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Subject: how hard is legendary really
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Posted by: mEi aSs
lol speaking of keeping marines alive, a few months ago I challenged myself to keep all of them alive on AotCR. Took some time, especially for Sarge since he had his fun shooting through other marines. God i love sarge.

In the weapons department, I must however disagree with you Blue Elite 1000. I always keep a plasma pistol handy and I usually alternate between pistol and sniper rifle. Worst comes to worse, I go for plasma pistol/plasma rifle. Either way, make sure you stay away from the AR in legendary. The AR against elites is as effective as fighting it with a butter knife.


I agry with you about the weapons thing but for some reason i like the human weapons better.Maby im just weird.

  • 07.24.2004 8:59 PM PDT
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You guys are all retards.

The Maw is one of the f.ucking easiest levels in the game. The Library is NOT impossible on one player, if you think that, you're obviously not that good. And if you think 343 Guilty Spark is confusing, then you don't play very much. It's quite simple, actually. Truth and Reconciliation and Keyes are probably the hardest levels, but still beatable.

  • 07.24.2004 9:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: mEi aSs
lol speaking of keeping marines alive, a few months ago I challenged myself to keep all of them alive on AotCR. Took some time, especially for Sarge since he had his fun shooting through other marines. God i love sarge.

In the weapons department, I must however disagree with you Blue Elite 1000. I always keep a plasma pistol handy and I usually alternate between pistol and sniper rifle. Worst comes to worse, I go for plasma pistol/plasma rifle. Either way, make sure you stay away from the AR in legendary. The AR against elites is as effective as fighting it with a butter knife.


I agry with you about the weapons thing but for some reason i like the human weapons better.Maby im just weird.


i also hang on to human weapons, but only because of the amount of ammo for them. plasma weapons empty pretty fast, then u need a new one, for human weapons, ther is just ammo all over the place, that u can only pick up if u have taht weapon. but as for usefulness, ill have to give that to the pistols, plasma and regualr

  • 07.24.2004 9:03 PM PDT
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tnr is easy, they give u all the equipmetnt that u need. the second level is hard, i always have tropuble finding the life pods

  • 07.24.2004 9:04 PM PDT
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The Maw is the second easiest level on legendary IMO.

  • 07.24.2004 9:28 PM PDT
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For the most part, I don't have a problem with legendary. Its just certain sections that I have trouble with time to time, like the first escape pod on the second level, the top of the lift on T&R, and the end of the library. Otherwise its not hard, but not easy either.

  • 07.24.2004 9:30 PM PDT

either keyes or truth and reconciliation is the hardest level on legendary. keyes has no jackals, but it has some super powered elites and grunts. truth and reconciliation just has huge numbers of bad guys. in fact, i don't think maw has many jackals either. jackals aren't really seen very often in the second half of the game. if keyes had jackals, it would be the hardest level hands down.

  • 07.24.2004 9:41 PM PDT
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I agree. The AR sucks on legendary until you learn how to use it effectively with the melee attack.

  • 07.24.2004 9:48 PM PDT
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The only board I really have trouble with anymore is The Library, and its getting easier every time i play.

  • 07.24.2004 9:50 PM PDT
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i think its hard period

  • 07.24.2004 9:52 PM PDT
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every mission is not that hard if you dont rush into everything, the library was kind of hard, but play it on easy to fighure out all the secrets and you wont have any problem, lilke how to fire at the flood without them hurting you on the hardest part, you know, the place where you are trapped in a room with two huge doors at both ends and flood comin down like rain

  • 07.25.2004 7:50 AM PDT
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To be totally honest Legendary isn't that hard for me any more. I can go through it and I'll die only a handful of times. The only level that is challenging is the library and that's only because the flood tend to overrun me to the point that I'm stuck using crappy weapons because I ran out of ammo for the good ones (Marine pistol and Shotgun).

  • 07.25.2004 10:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: MCPO Kiros117
every mission is not that hard if you dont rush into everything, the library was kind of hard, but play it on easy to fighure out all the secrets and you wont have any problem, lilke how to fire at the flood without them hurting you on the hardest part, you know, the place where you are trapped in a room with two huge doors at both ends and flood comin down like rain



You can just hide in the corner next to the door that you have to go through and the flood will never find you.

  • 07.25.2004 10:17 AM PDT
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Legendairy is extreeeeemly hard period full stop. The only way you can kill anyone is with grenades because they kill instantly if your close enough

  • 07.25.2004 10:23 AM PDT
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Legendary isn't that hard. Just beacuse you have 1/4 the life you got on easy, and that there are twice as many enemies, and that the enemies are infinitly much smarter than on easy, and that the enemies can take 4 times the damage than they can on easy, doesn't make legendary hard.
Sometimes I actually think that normal is harder, because it's so easy I forget that you can still die. On legendary, you are much more carful and dodge grenades, rockets and fuel rod guns much better.

  • 07.25.2004 10:38 AM PDT

Posted by: MASTER CHIEF SGT
i think its hard period

[color=white]It gets easier the more you play it. I don't play Halo on anything but Legendary anymore.[/color]

  • 07.25.2004 11:20 AM PDT
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yeah lengedary gets easier after a couple of tries, all you need to know is where to go, but keyes and tnr are most undoubtfully the hardest, bcoz on tnr keyes just wont stay alive when you find him, stupid non-genetically enhanced scumbag

  • 07.25.2004 11:49 AM PDT
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it is not that hard

  • 07.25.2004 12:28 PM PDT
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I think Legendary is pretty dang hard. I haven't tried going through the campaign that way (not counting co-op) since I was pretty sucky, but I still think I'd find it to be quite a challenge.

That said, I think the perfect single-player difficulty for me would be if the Covies had their Legendary AI but only Heroic or Normal hit points/health/whatever. In co-op, Legendary is a blast (no pun intended).

  • 07.25.2004 3:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stickman Army
You guys are all retards.

The Maw is one of the f.ucking easiest levels in the game. The Library is NOT impossible on one player, if you think that, you're obviously not that good. And if you think 343 Guilty Spark is confusing, then you don't play very much. It's quite simple, actually. Truth and Reconciliation and Keyes are probably the hardest levels, but still beatable.


I agree, the maw was very easy on legendary. The only thing I don't like about the Library is how long it was. TAR and Keyes are the hardest for me, but I've betten most of the game in legendary on 1-player. On co-op tons of times!

  • 07.25.2004 3:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: MCPO Kiros117
every mission is not that hard if you dont rush into everything, the library was kind of hard, but play it on easy to fighure out all the secrets and you wont have any problem, lilke how to fire at the flood without them hurting you on the hardest part, you know, the place where you are trapped in a room with two huge doors at both ends and flood comin down like rain



You can just hide in the corner next to the door that you have to go through and the flood will never find you.


The very best tactic for this room is to walk into it backwards, and when you see the checkpoint reached message run back towards the closing doors. If you stand between the doors the right way as they close, you can fire out but nothing can hit you inside it. (its like a glitch)

And you know you're hardcore when you have killed a golden plasma sword elite with nothing but melee attacks on legendary.

  • 07.25.2004 3:15 PM PDT

Posted by: istari
...keyes and tnr are most undoubtfully the hardest, bcoz on tnr keyes just wont stay alive when you find him, stupid non-genetically enhanced scumbag

[color=white]Yeah, Keyes is an ass that way, and I've had Marines kill me and grenade me as I tried to save their bacon! Bastards!

One way to get Keyes out on TnR easy is to kill everything after the cutscene until you reach the control room with the three Elites. Then run back to the cells where you found Keyes, wait for him and the Marines to arrive then turn around and run like hell to the control room, pick off the Elites, get back into the corridor (do not stand in the control room as Cortana talks to P-419), then eliminate the grunts when the conversation's over, go through to the hangar bay and it's smooth sailing.

Anyone wonder how it is that Keyes can fly a Covenant dropship manually?[/color]

  • 07.25.2004 4:04 PM PDT
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it depend on what level it is.

  • 07.25.2004 4:21 PM PDT
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Yes legendary is extremely hard even for me a person who has practiced since i got the game 3 years ago (every day). But for the most part the hardest thing about legendary is the amount of enemies, its not that they're hard to kill its thier ability to work together and overwhelm you. I would say the easiest level for me so far is the maw, its very short and if you're patient it's a breeze. The hardest level though, I would say is T&R. It's long, intense, chock full of elites, and if you don't know what you're doing you're toast. So yeah legendary is hard but if you give it you're all you can survive. I've done it 4 times solo so far...

  • 07.25.2004 4:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: Assault_Trooper
Yes legendary is extremely hard even for me a person who has practiced since i got the game 3 years ago (every day). But for the most part the hardest thing about legendary is the amount of enemies, its not that they're hard to kill its thier ability to work together and overwhelm you. I would say the easiest level for me so far is the maw, its very short and if you're patient it's a breeze. The hardest level though, I would say is T&R. It's long, intense, chock full of elites, and if you don't know what you're doing you're toast. So yeah legendary is hard but if you give it you're all you can survive. I've done it 4 times solo so far...


The enemies in the game don't really work together. The just pour as much plasma fire or bullets in your general direction until they manage to get you down or get close enough for a melee.

  • 07.25.2004 6:13 PM PDT

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