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Actually, make that mission 12 and is also my favorite level/map visually and artistically.

 

I was gonna go through the campaign solo on Legendary until I noticed
DigitalAssassin's Achievement for doing it on my Activity Feed was only 60 GS. Are you freakin' kidding me? It's worthy of at least 100 in my opinion. With that said, I'll probably still do it just because I'm awesome like
that... but 60 GS is a joke.

* Mini rant over.

 

^That's just the normal legendary achievement, the lone wolf achievement is actually 100gs so you're spot on there, haha, so really I got a total of 160gs for both legendary achievements. =)

Oh and Doc I agree, mission 12 looks awesome, it's easily my favourite too!

 

^ Now that is what I'm talking about. Where is my Needler? I have grunts to kill. lol

 

I ain't touching it on Legendary after dying repeatedly against the warden on Heroic

 

I got past the first time you meet the Warden on legendary... but man it was brutal. Can't remember how many times I got killed. Stupid AI doesn't help! I think he finally fell off the edge when he lunged at one of them. lol Aside from that, legendary isn't
bad at all.

 

Some tips for the first warden fight (easily the hardest of them all apart from the last fight):

Direct team mates to stay where you spawn.

Throw grenade centre and try and take out crawlers as you go up the right walkway

Grab promethean shotgun at top of walkway

Jump to floating centre platform and grab promethean rocket launcher

Blast warden front or back, doesn't matter.

Whip out shotgun and depending where he's moved either jump down or stay up, but shotgun him in the back and just continue to shoot him in the back even while he's doing his animation thing.

He should go down very quickly, might take a few goes, but this was the only way I could do it.

Also if anyone didn't know, the promethean weapons do the most damage to him, don't mess around with the human weapons it's a waste of time.

Hope this helps some of you.

 

Blue Illusion, I agree. The AI teammates are absolutely useless against him, unless they accidently manage to get the last hit that hills him, after I've done all the work. I highlight him, or send them on the other side of him so he turns around, but nada.
He kills them in seconds. lol It's comical when not frustrating.

Big guns only work partially from the front. Eventually, you'll still have get those significant hits on him from behind.

I'm on mission 13, and not looking forward to the grand finale of mission 14 at all. BUT, it will be done. I'm a SPARTAN! hehe

 

^Splash damage for the win mate, I'm not lying when I say I've beat him more than once without hitting him directly in the back on legendary....

 

Haven't finished yet but I really enjoyed levels 7 and 8. Especially the Boost ramps on reunion and the Mantas sequence. Really loving it so far.

 

Splash damage does a little damage, but I've never finished one off that way. Although I just killed the two Wardens on mission 13 with the light machine gun, and still have some rounds left over. Of course I softened them up already, but still pretty effective.

I believe you. Just hasn't worked for me. As long as we 'em down.

 

^Haha, it just felt like you were doubting me, mission 12 is a good example as you can kill the knight with the promethean rocket launcher (bread and butter, haha) and then there is also two fuel rod cannons on the top right balcony stashed in those weapon
boxes and all I did was spam away.

You're right though, as long as you're getting through it, that's what counts! Legendary solo really isn't that bad, huh?

 

finished my solo legendary walkthrough died more than i expected 39 times to be exact the last 2 missions were a pain

 

Yup... the warden missions are really the only ones that have given me fits on legendary.

I have been trying a 'tactic' with the wardens, that incorporates a lot of what has been mentioned so far... especially the 'splash damage' lol.

So your AI team mates will usually stick pretty close to you if you don't tell them to do anything. I try to find a... fairly... safe spot so they'll stay alive. This is where the splash damage comes into play. I spam him with everything I have. All my grenades,
incineration cannon (if I can get my hands on one). etc.

Then, I tell the AI to engage him. That usually makes them go out after him... which is hopefully enough distraction for me to go find more 'nades and heavy weapon refills if they're available. Sometimes I can even get a few shots in his back before they're
all killed.

After he shifts his focus back to me I head for a safe place, or at least some cover I can keep between us and focus on the adds while I wait for team mates to respawn. Then it's my job to try to distract him without getting killed, while the AI (depending
on where they spawn) make their way to my position. If he does agro to them, I use that opportunity to put some shots in his back.

Once I have my team mates (or what's left of them lol) back, then I pop out of cover and spam the heavy stuff again, since there's a chance one of them will know enough to revive me if he does get a good shot off. Then it's rinse and repeat.

When that doesn't work... improvise... heavy on the improvise. lol

 

I'm done with Mr. Dark Energy/Cyclops.

One mission to go.

If I haven't said it already, Cortana is the star of this story. Especially the last few chapters.

I like the introduction of Exuberant as well.