New features
Push held Forge objects away and pull them closer
In Forge, hold an object and scroll the mouse wheel up to push it away or down to pull it closer, up to 100 units. Halo 3 stopped at 10, which put the view inside large objects. Holding Left Ctrl and moving forward or back does the same; with a controller, hold RT and push the left stick. Push object away and Pull object closer can also be bound to keys in Settings → Keyboard & Mouse. It works for the host and for players who joined.
Halo 3 rank insignia and a new player details window
Ranks now show Halo 3's own insignia, read from your installed maps, instead of MCC's rings; lobby cards carry it in their end tab, with the service tag right after the name. Click a player in the lobby to open their details: their character, their rank with the EXP toward the next one, a skill meter marking the officer ranks, and tabs for the service record, medals, weapons and recent games. The Left and Right arrow keys switch tabs.
Switch servers from the game menu
Press Escape in a game and choose Server Browser to see the server list over the running game, with your current server marked. Pick another server and choose Switch server: you leave the game and join the new server as soon as the main menu is back. Mods it needs that you don't have download first, while you keep playing. Hosts and solo Forge sessions get a warning about what switching gives up.
Ranks on the scoreboard and carnage report
Hold Tab in a game, or open the carnage report after it, to see each player's service tag and rank insignia after their name, as in the lobby. Players without a record yet show Recruit, the first rank. Dedicated servers now report finished games to the project's stats service, so ranks build up as people play; set stats_server = "off" in dedicated.toml to stop reporting, or give the address of your own service.
Changes
- Downloads carry their version in the file name. The game client now downloads as
project-reclaimer-v0.8.6.exe. Server hosts: rename it toproject-reclaimer.exein the server folder, the namestart-dedicated.cmdand the hosting guide's commands use.
Install
Requires Halo: The Master Chief Collection with Halo 3 installed; no game files are included.
Double-click project-reclaimer-v0.8.6.exe to start the game. It finds Halo 3 in any Steam library and opens without a console window; its log is Documents\My Games\Project Reclaimer\Logs\client.log.