With ElDewrito’s help, the game flourished, eventually getting thousands of concurrent players enjoying classic Halo multiplayer gameplay. RELATED: XBOX LIVE GOLD MEMBERS CAN DOWNLOAD HALO 5: GUARDIANS RIGHT NOW They called it ElDewrito, a play on the El Dorado map of Halo legend and the Dorito and Mountain Dew munching gremlin that most people assume such modders to actually be.
They nurtured it, added to it, and eventually created a mod that allowed the game to be run on a player’s server instead of Microsoft’s. There, it found a home with a small group of Halo enthusiasts. This looked like it would be the end of the project, except some of the game’s code slipped out and made it into the wild.
Halo Online was supposed to launch in 2016, but after numerous delays on the part of Microsoft, the game’s servers were taken down in December of 2015.
