Are our shields just cosmetic?

First off I play campaign legendary with 8-9 skulls and do okay, I play fire-fight legendary and a crawler or grunt kills me in 3 seconds, I just played heroic fire-fight and banshees killed me over and over even though their shots were nowhere near me, yes nowhere near me, so are our shields just cosmetic are we made of paper? And while I’m at it, in fire-fight can you make the bosses do something other than just stand in one place only to be bullet sponges, the only thing that moves around are the soldiers, crawlers and the covenant. Oh and how about a 5 second warning that crawlers and soldiers are about to spawn directly on top of your location killing you instantly, I mean we are advanced soldiers with advanced technology, right?

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I’m pretty sure that you are playing legendary and heroic. I’m also sure that a lot of enemies will kill you quickly on those difficulties regardless.

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> First off I play campaign legendary with 8-9 skulls and do okay, I play fire-fight legendary and a crawler or grunt kills me in 3 seconds

The enemies in the campaign aren’t any different from the ones in firefight so I’m not sure why one experience feels more difficult than the other for you.

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> I just played heroic fire-fight and banshees killed me over and over even though their shots were nowhere near me, yes nowhere near me

Banshee Ultras and Temple Banshees leave residue upon impact, which probably explains why you still die despite not being within reasonable range. Pool of Radiance does this, also.

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> And while I’m at it, in fire-fight can you make the bosses do something other than just stand in one place only to be bullet sponges, the only thing that moves around are the soldiers, crawlers and the covenant.

When any boss is aware of your presence, it doesn’t just sit there and soak up bullets; they tend to move around quite a bit. The only exception is knights when equipped with a light rifle and incineration cannon. At long distance range, pretty much all bosses will just sit there, but that seems like lazy programming to me.

Ya I know in Halo 5 Legendary I feel like my shields are paper! Although no joke Halo 2 was pretty much the same!

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> Ya I know in Halo 5 Legendary I feel like my shields are paper! Although no joke Halo 2 was pretty much the same!

I didn’t know we had shields on Legendary just bullet magnets. lol