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Subject: Original CE-Getting the Covies Marching Backwards
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Been playing around on AotCR for a no die, no health pack run (it's a serious pain in the Arse!)and found a way to get the Covie troops to move in a backwards fashion!

After the underground bridge battle if you grab a ghost past the sleeping grunt and peel out up the cavern, out past the center tower (far enough to spawn the banshee from the upper platform), then back around and down to the spot where you picked up the ghost you will have many of the enemies that spawned from the spirit drop off and tower follow you back down to the bottom of the cavern. The funny thing is that alot of them will come down by walking or running backwards towards you.

If you hesitate during the run in front of each of the tower's entries to spawn the covies from inside the doorways you can have almost 20 of them coming down after you. If you have a full sniper rifle it can be quite the challenge to nail them all before someone angry gets down to you to try and ruin your day. All in all, it is rather funny to see the elites loping backwarsds towards you and snipe them in the butt!

  • 11.27.2011 8:15 AM PDT

lol good going.

  • 11.27.2011 10:34 AM PDT
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There is a variant on this that I have had fun with before also, which is to keep the ghost run going all the way to the second set of hunters, just before the invisible elites, and then all the way back to the sleeping grunt area at the bottom of the cavern. If you do it this way you will end up with less of the covies coming down into the cavern, BUT you end up with almost all of them in the spot just past the wraith, where the first two hunters spawn. If you like big secondary explosions, this is the way to do it. Once you have cleared out the area up to the wraith, you can snipe the elites and grunts that are now milling in the area just beyond the wraith, getting them to drop a ton of plasmas, then one well placed grenade or rocket sends the whole shebang skyward, bodies flying pretty much everywhere! What more can a guy ask for Christmas than that?

  • 11.27.2011 10:43 AM PDT
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I think this is a new take on the AotCR megabattles. Well done. :)

  • 11.27.2011 8:03 PM PDT