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After thinking about this for a while since my first post, I want to change my answer to... NONE OF THE ABOVE. As I mentioned earlier, the AI is way too dumb on here (no slam on Bungie... intelligence is tough to duplicate). My new answer is MULTIPLAYER! Characters are evenly matched in damage able to give and receive and the only thing separating you from the next guy is being better than he is, either via straight up killing ability or by using superior tactics. Kind of explains why so many folks are still playing this game online after all this time, huh?

  • 07.20.2007 5:42 PM PDT

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Legendary with the Unnamed and Mythic skulls activated.

  • 07.20.2007 5:44 PM PDT
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Easy, cause I would pwn errrbody.

  • 07.20.2007 6:10 PM PDT

Legendary gives you the most server handicap. Plus if that how real life was we would have been destroyed long ago. Most marine usealy dont last. I say heroic. Normal is just to easy.

  • 07.20.2007 8:12 PM PDT
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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. 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.


A.) Earth is the center of the Human empire for years now, its the last strong hold world.

B.) Several aspects of the Covenant technology has been reversed engineered. The biggest example is the MC shielding system.

C.) The UNSC carries nuclear weapons on every single warship it has. They have deep space mine nuclear weapons and standard missile nuclear weapons. They use them all the time against the convenant. Most of the time they can take out or weaken the shields on the Covenant warships. They dont use them only when they are afraid of the EMP radiation that could fry the MAC rings.

Heroic is the most realistic

  • 07.20.2007 8:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: TheOnlyKEV
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.

Like he said.

  • 07.20.2007 8:56 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


your obviously an idiot... ok, now read carefully

If Halo were real life, what dificulty simulated in the game would the war be closest to?

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  • 07.20.2007 10:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Int3rnalF3ar
Legendary with the Unnamed and Mythic skulls activated.

*Laughs*

With those skulls functioning, the game becomes terribly unfair. I wouldn't say that was realistic. Perhaps, however, the damage you receive with the Mythic skull active is more real, but, then again, in actuality, you can be ripped in half and still be alive.

Play the game with all the skulls collected and, you'll realise how ridiculously disadvantaged you become. My prime point being: Skulls take realism out of the game, I reckon.

~ Cardenio

  • 07.21.2007 3:51 AM PDT

lol...who voted for Easy?

I could kill a Grunt on easy with my bare hands pretty much.

  • 07.23.2007 7:00 PM PDT
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Okay.. Halo 101.. lets begin class.... Uconn4552 said
Posted by: Uconn4552
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!


there.. " If humantiy were at war with the Covenant today, which of the Campaign difficulties would it most be like?" IMO class, it would be most like legendary.. 'today" Humanity does NOT have enery sheilds and super advanced armor... we do NOT have scorpions, there sure as hell never was a MAC Space station or "Pillar of Autumn". If humanity were to go to war with the Covenant TODAY, we'd get pwned. Yes, hot plasma would burn through our bodies, plasma grenades obliterating us into a million pieces, getting sniped by enery bolts, and being invaded by plasma shooting phantoms are just beginning the list. We would probably kill a few, but we would definitely lose.

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  • 07.23.2007 8:00 PM PDT
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Halo Novels, I believe Halo First Strike.

  • 07.23.2007 8:48 PM PDT

Well im better lucky than dead.

Halo Novels, I believe Halo First Strike.

Mhm the books give the most insight to this. When chief gets hit....well he gets HIT. In the books he talks about how a group of grunts could be his downfall when his shields weren't working right. So id say legendary.

  • 07.24.2007 9:56 AM PDT
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I think taht Legendary is the most realistic because if you get shot by a sniper you dye instead of your sheilds giong down. Also in the other difficulties it is easier to live through battles.

  • 07.24.2007 11:15 AM PDT

Posted by: S0BER M0NK3Y
I think taht Legendary is the most realistic because if you get shot by a sniper you dye instead of your sheilds giong down. Also in the other difficulties it is easier to live through battles.


How many battles has Chief lived through?

  • 07.24.2007 7:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: Cardenio
Posted by: Uconn4552
What do you think? Don't just vote, respond!

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.


It says in the book that the plasma burned holes in the armor in seconds so i think that would mean it would eat through skin pretty dang quick

  • 07.24.2007 9:13 PM PDT

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LEGENDARY- honestly do you think a jackel would miss your head 3 times with a particle beam rifle? NO and you dont think you would be killed if you were smashed in the back of the head by an elite? Think about it...

  • 07.24.2007 11:14 PM PDT
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Halo is unlike real life in so many ways making it impossible for any difficulty to be like real life.

Even in comparison, all difficulties are unlike real life in every way. Just because you take more damage in legendary doesn't make it more realistic.

  • 07.24.2007 11:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: artmaster 360
and you dont think you would be killed if you were smashed in the back of the head by an elite? Think about it...


Ummm yes...The Elites have superstrength just like the master chief sir.

You would literally turn to squishy paste on the floor if they smacked you on the back.

  • 07.24.2007 11:22 PM PDT
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Come on guys... this is not any type of science we are taking here. Legendary of course! Hm..lets think.. if we went to war today with the covenant who mastered space flight, mastered nuclear fusion reversal, can reverse manipulate technology, can make hovering chairs..(those chairs were awesome after I killed the Prophet of Regret I wanted to jack his and put it in my living room), already post-mastered lasers (which humanity is just begining to dawn upon) ; then, we'd sure as hell lose.

  • 07.24.2007 11:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: artmaster 360
and you dont think you would be killed if you were smashed in the back of the head by an elite? Think about it...


Ummm yes...The Elites have superstrength just like the master chief sir.

You would literally turn to squishy paste on the floor if they smacked you on the back.


lol- thank you for proving my point. Elites are bigger than most people think

  • 07.24.2007 11:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: artmaster 360
lol- thank you for proving my point. Elites are bigger than most people think


in the Halo 2 Game manual it says Elites stand 7 feet tall. Sorry I accidentally deleted the poster's name

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ok ill settle this with real facts!!! the ammunition in covenant weapons is called "Plasma". in real life if we got shot by this, we wouldnt splatter blood or guts! we would melt like all hell! also carbine ammunition is known as "nuclear energy". if we got shot by this, we would either die or we would just eventually die a long and horrible and painful death. and as someone else was saying about them trying to snipe enemy ghosts, you have to remember that the covenant has much more advanced technology than humanity, and therefore may be able to tell if someone is about to blow their brains out lol... and with the wraith if shot someone, even with mjolnir armour, it would melt it and death would be instant, if not it would be extremely hot and painful. also an energy sword wouldnt just spill blood. in fact it shouldnt spill blood at all. its still a type of plasma weapon, so it would slice straight through them and melt their insides... just to be kind that is. but i would have to say that legendary is the closer... plus even if bungie could tell the future and this is our end then we shouldnt need to fret, cuz we would all be dead!! but im glad that we join forces with the covenant about 37 years into the war lol... oh well sorry for gettin cranky mates but thats the way it is... later.

  • 07.25.2007 3:16 AM PDT
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.......................you're annoying......

i think i would pick either heroic or legendary.
legendary will be very hard alone but it we have teamwork we may be able to win.And it would also mean that we would have to waste a lot lot lot lot lot of ammo as shields in ledendary are hard to take down unless we use noob combo/plasma pistol lol!
heroic is ok i guess shield damage would but just fine as elites energy shields arent as strong as the shield wall thinge so bullets would damage them more.

............................................................. ............................................................. ............................................................. ............................................................. .......................wonder if i'll be able to drive a warhog?...................Anyway i pick legandary cause of the more HIGH TECH then us so that would be the most likely option........i guess.........................but if it really happens i want heroic or normal.......(no body wants to die lol)

  • 07.25.2007 4:23 AM PDT

"Betcha can't stick it."

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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. 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.


A.) Earth is the center of the Human empire for years now, its the last strong hold world.

B.) Several aspects of the Covenant technology has been reversed engineered. The biggest example is the MC shielding system.

C.) The UNSC carries nuclear weapons on every single warship it has. They have deep space mine nuclear weapons and standard missile nuclear weapons. They use them all the time against the convenant. Most of the time they can take out or weaken the shields on the Covenant warships. They dont use them only when they are afraid of the EMP radiation that could fry the MAC rings.

Heroic is the most realistic


No. the forum says if they attacked now, like at this moment, not like the the time period in halo.Like in the year 2007.

  • 07.25.2007 5:38 AM PDT

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