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Halo 3 (31st), ODST (14th) and Reach (4th) Mythic Conqueror. (Mythic is Solo, Legendary, All skulls on + scoring on and no deaths/saves).
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Posted by: jew man man
Situation 1] Player buys game 3 months down the line. Spots the new game Mythic thread floating about. Thinks to himself, hey, I wanna try that. Notices it cannot be done because he didnt pre-order and get the game on day 1.
See the problem here? It needs to be accessable to all.
I'm not disagreeing that Grunt Funeral should probably not be included in any definition of a Legendary+ difficulty. I'm saying that banning one Skull while steadfastedly sticking to the 'ALL SKULLS ON' moniker is contradictory.
It's not ideal and I wish 343i/Saber had made a simpler, in-built definition to what the uber-hard difficulty is.
Posted by: Sangheilioz
EDIT: another option is to make this "only skulls that make it more difficult" our "Mythic" and leave the "all skulls" thing to the LASO moniker. We already distinguish between the two with our added rules...
Posted by: Sangheilioz
However, I think that the "spirit" of Mythic is to be playing on the hardest possible settings,
This is along the same lines I'm thinking. LASO - hard, but infinite ammo. Mythic - OH GOD WHY AM I ATTEMPTING THIS!!?
Recession + famine means an overall beefier famine effect; instead of 50% ammo, we now get 25%. Yeah, it blows, but since when have we ever been about making things easy?Its not just that: your mag sizes will be halved. So the M6D will be 6 shots, Shotgun 6, AR 30, Rocket 1, Sniper 2 etc. And I guess the Plasma Weapons will overheat in less shots?
Posted by: Tyrant122312
In terms of advantageous skulls, weren't there "good" skulls in Halo 2 as well? Those weren't omitted from LASO. Also, I personally find the CE campaign to be the second-most challenging. Whose to say that the good skulls won't balance it out better? We won't know until we play.
Like Envy? That does kinda balance it with the Arbiter missions though. And people have only made a serious go at H2 LASO this year. And the first guy segmented it (i.e. with plenty of deaths, hardly 'Mythic').
Posted by: TWP Scoot
How, outside of a capture card, will Mythicers prove their success with Halo CEA SLASO?
You can't. I've expressed my discontent with the lack of theatre elsewhere so I won't repeat it here.
Also, the sniper rifle has little to no effect on the flood, so infinite ammo won't have a great effect for that power weapon on flood stages anyway.
Infinite shotgun. Infinite Rockets.
Posted by: AuraSoldier313
For -blam!-'s sake RC, if you really have that big an issue with Bandana and Grunt Funeral then don't bother with CEA Mythic/SLASO/whatever.
/rant.
Now, to be more civilised about it:
A: I don't mean to be too harsh RC; I'm in a bad mood, and reading your comment then sorta compounding it with all your other little gripes that you've mentioned before, well yeah, I got pissed. Sorry man, I'm just having one of those days.
It's ok. I still love you :)
Even if I personally didn't bother with Mythic CEA (and I was very nearly about to) I'm still a staffer a HSH so I'd be seeing these types of runs and needing to verify them.
[Edited on 10.18.2011 2:55 PM PDT]