\h2_maps_win64_dx11. This folder contains all of Halo 2's vanilla map files, including those for the campaign, which are numbered 01a-08b. Backup these vanilla campaign .map  files before proceeding.

[]Copy the modded .map  files from step one into the above folder, replacing the vanilla