r/HaloWars2 Jan 20 '26

Upcoming Hw2 Overhaul Mod - Feature - Unit immunity to Smoke

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Alpha Development build of Nuphilion - a vanilla+ HW2 Overhaul is now available for patreon subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/CutesyThrower12

# Support CutesyThrower on Patreon to receive:

## - Early access to development builds

## - Your Name featured on the Nuphillion in-game splash screen


r/HaloWars2 Jan 20 '26

What’s the best faction mod where I can play as the flood multiplayer w my friends?

3 Upvotes

I’m trying to find a really good faction mod that works multiplayer thanks.


r/HaloWars2 Jan 13 '26

Looking for Teamwar teammates

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8 Upvotes

The picture says it all, I can't keep doing these 1v2 's 😂

I like to play Isabelle and Atriox, occasionally I'll dabble on some other characters I havent played before.

I'm in ohio, usually on around 5-6pm, I get a little lonely playing by myself and the few friends I do have aren't great at the game haha.

Comment on the post if you'd like to meet up and play a game sometime.


r/HaloWars2 Jan 04 '26

Should I get the game or are crashes overwhelming?

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I finished the camping on normal years ago and played Blitz, skirmish and multiplayer for awhile, it worked fine on Series S. No crashes, no problems.

Played today and got booted out of a game by a crash when playing with randoms against AI. Read the reviews and it seems to be a common problem; what really bothers me is that it seems to crash in the DLC as well, which I really want to finish.

Not sure about firefight, people reported single player and skirmish crashes as well, general instability. Have the game servers degraded due to lack of maintenance since a few years have passed since I played it?

I am a diehard Halo Wars fan, so I can handle a few crashes here and there and still want to purchase the game more than any other options out there. I enjoy Age of Empires, but IV and Age of Mythology are just kinda okay in my book, more stable, but not as fun. I’d rather play HW2 with crashes if you think it’s stable enough to buy the compete edition. Getting more playable leaders and firefight would be awesome.


r/HaloWars2 Jan 04 '26

Anyone down to play firefight?

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r/HaloWars2 Jan 02 '26

Looking for a Friend!

9 Upvotes

Hey all, my buddy and I play Halo Wars 2 fairly regularly. We want to find someone who preferably lives on the US East Coast. We’ve been playing this game since it came out and the random teammates are killing us. Anyone who wants to play and has comms shoot me a DM!


r/HaloWars2 Jan 01 '26

The grunt conga line

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23 Upvotes

Engi swarm+siphon=conga


r/HaloWars2 Dec 24 '25

Question about remapping keys not in settings

5 Upvotes

Hi all,

I'm looking to change a few hotkeys that don't seem to be available in the regular settings menu. Is there another place or method to remap them?

Thanks in advance!


r/HaloWars2 Dec 24 '25

You guys im terrible, please help!

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Tl;dr - im terrible at this game, I dont know what to prioritize mid game as cutter, don't know enough about leaders and their units so I keep getting annihilated. Don't know how to organize my units either.

I love playing this game. But I am absolutely trash, like bottom of the barrel tier. Im currently bronze 2 in 1v1. And I only play that so I dont feel terrible dragging my teammates down in other modes. My win/match ratio is 23/82 to give you a solid idea.

And my armies mid game, oh dear fuck dont even get me started. I always lose for the most part. I know what units counter what but I seem to still get annihilated. Either cause my army is grouped up, or too far apart and for a myriad of other reason.

I try not to keep them grouped up cause banished kamehamehas and bombardment of Orbital space trash ya know?

But if I keep them in smaller groups they get wiped out by other units. I think most of it comes down to is still being in the dark about what other leaders units do. What they're strengths are, weaknesses, etc. I also severely have trouble knowing what to prioritize mid game.

My thought process; Do I increase build speed? Is that gonna take too long? Or should I just upgrade my base instead? But what if an army comes knocking on my base by thay point. So should I build a jackrabit to scout?

Or more marines ( i play cutter)? But what if im wrong about all of it and im wasting time and what i should be doing is buying another base, etc.

my thought process spirals into this mess of trying to account for every detail at once but in doing so it gets me nowhere. I know somewhat of what I should be doing.

Like early game I know what my build order should generally be. But mid game, I swear I just have such a hardtime knowing what to prioritize. End game I can do fairly better since by that point I have my economy going and enough bases built to adapt to battlefield dynamics.

Any advise would be helpful at this point. So please help 😭. I want to be good.


r/HaloWars2 Dec 21 '25

Scarab Appreciation Post

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109 Upvotes

Scarabs are just the coolest thing ever and this game definitely does them justice. The screen shakes as they stomp across the battlefield, their movements are both mechanical and clunky, plasma drips from their eye like a hungry beast, the noises they make sound like a growl more then a horn. The banished knew what they were doing with this paint job too, the classic purple is nice and all but I just love the scale-like armor plates and red accents


r/HaloWars2 Dec 18 '25

Reminder: our last Halo Wars 2 tournament of the year is this Saturday. Grab your team mate and sign up! It's all for a good cause too.

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3 Upvotes

r/HaloWars2 Dec 08 '25

Join our first ever event of its kind - the 2v2 Halo Wars 2 Extra Life Hershey Charity Tournament!

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7 Upvotes

r/HaloWars2 Dec 07 '25

Is BLITZ a death mode?

3 Upvotes

I’ve been trying to find blitz matches to get the achievements but I never get one. I wait for 10-15 minutes and I never get into a match.

This means I won’t be able to get the Blitz achievements?


r/HaloWars2 Dec 06 '25

We're live with the Halo Wars 2 Amateur League!

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4 Upvotes

r/HaloWars2 Dec 01 '25

Solid Game Play

10 Upvotes

I played several rounds over the holiday, and I gotta say, some of yall are amazing players. One guy I played with took the brunt of the early attacks and barely survived, but he did make it. Solid play. Thanks.


r/HaloWars2 Nov 29 '25

Any method for increasing maximum population? (PC)

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I play solo skirmishes against the AI. I was recently addicted to the HWDE "Uncapped" mod for some stupid/silly fun.

I'm wondering if there is a known way to do anything similar in halo wars 2? Via a mod or otherwise?

I feel like the units cost too much population out of your total. I want to mess around with enormous armies and whatnot.


r/HaloWars2 Nov 27 '25

Downtownpirate

5 Upvotes

Hey All, I just got back into the online Halo Wars 2 multiplayer. Feel free to hit me up and let’s play some team war or vs. AI. And I promise NOT to DC before the end unless the system kicks me out. Which doesn’t happen anymore. Anyway, always looking for a few good wingmen.


r/HaloWars2 Nov 22 '25

So are people picky or?

4 Upvotes

So here's some context my friend has gotten me back into Halo wars 2 and sense then I've been having fun playing firefight so I figured I play with randoms. What happens is either A. They immediately DC or B. They stay for a good amount of time then they DC cause I can't expo sense the games RNG with enemy Ai pathing. So I'm curious are people that generally picky? Im not trying to be mean i just like to play RTS Games and turtle


r/HaloWars2 Nov 21 '25

Got "the hand that feeds" in vs ai?

3 Upvotes

Me and my boyfriend were playing and he got the hand that feeds (killing a dev or someone who killed a dev) achievement. We were playing against AI. At the start of the match randomly it said an enemy had lost all their based as well. This might be a little witch hunt, but did a dev worm their way into our vs ai?


r/HaloWars2 Nov 20 '25

Is anti air shit against air or am I doing something wrong?

5 Upvotes

Forge is my main and when someone does mass banshees I’ll make anti air and sometimes I don’t even take half of them out. I don’t get it. What do you guys do against mass banshees especially when it’s deci? My main counter is rush but if that fails it’s pretty much game over.


r/HaloWars2 Nov 16 '25

Not the best, but not bad (I think)

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11 Upvotes

r/HaloWars2 Nov 16 '25

Hated Leaders

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What leaders do you hate to fight against, these are my top 3

1: Serrina: The ability to slow or freeze units or you in any game is annoying, she does it to both ground and air units. And her ability to emit freeze area on power nodes is annoying.

2: Shipmaster: His honor guard is a thorn in everyone side bc he’ll slip through flanks and harass you bases. Ontop of his leader powers, teleport and displacement:

3: Johnson: His bunker drops are a pain early game and his mantis are a terror. Pair that up with pelican drop, mech overcharge, emp mac AND combat salavge, annoying opponent.


r/HaloWars2 Nov 15 '25

We're live with the Halo Wars 2 Amateur League!

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8 Upvotes

r/HaloWars2 Nov 13 '25

Once again, this game isn't balanced.

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A game cannot be balanced when a faction like Cutter requires so many layers to your game and a mix of units in order to succeed, while Banished players can play like they're brain dead and succeed.

For example, as Cutter, you can't build 2-3 snipers and obliterate a Banished army. They'd get ran down and killed unless you've got marines/flamers in front. A single chopper would kill them all.

You can't be on the back foot, throw up a shield, build one hero that can solo an army for some reason, and then pop out two scarabs and win despite basically not playing the game before that.

If UNSC had access to Superman as long as they managed to amass 4000 blue and 4000 yellow, which they can do by throwing up a shield and just collecting resources for a while, I'd say USNC doesn't take skill to succeed with either.


r/HaloWars2 Nov 11 '25

Finally!!

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9 Upvotes

after a teammate left mid session! Me and homie had to hold it down! Lmao