LASO/EXTRA became impossibile

Games Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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Me and my friend started some days ago the Halo 2 Anniversary LASO Playlist, and the Halo: CE Anniversary too, but we realised a lot of bad things about it.

To us, it seems pretty impossibile to complete almost a single level, because the game is, yes difficult, but specifically BROKEN.
Killing elites from behind is bugged, sometimes they don’t die and the ones with the sword usually kills you automatically when you hit them on the back.
Often the game doesn’t give you checkpoints and that’s the horrible part of it, especially in the Cairo Mission from H2A.
We watched a lot of videos on YouTube from people doing it almost deathless in solo or in co-op but we realised that their enemy pattern are more idiotic and they are less aggressive. In our game, just a couple of shot of plasma rifle are lethal and enemies are too much reactive, fast and with perfect aiming and with perfect consciousness of what we are doing and where we are and where we are going.
So, maybe some recent patch from 343 made the game more difficult on legendary or with the LASO skull?
In addition, is it possible to do a single level LASO without using bug, glitch or other similiar expedients? And why to us it seems impossible even with those?
Somebody is trying to do the EXTRA Playlist and is having these problems too or we are just forever noob?

And why, why in the world 343 added these extremely difficult achievements on all Halo games PERFECTLY KNOWING that the games are full of bugs and more difficult that the original ones (plus in co-op everything is more broken and more difficult)?

I’m really disappointed by this. It’s not the difficult itself, but the fact that every step we take in the game we encounter something strange, something bugged and something completely unbalanced all the time.

What are your opinion on LASO playlist? Especially in co-op?

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I completed all the LASO playlists and I can say It’s been always like that on H2. You don’t get checkpoints if:

  • Any of the players are not in a safe area (I mean, you don’t want a checkpoint where a jackal sniper is about to kill your player)
  • One of the players is spamming the meele button
  • Sometimes you don’t get checkpoints if your shields are not fully recharged.

Even in the og Halo 2 game, some players were spamming the meele button to prevent some checkpoints and avoid some enemies

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Two words: meele dance

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Well, one of the achievements is called “Why you do this to yourself?”

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Thank you for replying.

Ok, i will try to avoid spamming the meele button in certain moments (for example the trick with Johnson in Cairo Station when it doesn’t give me the checkpoint in the first hangar with the Pelican), but the thing with the shield not fully recharged seems pretty nonsense with LASO because you are pretty much all the time without shields.

Anyway, as a die-hard halo fan since 2002 i was hoping to find the LASO playlist less frustrating and more enjoyable. Everytime i try it seems the game always change things up against me.

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You can get checkpoints in that situation but it’s not pretty common.

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It’s meant to be impossible. It’s the meme difficultly for people who complain that legendary is too easy. Like Nightmare difficulty in Doom.

The game has been functioning correctly for me and I almost exclusively play LASO. I have deathless runs of some of the levels already on you channel, and ai don’t really break the game much. I even hit the security button in Silent Carrographer.

Learn what causes the checkpoints. There’s often multiple criteria you need to meet and if you’re playing through LASO, you should know what they are and how to delay or force them.

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