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Subject: My Quest for SLASO (Updated 5/29/2008: TWO THIRDS DONE!)
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Haha, so far so good, keep up the good work! :)

  • 05.29.2008 9:30 AM PDT
Subject: My Quest for SLASO (Updated 5/22/2008)

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Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: RoyalEngineerSon
I usually shoot out the gunners, hijack one wraith and book it down the road and just use the warith from distance to kill everything. On regular legendary.


Easier said than done on SLASO, but I placed an in depth walkthrough above to help people out who want to try it themselves.

  • 05.29.2008 9:44 AM PDT
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Do you mean it's hard to fight the final battle from a distance with a Wraith? Or do you mean its hard hijacking one. I knwo thats hard, even on heroic. Cortana is my least favorite mission, not cause of difficulty, idk why, then tsavo. I'm not good at vehicle combat.

  • 05.29.2008 10:14 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: RoyalEngineerSon
Do you mean it's hard to fight the final battle from a distance with a Wraith? Or do you mean its hard hijacking one. I knwo thats hard, even on heroic. Cortana is my least favorite mission, not cause of difficulty, idk why, then tsavo. I'm not good at vehicle combat.


Jacking the Wraith is the hard part. You need acceptable weapons to take out the gunner. A BR alone doesn't seem to do it in my experience, but the beam rifle will. Then you also need the fuel rod cannon to quickly dispatch the shade turrets to make jacking the Wraith easier.

  • 05.29.2008 10:18 AM PDT
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I may practice that part a bunch before playing all the way through. A beam rifle is a must, snipe em from across the map, then maybe when you go to hijack it have a plasma pistol ready. Just an idea.

  • 05.29.2008 10:22 AM PDT

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Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: RoyalEngineerSon
I may practice that part a bunch before playing all the way through. A beam rifle is a must, snipe em from across the map, then maybe when you go to hijack it have a plasma pistol ready. Just an idea.


Definitely. I'm dreading The Storm though since I'm unaware of any sniping weapons. In the first lake bed, is there a sniper rifle in the bunker.

I'm planning on jacking and using an AA wraith to battle the scarab.

  • 05.29.2008 10:49 AM PDT
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The storm is one of my favorite levels. There is a sniper and missle pod on the roof of the building mid map, but the pod will disappear if you killl the enemies on the roof with a ghost. You need to hop out of your vehicle and take em out with guns if you want the pod. The sniper however will stay. There is also a sniper in the 2nd lake bed, in the side building before the cheiftan, and one near the unsc turret near the end, but I'm sure you know that. I like to save a sniper, bazooka, and a full missle pod for the end of the level, but I haven't done slaso on that level. Hope that helped. lol The missle pod thing could just be me, maybe my disk is wierd. idk

  • 05.29.2008 11:09 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: RoyalEngineerSon
The storm is one of my favorite levels. There is a sniper and missle pod on the roof of the building mid map, but the pod will disappear if you killl the enemies on the roof with a ghost. You need to hop out of your vehicle and take em out with guns if you want the pod. The sniper however will stay. There is also a sniper in the 2nd lake bed, in the side building before the cheiftan, and one near the unsc turret near the end, but I'm sure you know that. I like to save a sniper, bazooka, and a full missle pod for the end of the level, but I haven't done slaso on that level. Hope that helped. lol The missle pod thing could just be me, maybe my disk is wierd. idk


Thanks for the advice! Hopefully dispatching the wraiths in that level won't be so bad with the number of friendly AI around. But the sniper is a must. Wow those secondary guns are a pain!

  • 05.29.2008 11:24 AM PDT
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The first battle is tricky. If you get the missle pod, its a hard decision wether to take out the ghosts or the wraith. I usually take out the ghosts, then snipe the gunners on the waiths, then take out the wraith with a plamsma pistol and punch the crap out of it.

  • 05.29.2008 11:37 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: RoyalEngineerSon
The first battle is tricky. If you get the missle pod, its a hard decision wether to take out the ghosts or the wraith. I usually take out the ghosts, then snipe the gunners on the waiths, then take out the wraith with a plamsma pistol and punch the crap out of it.


Given the strength of the Wraiths' mighty armor with all skulls on, I may not have a choice but to use the missile pod on the Ghosts XD

  • 05.29.2008 11:41 AM PDT

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just remember to destroy one AA wraith before jacking the other.

  • 05.29.2008 12:33 PM PDT
Subject: My Quest for SLASO (Updated 5/29/2008: TWO THIRDS DONE!)
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I'm going to try for SLASO this summer, I feel sorry for my friends...

  • 05.29.2008 12:35 PM PDT

You should have videos and turn on scoring.

Nice job by the way.

  • 05.29.2008 12:41 PM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: Mr M12LRV
You should have videos and turn on scoring.

Nice job by the way.


Maybe on my next run ;-)

And thank you!

  • 05.29.2008 12:43 PM PDT
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Honestly , I salute you.

Best project I've yet to see on B.net

  • 05.30.2008 12:45 AM PDT

hmm well i dont know if you want to, but there is a whole heap of things you can do to make the covenant much easier.

have a look around rockslider's site

not only is it a bundle of fun, but there are some things that will make your life that little bit easier.


any way good luck whether you use this or not. thinking of doing SLASO myslef over christmas holidays.

  • 05.30.2008 1:15 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Thank you!



The OP has also been updated to include The Storm. I'll write a review on it a little later today. I will say this, though. It was surprisingly easier than Tsavo Highway. The AI was surprisingly useful (not to mention numerous) in this level!

  • 05.30.2008 4:33 AM PDT

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so just leave us in suspense why don't ya... :P

  • 05.30.2008 5:20 AM PDT

yeah the AI in the storm is pretty good. Mythic works both ways, and if you arm the marines right they should be able to push through almost on their own. read:give them rocket launchers.

the ark will be hard though. i'd say harder than the covenant even. all those vehicles to battle/avoid. although on the covenant you absolutely have to battle two chieftans...

  • 05.30.2008 5:29 AM PDT
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ohai

I dont know if this will help but. On The Covenant you should do the AA Wraith glitch that way it should be a little bit easyer haha. Unless you were already planning to do that! Haha good luck!

  • 05.30.2008 5:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: The Snappers112
congratulations. Now its time for you to go outside and socialize.

lol i agree. Time for u to discover the human race and the animal kingdom

  • 05.30.2008 5:40 AM PDT
Subject: My Quest for SLASO (Updated 5/29/2008: TWO THIRDS DONE!)

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: Nerd Boi
yeah the AI in the storm is pretty good. Mythic works both ways, and if you arm the marines right they should be able to push through almost on their own. read:give them rocket launchers.

the ark will be hard though. i'd say harder than the covenant even. all those vehicles to battle/avoid. although on the covenant you absolutely have to battle two chieftans...


That explains why the Marines were able to survive a Hunter beating. lol. Arbiter + Marines = Hunter pwnage... eventually...

  • 05.30.2008 5:48 AM PDT
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I brought the laser with me through the Covenant the entire time to kill the hammer carrying brute chieftans. 2 shots and their done leaving the regular brutes as easier pray. Since you've done Cortana I'll give this small advice to the next group who will try and doesn't know this. Before you drop down in any level grab every weapon possible and just keep switching weapons while facing upwards a bit. The MC will throw the weapon towards the drop hole and eventually down through the hole giving you a big arsenal you may not have thought of. Kudos man. I started it one time SLASO on Sierra 117 and was almost crying like another poster on this thread. No thanx, but it was interesting.

  • 05.30.2008 6:14 AM PDT

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant

Posted by: xgrunts
I brought the laser with me through the Covenant the entire time to kill the hammer carrying brute chieftans. 2 shots and their done leaving the regular brutes as easier pray. Since you've done Cortana I'll give this small advice to the next group who will try and doesn't know this. Before you drop down in any level grab every weapon possible and just keep switching weapons while facing upwards a bit. The MC will throw the weapon towards the drop hole and eventually down through the hole giving you a big arsenal you may not have thought of. Kudos man. I started it one time SLASO on Sierra 117 and was almost crying like another poster on this thread. No thanx, but it was interesting.


Sierra 117 is indeed a tough level. I originally started with that one, but after going through two controllers, decided to start with something a bit easier. Floodgate is an excellent way to build up your confidence and get an over all feel for SLASO style.

And the laser tip is a good one. And actually the one I've been using for practice runs offline. It seems like the only reasonable way to deal with them with Mythic on. Of course, I have to juggle the plasma pistol with it, but totally worth it!

[Edited on 05.30.2008 6:31 AM PDT]

  • 05.30.2008 6:18 AM PDT
Subject: My Quest for SLASO (Updated 5/30/2008: SEVEN LEVELS DONE!)

Holy crap your almost there! Well done man, SLASO is a huge feat! :D

(I couldn't even get past the first level, lol)

  • 05.30.2008 6:18 AM PDT