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Subject: Legendary NO DEATH runs
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I've been going through the Halo:CE campaign challenging myself with task of getting through each level, separately, on legendary, without dying a single time. If i do die, i restart the level from the very beginning. I've been trying this for awhile and tonight I finally beat the library like this! it took about an hour and a half and about 6-7 tries tonight.

Even though Halo may be nearly 7 years old, believe me when I say that it can still get your adrenaline rushing like crazy. At least mine was when I madethe final charge to the index, past the infinitely spawning flood on the right. No shields and 3 yellow bars of health when I triggered the cut-scene to finish the level!

So right now... levels i've done on legendary without dying a single time.

1. Pillar of Autumn - Complete!
2. Halo - Complete!
3. Truth and reconciliation - Complete!
4. The silent cartographer - Complete!
5. Assault on the control room - Complete!
6. 343 Guilty Spark - Complete!
7. The library - Complete!
8. Two betrayals - Yet to attempt
9. Keyes - Yet to attempt
10. The Maw - Complete!

Has anyone else tried doing this? Its a lot of fun but it can be incredibly frustrating. You can't go slow, you have to be genuinely skilled at the game and really know every weapon, enemy, level, and encounter by heart. I'm not looking forward to Two Betrayals... not only is it the longestlevel but it has some of the most difficult parts in it. Wish me luck!

Heh, maybe someday a run through the entire game in one sitting without dying once? I'm not sure anyone has even done that before.

  • 08.31.2007 7:16 AM PDT
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Bravo. I tried from the beginning one time and kept playing to see how far I could go before I died and got to the top of the grav lift in T&R. Good job getting through that without dying. The ones I've done are POA, Halo, TSC, AotCR, 343 GS, and The Maw.

Not only do you have to know all that stuff by heart like you said but you have to use every health pack, overshield, invisibility, ammo pack, weapon, grenade, vehicle, marine, etc, very economically and smart as well.

  • 08.31.2007 8:47 AM PDT
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Thats really true. I sort of take that for granted but now that you mention it, I realize how often I'm making weapon choices based on where the next ammo dump is and what enemies i'll be facing.

T&R is a tough level, for awhile i considered it the hardest on legendary but now I must say that Two Betrayals is the most difficult.
You don't get a pistol on T&R so for the entire level your weapons will be sniper/plasma rifle or sniper/plasma pistol. There are no gimmicks for T&R, you simply have to be a good enough sniper to kill everything while still being accurate enough to conserve as much ammo as possible. Actually, i'd say that there is more than enough ammo on the level for a good player, if he/she knows where to find it.

Before this gets to lengthy, the best way to play it out once you're in the belly of the beast on T&R, is to have a plasma pistol/28 shots in sniper, and stay on your toes, watching your radar, and all 4 doors for which will throw a gold sword elite at you next. Then simply strap him with a sticky or the easiest way is to simply hit him with a charged plasma pistol shot and then nail him in the head with the sniper. then finish off his friends with plasma shots to conserve ammo. i'd save plasma grenades for elites and use frags on doors that just have jackals or grunts. With some practice, those scary gold elites will be a bigger joke than hunters. When you have it down, its one of the easiest and most fun parts of the game.

EDIT: This is an especially good strat because almost anyone can do it. Hitting an elite with a charged plasma blast makes him stand squarely, shaking his fists in anger with his head centered, making for a very easy headshot.


[Edited on 08.31.2007 9:09 AM PDT]

  • 08.31.2007 9:06 AM PDT

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When I am with you, I feel like the King
I love when you're there, no battle I dread
I can always depend, on your three bullet spread
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Dude,
that's awesome, i only know one person who's completed the whole game without dying and that's my friend who introduced me to Halo in the first place. He's uber gosu! we do speed and no-death runs all the time.
I've done the following:
1. Pillar of Autumn
4. Silent cartographer
5. Assault on the control room
6. Guilty spark
7. The library
8. Two betrayals
10. The Maw

I play 4, 5, 8 & 10 the most and have completed all several times without dying except Two betrayals which i've done only once. All i can say is, look out for the first rocket flood (the one near the two elites on the long corridor) stay a good distance away from shotgun flood, and be REALLY careful activating the last core of the three. Oh yeah, and GOOD LUCK. i was mega lucky when i completed in without dying i've got to say. i'm not religious, but someone was looking down on me that day :-D

i don't know many ppl who are as excited about the meta game as i am, but i bet you're one of them! ;-)

  • 08.31.2007 9:11 AM PDT

Oh BR I love you, and all that you bring
When I am with you, I feel like the King
I love when you're there, no battle I dread
I can always depend, on your three bullet spread
So join me in raising, your glass for a toast
And drink to the rifle, that I love the most

Posted by: P3CK

T&R is a tough level, for awhile i considered it the hardest on legendary but now I must say that Two Betrayals is the most difficult.
You don't get a pistol on T&R so for the entire level your weapons will be sniper/plasma rifle or sniper/plasma pistol. There are no gimmicks for T&R, you simply have to be a good enough sniper to kill everything while still being accurate enough to conserve as much ammo as possible. Actually, i'd say that there is more than enough ammo on the level for a good player, if he/she knows where to find it.



Totally agree, of all the levels i've tried, i've never gotten close to finishing T&R without dying. it IS the hardest level in my book. And those gold elites are -blam!-es! But the worst part is the room where they're all above you and coming out of doors everywhere whilst Cortana is having a nap and you're waiting for the door to open......

  • 08.31.2007 9:18 AM PDT
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Funny how all of you are talking about top of grav lift on T&R, cause i'm stuck there right now -.-
I'm using needler/plasma pistol and the elites are nothing, the jackals on the other hand are what have been getting me almost every time (or the occasional marine throwing a grenade at me).

  • 08.31.2007 9:26 AM PDT
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In the belly of the beast sometimes your own marines will kill you quicker that the golds will. They get a little grenade happy sometimes.

  • 08.31.2007 9:29 AM PDT
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Yeah i'm definitely excited about the Meta game in halo 3. it practically insures that i'm going to still be playing halo 3 seven years after release just like Halo 1. I'm glad that Bungie recognizes that Legendary is just the beginning for some people.

By the way, don't get me wrong, I don't fancy myself a campaign god. it takes hundreds of hours of playing on all difficulties and levels, restarting from every checkpoint heaps of times each to get to the point that you do crazy things like trying to not die on legendary. When I get halo 3, i'll be doing my first run through campaign on a nicely balanced heroic. In all honesty, Legendary isn't fun until you're ready for it.

And when you are you'll never look back! : P

  • 08.31.2007 9:53 AM PDT
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I've played throught each level in one try withought dying once because I go on speedruns.

  • 08.31.2007 7:08 PM PDT
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I've been wondering, how much ammo do you speed run guys use? Do speed runs allow the use of ammo? I've never been sure, and I've assumed that you guys don't kill anything. You do shoot things up still, right?

  • 08.31.2007 7:28 PM PDT

Oh BR I love you, and all that you bring
When I am with you, I feel like the King
I love when you're there, no battle I dread
I can always depend, on your three bullet spread
So join me in raising, your glass for a toast
And drink to the rifle, that I love the most

Answer: not very much. we kill what's in our way and leave everything else.

Eg, i speed run AotCR (legendary) with my bud more than any other level. i trade my pistol for the sniper rifle when we get outside and i keep that for the rest of the level. after the first outdoor section (past the tanks) my bud drops me by the plasma turret on the right of the cave and i snipe across the cavern - elites, hunters, jackals, then grab more ammo. He's driven through, opened the door and i warp back across the other side and jump in the back. We drive straight through, all the way to the next indoor section, the elites kindly open the door and you drive over them, get out the warthog, sneak through to the lift, i'll grab a needler to get the gold elite at the top then snipe our way across both bridges. (i get to reload after the first bridge again i think)

then one of us grabs the invisible, runs through to the outdoor section, knocks one banshee off with a nade and we kill the other, drop off that bridge onto the ledge of the control room's middle ridge, run up and drop off near the top, open the door and snipe the elites, mop up the rest and finish the level.

A good run is around 30 minutes. we're not trying to break any records, it's just fun that way, and we used to try to get that level in during our 1hr lunch at work, including the drive home and back.

some parts, its worth taking a little extra time to kill something (ie hunters on the far bridge), cos it's too risky not to = random death. i'd be interested to hear what other people do...

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  • 08.31.2007 9:52 PM PDT
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Well alright, that makes sense. Every time I try to give it a shot, I thought it was no engaging the enemy, which is probably why I didn't get so far. This is kind of motivating to try it now..

  • 08.31.2007 10:06 PM PDT
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If I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good nite.

My friend and I have gotten through each level on Legendary, but it took a lot of times, but some of the most fun skirmishes are on the Library when my bud goes down and I'm just going on a rampage against the flood throwing perfectly placed grenades and pumping two or three rounds in only to have to fire right away. I know that's a real long, fragmented sentence, but that's the fun of Halo for you.

We're also by no means Halo Gods. Halo 3 will be played on Normal for a good long time for me.

  • 09.01.2007 9:39 AM PDT
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I plan to attempt Halo 3 on heroic first.

Ive done halo on legendary with no deaths on all but Two Betrayals.

[Edited on 09.01.2007 11:23 AM PDT]

  • 09.01.2007 11:23 AM PDT