Ah, you've been busy! All that first-day crashing sounded a little taxing, but apparently you're made of stern stuff and battled on!

: There is very little combat dialogue from the
: marines and grunts. I wonder if a large portion of the marine and grunt
: combat dialogue was removed so they wouldn't have to pay the voice actors
: royalties?

I've been watching some footage, but not enough to get a sense of this. Seems surprising. In some particular area where the remake matches H1 in terms of Marine or Grunt numbers, maybe you could do some testing, to gauge the dialogue differences more fully.

: The Elites have only a handful of combat dialogue lines as well.

For me that would probably be a positive. If an Elite isn't giving me the old "Wort wort wort" or one of his other H1 deliveries, I don't wanna know! I was never a fan of Elites switching to speaking English.

: The Assault of the Control Room is
: my favorite mission in the original game, but in Campaign Evolved, it's my
: least favorite. I'm not fond of the redesign of the interior areas and it
: seems to be a much smaller map.

I think I already said in an earlier comment that I didn't like the stainless steel look of things (rooms, bridges and so on). Looks very brutal and industrial, and cold. Hard on the eyes too perhaps.

: Maybe in a future update they should
: add a new skull that restores the original weapons audio and all of the
: original combat dialogue.

I hear that modders are already busy working on stuff, including replacing Cortana's new voicing with the old. My impression has been that her deliveries are quite a bit different to before. I was actually just watching some footage where she does her opening line at AOTCR's first bridge. She really draws it out, and it's as if Jen Taylor is working too hard to find new intonations just for the sake of it.

: I'm very disappointed with the new Needler. The Needler is my favorite weapon
: in the original game. I would like to see the Needler restored to its
: original characteristics.

After I read that, I actually looked on YouTube for videos focused on weapon comparisons, but it was frustrating that nobody showing the needler bothered to include the needle explosion sound, a critical facet of the weapon. That H1 bang was always so satisfying! Couldn't find a good video on the new needler, compared with the old.