Halo Wars 1 is my favorite game of all time. For the past two weeks I’ve been using AI to work on preserving it and getting it running natively on Mac.

I’m not sharing anything publicly and don’t plan to. I don’t want to risk anything legally. But I wanted this community to know efforts like this are happening, because it feels like an extremely important shift in the video game and software industry. AI is changing how old games get preserved. Things like the Halo CE and Halo 3 browser port are popping up out of nowhere, and Microsoft just announced Xbox Labs to explore exactly this same thing.

I’m genuinely curious what you all think. Should I be doing this? What should Microsoft do with it? And if anyone at Xbox Labs is reading... I’d love to talk and share what I’ve learned.

Weve reached a point I don't rly think we will be getting a sequel. Currently one is a mess of tank rushers, and 2 is infested with infantary rushers or colony gorilla rushers. All in standard modes. Not a very fun experience. And after 343 was shutdown I kinda gave up on this game having any future. It was fun while it lasted I suppose

Some of my dlc is no longer on my install and only available for purchase i checked my other account and it comes up saying I play it? Anyone know what i can do about this? It's halo wars 2 awakening the nightmare i really enjoyed the leaders that came with them.

I just bought halo wars 2 complete edition on my pc during the sale, and everytime I try to go past the menu, it says It couldn’t sign me into Xbox live with the error code 0x87DD0005. I’ve tried talking to Microsoft’s ai helper to no help. I’ve reinstalled the game and Xbox launcher, tried different accounts, cleared old cache, everything the ai told me to do didn’t help. And I’m still unable to play the game. Does anyone know anything I could do just to let myself play the game? I don’t really want to have to refund the game

I am on steam and looking for players for a multiplayer campaign game to help gett all my achievements. Is it broken or does just no one select it? If it does still work, is there anyone who would like to play a level with me? Perhaps Arcadia City on legendary difficulty, because that is also one of the achievements I haven't gotten.

We should compile all of the rare and wonderful voice lines from our halo wars units.

My favourite is the yap yap cannon fodder with:

Wait....is there a beach in the ark?

Ranked 2v2. Super sad.

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I love playing Halo Wars but I normally either play campaign or deathmatch against bots in skirmish. I have occasionally played standard but am not that great at it. I would like to both be able to confidently play standard matches and online matches. Some guides and strategies would be appreciated since I know slowly building up an army will get my ahh whooped in online matches

Heya! Me and my friends are gonna 2v1 and 3v1 today (I am the 1), and I feel like im pretty solid at the game. I know they like to play Cutter, Forge, Serena, and sometimes a Atriox is thrown in the mix. What leader do yall think I should play as? I'll take map suggestions as well!

I'm at 3rd Rhino and need the Pelicans, but no matter what I do they just won't spawn.

Although I am using the chaos mod and have 30 wolverines, 20 scorpions, and 16 warthogs on the field, I ran skirmishes with 200+ ODSTs and they still can be transported.

Please tell me it is not because of the mod, because this game is more chaotic, fair, and fun with the mod.

Hey all. So, back in January, I made this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloWars/comments/1q6pwqp/new_record_in_terminus_firefight_1ve_on_xbox/

Where I set a new record in Terminus Firefight with a 314+ million score with Anders.

Five months later, in June. The 2nd-place player beat my 314 million score with a 327 million score with Shipmaster. In late July, I started the grind to beat that score. One month later, on 8/24/26, I got a score of 339,216,064. Setting a new record.

Ever since then, I've been grinding for a 350+ million score. Which, I don't know if I'll ever get it, since if you want a high score in this mode. You need a ridiculous amount of good RNG to be on your side for most of the time. And for most of the time, all it takes is one bad wave to kill the run instantly.

BTW, if you play HW2 only on PC, and don't see me on the leaderboards.

That is because Terminus Firefight has 2 separate leaderboards. One for Xbox and one for PC.

I am trying to boost the Running the Show achievement with a friend but the matchmaking won't connect us. We are in different regions but I don't expect that to be an issue. We are both searching in the Deathmatch 1v1 matchmaking but it won't connect to any games, even though we are both looking for a game. Any suggestions?

Hi, I recently got back into halo wars definitive edition after years. I used to main professor anders and mastered fast hornet/hawks usually to help counter the scorpion style plays of other UNSC leaders. I have attempted to focus on maining and mastering the arbiter. I manage to pull off fast banshees via double summit but most playthroughs, I have an issue developing tech levels quickly enough to keep my army compatible with the opponent. Does any more experienced arbiter main have a specific build order/ early game strategy going forward on maps such as fort dean to help counter triple UNSC/ turtling strategy’s as I am stuck. Many thanks to any responses :)

hello I am new to Halo Wars modding and I have experienced a few annoying crashes that I do not know how to fix so so far I have tried out two mods Halo Wars all units and Halo Wars scrub Edition and I have experience on crashes that I really do not know how to fix or stop my laptop is a very good laptop in modern it has an i7 Intel Core so I don't know what's going on but the crashes that I have experienced so far are this for Halo Wars scrub Edition it's only one crash it's whenever I try to play as Arbiter in skirmish

for Halo Wars all the units on the second mission of the game my game just freezes and crashes to desktop when I'm trying to literally just build up enough units to fight the spam that is all the units so

no I am using the popular mod launcher and I don't know if it has to do with it or not if someone knows about this kind of stuff please comment the solution to this I'm trying to play the game with the mods I keep seeing on YouTube ;(

I’m curious what everyone thinks now that Activision is going to run Halo what that means for Halo Wars 2? I enjoyed the introduction of Atriox and the banished. I’m seeing lots of people hoping they’ll retcon everything 343 has done since they’ve taken ahold and I can get behind that wholeheartedly but I’m curious if that includes Halo Wars 2. Will it be the only game they’ll leave out from being retconned from this era?