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Posted by: Sliding Ghost
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Posted by: chickenlittle
For an extra challenge, try to get through the Flood areas using only the Needler and AR.
Eh, I didn't see this in time, but I'd probably pass anyways...
I was expecting The Library to be incredibly difficult, but it was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be on Legendary. I think too many people try to rush through it. My main strategy was to trigger the next wave of Flood and then retreat. I found that if you can find some decent cover, it's actually relatively easy to take out the waves of Flood.
I played through a bit of Two Betrayals as well, which is definitely one of my favorite missions in the whole Halo series. So far I haven't run into too much trouble, and I'm a little past the first Pulse Generator. I believe that I just stopped in front of a room full of Flood Combat Forms.
I figured that one of the most effective strategies will be to let Covenant vs. Flood vs. Sentinel battles play out, and then come out to do the mop-up duty. Any other helpful tips?That is the #1 reason. You can't rush armed Flood without taking damage.
There's a room in Two Betrayals that is just suicide to rush. It has like 3-4 plasma rifle Flood, 3-4 assault rifle Flood, and 10-14 shotgun Flood. Even if you take out 2/4 of the group while rushing, there's just too many to handle. You'll barely survive if you make it out alive. And following that are 2 Elite majors, another group of Flood, and a rocket launcher wielder but that's not a problem if you take your time with the first area and take out the Elites as soon as they spawn (with a plasma grenade).
The Flood in this area are in about 4 groups: AR flood with some infection forms on the left side, 3 shotgun flood near the ar flood, plasma rifle flood with some infection forms on the right side, and a bunch of Shotgun Flood in the "lookout tower".
There are several ways to get past this part:
1. Take out the 3 splinter groups first (but don't shoot unless you want to alert the others to your position. Use grenades and melee the infection forms) then get the big group by going on the ledge that leads to the "lookout tower" and firing your gun. They should all be assembling right below you. Toss a plasma grenade below. If they don't, you don't even have to fire. You can just barge in through the window, toss a grenade and shotgun them.
Alternatively, you can just take out the plasma rifle Flood and infection forms and then go on the ledge and lure all the Flood below you and take them out with a grenade.
2. Bring a Zealot. As crazy as this sounds, this makes this part very easy (unless the shotgun Flood get to him). On the other hand, bringing a Zealot is very difficult. But you could send him in to deal with the rocket launcher Flood after dealing with the 2 Elites and Flood. I imagine you could fire your weapon and then hide and they would run into each other.
It's also possible to unleash the Zealot on the rocket launcher Flood on the bridge but most of the time he will die from a rocket. It's also difficult to assist him because of the Banshees and the other Flood attracting him.
What I did for this part was simple:
Go onto the other bridge, take out the Banshees, then use plasma rifles dropped by the combat forms on this side or Banshee pilots to disarm or shoot down the rocket launcher Flood as well as any Flood on that side. Plasma pistol might be a better choice because of the firing rate, lethality, and accuracy and it seems to stun Flood better.
I actually didn't have too much difficulty getting past this part, but thanks for the advice anyways. Your video was awesome, by the way. I really liked the part where you dragged the Zealot into one of the rooms and then you jumped up and he forgot about you as soon as he saw the Combat Forms. Haha not like he would be able to reach you anyways. I can definitely see how the Zealot would be really helpful to you by distracting your enemies, but I'd imagine that it's probably a pain to lure him into one of the rooms.
Posted by: KamelToad
The second pulse generator is a tough nut to crack. I found that, as soon as you jump into the pulse stream, you head for the main entry, which will be swarming with flood, and fire two rockets, then switch to shotgun and retreat counter clockwise around the outer ring tossing frags and shotgunning the major flood forms the only way to survive. Even then, the stray rocket can ruin your day.
Coincidentally, I'm actually in the room with the second pulse generator, and indeed I am having troubles with the Flood that rush through the door once you go into the pulse generator. I tried spamming the door with grenades, but I kept dying, and now I probably realize that it was because I didn't use the Rocket Launcher and I didn't retreat. Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely try this now.