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When the dust settles, you will learn what true terror is.
Posted by: GhostRider1172
See? They're all crazy. :p
It's "easy" if you're flawless with the Scorpion at the beginning and avoid those pesky Banshees and crazy fuel rod blasts of doom. "Easy" also if you succesfully kill each and every one of those Elites inside Sword Base with little damage to yourself. "Easy" also if you succesfully jack those Wraiths at the end and exhibit flawless aim trying to kill adamantium-laced Covies with that rather inaccurate and suddenly very wimpy plasma mortar. Especially that last one. Because if you don't jack the Wraiths, that battle would be pretty much impossible.
While I make no claim to sanity (god knows I lost that long ago) Leumas is right. The Package is, compared to the other levels, fairly easy.
You start off against grunts and unshielded jackals with a DMR; the anti-grunt and anti-jackal weapon. With the tank, you can stay fairly far back and shell things safely from a distance, taking your time to figure out your aim. With the ghost you can skip the entire courtyard and motor pool fight and then you face more jackals, with tons of DMR ammo in crates nearby and a few healthpacks to boot. The invisible elites have such weak shields you could practically do that part with just a DMR, so the 100% plasma pistols lying around just before them are almost unnecessary. The general, similarly, stands still for you to kill at your leisure. In addition, you have your teammates to serve as bait. After that you get the jetpack and can easily nab a banshee (there's a couple good spots to stand and wait for them) and with the banshee it's trivial to jack a wraith. Once you have the wraith, same deal with the scorpion. Just take your time and clear the best path you can back to where you started, then you can basically just rain down blue death from there for the rest of the mission.
A big factor is that there's a lot less randomness in the Package. Enemies will be pretty much the same, and we rely on no luck-based events like grunt placement (LNoS' Bridge) or the off chance a banshee fires a banshee bomb (PoA's Mass Driver).
Also, for the record, it's entirely possible to beat the mission sans-wraith. It's been done before. The wraith just makes that final area much faster and easier to deal with.
Posted by: Leumas786
sang, tyrant, i want to finish what we started on saturday
that is all
Likewise.
[Edited on 04.13.2011 2:43 PM PDT]