Has ANYONE beaten Halo 2 on Legendary?

[RangerWickett]

I'm just curious. I finally managed to beat Halo 1 on legendary yesterday, and it was very hard, but fun. Halo 2's legendary difficulty, though, is beyond hard. It is painful. I can't even get to the spacewalk part of the first stage. And the respawn problem in multiplayer . . . ugh.

As it is now, if you're playing cooperative legendary, if either one of you dies, you both die and you restart at your last checkpoint. On every other difficulty setting, you just respawn anywhere there aren't enemies around. On legendary, I think it would've been nice to have it so you only respawn at new checkpoints, but if you die, your buddy would still have a chance to survive to the next checkpoint.

Oh well.

Does anyone know anyone who has beaten Halo 2 on legendary?

 

[jonesy]

I've made it both on solo and cooperative (with bro) all the way to the very last boss, but we have so far been unable to defeat the b*****d. Yes, I know all about shooting him after the three sniper shots, but the fatass just won't die.

 

[RangerWickett]

Well for that part of the game you can just be cheap and sit on the little rotating thing that goes around the entire battlefield. It'll take you a while, and you'll probably have to go in with a fully charged covenant sniper rifle, and then you'll still have to jump down for the killing blow, but it keeps you out of the line of fire for a while.

I read a few threads on other forums, and apparently legendary gets slightly easier after the second boarding pod on the first mission. But there doesn't seem to be any special ending, so victory would have to be just for myself. I'm not sure if I have the time to spare. Still, it is a fun game. *grin*

 

[jonesy]

...apparently legendary gets slightly easier after the second boarding pod on the first mission.

Apart from the final boss, that is the single hardest spot in the game. My advice is to get there with plasma pistols, battle rifles and plenty of grenades. First grenade the grunts away, plasma the elites and snipe the elites in the head. As soon as the first wave is down, move in to get the grenades they dropped and take out the rest of the waves before they get to full strenght.

 

[Creamsteak]

Yeah, I beat it solo and coop on legendary. There were parts where I had to be totally non-legendary in order to succeed though. In one of the last two or three levels there is an area where your in the covenent city and you have to ride these invisible elctro-platforms from platform to platform. Well, on each platform you've got a dozen flood and a dozen of those little flying buggers with the plasma pistols. Luckily, there's a room with two full loaded carbines and a covenent energy rifle just before, so you have enough ammo (after running back and forth a couple times) to clear the next platform without dying. You could also try just running past the fight, but it wasn't successful for me.

And yes, that first level was a pain my first time through. Since then I've learned to make use of the "lesser" weapons like needlers and plasma pistols though, and you need to there (since no-rockets and no-shotgun).

They seriously should have included a "save replay" feature in the game. It woudl be so cool to see the "streamlined" deathless run through the levels that you could "theoretically" do.