Halo 3 is driving me mental

Vonhelmet · 25 Mar 2011 at 00:27

Is this game really hard or am I really crap at it? I'm only playing on normal difficulty, but I'm really struggling. I'm up to mission 8, and it's really hard work. All the weapons feel really underpowered and I'm constantly running out of ammo. I'm not sure whether it's that I suck at aiming, so I'm really inefficient, or just that it's really hard.

I might have to get a mate to co-op it with me to get it finished up.

Kreeeee · 25 Mar 2011 at 00:43

It's not hard, even legendary on solo is not that challenging.

Just seems like you don't mesh with Halo gameplay imo.

Vonhelmet · 25 Mar 2011 at 01:06

Kreeeee said:
It's not hard, even legendary on solo is not that challenging.

Just seems like you don't mesh with Halo gameplay imo.

See, that's kinda a conclusion I'm coming to. It just doesn't feel right. I seem to spend forever backtracking, scratching round for ammo. I don't know exactly what I'm doing wrong, but there's definitely something.

I don't think it helps that I don't really care for FPS any more... I think I had my fill on PC about 10 years ago!

DaveOwl · 25 Mar 2011 at 01:13

I didn't think anyone could run out of ammo in Halo 3

I would try aiming for the heads of the Covenant more then as most drop quickly even on Legendary with a headshot.

jcb33 · 25 Mar 2011 at 09:02

I swear this game is hard because you carry pea shooters, you unload clip after clip and the enemy just keeps coming.... Could just be me mind but I need to coop it up to do it on Legendary!

Jcb33.

fullmetaltony · 25 Mar 2011 at 09:06

Headshots, that's all, you need to be hitting headshots.

finite · 25 Mar 2011 at 09:17

jcb33 said:
I swear this game is hard because you carry pea shooters, you unload clip after clip and the enemy just keeps coming.... Could just be me mind but I need to coop it up to do it on Legendary!

Jcb33.

Can't remember who posted it, but the results from a focus group was that they thought the AI was smarter when they increased AI health. A cheap and easy solution unfortunately it doesn't convince me or you by the sounds of it and feels completely transparent.

orderoftheflame · 25 Mar 2011 at 09:20

vonhelmet said:
See, that's kinda a conclusion I'm coming to. It just doesn't feel right. I seem to spend forever backtracking, scratching round for ammo. I don't know exactly what I'm doing wrong, but there's definitely something.

Don't bother back tracking, just pick up a gun on the floor when you run low. If you try and stick with an AR all the way through a level you'll always run out of ammo at some point.

Head shots make a massive difference for the number of shots to kill. Particularly on brutes and elites.

oddsbodikins · 25 Mar 2011 at 12:45

Do you use melee attacks?

On normal you won't take massive damage so you can use ammo to remove their shield / do damage and then finish them with a gun butt to the face.

ran_out · 25 Mar 2011 at 12:55

I really struggled with the ammo on Legendary difficulty, ended up giving up on it as it was too much of a slog to get through each section and then still end up with about 4 bullets left and enemies everywhere. I think on normal difficulty i just raced though it quickly and didn't run into as many problems, using melee more helps on lower difficulty but just tends to get me killed when I tried on hard mode.

Gashman · 25 Mar 2011 at 18:20

the only Halo 3 levels that should cause ammo problems are ones involving lots of Flood, also watch out for Flood Turrets, since they are irritating as hell. depends what sort of enemy your engaging to what sort of weapon, tactics you should be using, grunts shouldn't really be considered a great threat and fall to most weapons fire, but Elites fall quickly to overcharged Plasma Pistols and BR-55 head-shots, same goes for Brutes. another weapon you should never avoid if you have the chance is the Needler, its effective against all enemies, Covenant, Flood, the lot.