Why I hate the battle with Tarturus.

First you have to kill the four Brutes that is left behind, that is easy enough, but after you jump on the platform to attack, you can’t, as you have to wait for Sergeant Johnson to shoot Tarturus with the Beam Rifle, which causes Tarturus’s shield to disappear, but those shots can be blocked, so you have to hope that he is in an open area, then when the shield is down, you can attack. But being shot doesn’t make him flinch, so if you go in for an attack with the Energy Sword, he can either kill you in one hit, or fling you off the map, also many weapons that would kill a Brute in one hit will not do the same, so you are head shotting him with a weapon that allows head shots, than the shield comes back up, and you ave to do it all over again, and he doesn’t flinch once so you have no idea if you are even harming him.

Yeah, I hate this boss battle.

Well to be honest I don’t think anyone particularly likes the boss battles in Halo 2.

Tartarus can flinch and the shield don’t protect from that + just lure him where Johnson can shoot.

https://youtu.be/l3I1IlRj9Ok?t=150 this is what happened one day except the Elite had 2 needlers.

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> First you have to kill the four Brutes that is left behind, that is easy enough, but after you jump on the platform to attack, you can’t, as you have to wait for Sergeant Johnson to shoot Tarturus with the Beam Rifle, which causes Tarturus’s shield to disappear, but those shots can be blocked, so you have to hope that he is in an open area, then when the shield is down, you can attack. But being shot doesn’t make him flinch, so if you go in for an attack with the Energy Sword, he can either kill you in one hit, or fling you off the map, also many weapons that would kill a Brute in one hit will not do the same, so you are head shotting him with a weapon that allows head shots, than the shield comes back up, and you ave to do it all over again, and he doesn’t flinch once so you have no idea if you are even harming him.
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> Yeah, I hate this boss battle.

It is pretty hard but the best way is to get Johnson to shoot him.

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> First you have to kill the four Brutes that is left behind, that is easy enough, but after you jump on the platform to attack, you can’t, as you have to wait for Sergeant Johnson to shoot Tarturus with the Beam Rifle, which causes Tarturus’s shield to disappear, but those shots can be blocked, so you have to hope that he is in an open area, then when the shield is down, you can attack. But being shot doesn’t make him flinch, so if you go in for an attack with the Energy Sword, he can either kill you in one hit, or fling you off the map, also many weapons that would kill a Brute in one hit will not do the same, so you are head shotting him with a weapon that allows head shots, than the shield comes back up, and you ave to do it all over again, and he doesn’t flinch once so you have no idea if you are even harming him.
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> Yeah, I hate this boss battle.

That’s why it’s a boss battle right? But I will admit, I wish I could attack him without the help of Sgt. Johnson’s beam rifle.

At least you got to listen to Breaking Benjamin while you did so

Fly the Banshee in from outside. That’s how I beat him. :smiley:

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> Fly the Banshee in from outside. That’s how I beat him. :smiley:

You can do that?

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> You can do that?

There is enough space to fly in the room but you need to dismount for the doors, this doesn’t work with the invincible Banshee.

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> > Fly the Banshee in from outside. That’s how I beat him. :smiley:
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> You can do that?

Yeah, it’s very tedious, but possible.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YblGj7-9ypo

Still kind of cool to have a boss battle in Halo.

here’s a good way, take a beam rifle from the jackal and drone bridge into the boss fight and then you can knock the shields out yourself

Well believe it or not I once got a Plasma Grenade stuck on his head when his shield was down, and BOOM he’s dead.

Just do the spectre glitch I’m pretty sure it works on classic H2 since it works on MCC. You can spawn 3 Johnsons and melt Tarturus in 60secs.

He goes down really fast to dual Brute Plasma Rifles. On legendary I keep a Carbine as a secondary to quickly deal with his reinforcement Brutes.

If you really don’t want to deal with him, use the exploit to get the Spectre into the control room and get four Johnsons to basically do the work for you xD

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> Well to be honest I don’t think anyone particularly likes the boss battles in Halo 2.

No one likes boss battles.
FTFY

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> At least you got to listen to Breaking Benjamin while you did so

BLOW ME AWAY!!! Such a great song, especially with the ties to Halo.

Blast him with dual plasma rifles when shields are down should be quick!

I hated Tarturus altogether horrible character.

yea he 1 shots you lool