Ok so Just did a level or so of coop campaign and I have to say, Legendary isn’t fun. If all you are going to do is increase health and damage of enemy’s to a crazy level you are doing it wrong. So a crawler can kill you by landing 3 shots. Your shields pop at 2 and you can’t even try to recover. Forget ground pounding… Forget shotguns, forget any fun way to play. Just turtle and empty clips… (Only for 4 player coop)
I don’t know I did the first two levels solo legendary last night, it was fun for me I was using shotguns etc. I honestly wouldn’t play the game any other way to be honest unless I am hunting for all the intel etc. I honestly didn’t even find the difficulty to hard, completed mission one and two in around an hour. Maybe your play style just isn’t suited to Legendary.
Every Halo has the hair pulling levels but you can’t even use baked in features now. Before it was accomplished feeling getting past the hanger on the Mac Station, or the streets of Mombasa. Refine tactics and try again if you die. But now its just bad. For the 1st time since Halo CE I’m really considering turning down the difficulty so we can actually use the Spartan abilities without instant death.
It’s to hard, but when you are 4 people, you can beat it.
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> Every Halo has the hair pulling levels but you can’t even use baked in features now. Before it was accomplished feeling getting past the hanger on the Mac Station, or the streets of Mombasa. Refine tactics and try again if you die. But now its just bad. For the 1st time since Halo CE I’m really considering turning down the difficulty so we can actually use the Spartan abilities without instant death.
You can still use them I did and they are very useful in the right situation still. You just need to learn on legendary to always mind your surroundings and make sure your fireteam is in a good position to cover you. If you have a small group of jackals or grunts GP is fine to use.
The enemies damage scale with the amount of people you are playing with.
So if you are playing Legendary Solo, the enemies do not deal as much damage as they´re dealing when you are playing 4 Player Coop 
will try to do some solo legendary campaign missions later today
The amount of damage the enemy does on legendary is quite annoying. Even more so when you’re playing solo and you have to rely on the horrible AI squad mates.
It’s ridiculous.
It’s not a challenge, it’s just unfair.
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> It’s ridiculous.
> It’s not a challenge, it’s just unfair.
Halo 2 Jackal Snipers anyone?
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Yes now those were unfair. I find Legendary Solo Halo 5 so far just right to be honest hard but not too punishing for me it is the perfect difficulty.
To anyone complaining about the ally AI if you actually command them they are pretty decent. Just keep them reasonably close to you at all times and don’t send or let them wander off into the enemies aimlessly and they actually become one of your greatest assets.
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As another user said the game scale damage on player count. Despite the game being built around co-op, ironically, you’ll have a much more enjoyable time in single-player if you’re playing Legendary
finished the legendary campaign this sunday, :S but it was awesome
I always remember Legendary mode meaning noob combo all the time.
Yeah this is ridiculous on coop legendary. 2 shot drops shields and a third kills you? Crazy. Not even fun or tactical.
Ha ha, i really hope it is a bit more of a challenge now. Halo 3 and 4 were pretty easy on Legendary. So would be great for halo to be back on form like the 1st 2. But just adding more health to enemies and giving them damage boosts is a bit lazy.
I’m on level 5 legendary single player. It is not unfair at all in my opinion. Some parts are hard, but if you are a good player you can beat them. If you have no experience with legendary then of course it is going to be much harder then you are used to, that doesn’t mean it is broken though.
Just a few tips: when fighting the covenant, use the plasma pistol and follow a charged shot up with a single headshot and you can kill an elite easily. When fighting Promethians use their own weapons against them. I prefer to use the lightrifle. It does a ton of damage. For hunters, shoot them in the exposed skin and throw frags under them.
Also, stay behind cover constantly and never run up with close combat weapons. Just stay back and use precision weapons. Lastly, always take out the weakest enemies first, then deal with the stronger ones after.
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Okay fair enough I thought it just scaled enemy count. However if this is the case should be a lot of fun just need to stick together and team shot enemies more on CO-OP I mean playing single player if you use the commands your squad is pretty useful but not overly so. So playing CO-OP should be harder IMO you have actual human players so communicate and work together as a team and I doubt you should have many problems.
Almost done with my 2 player Legendary playthrough
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> Ok so Just did a level or so of coop campaign and I have to say, Legendary isn’t fun. If all you are going to do is increase health and damage of enemy’s to a crazy level you are doing it wrong. So a crawler can kill you by landing 3 shots. Your shields pop at 2 and you can’t even try to recover. Forget ground pounding… Forget shotguns, forget any fun way to play. Just turtle and empty clips…
I mean, Me and my buddy did the first mission no problem. it was fairly easy on legendary, used the appropriate weapons, and such. as well as playing smart and watching where enemies are at. Which if you are a seasoned Halo player, this is common sense. So i dont see why you are having such a problem. Maybe just revise your entire gameplay style, and take this slow, plus i was able to get in fairly close in certain situations and take harder enemies out.