- General Khazard
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- Exalted Member
When the dust settles, you will learn what true terror is.
Posted by: Hubb Lebowski
When I kamikaze The Covenant, I leave the Camo for my escape from Tower 3, and use the Invincibility (if the Chieftain drops it) to skip clearing the bottom of Tower 1. If everything goes my way, I can get a good time, and even if they don't (the Chieftain drops a Flare), I can continue my kamikaze run 'cause I have the Camo for Tower 3 (I've actually escaped Tower 3 without Camo or Invincibility, but only once). The vast majority of my deaths came while crashing the Ghost into Tower 1, Hogging my way to the Scarabs, or beasting my way through the first battle most people skip like Pojat (it's not impossible; most of those deaths came when I tried Hogging my way past the Banshees and Ghosts). I only used the camo in Tower 1 a couple times before I tried just rushing through. All you have to worry about is not missing the ammo crate jump and jumping onto and activating the elevator without getting stuck (I've done it with no shield many times). The former is simple, but the latter can be problematic as the Grunts are sometimes (not always, but not just occassionally either) in position to spam you.
Alternatively, if you're not too worried about time but still want to kamikaze (compromise, like what I usually do), once you make the ammo crate jump, if you stand in the corner opposite the Terminal for 10 seconds or so, all the Covenant below you will move to the back of the room, allowing you to jump onto the elevator fairly safely. There will still be some Grunts on the other upper level, but unless you shoot at them, they probly won't notice you. Also, I'd advise against standing directly on the elevator-side glass as I was once killed by a Spike grenade that a Brute stuck to the other side (3 cheers for broken geometry).
I have a hard time imagining nobody's discovered any of this yet, but the speed run Pojat used to have in his File Share didn't do any of it, and Khazard's still bothering to clear the bottom of Tower 1, so I thought I'd share.
I left the camo to pick up on my way out, but the Chieftain dropped a flare instead of invincibility so I was kind of forced to clear the bottom of Tower 1. Again, it's only the first time I've tried to kamikaze that level so I'm not too worried.