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Subject: Strategies - Campaign

It's getting pretty boring around here, so let's go with this.

Explain your basic strategies for going through the levels on EASY and LEGENDARY.

Use pistol and PR or Sniper until shotgun. Then use pistol and shotgun. Use vehicles whenever possible, and use stealth too.

  • 04.21.2008 10:32 AM PDT
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shoot kill reload beatdown repeat or spam pistol for the whole level till i beat it or spam grenades the whole level

[Edited on 05.06.2008 8:38 AM PDT]

  • 05.05.2008 1:51 PM PDT

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Marine are your friends.

Shoot from a distance.

Don't use med kits unless you're at 1 or 2 health.

Gauge your ammo.

Have fun.

  • 06.19.2008 11:11 PM PDT

Eventually, on Legendary, at one particular place where Brutes with fuel rod guns abound, play co-op and appoint one person to make suicide runs with plenty of grenades.

That'll turn a week into a few days and lower your blood pressure a bit.

  • 06.20.2008 8:50 AM PDT

Sometimes when I look at the moon at night, my mind embraces the thought of a love so vivid and true that I almost believe it is real. Then, due to my delusions, I am forced back into reality and begin to indulge myself in real life vices such as chocolates and German board games to get that once natural high.

huh?
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Eventually, on Legendary, at one particular place where Brutes with fuel rod guns abound, play co-op and appoint one person to make suicide runs with plenty of grenades.

That'll turn a week into a few days and lower your blood pressure a bit.

  • 06.20.2008 9:53 AM PDT
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Does anyone play on easy anymore??

For Legendary:

USE THE DARN PLASMA PISTOL! It is one of the most versatile and useful weapons there is in the game, and there is pretty much an infinite supply of them. You can kill anything close to you with one, you can snipe stationary targets from a long distance (grunts in turrets, wraiths and hunters come to mind) and the overcharge followed up by a good blast from the AR is one of the great tools to getting through legendary.

USE COVER! There is so much good cover available and on Legendary it can be the difference between dying alot and dying alot less. There are so many forerunner structures that are narrower at the top and wider at the base that they make for great crouch and pop shooting platforms.

USE DISTANCE! Granted, I love taking out enemies from right in front of me, but during the outdoor map parts you have to get good with the pistol zoomed in on enemies. I take just as much satisfaction following a charged pp shot with a single round to the head of a jackal or elite as I do taking out something with the shotty from something stupid enough to get right in my face.

MANAGE YOUR RESOURCES! Do not walk over ammo and health packs unless you have too. Save them, yes that means you will have to do some walking (quite your whining!) or some ghost ferrying but you can go most levels without even re-supplying your pistol if you use it smartly.

There is alot more to be said, for specific situations. Personally I try to stack the odds against myself alot of the time. When the game starts to get a bit stale after a few weeks of hardcore playing I will often make sure I have the weakest weapon combo, or get myself to one lil health blip as quick as possible and NOT use any health packs for the remainder of the level.

For those looking for more challenges, go to bad cyborg and try to set up some of the megabattles he outlines and such, that site is insane!

  • 06.21.2008 8:52 AM PDT

Splatter the enemies.

Throw enough grenades to try and kill an enemy ahead of you, then pick up [or backtrack to where] other grenades.

Attack a Hunter with a pistol (Geez, that was fun)

Use a sniper rifle and wait until two enemies are in the same line of sight, then shoot.

Once again with the sniper, zoom in to where you see a stationary enemy, change to your rockets without moving, shoot. Accurate every time.

Then there is the usual stuff;

Shoot from a distance, grenade jumping, ex cetera.

Hehe. You can always cheat in Halo: CE though.

Go on co-op, in Legendary, and park your other Spartan somewhere safe, effectively making them a respawn point for your main player.

: )

  • 06.21.2008 11:40 PM PDT