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  • Poll [6 votes]: Your favorite way to slaughter covies is????????
Subject: For my fellow Legendary Solo Campaigners out there, got anything to...
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Poll: Your favorite way to slaughter covies is????????  [closed]
Rush in GUNS A BLAZIN!:  33%
(2 Votes)
Slow methodical pistol shooting for heads:  0%
(0 Votes)
Melee only:  17%
(1 Votes)
Plasma Nades to the Heads/Nads/Butts/??:  33%
(2 Votes)
When in vehicle, ROADKILL everything:  0%
(0 Votes)
Moving so their line of fire kills each other:  0%
(0 Votes)
Plasma Pistol burst only (melee when no batt):  0%
(0 Votes)
Your own killing machine method? (list plz):  17%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 6

After playing for 4 years, it seems that these are the solo campaign game types (legendary of course) you can play. It adds variety, changes the pace of the game and spices things up challenge wise. Obviously there are times when you cannot do one of those listed, early in the game before you get nades, can't hardly light some grunt or elite up with a plasma now can ya! Hard as I try, I have only been able to nade a Banshee in two spots of the game regularly (AotCR and Two Betrayals, where you have trees to hide behind), Ghosts and Banshees can't be taken out through melee as far as I know (and for as many tags as that would take, you are long into pushing up daisies if you could do it by melee). Tanks, Banshees and Ghosts all can be taken by plasma pistols, but not with a power slide (though tipping ghosts over and spilling out the elite to then make him road kill is always satisfying!). What is your one favorite way to take out your sworn enemy? Am I missing anything that can be done for a good long portion of the game?

  • 11.03.2007 8:23 AM PDT
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Advantages and Disadvantages of How You Kill Your Covies....

On legendary, rushing in guns a blazin is the best surefire way to........................keep going back to the last checkpoint! It is probably the most high bloodpressure inducing (read that as FUN!), but you sure do take a beating. Covies on Legendary are just pretty good shots overall, and there are enough stray plasmas and marine grenades tossed around to make headlongs runs into their ranks just a bit on the unsafe side, well if you prefer to die as little as possible.

Slow methodical pistol shots is pretty much the way everybody plays at some time. It is pretty darn satisfying to watch them fall through that 2x scope, lil blood spurt out of the grunt and jackal heads! It is just that though, slow, and sometimes, well, there are just too many covie and not enough time in the day!

Melee only is probably the most challenging because it requires more planning, strategy and a larger set of ba**s cause you really don't have anywhere to go if you miss on some enemies. Grunts and jackals no sweat really, and Elites from behind, no worries. Get into Hunters and Sword Elites (even I havn't had the stones to not pull that plasma grenade out and paste him) and things really get menacing. Since you can't melee vehicles, next best thing is to force yourself to use a plasma pistol, harder to hit them with and takes forever, which just means you have to be that much better at Halo to do it!

Ah, the old plasma to the body part. This morning I tagged two running elites on the foot, so much for my great aim! Does it bring a smile to your face to snowcone an Elite? Here ya go buddy, have this for your face! Do you STILL laugh when you nail a grunt and he goes screaming into the rest of the group? I think we all know what happens next! Granted, eventually you do run out, but what the heck, it is just so much fun when you do have them! I count whats left after a battle to make sure I know what kind of stock I have (of course, till the game sanitizes whats behind me, BASTAGES!).

Roadkill..............is there really any explanation needed? The best parts of roadkill to me are when you have a gunner or passenger, they say some of the funniest things! Otherwise, its just a quick way to clean out an open area. Personally I think it is the least skill method, but it is definately fun to do on occassion!

Why should I waste my ammo when I can let the covies kill themselves?? This takes forever to get things lined up enough so that their shots wear each other out, and for about 95% of the game, its just not possible. One version includes nailing one who is about to toss a grenade with a pistol headshot so that they drop it and watch the resultant carnage. Oh the possibilities......:)

Plasma pistols...............wow, brutal. For such a long time I regarded them as "below" a SPARTAN. BOYO, was I ever wrong. Halo 1 plasma pistols can take every enemy in the game out. There is not one that can withstand them. Vehicles, no problem. You want some fun, take out the Wraiths with a plasma pistol, then we will see who has testosterone! It isn't like there are a shortage of them lyin around is there?!?!!?!?! Plus as a benefit the melee is just a good MC FIST! POW! I can almost hear the original Batman sound effects!


I am sure there are other styles of solo play, these are the ones I seem to favor, and since I get bored easy, if you have something cool not listed, PLEASE DO SO!

  • 11.03.2007 8:44 AM PDT

I am a Floodian

Without a doubt it is sneaking up on your enemies and then rushing in and blindly smacking everything upside the head

  • 11.04.2007 2:26 PM PDT