#im loving this so much
Halo: Combat Evolved update #4! (Game spoilers, naturally. )
Look, I took a screencap! Not with Steam’s screencapping thing, this was the Windows’ Snippy Snip thing. But still, it’s me!
I got frickin’ STUCK on the Covenant ship on The Truth and the Reconciliation campaign because I was making 2 mistakes: I thought I had to bring my remaining marines with me to find Captain Keyes in the brig (I kept 2 of my guys alive, yay, so Cortana never offered to send in reinforcements; sorry to the ones I lost, though ). But my marines wanted to just hang out on this bridge and wouldn’t go up a level with me, so I thought I had to stay there, too. And every time I’d quit and come back, the game put me in the doorway, facing the level to go in until I finally tried turning around and going the other way alone. Whew, that was the key!
I made it to the Silent Cartographer campaign! I had NO IDEA what to do with the Hunters so I finally fell back on my tried and true: I snuck up behind them and melee’d them on the back of the head. That actually worked, lol! I got my butt blown off a few times, though, trying to figure out what to do with those guys, yikes!
ZOMG, when Chief melees with the white pistol thing, he gives it this jaunty twirl that I LOVE.
Oh and I ended up driving a Warthog up to the Covenant’s front door and I even figured out to line up the ‘hog so that Gunny could shoot through the door! But darn it, I had to come back out to find another way in to open the locked door and… I left the Warthog there with my Gunny and passenger. Didn’t even think to bring them, oops. Well, along the way, I found another Warthog overturned, set it back up and drove around until I picked up a second Gunny and passenger. And I drove them back to where the first two were and parked them next to each other and went back on foot. Where I found a THIRD Warthog, picked up ANOTHER SET of Gunny and passenger and YES, YOU GUESSED IT, I added them to my collection on the Covenant’s porch, lol! *facepalm*
I fought a crap-ton of Covvies, including more Hunters, without taking any marines with me to help, because I apparently wanted to park them somewhere safe so they could have a picnic or something??? I dunno, lol!
I have also learned that it’s fun to jump WAAAY up in the air and land on a Covvie enemy while melee’ing them. Yee-HAW! Also, I wish Chief could run. I noped out of a few fights by just strolling away while they were shooting at me, lol! I was all, “RUN, CHIEF! AT LEAST JOG, BUDDY! POWER WALK. SOMETHING MORE THAN THIS CASUAL STROLL THING, PLZ!!!”
Next, I’ve jumped back in a Warthog along with Gunny and Passenger #1s and we’re looking for the dropship Cortana promised that would have some bigger guns to take on more *gulp* Hunters. I’ve zoomed completely around the island on the beach or so it feels but I’m apparently missing the ship. ♀️ We’ve zoomed through some firefights, though, with Gunny yelling, “Get me an angle!” and I’m like, “No, my dude, I’m getting us OUT OF HERE.” Which means I’m probably supposed to stop and fight, lol!
We’ll tackle that tomorrow! Oh man, I played for 3 ½ hours yesterday and so planned on playing less today because I wanted to get some writing done. I played almost 4 ½. I’m almost to 8 hours total, lol! If they give out awards for “Takes The Longest To Do Everything” I’m a shoe-in!
Oh well, don’t care, I’m having a blast!
PS - My controller is due in tomorrow, so I’m excited to see if I do better or worse with that over the keyboard/mouse combination. I did see a warning that I may not be able to change from one to the other in the middle of a campaign so we’ll see. I may wait until we’re done here so I don’t have to chance fighting all of those Hunters again.
