That’s not a solution. It’s just monotonous.
People need to stop acting like finishing LASO with bandana and without iron is a challenge.
Rocket + Sniper + shock grenades. Rocket + sentinel beam + shock grenades.
[insert encounter + level skips here]
I’ve done 3 LASO runs one after the other when the campaign was fresh. The Tank Gun is not what makes this achievement easy.
Bandana does not even turn off any achievements at all. You could play on easy, get the skull and then blitzkrieg through legendary.
In response to the the edited post.
343i are not going to remove the achievement from anyone. Their solution is to let people know that if they want to take advantage of the Tank Gun for speed runs and Achievements they should do it before Season 2.
As for the “right way” argument. There really is no right way to earn LASO achievements since the community that created this challenge back in Halo 3 made it while taking advantage of countless bugs, glitches, and exploits. 343i has also never came out to say that these exploits invalidate the accomplishment of beating the LASO campaigns in MCC, Halo 5, or Infinite.
If anything 343i has made LASO easier than in the past by allowing co-op or allowing players to revert to last check point by backing out of the level before your death restarts the level when playing solo.
Refer to this link form December where the person who originally beat a Halo game on “LASO” and created the difficulty gives his 2 cents on the “right way” of beating this challenge in multiple replies. Just click “show more” on the bottom of the page.
https://forums.halowaypoint.com/t/is-the-scorpion-gun-patched/475648/73?replies_to_post_number=73
As for the argument against adding the tank gun as a hard to get easter egg weapon because the grapple hook is easy to use. So? You can already use the grapple hook to skip 85% of encounters. As much as people underestimate how good the grapple hook is, you are overestimating the impact that the Tank Gun has on LASO.
Finally, when it comes to replay value. Removing the Tank Gun gives people less of a reason to replay the game. I have seen a countless amounts of people on Youtube comments and on this site who have went back to replay the campaign when they found out about this glitch.
I agree that 343i shot themselves in the foot with this announcement by ultimately pleasing nobody and removing more out of a game that is already bare. I just hope this ends up how Trand0 suggested.
I apricate your responses.
To fix broken code, in order to prevent further issues. I agree.
I hope they bring it back with fixed code instead of keeping it out.