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Subject: The Library on Legendary
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ROFLKKTHX

It's the only level I have left to beat on Legendary and then I'll have officially completed the game entirely (5 years...took me long enough, eh?). Truth is, I've been done with the every other level for 3.5 years now...and that damned Library is the only thing standing between me and 100% completion! HOW THE HELL DO I DO THIS!? It was hard enough on normal, now I have to play it on Legendary?!

  • 10.15.2006 1:08 AM PDT
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Patience my son...watch out for those launcher wieldin' flood (get me everytime!)

  • 10.15.2006 1:53 AM PDT

Yeah, it's a pretty hard level on ledgendary, took me a day or two.

  • 10.15.2006 2:24 AM PDT
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To play or not to play....

Tip : Use Grenades wisely. Shoot first ask questions later and watch out for rockets. Oh yeah and good luck :p

The needler is more useful than you might think. Use for medium to medium-long range only. You can take out many Flood forms before they get near you. If you fill one Flood form full of needles and it goes boom near some fallen grenades it can make them go off as well adding to the lethality.

Also use the pistol for long range sniping and getting those pesky Flood of the ledges and high spots they sometimes hide in.

Otherwise have fun. You will fail a hundred times but once you get through a few times you will wonder why it was so hard :p~

The library can be beat on legendary. I only ever play Halo CE on legendary now as the other levels seem to easy once you have completed legendary.

  • 10.15.2006 3:28 AM PDT
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Your problem is a common one. I think the library on legendary is the hardest halo level ever made. However here r a couple of links that should help u.

http://highspeedhalo.net/?time&id=19

http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo/page.aspx?section=Guides& ;subsection=WalkthroughPages&page=7

http://www.bungie.net/Search/default.aspx?q=library+legendary &g=4
If u look far enough down the last one u will probably find the one I created.

Good luck.
You will need it.

  • 10.15.2006 4:06 AM PDT
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This level really piss me off! It took me weeks to beat this and to overcome the trauma!

  • 10.15.2006 6:06 PM PDT
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from the never ending waves of flood you must pull together the guts they scrambled out of you and play hide and seek while you hide and they seek.

  • 10.15.2006 6:51 PM PDT
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Hmm..i never found that level too hard, good grenading and needle use are effective.

What got me stuck for the longest time however, was T&R on legendary first time I played it.

  • 10.15.2006 7:09 PM PDT
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to tight spaced for you? claustrophobic?

  • 10.15.2006 7:14 PM PDT

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Run and Gun

When 343 says wait here. Take high ground and Shoot until you cnat shoot no more.

When the sentinels appear to help you, Just Run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take smaller passages slow and larger ones like lightning!

  • 10.15.2006 7:46 PM PDT
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Pistol and shotgun works best for this level. Watch for movements on your radar and try not to get surrounded. Pistol from a distance and retreat around a corner and wait with a shotgun when a large wave of Flood is about to swarm you and they'll be a lot more manageable. Or retreat into a bottleneck like a door or small tunnel so you can kill them one at a time. Or backtrack as long as there's room to fallback to while continually firing with a pistol and chucking frag grenades if you don't have a shotgun. When GS leaves you and the Flood is about to spawn in the vents you can hide in some places and simply wait for GS to return without the Flood ever seeing you. In that instance GS returned with Sentinels so when the door opened they fought fight each while I made my escape. In other situations you can trigger the Flood to spawn and retreat back to a safer position before they surround you. In places where the Flood seem to spawn constantly in your path I would kill them till they stop spawning which may be safer than trying to run pass unless they're unarmed carriers (exploding Flood) then you can slip pass safely.

  • 10.15.2006 9:15 PM PDT
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Here is a video from high speed halo with someone beating that level in legenday under 15 minutes, although some of the feats he does are a bit too hard, make use of some of his tactics, just watch it.

Click this for the video



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  • 10.15.2006 9:30 PM PDT
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Ok. Every time you get a hint of the flood, quickly jump ontop of one of the slanting structures populating the library. These provide some protection against carriers, and gun-weilding flood seeing as neither will jump onto them. And only rarely will a melee flood leap onto your high ground. Simply switch to your pistol and snipe the arms off of the gun holders, then do the same with the tentecle-whipers. And finaly pick off the carriers. Only if nessassery switch to your shotgun for surprises. Throw gernades (frags) if you are being overun. Throw stickies when you clearly see a large group of flood that hasn't noticed you yet (there are several). Do not run and gun as you will run out of ammo VERY fast. And lastly, sneak if possible. Snipe, reload, and conserve ammo and you should make it through with little error.

(ps. I consider myself a library/flood killing expert and all the information you see here is based on personal experience)

Happy hunting! : )

  • 10.27.2006 3:21 PM PDT