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Halo: Combat Evolved
FAQ/Walkthrough
By: Dark Vortex (Quan Jin)
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1.0 - General Information
2.0 - Introduction
3.0 - The Game Interface and HUD
4.0 - The Story so Far
5.0 - Walkthrough
5.1 - The Pillar of Autumn
5.2 - Halo
5.3 - The Truth and Reconciliation
5.4 - The Silent Cartographer
5.5 - Assault on the Control Room
5.6 - 343 Guilty Spark
5.7 - The Library
5.8 - Two Betrayals
5.9 - Keyes
5.10 - The Maw
6.0 - Multiplayer Information
6.1 Multiplayer Modes of Play
6.2 Multiplayer Levels
6.3 Multiplayer Games
7.0 - Weapons List
7.1 - Human Weapons
7.2 - Covenant Weapons
8.0 - Vehicle List
8.1 - Human Vehicles
8.2 - Covenant Vehicles
9.0 - Enemy List
9.1 - Covenant
9.2 - Flood
9.3 - Forerunners
10.0 - Strategies and Tips
10.1 - Multiplayer Tips
10.2 - Vehicle Tips
10.3 - Enemy Tips
10.4 - Level Tips
10.5 - Secrets and Miscellaneous
11.0 - Credits and Thanks
12.0 - Version History
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1.0 - General Information
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Halo was released for the Xbox on November 6, 2001 to comprehend with the Xbox.
It was an immediate success. At first, it came courtesy with the Xbox, but
after it became game of the year, JSRF and Sega GT 2002 took its place. It's
still sold with the Xbox in Australia I believe. Anyway, it stayed at full
price for a long time and in most gaming stores, it still is at a full $50.
The price for most new games. Here are a few things you should know:
Developer: Bungie
Publisher: Microsoft
Genre: FPS (First Person Shooter)
Price: $49.99 (US)
Memory: 227 blocks
Players: 1-16
Release Dates: Nov. 14, 2001(US)
Mar. 14, 2002(UK)
Apr. 25, 2002(JP)
ESRB Rating: M for Mature: Blood and Gore Violence
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2.0 - Introduction
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Halo is an awesome game, no questions asked. Unless you are some annoying mom
who is against violence in movies and video games, you would no doubt, agree.
I, myself am not a big fan of Xbox but I saw the success in Halo. I received my
Xbox two months ago and Halo one month ago. So I apologize for the lateness of
this FAQ. Anyway, Halo itself, is worth the $200 you've been negotiating.
This guide is designed to both walk you through the levels and give you various
tips and strategies on various types of enemies. I hope you find it helpful.
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3.0 - The Game Interface and HUD
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Before you read this section, I strongly suggest reading the game manual first
as it'll help you understand this section.
*([Game Menu])*
As you load up the game, you'll come to the main menu. You'll have four options
to choose from:
Campaign - This is the main bulk of the game. You will choose a player, and
start a new game. Choose the difficulty and the level and you're on your way.
Remember that you can only play levels that you've unlocked. Do this by
finishing the level before it. There are a total of 10 levels in all.
Multiplayer - You'll come to a screen with the following:
Cooperative Play - Similar to Campaign. You fight through the
same levels. Same cutscenes. Same story. But the one main(and
obvious)difference is you will have a friend to help you to
finish the level. You'll find that two heads are better than
one.
Split Screen - The other main bulk of Halo. Split Screen is very
different from the Campaign. Instead of fighting the Covenant,
you will be fighting with or against friends. There are many
gametypes to choose from including Slayer,(classic deathmatch,
Free for all or Team Slayer)Capture the Flag, King of the Hill,
etc.
Game Settings - Change, add, or delete gametypes. You can make
your own as well.
Settings - You'll come to a screen with the players you added
or the computer created. You can add players, delete players,
and change their settings.(color, look sensitivity, etc.)
Game Demos - Something you don't exactly see in other Xbox games, the game
demos give you a list of interactive demos and movies. The demos are Fuzion
Frenzy. The movies available are Amped, Azurik: Rise of Perathia, Bloodwake,
NFL Fever 2002, Nightcaster, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, and Project Gotham
Racing.
*([Health and Shield])*
Your health and shield meters are on the right of the screen. The shield is
that large bar on the top and your health are the blocks below the shield.
Your shield is capable of regenerating. Your health is not. If it gets too low,
you will die. That's what health packs are for.
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Hide when your shields are down to avoid losing health.
*([Weapons Ammo])*
On the upper left hand side of your screen, there is an ammunition monitor.
Your amount of remaining ammo is displayed in the left window. Your grenades
are displayed in the right window. And your ammunition in clip is displayed on
the bottom of the two. This scheme is a fully loaded Assault Rifle with four
grenades ready to go.
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*([Flashlight])*
The flashlight power level appears below the health and shield when you have it
turned on. It will gradually lose power so be careful. Turning it off will
recharge it.
*([Directional Damage Indicator])*
In the middle of fire, a red arrow will show you the direction that enemies
fire is coming from.
*([Nav Points])*
Cortana will usually give you a Nav Point to follow to important areas.
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*([Motion Tracker])*
The motion tracker is the little circle in the bottom left hand corner of your
HUD. It's very useful and could detect any moving target. Of course, because
it's a motion tracker, it can't track enemies standing still. Only moving
targets. On it are:
Red: enemies
Yellow: allies
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4.0 - The Story so Far
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The year is 2552. Planet Earth still exists, but overpopulation has forced many
of her former residents to colonize other worlds. Faster-than-light travel is
now a reality, and Earth's unified government, through the United Nations Space
Command, has put its full weight behind the colonization effort; millions of
humans now live on habitable planets in other solar systems. A keystone in
humanity's colonization efforts is the planet Reach, an interstellar naval yard
that builds colony ships for civilians and warships for the UNSC's armed
forces. Conveniently close to Earth, Reach is also a hub of scientific and
military activity.
Thirty-two years ago, contact with the outer colony Harvest was lost. A
battlegroup sent to investigate was almost completely destroyed; only one badly
damaged ship returned to Reach. Its crew told of a seemingly unstopable alien
warship that had effortlessly annihilated their forces.
This was humankind's first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually
came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their
fanatical religious devotion. Covenant religious elders declared humanity an
affront to the gods, and the Covenant warrior caste waged a holy war upon
humanity with gruesome diligence.
After a series of crushing defeats and obliterated colonies, UNSC Admiral
Preston Cole established the Cole Protocol: no vessel may inadvertently lead
the Covenant to Earth. When forced to withdraw, ships must avoid Earth-bound
vectors-even if that means jumping without proper navigational calculations.
Vessels in danger of capture must self-destruct.
On Reach, a secret military project to create cyborg super-soldiers takes on
newfound importance. The soldiers of the SPARTAN-II project rack up an
impressive record against the Covenant in test deployments, but there are too
few of them to turn the tide of the war.
Existing SPARTAN-II soldiers are recalled to Reach for further augmentation.
The plan: board a Covenant vessel with the improved SPARTAN-IIs and learn the
location of the Covenant home world. Two days before the mission begins,
Covenant forces strike Reach and annihilate the colony. The Covenant are now on
Earth's doorstep. One ship, the Pillar of Autumn, escapes with the last
SPARTAN-II and makes a blind jump into deep space, hoping to lead the Covenant
away from Earth.
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5.0 - Walkthrough
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I'm going to try to be as detailed as possible while writing this. I'm playing
on the Normal level.
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5.1 - The Pillar of Autumn
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General Tips: This mission of course is quite an easy mission. You'll find
marines around for support. Try to keep them alive so you stay alive! You
really can't lost. You won't be meeting any Flood or Sentinels yet so no need
to worry.
Description: Escape intact as Covenant forces board your ship.
Recommended Weapons: Human Pistol/Plasma Pistol
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Reveille
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>> Complete Training Dianostics
As you wake up, the technician will ask you to look around the room. Move the
left thumbstick around. Now, step out of the cryo tube with X. The technician
asks you to take a quick walk around the room but there's no need to if you
know the controls. Just follow the technician to the Visions Testing. Stand on
the square and simply look at every one of the yellow lights. They'll turn
green when you lock on. The technician will allow you to test inverted and will
ask you which one you like better. I happen to prefer Default but that's just
me. Now, time to charge up your shields, follow the technician once again and
stand on the square. Wait for your shields to go up. Press A when they're
finished to bring them down again and see if they recharge normal. Captain
Keyes should come in now and ask for the Master Chief. Looks like you're going
to be skipping the weapons diagnostics. Dang!
>> Find Captain Keyes on the Bridge
After that, Elites should break in and kill the crew member up there. Time to
follow the yellow suited technician out of here. As you exit the cryo bay,
stop. As fate would have it, he meets a gruesome fate. Instead, hop over the
pipes to the left and continue. Watch out for various explosions that could
damage your shield. When you reach the end, look to your left to see a half
closed blast door. Crouch under it and get through. Continue right and look to
the floor by the left wall for a blue arrow. Go into the door it points to.  By
the end, you should meet an Elite. Of course you're not armed yet so start
moving when it moves out of the way. Head left and continue down the path. Up
ahead, a small skirmish is taking place. Walk while avoiding the various plasma
shots up to the marine by the door across from you.
"Sir, the captain needs you on the bridge, ASAP. You better follow me"
Well, wait until he moves and follow him past the empty armory to the bridge.
Watch out for stray grenades that happen to land in front of your path. When
you reach the bridge, head towards the front end of the bridge by the main
viewscreen. Walk up to Captain Keyes.
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>> Get Off the Pillar of Autumn
Leave the bridge and follow the path to the left. You'll pick up some pistol
ammo while you go. Take out the three grunts up ahead to open the door. Head
through and pick up an Assault Rifle. Help out your marines by defeating waves
of Covenant forces. Use the various tables as cover. I would suggest swapping
your Assault Rifle for a Plasma Pistol or Rifle as it's more effective against
the Covenant. Head to the other end of the cafeteria and head through the open
door. Kill the Grunts and go through the door marked with a red arrow.
Continue through the passageway until you reach an Elite with it's back turned
on you. Smack it in the back with your weapon to bring it down. This goes for
every level, whenever you have the enemy's back to you, just melee it.
Continue and say hi to your fellow marines and head left and down that path.
You'll see two marines in front of an airlock. Don't get too close as a grenade
will send them flying. Take out the enemies behind them and pick up the ammo to
the right of the airlock if you wish. There is an overshield inside the
boarding craft as well.
Continue down the passageway to find a green arrow on the ground. Kill the
various Covenant inside the doorway and head in. Take the first left you see
and assist your marines by killing every Covenant in the area. Continue right
to find another red arrow on the ground and a health pack on the wall. Pick it
up if you need it and head down the path that the red arrow is pointing to.
Ignore any intersections and continue heading straight. Head forward to find
another small skirmish between a few marines and a few Grunts and two Elites.
There is quite a bit of ammo here so pick them up. Continue and you'll find
another Covenant boarding craft with two overshields inside. Continue along
and you'll find a room with something burning in the rear. Crouch and head
under the door blocked by a round crate. Keep going and you'll find another
green arrow on the ground. Enter the opened door and follow the path. You
should reach some stairs and some Covenant on the floor above. I would suggest
taking them out from the first floor and then climb the steps. Continue
through the opening opposite of the opening you entered through on the second
floor.
Follow through and pick up the ammo on the ground. Hide behind that piece of
metal in front of you and pick off the enemies while constantly diving under
for your shields to recharge and to reload. After clearing that room, head
forward and enter a darkened room. There are many Grunts to pick off here.
Continue and kill the other Grunts. Up ahead is an Elite hiding behind a
shield. Take him out swiftly and follow the path right. Continue and take a
look outside the second window, the lifepods are being shot by blue plasma
beams. Time to go! A health pack is on the ground by a dead marine and
assorted ammunition can be found through this area. Just follow the twisting
path and take out the Grunts in the distance with your zoomed in pistol if you
still have it. Cortana will attempt to open a door by the end. Wait for her
and go to the door with the nav point. Turn on your flashlight and take the
first left you see. It's pretty immediate. Continue along with your flashlight
until you see a closed door in the distance. Take a right without heading
towards it. Cortana will activate your motion tracker now. Continue going
straight ignoring any turns. You should see a door with a green light in the
distance. Go through.
Cortana should now tell you to bash the stubborn door open. Use a melee to do
this. Follow through and find a lone grunt. Smash it and continue. Take the
first left you see and take out the enemies here. Continue in the direction
the enemies are coming from and head through the door marked by a yellow
arrow. There is a health pack on the wall here if you need it. Continue this
way through the passageway to the Cryo Bay you were just in. Cortana informs
you that the Elites were going to kill you before you woke up. Continue
forward and enter a charred area. Walk up to the Elite in the distance to
trigger an explosion killing it. Head back and go right now and watch the next
explosion kill the Grunts. That sure makes life easier for you! Go through the
charred door on the left wall of the room with the Grunts after the explosion.
Turn on your flashlight and follow the path. After the path winds right, there
will be a Grunt. Kill it and take the left turn. Follow and take the right. Go
through the door here and help the marines kill the Covenant again. There is a
Health Pack by the wall opposite the door you came out of.
Make a left and follow the path. Go through the opened door to the left of the
path and kill the Grunt there. Continue that way and kill the other Grunt.
Ignore the turn to the right but head straight until you can't anymore. Then
take a right and slay the Covenant here. Use the shield and other obstructions
as cover. After they're gone, ignore the small doors and head straight and go
with the passage left. Pick up the frag grenades in front of you and launch a
few at the Covenant. After taking out the majority of the Elites and Grunts,
jump over the obstruction and continue. Say hi to the marines here and Cortana
will inform you that there is only one lifeboat left. Take the first door on
the left wall. Follow straight and take the immediate right. Follow that and
you'll be at another three way intersection. Take a left and you should get to
the lifeboat and escape.
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***Mission Overview***
Escape intact as Covenant forces board your ship.
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>> Complete Diagnostic Training
You start out in the Cryo-Tube and looking around.  If this is the first time
in the real game you will have to go through a tutorial to set up your suit.
If you have to go through this, read the next paragraph.  If not, skip the next
paragraph.
They first ask you to look around, before you can get out.  They then give you
your health by “bringing your health monitors online.”  Then you are able to
get out, by pressing the X button.  You will se a cut-scene of you coming out
of the chamber.  Go to the red square indent in the ground next for target
testing.  If you want, you can look and move around to get used to the
controls.  Once you get into the square on the ground, they tell you to target
the 5 yellow things on the wall in front of you.  At first your controls are
not inverted, but once your target hits all of them for the first time, you get
to try it out inverted.  You can then decide which setting you like, I prefer
the normal settings, but that is just what I am used to.  Once you decide which
one you want, go to the other side of the structure in the middle of the room
to see another indented square in the ground for you to stand in, this time it
is a yellow square.  Face forward so you are looking at a bar.  Once the guy
talks to you some more press A to get your shields online.  You will get your
shield; then they will test its recharging capabilities.  Once everything works
you will be set to kill all of the monsters on Halo, potentially.
You will see an explosion, and in the room up above the guy will get killed by
invading Covenant.  Captain Keyes then requests for you over the intercom, so
you have to make your way over there.
>> Find Captain Keyes on the Bridge
Head through the towards the door and the guy will say follow me, follow him
for a little while, but don’t follow him to the door, wait back, and you will
see him die in an explosion.  Don’t fret, look to the left to see some pipes,
jump over them into the hallway, and head through the open door.  In the next
hallway, watch out!  Before you get to the door, you will see another
explosion, hopefully you avoided it!  Keep going down the hall and you will see
a door that is halfway closed, push and hold down on the Left Thumbstick to
duck underneath it.  You will see on the other side some marines and workers
from the ship trying (Key word in that is trying) to fight those damn Covenant.
WAIT!  Don’t go through into the line of fire yet.  Look to the right and you
should see a door closing between the Covenant and the marines.  Every time you
see a Covenant fighting marines, there will be a door that closes eventually,
so just wait so you don’t get hit in the crossfire.  Once the door closes, go
into the open door.  To know if you are going the right way, on the ground
there are arrows pointed to different places in the ship.  Follow the blue
arrows, they also say Bridge on them, to get to the Bridge.  Look ahead to see
more marines fighting more Covenant.  Turn left and go down the hall until you
see even more marines fighting even more Covenant.  Geez, they just don’t stop!
It will get MUCH worse then this.  Again, wait for the door to close, then go
to the Marine with an assault rifle in his hand.  He will tell you to follow
him, and do so.  Go through the room with a bunch of dead marines and into a
room where, you guessed it, marines are fighting Covenant.  You can ignore it
this time, and just follow the Marine.  He will stop in a doorway, and look for
a blue arrow leading right.  Follow the hallway to complete your first
objective by finding Captain Keyes.  He knows that the Covenant are too strong,
so he puts the extremely intelligent Cortana in your suit, and tells you to
escape from the Pillar of Autumn.  Before you go, he gives you an unloaded
pistol.
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>> Escape from the Pillar of Autumn
Well, now the fun part starts, as now you actually get to find some bad guys
with your own guns.  Exciting, huh?  When you leave, turn left and follow it to
a hallway, and keep going until you get pistol ammo and you take out your gun.
Reload your gun to make sure you have full ammo, then go behind the door and
use its scooping power to scope in on the dark area up ahead.  There should be
3 grunts waiting for you to kill them.  Beware that they don’t throw a grenade
on you, as all Covenant tend to do.  Aim for their head to kill them each in
one hit.  Once you have killed three, go through the dark area left and look
right into a doorway, where you will pick up your shiny new assault rifle!  Now
here is your first real battle so be careful and don’t be reckless, be smart.
Many people here hide back and try to let the Marines do the work.  Hmm, maybe
on easy and normal mode, but on Legendary?  If you don’t help the Marines they
will die quickly, leaving you all alone to fight about 5 Elites to start out
and a couple more Grunts at that.  Not good.  Go in right away with your pistol
to help take out the original blue Elite that shows up.  Once he is dead, right
away ditch your pistol and take the plasma rifle that the Elite held, this
weapon will be the only weapon you need in this level.  Make sure you have at
least 2 marines alive if you can, so when the additional two or three elites
show up the Marines will distract them, making it easy for you to just plant
grenades and clean everything up.  Once they are all dead, you can move on.
Follow the next hallway and if you go the right way, you should see an elite
with his back to you.  Don’t waste a grenade, just melee him in the back to
instantly kill him.  Keep on following the hallways, killing some puny grunts
on the way, until you see two Marines guarding a door.  It will explode very
soon so throw a plasma grenade right next to the door, so when it explodes it
will hit the Covenant coming out of the pod.  There will be a couple grunts and
an Elite, do what you are trained to do.  Inside the pod are two over shields,
use the very wisely as they help tremendously, especially on Legendary.  Go
into the hallways until you get to a fork.  Staying to the left will keep you
safer and fighting with marines.  Going right then left however, gives you a
good vantage point to chuck some grenades at the unsuspecting Covenant
warriors.  There will be many waves of them so be careful.  My suggestion is to
have your over shield taken away after fighting all of the guys.  Yes, it is
not a typo, because then you can go get a fresh one without having to trace too
far back later on in the level.  Remember on or by most doors there are health
packs, so use them whenever you need it.  Follow the halls until you get to a
dark hallway.  When you get to a fork, to the left will be the marines fighting
and going straight will get you to the place where the Covenant are fighting.
Again, you can go either way.  Going with the Marines will make it safer, but
less effective.  Going to the Covenant is a little more dangerous can be
potentially much more effective.
Continuing on you will get to more Covenant blasting in from their pods.
Continue to do what you hopefully do best to eliminate all of the foes.
Another pod means...more over shields!!  Actually there is only one this time,
but it is better than nothing.  Kill of the remaining elites, picking up plasma
rifles as needed since you can get new ammo for the same gun.  Once you get to
the next part you will see stairs ahead of you.  This is probably the hardest
part of the level because you are at a disadvantage and kind of at the mercy of
the Covenant, not good.  Rush VERY quickly up the stairs and you can hide
behind the little “flaps” coming out of the wall.  From the top level, you are
once again more equal to the Covenant, and you can destroy them.  I think there
are two elites and maybe four grunts or so.  Once they are all dead, go into
the opening of the door.  Now you will come to a closed door.  Just wait, if
you are in the right place, you should get a navigation point to go to after
some talking by Cortana.  Once you get there the door will open to a dark
narrow hallway. Continue until you reach a fork, then turn at it and follow it
until you reach an opening.  You should next reach a bunch of guys who are
trying to get rid of your presence, but hey are all in one space, so use your
rocket launcher.  Oops, did I say rocket launcher?  I meant grenades.  Once
they are all dead move on to a very open hallway with three grunts standing
stupidly at the other end.  If you happen to have a pistol, use its zooming
feature, or just use your plasma rifle as normal, because it has very good
range as well.  You will then go into the Maintenance Shafts. This is a very
complicated place, with many exits.  Whichever one you end up on you will find
some Covenant.  If you are really patient and observant you could go to all of
the exits to kill almost all of the Covenant unnoticed, but either way you will
succeed.  Now keep heading forward and if you are going the right way, you
should pass where you were before with the cry-tube and such, but you are
looking at it from above.  Keep on heading forward, and you will see a Red
Elite waiting for you at the end of the hall.  Keep blasting him and moving
forward, and soon there will be an explosion there, which will leave him every
weak and easy to finish off.  Turn right into the open space to see some
Grunts, don’t worry too much about them, and explosion will eventually kill
them too.
Now we get to go back into the maintenance shafts.  Yay!  You will now if you
are going the right way when you see a Grunt at the end of a hall.  Now wait!
Right to the right at a dead end will be another Grunt waiting for you to kill
him.  Now head forward in the only places you can go, you will get to three
exits.  Take the last one after launching a couple grenades through each one
along the way.  After securing this area, head to the open door.  It is the
right door, if you see a few grunts in there waiting for them to die.  Then
follow the hallway right to get into another good position to fight.  Once you
kill everyone jump over all of the junk in the floor to get to the last part of
the level.  You should see a barrier, with about 5 grenades on the right side
of it.  Keep crouched this whole time, and just launch all of your grenades
over to the other side.  You can take a peek every once in while to see where
they are, but once they are all dead Cortana will tell you to leave.  Get to
the escape pod on the left to trigger a cut scene of you finishing the first
level!!  Great job, but we are just getting started.
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5.2 - Halo
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General Tips: Remember that you don't have to rescue the Marines. You can let
them die if you wish. But, I would still suggest you keep them alive. They can
be the difference between life and death for you as well. Also, Cortana will
help you a few times by giving you nav points and such if you get lost.
Description: Seek out surviving Marines and help them fight the Covenant.
Recommended Weapons: Sniper Rifle/Plasma Pistol
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Flawless Cowboy
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As you start regaining consiousness, Cortana will wake you up. Walk outside
and pick up the large ammount of ammumition and grenades. Stock up and walk to
the bridge a few feet ahead of you. Before you can step on, Cortana informs
you of covenant air patrols in the area. A new batch of objectives have been
given.
>> Evade the Covenant patrols searching for you
>> Head for higher ground
>> Search for other lifeboats
Now, you can either take on the dropship(and it's two Banshee escorts)or
escape. Since you don't wish to lose any health and you don't want to waste
ammo, you should probably hide. Immediately walk across the bridge and start
walking towards the wall. Now, hugging it, walk along it and stop at intervals
to avoid the Banshee's sight. Walk along the wall avoiding the Banshees. If
they start attacking you, there's nothing you can do except attack back.
Anyway, after a small trot, you'll see a few Grunts and Elites up ahead by an
area with a lot of rocks grouped together. If they haven't sighted you yet,
use the element of surprise and use headshots on the Grunts with your zoomed
in pistol. As soon as the Elites start charging you, strafe back and forth and
attack them with your Assault Rifle. I strongly suggest picking up a Plasma
Pistol switched your Assault Rifle and a few Plasma Grenades. Continue forward
and jump down the small cliff. Continue as the path turns and Cortana will
inform you of a lifeboat. Just as you reach an area with a few structures,
you'll immediately see a Covenant dropship dropping off a few enemies. Help
the Marines take them out and Sarge(the black guy with the baseball cap) and a
few other Marines will talk to you. Cortana will give you a new set of orders.
>> Stay with the survivors
>> Protect the human survivors
>> Wait for an evac dropship to arrive
Take some time to search the crashed lifeboats and structures for First Aid
Kits and various ammo. Ignore the various Covenant coming in and fight them
when you have full health, and full ammo. Various dropships will come in and
they will usually come in from the front and the back. This will be the first
level that you will meet Jackals so make your aquaintance known. Use grenades.
After roughly 5-7 dropship encounters, E419 will radio in and pick up the
survivors. Say hi to Foehammer as you'll be relying on her quite a bit.
Anyway, she'll drop off a Warthog with a gunner. To get a side seat passenger,
drive to a Marine and he'll automatically get in. After the Marines escape,
Cortana will give you a new set of objectives after watching three new
lifeboats fall from the sky. Joy!
>> Search for three additional groups of human survivors
>> Protect the human survivors
>> Wait for an evac dropship
Head forward and head forward. Go down the rocky slope and turn to your right
into a small cave. If you can't find it immediately, Cortana will give you a
Nav point to follow. Anyway, as you get close, Cortana will tell you that the
cave is not a natural formation. Continue through the so called cave turning
and shifting around until you reach a jump in the path. Gain as much speed as
possible by falling down the ramp and heading back. Use the slope as a ramp to
make it. Continue through until you reach a big room infested by Covenant.
The easiest way to kill them(if you have a gunner)is to run over them with
your gunner taking out as many of them as they can. After the initial Covenant
are taken care of, head to the right of the room by the entrance and you'll
find a small slope leading up. Be careful, at the top there is a Red Elite
and he's intent on getting you. Don't go up to far. When you can see the
end, throw a grenade to attract him and then use an overcharged Plasma Pistol
to bring down his shields. Then, run up to him and melee him a few times to
bring him down. Continue up and left and you should reach the bridge controls.
Watch the bridge appear and head back to your Warthog.
Now that you have the bridge activated, you can continue through and to the
other side. The cave will swerve a lot and Cortana will tell you a few things.
After a while, you will reach an opening in the cave. Finally!
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Reunion Tour
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Now, there are many paths in this area to three different rooms. In each of
those rooms, there are Marines and a Covenant. I'll walk you through the
fastest way but these can be done in different orders. Anyway, I'll number
them to make life easier for you.
1) As you exit the cave, head right and forward. Don't cross the river!
Continue through for a bit staying by the right wall. Eventually, you'll see a
trail going up with flashing blue lights on the ground marking it. Head
through and you'll find a light skirmish taking place. If you want to snipe,
head over right to the crashed lifeboat and pick up a Sniper and leave your
Warthog. The alternative is to simply drive around and kill Covenants by means
of crushing or gunning. The first is much easier and you'll take less damage.
Head over to the rock in the back that is sticking out of the ground if you
wish to snipe. After taking out the initial wave, a few more dropships will
come in and you should kill them too. Head back to your warthog. If your
passengers have died, pick up some more Marines.
>> Search for the two remaining groups of human survivors
>> Protect the human survivors
>> Wait for an evac dropship
2) There are two paths leading to this room. The one you came in is by the
left, the one you should get out of is at the other side of this room.
Continue along the wall and reach a skinny trail. This is a major shortcut and
should save you a minute or two. Anyway, when you're back by the creek, there
is another opening directly in front of your face with blue lights like the
last. Continue through and you'll reach a downhill slope with more structures.
There are Marines by the back near the group of rocks. Use your Sniper Rifle
and get on the various structures and take out the Covenant. After the rest of
them are dead, Foehammer will come again and pick up the survivors. Now, time
to get to the last lifeboat. There are more first aid kits near the crashed
lifeboat. Continue through the path by the crashed lifeboat.(not the one you
entered from.) Exit.
>> Search for the last group of human survivors
>> Protect the human survivors
>> Wait for an evac dropship
3) Back in the open, there are a few Covenant. Squish them and swerve.
Cortana tells you that the Captain has been captured. Uh oh. Anyway, head
right and cross the river. There is a lifeboat ahead that Cortana informs you
about. Replenish your Sniper Rifle's ammunition and continue in the direction
you were going. There is a path here leading up to the final lifeboat.
Continue through and snipe as many Covenant as you can. There are Elites on
top of the structure and Jackals and Grunts walking on the ground. After
taking out as many as you can, drive the Warthog near the structure and leave
it there. Get out and kill the rest of the Covenant. This may or may not take
a while. The Covenant may be hiding on a few of the structures. Foehammer
will not come until you kill every one of them. Explore the various
structures and when Foehammer comes, press X to enter the Pelican and fly
to safety.
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***Mission Overview***
Seek out surviving Marines and help them take out the Covenant.
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/ FLAWLESS COWBOY /
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>> Evade the Covenant patrols looking for you
>> Head for higher ground
>> Search for other lifeboats
You start out in a lifeboat that has crashed.  Get out and get all of the items
that are right in front of your pod.  You should have full armor for both your
assault rifle and the pistol that is in your inventory.  From there, cross over
the long bridge that is to your left.  Right as you exit the bridge on the
other side, you should see a large shadow over you, that is the covenant
dropship.  It will give out 2 Banshees, which will please you immensely.  I
would just ignore them, and after a while they will start heading off into the
distance.  If you are daring and risky, and you think you can do this without
losing any health, you can kill one or both of the Banshees.  If you do this
now, they won’t show up later in this same level, so it is your choice.  I
would suggest on Legendary to wait until you have some guys to help you.
Once those Banshees leave or blow up, courtesy of you, follow the left rock
wall until you reach a more open area.  In this area are several grunts and a
couple of Elites.  Take care of business.  The thing I like to do is use the
zoom feature on the pistol to snipe out the grunts at least, and then go on
against the elites.  When fighting against the elites, there are many rocks in
this area that you or they can use for cover.  If they use it for cover, stick
a plasma grenade on the rock, not on the elite, so it will hopefully be
unnoticed by the Elite, leading to his doom.  Once you kill everyone in the
area, you will get a checkpoint signaling this, and head through the narrow
passage way.  If you do all of this fast enough, the enemies from the dropship
coming from behind you will not catch up to you.  If they do, I would suggest
reading this next excerpt.
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(Here is another way to do the first and second fights thanks to
halo.bungie.org)
When you begin the level, run out, fill up on goodies, and walk over near the
bridge to trigger the dropship. Your escape pod cut a swath in the ground as it
crashed. Follow the line of this smoking furrow back to the river. Soon two
elites and six grunts will disgorge from their
dropship. You should be out of their range, but still close enough to snipe the
grunts with your pistol. Some of the grunts will head straight across the
bridge, so plug them before they get safely to the other side. There's plenty
of ammo at the crash site, so go through as many rounds as you want. Once
absolutely all the grunts are dead, we're ready to take out the elites. Two
against one isn't really fair odds, so we aren't going to play fair either.
We're going to get our feet a little wet and sneak around behind them. Hop into
the river and head back to the waterfall. Once you're far from the keen eyes of
the elites, turn right and hug the wall heading back west towards the escape
pod. Keep yourself pressed against the wall until you reach the edge of the
abyss, then follow the edge north out into the open in front of the escape pod.
If all goes well, you should be staring at the backs of two elites who have no
idea you're there. Now of course you should beat them to death. Quickly fill up
your pistol, grab the secondary weapon of your choosing (I like the plasma
rifle), scavenge for grenades, but don't get the health pack yet.
Cross the bridge and look out for any grunts that might have gotten through
your hail of bullets. Two banshees will start making your life difficult right
about now, but if you keep an eye on them and only run between cover when
you're clear, they will turn around and just leave once you get far enough
along. If you want to be extra thorough, use up all that assault rifle ammo on
them. It will just go to waste otherwise. As you're making your way up the
hill, stay relatively close to the right edge. When you're all the way up as
far as the edge goes, turn left and look for a big rock against the wall to
hide behind. There are four grunts and an elite frolicking in the rocks here.
Peek out and snipe until all the grunts are dead, then ruthlessly slaughter the
single remaining elite however you choose. A charged shot from a plasma pistol
will drop his shields nicely and force him to run for cover. Don't forget the
goodies back at the escape pod if you need anything at all before going on to
the next area.  Now you can get the health pack. After you're full, head out to
save the marines.
You should get a checkpoint just before you start the next fight. Save and quit
when you hit it.  Checkpoints have a nasty way of creeping up in this area just
after you've shot your last bullet and have no health left. If this happens,
just turn the machine off and restart your game. This area is the hardest part
of the level. There are six dropships that will land in rapid succession at
three different landing sites. You'll get a checkpoint after you've taken out
each dropship's complement of Covenant, but only save it if you've killed all
the elites, most of the jackals and grunts, left the rest behind for the
marines, and are already in range of the next dropship's landing site.
By the way if at any time the dropships get ahead of you and you begin to get
absolutely overwhelmed, skip down past this section and read my strategy for
when things get all screwed up. You can always run down the hill as well and
wait around far from the action for about fifteen minutes. Foe Hammer will show
up and all of the Covenant will mysteriously vanish. But that's no fun.
The first complement of troops has already engaged the marines by the time you
arrive. There are two elites and two grunts on the right and four grunts on the
left. Throw a frag grenade at the elites then take out the grunts on the left.
They're easier to kill and they throw grenades.  Throw another frag then follow
up with the pistol. Hopefully, the elites on the right side will be busy with
other things by now, so throw another grenade or two then clean up as
necessary.
Scavenge as you run. Head immediately up the ramp over the structure, stopping
to pick up the health pack and goodies at the top if you need them. Run a few
feet down the ramp on the other side and drop down. Keep going and you should
see the next dropship in front of you.
There is some randomness to the number and type of Covenant on these dropships,
but there are two elites, two jackals, and two grunts on board this one. Run to
the right and approach the port (left if you're on the ship facing forward)
side of the ship. As soon as the doors open, stick a plasma grenade to the
elite furthest back in the ship nearest the gun. By the way plasma grenades
stuck to the ship don't seem to do much, so make sure it's on the elite. If
you're fast and accurate, you can stick a second to the other elite before they
jump out of the ship. If not, throw another one where he'll land. Hopefully,
they'll both be dead now. Toss another grenade at the jackals and move on.
Don't worry about a few leftover grunts or jackals. The marines will take care
of them. But grab any plasma grenades lying around.
The next landing site is past the escape pod on its right, past the pipe
structure, and on a slight hill. There's a health pack on the way, but only get
it if you really need it. This ship usually contains two elites and five
grunts. Again the elites will come out on the port side near you, so stick
plasma grenades to them or have some waiting for them when they land. Now run
back to the first landing site. This is where dropship number four is touching
down. Your path will take you through a pile of grunts from the other side of
the dropship. Take a moment to kill any that are easy pickings and take their
grenades if you're not full. Again leave the leftovers for the marines. The
important thing is to keep moving.
Dropship #4 once again offers two elites and five grunts for your killing