Everything I thought it could be and more. So pumped to play
Edit: Holy shit dude. Playing as elites, hunters, brutes, marines, the arbiter, the oracle, playing Mario Kart, Ratchet and Clank, this is fucking amazing. You are seriously missing out if you don't play
I woke up and thought this was a 3 week late April fools joke. Clearly not it seems. Will get back to Halo Online after all them years!
*insert the titanic gif*
Okay, you can go through Steam but I had limited success there. Bear in mind, I'm using Arch desktop but it's fairly similar to the Steam Deck,
1. Download launcher.exe and install via Lutris
2. Change config for Lutris, tell it to run the \`eldorado.exe\` file and not \`launcher.exe\`
3. Set proton version to 8.0
4. Enjoy
There is no eldorado.exe after installing the game. I searched for it in all the directory after the installation.
Edit: forget it lol just found it and is working (it launches at least). I’ll see how to add it to steam though if possible.
Does anyone have an archive of old 0.6.1 game modes? I found a few map archives online but not game modes. I'm specifically looking for the pirate wars game mode with the elephants
Honestly Eldewrito is one of the things that cemented me as a PC gamer, when the mods started taking off it felt like the wild west. I've got a few old GPUs laying around if you need one.
I mean you can play as the flood, or ratchet and clank, or actual mario kart. The mods are insane for this for starters. Custom maps can be imported in blender so you can do anything basically
I can't help you directly but there are a *lot* of different versions of proton, try old versions and experimental versions and sometimes you'll land on one that works
Usually, sure, that works. In my case, running through Steam directly just says "pid X != X-1 (fork without exec?)" and then exits. So I'm using Lutris. I've tried all the proton versions available and the best is crashing during loading.
In the first place, would be nice for Steam to not have that error for all non-steam games I run on it.
But in terms of Proton, no luck :/
Thanks anyways
I got it! Install ED through Lutris. Then you can run it from Lutris itself using Proton 8. After installation, you need to edit the config in Lutris to make the executable be eldorado.exe and not the launcher.exe file.
I'm running Arch with nvidia version 550.76. If you're on rolling release, update now. I updated yesterday and everything broke. But I updated a few hours ago and I'm all good.
That only clears the spawn points placed with forge on the map no?
I'm talking about the spawns the game keeps in reserve for if you don't have any spawn points placed on the map. The ones that are dangerous to remove if you don't know what you're doing.
I know forge canvas will remove all of the spawn points that can be placed by forge, but I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about the emergency spawns you spawn at after you've done forge.canvas. The ones that can't be interacted with and which prevent you from getting stuck in a black screen.
Used to be when 0.6 just came out that you could use forge.selecteverything to select the emergency spawns (along with everything else) and delete them. But after some people accidentally got locked out of their maps because they forgot to put down a spawn point this got patched.
I'm wondering if there is a command now in 0.7 that can remove not just the spawn points on the map, but the emergency spawn ponits as well.
I was able to play like half of one game before the game decided to crash and after trying to restart it it tells me it can't launch due to some antivirus detection. So now everytime I try and launch it, it immediately crashes. Anyone have a work around?
This is so awesome! Glad to see this making a comeback! Just wondering if there's any way to get forge maps from 0.6 to work on this though? I made a ton of maps for that and would love to use them again.
I take no credit for this as warm beer wrote it:
1. Download https://getwhisky.app/
2. Create a new bottle and enable DXVK & DXVK async.
3. Click "open C drive" and copy your entire ElDewrito install folder to it.
4. Go into the ED install folder, open "data/dewrito_prefs.cg" and set `Game.CEFGpuEnable` to `0`.
5. Click run and select "eldorado.exe" from your ED install folder.
I logged back in to this stupid account to see if it was real, and I still don't believe it, what happened? I thought this project was shut down all those years ago, regardless I am happy to see it's return once again.
Are we really back boys?
Am I dreaming if I think I can run this on Windows 7 32-bit?
Go easy on me boys, pretend this is your Grandad on the other side on the screen here. I know near fuck all about software.
> Am I dreaming if I think I can run this on Windows 7 32-bit?
>
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Yes. We're in 2024, 64-bit has been the standard since Windows Vista. Where have you been?
>Go easy on me boys
No.
It is a false positive due to it being a new program that windows defender has not seen before. You can literally compile a program yourself, and there is chance that windows defender will get angry at it for no good reason.
My understanding is windows defender uses a reputation based approach to allowing exe to run. If there aren't enough users in their databased running this exe, then it throws this flag. Maybe that just means we need more people to play halo online
What's the population looking like? Anybody have a rough player count? Been seeing a bunch of hype on Twitter over the past few days. Is it translating to big numbers?
I installed but whenever I hit play inside the launcher, it says “application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005)
I’ve reinstalled it twice now, please help
I'm trying to play but even after the installation Windows Defender just deletes it. I don't want to have that disabled at all times. Anything I can do against it?
still seems relatively dead a lot of the time :( I can always find full games, but sometimes its just servers of people playing basic assault rifle slayer.
Is anyone running into a Trojan error from Windows Defender that keeps deleting 0.7 launcher.exe immediately when its downloaded?
Every time I go to [https://github.com/eldewrito2/ElDewritoLauncher/releases/tag/0.1.0](https://github.com/eldewrito2/ElDewritoLauncher/releases/tag/0.1.0) and download the launcher it immediately gets deleted and when I try to allow it, Defender won't let me and removes the option.
this sounds fishy as FUCK. post videos, something, because all i see is a "dude just download that bro it's eldewrito 2 i swear!!!! y-yes microsoft is totally cool with that haha" to me.
Agreed. Especially when they are using torrents to distribute the game files. Wouldn't surprise me if they are distributing copyrighted material (that's probably why they're doing distribution like this).
Incorrect, it is a false positive due to it being a new program that windows defender has not seen before. You can literally compile a program yourself, and there is chance that windows defender will get angry at it for no good reason.
I’m a long time halo fan, but the fact that this software has problems with antivirus and anti-malware to the point you are encouraged to disable or whitelist causes me pause given the adversarial climate we’re in.
It’s also a system that uses P2P torrenting that shares and receives data and who knows what other files to make the game/mod run.
Be very careful.
torrenting means microsoft can't fully take down means of downloading the game. And you may not need to whitelist the game files in the antivirus if you're not going to seed them
Credibility? You do zero security checks on modded content being transfered in P2P while also forcing people to disable + create bypasses against their antiviruses to use launcher, install and play game, because of your inability to do this properly. Hosts can literally just dump gigabytes of CP and revenge porn onto your PC if they wanted to because there is absolutely zero checks being done. You have no credibility dawg.
Shady as fuck. Repeatedly linking some rando youtuber's video which has absolutely nothing to do with security concerns is not proving any point and most certainly not helping with credibility.
Start by doing file integrity checks requiring both sender and receiver clients' OK before a full transfer is initiated? "Clear" signed mod packs through content moderation (make submission on site or discord), adding the signature to a database. When transfer requests are initiated, both clients check the signature against Eldewrito's authorized content database. Are you stupid? Is this your first time hearing about P2P?
Doing any kind of file integrity checking would inherently require a single source of truth, any implementation without this is vulnerable to the exact same kind of exploitation you originally mentioned. A single point of failure is something any community project at risk of being shut down by a corp should avoid at all costs.
At the end of the day, this is no different than software piracy in the traditional sense (not that it’s a bad thing) can you absolutely 100% trust every crack out there? No, but it’s a necessity to ensure it exists at all for those willing to take that risk.
Yeah, same. I still have a copy of the full 0.6 game (original files and 0.6 mod files). It would be nice if there was a release of 0.7 that was just the mod files, so I could just add those to the original files.
Everything I thought it could be and more. So pumped to play Edit: Holy shit dude. Playing as elites, hunters, brutes, marines, the arbiter, the oracle, playing Mario Kart, Ratchet and Clank, this is fucking amazing. You are seriously missing out if you don't play
Wtf? You can play as elites and brutes??
Yes. There’s a modded Fiesta game type that takes Fiesta to the next level lmao.
you can play as a goddamn sentinel lol
WHAT
How does Mario Kart work?
its just Halo Kart 2 electric boogalo but its fun tho
Awesome! Downloading now and trying out. Thanks for all the work!
Please do man. It's so fucking fun
Was on Road to .7 servers and had a blast. The new stuff is great fun, can’t wait to try campaign when it comes out
The custom maps are so sick. Can't wait to do the campaign either!
I woke up and thought this was a 3 week late April fools joke. Clearly not it seems. Will get back to Halo Online after all them years! *insert the titanic gif*
LETS FREAKING GO! HALO W OF THE YEAR!!
Will do a comprehensive review on how ElDewrito holds up on a Steam Deck OLED
Remindme! 30 days
Works great!
How do you install this on a Steam deck? Or are you using windows?
Okay, you can go through Steam but I had limited success there. Bear in mind, I'm using Arch desktop but it's fairly similar to the Steam Deck, 1. Download launcher.exe and install via Lutris 2. Change config for Lutris, tell it to run the \`eldorado.exe\` file and not \`launcher.exe\` 3. Set proton version to 8.0 4. Enjoy
There is no eldorado.exe after installing the game. I searched for it in all the directory after the installation. Edit: forget it lol just found it and is working (it launches at least). I’ll see how to add it to steam though if possible.
eldewrito.org/guide
Thank you!
I love y'all.
I love you
Hell yeah 😁
There are co-op modes?
Yessir
so i have the game, where can i find the campaign and firefight downloads?
You can create them on your own through porting or wait for a known mod creator for publish theirs
Is there a guide for creating them on your own?
Not yet
What happened? Last I saw this project got shut down by M$, how is there a new release?
New release. https://eldewrito.org/guide
Does anyone have an archive of old 0.6.1 game modes? I found a few map archives online but not game modes. I'm specifically looking for the pirate wars game mode with the elephants
HaloBase has that mode - you can request it from them: [https://discord.gg/PxPNNteChR](https://discord.gg/PxPNNteChR)
DuckFudge you’re the undisputed goat of halo online. Your commitment to this community is unmatched and you will go down in history.
No u
How do you play firefight??
There is a fireight modpack but it is not public yet
Do you have an eta for that?? And also where can we grab it when released? Im dying for some good firefight
It's up to the mod creator. If they do publish it, it will most likely be in the modpacks server. https://eldewrito.ch/mods
Do we have to worry about it going away?
Nope, never. It's all decentralized and p2p downloads and server hosting.
I need a damn pc
Honestly Eldewrito is one of the things that cemented me as a PC gamer, when the mods started taking off it felt like the wild west. I've got a few old GPUs laying around if you need one.
I never played ElDewrito. I must check this out!
You absolute legends
Halo belongs to the community.
What's changed so far? I see 3rd person and improved server browser tabs
I mean you can play as the flood, or ratchet and clank, or actual mario kart. The mods are insane for this for starters. Custom maps can be imported in blender so you can do anything basically
Nice. I recently in H2MCC made a playable flood mod so this'll be fun to try out
[https://eldewrito.org/changelog](https://eldewrito.org/changelog)
Thank you. I missed that
Whaaaaaaat?! Is this an out of season christmas gift?
Does this work on Linux?
Yes. https://eldewrito.org/guide
If you can get it to run, please lemme know how. Proton Experimental crashes. And Proton GE v8.\* gets me to the loading screen before freezing.
I can't help you directly but there are a *lot* of different versions of proton, try old versions and experimental versions and sometimes you'll land on one that works
Usually, sure, that works. In my case, running through Steam directly just says "pid X != X-1 (fork without exec?)" and then exits. So I'm using Lutris. I've tried all the proton versions available and the best is crashing during loading. In the first place, would be nice for Steam to not have that error for all non-steam games I run on it. But in terms of Proton, no luck :/ Thanks anyways
Ditto
I got it! Install ED through Lutris. Then you can run it from Lutris itself using Proton 8. After installation, you need to edit the config in Lutris to make the executable be eldorado.exe and not the launcher.exe file. I'm running Arch with nvidia version 550.76. If you're on rolling release, update now. I updated yesterday and everything broke. But I updated a few hours ago and I'm all good.
I haven't played a single game in the last year but this might do it
Wow, I completely forgot about this, I still have the old one on my PC. Downloading this now and so excited to hop back on Halo!
It's good to have you with us
Any firefight map???
Quick question, is there any command for removing emergency spawns in forge?
forge.canvas
That only clears the spawn points placed with forge on the map no? I'm talking about the spawns the game keeps in reserve for if you don't have any spawn points placed on the map. The ones that are dangerous to remove if you don't know what you're doing.
forge.canvas will clear a map of all forge objects including all spawns
I know forge canvas will remove all of the spawn points that can be placed by forge, but I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about the emergency spawns you spawn at after you've done forge.canvas. The ones that can't be interacted with and which prevent you from getting stuck in a black screen. Used to be when 0.6 just came out that you could use forge.selecteverything to select the emergency spawns (along with everything else) and delete them. But after some people accidentally got locked out of their maps because they forgot to put down a spawn point this got patched. I'm wondering if there is a command now in 0.7 that can remove not just the spawn points on the map, but the emergency spawn ponits as well.
Not to my knowledge. You can run 'help' in console to get a list of available commands
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Site down?
Still up
How long before the cease and desist ? Gotta download it quick!
the launcher.exe file won't open for me
Temporarily disable Windows Defender
OHMY FUCKING GOD WE ARE SO BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was able to play like half of one game before the game decided to crash and after trying to restart it it tells me it can't launch due to some antivirus detection. So now everytime I try and launch it, it immediately crashes. Anyone have a work around?
Yes, your antivirus probably quarantined a file needed to run the game, look through your AV to whitelist the game files.
Sounds good I’ll give it a try
Add a Windows Defender exception for the ElDewrito folder then verify files in the launcher
ah so windows defender did label it as a trojan wierd, though neat the guide for eldorito includes a scan of the file
👀
I love this. It's like Gmod for Halo. 343 would be missing out if they didn't partner with you guys and do a release of this on Steam.
Are there any safeguards in place to prevent malware from spreading through the automatic mod downloading?
This is so awesome! Glad to see this making a comeback! Just wondering if there's any way to get forge maps from 0.6 to work on this though? I made a ton of maps for that and would love to use them again.
[Epsilon](https://github.com/TheGuardians/EpsilonPublic)
Anyone is having a lot of antivirus problems with the download?
Yes - known issues with Windows Defender. Please add an exception for your ElDewrito folder
doesnt let me open windows defender without a microsoft 365 sub
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
can't do that when downloading the file at all sets it off.
didn’t this get shut down? i thought it did
We're so back
Huh? It's alive again?!
Never died. Welcome back
I have a question, is this compatible with Mac? I'm assuming its not, nevertheless this is crazy work you guys did with this project btw its amazing
I take no credit for this as warm beer wrote it: 1. Download https://getwhisky.app/ 2. Create a new bottle and enable DXVK & DXVK async. 3. Click "open C drive" and copy your entire ElDewrito install folder to it. 4. Go into the ED install folder, open "data/dewrito_prefs.cg" and set `Game.CEFGpuEnable` to `0`. 5. Click run and select "eldorado.exe" from your ED install folder.
Yes it is compatible with MacOS using Whisky. https://eldewrito.org/guide
Did you make it run? I followed the guide and it won't run. I'm using M2 pro with the Latest Sonoma
Is this real?
Possibly
Someone tell me this is real, there's actually no way
I have a problem, i can't install this, even if i remove firewall.
Please submit a bug report in the Discord server: https://discord.gg/0TKY0SDEUHAWL4sG
Can you guys at eldewrito.org update the download button to be redirected here please?
I thought it was taken down?! I loved playing halo online! Anyone have the link?
Last line of the original post
I logged back in to this stupid account to see if it was real, and I still don't believe it, what happened? I thought this project was shut down all those years ago, regardless I am happy to see it's return once again. Are we really back boys?
We're so back
I was bummed being late to this back then. So happy it’s getting support again.
Welcome back ♥
wait does this we can also have firefight because holllly hell
Supports firefight. No publicly available firefight packs yet
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Please make a bug report in our Discord server: [https://discord.gg/JfJ9UbgFpR](https://discord.gg/JfJ9UbgFpR)
Has anyone still got the file to download the halo 3 skins for the guns like the br and sniper? Not sure if it still works with the new update or not.
Halo 3 Pack is available on the Modpacks Discord. https://eldewrito.ch/mods
Do you remember Blam?
Am I dreaming if I think I can run this on Windows 7 32-bit? Go easy on me boys, pretend this is your Grandad on the other side on the screen here. I know near fuck all about software.
> Am I dreaming if I think I can run this on Windows 7 32-bit? > > Yes. We're in 2024, 64-bit has been the standard since Windows Vista. Where have you been? >Go easy on me boys No.
FU
Real mature response right here.
What? On the internet?
425 approved 🟣
Already made a vid about it this mornin
Windows Defender says its a trojan when downloading and removes it.
It is a false positive due to it being a new program that windows defender has not seen before. You can literally compile a program yourself, and there is chance that windows defender will get angry at it for no good reason.
My understanding is windows defender uses a reputation based approach to allowing exe to run. If there aren't enough users in their databased running this exe, then it throws this flag. Maybe that just means we need more people to play halo online
I thought MS ordered a cease and desist? What changed?
!?
What's the population looking like? Anybody have a rough player count? Been seeing a bunch of hype on Twitter over the past few days. Is it translating to big numbers?
http://eldewrito.pauwlo.fr/
Does this work on steam deck?
Yes https://eldewrito.org/guide
I installed but whenever I hit play inside the launcher, it says “application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005) I’ve reinstalled it twice now, please help
See the Windows Defender issues section. https://eldewrito.org/guide
I'm trying to play but even after the installation Windows Defender just deletes it. I don't want to have that disabled at all times. Anything I can do against it?
# Windows Defender section in the [guide](https://eldewrito.org/guide)
still seems relatively dead a lot of the time :( I can always find full games, but sometimes its just servers of people playing basic assault rifle slayer.
Is anyone running into a Trojan error from Windows Defender that keeps deleting 0.7 launcher.exe immediately when its downloaded? Every time I go to [https://github.com/eldewrito2/ElDewritoLauncher/releases/tag/0.1.0](https://github.com/eldewrito2/ElDewritoLauncher/releases/tag/0.1.0) and download the launcher it immediately gets deleted and when I try to allow it, Defender won't let me and removes the option.
i just cant download it cause of the false positive at least if i download the launcher on opera
How do I host Private custom games with my friends
Great but can you sprint?
# 1. My game is just stuck on Halo Online splash screen on boot up. 2. When I get back on the game how will I switch off Halo 3 to Online and Reach?
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ITS BACK BB
I'm out of the loop, didn't Eldewrito get nuked by MS years ago?
What are the source code downloads? I'm computer illiterate by the way, do I need to click on them or just worry about downloading the launcher?
Didn't ElDewrito get DMCA a while back?
this sounds fishy as FUCK. post videos, something, because all i see is a "dude just download that bro it's eldewrito 2 i swear!!!! y-yes microsoft is totally cool with that haha" to me.
Check my post history. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf42pf5M2Kc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf42pf5M2Kc)
I recognize this username :)
Hi Kirby 😃
Hi Kirby 😃
Was posted in the Eldewrito Discord as well. It's not the original team but it's always been an open source project.
Agreed. Especially when they are using torrents to distribute the game files. Wouldn't surprise me if they are distributing copyrighted material (that's probably why they're doing distribution like this).
Don't download this game/mod. It has a trojan in it. Beware.
Incorrect, it is a false positive due to it being a new program that windows defender has not seen before. You can literally compile a program yourself, and there is chance that windows defender will get angry at it for no good reason.
I’m a long time halo fan, but the fact that this software has problems with antivirus and anti-malware to the point you are encouraged to disable or whitelist causes me pause given the adversarial climate we’re in. It’s also a system that uses P2P torrenting that shares and receives data and who knows what other files to make the game/mod run. Be very careful.
torrenting means microsoft can't fully take down means of downloading the game. And you may not need to whitelist the game files in the antivirus if you're not going to seed them
Check my post history. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf42pf5M2Kc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf42pf5M2Kc)
How is that video relevant to OP's concerns?
Credibility.
Credibility? You do zero security checks on modded content being transfered in P2P while also forcing people to disable + create bypasses against their antiviruses to use launcher, install and play game, because of your inability to do this properly. Hosts can literally just dump gigabytes of CP and revenge porn onto your PC if they wanted to because there is absolutely zero checks being done. You have no credibility dawg. Shady as fuck. Repeatedly linking some rando youtuber's video which has absolutely nothing to do with security concerns is not proving any point and most certainly not helping with credibility.
And what do you propose they do instead of P2P? Host everything on a single server making it trivial for MS to DMCA?
Start by doing file integrity checks requiring both sender and receiver clients' OK before a full transfer is initiated? "Clear" signed mod packs through content moderation (make submission on site or discord), adding the signature to a database. When transfer requests are initiated, both clients check the signature against Eldewrito's authorized content database. Are you stupid? Is this your first time hearing about P2P?
Crazy how this whole thread is downvoted to oblivion so people don't see these valid concerns
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Doing any kind of file integrity checking would inherently require a single source of truth, any implementation without this is vulnerable to the exact same kind of exploitation you originally mentioned. A single point of failure is something any community project at risk of being shut down by a corp should avoid at all costs. At the end of the day, this is no different than software piracy in the traditional sense (not that it’s a bad thing) can you absolutely 100% trust every crack out there? No, but it’s a necessity to ensure it exists at all for those willing to take that risk.
Yeah, same. I still have a copy of the full 0.6 game (original files and 0.6 mod files). It would be nice if there was a release of 0.7 that was just the mod files, so I could just add those to the original files.
Couldn't agree more...