“Hearing that Halo Online was more or less a modified version of Halo 3's multiplayer had me extremely excited,” Fish said.
If Halo works on Russian PCs, it will work on every PC-and there’s no DRM in the world that can stop that from happening. Hearing that a new Halo worked on PC was enough to light the fire. These long-time fans were introduced to Halo or Halo 2 on consoles, then moved over to PC and brought their love of Master Chief with them. Instead, Eldorito has a subreddit, which directs you to a shared Google Doc, which links you to an executable posted on the New Zealand-based file sharing site, Mega.įor people like Fish, the allure of a Halo game on PC was huge. If it did, Microsoft would likely detonate it with a lawyer-bomb-as it proved this spring when it issued a DMCA takedown notice on in-game video recorded with the mod. The Eldorito version of Halo Online doesn’t have a website. I spent a week chatting with one of the modders to learn more about a project that, for better or worse, is the only version of Halo we’re likely to get on PC any time soon. Because Halo Online is built over the top of a more-or-less complete version of Halo 3’s engine, the Eldorito modders have been working to pull what they really want from the shell of Halo Online: Halo 3 on PC. Named as a portmanteau of El Dorado, the name of the Halo Online executable, and Dorito, Microsoft’s favorite corporate sponsor, Eldorito has been programmed over the past few months by a group of between ten and twenty modders. They created Eldorito, a mod that cracked the Russia-only restriction within a week of Halo Online’s reveal. When it finally came to the PC again earlier this spring but was region-locked, fans moved fast. For years, Halo was a crucial console-exclusive system-seller for Microsoft.
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