I don’t mind challenging enemies as long as they are fun to fight. The covenant and the flood were fun to fight because there were a number of strategies you could use in almost every encounter (except "Cortana on halo 3, where you are usually trapped in a tunnel.)
I found the prometheans however, to be annoying to fight. I get that they are supposed to be some of the toughest enemies that MC has yet to face, but hey are boring. There is only one strategy when it comes to fighting the prometheans:
take down the OFFENSIVE/Scouts from xenoblade…er, I mean take down the watchers.
My one objection is just how fragging tough the Knights are. I can deal with that, though…until the game decides I really NEED to fight about three at once. Usually at least one of them with a Scattershot. Not like there are tons of Crawlers and watchers at the same time…Ohwait.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, you can’t even reliably headshot them. Even with a plasma pistol chargebolt to knock out their stupidly powerful shields first.
What exactly are you expecting? the Covi are so easy to kill and there are not multiple strategies to kill them. Its headshot grunt and jackels, noob combo elites rinse and repeat.
There is only so much AI on the 360 can do, hence why multiplayer is so much fun because the intelligence isn’t artificial. If you want a challenge play MP, campaign is for a fun run and thats it.
On legendary i find numerous strategies to take them out.
watcher- kill first, or shot it a little scare away kill Promethean then when it tries to rez it quickly dispose of it since its stationary.
crawlers- like grunts in small numbers they are weak but together they can be a hassle, however they flank you and crawl on walls. head shot easy disposal, but they move fast you gotta be fast especially with tiny head.
Knights
standard-
1-pop a grenade shield down unload dead.
2-needler kills it fast
3-scatter shot only works on lower tier without headress
4-they are slow but hurt like hell can sneak up and beatdown
Lancer
-same strategy but be careful they can see behind walls and will tele flank you.
commander
deploys turret destroy
has incineration cannon always find cover
Battlewagon
-toughest keep distance will kill you if you get close with scattershot.
stay far away use power weapon, needler, or pulse grenade binary rifle combo.
i found if you learn strategies they are quite fun, and the differences class’s do different things.
Yeah the Watchers and Crawlers are annoying. But the Knights make fun adversaries.
But it does get irritating at the end of Midnight. There’s really no room for unconventional methods at that point. One would do well to bring the Incineration Cannon…
Yep. Some Prometheans like Crawlers and Watchers are super annoying. They attack on groups and take a hell of damage. If you don’t take the watchers down first, they will revive fallen allies and that’s annoying as hell too.
I was looking towards beating the game on legendary difficult…But…
Its not so much the strategy as much as the same 3 weapons over and over. You would treat a grunt with a fuel rod differently to one with a plasma pistol. Target a Jackal sniper over an Elite with a Plasma Rifle. The Promethean’s however never forced you to prioritize, your priorities are always the same.
Yeah it does seem like when you are fighting them that there isn’t much variety, just shoot the ‘flying thing’, shoot the ‘crawly things’ and chuck grenades and shoot the ‘big guy’. I feel that they could have added more Promethean enemy types and variations of each enemy type. One other thing is that I would have liked it if they used some more colors for the enemies other than every one of the Promethean types being grey with orange accents as it got fairly repetitive and bland.
They are better than cod’s guy in a grey shirt and a guy in a red shirt but I totally agree that they are a pain in the butt to fight for some reason and they just get repetitive while I can kill covies all day and not get bored
I love how halo is one of the few where when working with a friend/team you are highly obligated to announce the class of enemy you see and the weopon they carry identification is important and its realy fun and interesting to have to comunicate with your own friends like an army unit out of sheer necesity.