- RC Master
- |
- Exalted Mythic Member
Halo 3 (31st), ODST (14th) and Reach (4th) Mythic Conqueror. (Mythic is Solo, Legendary, All skulls on + scoring on and no deaths/saves).
Staff Writer and speedrun record holder at highspeedhalo.net
Ignorance is the true enemy of all things.
Rocking Bungie.net for over 8 years!
Been practising Cortana the last couple of nights. Not as hard as I thought it would be. I mean, I have managed to do the level without firing a single shot on Legendary. But SLASO is a different kettle of fish I thought. Not really. Rushing through quick is generally the most successful method still. However, the main problem with this level still remains: completely random events. You can follow a route that has worked a thousands times to the letter, and still get -blam!- over by something completely unexpected happening. Something you can't really prepare for in any capacity. Because once you're there, acting out your plan, you're left with very few options.
For example: Got to the return to "hells highway" running down the raised bit on the right, and a sword elite flood was just standing their right in my way! Never seen a flood there before. Never seen a sword elite in that entire corridor before. Tried to evade, got slashed in the back.
Next, go to the return to "projector room" about to exit while invisible (2.0 suggestion) and the doorway was completely blocked with flood. Couldn't jump over, tried to hit them out of the way, got hit back, and died.
One particularlly annoying fail happened at the FIRST entrance to Pelican Hill, running to that pillar to hide behind and 5 combat forms jumped down right in my face before I could get there. Fended off a couple, but still got destroyed.
Ah well. I reckon I can get it finished sometime in the next couple of days. Then I'll just redo for the competition on Friday. Hopefully improving my time.
Random sidenote: Remember that the Flood Pure Tank forms have an ability to spew infection forms from their "mouth." It doesn't happen very often, they are often killed or transform again too quickly, but just remember that it CAN and DOES happen. I had a particularly annoying Tank form in the reactor room that kept spewing infection forms so I couldn't get close enough to sword him.
Posted by: blarghonk2
How often is it that the chieftain at the top of the first tower spawns with a flare? It happened on my successful run, and it caught me by surprise. Never seen that before on legendary.
Fun fact: the Chieftain at the end of Sierra 117 does this too.
Posted by: DarkDEVASTAT10N
Grrr! 20 minutes in, 2nd scarab down. I jumped off and got rewarded with the best thing possible. A Warthog full speed.
Was going perfect.
Welcome to speedrunning. It doesn't get easier. :D
Posted by: ICEISNICE
Are there any tips for using these guns with Blind on, or at least tips for improving my skill with them?
Blob of bluetac on your screen where your reticle would usually be. Remember they are in different places for on foot and vehicles. So you may need two. Thats what I do with my CRT. Glass fronted and all that. Be careful with an LCD or Plasma though, their robustness will vary.
Posted by: Mr Jimmatt
Think I'm actually going to attempt The Covenant slowly, as fast methods and impatience are probably the reason why I've been doing mythic for I think over a year with only 6 levels done.
Always the best way: Get a nice safe run done to set a baseline time. Critically appraise the individual sections to see if you can do anything faster. Revise your route. Do the run again. Repeat, adding riskier and faster methods.
Eventually you'll find a point we're you'll die too many times for it to be worth it. At that point, you either need to find a different, equally fast method, or give up.
Posted by: TheMoleN1
My problem is, when I return to the projector room (I use 2.0 and skip it), all the camo's are gone. It is empty. In tryants guide, he returns and there are still 2 camo's, so what am I missing?
Only go as far into the corridor to activate the gravemind sequence. NO FURTHER. I had this problem a couple of times as well. It seems the despawning of items in the "projector room" is linked to getting close/past the holotank thats on the right.
Also, I nearly completed the level on slow and steady, but a sword elite killed me at the generators (just after you rescue cortana) , how does one deal with a sword elite?
I had two (2!) in that room on one run, and another in the next corridor that killed me! Fortunately, there was a plasma pistol on the ground near my deployable cover barricade. I can only assume a flood Elite dropped it there. Use it with a carbine like people have said.
[Edited on 07.14.2009 7:00 PM PDT]