In Response To: Hahaha, I've got a gameplay story to tell (Skeletor)
: I'm playing Flawless Cowboy (the second level) on Legendary after beating the
: game earlier tonight on Normal (woohoo!), I just reached the first Marine
: survivors (who were promptly slaughtered by the Covenant who had just
: invaded the area via dropship. The Marines really have no chance against
: the Covenant on Legendary, their AI seems to stay constant throughout the
: difficulties), after respawning a few hundred times I made it up the only
: artificial structure in the area. With only two entrances, both long
: ramps, easily guarded from above, it is a choice position. It's a very
: high structure, and it's easy to shoot down at the Covenant while taking
: time to recharge my shields when I need to.
: So I camp the ramp on the side of the structure the majority of Covenant are
: located and pick the Grunts off as they try to raid me. A few minutes
: later all the Grunts are dead, a few red and blue Elites are hiding in the
: rocks below me and I try to snipe them with my pistol, my Assault Rifle is
: basically useless against them at this distance, not to mention a whole
: clip of fully-automatic fire at point-blank range only takes down their
: shields. They keep dodging behind rocks until their shields recharge and
: there's too many of them for me to take down with only a pistol and
: grenades. They've got an efficient stream of suppressive plasma-fire on me
: and I'm running out of ammo fast. They start to advance on my position and
: I'm forced to camp the ramp again.
: I then find how incredibly useful the Needler is. Up until now I've barely
: ever used it. Well guess what, This baby can take down a fully shielded
: Elite on Legendary in one freakkin clip if you're in range and have the
: targetting reticle directly over the target (The reticle will turn red).
: God, this gun rules! The seconds between pumping an entire clip (I suppose
: it's not really a "clip", but what the hell) into an Elite and
: when the shards detonate is just so damn satisfying! And when the shards
: detonate, holy crap, the sounds and graphics and satisfaction to know
: that's ONE LESS COVENANT BASTARD YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH!! Well....suffice
: to say it just kicks ass.
: So once I've finished with the Elites two Covenant dropships land on the
: opposite side of the structure and I rush to the other ramp, this time
: there's some Jackals among the Grunts and Elites, I try to nail a few of
: them before they know where I am, they discover me pretty quickly and I'm
: forced back into camping the ramp. I nail a few Grunts who rush in first
: and suddenly I hear the most frightening sound I've heard in the past few
: days, a disgruntled Elite, only a few feet behind me.
: A portion of the Covenant forces must have gone around the other side of the
: structure and raided the opposite ramp before I knew it. I turn to find
: it's a Red elite staring me in the face, there's a few grunts behind it
: and I know I'm dead (or so I think) so I jump off the side of the
: structure and make a break for it across the countryside. Surprisingly I
: make it away alive, but Cortana tells me I can't leave the area until the
: Covenant are eliminated (For reasons I will not say due to minor
: spoilers).
: I carefully make my way back to the area, and spot the Covenant at the crest
: of a hill about 50 meters from my postion. There's at least 20-25 of them,
: mostly grunts and jackals, about 6-7 Elites. They obviously know where I
: am because they're moving around sporadically, looking in my direction,
: and taking cover behind things.
: Something struck me as odd though, they weren't shooting at me. I zoom in
: with my pistol and nail a few Grunts, they're still not shooting at me, or
: advancing at all!
: It was then I realised I had found a way to exploit the AI!
: Chris Butcher once said (On the HBO forum) that the AI on Legendary is set to
: a more defensive behavior due to their ability to seriously kick your ass
: if they just charge you.
: Therefore I can only assume that I was just out of shooting range, and just
: under the range at which they advance.
: Anyways to make a long story.....longer, I have 39 rounds left for my pistol,
: and even less for my needler. I take down a group of Grunts, keeping my
: distance. I'm down to one clip with my pistol, I move a little closer and
: fire off some controlled bursts of molten glass-shards, taking a few more
: of the Cov's down. I run out of ammo for my Needler. I have one pistol
: clip left and 3 Elites are still living. 3 Elites are freakkin impossible
: to take down with a clip of pistol ammo on legendary, and grenades don't
: do crap against them unless you're in a tight hallway where they can't
: dive to safety.
: I couldn't give up now, my last checkpoint was way back at the beginning of
: this thread. In a last ditch effort I madly rush them throwing as many
: grenades as possible and unloading my pistol.
: When everything was silent I couldn't fscking believe it, I was alive. My
: grenades had detonated a buttload of plasma grenades lying around on the
: ground that the Grunts I had killed earlier had dropped. All 3 elites
: WERE DEAD!! I HAD DEFEATED TWO FULLY-LOADED COVENANT DROPSHIPS ON
: LEGENDARY MODE WITH JUST A PISTOL, NEEDLER, AND A FEW GRENADES!!!
: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
: I just had to express my enthusiasm, gawd Halo rules. I'm going to finish the
: level, I'm about to get my Warthog ^_^
Okay, I'm impressed :)
Remember to sleep.
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