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Re: I find TB annoying at the start
Posted By: angrymob <blueblood@nospam.com>Date: 1/18/07 2:08 p.m.

In Response To: Re: I find TB annoying at the start (Narcogen)


: It seems no use trying to do this to the Elites; with no cover, by the time
: you've lured one in close enough, the others have made mincemeat of you. I
: can never decide whether it's better to assist the Sentinels here or not.
: They'll eventually lose, of course, but the longer they last, the more of
: the Covenant they can whittle down.

: On the other hand, they're more likely to take out the Grunts than the
: Elites, so that might leave you with 2-3 Elites to face and all the
: Grunts' dropped weapons too far away to be useful. Trying to approach 2-3
: Elites with no cover and a shotgun is an exercise in frustration. You need
: to be able to grab a PP or a Needler.

: To that end, sometimes I try and help the Covies by taking out the Sentinels
: with the PP. That should leave more grunts alive to lure in close and get
: their guns.

I usually open here by just hurling a bunch of grenades at the Covies and letting the Sentinels mop up - usually there's at most a few grunts left, which the PP can take out at long distance. Then snipe at the Elites until you get one to move up close enough that you can charge in with the shotgun and blow the snot out of him. Ideally you can grab a needler - no cover works both ways, after all.

What I really hate is the part after that - where you open the door, and there's two elites and two jackals camped outside waiting to gun you down. I could never figure out what to do there... always takes me like ten minutes to get past them.

: What bothers me about the Cortana dialogue there is that the whole task of
: the level seems arbitrary. If Cortana has reason to believe that GS can
: fire the Halo without the Index, she never says what it is. As such, the
: level objectives seem like busywork. Gameplay-wise, it's fine. I just
: shudder to think that all that work is "just in case" something
: happens that seems to be impossible.

On the other hand, consider that you're dealing with the end of all life as we know it in the galaxy - would you really want to take chances?


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Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Jman 1/15/07 6:21 p.m.
     Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Twitch 1/15/07 7:19 p.m.
           DOH! *NM*Jman 1/15/07 8:30 p.m.
     Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Rockslider 1/15/07 7:57 p.m.
           Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Jman 1/15/07 8:46 p.m.
           Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?3Suns 1/15/07 9:00 p.m.
           Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Peptuck 1/16/07 2:02 p.m.
                 Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Rockslider 1/16/07 5:31 p.m.
                       Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?scarab 1/16/07 6:20 p.m.
     Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?TelTura 1/15/07 8:33 p.m.
           Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Jman 1/15/07 9:28 p.m.
                 Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Narcogen 1/15/07 10:17 p.m.
                       Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?scarab 1/16/07 1:19 a.m.
                             Stealth in the third roomRockslider 1/16/07 5:17 p.m.
                                   Re: Stealth in the third roomscarab 1/16/07 5:26 p.m.
                       Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?GhaleonEB 1/16/07 2:44 a.m.
                 Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?3Suns 1/16/07 1:28 a.m.
                 Tough stealth challenge in the seventh roomRockslider 1/16/07 5:11 p.m.
           Delta Halo/Regret Level for me...Wooskies 1/16/07 12:38 p.m.
     Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?scarab 1/16/07 1:00 a.m.
     Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Owm 1/16/07 2:11 a.m.
           Weapon omissionsRockslider 1/17/07 12:46 p.m.
                 Re: Weapon omissionsUrsusArctos 1/17/07 10:03 p.m.
                       Re: Weapon omissionsRockslider 1/19/07 12:32 p.m.
                             Re: Weapon omissionsUrsusArctos 1/20/07 1:48 a.m.
     Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?Peptuck 1/16/07 2:09 p.m.
           Re: Attack on the Control Room- Best level ever?scarab 1/16/07 3:48 p.m.
           End of TB strategiesNarcogen 1/16/07 11:16 p.m.
           I find TB annoying at the startRockslider 1/17/07 12:42 p.m.
                 Re: I find TB annoying at the startscarab 1/17/07 1:35 p.m.
                       Re: I find TB annoying at the startBlack Guard 1/17/07 6:52 p.m.
                 Re: I find TB annoying at the startNarcogen 1/18/07 4:59 a.m.
                       Re: I find TB annoying at the startangrymob 1/18/07 2:08 p.m.
                             Re: I find TB annoying at the startNarcogen 1/18/07 11:52 p.m.
                                   I like Halo's exuberance.scarab 1/19/07 7:54 a.m.
                                         Re: I like Halo's exuberance.Owm 1/19/07 4:55 p.m.
                                         Trickery and predictabilityRockslider 1/19/07 5:14 p.m.
                                   Re: I find TB annoying at the startBlack Guard 1/19/07 7:22 p.m.
                       Re: I find TB annoying at the startRockslider 1/18/07 4:00 p.m.



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