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Subject: My Quest for SLASO (Updated 5/22/2008)

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: Vincent K
Posted by: jew man man
Congratulations Vince on beating Mythic with no Plasma Pistols. Well, the Covenant missions anyway.


All of Campaign, actually. Everyone has a freebie for Floodgate and Halo (there are no Plasma Pistols to find), however, there are some on Cortana; I double checked my Mythic Cortana run and confirmed that I did not at any point use one.


Very cool, Vince. Looks like you set your own record :-)

  • 01.05.2009 6:19 AM PDT

Posted by: Tyrant122312
Posted by: Vincent K
Posted by: jew man man
Congratulations Vince on beating Mythic with no Plasma Pistols. Well, the Covenant missions anyway.


All of Campaign, actually. Everyone has a freebie for Floodgate and Halo (there are no Plasma Pistols to find), however, there are some on Cortana; I double checked my Mythic Cortana run and confirmed that I did not at any point use one.


Very cool, Vince. Looks like you set your own record :-)


I most certainly did. Now I will look for a new challenge in Mythic...

[Edited on 01.05.2009 6:31 AM PST]

  • 01.05.2009 6:31 AM PDT

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Posted by: Vincent K
Posted by: Tyrant122312
Posted by: Vincent K
Posted by: jew man man
Congratulations Vince on beating Mythic with no Plasma Pistols. Well, the Covenant missions anyway.


All of Campaign, actually. Everyone has a freebie for Floodgate and Halo (there are no Plasma Pistols to find), however, there are some on Cortana; I double checked my Mythic Cortana run and confirmed that I did not at any point use one.


Very cool, Vince. Looks like you set your own record :-)


I most certainly did. Now I will look for a new challenge in Mythic...


Maybe you could try time trials or even try it without grenades but allow the Plasma Pistol? Although that would probably be almost impossible.

  • 01.05.2009 6:59 AM PDT

Posted by: MATCLAN
Maybe you could try time trials or even try it without grenades but allow the Plasma Pistol? Although that would probably be almost impossible.


Speedruns have never been my forte. A no grenade run may be fun, but I may have another style in mind.

  • 01.05.2009 7:06 AM PDT

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If you would like to know more about Mythic difficulty please go to this thread. Thank you.

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Posted by: Vincent K
Posted by: MATCLAN
Maybe you could try time trials or even try it without grenades but allow the Plasma Pistol? Although that would probably be almost impossible.


Speedruns have never been my forte. A no grenade run may be fun, but I may have another style in mind.


What are you thinking of then?

  • 01.05.2009 7:08 AM PDT

Something I came up with for the Medals thread. I call it "Misanthrope". It forbids the use of human weaponry, with exception to Fragmentation Grenades. In cases where you start with a human weapon, it cannot be fired or used for melee.

I'm also thinking of not allowing use of Human vehicles...but that's a bit extreme.

[Edited on 01.05.2009 7:28 AM PST]

  • 01.05.2009 7:28 AM PDT

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17th Mythic Conqueror of Halo 3.
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If you would like to know more about Mythic difficulty please go to this thread. Thank you.

Please do not send me "recruitment messages" as I'm not interested in joining any groups currently.

Posted by: Vincent K
Something I came up with for the Medals thread. I call it "Misanthrope". It forbids the use of human weaponry, with exception to Fragmentation Grenades. In cases where you start with a human weapon, it cannot be fired or used for melee.

I'm also thinking of not allowing use of Human vehicles...but that's a bit extreme.


It sounds possible as long as you use the Carbine and stick enemies a lot, although I can see the Ark being troublesome without a tank unless you convert a Prowler into a heavy weapons platform or borrow a Wraith somewhere along the line.

  • 01.05.2009 7:30 AM PDT

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Nothing challenging is in Halo 3 campaign anymore.

  • 01.05.2009 7:35 AM PDT

Posted by: MATCLAN
It sounds possible as long as you use the Carbine and stick enemies a lot, although I can see the Ark being troublesome without a tank unless you convert a Prowler into a heavy weapons platform or borrow a Wraith somewhere along the line.


Yeah. I'm putting stuff on a notepad file and thinking through each level for any portion that would be unworkable. If I remember correctly, you can damage 343 Guilty Spark with the Fuel Rod Gun and Rocket Launcher. Using the Fuel Rod Gun, I could get through that portion. Otherwise it would be impossible.

  • 01.05.2009 7:43 AM PDT

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If you would like to know more about Mythic difficulty please go to this thread. Thank you.

Please do not send me "recruitment messages" as I'm not interested in joining any groups currently.

Posted by: Pahat Pojat
Nothing challenging is in Halo 3 campaign anymore.


Yes but I've seen your films, the simple fact is that you just have some sort of killer instinct which makes it all look ridicuously easy. Anyway there's always Multiplayer and Forge for when you get bored with Campaign.

  • 01.05.2009 7:44 AM PDT

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If you would like to know more about Mythic difficulty please go to this thread. Thank you.

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Posted by: Vincent K
Yeah. I'm putting stuff on a notepad file and thinking through each level for any portion that would be unworkable. If I remember correctly, you can damage 343 Guilty Spark with the Fuel Rod Gun and Rocket Launcher. Using the Fuel Rod Gun, I could get through that portion. Otherwise it would be impossible.


I've heard about damaging Spark with a Fuel Rod Gun but whether the Tilt and Mythic skulls will affect this I'm not sure.

  • 01.05.2009 7:46 AM PDT
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That's awesome, and sounds incredibly hard. I doubt I would have the patience to do this myself...

  • 01.05.2009 8:09 AM PDT
Subject: My Quest for SLASO (Updated 5/22/2008)
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Posted by: Pahat Pojat
Nothing challenging is in Halo 3 campaign anymore.
Shut up Pojat -.-

  • 01.05.2009 8:37 AM PDT

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Posted by: Pahat Pojat
Nothing challenging is in Halo 3 campaign anymore.
Shut up Pojat -.-


makes me feel bad about myself...

  • 01.05.2009 8:44 AM PDT

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I want campaign enemies to be more interesting, smarter and tougher. Restricting your own capabilities is just pointless.

  • 01.05.2009 8:47 AM PDT

Member of team Master Theory.

17th Mythic Conqueror of Halo 3.
5th Mythic Conqueror of ODST.
If you would like to know more about Mythic difficulty please go to this thread. Thank you.

Please do not send me "recruitment messages" as I'm not interested in joining any groups currently.

Posted by: Pahat Pojat
I want campaign enemies to be more interesting, smarter and tougher. Restricting your own capabilities is just pointless.


I can understand that, you would rather inflict and receive the same amount of damage regardless of difficulty level but at the same time have the enemy AI improve substantially so it's like playing matchmaking with everything against you?

[Edited on 01.05.2009 10:42 AM PST]

  • 01.05.2009 8:52 AM PDT

Posted by: Vincent K
Something I came up with for the Medals thread. I call it "Misanthrope". It forbids the use of human weaponry, with exception to Fragmentation Grenades. In cases where you start with a human weapon, it cannot be fired or used for melee.

I'm also thinking of not allowing use of Human vehicles...but that's a bit extreme.


You could try a no melee run, although that would be ridiculous.

  • 01.05.2009 8:52 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: Pahat Pojat
I want campaign enemies to be more interesting, smarter and tougher. Restricting your own capabilities is just pointless.


Maybe it's something we'll see in ODST.

I can haz Mythic Achievement plez! ;-)

  • 01.05.2009 9:15 AM PDT

Well, after a little bit of checking, I tested to see if I could destroy Guilty Spark with the Fuel Rod Gun with the following three Skulls on. Famine, to make sure I would know how restricted my ammo is, Tilt, and Mythic. I only got a total of 14 rounds to use, which isn't enough to destroy Spark, but it does seem to hurt him.

  • 01.05.2009 9:53 AM PDT

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If you would like to know more about Mythic difficulty please go to this thread. Thank you.

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Posted by: Vincent K
Well, after a little bit of checking, I tested to see if I could destroy Guilty Spark with the Fuel Rod Gun with the following three Skulls on. Famine, to make sure I would know how restricted my ammo is, Tilt, and Mythic. I only got a total of 14 rounds to use, which isn't enough to destroy Spark, but it does seem to hurt him.


Maybe you'll have to allow the Laser or check to see if you end up with the same amount of ammo each time as it seems to be variable when claiming it from defeated enemies. However if variable ammo was the case then I would still say your chances are slim seeing as you would have to rely on luck which is too infuriating.

  • 01.05.2009 9:57 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: MATCLAN
Posted by: Vincent K
Well, after a little bit of checking, I tested to see if I could destroy Guilty Spark with the Fuel Rod Gun with the following three Skulls on. Famine, to make sure I would know how restricted my ammo is, Tilt, and Mythic. I only got a total of 14 rounds to use, which isn't enough to destroy Spark, but it does seem to hurt him.


Maybe you'll have to allow the Laser or check to see if you end up with the same amount of ammo each time as it seems to be variable when claiming it from defeated enemies. However if variable ammo was the case then I would still say your chances are slim seeing as you would have to rely on luck which is too infuriating.


Or we could just key in specific missions with the medal :-)

  • 01.05.2009 10:14 AM PDT

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If you would like to know more about Mythic difficulty please go to this thread. Thank you.

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That too, although a full campaign run would have been nice to see.

  • 01.05.2009 10:40 AM PDT

Killing spark with the laser wouldn't be a problem because you don't get the laser until Johnson gives it to you and you don't get to take it with you, right? It would be easy to just be 'allow' to use it that one time.

  • 01.05.2009 10:44 AM PDT

Posted by: naguara
Killing spark with the laser wouldn't be a problem because you don't get the laser until Johnson gives it to you and you don't get to take it with you, right? It would be easy to just be 'allow' to use it that one time.


That's what I was thinking. I tested it over multiple times, reverting everytime Guilty Spark was about to explode. I even shot him twice with the Laser to see if I could kill him with the Fuel Rod Gun when he was on that last portion. No effect.

So, I'll errata the concept to...

Misanthrope: Complete a full Mythic Campaign run without firing or melee attacking with any UNSC weapons, with exception to using the Spartan Laser during the 343 Guilty Spark fight. Fragmentation Grenades and UNSC vehicles may be used.

[Edited on 01.05.2009 10:56 AM PST]

  • 01.05.2009 10:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: Vincent K
Posted by: naguara
Killing spark with the laser wouldn't be a problem because you don't get the laser until Johnson gives it to you and you don't get to take it with you, right? It would be easy to just be 'allow' to use it that one time.


That's what I was thinking. I tested it over multiple times, reverting everytime Guilty Spark was about to explode. I even shot him twice with the Laser to see if I could kill him with the Fuel Rod Gun when he was on that last portion. No effect.

So, I'll errata the concept to...

Misanthrope: Complete a full Mythic Campaign run without firing or melee attacking with any UNSC weapons, with exception to using the Spartan Laser during the 343 Guilty Spark fight. Fragmentation Grenades and UNSC vehicles may be used.


On Sierra 117 you start with a Assault Rifle and a Pistol. There is no way you can kill any enemies in the first fight. Unless you rely on the Marines/Arbiter to clear the first fight for you. So at least you can grab a Plasma Pistol for the Brute. But the Grunts could still kill you with there Grenades or Plasma Pistols/Needlers. You'd have to rely on the Arbiter/Marines a lot in the first few fights.

  • 01.05.2009 11:52 AM PDT