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Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Unknown Target on February 27, 2004, 03:56:08 pm

I'm playing thru Halo on the PC, on Heroic, and I can't get past the Index level! Can anybody give me ideas/save games?

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Thorn on February 27, 2004, 04:11:23 pm

Keep Moving, backtrack if you have to... Shotgun... Assault Rifle.. Frags...use nothing else unles you're out of ammo... thats about all there is to it..

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Drew on February 27, 2004, 04:11:43 pm

hold ur ground and shotgun like crazy. watch u back, take out the big puffy dudes first

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: magatsu1 on February 27, 2004, 05:06:18 pm

run like hell.

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Thorn on February 27, 2004, 05:41:57 pm

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Originally posted by Drew
hold ur ground and shotgun like crazy. watch u back, take out the big puffy dudes first

You're nuts. The instant you try to stand up to a wave of those things is the instant you die. As soon as you see them coming, start backpeadling. If you're surrounded, blast a hole through them and get some distance.

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Drew on February 27, 2004, 06:08:47 pm

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Originally posted by Thorn

You're nuts. The instant you try to stand up to a wave of those things is the instant you die. As soon as you see them coming, start backpeadling. If you're surrounded, blast a hole through them and get some distance.

huh? the flood will keep spawning untill you are in view of thier spawn points. the more u back up the more keep coming. It sounds instane, but the fastest and best way is to charge forward.

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Singh on February 27, 2004, 07:30:16 pm

I played it on Legendary. quite tough. The index is which part again? Where to go up those 3 levels to the main thing right?

If it is, the only advise I can give is grenade, grenade, grenade. Those frag grenades are your best friend against the flood. Then use Assault rifle first before switching to shotgun - unload the ammo and get rid of the tiny flood that flood you, then waste your shotgun ammo on the bigger guys. Hint - throwing a plasma grenade on those small flood things is NOT a good thing!!

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Thorn on February 27, 2004, 08:22:57 pm

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Originally posted by Drew

huh? the flood will keep spawning untill you are in view of thier spawn points. the more u back up the more keep coming. It sounds instane, but the fastest and best way is to charge forward.

No, they stop coming after a bit... doesnt matter where you are...

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: an0n on February 27, 2004, 08:49:50 pm

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Originally posted by Singh
I played it on Legendary. quite tough. The index is which part again? Where to go up those 3 levels to the main thing right?

No, he means the bit where you select single, multi-play, options.......

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Stryke 9 on February 27, 2004, 09:18:18 pm

Most of the Flood have at least some kind of weapon, when you're getting rushed by a horde focus on clearing out specific groups and locations with the best guns so you don't run out so quickly.

And yeah, keep running. Duck around corners whenever you're pretty sure there aren't any nasty explodey carriers about, they're much easier to deal with if they're only coming from one direction and in tighter groupings. Don't expect those drones to do anything more than provide a distraction.

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: phreak on February 27, 2004, 09:34:25 pm

i use the spore things as a sort of secondary grenade if there are a bunch of little bastards around.  Its not really hard, just repetitive

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Setekh on February 28, 2004, 01:56:10 am

Get it on Xbox and play co-op. :D

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: 01010 on February 28, 2004, 06:37:32 am

The infection forms (tiny little bastards) can be ignored if you have shields, they don't touch them, however if you shieldless and one gets you, kiss it goodbye.

Also, play it on legendary, it's the only mans way to do it.

Title: Getting past The Index in Halo on Heroic
Post by: Knight Templar on February 28, 2004, 03:18:12 pm

Legendary rocked. It only took me two hours or so to beat. the hardest part was the spot where you get locked in the room with the two 'shoulders' for cover and the flood pour out of the tubes.

Grenades are your friend, use them more to flank, rather than directly attack.