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===Campaign===
===Campaign===
[[File:HW2_Nightmare_Loadscreen.jpg|thumb|right|Campaign menu background for ''Awakening the Nightmare''.]]  
[[File:HW2_Nightmare_Loadscreen.jpg|thumb|right|Campaign menu background for ''Awakening the Nightmare''.]]  
The ''Awakening the Nightmare'' campaign, which includes new bookend cutscenes by [[Blur Studio]], takes place a few months after the main game. The story explores the [[Banished]] and their desperate struggle against the [[Flood]], which survived the [[Battle of Installation 00|conflict on the Ark]] and the activation of the [[Installation 08|replacement Halo]] at the end of ''[[Halo 3]]''.<ref name="WP ATK"/> The ''Awakening the Nightmare'' campaign has five missions.
The ''Awakening the Nightmare'' campaign, which includes new bookend cutscenes by [[Blur Studio]], takes place a few months after the main game. The story explores the [[Banished]] and their desperate struggle against the [[Flood]], which survived the [[Battle of Installation 00|conflict on the Ark]] and the activation of the [[Installation 08|replacement Halo]] at the end of ''[[Halo 3]]''.{{Ref/Reuse|WP ATK}} The ''Awakening the Nightmare'' campaign has five missions.
#"[[What Could Go Wrong?]]" - ''"Voridus launches a Scarab assault through Sentinel-heavy territory to break into High Charity."''
#"[[What Could Go Wrong?]]" - ''"Voridus launches a Scarab assault through Sentinel-heavy territory to break into High Charity."''
#"[[Fighting Retreat]]" - ''"Pavium and his troops prepare an exit route to extract High Charity salvage."''
#"[[Fighting Retreat]]" - ''"Pavium and his troops prepare an exit route to extract High Charity salvage."''
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{{Main|Terminus Firefight}}
{{Main|Terminus Firefight}}
[[File:HW2-The Last Bastion.jpg|thumb|right|The Last Bastion.]]
[[File:HW2-The Last Bastion.jpg|thumb|right|The Last Bastion.]]
Aside from the campaign, the expansion also includes a new mode called Terminus Firefight. In the new mode, up to three players can cooperate in defending their bases and a [[Forerunner]] [[Terminus]] node against waves of hostile [[UNSC]], Banished, and Flood forces. The mode, as well as the new leaders, was playable at the 2017 [[Electronic Entertainment Expo]].<ref name="WP ATK"/> Terminus Firefight can only be played on one map, [[The Last Bastion]].
Aside from the campaign, the expansion also includes a new mode called Terminus Firefight. In the new mode, up to three players can cooperate in defending their bases and a [[Forerunner]] [[Terminus]] node against waves of hostile [[UNSC]], Banished, and Flood forces. The mode, as well as the new leaders, was playable at the 2017 [[Electronic Entertainment Expo]].{{Ref/Reuse|WP ATK}} Terminus Firefight can only be played on one map, [[The Last Bastion]].


===Multiplayer===
===Multiplayer===
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