Trying to power through the campaign and Master Chief might have become more one note than Mario.

"You can't do this chief"

Then let's do this

"You'll die"

Then I'll die trying


"I thought I'd go home"

There won't be a home if I don't shoot these fuckers.


It's quite sad as they had actually done some interesting work in previous games

Finished the campaign on Heroic, go me. I didn't realise I was on the final fight until the game ended, but then I wasn't really paying attention to the story. Overall I enjoyed it.

The banished voice work, whether it's in cut scenes or in voice logs, is quite startlingly awful.

Well that's it boys, everything done now apart from finishing the campaign. What a ride! Hopefully finish it in the next few days, pending how my weekend goes!

Properly loving the Campaign, it's so cool driving around helping marines, the world is massive and pretty, the combat is awesome, the marines chatter is funny.

Expecting to finish this tonight given all goes well!

God the voice acting in this is terrible. Weapon is an absolute weapon, highly fucking annoying particularly when you hear the same line multiple times after dying.

The last fight in the spire was a pain in the ass.

Grapple is king but threat sensor comes in handy so I have those two memorised for quick changes.
Pain in the arse trying to find the right grenades though.

I prefer the current method. Although there is a bit to remember, it means that all equipment and grenade types are two presses away at all times, and always the same two presses. Once you’ve learnt the combos for the ones you use, switching between them during combat is pretty straightforward.

Speedhaak wrote:

That's Halo.

I'm loving the multiplayer in this.

I've done a few bot matches tho, feels good.

I can't imagine doing this one Legendary solo. The bosses and hunters are ridiculous enough on Heroic.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Is it me or are the vehicles made of paper now? Doesn't take a lot of punishment to leave one ready to explode

I thought this too, the few times I jumped into a Scorpion it didn't go very well - I always found it much easier to utilise the weapon/skills sandbox than rely on vehicles. The only times I ever used vehicles was for the purpose of traversing the map quickly.

Djornson wrote:

I can't imagine doing this one Legendary solo. The bosses and hunters are ridiculous enough on Heroic.

Hunters can be tricky but there are certain weapon combos and tactics (as has always been the case) that nullifies them as a treat and makes them pretty easy. The bosses are all a little gimmicky with a few runs of each needed to identify the loops and openings, the only bosses I had major trouble with were Escharum and The Harbinger. Escharum's final phase was just irritating because of his ability to close ground so fast. I found it difficult to navigate his whereabouts aurally so relied heavily on the threat sensor for this one.

In the end the tactic I used for the final phase was looping the arena using the grapple shot to gain significant distance and then again, using the grapple shot to pick up the heavy machine gun and plasma cannons - fire off some rounds and continue looping the arena. Had a few cheesy deaths but I reckon I got the final kill after maybe 15-20 attempts?

The Harbinger was just a really uninspiring and boring fight in general, the only real hard part was clearing the mobs while being constantly tagged with shots -with her, I found the Hardlight weapons such as the Sentinel Beam and Heatwave the most efficient ways to deplete shields and kill. Final blow was struck with a nice thunder clap from a grapple shot though.

In fact I think the last 4-5 missions are best tackled with Hardlight/plasma weapons - the UNSC weapon set becomes largely useless in the closing act in my opinion.

Yossarian wrote:

I’ve cleared the game on Heroic and am on the final level on Legendary (currently trying to nab the final skull before finishing), and honestly, I don’t think there’s a huge gap in difficulty between Heroic and Legendary this time around.

Legendary in previous Halo games (well up until Reach) was an exercise in ammo economy efficiency, weapon knowledge and patience of play. This has been largely relaxed with Infinite with a lot of the difficulty coming through dps-check encounters and bottle-necking boss fights.