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Subject: Halo Combat Evolved Legendary Tactics.

Hi, person viewing my profile! I am an experienced Halo player and have been playing for seven years now. I also enjoy Forging occasionally! I like Halo!

Hi, I'm here to ask if you have any tactics for Legendary on Halo: Combat Evolved. Even though I have completed the game, I was just wondering if anybody had any tactics towards it for new playes.

Here is a link. It is actually the Cutscenes, so you can just skip to the next video.

Just to help.

  • 04.25.2011 10:11 AM PDT

Realise that the weapons are balanced. You can get through T&R w/o sniper rifle if you have to. Likewise, the rocket launcher can be ignored on AotCR.

Learn to use stickies. Take down a Banshee with them-Pretty easy. If you can open every firefight with a sticky dropping into a pack of grunts or onto an elite you will -blam!-. I view them as a first option. Always.
The AR rocks! Burst fire, strafe around your targets and dodge elites that lunge at you, then Melee them. This works great on Reds and Blues. Not so easy on Golds.
The needler is fearsome. Figure out 'thrust firing' and when not to use it though. You can take jackals down at long range by releasing a stream of needles, switch to M6D or AR, ping bullets off their shields which force them to tuck and roll-just in time for your needles to arrive with their shield down.

The Plasma Pistol is the most powerful weapon in the game, more accurate than the pistol, able to fire faster than the P-Rifle, and strip shields with the OC shot. The OC shot travels in a perfect line. You can use it with the M6D to drop elite shields and follow up with one pistol shot to the head at long range.
Sniper rifle is great, but can't do anything you can't use other weapons for.
Learn to drive the hog. Use it instead of the Scorpion on AotCR. You move so fast you get into the Covie spawn points-wet dream! If you have a gunner aboard, Wraiths are almost too easy.
Hunters are a joke. You ought to be able to beat a pair of them to death with ease. You can even beat them without waking them up on the Temple of AotCR.
Don't be afraid to get agressive. The covie don't react all that well when you push them before they are programmed to push back.
'Belly of the Beast' is the hardest-Period. Watch your radar and time stickies to go off when the doors open. If jackals and grunts are inside follow up with a frag. Always note where dropped stickies are and replenish. The needler destroys the waves of golds, but you will need the Sniper or AR for the first wave of invisibles. Gutshoot the Hunters with the sniper or beat them to death.

That should get you started.

  • 04.26.2011 11:08 AM PDT
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The keys to legendary are the same ones I tell my father in law who I am helping recover from a stroke: SLOW DOWN and THINK BEFORE YOU ACT.

You cannot bullrush your way through legendary. There are too many foes and they are more aggressive. Two Jackals can lay the MC to waste on Leg, if you just run up on them. Enemies fire a bit faster and dodge a bit more, and that plasma does nasty things to your MC shields, as do needles. You have to slow down and use cover when needed.

Thinking about how you want to handle any upcoming battle includes most importantly the distance the engagement may best be approached from. Other difficulties you can do alot of close in fighting and not really worry about dying. On Leg, you have to use the weapons advantages to keep more distance between you and your foes. Often times you can completely waste whatever Covies there are without them ever firing a shot back at you by using the "reach out and touch someone power" of the needler, pistol and plasma pistol/rifle, not too mention what you can do with a sniper rifle. AI enemies will not engage you beyond a certain distance, even if you are slaughtering them.

Grenades are much more important in clearing out groups of covies on Leg. As is the ability to stick a plasma onto an enemy from a distance. Given that there are more enemy numbers on Leg, there are usually plenty of plasmas laying around. It can be alot of fun to use the pistol to lay out four or five grunts in close proximity to each other and then toss one grenade into the pile. When Elites resume patrolling rather than looking at you or watching your movements a well placed trigger nade will do wonders for your day, but not his. I love those secondaries going off, it is very satisfying to watch living and dead fly off into the air when 4-6 plasmas go off. Even better is when the living drop grenades in the process of dying, and they go off as well (although that seems to happen more in H2 due to sputnik and catch).

All in all, beyond those two first items, only weapon selection is left to seperate out how to beat Leg. That is a subject for another time.

  • 04.26.2011 11:13 AM PDT

Bungie is the best.

My xbox v1 is to slow for tactics sticky grenade blow up after 2 minutes when i throw them. But im downloading Halo 1 CE on my 360 so maybe I can help then :)

  • 04.26.2011 11:51 AM PDT

It's essentially the same on the 360 emulator. The grenades are programmed to detonate after several seconds.

  • 04.26.2011 3:59 PM PDT

Posted by: xCanadianNinja12
My xbox v1 is to slow for tactics sticky grenade blow up after 2 minutes when i throw them. But im downloading Halo 1 CE on my 360 so maybe I can help then :)

That's kind of the point, and it's the same on the 360 (the 360's HCE is just poorly emulated oXbox HCE). They intentionally gave the stickies a long fuse so that you either have to stick something or time them well. Frags are what can be used for snappy detonations, which is why it's generally recommended that you conserve them to a fair degree for when you need them (ARGH ARGH I'VE BEEN BLOCKED IN BY 3 JACKALS AAAAAAH).

  • 04.26.2011 4:33 PM PDT
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Frags should be used strategically for a few reasons:

1) they are less plentiful through the game
2) they are less damaging to elite shields
3) they are great for taking out jackals and grunts, so use them when they are clustered, rather than against individual targets
4) they bounce back at you when your aim sucks (but a self induced MC face sticky is just frakking hilarious!)

  • 04.27.2011 10:17 AM PDT