- Michael_Archer
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Twenty-ninth Halo 3 Mythic Conqueror
Eleventh Halo 3: ODST Mythic Conqueror
Fifth Halo: Reach Mythic Conqueror
Posted by: Vincent K
Posted by: Michael_Archer
The AA batte on ONI Sword Base is really REALLY hard. The level will start out fine, I'll kill one of the wraiths with the target locater, save the other strike until I reach the comms house. Jack the reverant, run over the elites yada yada yada.
But then, I come to the AA battle and elites and grunts are having a birthday party. There's just so many of them. It's the worst thing in the world trying to run over an elite only to get plasma pistoled by an unseen grunt then stuck fifty times. And then there's ghosts.
I really want to avoid this battle, but then you can't get the gauss hog. That would be fine, if there was another just as easy and safe way to kill the hunters.
I'd say you're better off taking the AA Gun fight first by grabbing the Rocket Launcher immediately available after killing the Wraiths to give to the Marine you get with the Worthog (this Rocket Launcher is located on a hill to the right of where the Wraiths stop; it also seems to respawn once if you later backtrack from the AA Gun before completing the objective; not sure about why). Keeping the Marines who are already outside also helps because you might get one of them to get in the Worthog instead of Kat. Yes, an invincible ally is good, but Kat will still follow the Worthog (and stand by the passenger seat as if trying to get in), but once you get closer to a group of enemies, she'll serve as a distraction. It's a lot easier dealing with Elites when you have Kat distracting them while you have someone in the Worthog gunning at them and your passenger is firing rockets which seek the targets (they do that for the AI now, I was pleased to see).
Wow, I can have a rocket marine? Thanks Vince. All you had to say was "rockets, on the hill." That would've solved my problem. :)
I'll try that tonight, although I'm a bit worried. We just had a power failure in Toronto (awfully windy). It came back on in like, twenty minutes, but my worst nightmare is for the power to fail right when I make it to the roof of the ONI building.
Also, extremity shooting (don't you remember in Halo 3? You see an arm of a brute sticking out, you shoot a charged plasma pistol, then quickly duck back into cover) seems to be back in Halo: Reach. In my Winter Contingency video, linked for your convenience, I kill the sword elite by shooting his arm with my plasma pistol. I tried this on ONI Sword Base; I killed the FRG General by plasma pistoling his arm. He just stood there and took it! It looks like we have a chance to complete the game, guys.
Out of curiosity, what controller layouts do my fellow mythicers use? I mean, I haven't had any problems with Recon, I just want to know if there's a more efficient layout to be using. That's why I made the hard switch from QWERTY to Dvorak. :P