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Posted by: Gondile
That ending boss fight? No good. Here's how I would have done it.
First, in true good development style, right before the boss fight you find a cache of Forerunner grenades, and there is an energy door in front of you. You notice there's electronic pillars that have shielding akin to an Elite. If you throw a Forerunner grenade at it, it connects like a magnet and explodes, opening the electronic door.
Now then, you go through and it's boss time on top of the light bridge. The Didact, however, has shields that cannot be damaged. (This can be revealed by obvious bullets ricocheting) However there are 4 pillars. While dodging the Didact's attacks you have to destroy the pillars using the scattered Forerunner grenades. Once done, the Didact's shields will break and he'll let out an obvious grunt.
You go in in standard FPS boss fashion dating back to Wolfenstein, and that involves lots and lots of shooting. Crawlers will join the fight, so that guns will be in constant supply. Once you empty his health, a cutscene will enact and he'll do that strangling thing. Suddenly, a pelican that was getting a bit too close is sucked into the field and crashes right into you and the Didact, sending you flying towards one of those structures that you had to clear earlier to get to him.
You get up and notice the Didact gets up too, but noticeably stronger. However the pelican had a good supply cache, and is stocked with Rocket Launchers, Shotgun, Magnum, DMR/BR, and a Saw. Finally comes the final battle once again. Destroy the energy barriers all while dodging the Didact and when they are down, you let him have it. Finally you go up to him and shove a Forerunner grenade up his armor and he explodes into a mess of sweet, sweet Forerunner goo.
You activate the nuke, Cortana saves you, etc etc.I'm assuming Didact is unarmed and walking like a boss (running on higher difficulties)?
Yeah that'd have been a good point to mass produce Crawlers (unlike that terrible defense objective earlier on the level).
Good, an environment change!
Hell yeah!