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ok so i'm playing outskirts on legendary when all of a sudden an elite with active camo and sword pops out of no where. in shock i shoot my sniper rifle and watch it fall to the ground. but seriously how is this possible. its an elite with a sword,active camo, and its on legendary. not to mention all the marines died in the previous area.

  • 10.15.2009 2:49 PM PDT

thats pretty lucky

  • 10.15.2009 7:56 PM PDT
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Stealth Elites have weaker shields, if it was a major or minor you would have had to shoot him twice.

  • 10.15.2009 8:00 PM PDT

Posted by: shoop da whoop
Stealth Elites have weaker shields, if it was a major or minor you would have had to shoot him twice.
Agreed. The cammo/sword Elite that comes from the roof in sniper alley is an easy kill if you know he's there.

  • 10.15.2009 8:27 PM PDT

Posted by: rampage116119
This is another reason halo 3 is better theatre mode i honeslty dont believe you.
Whut? Whar? When?

  • 10.15.2009 10:40 PM PDT
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.............methinks I smell pride before the fall......

If you are playing on Legendary then there should be NO SURPRISES as to when and where anything is. You run into that elite at the end of the alley on EVERY DIFFICULTY LEVEL. It would be damn near impossible to forget he is there. Now, if you had not played H2 in several years, maybe you did forget, and got a lucky shot off that went through his head, bounced off the wall behind him and the round came back and nailed him for the second hit. You cannot kill any advanced elite on Legendary with 1 sniper round, not possible, even without any skulls on. Hence, I call SHENANIGANS!

  • 10.16.2009 10:12 AM PDT
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I had a moment like that just the other day, I was playing with Thunderstorm skull on and an Ultra whipped out his sword and started swinging point blank, I dodged it two times coming within centimeters of me got an assassination. Felt pretty bad ass after that.

Halo 3 has never given me any of those moments.

[Edited on 10.16.2009 9:29 PM PDT]

  • 10.16.2009 9:28 PM PDT
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i dislike H3 i rarely get epic moments


also on gravemind make the ultra elites take out there energy swords and hide for the epic battle and see who wins then lead the ultra elites into the pit in the middle so they die

also i once got a save by shooting my sniper it deflects of the wall and kills a camo behind me who i didn`t know was there XD

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  • 10.17.2009 3:19 AM PDT
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Posted by: womyfts
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.............methinks I smell pride before the fall......

If you are playing on Legendary then there should be NO SURPRISES as to when and where anything is. You run into that elite at the end of the alley on EVERY DIFFICULTY LEVEL. It would be damn near impossible to forget he is there. Now, if you had not played H2 in several years, maybe you did forget, and got a lucky shot off that went through his head, bounced off the wall behind him and the round came back and nailed him for the second hit. You cannot kill any advanced elite on Legendary with 1 sniper round, not possible, even without any skulls on. Hence, I call SHENANIGANS!


ever tried it i get lots of one shot one kill on ultra elite

  • 10.17.2009 3:22 AM PDT

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Posted by: womyfts
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.............methinks I smell pride before the fall......

If you are playing on Legendary then there should be NO SURPRISES as to when and where anything is. You run into that elite at the end of the alley on EVERY DIFFICULTY LEVEL. It would be damn near impossible to forget he is there. Now, if you had not played H2 in several years, maybe you did forget, and got a lucky shot off that went through his head, bounced off the wall behind him and the round came back and nailed him for the second hit. You cannot kill any advanced elite on Legendary with 1 sniper round, not possible, even without any skulls on. Hence, I call SHENANIGANS!


ever tried it i get lots of one shot one kill on ultra elite
Yeah, he's tried it. He plays mostly on Legendary and it's been my experience that I usually don't get one shot kills on Elites on Legendary unless maybe they've been hurt.

  • 10.17.2009 7:13 AM PDT
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Thanks for the hat tip Grumpy, appreciated.............After thinking about it more, I was not specific enough when I said "any" advanced elite. If you wear down an advanced elite enough with other fire, you can dispatch him with 1 sniper round. What I meant to say, specifically was a HEALTHY advanced elite. In the OP, that elite that drops off the roof may not indeed be healthy as the drop down that far can take out some shield strength on the MC. In the future, when I have a damn working disc again I will see if his shield flashes when he lands, denoting weakening of it. We will see eh!??!!?

  • 10.19.2009 10:41 AM PDT

Posted by: womyfts
In the future, when I have a damn working disc again I will see if his shield flashes when he lands, denoting weakening of it. We will see eh!??!!?
I like your approach. I love setting up experiments, especially in these latter days of H2. There are many small questioned that can be answered just for fun and knowledge.

Have you ever heard of the ladder climbing Elite in sniper alley? I think it's the same cammo Elite and there's an invisible ladder (guess) that he climbs but gets stuck at some point. I'll see if I can find the vid. Here

Edit: One more thing, I've been told that the cammo Elites can recharge their shields faster. Maybe you can check that out also. I'm not going to do it because I want you to have incentive to get the disk.

[Edited on 10.19.2009 11:20 AM PDT]

  • 10.19.2009 11:12 AM PDT