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umm dose this happen to any one else but i get scared lets see frist your spooked because what could spook cortana in the mission before then you just miss the marines as they go in side the you see battle seens with the signs of fighting then bodies with no signs of fighting (grunt blood filled hall way) then crasy marine then werid noises then stuff driping from the celling abandoned covie posts then a dead marine falls just as you open the door if thats not scarry then what is?

  • 05.31.2004 7:48 PM PDT
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I can still beat it on legendary but it takes a little more time than normal

  • 05.31.2004 8:34 PM PDT
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anything from heroic upwards on that level makes me all wigged out - I play as though its actually ME in that armour on that level.

same as the library - its kill like demon or be killed to me.

Just a short offshoot - I cant understand (well I can) why people hate 343 guilty spark, the library, keyes, and the maw level - they are fantastic.

I bet they are just scared man - I know I am scared of playing those levels - late at night, with the lights off, with the dolby surround sound cranking, then out of nowhere getting smacked in the back by a flood and turning around and see its mangled corpse in the glare of your light. -blam!- that scares me.

so really, it is of no surprise why peolpe dont welcome that level.

to bungie - thumbs up for being able to make a game so damn scary, you guys are brilliant.

I shudder to think about the flood in Halo 2 with the new graphics and lighting...................eeeeppp!!!!

  • 05.31.2004 10:28 PM PDT
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I actully thought the library was boring.
It was shooting alot of The Flood and just defending in the dark and going up some lifts.

  • 05.31.2004 11:53 PM PDT

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well, after you play it 50 times its not scary any more. but the first time i played it i was so scared that i made my friend play co-op with me on the level. lol

  • 06.01.2004 1:19 AM PDT
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well - you are obviously tough then, or at least not a chicken as me 8 )


however - you still gotta admit the first time you played it it was rather panicky and cool, I was glad to be out of there. And the books go on to say The Mster Chief was certainly relieved to get out of there.

Just kudos to bungie alright.

  • 06.01.2004 1:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: The MasterChief8
anything from heroic upwards on that level makes me all wigged out - I play as though its actually ME in that armour on that level.

same as the library - its kill like demon or be killed to me.

Just a short offshoot - I cant understand (well I can) why people hate 343 guilty spark, the library, keyes, and the maw level - they are fantastic.

I bet they are just scared man - I know I am scared of playing those levels - late at night, with the lights off, with the dolby surround sound cranking, then out of nowhere getting smacked in the back by a flood and turning around and see its mangled corpse in the glare of your light. -blam!- that scares me.

so really, it is of no surprise why peolpe dont welcome that level.

to bungie - thumbs up for being able to make a game so damn scary, you guys are brilliant.

I shudder to think about the flood in Halo 2 with the new graphics and lighting...................eeeeppp!!!!



i like 343, keyes, two betrayels, and the maw. I hate the library because its so repetitive u go around in circles for 2 hours killing the same enemies over and over

  • 06.01.2004 1:25 AM PDT

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i like 343, keyes, two betrayels, and the maw. I hate the library because its so repetitive u go around in circles for 2 hours killing the same enemies over and over


Yeah, that does get kinda boring after a while. That's why i do'nt want to do it on ledgendary. So much walking. It's hard to think how MC doesn't fall alseep on that level. Exept with the stench of burning flood. But i suppose it has to be there. Fits into the story line.

  • 06.01.2004 4:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: grease monk
I hate the library because its so repetitive. You go around in circles for 2 hours killing the same enemies over and over.


It was only yesterday that I played The Library (on heroic) and I too found it very repetitive. You seem to be walking for ages! The constant walking round and blowing stuff away with the shotgun is kinda repetitive.

In my opinion this does actually make good training for quick thinking, quick reactions and taking out multiple targets but it is kinda boring. You go up the last lift thinking "When is it going to end!?!"

Although the other levels with the flood are quite good levels. In my opinion, this is the chart for the best flood levels:

[color=white] 1. The Maw
2. Two Betrayals
3. Keyes
4. Guilty Spark 343
5. The Library [/color]


ANYONE AGREE?

  • 06.01.2004 5:02 AM PDT
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When I first played that level, it was not the Flood that scared me, it was the silence through most of the level. Waiting and wondering what the hell's gonna happen.

I was glad when the Flood attacked, the waiting was over, so the killing could begin.

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343 is a very well made level. the designers, although copying some rooms, should be congratulated. the eerie "hovering uuuuuuuuummumuuummm and monster and trickling" sounds are so good they make you forget about rooms looking the same as the last. on the escaping part of the mission i did get lost once or twice but just follow the blood on the walls to escape. great map. the trickling stuff was good, and the marine is great. my friends always shoot the marine but i dont. as you go deeper to the facility these things make you feel a little more "nervous"...

1) creepy jungle surroundings... rains on campaign mode!
2) the radio distress calls in the jungle are great, and the covie dropship engine sounds gd!
3) you can clearly see Keyes and the marines with Johnson and all are ahead of you as they are fighting into the facility when you arrive.
3) the lift down and the shafts are huge. the facility looks/sounds imtimidating. this shows just HOW important part of a game AUDIO is.
4) the blood, drips and marine, and the flaming ledges. you wonder what caused it.
5)the movie before the door, the sound behind MC. MC actually acts scared and quickly.
6) some rooms on the way down to the flood area are empty. a bit too quiet.

honestly, although the easiest mission excluding the P-O-A. i love playing it

  • 06.01.2004 9:12 AM PDT
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I admit the 343 level was freaked out. It gave me a scary thrill when I first played it like "What the hell is going on?" And then I always have those butterflies in my stomach and when You finally meet the Flood you're like "Holy -blam!-!!!!"
I hope they do a similar level in H2 with a new enemy.

  • 06.01.2004 10:31 AM PDT
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i hope that the flood is back in halo2

oftopic: srry for my inglish what not so good is i can type good dutche becose ime from belgium

  • 06.01.2004 11:07 AM PDT
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the library co-op 1:00 in the morning with your brother, the only people home, all the lights off, now thats frigging scary as hell

  • 06.01.2004 11:10 AM PDT
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ya, 343 is a scary level, but i create a pet out of a flood elite by shooting off its arms to tone down the fear. i actualy name them and they follow me around, but sometimes they get caught in the firefight and get killed. also in 343 i like to stay in the dropship and leave with it. it's fun to throw grenades at unsuspecting grunts from the air. you do this by throwing a grenade before you jump out of the pelican at the beggining of the level.

[Edited on 6/1/2004 11:33:54 AM]

  • 06.01.2004 11:33 AM PDT
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first time i played 343 was co op and me and my friend were laughin and he was really good but i like the flood levels theyre challenging especially legendary. i jes dont much care 4 the library cuz its so freaking LONG! after awhile killing flood gets to be boring. but the others r awsome.

  • 06.01.2004 12:00 PM PDT
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Oh my glory, When I first played 343 I had gotten past "the cutscene of freakyness" and goten out of the room and gone about 2 more rooms and then I ran out of ammo. That was SO DANG FREAKY! I had no ammo was almost dead and I didn't know were they would pop up next. Time to repress another memory *shudder*

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Lol Dude MR lucky i know how u feel the main thing that make it scary is that music and the sound of the flood and also you are the only one there!! I can never play that level a night!! And when the marine starts shooting at u and acting crazy that is just scary!!

  • 06.01.2004 2:56 PM PDT
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I'm just glad i'm not alone but my faviorte level of all time is the maw on leg co-op and right before you make it all the way revert to saved and do the car ride form -blam over again takeing turns going passenger, guner, driver or take seprate hog's aka the van and raceing each other

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well to get you a little less scared, i found a secret camo in the beginning of 343. When you're going accross the fallen tree to the underground structure etc. look to your right and you'll see a useless cement structure/pipe thing. walk up there and on the left side of it there is a camo to walk past all the covies with.

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I sneak past any way but thats good to know because i didn't know that

  • 06.01.2004 8:16 PM PDT
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Don't kill the crazy marine and listen to what he says. :)

  • 06.16.2004 6:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dark Soldier
well to get you a little less scared, i found a secret camo in the beginning of 343. When you're going accross the fallen tree to the underground structure etc. look to your right and you'll see a useless cement structure/pipe thing. walk up there and on the left side of it there is a camo to walk past all the covies with.


I never knew of that, either.

I hate 343

  • 06.16.2004 7:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: MR lucky
umm dose this happen to any one else but i get scared lets see frist your spooked because what could spook cortana in the mission before then you just miss the marines as they go in side the you see battle seens with the signs of fighting then bodies with no signs of fighting (grunt blood filled hall way) then crasy marine then werid noises then stuff driping from the celling abandoned covie posts then a dead marine falls just as you open the door if thats not scarry then what is?


I remember the first time I played that level. It is an eerie level. The body falling from that door scared me too. Considering how all those huners are, they are not scary, just hard to kill. However, when the flood strted attacking I quickly learned how to dispose of the little ones. It was not until they busted down the you you escape from where you meet THE BIG FLOOD that things got really scary. When that first one lunged at me, my thoughts were HOLY HANNIBAL!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!! That was the first time I was truely terrified by an enemy in the game. It was probably the same way with you. It is now my favorite level in the whole game. And when the big flood attack, the music is just perfect. I wish today that I could still get that same feeling as the first time. It gets the adrenaline going.

  • 06.16.2004 9:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: W D J
343 is a very well made level. the designers, although copying some rooms, should be congratulated. the eerie "hovering uuuuuuuuummumuuummm and monster and trickling" sounds are so good they make you forget about rooms looking the same as the last. on the escaping part of the mission i did get lost once or twice but just follow the blood on the walls to escape. great map. the trickling stuff was good, and the marine is great. my friends always shoot the marine but i dont. as you go deeper to the facility these things make you feel a little more "nervous"...

1) creepy jungle surroundings... rains on campaign mode!
2) the radio distress calls in the jungle are great, and the covie dropship engine sounds gd!
3) you can clearly see Keyes and the marines with Johnson and all are ahead of you as they are fighting into the facility when you arrive.
3) the lift down and the shafts are huge. the facility looks/sounds imtimidating. this shows just HOW important part of a game AUDIO is.
4) the blood, drips and marine, and the flaming ledges. you wonder what caused it.
5)the movie before the door, the sound behind MC. MC actually acts scared and quickly.
6) some rooms on the way down to the flood area are empty. a bit too quiet.

honestly, although the easiest mission excluding the P-O-A. i love playing it


Actually, That gunfire at the first is the flood. If you go across tha big tree with your pistol on zoom, you will see a figure run up beside the Covenant gun. That figure is a big flood form. I have watched that segment time and time again and that figure moves too fast to be human. It is still too fast for an elite. The larger flood forms are the only ones with that kind of speed. Plus, the Covenant don't run from humans. They only fear the flood. Also, Foe Hammer lost contact with Keys dropship 12 hours ago, meaning that could not be a bunch of marines, unless it was them in their INFECTED FORM!

  • 06.16.2004 9:20 PM PDT

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