- Quantam
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Posted by: Sliding Ghost
Are you turning on any skulls?
Have you tried using a beam rifle yourself? There's no need to go down to Tartarus. You merely need to go on one of the moving platforms to get Johnson to shoot at him. From there, you can assist with your beam rifle.
There's something I've been meaning to try out (but I can't because I'm occupied with Reach work):
1. kill all the Brutes in the previous room before triggering the cutscene. Pick up one of their weapons, head back outside, find a beam rifle, return. Do this until all beam rifles on the level have been acquired
2. bring a Spectre to the control room
3. do the Elite army glitch until you have enough Elites to give the beam rifles to
4. line them up on the platform next to Johnson, place a bunch on the sides, place 2 on the "windowsills"
5. Head out on the Banshee and intercept or block the brute reinforcements. Now just wait for Tartarus to die
But you probably want something less complex so just bring a Spectre and/or Banshee to the battle. Tartarus' shield doesn't have to go down in order to damage him with these. Also, with the Spectre, you can clone Johnson. I know of a guy who made 200 Johnsons.
I have tried, many times, with the Beam Rifle and strangely the Covenant Carbine, which is also able to pop his shield, after 2 Johnson Beam hits.
I may have to glitch the level...:(