Halo MCC - Halo 2 LASO (Part 1: Cairo Station) - Back for More - Guide
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Part 1 of 13 for completing the Halo 2 LASO playlist in the Master Chief Collection which will grant you the "Back for More" achievement.
Level - Cairo Station
Difficulty - Legendary
Skulls - Skulls will automatically be selected when you select the Halo 2 LASO playlist. They are as follows: Anger, Assassin, Black Eye, Blind, Catch, Famine, Ghost, Grunt Birthday Party, Iron, IWHBYD, Mythic, Sputnik, That's Just...Wrong, and Thunderstorm.
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Johnson: "That or you can hide behind me." man, he wasn't kidding
Lmao I love this comment
@@SirShades23 this is by far my favourite comment so my first playthrough of halo 2 is on laso and seeing ur comment saying it breaks my heart when he despawns scares me and damn it really does break your heart lmaoi
What's Johnson Got in That damn Cigar!😐
- Me, after beating CE LASO: If they came to hear me beg, they will be disappointed.
- H2 LASO: Are you sure?...
exactly
Spent 3 hours just to get to the hangar section, starting to get flashbacks from Truth and Recoincilation
@R Hamlet Cairo is waaay worse than T&R. On T&R just conserve Sniper ammo and hide in the path behind the rock and use the AR for the lift fight. Go in with full sniper ammo, and then vacate the belly and hide in side passage ways. Then let the belly fill up, and trigger a large explosion chain that wipes out as many enemies as possible. Use the rest of your ammo to finish them off, then you're done with the hardest section. Use the Camo and drop down in time to skip the next section, then fight into the Hangar. In Hangar use grenade stack and the overshield to fly up to the 2nd or 3rd floor, and from then on the hardest part is over. Use sniper ammo to take over the bridge, then keep pushing and when out of ammo, backtrack to just outside the bridge there's sniper boxes there. Fight your way to keys, then fight to the bridge and kill the invisible elites and it's over. The fact I can remember the strat this many years after doing it, shows T&R at least skill somewhat translates. You can fight your way intelligently thru sections. In Cairo, you cannot complete this mission without Johnson unless you already are very good at Halo 2 LASO, and you won't be that good until you probably have beaten Halo 2 LASO, but Cairo is the first mission. I'd say it's worse than Gravemind LASO, the 2 hangar fights are beyond brutal. And once you clear those sections, there's still so many sections burned into my memory that were brutally difficult. The final fight by the bomb is no joke either, take's a lot of skill and a bit of luck to get thru that.
@R Hamlet I find the CE AI way dumber than Halo 2, the Halo 2 AI bc of the That's Just Wrong and Anger skulls know where you are at all times. In CE they don't, they lose you very easily when you hide. In 2 they don't lose you, and they don't stop firing you unless another target appears to draw their fire elsewhere.
I did T&R three times (bc I hit restart level while escorting Keyes back) and man, took me like 3 hours to get to Hangar on first attempt, and latter attempts were even faster. Cairo took me several months, but keep in mind realistically I only spent like 12-15 hours on it. The 1st hangar, would not cooperate with me. Maybe you got a good run early on? I could only get 1 in 20 runs where I would clear all the elites, and I would not get a checkpoint after idk if the game bugged or what, I didnt get a 2nd checkpoint the hallway to the 2nd hangar and that group that blows up the door to the 1st hangar and comes in would not cooperate either. The elites are bad enough they love to target you with the plasma rifles and you need to land all your plasma nades and hope they berserk, then you need to somehow whittle them down and backsmack the last, and hope they don't turn around when you go for the smack and kill you. Probably spent 10+ hours on the damn hangars, mainly the first one bc I wouldn't get checkpoints and the elites wouldn't stop targeting me. And just the fact you have to kite Johnson around makes it really aggravating and annoying. There's a lot of RNG to how well he distracts the enemies, often they lob nades and he flies to the corner behind a box and then they forgot him and now all converge on you.
On CE you can land grunt kills and those starts explosion chains that at the very least stun the enemies, there's not very many ways to distract Halo 2 elites with the Anger skull. Also in CE you don't need to backsmack, you can smack anywhere and instantly get shields back. In Halo 2 you need to get kills and backsmack is the best way to do it, Sputnik skull makes it doable bc it always flips them and exposes their back upon first punch, but man the rate of fire of the plasma weapons is just brutal, they strip your shields before you have any hope of closing the gap. And Cairo is so enemy dense, it's nightmare fuel.
Maybe I'm just that much better at CE, I've put in probably 2000+ hours into OG Halo 2 before MCC, but CE I probably put in 5000+, I know that game like the back of my hand, to the point I can hip fire the sniper pretty well, so even on controller with no aim assist, T&R just didn't seem too bad idk. I would gladly volunteer for T&R again right now, but it would take a lot to compel me to go thru Cairo again.
Maybe we have different opinions bc we had vastly different experiences? Maybe the game cooperated more for your run of Cairo than mine, and less so for T&R than it did for mine? I think it's more than possible, there is certainly an RNG aspect to the Halo sandbox regardless of skill. Or maybe it's just the game we feel more comfortable with? In CE it's easier to dodge bullets bc it is projectile based, Halo 2 is hitscan, the plasma weapons in Halo 2 work differently as well from CE. In CE like in 3, if you keep moving you can dodge a lot. In 2, there's not many ways to dance your way thru enemy fire, you hide behind cover and pew pew pew, then hide behind cover again bc the enemy weapons fire faster projectiles that are very difficult if not impossible to move out of the way of depending on the weapon.
This mission in a nutshell:
C'MON CHIEF DON'T LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT THEM
C'MON CHIEF YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THAT
WATCH IT MARINE
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CHIEF YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO SET AN E X A M P L E
YOU JUST SHOWED US HOW NOT TO DO IT
If you think about, it's not that surprising Johnson can take all the damage. He survived the Pillar of Autumn exploding right next to him after all.
So he survived halo 3 as well...
@@mr-slurpywurpy3594 no
Absolutely. He even turned up in Halo Wars 2. A shame about the Keyes family. They've got no luck in resurrection.
@@mr-slurpywurpy3594yeah, he’s hiding in a cave with 6
He survived Harvest...
“I’ve been looking forward to this.” - Count Dooku on Halo Completionist’s new Halo 2 LASO Guides
Twice the pride, double the fall.
Take a shot every time Sgt. Johnson gets hit by an energy sword.
Almost instant death
Off you go then
My kidneys and liver shriveled up
Your liver will be beyond saving.
Your grand children will have kidney problems if you drink that much
VERY IMPORTANT: Johnson can and WILL despawn on you if you manage to put enough distance between him and yourself. This is especially troubling in the first hangar area as he will likely be mutilated by the elites and thrown into a corner of the room, and then will eventually despawn because you can't exactly move toward him when there's 6 elites shooting at you. Just in general, if you want to go back to an area to get supplies and you have to leave Johnson more than a distance of a hangar bay away from you, don't. Just move on to the next section or melee Johnson with you back to the previous section. Always make sure you have a Johnson with you before you go into an area with a checkpoint, or all will perish.
If you're in co-op, one person just needs to watch him. It wasn't usually much of an issue for us. It happened once or twice, especially when I went a long way back in the Armory to find weapons, but there's a good chance he was blown upwards to the top of that area and my partner didn't realize (he killed himself later when that happened and I told him Johnson probably wasn't gone).
I just never let my eyes wander too far from him. He's like a pet. Cute, but the little shit constantly runs off.
i found this out the hard way
He despawned for me twice so far, but thankfully I didn't hit a checkpoint before it was too late lol
He de spawned right after I got him, I didn’t know that stuff though, I beat the mission anyways without him, but it took hours
Don't worry I always make sure to carry my Johnson when I'm out in public
And god bless you for the disclaimer about Heretic and Armory
Tai Paulsen yeah... it sucks... let me tell you firsthand lol
At what point does he say that I think I missed it lol
@@Willmon456 30 seconds in
Unfortunately me and my bud didnt know about that so we did completed LASO but didn’t complete Heretic and Armory 😔
Yup it did it with halo 3 for me
I love how Johnson is out in he vacuum of space in his neat little suit
1:37
"And that brings us to the black guy skull"
*Cuts to Johnson*
💀💀broo
He said “black eye”
@@boogattiveyron no he said black guy, it’s canon stfu.
Black guy😭😭😊
Lmfao. Best comment i've read in a while.
The summary of this is "Johnson's making a run for it"
Meleeing the boxes at the start actually fucking killed me
My first death was to a box
fuk
Same. Did something change? They don't give me shield they just damage me
@@XFerginatorX same
Lol 35:04
"we got a nade coming in"
"We got a new hat for johnson"
respect, to anyone that can complete Gravemind, with everything on..
Sgt. Johnson despawned when I was in the second hangar room with the turrets, and the game checkpointed against my will before I realized he was gone.
In this case I would recommend pushing through regardless as you have already gotten past the most agonizing parts of the mission. This will be a lot more complicated now, but you're almost at the end. Additionally for the turret room, because of the box protecting you at the turret, I think you could comfortably do that room without Johnson as well.
- In the hallway that leads to the Armory, take the left entrance. The enemies will pool at the right door (or at least they did consistently for me; if they aren't, alert them on that side). Jump over the first opening to the right side and they might not see you. Try and land on the BR so you can pick up the ammo, but either way sprint to the end door. The elite will pop out but melee him once to get him to flip from Sputnik, then try to backsmack him. I don't know how Silver gets it so consistently, but a lot of the time when the elites flip this way, the backsmack doesn't register. Keep trying either way, but know that it's a bit luck based regardless so you will have to do this part a good few times.
- Once you are in the floor under the Armory, you may find the other elite there behind the doors, but sometimes he has left. If he has left, just disregard him. If he hasn't, back smack him the same way. The elites on the top floor of the armory will notice you but usually don't even shoot at the grating. Sometimes they will charge down the stairs. Melee if so. Keep repositioning until you can get clean backsmacks on them, and the last one you can just wait for him to get close enough for a double melee. Again, this is a bit luck based which can be frustrating on top of the previous section's luck, but keep at it. Grab some ammo, but I think it would be better off to leave the 'killable' boxes till after the checkpoint so you can strategize with them later.
- It's a bit nervewracking getting the checkpoint in the next room when you don't have an ally to draw fire, but the checkpoint should give you enough time to comfortably get to safety every time you load. Like Silver does, prioritize killing the grunts first. This is awkward and luck based because sometimes the elites will just obliterate you and sometimes you will be able to get through completely unharmed. The elites here will always end up going back to their respective balconies, so when it's just them left, slowly push up to the balconies, up the stairs, and wait for them to charge you in the hallway. Then melee them. For the second elite doing this will likely end up triggering the new spawn of enemies, so hang back for a second after you kill the last elite. The reason I said to save those boxes to kill for shields was because depending on how the elites are treating you, you might want to kill the boxes so you have overshield to push them with.
- Thankfully because we do not have to worry about Johnson anymore you skip most of the enemies in this section. We want to just jump up to where the turret is. It's a tight crouch jump off the raised garden area, and we have to get it basically on the first try because the enemies will blast us as we attempt it. On my successful attempt I made the jump cleanly but my shields were still totally dropped, and chief made the near-death choking noise, so this is going to be a tight jump. Just sprint through all the doors once you're through. We can worry about our shields in the next section.
- In the next section we have some marines as well as our invincible allies. I don't believe Silver has mentioned this so early in the guide, but killing NPC allies also counts for regenerating shields for Black Eye. Try and melee them into a spot where you can kill them without immediately losing your shields to incoming fire again. Until you get to the space section it's a simple and slow push through the enemies. Do keep in mind that we don't particularly need our sword anymore and I would highly highly recommend swapping it out for a plasma pistols and carrying as many pistols as you can to the space section (the door will lock behind you afterwards and we really need those!)
- Space section is basically identical to the guide because we don't really use Johnson here anyways. There's a box you can melee in here for more health. I also found that sometimes the space rangers turn their backs at the door in which case, free easy kill and more shields. If they aren't moving, go back and forth between the airlock entrance and outer space until they move. Slowly pick them off at the other end. If you run out of plasma pistol like I did (even having brought many through the airlock) you can push up close for a melee or a stick. Try moving the boxes with your fists if you need cover. Just be aware that the rangers can be sneaky bastards and move over you with their jetpacks.
- The bugs are terrible because whoever designed the bugs hates the concept of fun. Definitely start from the airlock room peeking through the doors. Unfortunately you will have to dump BR ammo but we have three sources here; the marine carrying a BR (who will certainly die), the BR on the wall and the BR on the dead marine in the airlock. You can safely take cover at the barricade the marine will die at, but stay at the airlock until you are totally out of ammo there. If you still have ammo when all the left bugs are dead, try pushing out of the airlock a little and then retreating to see if some of the bugs move left side. In a pinch you can use a plasma pistol to slowly pick off bugs; if you are out of BR before fighting the grunts you may be screwed anyways, so if you are super low on BR at checkpoint try using the plasma pistols first. Do not take Silver's advice of dropping down to the elevator before it has finished rising because you will likely die. Instead wait a while for the elevator to come up.
- When the bugs are clear and you are dealing with the new squad of enemies, pick off the grunts first. You may be able to close the distance a bit if they're hiding. I found success by picking off the grunts, pushing up to the crates on the middle of the elevator, getting lucky by being able to 2 charge an elite and headshot him, and then meleeing the last one and being lucky enough to not die to that. Obviously that isn't consistent but I couldn't find any other way to deal with them. Note that I found the elevator eventually lowers down on its own for some reason. You could come up with a strategy around that, but you should know that when this happened to me, the elites were impossible to hit with plasma pistol because they were far but not far enough to stop moving away from my shots. Now we want to gather up all the weapons in the room and drop them down the ramp. We mainly want plasma pistols but I grabbed the SMGs and everything too because I could. I even put some small crates and one large crate in case I could come up with a use for them but I only ended up needing a few pistols.
- In the next room hang back in the airlock. Try to get the elites not on the turret first because the turret guy will just chill. When they're all gone go up to the turret and push up against the caution tape underneath (classic graphics) and you should see the next two rangers fly down. Retreat to the airlock, grab ammo, and slowly try to pick off the last two rangers. Again, lots of randomness here, but thankfully they only take one charged shot or one sticky.
- The bomb room. For this area we will follow the strategy devised by another commenter, full credits to Sumaech for this brilliant play. Move the large crate up to the small crate near the catwalk. The small crate's position is good as is, and we want the large crate covering our flanks so we have a little fortress. Wait for an elite to push up into melee range and whack him. Ideally, you want him to see you through your little fort window, and then he will climb over the catwalk and drop down nearby. Use the fort as cover from the others as you do so. Once you've got one, run over to the opposite side and hide in the corner. We don't need to set up the boxes here (although you can if you'd like). Simply wait in the corner for one elite to hop down and attack, backsmack and hide again. Wait for the second, backsmack him, and return to the fort. We have to deal with 6 elites in total, but 4 of them are going to be pushing our position. Once you've gotten all four of the aggressive ones, you have a lot more room to move around, but unfortunately things get very inconsistent here. I had a lot of trouble with Sumaech's suggestion of rushing them with the sword personally as they seemed to know where I was no matter how I set up the boxes or how I approached them. I ended up using plasma pistol to drop one of their shields and headshot, then rushed the other one with a standard melee. Don't forget that they can kill you mid sword draw so you need to be precise. Expect to mess up a bunch getting there and having to try those last two a bunch more times.
Good luck. I know this is a huge essay length but if it can save others from having to spend as long on this mission as I did then it's worth it. If you are patient enough to have gotten this far you can do it with enough time.
Just finished CE with your guides, just in time for Halo 2. God bless you man
on laso? i rage quited on first room😂
I’ve seen you working on these for over a month at this point, every time it shows you’re online it says you’ve been playing Halo 2 Legendary and it had me in such anticipation for these. Thanks for being strong enough to lead the way for all of us 👍🏽
I’m glad babe I’m doing well I
I’m glad I did it too
I’m not going on my my schedule
I’m
Update, it took me a while and being occupied with stuff IRL. But I found the keys to this success
1-this should be your last halo game you want to beat on laso cause damn is this shit hard
2-the 1st hanger you want to take it slow while there are still grunts around stick the elites to find out who is going to agro and pull out the sword. From there prioritize the elites that only use rifles. Take your time and be patient.
3-most of the time you can shoot an elite twice that’s next to Johnson and he will see him and engage. From there just play it safe and finish off with a head shot.
4-don’t be afraid to rush elites…be close and wait for their rifle to over heat. Hitting elites is a good way to pause the fight and have them expose their back to you.
5-IF AT ANY POINT YOU LOSE SIGHT OF JOHNSON SAVE AND QUIT. I have had to restart this mission 4 times each of them where pass both hangers…stay close to Johnson during checkpoints and avoid going back to other areas to grab ammo. You won’t run out
I died about thirty times from those boxes flinging back at me at the beginning of the level
I love how professional and straight to the point you are in your videos. I also really enjoyed you pretty much talking about Johnson like he's a dog lol
I remember watching your og H2 LASO run back in the day! I'm glad to see an updated run, not to say anything was wrong with the original one.
Same! I've been wanting to update these for a long time. Much better strats this time around, plus way better audio/video, too!
“Johnson loves boxes.”
Johnson: Oh I know what the ladies like.
Oh I know what the boxes like
Just as a heads up, sometimes when you finish the playlist, it might take a solid 5 minutes for the achievement to pop up. Don’t freak out, if you did all the steps correctly, you’ll have your achievement. Me and my brother just finished Halo 2 Laso and we kinda freaked out hehe, but we did get the achievement.
The way Johnson looks at you accusingly, as you manipulate him at sword point and use him like a rubber glove in a hemorrhoid surgery.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how he managed to get the full mission with one life?. I mean, just... Wooow.
I know that there's a lot of practice and tries behind it, but for the tutorial, it might have been ok even if some deaths occur and/or just edited out, but to get it so excellent, specially with some very close calls, it's amazing.
The best tutorial; straight to the point. I'm gonna definitely try it; I grew up with Halo 2 in Legendary, so I know that it requires patience (I think I, personally, find more tedious the CE Legendary, let alone LASO, just because of the checkpoint system in there; but there's no question that I always found Cairo Station among the hardest levels ever, specially because it's more difficult to properly skip as opposed to Outskirts).
My computer crashed on me in the final room 3 times. This mission had me ready to rip every hair out of my head. I finally got it finished tonight. Thank you so fucking much for this guide Silver, you are legendary.
a small point about the blind skull: you don't need to use a piece of paper, you could use a crosshair overlay for your computer such as CrossOver.
This channel deserves way more views. He doesn’t get enough credit for what his videos do for the for us halo fans & achievement hunters. Thanks silver !
This video is an excellent guide for Cairo Station on LASO. That said, I think something VERY important is overlooked:
If you wander too far away from Johnson at any point in the level, there is a very high chance that he will despawn and disappear from the level completely. Say, for example, you're in the room just before you link up with Miranda and the second Johnson. You slice and dice Johnson all the way up to the barricade directly underneath the room with the grunts stationed at a turret overlooking the room. Now, let's say you decide to run back into the armory to grab some more BR ammo. At this point, there's a pretty good chance that Johnson will suddenly disappear from the level and cannot be recovered without using the Iron Skull workaround, which, of course, means loading in at the previous checkpoint, thus undoing everything you achieved in that area. I know this for a fact, because while I was running this level on LASO using the Johnson exploit, I lost him no less than five times at various points throughout the level, and had to quit the game and load back in at my last checkpoint in order to bring him back. It happened in the area I mentioned above (the large room outside the armory), in the area where you encounter the first boarding craft (three times), and in the final area with the bomb. Again, excellent guide, but I think it is extremely necessary to stress just how important it is that you never wander too far away from Johnson, especially across distances of two or more rooms apart.
Thank you for the info, do you want to run LASO with me?
Took me about 12 total hours, but I finally did it thanks to your guide! That's one down...
Well this was a pleasant surprise. I've been recently watching your lasso guides from a few years ago and the ones that you recently made on Halo 1 but it will be interesting to watch your new and improved guides coming up.
They are huge upgrades from the original guides! Very happy with them.
Good. I've been waiting for these. I needed to take a break from laso during Regret.
That 2.0 guide is coming out on the 18th. Basically one a day through the 24th. It contains a baller trick to make the Regret boss battle laughable!
i've been waiting so long for these updated guides (even though i already beat it) you are the fucking man silver lets go!!!!
Johnson is really important. I lost him after the turret-crate glitch and decided to finish the level without him. Needless to say, it was extremely difficult.
this is a tip t make Johnson shoot at the invisi elites, if they are directly inn front of him, just shoot the br at the elite and johnson will immediately fire back as he can see where they are now. hope this helps most. im on Cairo right now, just got an overkill with 4 elites shooting at johnson and their backs towards me, i assassinated all 4 remaining elites without them even noticing me lmao
Took me 1:00:06 in-game to finish this, or about 5 hours IRL lol. It's finally done, the hardest level. Thanks Silver.
Same about an hour but really 5 hours
Lol tried this myself. It's ridiculously difficult. Thank you for this walkthrough.
Omg Halo 2 is the last LASO i have to do and man, this level was harder than everything i have done untill now, by far (except maybe the very end of Reach). Looks like there are less exploits/glitches in H2 than the other games. Or maybe it's just this level but god i'm scared to continue...
Thanks Silver for the guide
That last room is a nightmare. Those needlers are complete BS. Managed to get through it though.
Still 12 more of this hellish abominations to go...
yesss, ive been waiting for this! i recently started to do all the LASO runs and heard halo 2 was the hardest. Ive used your guides for all the others so far and heard you say you'd be releasing updated guides as the games came out on PC. halo 2 is the last one i need, thanks so much for all these guides you're a legend!
did u complete it all? i've done all halos laso except 2! I just finished this mission :)
@@vegetabrah1889 I've played through halo 2 once. It's also the only laso I've ever done. I might do a few others one day, I know it'll be doable with these vids
The boxes kill me when i melee
Never ended up beating H2A on Laso. Guess it's time for round 2.
Thanks alot for your guide! First combat mission of my last LASO series done, all thanks to you (other LASOs included too).
Just to throw out also, you dont have to purposely shoot plasma at the multiple elites to break theyre shields when theyre slicing johnson. It does make it faster, but their own swings have friendly fire on and you can actually wait a while for them to break each others shields then finish them off before attempting to melee the last guy if u need shields. Happy hunting boys
Got all the way to the end and had 3 elites with swords, they smacked a box and it landed on me and killed me. I laughed a little too long and the iron skull caused me to have to restart…that’s 7hrs of my life I’ll never get back
Silver"some time he does some time he doesn't"
Your commints about Johnson made it less pain to follow the guide and enjoyable. The hardest part for me was the firsrt hanger toke me about 1 hour to pass but the rest of the mission was easier. Thank you.
35:10 I respect the Monty Python reference...
and completing this mission on LASO, but that's beside the point.
"Yeah i can do halo 2 laso just let me watch a walk-"
*hour long video*
"I think i'll just do regular legendary then come back when i complete every halo blindfolded"
Glad to see the co-op bug get pointed out. Notably, this can happen on any playlist by joining someone who has more progress than you. H2 has failure built-in though. The way to get around playing the whole thing again is to just beat the last mission. I, and a few other people, have been passing out last mission saves. Maybe this disclaimer will curb the numbers.
Does this method still work?
If you can beat this level, you can do the rest of Halo 2 LASO.
I finally did it, thank you silver. H2 is my last LASO for 100% MCC and your guides carried me through it all, SOLO. Long road ahead for H2 but this is the start of something great. You've done gods work
Punching the boxes damages me instead. Not sure if the exploit for shields has been patched or I'm somehow doing something wrong.
Two extra things that helped me; the pelican can give you a shield (hitting the underside of the left wing if that matters) and you can get free ammo by giving the br to Johnson when it is reloading (works in all halos with AI team mates). Thanks for these guides!
So youre clearly back for more huh
How come when I hit the boxes at the start it causes a suicide?
The fact the views pretty steadily decrease ever video in this playlist is very telling.
Completed!!!! Today! Thank you so much for this awesome guide Silver!! Took me some serious time but your guide got me through it. I've used your guides to get many of the MCC achievements. Only 6 left.
For my PC brethren, if you have a gaming monitor, some monitors have a reticle display option, and it is IMMENSELY helpful on all Halos. The catch is it's a centralized reticle so you'll need to change that setting in MCC. Hope that helps!
Edit: Clarified text a bit more.
For those of you struggling with the last room and may have lost Johnson I have a little guide based off a few of the other comments so props to those guys.
-As soon as you exit the elevator, run to the right side under the catwalk melee that small box out of the way so you can lunge at elites when they push you, the elites will be firing at you heavy. Stick hard in the corner and wait for one to push you, he will most likely round the corner rather than running wide so long as you're backed far into the corner, if youre close to the edge of the wall, he might run wide or not round the corner at all, meaning you'll have to push out further. Melee finish him off. I've noticed that the plasma pistol melees way faster and is more consistent than the BR.
-Once he's dead, run to the other side of the room and repeat the process, hide under the catwalk, melee the elite as he rounds the corner. This time there will be 2 instead of 1. Once you've killed one just do the same for the other. again, stick far in the corner so they round it. sometimes theyll drop off the catwalk above you so keep an eye out. You might have to shoot them to get their attention. Moving close to the edge of the wall and then back into the corner often prompts them to push you faster.
-When they're both dead, head back to the right side of the room and hide under the catwalk again. This time the elite has 2 plasma rifles and likes to run wide or sometimes even run up on top of the middle part. You might want to use a sword if one of the other elites have dropped one, as you can melee much faster and lunge, however if you're low on shields, use the plasma pistol so when you backsmack him you get your shields back. He is pretty inconsistent and hard to kill. I died a lot to him.
-Once he's dead, i used a plasma pistol to noob combo both of the remaining elites. Neither of these will push past the back of the room, but they will stray left and right. If you dont have a plasma piston, use a plasma rifle, crouch behind one of the small boxes and pick at them from afar, then finish with the BR. You can also melee the boxes to get closer and try melee them but this only worked for me once to kill just 1 elite before the other killed me and i tried it for ages, so I'm not sure how effective that is.
- you can also shepherd them with grenades to lock them on the right side next to the bomb, and blow the big boxes away so they have no cover.
Hope this helps!
In the first drop ship room, Johnson despawned on my friend and I.
This happened to me as well. I get the impression that all of this has been patched, including hitting the boxes for shield (actually damages the you instead), but you can still get health from hitting turrets. Although, even the most recent comments (within the last few months) seem to suggest otherwise...unless it was patched very recently.
@@user-eh9gk5uq2r We managed to get it. You have to babysit Johnson so he doesn’t deload.
@@l-l Nice one. Yeah, I just worked that out myself actually. I've got him to the first loading bay currently.
Thank you for these! I've been anticipating it for so long and can't wait to try it soon.
Thanks for the heads up about the co-op thing too, or I would've been so mad to replay The Great Journey again just to get the achievement to pop
Can't wait to start tackling these, thanks Silver!!! I didn't get an Xbone so I never played the original MCC. Now on PC watching some old CE guides from 5 years ago, the quality of your guides have skyrocketed.
Thank you! I've wanted to upgrade these for a long time. Strats are way better + improved audio/video quality as a bonus.
I finished Halo CE laso playlist thanks to you but I’m not sure if I can handle this level...
These guides are great. There are so many major details that people figure out to make LASO campaigns so much easier. But man, I know when I'm beat. I will not be trying these again. I'm satisfied that I was even able to beat Halo 2 on regular Legendary...
I don't know if you're trolling/lying or they patched it, but punching those boxes in the beginning killed me twice and definitely didn't give me any shield.
they MUST have patched it lmfao, i just died twice trying to do the same thing lmfaooooo. you can just melee the white dude at the beginning for 1x overshield.
Cant wait for halo 2 to be released so i can follow your guide to olso complete this laso
Bro it has been released that is how he is recording this video
@@argo117007 what i meant (A week ago) was for the pc version
My Johnson despawned (that sounds worse than it is) and I had to fight through the buggers till the end of this grueling mission. Great guide, nonethless. This one will haunt me, right up there with Truth and Regret My Life Choices
5:42 so I got killed by this box, things are going well.
Edit: the boxes do nothing but hurt me.
Edit 2: 13:55 got killed by this box too.
Edit 3: 18:40 your Johnson is a lot more useful than my Johnson, who disappears completely half the time and barely shoots the elites.
Thank you so much for making this! I just finished Halo Reach Laso, and also just finished the MCC on legendary. I can't wait to get to halo 2, it's gonna be fun!
We were waiting so long for you to start uploading these silver ty!
Woohoo I've been waiting for these! I'm up to gravemind and getting a bit depressed. Might give it a break for a bit and wait for the new guide. Thanks for your work!
The new guide makes it a lot easier, may want to wait. The first room is easier to get out of and you don't have to deal with the prison or mausoleum at all.
@@HaloCompletionist thats incredible
I truly admire the skill you've put into doing this, on one life only too to make it even more insane.
This is awesome can’t believe your back for more 😂
Good to see you back at it! Your guides already helped me beat Halo 2 LASO, (along with CE, 3 and ODST). Moving onto Reach very soon. Thanks, Silver!
it took me probably 5 hours to get to 24:05 in my game, that room was just so very difficult
If Johnson is crouched behind a barricade and won’t move, you can get him to move by knocking an object into him
The area with Johnson and the 4 rangers and 1 turret ranger was so fucking annoying. He fell down so many times. Also a tip for those who haven't broken Moa statues for their weekly: there is an infinitely respawning Moa statue near the spot where Silver swords Johnson out in space on the moving Mac gun. You can melee this for shields.
Took us 7 hrs in total (today only) to get thru this level only for the game to crash for a third time at the jetpack elites part after the drones. The netcode is trash and the lag was un-freaking-bearable. Agony. Suffering.
Not using wifi seems to make it a lot more stable
During the mac cannon part, my SGT Johnson decided to keep on running left on the mac cannon itself, he nearly fell down a few times.
He must have known that there we're a tone of boxes in the next room and was basically itching to get there.
Dude. The outside spot before the final section took me over an hour. My Johnson ran around and didn’t cooperate at all and fell off so many times. Finally got lucky
I have died about 7 times to boxes and the sputnik skull for each time an actual enemy has gotten me
343 messed up LASO by taking out the Envy skull. That was the only thing that “balanced” LASO in the original
These Boxes at start. The small one's. When I hit them the kill me
Yea for real what is going on??
my man silver ready with updated h2 laso strats, been looking forward to this
I can't believe I did it, I kinda improvised in some parts because Johnson wouldn't cooperate but I did it in 3 hours!, Thanks a lot for the guide my man, I'm actually going for the entire SLASO playlist
Halo 2 LASO made us bust out the illinois cross of death again. goddamn
Does the box trick and dies. 10/10
Hey Silver, just a minor tip i found doing my LASO run through this following your guide - the section with the buggars towards the end, for me it felt more reliable that Johnson would stay at that centre small crate in the open if i sliced him just a bit more to the right of it than you did.. anyway, thanks for the guide, got through it because of you
I was never even interested in LASO until I watched this H2A series and realized it was full of fun tricks. Just beat Cairo Station following your guide. It helped me feel like I was progressing, but there's so much unpredictable AI behavior that it was still a fun struggle. Johnson kept despawning on me in the first hangar bay and the Elites refused to berserk anytime I got a stick in there, but I did the second bay without having to reset at all. Johnson also took it upon himself to run all the way up the ramp of the MAC platform during the spacewalk segment and jump off the end; when I reset and slowed him down the second time, he ran and jumped to the little area opposite the door side and gave me the easiest kills possible. Wild Card Johnson. Anyway, thanks for making this series! The videos are concise and very well put together with great explanations.
6 hours and 37 minutes is what it took me and my brother to beat this level. But thanks for an awesome walkthrough :)
it took me 5 hours to get to the parrt with the buggers. Then I die and the game decides to make the save quit option not work. thx game
I have a pounding headache while watching this but I can’t turn it off, I have to finish the fight, I mean finish the video
On the final room, after moving all the boxes, throw a nade close to Johnson to launch him towards the elites. If he lands in the elites area all of them will start swording Johnson at once; you can remove their shields with a plasma rifle and finish them with the br. If an elite charges you get into the elevator, they may follow you but they can’t get into the elevator.
Not looking forward to this at all lol, lets go baby! Thanks so much for these
"We got a grenade coming in; We got a NEW hat for Johnson" :)
17:05
"Nope, nope, he's making a run for it. Keep slicing him"
Holy fucking shit it's done. It's over. Finally finished the god damn level. Only took 9 hours.
@Halo Completionist thanks for posting this, this is the last achievement i have left and ive been waiting for your guides to do them. LASO always plays levels different than legendary, Whats the hardest level i have to look forward to in this one?
Cairo Station, Regret and Gravemind are the three big boys.
well, that was a rough 3-ish hours, but ya boi did it
So about the boxes at the start. They kill me everytime i jump on the small one and melee it.
I'm trying this on Monday.