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Posted by: Jimmy01
2. Use every weapon. The Pistol will lose its usefulness in Legendary; the Assault Rifle has proved much more effective. Try to fire the Needler as quickly and as constantly as possible, then follow this by throwing grenades. Be careful not to waste rockets or sniper ammunition.
3. The Tank sucks. Sluggish with a main cannon that takes too long to reload and a secondary gun that has dodgy accuracy, and your Marines are extremely vulnerable. The Warthog is fast, has an awesome chain gun and has the perfect seat for a Sniper Marine..
Jimmy, you were right on your point exept these two...ill add my own tips since ive played through this game on legendary for sport.
1. Weapons.
Use the Plasma Pistol and Human Pistol allot...Overcharge Plasma pistol, fire, switch to human pistol and nail a headshot. This will make short work of any elite and jackal providing you can hit them( easily done once you get a feel for how they move). ALWAYS carry a human pistol, with the exeption of other parts of the game. mainly the vehicle sections. There you can carry a shotgun/sniper/rocket launcher in any combo. But it mainly depends on what your up against. The Human Pistol is an awsome weapon on Legendary, though Yes its less effective than the lower difficulties, so is everything else. The pistol lets you get headshots on grunts, elites once there shields are gone, shoot the open part in jackal shields, kill hunters in one hit, explote carrier flood forms in 3-4 shots, and has awsome range. Use the Rocket launcher ASAP on the flood levels then ditch it for a shotgun or a pistol. Sniper is awsome on just about all the levels its on if you are a crackshot with it.
Grenades
Use plasma grenades often, Frags when an ideal opportunity presents itself such as large groups of flood or covenant, or you just in a tight spot, but be conservative with frags. There is a fine line of balance on how many grenades you throw to how many you can pick up. Being OUT of them sucks...so you dont want that. But once again at the same time use them. In general, use 1 grenade to soften up or kill a group of enemies. 2 if its a larger group.
Vehicles;
The main thing here is to have a marine sniper in the passanger seat somewhere...it makes a HUGE amount of difference in a warthog. Its like trippling your firepower. The warthog is only really a good offensive tool if you have a gunner and a sniper riding shotgun. This is also assuming you know how to drive. The Ghost? unless you just using it to get from point A to point B, stay off of it. Pathetic firepower and armor, and low accuracy doesnt make for a good ride. You can skip entire groups of enemies with this though if you just blast right by them. The Tank; Stay back and blast the hell out of anything at longe range (if you see it, get somewhere high and shell the crap out of it until you hit it even if its 200 yards away. which is about max scoping distance with a sniper rifle at x10 zoom) then go in with the tank. It helps wonders if you have a marine sniper and a boatload of Assault rifle using marines on it too. Just watch out for fuel rod cannons and grunts will throw grenades onto the tank...not fun.
General stratagie with vehicles:
Stay back and kill everything you can before you go in, and make sure to get a marine sniper in shotgun with you.
Indivigual weapons (Sp?)
Assault Rifle:- good for grunt work, infection forms, and a OK substitute for a shotgun if fired at full auto into somethings chest but only on covenant, then followed up with a melee attack.
Sniper Rifle:- if you can shoot this accurately without the scope, this is your best friend. Best used against only elites and the occasional hunter if you must...Picking off annoying jackals with it is OK ONLY if you dont have any other option. Basically use it for what it was desighned for. But hang onto it if you are good enough.
Shotgun:- Blasts through everything at close range...gold elites (the ones WITHOUT an energy sword), hunters in the back, jackals, flood, you name it. Shove this thing in there chest and pull the trigger. Even works against banshees and smaller vehicles if youre close enough, exept the wraith. You want to have one of these whenever the game lets you.
Human Pistol:- Basically its a more flexible sniper rifle. Use it for headshots on everything and picking away at longe range targets. Use it with a overcharged plasma pistol and you have jackal and elite stue.(spellling once again)
Rocket Launcher:- Use it on vehicles, large groups of enemies, and mass ammounts of flood combat forms. Dont bother with a hunter , its a waste of ammo if you have a pistol or shotgun. even sniper rifle.
Covenant guns
Use the needler on elites in tight spaces when you have to, it kills them quick. But dont use it when they can dodge the needles.
Use the Plasma pistols melee attack, overcharged blast on shielded enemies, and fire it quickly and follow up with a melee attack against grunts and jackals.
If you want me to do ingivigual enemies, i will. just let me know. Anything you have as far as questions go, i can awsnser when it comes to playing this game on Legendary. And i have no problems typing it up.
[Edited on 5/11/2006]