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Subject: Which Campaign difficulty would be most like real life?

Poll: Which Campaign difficulty would be most like real life?  [closed]
Easy:  2%
(2 Votes)
Normal:  8%
(9 Votes)
Heroic:  45%
(53 Votes)
Legendary:  46%
(55 Votes)
Total Votes: 119

If humanity were at war with the Covenant today, which of the Campaign difficulties would it most be like?

Remember weapon damages, and AI...

I pick Heroic - not too hard, not too easy, and once the Chief shows up, Marines have a fighting chance.

What do you think? Don't just vote, respond!

  • 07.19.2007 3:07 PM PDT
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Most realistic... Legendary. For the cheif, that is. Bullets hurt.

  • 07.19.2007 3:10 PM PDT
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Not for the Covenant my friend.

They all don't get Overshields.

And that's why Legendary on Halo 2 was ruined.

  • 07.19.2007 3:11 PM PDT

Idk, i would want easy cuz then it would be fun to kill them. XD
But more seriously, it would probably be Heroic. Normal is still too easy and Legendary is too hard.

  • 07.19.2007 3:23 PM PDT

Good topic btw. o.o

  • 07.19.2007 3:23 PM PDT
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Heroic. There are guys weaker than the MC that survived a sniper shot to the body.

  • 07.19.2007 3:31 PM PDT
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Its easily legendary for me. Because appearantly these aliens are way more advanced than us. And (in the halo world) kinetic energy does little to energy shields, making our guns almost useless against the elites. Also, their shielding tech would be way more advanced than ours,which is why it wouldnt take many plasma blasts to take out the shield of master chief, but it takes alot to kill an elites shield. also, people know that it seems the plasma kills you faster than it would in real life, but plasma is just as deadly as kinetic energy

  • 07.19.2007 3:33 PM PDT
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legendary. they all use smart tactics like suppresive fire and flankig especially with the cowbell skull. but seriously, knowing america, none since we'd nuke their butts all the way through the great journey...

  • 07.19.2007 3:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: flagator0012
Its easily legendary for me. Because appearantly these aliens are way more advanced than us. And (in the halo world) kinetic energy does little to energy shields, making our guns almost useless against the elites. Also, their shielding tech would be way more advanced than ours,which is why it wouldnt take many plasma blasts to take out the shield of master chief, but it takes alot to kill an elites shield. also, people know that it seems the plasma kills you faster than it would in real life, but plasma is just as deadly as kinetic energy


And you don't wonder how the weapons the Elites use shoot much faster than when anyone else uses them? And they reheat in a second?

And the MC's shields are made from (improved on, as we're told) the lesser Elite Armor.

I win! ME 1 YOU 0

[Edited on 07.19.2007 3:45 PM PDT]

  • 07.19.2007 3:38 PM PDT

Posted by: Rellik09
Posted by: flagator0012
Its easily legendary for me. Because appearantly these aliens are way more advanced than us. And (in the halo world) kinetic energy does little to energy shields, making our guns almost useless against the elites. Also, their shielding tech would be way more advanced than ours,which is why it wouldnt take many plasma blasts to take out the shield of master chief, but it takes alot to kill an elites shield. also, people know that it seems the plasma kills you faster than it would in real life, but plasma is just as deadly as kinetic energy


And you don't wonder how the weapons the Elites use shoot much faster than when anyone else uses them? And they reheat in a second?

And the MC's shields are made from (improved on, as we're told) the lesser Elite Army.

I win! ME 1 YOU 0


Agreed. Also what about a near-invincible super soldier's ability to be incapacitated by two or three plasma bursts?

  • 07.19.2007 3:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: Rellik09


And the MC's shields are made from (improved on, as we're told) the lesser Elite Army.

I win! ME 1 YOU 0


didnt know that, where was that from?

  • 07.19.2007 3:44 PM PDT
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I think it was mentioned in passing once or twice.

Replay the games to find out. ;)

  • 07.19.2007 3:45 PM PDT
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i agree with heroic. In legendary ive had ghosts avoid by sniper crosshair, when i was aiming at them they would just back away

  • 07.19.2007 5:15 PM PDT
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how the hell can u base halo on real life?
it is the furthest thing from real life

  • 07.19.2007 5:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: UrMomsbstfrend
how the hell can u base halo on real life?
it is the furthest thing from real life


Ever head the word: "Hypothetical"

  • 07.19.2007 5:20 PM PDT
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well real world would probably be legendary but for the Halo World it would have to be normal for obvious reasons (why else would they call it normal)

  • 07.19.2007 5:32 PM PDT
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Heroic or Normal is my vote based upon how much damgage the Arbiter takes when I play him (he's on par with the MC as far as I can tell). On legendary, other elites will take you out in a straight-up shoot out, but they can be pretty easily beaten with good tactics. I think the most realistic would be damage (both given and received) on Normal, but tactics/awareness better than Legendary offers. For the most part, all the enemies stay pretty much in the same area when in real life they would use teamwork to flank, wouldn't forget about you when you go out of their view, etc. The AI for this is probably a ton of work for designers, so in the meantime they just gave us weaker shields and weapons to go up in difficulty.

[Edited on 07.19.2007 5:38 PM PDT]

  • 07.19.2007 5:37 PM PDT
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"Real life" wouldn't really apply because we have no real world application of a mojlinr suit. As far as it's capacity in the books, the covenant consider the chief a formidable foe even someone to be feared. Legendary on H2 handicaps you more than what would be a severe handicap in multiplayer. So that should tell you normal or heroic at most would best show what "real life" would be like.

  • 07.19.2007 5:39 PM PDT

I'd have to say legendary, reading the books has given me a new perspective of the covenant.

  • 07.19.2007 7:25 PM PDT

Posted by: DefLymeNYNE
well real world would probably be legendary but for the Halo World it would have to be normal for obvious reasons (why else would they call it normal)


I don't think Elites would stand still and take five BR bursts to the head, hence the name "Elite".

  • 07.20.2007 4:00 AM PDT
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Posted by: Uconn4552
What do you think? Don't just vote, respond!

Interesting subject.

I would say Legendary, however, there are much unrealistic happenings on this difficulty. Legendary is particularly unfair in certain circumstances. For example: Being shot in the foot by a Jackal sniper will kill you, but in actuality, you would easily survive this; although it would hurt. Also, being burned to death by plasma, in reality, I'd imagine, would take a while; in the game you'll die relatively quickly and, remember, you're wearing solid metal armour.

EDIT: In addition, some enemies require ridiculous amounts of damage to kill if, that is, you don't use a weapon capable of precise headshots.

Legendary is realistic in some ways, however, Heroic has the most realism.

~ Cardenio

[Edited on 07.20.2007 5:19 AM PDT]

  • 07.20.2007 5:16 AM PDT
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Interesting point of view to an alien race attacking earth.
Heroic would most likely be the most accurate although in the world of halo there are energy shields,
this makes the difference between possible and not.
On all diffuculties of the game none would be excatly or VERY CLOSE to reality
but heroic is the closest of all the diffuculties.
thank you

  • 07.20.2007 5:37 AM PDT

"Betcha can't stick it."

legendary,duh. They definitely are WAY more advanced. The covenant pretty much mastered space travel, invisibility, armor, weaponry, shielding, and flight capabilities. We couldn't even HOPE to attack their homeworld. And flood would be just as bad. The only hope for defense would be:

A.) Earth to Unite (issue with this would be that it would take ALOT of peace conferences)

B.) what ever we could kill, reverse engineer the technology that the covanent has to find how it works within some time (issiue with this is that we cant under stand writing,so wecant really reverse engineer tehe tech that we had acquired.

C.) To have some sort of hope in a retaliation effort we would probably end up in Nuclear Warfare against the covenant. ( Huge problem is taht the radiation would kill most of us.

  • 07.20.2007 6:10 AM PDT

Posted by: thefatbuddha
legendary,duh. They definitely are WAY more advanced. The covenant pretty much mastered space travel, invisibility, armor, weaponry, shielding, and flight capabilities. We couldn't even HOPE to attack their homeworld.


If Legendary Covenant forces attacked Earth in 500 years, there would be no chance of the war lasting, what, like 30 years?

  • 07.20.2007 9:04 AM PDT
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Heroic is most likely what real combat would be like.

  • 07.20.2007 9:06 AM PDT

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