Using the Halo Online engine, which is a modified version of Halo 3’s, the team sought out to recreate a traditional Halo experience on the PC.
Still, the group of extremely talented modders wanted to push the game further than that. Though the game was restricted to Russia, this is where the community-driven mod ElDewrito comes in.ĮlDewrito removed the region lock, allowing a world wide release to occur. Despite its failure, a group of modders got together to try and nurture the title into success. It was developed by Saber Interactive and published by Innova Systems in Spring of 2015, before soon being shut down to a close in 2016.
Early in the afternoon of April 20th a group of modders released ElDewrito 0.6.0 for Halo Online, and it is glorious.īut what is ElDewrito, or Halo Online in the first place? Well, Halo Online was a free to play multiplayer only Halo title tested exclusively in Russia.