- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The best way to collect vehicles is to use Assault on the Control Room as there is lots of vehicles.
The best method to collect is to make sure there isn't an enemy in sight.
The way I do this is to climb down the side of the first chasm. There is various ways to do this. You can use Co-op mode and respawn your team mate down the chasm wall. I have a more difficult way to do this in Single Player. Here is the method:
[color=white] * Come through the doors that go into the first chasm.
* Turn left (in respect of the way you're facing when coming through the doors). and look underneath the Shadow (just underneath the leg that is pointing along the bridge, the closest).
* Throw a Plasma Grenade there, then run and jump off the left side of the bridge and slide down the wall. You will land on a small ledge on the wall of the chasm.
* The explosion will blow the Shadow down to you. If done right the Shadow will land on the same ledge of you. Most likely needing to be flipped upright.
* Flip the Shadow (or if the shadow doesn't need flipping, nudge it using melee) off the edge of the ledge.
* Quickly jump into the gunner seat of the Shadow.
* Fire and spin the gunner round (as it seems to help you stay in the gunner seat). [/color]
You should safely land on the chasm floor whilst sat in the gunner seat of the Shadow. Odd times you may die whilst falling, this is due to the Shadow not hitting a second ledge, half way through the fall.
PS. If this is done quickly you may get down onto the chasm floor BEFORE the pelican lands. If so, then run towards it, and when its landed go to the passenger bay and press X to get inside. You can go for a ride to the Scorpion tank area!.
From getting down the chasm floor you can then begin to collect all the vehicles from the level, knowing that you will never be shot at. It is a long and tedious job (especially the Ghosts) but the end product is worth it. You may have to go all the way to where you leave the troops (end of the 2nd chasm?) to get some of the vehicles (3 Ghosts and the Starting Banshee).
NOTE: Use the banshee on the floor (what I call "the starting Banshee" that is at the end of the chasm where you leave the troops behind) to get the other Banshees. Simply knock the other Banshees off the platforms.
So far I have collected:
[color=red] * 1 Scorpion Tank
* 1 Warthog Jeep
* 3 Banshees
* 13 Ghosts [/color]
I put them all where you get the Warthog (at the beginning)
Another point is that all the Marines are there (all alive), even the ones that you find dead on the floor by the time you get down to the chasm floor from the bridge. Personally I just shot them, so they wouldn't nick my line of Ghosts once I got the level to continue but you can leave them alive so they can use all the facilites you've laid out for them
THE BEST WAY TO CONTINUE THE LEVEL AS NORMAL
* Grab one of your banshees and fly back upto the bridge.
* Kill the enemies that you left there. The fly the Banshee to the door your meant to go through, then throw it off the edge of the bridge for later use.
* Go through the door and the nromal level will load up as normal.
* When you come running out of the door to the troops there will be all the vehicles there that you collected.
* Use the "pushed off Banshee" for an alternate way to take out the ground Covenant.