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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: thedisintergated
Posted by: RC Master
Posted by: thedisintergated
I just done winter contingency and got it on my first try. Its in my fileshare along with nightfall which has certain fails and deaths in it. So, which mission should I do next?
Sword Base?
I just tried sword base for... 4 hours... I kept dying during the first battle.
The first fight is honestly the hardest bit in the level. Its a -blam!- nightmare to speedrun let me tell you. Try Tip of the Spear perhaps.
However, I got up to the part where I have to take the elevator up to sword base twice and was stuck at the concussion rifle elite... He kept charging me when I was near him. Anyone got any tips on him?
I used rockets against him. I think...
There should be at least 6 rockets throughout the level (two on the hill beside the Wraiths outside the gates, and 1 inside the comms building at Farragut) I think.
One thing I originally did for speedrunning this level on Legendary was to kill the grunts, then the Elite would seem to retreate over to the right side. This would allow me to then advance up the left side of the corridor and use the curved, windowed wall as cover to PP him. You might try a similar thing with rockets. Then again, the extended kill-time of the Grunts on Mythic might mess this up a little, don't know.
I have subsequently changed my speedrun strategy since it turned out he was quite well behaved and I could PP him immediately and kill the grunts afterwards. But hey, not on Mythic unfortunately :)
Posted by: Hubb Lebowski
One thing I came up with myself was how to get Emile to rush the Dual Wielder upstairs in the second smelting room.[...]
Regarding this, if you get in close behind those two sets of... water crates? You can get Emile to move up and engage him from there. Not sure about those barrier thingies off to the left, think I had mixed results from there. The Elite won't come forward around them (in my experience), except to smack Emile in the face. You can then PP or assassinate him more easily once he's engaged.
The approach is the trickiest bit since he'll often shoot you the whole way, theres not much cover.
The reason I didn't end up doing this was that I found the 'trick the Elite to fall off the platform with the stair-moving and PPing' worked the times I tried it and was of course very safe. I like safe.
Posted by: Tyrant122312
Is it even possible to do it the normal way?
Its absolutely impossible. In fact I'm willing to put money on it that no-one will ever sit in the Mass Driver during the entire segment on Mythic Solo. There are Phantoms that come from behind you, over the factory building, that will blast you for several seconds before they're inside the area the Mass Driver can hit. If those don't kill you, the rest of the Phantoms will.
AFAIR, just Legendary took a nearly perfectly timed set of all connecting shots to make it through alive.
I'm asking because this is rated as one of the hardest missions in the campaign. It would be a crying shame to reach it (hell, more than once) only to die because your coin landed on tails.
The odds aren't 50/50. In my experience the odds are actually pretty favourable if you execute right (don't dally about, deploy holo, aim in the right place).
I don't remember if I've actually died there since using holo and killing all the zealots first...
On a separate note, I despise comments like "this always worked for me". Unless theories have been tested several times and a clip can be provided, please be mindful of the tips, folks.
If I'm talking about something that I actually did in a run, pretty much all of the time I have done it multiple times, succesfully, before. I think I segmentedly or non-iron completed all the levels before I no-deathed them. And I submit my films as clippable evidence.
For everything else, I can provide a clip if asked for. Remind me if I forget any.
Tyrant, what made you NOT use the copius amounts of FRG and Rockets available to you at all in your run of New Alexandria?
Also, what is with the PP action against the grunts and jackals? Whats wrong with using the DMR against them?
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I can second what Aura is saying about the Mass Driver. Hold the trigger down until it fires, fully release, then immediately depress again to have it charge up the next shot asap.
[Edited on 12.23.2010 8:45 PM PST]