Legendary

Is it just me or has the difficulty increased since H3. It seems a little harder this time around...?!

yes sir.

The AI is very smart. Especially the Elites and the jackals. The elites wont go off and hide anymore. Instead they'll rush you alot.

The jackals are alot meaner and harder to kill too.

We started the campaign on legendary and have been able to progress fairly well, but a few times we have found it difficult.

I've been doing it solo and it's been a b1tch, the AI is excellent. I've tried to lure individuals out from their group to make it easier but they won't =( The cov heavy weapons are super powerful too, i'm always being raped by splash damage.

Yeah, first I know that because I watched a lot of the DEV videos, and they said specifically that they made them MUCH harder this time. But as soon as I put the disk in on campaign I could notice it. They aren't "wimpy" anymore and actually killed me a lot. That plus I have fun with the solo Rambo stuff...which doesn't go down very well this time around...LOL

Heroic is more challenging than before too I think. A few parts I've come to required many deaths in a row before I worked out winning strat. I found I could still easily run and box most enemies on normal. Haven't tried Legendary yet, but it sounds like I'm in for one helluva fight.

yep its the hardest of any halo so far because the AI is EPIC

Ironically, the first thing he tells Noble six (cut scene on the helo) is that "solo stuff" won't work here....and boy was he right...LOL

S7 K1ll3rKlown wrote:Ironically, the first thing he tells Noble six (cut scene on the helo) is that "solo stuff" won't work here....and boy was he right...LOL

Word to the wise. LOL

AI is harder. I did solo campaign on normal with 4 skulls on and they were throwing grenades like MLB pitchers. I swear I saw one curve around a wall I jumped behind!!

The elites are insane!! I spent 30 minutes dancing around with one zealot in a covenant ship (I won't tell you where to spoil it for some) before I got him and I had already died 3 times (fast ball stickies). Normal weapons weren't enough - I had to stick him.

Air7Cav wrote:

S7 K1ll3rKlown wrote:Ironically, the first thing he tells Noble six (cut scene on the helo) is that "solo stuff" won't work here....and boy was he right...LOL

Word to the wise. LOL

AI is harder. I did solo campaign on normal with 4 skulls on and they were throwing grenades like MLB pitchers. I swear I saw one curve around a wall I jumped behind!!

The elites are insane!! I spent 30 minutes dancing around with one zealot in a covenant ship (I won't tell you where to spoil it for some) before I got him and I had already died 3 times (fast ball stickies). Normal weapons weren't enough - I had to stick him.

The aforementioned ship was a b1tch to complete.

yeah im running the game on normal and even the dam grunts are smarter to a degree nothing like seeing 4 grunts Running toward you with a sticky in each hand and the jackals are a hell of a lot faster and in one level i saw the dam elite jump up into the warthog turret and start shooting at me with it I was like oh hell no!!! got to love the grunt party skull though pop em in the head Confetti and YAY!!!!

Over half way through on legendary solo - last level I died over 100 times and it took 2 hours lol - this is tough!

i am currently about 5 levels in on Legendary solo.

Its tough, but I am making progress.

I can see how the last 2 or 3 levels are going to be rough

I started my single player legendary run too (4 levels in), and so far it's hard but not too terrible. Not worse than the COD games on the hardest settings, you just have to change your play style and go a lot slower. I do fear the later levels, as they might be insanely hard when the action steps up with few places to take cover.

~mrmiller

I think ill start my legendary solo play through today. My only worry is running out of ammo for my UNSC guns. I hate cuvy weapons.

The needler is a huge help against the well shielded elites - but yeah the pistol and DBR are unbeatable.
The end of Long Night of Solace when you're defending is really tough.

I started my solo campaign last night on legendary. I'm on the fourth mission, the one that starts out sniping, and it took me about 3 hours.

The level in New Alexandria is a b1tch, the one time I nearly beat it I stood still for a sec to scratch my itchy nose and I got stickied.. =(

S7 Epic wrote:The level in New Alexandria is a b1tch, the one time I nearly beat it I stood still for a sec to scratch my itchy nose and I got stickied.. =(

Exodus - another really tough one. I had to set it down and come back do it a few times - I was ready to drop kick my 360 out a window.

Finished my solo play-through on legendary last night - I sure didn't see any difference between that and the ending I saw when I did co-op heroic. Still, I love the story line and gameplay. I had a lot more difficulty on some of the middle missions than the last few.

Spoiler:

That just leaves me with 3 achievements to go. Buy some armory piece that req. Lt. Colonel, reach Captain rank, and of course the one I'm having so much trouble with, If They Came to See Me Beg. Seriously, I'm ready to let them see me beg if it will just give me credit...

AirCav and I are supposed to start the legendary co-op tonight. Not sure if we will...depends on what he has going. I should be on around 7:45pm-8:00pm. If anyone else (x2) want to join us feel free.

I don't really know...I think the campaign was super easy. I played it through on Legendary already and it felt fairly easy with 2 people or 3 people. I'm on the fifth mission alone at the moment.

5 mission in so far not to bad i have died a few time but mission are taking me about 35mins each

Same here, I'm kinda stuck/trying to figure out the part of Night of Solace. Getting into the friggin Corvette is hard because of all the Elite Rangers with Jetpacks in there, I just need to find a way to quickly get in and out of the room so that I can fight them in space where the jetpack just sends them flying, and gets them out of range of their plasma repeaters. Legendary alone requires a lot more tactics than with a group, which I very much like.

Whoever said Legendary was easy (alone?) has to be lying -->looking @ FloodFire. Aircav and I played until the tip of the spear last night and certain portions were a b1tch to get beyond. Has to be ridiculous on solo. Either that or they purposely make it easier fro a solo guys as opposed to a group. That or you guys have on no skulls or something.

S7 K1ll3rKlown wrote:Whoever said Legendary was easy (alone?) has to be lying -->looking @ FloodFire. Aircav and I played until the tip of the spear last night and certain portions were a b1tch to get beyond. Has to be ridiculous on solo. Either that or they purposely make it easier fro a solo guys as opposed to a group. That or you guys have on no skulls or something.

i turn on 3 skulls

cowbell = more bang for your buck nades x2 in damage
IWHBYD = rare dialog becomes normal
grunt b day = well you all know what it does lol