Halo CE Legendary Difficulty is much easier than I remembered.

[Tick Beard]

When I was a kid, playing Halo: CE on Legendary difficulty was really challenging. Playing it now though I just flew through the levels. Did they change the balance? The plasma pistol seems really, really strong. You don't even need the noob combo to kill Elites. Just deliver a charged plasma shot followed by a few rapid fire regular shots and they're done.

Also Hunters are a complete joke. They come bumbling in to a swell of orchestral music only to instantly die from one Magnum round - to the stomach or back (I think maybe the collar bone area too, but I'm not sure). Compared to Halo Reach these Hunters are just sad. I feel bad for them.

Also the Library Level is definitely easier. The Flood politely shamble forward into the shotgun shooting gallery and wait patiently to die. When I first played the Library level, it left me a battered shell. Now though? You can just run through most of it. I think I shot Guilty Spark more than I shot the Flood spores.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? Reach seemed way harder.

[GeoStreber]

We all just got gud. That's it.

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by GeoStreber:

We all just got gud. That's it.

I don't think it's just that. I haven't gotten much better, if at all better, in the last few years, and I've both played through the original on Xbox and now I'm on Two Betrayals here.

I've pretty much always played on heroic when playing the original, but here I'm playing on legendary. And I found it way easier to get through the Library when I did it on legendary today than the last time I played it through on heroic.

I think it's mouse vs. controller. The fact that I can turn 180 degrees probably 10 times faster with my mouse than with a controller has saved me plenty of times.

[Colonel Weener]

The whole game feels much easier to me, simply due to being able to use a keyboard and mouse, versus a slow, sluggish controller. But, yeah, Magnum on the Hunters is definitely broken. It's been mentioned already in regards to this release.

I had a very easy time with the library level, simply because I use a ridiculously high mouse sensitivity and was able to whip around, back and forth and annihilate enemies and they never really had a good chance to surround me. On a controller, especially on the OG XBox, part of the difficulty was due to a controller and 30fps.

That said, there's definitely some AI balancing issues here. I, too, found that the Flood would charge right toward my shotty for easy kills.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Hunters being oneshotted by the Magnum has been a thing ever since the OG Xbox version of the game. I can't speak to anything else mentioned here, but that for one is exactly the same as it was almost 19 years ago, and not something to blame 343i for.

[Rango]

Originally posted by GeoStreber:

We all just got gud. That's it.

indeed