Me and my friend continued our Halo Legendary Difficulty “project”. Now that Halo 2 is done, we’re making lightning speed on Halo 3. We’ve gone from almost half a year for the entirety of Halo 2, too 3 more levels left of Halo 3. I also just found out that Halo 3 has 4 player multiplayer, so i’ll have to recruit a few extra friends for that.

One particular spot we struggled on a bit today was this Scarab.

We couldn’t get it’s legs to drop for some reason no matter how hard we hit it. So i grabbed a choppper and ramped it over the top of the thing and hopped out midair to land on it midway through like something out of an Action Movie. I also couldn’t use any special tools to get up because i was saving the Grav Lift for a skull later in the level. It was a fun and epic moment. It always seems like something happens in this area, as when me and my friend went through this area on a normal mode playthrough, my Tank i was driving just tripped out and started spinning like a beyblade and sent me flying off the edge. I was laughing too hard too be upset about a bug like that.

There was also this section, which you need to take a stair case to get down from to a lower level. With the opening cutscene with how far Chief falls and how he doesn’t seem to take fall damage in this game, i though “well, i bet i could probably survive the fall”. Turns out, chief cannot survive that fall. His plot armor must be cutscene only sadly.

Me and my friend have been following a quota of 2 levels a day due to time constraints, tomorrow we talked about doing 3 though just to finish up Halo 3. I’m excited to get to 4 though and finish up reach. Reach i’ve heard good things about, and though from what i understand 4 isn’t very popular, i’m excited to give it an earnest try.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•60 minutes ago

      Yes. I’ve completed every Halo game up to 4 on Legendary and 2 was by far the worst. It’s a miracle my controller survived without getting smashed to pieces.

    • MyNameIsAtticusOPEnglish
      1•11 hours ago

      If you have any tips I’d greatly appreciate it. I plan on doing a solo run of legendary some day and I’m not sure if I could handle it lol

      • @[email protected]English
        1•34 minutes ago

        its been a while since ive played halo 2, these may be a little wrong

        • run up to wall and look down and enemy cant see you because your head is in wall
        • double tap Y when the mag gets put in the gun to reload faster (this also works in halo ce)
        • iirc if you cloak and then enter a vehicle you still have cloak
        • if you make an elite outside hotel zanzibar mad you can kill him for energy sword
        • at the very beginning of outskirts you can jump on a light up to the roof and then grenade jump up and you can jump across rooftops to skip the a chunk of the level
        • sniper jackals dont have perfect accuracy, i dodged a few shots one time
        • its best to attack the sniper jackals either before/right when they see you or after theyve shot twice
        • on the original xbox version you can go through walls if you hump a box around 8 times (you should see the camera jump a little each time if you did it right)
        • in that snowy arbiter level near the end with flood everywhere you can wiggle the ghost into that burnt wreckage area
        • throw grenade when you punch regret
        • i think sometimes the flood get stuck in the pits they spawn in
        • when elites (including ones with swords) try to melee you, you can dodge it and backsmack them but iirc their melee hitbox is kinda janky and big

        edit: also if you mag dump a carbine into tartarus it drops his shields

      • ElectricMachmanEnglish
        1•7 hours ago

        When I did a legendary Combat Evolved solo run, there were one or two speedrunning strats I borrowed. Probably could do the same for H2 - one of the later levels, you can skip entirely if you do it right.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•18 hours ago

        My anecodotal evidence agrees. Somewhere between the jackal sniper one-shot deaths and the rampaging brutes soaking up all your ammo it becomes difficult not to throw things, and I swear I am generally a calm person. I play dark souls to relax.

        • MyNameIsAtticusOPEnglish
          2•11 hours ago

          The Elites in the first few level gave me so much trouble. It wasn’t until I heard the Plasma Pistol tip that I actually started to make any progress. We spent like two weeks of and on trying the first level alone