Current Events > Truth and Reconciliation on Legendary changes a man

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You get a freebie at the start with a sniping segment vs lolAI, but that

- Almost every encounter has 2 red elites, and one is already super deadly.
- Even though the level set like a stealth mission, it actually just guns blazing after 3 mins.
- It's dark AF, and you are constantly running up hills to hard-to-see enemies and turrets all around you
- You reach the gravity lift. On Heroic and under this is like 2-3 enemy encounters. On Legendary, they p much drop in enemies 10 times in a row, and never let you wipe them all out before the next batch. Straight up endurance fight

You are given a fresh batch of Marines to go into the belly of the beast, and;

- You are instantly met with another endurance fight, this time with numerous OHKO elites running in from random doors assisted by enemies in the opposite direction. Everytime you die the order and door the appear in is changed. This shit literally turns into Predator, yelling, screaming, gunfire, tribal space music blasting, its fucking chaos
- In the midst of all that chaos, Hunters will waltz in and start blasting
- assuming you even have survivors, you gotta navigate enemy territory and get flanked at every opportunity

- You walk in the open hanger room and get shot high and low at every direction. Assume from this point any enemy in front of you is also behind you.

- You find Keyes, and it turns into a escort mission...on Legendary. The only way you can win is to run far ahead and absorb every bullet Until you win

Note that this level does not give you the best weapon in the game, the pistol, not does it give you a shotgun despite the Close quarters chaos.

TL:DR The Corps issued you peashooters, not wings or plot armor

its even worse on LASO

I can deal with all that. What I can't deal with is the gross lack of human weaponry available during the level. Contrary to the lore, human guns are so much better than covenant ones.

You don't know pain until you've had to empty a dozen plasma pistols into a hunter's back.

I don't think the pistol is needed when there's enough sniper ammo lying around that you could feasibly hold onto the sniper for most of the level. It's still pretty useful inside the ship in larger rooms. No doubt the shotgun being available would have been great.

I've never found it to be the hardest mission for me personally, but it's obviously up there. And I think more than any other level it exemplifies how important grenades are in Halo: CE. The fight at the base of the gravity well always boils down to me just spamming the hell out of grenades.

Halo 1 grenades were mini nukes. They were perfect and you got 4 each

I remember one time on Truth and Reconciliation legendary I reached the gravity lift and my marines went absolutely apeshit on the covenant troops who dropped in. They were nading and shooting them to pieces. On Legendary. With ease.

Xatrion posted...

I can deal with all that. What I can't deal with is the gross lack of human weaponry available during the level. Contrary to the lore, human guns are so much better than covenant ones.

You don't know pain until you've had to empty a dozen plasma pistols into a hunter's back.

I don't think I'd say in Halo CE that the human guns are clearly better than the Covenant ones. The Plasma Pistol is arguably the best gun in the entire game. And the Plasma Rifle is also really good. It's just the Needler that is pretty lacking. It's really such a small pool of weapons though, so certainly you have more variety in the human ones.

But yes, having a sniper or pistol or rocket is preferable for hunters. But even the AR works if you have nothing else just because Hunters are not very threatening in that game.