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Subject: This can only be done on Halo CE.......It is a Plasma Fiesta!
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One of the reasons I prefer CE to H2 is that you have alot more options on how you can play campaign. Right now I have completed everything through AotCR on Legendary without using anything more than Grenades, a Plasma Pistol a Plasma Rifle, and my FIST as my weaponry. It puts me at a serious disadvantage during banshee destruction (Plasma Rifles will take out ghosts and banshees, but it takes longer and it costs you more health), but you can play the whole game without ever using anything more than that (with the exception of having to use the banshees weaponry to take out other banshees, ground troops can be squashed without firing a shot, so I consider that a melee). I have not allowed any warthog gunners to get a shot off at ground troops by parking far enough back that they cannot see the enemy (though the Halo banshees did get taken out by him while I was driving between downed pod sites).

I am looking forward to battling the flood again with plasma weapons only. The nice thing is that they drop their weapons very quickly when hit by plasma. Hit them with an AR/Mag/Shotty at a distance and they tend to hold onto them longer.

You cannot experiment like this in H2, you have to use certain weapons at certain times. What rocks about CE is that you can choose to do things in very different ways and still have an absolute blast!

  • 06.25.2008 1:33 PM PDT
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That sounds fun, but I have to dissagree. Both halo 1 and 2 give you tons of freedom and experimentation for ways to do campaign. Halo 3, not so much. However much they tried, it's still a bit more linear. But halo 2 I could go through with only bashing. (on easy)

  • 06.25.2008 5:43 PM PDT
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very true

  • 06.25.2008 10:12 PM PDT
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POSTED BY VICK SR

That sounds fun, but I have to dissagree. Both halo 1 and 2 give you tons of freedom and experimentation for ways to do campaign. Halo 3, not so much. However much they tried, it's still a bit more linear. But halo 2 I could go through with only bashing. (on easy)

I am sorry to disagree, but I will do so!

Granted there is more to explore in H2 as the maps and sputnik allow for it, but from a combat standpoint on LEGENDARY you pretty much have to fight the battles in one or two at most ways, unless you are just running through in a ghost in high gear. A prime set of examples are:

1) The 2 wraiths across the bridge on Delta Halo. If you do not take the tank, you cannot survive the two of them. I have tried a dozen times to just whittle them down with the ghost cannon from the opposite side and they move too much to get them both down without being plastered by a plasma round from them at some point. Once you do get past, there are not enough ghosts left for the MC to use to battle the remainder to the next Marine drop off, they keep getting wiped out by covie ghosts (if you take your ghost past the wraiths without destroying them and continue on, you take too much damage over the remaining territory). You have to take the tank, period, if you want to accomplish your mission which is to wipe out the enemy.

2) The concentration of Jackal Snipers in Outskirts and Delta Halo make it so that you have to use either a BR or Sniper Rifle (either one), unless you are content with Johnson attempting to pick them all of by himself. They are too deadly to try and paste with loads of plasmas or anything that you cannot headshoot with. In CE you did not have the luxury of an unkillable ally. In 2 you can stand around and watch others do most of the wetwork if you choose too.

On easy, the game plays very differently and you have more latitude, I agree with you there, but on Legendary, your options are more restricted (unless you have the perma active camo, which I have never gotten).

  • 06.26.2008 10:17 AM PDT

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I have to argue that you can use a far wider array of guns effectively in Halo 3 than in Halo 1. Considering the fact that Bungie has returned the melee to it's rightful effectiveness (since Halo 2), you can engage the main enemies (the brutes) at any range you want.

I'm talking about legendary through this whole post btw.

In Halo 1, engaging more than one elite at medium range was very very risky. Engaging more than one elite at close range was suicide. Engaging more than one at point blank was do-able, but only if the environment complemented such a strategy, or there was fraticide.

In Halo 2, fighting elites at anything less than medium range was suicide without a sword and cover. The melee and grenades did virtually no damage, so you were left with your BR and sniper. Engaging more than one brute was tough too, but they went down quicker with a carbine. Again though, you didn't want to get into a melee fight with them.

In Halo 3, you can engage 6 or 8 brutes at close range, thanks to equipment and the fact that your melee can stop a brutes melee dead, making it nearly impossible to lose a one-on-one melee fight with a brute. You couldn't stop elites melees in any of the games, unless you killed them or, on weaker elites, brought down their shields.

  • 07.01.2008 5:46 PM PDT

I have to agree with the OP. In Halo CE, there's a lot more freedom as to which weapons you can use. You may feel pressure to use a power weapon, but unlike the latter two games, there really isn't a necessity to do so, since ammo and replacements were abundant, and nothing had a huge immunity to certain weapons.

  • 07.01.2008 9:53 PM PDT