The most feared warriors of the Covenant Empire. Precise, efficient, one-hit-kill on Legendary – virtually unstoppable.
I really wish I could provide gameplay of this experience I had playing Halo 2 Legendary. In case you didn’t guess (hint: sarcasm), we’re gonna be talking about the jackal snipers.
While Halo 2 Legendary is the most difficult in the series, it’s typically not as bad as it’s implied. Sure, I’ve had my fair share, or rather, unfair share of deaths playing the game, but things were at least, uh, tolerable. I was under the impression that it was much easier than the community believed. One mistake I made in that assumption is to analyze the levels in the fashion they were designed to be played. I’ll utilize speedrunning tricks in every Halo game out of habit, so leaving the map in Halo 2 is second nature for me. But until I was forced into the position of the average player, I didn’t understand just how ridiculous the snipers are in this game.
So I’m playing the Grave-grind on Legendary. Besides the first 30 seconds or so where you can die before you even see your crosshair, things were running fairly smoothly. Until I came face to face with what must’ve been the most skilled and accurate sniper in the history of the Covenant. I am not exaggerating, I repeat, I am NOT exaggerating when I say this absolute legend of a marksman must’ve killed me around 20-25 times. Put that into perspective. If you die three times to the same enemy, you start to get a little pissed. This jackal god killed me so many times it became funny. It felt like a joke.
Here’s where I really wish I had footage. I promise you, what I’m saying is 100% true. This jackal sniper literally jumped, yes, JUMPED around a corner and, while IN MIDAIR, shot and killed me. In a fraction of a second. And he killed me in midair probably 4 out of those 20 or so times. Do you understand the sheer number of Cool Ranch Doritos and cans of Mtn. Dew this guy had to consume to pull this off?
There are plenty of examples of unfair deaths in Halo 2. I think Halo CE was the only genuinely fair Legendary experience in the series, not because it was easy, but because if you died, it’s because YOU made an error, not because of some trickshotting jackal sniper. Thanks for reading this if you did, I just found this to be pretty ridiculous and wanted to spark some discussion. Lemme know what kind of sniper jackal experiences you’ve had 
~~Spritzie /)
Halo 2 Legendary is nothing compared to Halo CE’s The Library on Legendary. It’s just a huge slap to your face.
Halo 2’s Legendary is easy. There’s only a handful of sections that are difficult but the Jackal Snipers are only a problem on Metropolis after you get to the Gauss Warthog for the first time. Pretty sure there’s either a ridiculous amount of them spawning or it is unlimited. Otherwise, the game is easy.
Sounds like you got unlucky with that Jackal Sniper or didn’t have a HS weapon to take him down. Since you knew where he spawned, he should be an easy kill. Sounds like bad luck to me.
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> Halo 2’s Legendary is easy. There’s only a handful of sections that are difficult but the Jackal Snipers are only a problem on Metropolis after you get to the Gauss Warthog for the first time. Pretty sure there’s either a ridiculous amount of them spawning or it is unlimited. Otherwise, the game is easy.
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> Sounds like you got unlucky with that Jackal Sniper or didn’t have a HS weapon to take him down. Since you knew where he spawned, he should be an easy kill. Sounds like bad luck to me.
…EASY?!
Yeah, right. I put up with them the first few times I played and it was too dreadful for words. I stick to the outskirts now because, seriously, -Yoink- that! Then there’s that area in Metropolis where about twenty snipers spawn. The only reason this part is easy for me is because I snipe from the tunnel you begin in and don’t leave until everything looks dead.
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> Halo 2 Legendary is nothing compared to Halo CE’s The Library on Legendary. It’s just a huge slap to your face.
Meanwhile, I can complete the Library in under 30 minutes on Legendary without much effort like I was playing on Normal and then I struggle with a single section that can take more than 30 minutes in a level in Halo 2.
> Had to put this because Waypoint decided to -Yoink- with me
Am I too good in CE to suck in Halo 2?
I have been killed by them SOOOOOOO many times on legendary.
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> > Halo 2 Legendary is nothing compared to Halo CE’s The Library on Legendary. It’s just a huge slap to your face.
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> Meanwhile, I can complete the Library in under 30 minutes on Legendary without much effort like I was playing on Normal and then I struggle with a single section that can take more than 30 minutes in a level in Halo 2.
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> > Had to put this because Waypoint decided to -Yoink- with me
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> Am I too good in CE to suck in Halo 2?
I personally had no problem with Halo 2 Legendary like I did with halo 3. H3, I can speed run Legendary in about 4-5 hours. H2, more like 7-9 because some parts get quite annoying and as you know, AI is uselsss. H:CE was a huge slap in the face for me though
I don’t think any of the halos has lived up to halo CE legendary campaign, for me it’s the fairest hard challenge of your halo skills. I loved the replay ability of this campaign and the multiple ways you could complete it. Halo 2 has been well documented how the legendary campaign is completely unfair. It just simply cheats the players with deaths that you can’t do anything about. I think we all would agree that dying making a mistake or not having the knowledge/ skills to win a battle is more then fair but when you die without seeing your cross hairs or get sniped by a enemy that doesn’t miss and only needs a millisecond to get the shot off is total bull -Yoink- . That’s why to me ce is the best on legendary if your good enough you can absolutely breeze through the campaign and that’s only because you are that good at the game your knowledge of the map the enemies the weapons and shot are all on point . Back in the day I used to just play halo ce on legendary and nothing else I would complete it and then restart it instantly and play it again . The only levels that made me struggle was with the flood and that was because their unpredictability which suited their characters fearsome nature. I played this game on legendary so often that when I system linked it with my friends we would always play 2 vs me and I would always win because I had to get so good in order to beat the legendary campaign with ease. Many happy hours playing legendary ce And many infuriating hours playing 2 on legendary, my advice place it on heroic so you don’t feel cheated.