Halo Reach but EVERY Enemy is an Ultra Elite (On Legendary)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- I modded the Halo: Reach Campaign so every single enemy is an Ultra Elite with either a Focus Rifle, Concussion Rifle, or Energy Sword. This is the hardest challenge yet on my channel. Reach Ultra Elites are so irritatingly good at killing Spartans, I know why Reach fell now.
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Hi Everyone! I'm back! I would say to treat this kind of as a Season 2 of the channel. I have an undisclosed number of videos mostly ready, and a few more ideas cooking as well. I want to get some stream ideas prepped for you all, but I've been sick the past week so I didn't get as much prepped as I wanted. So the Streams may still be a few weeks away, I'll update in community posts and schedule the streams a week before they go live, so if you just look at my channel every once in a while you should see when I have one ready to go.
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I'd also like to acknowledge that the older mods I posted on NexusMods are out of date and crash if you load them on the latest version of MCC. I would love to get those fixed but in the year and a half since I posted those videos I have lost the original files for the mods and would need to completely recreate them again. This wouldn't be difficult for the Halo 2 Jackal Snipers Mod, but for the Halo 3 and Halo CE mods I did need to do some fooling around to get them to work, and would take me much longer to recreate. I'd rather just work on new videos and stream ideas because I only have so much time to dedicate to this channel, but I do really want to get the Halo 2 Jackal Sniper mod up again because it's the hardest of the original three videos I made and I just want it to exist again. (If you really want to play the other ones you can download older versions of games from SteamDB, there are many tutorials for this, look them up if you're interested!)
Also, a HUGE thanks to everyone who throughout the past year has made any comment saying that you missed my videos, I always saw them, and they were a major reason for why I put in the work to get some more videos done for you all. I do read every comment and I really appreciate every comment I get, even if they're complaining about my use of Infinite Ammo, Level Skips, or the comments I'm expecting to get for what happens in this video :)
I’m just glad you’re back
Really glad your back, I love your stuff.
Nice vid, looking forward to your future stuff!
Also if anyone wants to play the old mods, if you look on the posts section on the Nexus page for the sniper jackals mod I put instructions on how to revert your version of MCC to a version where the mods should work
It's slightly inconvenient, but it's a fairly uneasy workaround until if/when they get updated
@@lizardnettle9693 Thanks for making that post! Hopefully the workaround for that one won't be neccesary soon. Also shoutout for doing the challenge yourself! I've been enjoying the updates you've been leaving in my comments :)
@@TipsyPhoenix np for the post, I struggled for a few days trying to figure out how to use steamDB and figured some others would be confused too.
Grinding out runs whenever I have a few hours to spare has been surprisingly fun
Ultras are so fricken painfully on legendary, so having everyone being an Ultra sounds like every circle of hell combined
That's basically not far off from the thunderstorm skull. All elites are at minimum an ultra and sometimes you get a zealot with a trio of generals just to spite you. It was rough beating reach legendary wity thunderstorm.
Noob combo is the only counter
Only thing worse would be all Generals
@@benc77 Noob combo is kind of bad in Reach, better to spam the Plasma Pistol for stripping shields.
@@captainnyet9855 eh depends on situations
"It's the Winter Contingency."
*Sees countless Elite Ultras*
"May God help us all..."
Lore accurate Reach
genuinely true. i genuinely think they forgot to change the gameplay to fit the story because it plays like you are gonna kick ass until the very last mission where it genuinely felt urgent.
@@Sockren genuinely, i genuinely agree with your comment
@@LowEffortContent- i genuinely understand how genuine you feel. it is genuinely funny how many times i said genuine in my genuine comment. i genuinely thank you for telling me how i said it a weird amount of times
@@Sockrengenuinely true
@@Sockrenthat’s very genuine of you.
Don’t worry, they can tank a spartan laser. Learned that on my legendary run at the same time that I realized hunters are easier than ultras, and a bit after learning that the space section sucks
I think I would have exploded instantly if I saw a Spartan Laser didn't kill one in one shot.
@@TipsyPhoenix there were two in there last level that were kicking my butt on legendary because I didn’t have a precision weapon (that wasn’t the Spartan laser) for headshots, and I’m bad at tracking. I just had to run past and let Emile kill them
They also suck up an entire plasma pistol overcharge before eating your ass
@@addison1024same spot with the field marshal whose shield recharges faster than the spartan laser charge time, so he can tank unlimited laser shots?
Honestly, there isn't a sinlge Elite on Reach that isn't easily dealt with so long as you just keep your trusty plasma pistol with you and save enough precision ammo; it's one of the easiest Halo campaigns to complete on Legendary (though I haven't fully played through any of the 343 ones, so idk how they stack up); even Ultra shields pop very quickly once you start blasting them with your pp.
This is the kind of thing only someone who never played reach on legendary would ever come up with, or a clinically insane individual
Those enemies aren't called "elite ultras" without a reason. Hell, they might be scarier in their game than hunters (depending on the version you compare them to)
Pride is the first sin. My gaming ego needed a check and this was a huge one
reach ultras are the scariest enemies in all of halo imo. hit hard, huge shields/hp pool, dodge everything. They seem expressly designed to knock overconfident players down a peg
nothing is scarier than the T A L L H U N T E R though
Hunters are scary if you don't know what you're doing, and they are dangerous to be sure. But their moves are all well telegraphed and easy to dodge. And while they do have a substantial health pool, they don't have regenerating shields.
These ultras are fast, smart, dodge everything, hit almost as hard as hunters with far more reliability. And worst of all, you can dump an entire magazine into them, but if the shield doesn't go down, you might as well have flushed the ammo down the drain instead.
@@SleepySoviet Yah, they are scary; they still drop quite quickly to plasma pistol + DMR, but especially when you're fighting multiple (and you aren't being babysat by noble team) they can quikly become too much; Elite AI is also pretty good in general.
If the Covenant could just pack in 10 Ultra Elites with focus and concussion rifles into every hallway in the galaxy even Chief's plot armor wouldn't be able to do anything.
90% of Challenge runners quit before that one perfect attempt.
True
Yeah but 5 hours is a reasonable limit. I could see some challenges working in the future if an emulator is developed that lets you have multiple saves and at any point
Gamblers fallacy
Haven't watched, but from the title alone, you are clinically insane and must be stopped from doing further shenanigans.
Edit: now try it in LASO, I dare you 😂
That civilian elite was funny.
"My forklift may be gone, but i can be my own forklift" Truly an inspirational quote.
The king is back to show us the meaning of challenge is.
Concussion Rifle Ultras could take on the UNSC, the Flood, the Forerunners, and the Banished all at once.
halo 3 but every enemy is 343 guilty spark
Thanks… I hate it.
Actually I can think of something far worse. A soul that allows popcorn to pierce shields.
Halo 4 but every enemy is a base armor incinerator or scattershot (50/50) knight
@@cosmictreason2242 halo 5 but every enemy is warden eternal
@@colbypegg3863 every enemy a grunt goblin though. So dumb that they even teased one in Canadian but kept them to firefight
I took on the challenge and beat the Legendary campaign with the mod on. I think it was harder then LASO but it's definitely doable. I have a new found appreciation for the Focus rifle since it was the only reliable shield stripper you could get. It definitely makes you play differently though! 10/10
Congrats! I was definitely playing the impossibility up a bit in the script, I was just having so little fun I didn't want to keep struggling and had enough footage for a decent video. Just thinking about trying to beat New Alexandria with this mod made me quit once I hit that really tough difficulty spike.
Well done. So how did you get past that room he gave up on?
@@Jigsawn2 baited sword guys into the long hallway then the concussion rifle guys that wanted to chase. Focus rifle/DMRed the rest who stayed back. Not all of the elites were ultras either some were EVA so they had weak shields
He came back with the milk!
Slap the bag!
Glad you're back. Ultras are so slept on.
Ultras are awesome! When there's one of them :) :) :)
@@TipsyPhoenix I remember doing legendary firefight in matchmaking. A drop pod of ultras was game over every time
@@justinmochi7323every time I played FF limited I would sweat as hard as possible to not die once the entire match and the ultra drop pod even on heroic had a 40% chance of killing me. Those things were by far the most dangerous AI in Reach.
You know what? This was a real bad one. I'd say you've earned a break. Go on ahead and make your next challenge "Halo ______ but EVERY Enemy is a Friend Who Wants to Have a Nice Time (On Legendary)"
This would probably be even more torturous for me because I always obsess with keeping marines alive. And that would seemingly be just about impossible 99% of the time here.
Well. Can’t wait to try it and find out. Welcome back man.
I knew this would be hard, but I was surprised to hear that this was your hardest challenge yet.
Then I realized, without Grunts and Jackals around, you have no way of getting a Plasma Pistol. Yeah, I understand now why this was impossible.
Kudos for trying though!
That's a great point that I don't think even TipsyPhoenix said directly - he does mention being stuck on human weaponry in a few places but man.
I like how the spartans are able to run past all these ultras just fine, but then in cutscenes kat gets shot once and dies, and emile loses a 1v1 to a sword elite
Kat gets stabbed like 50 times and survives but dies in one shot in a cutscene
EMP blast from the glassing knocked out the energy shields
It's crazy that you're declaring this as harder than rocket flood challenge CE.
Bro have you fought Reach elites on legendary? They are beasts
Well you had a good run at it. I would've quit by the time I faced more than 4 at a time. Elite Ultras are paradoxically the toughest bastards ever in halo, because they have zero counterplay unlike the other challenge enemy runs you did. Respect for knowing your limits, we all challenge ourselves to have fun not get mad.
RETURN OF THE KING!
Holy shit!!!! Thank you so much
@@TipsyPhoenix I will never be ashamed of being a TipsyPhoenix Simp
@@RC-jt3zvhe still won't sleep with you you know
@@cosmictreason2242 you don't gotta rub it in :(
"Elite ultras in Reach are balanced fairly" has the same energy as "The library is meant to be grueling to create a mood of despair"
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO HE UPLOADED AGAIN YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
People bitch about Halo 2 jackal snipers, but those guys are nothing compared to Reach ultra elites.
15:49 you actually did a major despawn by taking that ledge. That takes away nearly every enemy in the upper floors.
I thought the ending was easier than I remembered, it would have sucked if I didn't because most of Noble Team was staying back at that point.
When the world needed him most, he returned. Man, it genuinely sounded like you hated this one, like you could just tell from the way you spoke alone. Honestly, I respect you a ton more because you're willing to go 'nope, this is impossible, it's over, challenge failed' like the CE Warthog Run with all the Rocket Flood. It makes every challenge you do accomplish feel way more authentic and better for the viewers. Even this was great content, even if it was pure hell for you.
I'm glad I'm seeing this reaction more than "Screw you, you gotta finish it". Thanks a lot, this comment was really nice to read :)
Everyone who watches this can feel your pain. The haters have just internalized it.
"At least it's not field marshals right.. wait you're doing what-"
mabye try this again but you start off with infinite ammo and the trusty old noob combo (plasma pistol+ precision weapon). Its the only way to get past the final few levels on legendary with all of these fuckers. Don't feel bad, for those of us who know how shit these guys are, we already knew this would be the hardest one.
You're a masochist! Honestly, failing this challenge only raises the stakes for the next one because there is no guarantee of a happy ending.
Glad to see you back!!! This challenge actually seems like hell, altho I am curious enough to think about attempting it
Do it! It sucks!
TBH that big purple hangar room is THE hardest room in the game. I've done it LASO multiple times, but I'm never looking forward to it.
I shouldn't be the one saying this, but doing this game LASO always sounded insane to me. I'm impressed with anyone who has done it.
@@TipsyPhoenix Basically, the Ultra Elites are invulnerable to human weapons, and it takes like 4 plasma sticks to kill one. You have to entirely rely on backsmack, vehicles and noble team (two of which aren't present in that room). Fortunately the black eye skull allows you to survive the elite's melee for a little bit if you hit them when they hit you.
So, I actually attempted this myself, and I've been hard stuck on Nightfall. Winter Contingency flows fairly fine, nothing too exciting as I get my bearings and learn the Focus Rifle is probably the most important weapon in the challenge. Sword Base is where I lose about 2 hours just trying to get ally AI to behave with vehicles, shocking I know, but other than that it goes fairly fine. Nightfall started off with a 3 hour attempt that got bricked at the Covenant Pylon section because I simply didn't have the firepower to actually chew through that much HP, since I had fought everything to get there.
Then I spend another hour after a reset to get back there with about 28ish total Sniper bullets, only to crash for no reason.
Overall, I've found that the big thing that makes this challenge unfun is the sheer spam of Focus Rifles. Sword Elites are actually kinda fun to play around with, and Concussion Elites bring a really fun dance of "Don't use cover, at all" to the mix. It's all the Focus Rifles that make this challenge a nightmare.
Edit: I've made it past Nightfall and I just beat Long Night Of Solace. I'll make a video once I beat the entire campaign.
Man, this reminds me of first time I played Reach on legendary. The fact that you made it as far as you did is a miracle. I doubt I could have even beaten the first level.
7:30
Glad someone else finally agrees with me about Reach being harder to deal with than Halo 2. Halo 2 just takes skill and knowledge. Reach? Yea, skill doesn't matter, the AI are just as good as humans and the TTK on you is basically the same as H2. Having invincible allies doesn't mean jack because they BARELY do any damage and typically have crappy weapons, while your allies in H2 can actually have useful weapons and the enemies are easy to stagger.
So you replaced every infantry unit in Reach with what is the most badass infantry unit the Covenant have. O_O
Meanwhile I struggle to complete the game ((well, actually just one of any of the levels)) deathless on NORMAL difficulty.😅 good job getting even that far.
The king has returned
Reach was easily the hardest on Legendary vanilla. But then you do this? You madman!
Next to Halo 2, its rather easy lol
@A-G-F- I don't think so, halo 2 legendary was pretty fun
7:35 You complain about the Halo Reach Elites having hard A.I but thats what makes them so interesting, memorable, and scary. Elites are SUPPOSED to be a challenge. They are supposed to be smart and intelligent. You said there was no "consistent strategy" to defeat them, and yeah, that's a good thing! If you were able to run through every enemy and deal with them all the same way then that would be really boring, and wouldnt power your neurons on how to deal with every encounter. That's what makes the Halo Reach campaign and firefight the best out of the series, among many other things.
I agree, the Halo Reach campaign has some of the best enemy AI period. Bungie was always amazing at that. It's just that a consequence is that fighting a dozen of them at once tests my patience in ways I haven't felt in forever. They're smarter than me god dammit!
Same energy as "the library is supposed to be grueling to create a mood of despair"
Ultra Elites aren't supposed to be a sniper class so I think you should take away the focus rifle spawns. In Reach, Ultras use plasma repeaters, needle rifles, concussion rifles, and energy swords.
It might make the challange a little easier to not get lazered from across the map.
Btw, never use a needle rifle against them. Not because it's a bad weapin. But their AI sees the needler and needle rife as an explosive weapon, so they'll evade it way more and use armor lock.
Reach is one of my favorite Halo games, and has 2 of my 3 favorite guns in the series.
How do you not like Reach?
Hey wait the space section doesn't suck, it's the best part of the game! Sometimes I intentionally fail so I can keep it going longer.
I can't describe it. It isn't any specific decision or change. I just don't vibe with the Reach campaign's gameplay. I like the multiplayer and I respect the campaign a lot, especially the story, but something about the gameplay is just off for me.
@@TipsyPhoenixunderstandable, bungie did a lot of experimenting with it and significantly upped the difficulty with things like elite shields which can tank entire mags. also armor abilities, and the enemies overall being significantly smarter. its very different from other halo games.
they tried to make the covenant seem like a terrifying threat, and it ends up making the game extremely difficult
I sure hate it when enemies are smart enough to not get shot
I started watching this channel last week, I’m so happy there’s another video!
17:19 try’s to kill you by STARING at your soul
Halo 4 but every enemy is a knight battlewagon. Would it be better or worse than Halo Reach elite ultras?
The concussion rifle is bar none the weapon i hated most in Halo Reach. The Ultras would just obliterate you at range, but it felt like you were shooting tennis balls when you wielded it. Plus its ammo capacity was ABYSMAL. but ultra's have an UNLIMITED SUPPLY.
HE RETURNS
I was looking at the time of the video going down and we'd only got to Nightfall and I was getting worried. You fought valiantly. I'm not surprised you weren't having fun, I could tell you were not enjoying it.
Words cannot express how much I hate Elite Ultras. They are so tanky, agile, accurate and aggressive. On heroic, HEROIC, a plasma nade won't kill them. They also armour lock if they get stuck with a plasma grenade a lot of the time. When I played through Reach, 2 player coop on normal, the Elite Ultras almost made my friend rage quit. Halo 2 Jackal snipers are a meme, but no one laughs at Reach's Elite Ultras.
The problem is that there is no strategy to beat them. With rocket Flood, prefire corners. With Jackal snipers, close the range to spook them.
That hangar on the Corvette is tough on heroic because there's so little good cover.
There's a worse room after the hangar... I gave it an attempt myself, I got to the bridge, cleared that room, it was trying to get back to the hangar that made me stop. I'll give it another attempt later. I'm uploading a recording of my attempt but it's like one and a half hours long and is taking a while.
Edit: Here's my attempt th-cam.com/video/LJwQomM3vjA/w-d-xo.html
Edit 2: Managed to do it, had a much better go this time. th-cam.com/video/9y5RwVmKCD4/w-d-xo.html
I am guessing you did not have enough time to try jumping above in the space room. There is a border out of balance position up there.
Also, I wonder if it would be possible with doing coop with a team members or in general infinite ammo?
Title: Halo Reach but EVERY Enemy is the one with multiple overshields who won't move away from the otherside of the map and when you sprint at them they walk backwards faster than you can sprint and shoot you down at the same time OR they glitch twitch toward you with no momentum to give a instakill kick in the face that you are somehow supposed to see during one single frame
what you hate about elites is what i love about them, i just dont really do halo reach legendary. i tend to do heroic with a few skulls for difficulty. its the spartan ai that i have some issue with
i like that they actually use their abilities to their fullest. i hate when ai feels like its fighting wtih one arm behind its back.
ultra elites on legendary really feel like fighting spartans, huh..
also not even mad that you skipped the space section. its terrible even on normal, its just uninteresting
Ngl i just played reach legendary with a couple skulls including catch and thunderstorm. It wasn't THIS bad, but there were times where a level seemed just unreasonably hard.
THE FABLED REACH VIDEO!!!!!!!! Please do another (every enemy is a spec ops grunt LASO??), Reach is my favourite Halo
I recently played reach on legendary and the elites are no joke 😂 they’ll mess you up at range, they’ll roundhouse kick you close up, the only semi consistent way I’ve found to dispatch them, is to sneak and assassinate, and even that usually results in a kick to the face 😂
Would this be easier or harder with all Zealots, or all Generals, instead of all Ultras? I never really understood how much health the ultra/zealot/generals have compared to each other.
Is there REALLLLYYY a big difference between this and regular legendary since a good quarter of the enemies are ultras anyway 😂
Ultras? Try Generals or Field Marshalls and you'll realize Ultras aren't that bad and you'd be begging for the Ultras if you went up against generals or Field Marshalls
F my brother, but trust me, if you'll try a "Halo 4 on legendary but everybody are prometians"... man, dont use the skulls, that all you need to know
Here's a tip i think might help you i noticed in your video the grunts seems to still be on the turrets of phantoms still you can use this to get a plasma pistol at the beginning of long night of solace when the marine says we got a wrath, destroy the wrath and a phantom should come in for you to get a plasma pistol
Honestly disagree about the gameplay loop, but I beat the campaign on legendary and it was the most painful gaming experience I've had yet
this has motivated me to complete halo reach on legendary. i made it to the pillar of autumn but then i got scared about the last bit. (i'm at the bit with the hunters)
•Normal Halo CE but every elite is spec ops
• CE but every enemy is a hunter
• halo 3 every enemy is a fuel rod grunt
• halo 3 but every enemy is a brute hammer chieftain
• CE but every enemy is invisible flood
• halo 2 but every enemy is a dual plasma wielding white armor elite
• halo odst but every enemy is a cloaked jetpack flame grenade brute
• CE every enemy is a gold elite but your AR fires magnum ammunition
• CE but every enemy is replaced with the low level light blue invisible elites
• Halo infinite but every enemy is a focus rifle skimmer
• halo infinite but every enemy is a brute berserker
• halo 2 every enemy is a drone
• halo 4 every enemy a 50/50 shotgun or incinerator knight
Just some ideas
challenge was so hard it took him 2 years to beat it
nvm he didnt even beat it
If I beat it the video would have taken 4 years!
Halo 2 legendary but every enemy is a flood combat form with a sniper rifle, beam rifle, or rocket launcher.
You're Alive! I was re watching your vids a few weeks back and was hoping you'd put out an update or a new video and here I am 3 weeks late lol. But I'm glad to see you're back.
If you had kept them with plasma rifles or plasma pistols as secondaries, wouldn't have been so bad
I was actually looking at the video length the whole time after the first two missions took you halfway. Not disappointed though. Quality over quantity
At least you tried.
That's what my therapist said too!
I always KNEW the forklift would be useful, I just never found out how...
The madman, he has returned in all his glory.
18:30 I was surprised you didnt do more of the speedrun and despawn strats, tbh, like the forklift skip on the dam level.
Reach is hard enough to begin with. I feel like i have an easier time on Halo 2.
Our favorite Halo Masochist has returned
you could just lower the heath/shields of them in the mod to make it possible
I’d have given up at 17:18 , honestly I don’t think I could have beat this.
16:59 could've used the forklift glitch to bypass all of those enemies
I saw the title, the thumbnail, I hate and relate to the impossible task of this
I would love to see you do Halo reach but every enemy is the Gúta 😂🎉
Don't think you could make the campaign any less enjoyable lol
When TipsyPhoenix can't beat something, you know no one can
Why would you do this to yourself?
At least it aint laso
Don't get any ideas
Next time you do a challenge like this, bump up the amount of ammo enemies drop for you and maybe introduce some RNG into the weapon variety. The starvation was real, a single plasma pistol find could have made some neat things possible 😭
Happy to watch you suffer love
LNOS and exodus have been completed i shall avenge you brother
Btw a more fun reach challenge would be all skirmishers
Well, at least it's not Field Marshals or something worse.
Oof, you cant get plasmapistol? Oh dear...
11:48, Halo 2's elite ultra's actually take 4 headshots to go down. Not trying to downplay the bullcrap in any way, shape, or form, just thought it was worth mentioning.
Halo 3 with every enemy a fuel grunt should actually be pretty fun in part because of the slow speed of the projectiles making it chaotic but not impossible
Alright, so I already commented previously, but I just have to ask: would this be at least not agonizing with Bandana, or are the elites just too tanky/dodge happy? Either way, I am still hoping to see a possible and not utterly masochistic Reach run (and if you don’t want to, I understand. Reach is pretty different, and I understand why people don’t like it)
Bandana could make it tolerable, any level with a sniper would be much easier. But some parts would still be too tough for me to try it. New Alexandria is gonna kick your ass no matter what strategy you use
Halo: Reach every enemy Ultra Zealot Elite when?
For clarification: yes this is an actual class you can come across in the room under the general on Sword Base. As far as I know, they are the strongest in the game, and possibly in any halo game. Basically hunter stats with elite ai and shit.
That's the BOB (Easter egg enemies) for the Sword Base level, their armor is randomized
that room MIGHT be possible
iirc you can stock up with snipers and rockets on the beach, and you wouldnt be able to use those if you started on a later rally point
swap them out after the space station to clear the first room, then pick the back up and hopefully kill the few that you need to
granted i dont see any way those later ones would be possible, but that 1 room MIGHT be
still definitely hard enough though that i dont want to try
That's actually a really good point, a lot of sniper ammo might be able to do it! The next level is actually awful though and I didn't even try the rest of them
OMG ITS HAPPENING, EVERYBODY STAY CALM ITS HAPPENING
One single elite ultra can destroy a challenge run
What actually happened on Reach.
2:20 it's the halo 3 warthog run all over again!
On oni sword base i wouldve definitely gotten the wraith. Splatters and near miss mortars can one shot the ultra. And on nightfall i wouldve tried to create a window to clip through the gate with the forklift
I thought there was a trick on Nightfall! But I couldn't remember how to do it and I only like using what I remember and not looking up glitches I don't know
You don’t know how happy I am to see you’re back