impossible legendary difficult on Combat Evolved

[Drinkey Winkey]

Hi, I was faced with the fact that in the CE already in the second mission, where you need to save the first detachment of marines, I deal with five elites (purple color) who bypass me from all sides and kill me time after time, while moving so that it’s impossible to get into them. If I can still cope with one, then with two or more this is already impossible. The impression that the developers broke the game by speeding up all the timings, while the player’s shields get off extremely quickly.

[Drinkey Winkey]

It seems that the developers made a huge mistake, made the rate of fire of the plasma weapons of the covenant a little less than the speed of the machine gun in humans. Thus, it is even impossible to escape from enemies or get around at long distances - they simply shoot with a stream of plasma. In the normal version, the power of the plasma was leveled by the relatively low speed of flight of the plasma charge. Now, this game is simply impossible to play.

[Jebus]

I'm gonna make some assumptions about the way you play here.
so i do apologize and feel free to correct me.

But i mean fact of the matter is that legendary is not an enjoyable difficulty.
Its a frustrating time and you're going to have to cheese it if you wanna win.

If you're trying to save marines you've already lost.
If you're running in without a plasma pistol for those elites shields, you've already lost.
I could go on.

Savour this time.
Halo 2 legendary is next.

Its worse.

[Robert F.]

Purple? You mean the blue ones (minor elites).

You can easily kill an elite by rapid fire with the plasma pistol (fastest firerate) or plasma rifle to take down their shields quickly and then finish them off with a magnum pistol.

The assault rifle is basically useless against Elites on higher difficulty due to their shields are extremely resilient.

[Limygeorge]

I did it when first released but first I played through twice on Heroic. If first legendary, yeah it would be too difficult for me. I managed (after 2 play throughs on lower difficulty) but can't say it was fun. Countless deaths. It only feels great after you beat it.

I won't be doing legendary again. Heroic is a good challenge, and normal is just fun, the AR actually is very useful on Normal. Any higher, it's pretty useless. (Halo 1)

Never tried easy - I can only guess, but MC would just be invincible, I guess.

[Jebus]

Originally posted by Limygeorge:

I did it when first released but first I played through twice on Heroic. If first legendary, yeah it would be too difficult for me. I managed (after 2 play throughs on lower difficulty) but can't say it was fun. Countless deaths. It only feels great after you beat it.

I won't be doing legendary again. Heroic is a good challenge, and normal is just fun, the AR actually is very useful on Normal. Any higher, it's pretty useless. (Halo 1)

Never tried easy - I can only guess, but MC would just be invincible, I guess.

Easy difficulty can be fun in some aspects.
Take the level "343 guilty spark" for example.

Easy is the only difficulty where you get a shotgun right at the start lmao.

[Limygeorge]

Originally posted by Lola Holla:

It seems that the developers made a huge mistake, made the rate of fire of the plasma weapons of the covenant a little less than the speed of the machine gun in humans. Thus, it is even impossible to escape from enemies or get around at long distances - they simply shoot with a stream of plasma. In the normal version, the power of the plasma was leveled by the relatively low speed of flight of the plasma charge. Now, this game is simply impossible to play.

Do you mean same game, but compared with original years ago? (Halo CE 2001 & 2011 vs MCC 2020 Halo CE?) Curious because I won't play legendary again. Just the once when I was a young pup. - Original that is. Countless deaths, and frustration. Heroic is fine, or even Normal.

I won't play legendary on MCC. Once was enough, but you are right about the plasma. Even first stage when entering a "canteen?" very early I could hardly get round the corner, just continuos high rate of fire - even from the grunts. Not fun really. It's there for bragging rights or folks who want a really hard game. I'm talking about Solo only.

[Limygeorge]

Originally posted by Jebus™:

Originally posted by Limygeorge:

I did it when first released but first I played through twice on Heroic. If first legendary, yeah it would be too difficult for me. I managed (after 2 play throughs on lower difficulty) but can't say it was fun. Countless deaths. It only feels great after you beat it.

I won't be doing legendary again. Heroic is a good challenge, and normal is just fun, the AR actually is very useful on Normal. Any higher, it's pretty useless. (Halo 1)

Never tried easy - I can only guess, but MC would just be invincible, I guess.

Easy difficulty can be fun in some aspects.
Take the level "343 guilty spark" for example.

Easy is the only difficulty where you get a shotgun right at the start lmao.

Thanks, mmm, may try it out!

[Limygeorge]

Originally posted by Jebus™:

I'm gonna make some assumptions about the way you play here.
so i do apologize and feel free to correct me.

But i mean fact of the matter is that legendary is not an enjoyable difficulty.
Its a frustrating time and you're going to have to cheese it if you wanna win.

If you're trying to save marines you've already lost.
If you're running in without a plasma pistol for those elites shields, you've already lost.
I could go on.

Savour this time.
Halo 2 legendary is next.

Its worse.

I agree. It's only fun after completing it, kind of bragging rights! I was much younger when I did it, but it wasn't fun dieing all the time.

[Exodus]

Try turning on the boom skull, plasma nades will make quick work of elites if they are close to one another.

It's a matter of memory really, once you have the spawns down it is very easy to bypass, regardless of difficulty, people develop their unique strategies distinct from other players by adapting to the sandbox, this does mean you will probably die a lot, that trial and error is just going to force you to find your own strats that work.

[Oni7]

Originally posted by Jebus™:

I'm gonna make some assumptions about the way you play here.
so i do apologize and feel free to correct me.

But i mean fact of the matter is that legendary is not an enjoyable difficulty.
Its a frustrating time and you're going to have to cheese it if you wanna win.

If you're trying to save marines you've already lost.
If you're running in without a plasma pistol for those elites shields, you've already lost.
I could go on.

Savour this time.
Halo 2 legendary is next.

Its worse.

Not true like at all. You can save everyone and you dont need plasma pistol.

[PlasmaArch3r]

You don't really need a plasma pistol, but you would have to be so experienced with how the game flows. Try to sneak, do surprise attacks, use the Plasma Rifle or even the Needler when some enemies are out of cover. Grenades are your friends (manage to stick some grunts that are next to the Elites), and take into account the Assault Rifle for melee.

[Ruby]

ok lets start

First: Halo ce has the most balanced campaign of all halos, the weapon sandbox is pretty good and all weapons have their porpouse, the only issue with CE is the rocket launcher flood cause the ai can either spam rockets or shot anything at all, its the flood get used to it and it ain't that much of an issue.

Second: if you are trying to play on legendary marines are not priority, you should watch for yourself, marines are only used to distract enemies for a short time and thats it.

third: yes some animations got a little faster but its nothing impossible and its still a pretty fair campaign and i had a way more enjoyable time with this campaign on legendary than reach legendary with that stupid ship part.

fourth: i play halo for a long time and have much experience with the pve all around, but halo 2? nah that game is a nightmare on legendary (playing fair no speedrun strats), its just pure cancer with those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sniper jackals so prepare to write something about those too.

fith: levels you might stress more on halo ce are:
Truth and reconciliation;
assault on the control room;
library;
two betrayals;
Keyes(only a few parts are extremely hard).

[Fruit]

Plasma Pistol x Magnum/Sniper combo is usually what I use for elites. They are a pain sometimes, especially the Red ones, but The elites on Reach are far harder imo. The worse places for Legendary are (in my opinion) The bridges on Two Betrayals. You have 2 SIDES with flood and hunters you have to worry about, while busting your way through elites and covenant alike. Library on the contrary for me was actually pretty easy. Once you get that shotgun, its game over for the flood.

[Corpulent Swine]

It's cute watching people complain about ce legendary. They have yet to experience Halo 2 on legendary.

[Jebus]

Originally posted by GoldSpark:

Not true like at all. You can save everyone and you dont need plasma pistol.

Yeah saying "you've already lost" is an exaggeration for the sake of getting a point across.
Exactly the same as you saying "you can save everyone"
You're chatting ♥♥♥♥ to get a point across. I dont believe for a second you save every marine on legendary, or have even tried doing that.

If you're beating the hardest difficulty with wrong priorities and intentionally making it way harder than it has to be, fantastic. I am happy theres people better than me out there.

I just dont see how implying to keep priorities wrong and making it harder is helpful at all, i'll be honest. You're not the OP on here pleading for help.