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Legendary H2 is a fun thing to do! Good luck with your worthy goal, you will get there, it may be in pieces and with less hair on your head, but it will get done!
Tips-
1) The PP and BR combo is the most straightforward combo for dispatching elites during the first few levels, especially CS. Before you activate that checkpoint going up the stairs to the first nasty hanger, make sure that you have hoarded all available PP's in the preceding areas to the spot at the bottom of the stairs.
Those hangers give alot of peoples fits due to running out of ammo, both PP and BR. This happens because when the covies spawn out of the boarding craft there are enough of them that it can be a real challenge to do PP/BR combos accurately. The PP overcharge finds its target but the BR rounds go errant as you duck from incoming fire. I find that if you get your plasmas and move to the cover at the end of the peninsula and CROUCH to avoid fire you put yourself in a great position to use the stickies on the elites as things calm down. You have to wait a bit for them to drop their guard, but when they do not see you for a bit they relax some. That is when you can crouch walk a bit to the side of the armor shield and lay a plasma on an elite. DO NOT WASTE PG's on silver elites as one PG does not always take them out. Wait until you have things thinned out and then PP/BR combo them from the normal end of the platform.
2) The only real diff between legendary and the other levels is the quantity of enemies that spawn and how easily they spook. Expect to fight more, and to have enemies come from spots that they did not come from before. The best way to proceed through maps is SLOWLY, let the fight come to you, because if you go looking for it, it is gonna find you in a hard butt-kicking way.
3)For your first run through on legendary, DO NOT PICK UP ANY SKULLS. You will only make life harder on yourself for the most part.
4) The flood on Legendary are almost overpowering. You really have to plod through those levels and pick your weapons carefully. The shotty is almost useless compared to CE, but the sword will save your butt endlessly. The reverse is true, take out all sword wielding flood first, and from a distance, then at least pick up their sword and swap it right away so that valuable flood killing wonder doesnt go away on you.
5) Dual wielding in my opinion is of limited value normally, but the SMG/PR combo can do alot of damage. It appears that you have that annoying rise in SMG full auto only when you wield two of them, pair it with a PR and you can go full auto without the rise. Even more useful against elites is to DW the two, and use the PR alone in one hand till it overheats then fire the SMG while it cools down. The PR will deplete shields and the SMG finishes off. It basically allows you to continously fire until you run out of ammo, NEAT!
6) Do not feel unmanly for either running backwards, waiting a while to figure something out, dying six times in a row in a short time, reverting to last saved checkpoint or just plaing pooping your pants. H2 is a royal pain the the arse, and is meant to be that way, but once you finish it, you will appreciate the game that much more, and can wear the badge of honor proudly!