Some of you may recall a little prediciment I was in last night. Well, I have a tale to tell. I brought pictures.
Here's the situation.
We've got a full Brute pack, consisting of a Chieftain with a FRC, a Captain with a Brute Shot, about ten soldiers and two on jump packs. Oh, and that WRAITH. Me? I'm hiding behind the two buildings in the rear, where I hit a checkpoint. The ones all the dudes are staring at.
I begin by firing off the last two rounds of FRC from the last Chieftain at the Wraith, and then head for the Battle Rifle cache Siamesedreamer told me of. (Thank god.)
From there, take out the two jump pack Brutes.
If I'm lucky, their Carbines will slide down the side of the rocks with the corpses. I'm lucky, and start thinning the pack a bit. I alternate sides of the buildings to allow a few shots to be fired before the Wraith can pivot, target and fire.
The Wraith pilot never, ever fires just one round. It's several or none for this pyrotechnic fan. Poking my head around a corner, door or window results in a sustained volley. No room for error.
After firing from over a dozen different vantage points, I've taken down most of the pack, including the Captain. The Chieftain and a few soldiers head deep into cover and refuse to come out. It's time to change positions to get an angle. Which is risky, to put it lightly.
Explosions going off every few feet behind me, I get over the ledge and into cover. Time to chip away at the Chieftain......
....who has an epic shitton of health. I'm out of ammo. Hopefully the Wraith doesn't see me on the way back, as it's harder to climb than to jump down.
w00t! Time finish off the big gold bastard. Too bad I've been spotted and spend the next minute dodging plasma mortars.
It takes only three bursts of fire - he doesn't even get a chance to fire off a final parting gift - and the Chieftain drops.
I need that FRC to deal with the Wraith. I risk a dive in, snag it and back out to the cargo containers. Now I think I've actually got a shot at finishing this particular fight. It's showdown time.
I'm painfully aware that if I miss and hit the edge on either side, I blow myself up. And that I've got about one and a half seconds before the Wraith re-targets and nails me. But the first salvo connects, and after some dodging, so does the second. The driver is down, leaving the (still intact) Wrath stranded. But the gunner is still alive.
We play cat and mouse for a few, and then he loses me as I sneak back around the rear and into the pipes.
Boo.
Catch this, ya little bastard.
Oh, you can't catch. You're dead!
I has a Wraith.
The saved film says I spent an hour and 24 minutes on this, and the final, successful battle took twenty minutes. Twenty minutes of countless close-calls, desperate dives for ammo and pant-wettingly intense firefights. But I beat it. This, is why I love Halo, right here.
Tomorrow, the vehicle brawl at the end of the level. Can't wait to finish this off and do it all again, in co-op. I could use the backup. :lol
Here's the situation.
We've got a full Brute pack, consisting of a Chieftain with a FRC, a Captain with a Brute Shot, about ten soldiers and two on jump packs. Oh, and that WRAITH. Me? I'm hiding behind the two buildings in the rear, where I hit a checkpoint. The ones all the dudes are staring at.
I begin by firing off the last two rounds of FRC from the last Chieftain at the Wraith, and then head for the Battle Rifle cache Siamesedreamer told me of. (Thank god.)
From there, take out the two jump pack Brutes.
If I'm lucky, their Carbines will slide down the side of the rocks with the corpses. I'm lucky, and start thinning the pack a bit. I alternate sides of the buildings to allow a few shots to be fired before the Wraith can pivot, target and fire.
The Wraith pilot never, ever fires just one round. It's several or none for this pyrotechnic fan. Poking my head around a corner, door or window results in a sustained volley. No room for error.
After firing from over a dozen different vantage points, I've taken down most of the pack, including the Captain. The Chieftain and a few soldiers head deep into cover and refuse to come out. It's time to change positions to get an angle. Which is risky, to put it lightly.
Explosions going off every few feet behind me, I get over the ledge and into cover. Time to chip away at the Chieftain......
....who has an epic shitton of health. I'm out of ammo. Hopefully the Wraith doesn't see me on the way back, as it's harder to climb than to jump down.
w00t! Time finish off the big gold bastard. Too bad I've been spotted and spend the next minute dodging plasma mortars.
It takes only three bursts of fire - he doesn't even get a chance to fire off a final parting gift - and the Chieftain drops.
I need that FRC to deal with the Wraith. I risk a dive in, snag it and back out to the cargo containers. Now I think I've actually got a shot at finishing this particular fight. It's showdown time.
I'm painfully aware that if I miss and hit the edge on either side, I blow myself up. And that I've got about one and a half seconds before the Wraith re-targets and nails me. But the first salvo connects, and after some dodging, so does the second. The driver is down, leaving the (still intact) Wrath stranded. But the gunner is still alive.
We play cat and mouse for a few, and then he loses me as I sneak back around the rear and into the pipes.
Boo.
Catch this, ya little bastard.
Oh, you can't catch. You're dead!
I has a Wraith.
The saved film says I spent an hour and 24 minutes on this, and the final, successful battle took twenty minutes. Twenty minutes of countless close-calls, desperate dives for ammo and pant-wettingly intense firefights. But I beat it. This, is why I love Halo, right here.
Tomorrow, the vehicle brawl at the end of the level. Can't wait to finish this off and do it all again, in co-op. I could use the backup. :lol
Best part of that whole game? Before it started, the other team just started calling my team "fags" and stuff. We didn't even provoke it or anything. Gotta say, tea-bagging their skulls into the dirt felt pretty good after that. 
Peeeeeeeeaaaase?