Current Events > It took me about 15 hours to beat a level on Halo: Reach, on Legendary Mode.

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It was a FUCKING NIGHTMARE. I've never been through anything like this in a FPS before.

It was Exodus. It's the one where you have to evacuate the city, then clear the way for the air transports to escape the area. Usually, just so you know, it takes me about 1 - 3 hours to beat a Halo level on Legendary. They're damn hard, but not completely ridiculous. This level really was outrageous. It was incredibly hard, and very, very cheap. There were so many brutes; the enemies often had very heavy weapons, such as fuel rod guns and that beam weapon; even using a vehicle later on didn't help much. It was just ridiculous. I must've done at least a few hundred times. I played this over 4 or 5 days. It took me about 15 hours, or possibly longer. Maybe 17 or 18 hours. Some parts were fun, but often it was very frustrating and very stressful.

I kept thinking I was at the end of the level, then there was more. The end part, where you have to go around and area and ready and then fire the AA missile launchers, wasn't quite so bad, but still much too hard, with all the enemies, and awkward angles. Another fucking annoying thing, at least in the end bit, was how dumb the AI soldiers were. Sometimes, 4 or 5 of them would stand just 10 meters or so from some enemies, and not fire while I got shot / exploded / smashed to death. I would leave the warthog parked near the base, so it could shoot at enemies while I attacked either with a ghost or on foot, and despite a clear shot on a few enemies, the gunner on the warthog refused to attack them. This AI is really bad.

I can't believe how long this took me. Even on high difficulty settings on FPS, the really hard ones, I play through at a medium speed. This was horrible. The level was so hard and so cheap. I remember, a few years ago when it came out, playing through Reach on Normal Mode, and thinking to myself how it was quite a lot cheaper then 3 and ODST's campaign, with all the brutes, and how the level layouts were sometimes annoying, but this is something else. I've only done 3 levels so far, and the other 2 weren't so bad, but I worry that most of the game will be like this level.

To give you a frame of comparison, I'll say some extremely hard levels from other FPSs, and roughly how long they took me (sufficed to say, none were close to this bad). Downfall (World at War) took me about 3 hours; Heart of the Reich (World at War) took about 6 hours; that Chinese rooftop level (Black Ops 1) took me about 3 hours; Mile High Club (MW1) took me about 6 hours. Some of these levels were kinda cheap, and they were too long as well, but nothing like Exodus. I'm an extremely experienced FPS gamer, and I'd like to think I'm very good, but Exodus was awful. I don't understand why they made it so hard.

Thoughts on my playthrough of it, and / or the level itself?

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Sunhawk posted...

Thoughts on my playthrough of it, and / or the level itself?

I thought they were both pretty easy.
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EpicMickeyDrew posted...

Sunhawk posted...

Thoughts on my playthrough of it, and / or the level itself?

I thought they were both pretty easy.

The level was beyond brutal. It was not just incredibly hard, but pretty unfair and cheap. All those very heavy weapons the enemies had, and the sheer number of enemies in some places.

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Reach is one of the easiest Halo games on Legendary ever. <_<

Use a Plasma Pistol + Headshot weapon on Elites

Spam needles at Brutes
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I don't remember very many levels on that game being too hard on legendary other than maybe the last one, but I didn't play through it much and it was a long time ago.

I know that on Halo 2 Cairo Station I've spent multiple hours on each of the two attach pod rooms alone lol
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Git gud tc lol
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It was a bitch, but the checkpoints were pretty forgiving iirc and
BipBapBam posted...

Use a Plasma Pistol + Headshot weapon on Elites

I recall Halo 4 being harder to solo on Legendary.

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Git gud tc lol

I remember playing through another level, and I think it took me 2 or 3 hours. I don't understand why this level was so hard. Although early CODs on Veteran Mode was extremely hard, it wasn't often that it felt cheap.

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Vertania posted...

It was a bitch, but the checkpoints were pretty forgiving iirc and
BipBapBam posted...

Use a Plasma Pistol + Headshot weapon on Elites

I recall Halo 4 being harder to solo on Legendary.

Yeah those Promethean Knights were a nightmare. Especially since all 3 of their power weapons could randomly one shot you out of nowhere.
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I don't remember that level being particularly harder than the others on legendary. Only level that really stood out to me as ridiculously hard was the last one.

Although now that I think about it, there was a "boss section" in that level where you fight a bunch of Brutes and chieftains right before the Falcon turret section. I do remember that being extra cheap, particularly because of the fuel rod Shades camping the helipad.
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Vertania posted...

It was a bitch, but the checkpoints were pretty forgiving iirc and
BipBapBam posted...

Use a Plasma Pistol + Headshot weapon on Elites

I recall Halo 4 being harder to solo on Legendary.

4 was a fucking bitch. Second hardest after 2 IMO.
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I'm surprised more people don't want to insult me about this.
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Sunhawk posted...

I'm surprised more people don't want to insult me about this.

Why would anyone want to insult you? You beat the game on legendary which is too great a feat for a lot of people. 15 hours is a decent time.
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IIRC that level and the last level are the hardest. The level you're talking about has that fight at the end with the brutes with Fuel Rod Cannons right? I remember that being very trial and error lol
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@EpicMickeyDrew posted...

Sunhawk posted...

I'm surprised more people don't want to insult me about this.

Why would anyone want to insult you? You beat the game on legendary which is too great a feat for a lot of people. 15 hours is a decent time.

15 hours for a single mission.

And God damn, Halo Reach came out nearly seven fucking years ago?!
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Halo 3 turns 10 this year. I remember being hyped for it during middle school.
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MJOLNRVII posted...

Halo 3 turns 10 this year. I remember being hyped for it during middle school.

The hype leading up to Halo 3 was unreal. It's depressing as hell that Halo will probably never be that big again.
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