Although I've beaten Halo 2 on Legendary (thanks to your guides Hokie!) and I absolutely adore the game like no other, there are plenty of worthy criticisms to it. One of the things that irks me the most about Halo 2 was Bungie's decision to make the difficulty change the enemy types you encounter. Halo CE did this to an extent (think all those extra stealthed sword elites you face on legendary when you board the Covenant carrier on Truth and Reconciliation) but imo Halo 2 did this in a really unbalenced way. In CE you still face zealots, badass Spec Op elites, and plenty of stealthed elites on whatever difficulty you select. Legendary just has a few more and it is, of course, harder with the difficulty increased. Halo 2 however will greatly limit your encounters with these other enemy types if you select Easy or Normal. Heroic offers a decent mix but still hides from you some of the really fun and cool experiences of the campaign you will only get on Legendary. For example - on Outskirts you will not get ambused by stealth elites in sniper alley on Easy or Normal... You also won't encounter any Ultra elites during that level or face zealots. Heroic will give you at least 3, maybe 5, ultras during the level and a fun ambush of about 2 stealth elites in the alley. Now on Legendary it gets cranked up further and you have 2 zealots on the level, more ultras, and a several stealth elites in that alley ambush - plus one carrying a sword! This makes a dramatically different level experience with more fun encounters and variety. Unfortunately you can't get that without playing at higher difficulties and that is simply poor game design because it limits less skilled players experiences in the campaign. Those extra different varieties and fights are a lot of fun. Think about if you sucked at Halo but loved the game. This problem is compounded by H2's insane jump in difficulty from Heroic to Legendary. Not only do less skilled players lose out, but skilled players who just want to enjoy casual playthrough of their favorite level with all the cool parts can't do that with Legendary being their only option. Like Hokie mentions, many tactics become useless on Legendary forcing the player to rely on guarenteed kill methods. For a player like me for example, I can play Legendary, but to succeed I usually have to use the noob combo or sniper rifle and I can't duel weild or use melee (my two favorite things to do). This really blows honestly when I have to choose between encounters with variety, but little ability to have the most fun in my playthrough, or face almost entirely red and blue elites but not face insta sniper death and have fun dual weilding or melee'ing. The Thunderstorm skull kinda helps but it is a poor workaround at best. I love the tunnel firefight in Metropolis, but I can't use the shotgun or the warthog very well on Heroic - not at all on Legendary. And to fight a single stealth elite you have to be on Heroic; Legendary if you want 2 plus a zealot. See the conundrum here? Richer battles less player options, more options blander battles. For those interested: I did a playthrough of Chief's levels on Normal yesterday to count enemy encounters for what a typical player might experience if they picked up and played Halo 2 one time. I only fought 4-5 ultras (1 driving the scarab and 4-5 at the end of Gravemind), 1 "zealot" (the ultra honor guard high councilor is a bug due to a coding error and is supposed to appear as a zealot, he just looks different but is the same otherwise), and around 10-12 stealth elites. That's hardly anything if you did a similar count on Legendary or even Heroic. (Heroic still has only that single "zealot" fight, no others like Legendary major bummer...) What an unfortunate and decidedly blander experience you would've had if that had been your only impression. Come on, when that zealot hops down from the building on Outskirts after sniper alley to taunt you or those stealth elites assault you for the final wave of phantoms on Delta Halo, those are awesome experiences! I love Halo 2 like no other game but it would be SO much better with just a simple tweak in this department.
My basic way of playing Halo 2 resides on the noob combo... for Legendary... for Cairo Station. Outskirts (one of my least favorite missions) I usually have no problem with. Metropolis was hard with the Tank, but still made it through, with the Beam Rifle, of course. But whenever I can use dual Needlers, I exploit the hell out of the OPness. I do Flood levels with Battle Rifle/Carbine and Shotgun/Energy Swords, which all work great. I've yet to complete past Delta Halo on Legendary, mostly due to determination, lack there of. But Halo 2 is definitely a game BUNGiE went through hell to make, so we must keep that in mind.
Sorry for necro posting but I do want to ask does anyone know for sure if you cant get ultras on easy or normal because I was messing around a week ago and I ran into a damn ultra elite on outskirts along with an ultra grunt with him during the beginning with the waves. I cant remember for sure if it was easy or normal but it was definitely one of the two (I even took a picture of it but it was on 360 so pause menu wouldn't show difficulty)
Kevin Right Yes, I was hoping people would realize that without me pointing it out. Plus, in Halo 2, I was dead before the Grunt even had the chance to fire at me, so it was really just one Elite that killed me in a little more than a second!
aside from the fact enemies deal more damage in legendary, to put things into perspective even more, in the first game, you had 75 units of life and shielding for like 150. in the later games, if my memory isnt failing me, it was reduced to 70 shield and 45 life for the future titles further making you squishier.
Fun Halo 2 Fact: On Legendary, The ONLY THING that has less health then you in Halo 2 is The Flood Spore.... Fucking GRUNTS!!!!! Are Stronger Then You in Halo 2 Legendary
Actually they're not, you have 70 shield strength followed by 30 health, grunts have 60 minor, 75 major and 90 ultra, so basically you have more but the global multiplier for their damage is set 1.5,meaning that they do 50% extra damage to you
I still remember seeing your Halo CE livestream where someone asked you when this would come out. You said in a few months. That livestream was back in 2014.
Great video, Hokie! I know these take a lot of time and effort to produce, so thank you for sharing it and for keeping it up to your high standards. As usual, I learned something new. I wasn't aware of the story behind Bungie's development of the game and running into hardware limitations. The fact that is wasn't intentional to have Legendary be so difficult leads me to give Bungie more credit than I previously did. I have such mixed feelings about Halo 2. Bungie added so much to the game, and most of it was an improvement over Halo CE, most notably adding more head-shot weapons. It is an incredible sequel. But the difficulty gap between Heroic and Legendary is a huge problem because it sucks so much fun out of the game; I know you don't need me to tell you about it. Also I loved your intro, such a great way to start off a Halo 2 series - "Oh fuck, I'm dead already." That's Halo 2's campaign in one sentence. If you ever get stuck with writer's block on any future productions, feel free to chat or bounce some ideas around if you'd like. Cheers man!
I had just assumed that they didn't properly play test H2 on legendary. But it casts them in a better light if they were pushing the Xbox to its limits and just didn't have enough time to smooth it over before launch. It's a bit of a shame, because it makes one wonder what H2 could have been if Bungie had an extra month or so to address the issues. Regardless, they indeed got it right in Halo 3.
I managed to do halo 2 legendary without your guide, it was hard as hell especially the boss fights. Same goes for 1 and 4. But helioskrill was worth it.
I really respect the amount of time and effort you put into these guides. Thanks to you i can play these games without throwing my controller into wall every 2seconds. Hope you make more avesome content like this in the future (btw after this series halo 3 maybe?) :3
If Halo 2's release date had been changed to a later date, and Bungie had gotten more time to polish Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty, I have a feeling that Halo 2 on Legendary would leagues less frustrating, and more like an even balance of difficult, and fun to play. Pretty much what they did with Halo 3. It reminds me of Valve, and how their long development lengths for the games they make end with fantastically designed results.I mean "fantastically" as a compliment to their titles and Valve, not as an insult.
+Anthony Hill I did some research and figured out Halo 2 didn't even have near the amount of features in it than that were planned because BUNGiE had to discard almost everything halfway through development, quite literally going through hell to get it done. As you see what the outcome is...
Fanamatakecick Yep. It most likely would've taken too long to go back and fix all the issues, and add all the cut features. So, instead, we have the gem that is Halo 3.
Damage from bullets in CE were 10 to about 25 for the magnum and 101 for the sniper. In halo 2 smg does 4.5 the magnum 15 and the sniper 45.health values are the same for grunts, jackals have a buff from 75 to 90 and elites have nerf from 100 to 45 on legendary for the minor 60 for major and 120 for ultra
Watching that one plasma shot on easy take off the tiniest smidgen of shield legitimately made me laugh. One plasma shot on Legendary sure takes off at least 25x more than that.
Halo 2, Always have a head shot capable weapon, memorize all jackal sniper spawns, be prepared for all situations. tick these boxes and it's no where near as hard as people claim. Though granted, the Regret fight can depend on the luck of the draw on where plasma rifle wielding elites spawn.
While it's kind of an old idea, one more thing I'd recommend is turning on campaign scoring. In events where you fire at an opponent at long range, it acts as a quiet confirmation that you did get that guy you shot at if you've gotta return to cover very quickly.
Thank you very much for the information Hokie. I was pounding the computer monitor (Metaphorically speaking), at how difficult Halo 2 legendary was for a long time. Your awesome! :D Yes, i did watch your first School of Halo, that was very helpful as well.
awesome video hokie it was well made and very informative to watch not to mention the difference of the between the two games was something i had no idea of. i look forward to your next video.
Personally, I just play on heroic. It isn't hard enough to stop the over the top badass gameplay, but keeps me on my toes, and like tobuscus in the comment above says, you get some unique and memorable moments that aren't in normal difficulty. Honestly, I'll love this game no matter what ;)
Halo 2 wasn't nightmarishly difficult for me. I used to play on Mythic difficulty with Catch, Grunt Bday, Envy, IWBTDH, Thunderstorm, Sputnik, Catch and the skull that makes allies more intelligent on. It was a blast.
I'm in the process of a legend lets play and I think a new mechanic you forgot to mention is the destructible vehicles started here, unless your going to bring that up when you cover the vehicles
Re: Dual Wielding - Have you ever tried a pistol/SMG combo? You don't mention it, but that combo is absolutely sick in Halo 2. You've got about the range of a shotgun, but the damage output is ridiculous - especially if you're landing headshots.
Hokiebird428 eh im ok with that ;P But still good luck with the script and the clips you have to get of this, Can't wait for your stream with act man in less than 2 hours! ;)
Great insight Hokie, been looking forward to this. Just a shame you're being a tease and you're releasing them one at a time......only kidding I know the work you put in on them. If serious, well constructed and superbly commentated videos were worth as much as one tenth of the bull re Halo on RUclips you'd have 1million subscribers tomorrow.
I thought I was crazy. Well, I am crazy, but I thought I was the only one who thought this game was damn near impossible to beat on Legendary, but I'm not alone! T^T
it's honestly like playing at rank 50 or champion in Halo 5. It's less about skill and more about focused fire and nothing else... The faster you kill what your teammates are already shooting at, the faster they can switch targets and the healthier they will be.
You should do a legendary and LASO guide for each Halo. I would worship you if you did. And if you have a Patreon I could you give you some love that way too.
I came her becuase it's your most recent video. I've been playing through MCC on Heroic, because even with your advice (School of Halo and small snippets of Noob's Guide) I'm not good enough at Legendary, and I am onto the unfair and unbalnced crap of Halo 4. Please give me your magic Hokiebird blessing and a few words of wisdom since I'm not bothered to watch all of the Noob's Guide, and help me struggle through the long, tedious and boring journey that lies ahead!
With Halo 4, just literally haul ass and you should have a decent chance of getting through without raging. If you want to do it legit... Good story can't save shitty gameplay, and may God be on your soul.
Feel like playing the game again although I've played the game a million times and know how RNJeasus based and unforgiving that is on legendary specially REGRET!
At 8:00, where you talk about enemies firing where they last saw you, is this mechanic in any way related to the elites in Reach firing slower when they first see you, and faster once they get a "lock" on you?
Enemies really do absorb an insane amount of damage. I think this might be a bug but when I stuck a silver elite (Maybe elite ultra) When it exploded it only took down half of his shield. WTF?
Well you can kill every elite on cairo station at the bomb section. If you just use the sword and plasma grenades very easily if you know what your doing and unfortunately most people don't.
@@Hokiebird428 That easy use plasma pistol+bro when necessary and weapon swap for sword. It may sound a little tedious but very satisfying when pulled off + the melee combat in halo 2(just for elites and hunters) is much easier and doable than halo 4 or 5 for example.
Have you made any progress on Episode 2 yet. If not, that's completely fine, you have a life you live and these videos take extremely long to make, especially when it comes to Halo 2. However, I don't expect to even see the next episode sooner than Late January of 2017. If so, what would your guesstimate be?
Although I've beaten Halo 2 on Legendary (thanks to your guides Hokie!) and I absolutely adore the game like no other, there are plenty of worthy criticisms to it. One of the things that irks me the most about Halo 2 was Bungie's decision to make the difficulty change the enemy types you encounter. Halo CE did this to an extent (think all those extra stealthed sword elites you face on legendary when you board the Covenant carrier on Truth and Reconciliation) but imo Halo 2 did this in a really unbalenced way.
In CE you still face zealots, badass Spec Op elites, and plenty of stealthed elites on whatever difficulty you select. Legendary just has a few more and it is, of course, harder with the difficulty increased. Halo 2 however will greatly limit your encounters with these other enemy types if you select Easy or Normal. Heroic offers a decent mix but still hides from you some of the really fun and cool experiences of the campaign you will only get on Legendary.
For example - on Outskirts you will not get ambused by stealth elites in sniper alley on Easy or Normal... You also won't encounter any Ultra elites during that level or face zealots. Heroic will give you at least 3, maybe 5, ultras during the level and a fun ambush of about 2 stealth elites in the alley.
Now on Legendary it gets cranked up further and you have 2 zealots on the level, more ultras, and a several stealth elites in that alley ambush - plus one carrying a sword!
This makes a dramatically different level experience with more fun encounters and variety. Unfortunately you can't get that without playing at higher difficulties and that is simply poor game design because it limits less skilled players experiences in the campaign. Those extra different varieties and fights are a lot of fun. Think about if you sucked at Halo but loved the game. This problem is compounded by H2's insane jump in difficulty from Heroic to Legendary. Not only do less skilled players lose out, but skilled players who just want to enjoy casual playthrough of their favorite level with all the cool parts can't do that with Legendary being their only option. Like Hokie mentions, many tactics become useless on Legendary forcing the player to rely on guarenteed kill methods.
For a player like me for example, I can play Legendary, but to succeed I usually have to use the noob combo or sniper rifle and I can't duel weild or use melee (my two favorite things to do). This really blows honestly when I have to choose between encounters with variety, but little ability to have the most fun in my playthrough, or face almost entirely red and blue elites but not face insta sniper death and have fun dual weilding or melee'ing.
The Thunderstorm skull kinda helps but it is a poor workaround at best.
I love the tunnel firefight in Metropolis, but I can't use the shotgun or the warthog very well on Heroic - not at all on Legendary. And to fight a single stealth elite you have to be on Heroic; Legendary if you want 2 plus a zealot. See the conundrum here? Richer battles less player options, more options blander battles.
For those interested: I did a playthrough of Chief's levels on Normal yesterday to count enemy encounters for what a typical player might experience if they picked up and played Halo 2 one time. I only fought 4-5 ultras (1 driving the scarab and 4-5 at the end of Gravemind), 1 "zealot" (the ultra honor guard high councilor is a bug due to a coding error and is supposed to appear as a zealot, he just looks different but is the same otherwise), and around 10-12 stealth elites. That's hardly anything if you did a similar count on Legendary or even Heroic. (Heroic still has only that single "zealot" fight, no others like Legendary major bummer...) What an unfortunate and decidedly blander experience you would've had if that had been your only impression. Come on, when that zealot hops down from the building on Outskirts after sniper alley to taunt you or those stealth elites assault you for the final wave of phantoms on Delta Halo, those are awesome experiences! I love Halo 2 like no other game but it would be SO much better with just a simple tweak in this department.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
+Montrell Crowder Glad to hear I'm not the only one
My basic way of playing Halo 2 resides on the noob combo... for Legendary... for Cairo Station. Outskirts (one of my least favorite missions) I usually have no problem with. Metropolis was hard with the Tank, but still made it through, with the Beam Rifle, of course. But whenever I can use dual Needlers, I exploit the hell out of the OPness. I do Flood levels with Battle Rifle/Carbine and Shotgun/Energy Swords, which all work great. I've yet to complete past Delta Halo on Legendary, mostly due to determination, lack there of. But Halo 2 is definitely a game BUNGiE went through hell to make, so we must keep that in mind.
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Sorry for necro posting but I do want to ask does anyone know for sure if you cant get ultras on easy or normal because I was messing around a week ago and I ran into a damn ultra elite on outskirts along with an ultra grunt with him during the beginning with the waves. I cant remember for sure if it was easy or normal but it was definitely one of the two (I even took a picture of it but it was on 360 so pause menu wouldn't show difficulty)
4:00 And this was 2 elites and 2 grunts firing at you, vs. just one elite!
Kevin Right Yes, I was hoping people would realize that without me pointing it out. Plus, in Halo 2, I was dead before the Grunt even had the chance to fire at me, so it was really just one Elite that killed me in a little more than a second!
aside from the fact enemies deal more damage in legendary, to put things into perspective even more, in the first game, you had 75 units of life and shielding for like 150. in the later games, if my memory isnt failing me, it was reduced to 70 shield and 45 life for the future titles further making you squishier.
Mochi actually the weapons don't do as much damage in Halo 2 and onwards hence why your weaker.
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Yeah, right.
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Fun Halo 2 Fact:
On Legendary, The ONLY THING that has less health then you in Halo 2 is The Flood Spore....
Fucking
GRUNTS!!!!!
Are Stronger Then You in Halo 2 Legendary
Hell, even your unshielded marines can take more damage than you can
Actually they're not, you have 70 shield strength followed by 30 health, grunts have 60 minor, 75 major and 90 ultra, so basically you have more but the global multiplier for their damage is set 1.5,meaning that they do 50% extra damage to you
I always admired how this guy is able to break down factors in a game making it fun or not that other people never think to mention.
I still remember seeing your Halo CE livestream where someone asked you when this would come out. You said in a few months. That livestream was back in 2014.
This came up in my recommended. Quite a nice blast from the past. Hard to believe it’s already been 4 years
man im real pleased to see hokies school of halo back... can't wait to see more of these
Desperately waiting for episode 2 because this series is so good
Great video, Hokie! I know these take a lot of time and effort to produce, so thank you for sharing it and for keeping it up to your high standards. As usual, I learned something new. I wasn't aware of the story behind Bungie's development of the game and running into hardware limitations. The fact that is wasn't intentional to have Legendary be so difficult leads me to give Bungie more credit than I previously did.
I have such mixed feelings about Halo 2. Bungie added so much to the game, and most of it was an improvement over Halo CE, most notably adding more head-shot weapons. It is an incredible sequel. But the difficulty gap between Heroic and Legendary is a huge problem because it sucks so much fun out of the game; I know you don't need me to tell you about it.
Also I loved your intro, such a great way to start off a Halo 2 series - "Oh fuck, I'm dead already." That's Halo 2's campaign in one sentence.
If you ever get stuck with writer's block on any future productions, feel free to chat or bounce some ideas around if you'd like. Cheers man!
You can tell that it wasn't intentional by the fact that they fixed it all in Halo 3.
I had just assumed that they didn't properly play test H2 on legendary. But it casts them in a better light if they were pushing the Xbox to its limits and just didn't have enough time to smooth it over before launch. It's a bit of a shame, because it makes one wonder what H2 could have been if Bungie had an extra month or so to address the issues.
Regardless, they indeed got it right in Halo 3.
+Hokiebird428 I bet it's going to be difficult to make the next part. Good luck...
Your comment on 8 thoughts was amazing
+fred g Thanks mate, I hope you got a good laugh out of it.
Glad to see you could finally get this series done Hokie. Can't wait to see the rest. Cheers man.
I managed to do halo 2 legendary without your guide, it was hard as hell especially the boss fights. Same goes for 1 and 4. But helioskrill was worth it.
I really respect the amount of time and effort you put into these guides. Thanks to you i can play these games without throwing my controller into wall every 2seconds. Hope you make more avesome content like this in the future (btw after this series halo 3 maybe?) :3
Just completed Halo 2 on Legendary for the first time today! Used a lot of your walkthroughs for various parts so thanks a lot Hokie!
Just discovered your channel and I love it!
Yes, I have been waiting for this!
If Halo 2's release date had been changed to a later date, and Bungie had gotten more time to polish Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty, I have a feeling that Halo 2 on Legendary would leagues less frustrating, and more like an even balance of difficult, and fun to play. Pretty much what they did with Halo 3. It reminds me of Valve, and how their long development lengths for the games they make end with fantastically designed results.I mean "fantastically" as a compliment to their titles and Valve, not as an insult.
Anthony Hill nah man completing Halo 2 on legendary gives a sense of achievement
Muhd Adeeb In a way, yes. But, it didn't have to be designed that way.
+Anthony Hill I did some research and figured out Halo 2 didn't even have near the amount of features in it than that were planned because BUNGiE had to discard almost everything halfway through development, quite literally going through hell to get it done. As you see what the outcome is...
Fanamatakecick Yep. It most likely would've taken too long to go back and fix all the issues, and add all the cut features. So, instead, we have the gem that is Halo 3.
***** halo 2 legendary was the best
Hokie, you are doing great wonders, my friend. Keep up the excellent work! :D
GREAT! I've been waiting for this series for ages! Great work! I'll wait for the rest of the episodes.
IT HAS COME
Wohoo, it's finally here!
it's here!!! I love the clip of the grunt taking so many bullets that you ran out of ammo and switched to a sniper lol
Thank you for this amazing video, Hokie! Keep it up!!!
Damage from bullets in CE were 10 to about 25 for the magnum and 101 for the sniper. In halo 2 smg does 4.5 the magnum 15 and the sniper 45.health values are the same for grunts, jackals have a buff from 75 to 90 and elites have nerf from 100 to 45 on legendary for the minor 60 for major and 120 for ultra
Hello Hokie! I love all your videos and I decided to say this, that the strategy you share is very good.
i just recently completed H2 on legendary using ur playthrough, i appreciate it cuz it took me over 10 years to complete this game.
man, almost one year ago when it came to hoki's school of halo. really wish you upload more often .
Best summary of halo 2 legendary ever "oh f*%$ I'm dead already."
Watching that one plasma shot on easy take off the tiniest smidgen of shield legitimately made me laugh.
One plasma shot on Legendary sure takes off at least 25x more than that.
Oh, the anticipation!
Halo 2, Always have a head shot capable weapon, memorize all jackal sniper spawns, be prepared for all situations. tick these boxes and it's no where near as hard as people claim. Though granted, the Regret fight can depend on the luck of the draw on where plasma rifle wielding elites spawn.
While it's kind of an old idea, one more thing I'd recommend is turning on campaign scoring. In events where you fire at an opponent at long range, it acts as a quiet confirmation that you did get that guy you shot at if you've gotta return to cover very quickly.
hokie you say thanks for watching but we need to thank you for making these content thank you alot 💪
Finally I've been waiting so long
Thank you very much for the information Hokie. I was pounding the computer monitor (Metaphorically speaking), at how difficult Halo 2 legendary was for a long time. Your awesome! :D
Yes, i did watch your first School of Halo, that was very helpful as well.
I just love how in this game, both a marine and grunt are stronger than the spartan :P
Watching hokie playing halo 2 on legendary is always entertaining 😂😂
awesome video hokie it was well made and very informative to watch not to mention the difference of the between the two games was something i had no idea of. i look forward to your next video.
I love this series hokiebird keep it up and I managed to pass all halos on legendary thanks to you nice job man
On the bridge level I also used to love taking the gauss warthog with rocket passenger
please post more man this was great
lol, I remembered watching the school of halo ce a long time ago.
I can't wait to see the rest of Halo 2 schools
It's about fucking time!!!! Finally!! And with school starting back up, I think you did this n purpose. Well, now to get to the video...
MY GOD ITS FINALLY HERE!
so happy its finally here
Amazing video man I hope you keep making them.
"So if you haven't already watched that, I'd recommend you do so before proceeding."
*Proceeds anyway*
What are you gonna do about it huh?
Personally, I just play on heroic. It isn't hard enough to stop the over the top badass gameplay, but keeps me on my toes, and like tobuscus in the comment above says, you get some unique and memorable moments that aren't in normal difficulty.
Honestly, I'll love this game no matter what ;)
I really hoped this walkthrough was made when I played halo 2 for my first time on legendary, and still had a functioning xbox.
Halo 2 wasn't nightmarishly difficult for me. I used to play on Mythic difficulty with Catch, Grunt Bday, Envy, IWBTDH, Thunderstorm, Sputnik, Catch and the skull that makes allies more intelligent on. It was a blast.
CONTINUE THIS SERIES FOR HALO 3 and finish this one please
Gotta love Ruby for rebalancing this game. Makes the game loads better.
I'm in the process of a legend lets play and I think a new mechanic you forgot to mention is the destructible vehicles started here, unless your going to bring that up when you cover the vehicles
Only human vehicles. Covenant vehicles were always destructible.
Only when in use, but not being used you can fire at the banshee and ghost all day and it they will be fine,
Re: Dual Wielding - Have you ever tried a pistol/SMG combo? You don't mention it, but that combo is absolutely sick in Halo 2. You've got about the range of a shotgun, but the damage output is ridiculous - especially if you're landing headshots.
Even though at this point I know a lot about halo 2, I'm looking forward to see whats in store for this :)
Don't hold your breath. Ep 2 probably won't be out for several months.
Hokiebird428 eh im ok with that ;P But still good luck with the script and the clips you have to get of this, Can't wait for your stream with act man in less than 2 hours! ;)
Take as much time as you'd like Hokie. We won't rush you.
It’s a good thing that Bungie fixed the mechanic where enemies shoot where they last saw you. That mechanic is just weird.
Hokie in 60fps is the sexiest thing I've ever seen.
If you ask me,
you should of put more sniper jackal deaths
to show what makes halo 2 on legendary SUPER hardd
A vast majority of my time playing CE on Legendary was with 1 bar of health.
Great insight Hokie, been looking forward to this. Just a shame you're being a tease and you're releasing them one at a time......only kidding I know the work you put in on them. If serious, well constructed and superbly commentated videos were worth as much as one tenth of the bull re Halo on RUclips you'd have 1million subscribers tomorrow.
YES ITS OUT
nice video, but, how do I find teh g0lden warthog??
"and the result is the HELLISH NIGHTMARE of a game that we know today"
hahahaha it's still hell on earth in 2018 wow
Great video. Long live Halo 2!
Awesome video!
I thought I was crazy. Well, I am crazy, but I thought I was the only one who thought this game was damn near impossible to beat on Legendary, but I'm not alone! T^T
*Holy Chicken Nuggets, Halo 2 Legendary is UNFORGIVINGLY HARD!* - Me If I ever played Halo 2 Legendary.
Salvation is here! Nice intro ;)
it's honestly like playing at rank 50 or champion in Halo 5. It's less about skill and more about focused fire and nothing else... The faster you kill what your teammates are already shooting at, the faster they can switch targets and the healthier they will be.
Please compete this!!!!
I pissed myself when I saw this in my subscription box...
Hoky the enemies can also take your vehicle if u get to close to them !
STILL WAITING FOR EPISODE 2 :)
You should do a legendary and LASO guide for each Halo. I would worship you if you did.
And if you have a Patreon I could you give you some love that way too.
first thing about halo 2 legendary is after the covenant see us (main character) Th
ey will try to finish us of first and then go to the marines
HOLY SHIT ITS FINALLY HERE!!!!!!THX U HOKIE YOU HAVE SAVED MY LIFE
Who doesn't feel this way about Hokie's School of Halo 2?
Phil Spencer lol
HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!
WHY ARE WE ALL SHOUTING LOL :)
+russell foo F#CKIN HYPED BRO, THATS WHAT!!! CANT WAIT FOR PART 2!!!!
Great Video.
Hype! New school of halo!!!!
Hokie you should do a co-op campaign with someone and do mission on all the halos and maybe stream live on twitch.
I came her becuase it's your most recent video. I've been playing through MCC on Heroic, because even with your advice (School of Halo and small snippets of Noob's Guide) I'm not good enough at Legendary, and I am onto the unfair and unbalnced crap of Halo 4. Please give me your magic Hokiebird blessing and a few words of wisdom since I'm not bothered to watch all of the Noob's Guide, and help me struggle through the long, tedious and boring journey that lies ahead!
*I came here
With Halo 4, just literally haul ass and you should have a decent chance of getting through without raging. If you want to do it legit... Good story can't save shitty gameplay, and may God be on your soul.
awesome dude
Hokie, you are back!
Yes! Finally!
Hey! I'm in the video. I'm "DELTA20" at the start of the video!
It’s funny you can also instadie on normal and heroic by melee
when will part 2 come out in exited because i like halo 2 but i can't seem to beat it
Feel like playing the game again although I've played the game a million times and know how RNJeasus based and unforgiving that is on legendary specially REGRET!
I never use the trading weapons with friendlies tactic, besides at the beginning of Delta Halo. Never need it, really.
Halo 2's infamous for other reasons:
Like those times where you scream bullshit so loud you wake your neighbors.
Differing result; same cause.
finally!
9:51 Superhuman aiming abilities? You mean like shooting a rocket at a wall at point blank range and getting you killed...
At 8:00, where you talk about enemies firing where they last saw you, is this mechanic in any way related to the elites in Reach firing slower when they first see you, and faster once they get a "lock" on you?
Absolutely it is. It was basically a do-over of what they had in Halo 2, but this time implemented in the way that they had originally intended.
Finally
Enemies really do absorb an insane amount of damage. I think this might be a bug but when I stuck a silver elite (Maybe elite ultra) When it exploded it only took down half of his shield. WTF?
Not only is that not a bug, it will happen every time you attempt to stick an Ultra Elite before depleting his shield.
Well you can kill every elite on cairo station at the bomb section. If you just use the sword and plasma grenades very easily if you know what your doing and unfortunately most people don't.
Where are you going to get a Sword from though? You’d have to carry one all the way from Habitat Delta.
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That easy use plasma pistol+bro when necessary and weapon swap for sword. It may sound a little tedious but very satisfying when pulled off + the melee combat in halo 2(just for elites and hunters) is much easier and doable than halo 4 or 5 for example.
I was wondering hokie are u gonna do a school of halo for the other halos such as halo 3, reach etc
I thought this is what you were up to.
Have you made any progress on Episode 2 yet. If not, that's completely fine, you have a life you live and these videos take extremely long to make, especially when it comes to Halo 2. However, I don't expect to even see the next episode sooner than Late January of 2017. If so, what would your guesstimate be?