Anybody know how to get around this little bugger of a problem? Whenever I try to play Halo 2 MCC on legendary the iron skull is auto active, even once I’ve forcefully deactivated it.
Are you playing co-op? Halo 2 has always worked that way in co-op, skull or no skull. Bungie even announced it in a Weekly Update back in October 2004, a few weeks before the game launched:
> LEGENDARY is a whole new sick twist on game difficulty. LEGENDARY includes bizarre stuff like perma-death for co-op players — meaning that you can’t hopscotch like you can on other difficulty levels. Once a player dies on LEGENDARY, both players are hurled back to the last checkpoint. It’s brutal.
I am indeed! You know I never knew that. Thanks a lot for the information! Clearly my Halo 2 co-op performance has declined over the years as I don’t recall perma-death, looks like its time to boot up my old gal of an xbox. I must admit brutal is an understatement considering most of my friends are casual players lol.
Should really be fixed regardless of what Bungie said at the time. It’s why Halo 3 went back to respawning because it was ultimately a poor decision.