Fun fact: The heretic grunts in these two Arbiter missions never freak out and flee, since unlike the regular Covie-grunts, they actually believe in what they're fighting for.

Allied elites on Halo 2... Best teammates ever.

And the "Heretics" in this video were ironically right.

I like how if you have nothing ti say, you don't just say random immature and unnesecary things

“We are the arm of the Prophets, Arbiter, and you are blade. Be silent and swift and we shall quell this heresy without incident.”

Man, I love the Halo 2 energy sword sfx. It doesn't sound generic like what 343 uses these days. It's instantly identifiable, man I love it.

Continued: so yes, the Needler does WAY more damage than the plasma pistol, even when the needles don't super-detonate. Also about the active camo: Arbiter has it, Chief doesn't. (Chief has a broken-useless-piece-of-shit-flashlight-that-turns-off-after-a-few-seconds.) Arbiter is slightly more powerful because of it. There is no balancing.

The heretic scream at 17:51 got me screaming in laughter, weird cause that rarely happens

When we joined the covenant we took an oath, According to our station, all without exception, On the blood of our fathers, on the blood of our sons, We swore to uphold the Covenant, even to our dying breath, Those who would break this oath are heretics, worthy of neither pity nor mercy.

One of my favourite Halo missions, its incredible

After the release of The "MCC" It was near impossible to find videos of the ORIGINAL Halo 2 Or Halo: Combat Evolved.

remember, the plasma pistol got a HUGE buff in Halo Reach. Going back to the "gold ol' days of Halo 2" the plasma pistol uncharged shot is about as useful as hurling insults at them. The Needler is a lot slower, and does much less damage than in Halo 1. You basically can't be killed by it unless you catch enough needles at once that they super-detonate. That said, this is Legendary: enemies do more damage to you with the same weapons, than you can possibly do to them.

Even as someone who speedruns these games, these are very useful I appreciate it, since I'm trying to do runs where I am killing everything.

You aren't invisible, you have active camouflage. They won't notice you from a distance, but if you walk right up to them, they won't hesitate to whack you.

I recently found out that my videos are hilarious with CCs on. Try it on some of the others, and lemme know if you find anything particularly awesome.

12:00 I can hear you trying not to laugh when bringing up the bad Fuel Rod strategy. :)

9:23 lol love grunts

16:23 - lol that grunt went flying.

This is one of my favorites missions of the game.

Lol I love to see a guy who cares about his AI teammates. As a kid I always tried to protect the friendlies marines or covenant. But my friends never cared! Some enjoyed killing them!

this blew my mind knowing i was the arbiter when i was a kid

Skull is called Envy, found on Delta Halo. On Legendary, its 4 seconds of active camo, 8 seconds to recharge, same as the Arbiter.

9:20. I'M INVISIBLE!! xD i'm dead

6:32 I like the dialogue. 7:00 14:30 🫥

Man I tried to be completely stealth. perfectly melee them in the back and I still sound the alarm. The game is bulls shitting something. Nice walk through true player.

Ohhhhh, remembering ;) I remember, first time with the sword after so many wishes to did it in halo 1

This was one of the most awesome missions, getting to be the arbiter

1) It's an exploit, so it's not a tactic I'm going to use in a Walkthrough. 2) It's unnecessary. I never had a problem with ammo for my Sword. 3) It requires you to play the mission before it, rather than starting the mission from the beginning. 4) (most importantly) It makes it impossible to arm your Elite allies with Swords in the next mission! You can't trade a depleted sword, and once you drop it, you can't pick it back up!

I actually found it easier if you dual-wield Needlers from the after the initial fight before the elevator until you get to the Banshee. It's foolproof and the easiest strategy. Hokie probably wants us to play the game not so OP, but I just go for what works best in Halo 2.

Love the walk throughs, but I can't keep my team alive here to save my life. They all die after the elevator, and when I assassinate enemies, it wakes the others up. When you get to the hallways and tap out the first Elite, it wakes the grunts up and spawns the door behind me every time.

Oh my god I'm a moron, i thought i was supposed to kill the purple ship, I've been shooting at it for 30 min.

i just completed this mission on legendary without help and 7 mission mission in total in mcc

such a great game, thanks for the great walkthrough. I only try to watch when I need it :D

There were supposed to be missions where the Arbiter was supposed to kill UNSC Marines and possibly ODSTs but was cut for unknown reasons

i love the sound of the original energy sword the remastered sounds like rubbish why change it??

I love the baby grunts. They are so cute

Just curious do you use halo 2 button combos when you aren’t creating noob guides? I was never really into campaign back in the day. Just rushed through on heroic so I could get move on to multiplayer. I’ve not played in years and randomly got the urge to beat all campaign’s on legendary. So far I’ve beaten reach and CE and I definitely struggled with CE the most. I feel like multiplayer skills didn’t translate to campaign with those games and it’s more strategy (hence why I’ve watched all your vids along the way). I was nervous going into the h2 campaign with its reputation but once I started playing I immediately got into the zone and all the button combos came back to me and it has given me no problems at all. I know the shields are weaker etc. but in CE for example there’s so much delayed animation switching guns or reloading it makes it so much harder compared to how fast everything in h2 is especially when you do just minor combos like yy for reloading.

20:25 You would be surprised... sometimes they tend to pop out of nowhere, come behind you and start firing in your rear end. It happens to me all the time, and of course there aim is amazing so they damage me pretty quickly.

12:54 why is that heretic grunt dead?

Actually I specifically mentioned that at 12:00, and I said that doing that is a bad idea. In the cramped quarters, they'll do more damage to you than they will to the enemy.

ya, I like the irony involved with Truth's name.

Oh I feel like we all skipped that fight and went to the blue tower 😂

9:25 I'm invisible!

When I realised I had to play as an elite I was considering this to be one of the most stunning and innovative game twists I had seen thus far. When I realised they inflated this great idea to a point you almost spend one third of the game like this my only guess left was: "You fools."

You should switch the weapons around between your allies. Give them better weapons. Make sure you don't wake anyone and kill the rest like he does. Save the needlers and change all of your team's weapons with needlers. I love grunts. They're so cute. I wish I could have one. Save needlers by picking them up and dropping them. Bring them down the ramps and keep swapping them with the other weapons. Try to acquire a fuelrod gun. If you give a fuelrod gun to an ally and he does, it will have more shots. the needler is good for sentinels and fast heretics. On the banshee, fly right immediately and head exactly where he says. But, acquire a fuelrod gun and load up on ammo before you get to the entrance to the inside.

How does this guy not have more subs and likes than he does!?

Also I didn't notice this but at 22:15 when your flying away, there's the structure on the very top part of that middle building is shaped the same way that torture instrument is shaped at the beginning of this game, interesting and surprising don't you think?

Your friends sure love chucking grenades XD

You gained a subscriber for your awesome gameplay and fantastic's tips . Keep up the good work :D

I just finished Halo 1 & 2 (heroic ) for the first time and I had NO IDEA the banshee was equipped with an alt fire :O

You can skip the banshee part just immediately go to the landing zone

Great video guide for halo 2 legendary difficulty. I got a guidebook for this. The master chief collection remastered of halo combat evolved 2 3 and 4 are a great remastered version.

The Covenant are the blind ones,not knowing the true power of the Halo rings

Btw I know it is a little late but the white elites are elite ultras, the purple elites that are with you this time are spec ops elites

*turn on captions, goes to 8:05* "And a bunch of drugs coming up from the lamps down there" Oh snap, we have a drug dealer on youtube.

Quick question: Does Arbiter's active camo run out sooner the higher the difficulty?

but if they fix things like make the damage tables exact to halo 3 I would love it although halo 2 is the first halo game I played and the graphic quality it has is really nostalgic.

If you kill the 2 grunts when the door opens (heritic grunts) stay in cover and wait, then listen to the heritic elites talk. Please Reply. Also on Quarantine zone on ledgandary, look behind you and you will see a cave. walk up the path and you will see a skull, hold x on it, that will result all melee and explosions stronger until you turn off the consle.

I love how sinister truth is. It's a shame he was downgraded in halo 3

Hokie, quick question for you. Do you prefer the classic Halo 2 or the Remastered version?

I liked this mission in a different manner...because something new had been introduced which was not done before...u could also play as arbiter

13:40 third time watching this but you stuck his sentinel beam so that’s why it bounced off

.Haha, wish my xbox wasn't broken after watching these. I think I might get one for black friday, and hope my old halo 2 disc isn't scratched enough to be unplayable.

Double fun fact: this song backwards is mendicant bias’ perspective as he is imprisoned in high charity

18:44 Why am I hearing this now after playing this game for more than 10 years???

I'm having trouble with the start of the mission because the enemies randomly get alerted when I kill the first Elite. I even hit him with plasma pistol like you said.

What makes you say that? As the guy who's been practicing the game recently, I assure you they're identical.

Years ago I tried halo 3 odst I plan to buy that remastered someday got reach on sale halo infinite for my birthday and halo 5 guardians from Walmart. The original Xbox reminds me of playing halo 2 from years ago

16:02 That grunt had grunty senses!

It's too bad nobody has a playthrough this perfect on the anniversary version.

i like how you did the first part but i would also recommend using the explosive things that ride on the conveyor belt just a thought. ive never beaten this on legendary so i only do it on normal i dont know if it works or not

maybe bungie balanced the game giving grunts needlers because arbiter has active camo.also, except in high charity , you encounter brutes and flood only when you are the arbiter and they are a lot more powerful than elites. yeah,usually i active the skull that makes the chief invisible for 5 seconds

Myself who literally run over this mission without the sneaking moves😳😳😳 jeezz I could have done that

Energy sword rules in tight enclosed spaces!

He saved his grunt teammates!

1:34 Well, that's..... lovely

Wow dude, this shits on Tyrant's walkthrough. He's way more cautious than you lol

That's the many reasons the Covenant Empire eventually lost the war.

9:29 ha grunt says I'm invisible

It's possible to be quite an easy mission😀.

If that grunt at the beginning he would have fallen in a pit he probably got scared and ran away like they sometimes do

What would you have your arbiter do?

Maybe Im thinking wrong hut in Halo 2 on Legendary isnt the Iron skull on by default? So in singleplayer if u die u start the whole mission over?

2:46 the heretic said: the great journey is a bunch of bullshit

This mission gave me halo ptsd

There probably are, just not in the Covenant Military.

I like his arms.

They're heretics. If you aren't old enough to know what that means, it basically means, that they've left the Covenant, and the punishment of doing that is death.

Am I the only one who got weirded out by the scream the heretic elite made at 9:35?

1)arbiter has active camo so it is for balancing the game OR 2)needlers do more damage that plasma pistol (really?)

yeah,the Gravemind was trying to tell Thel-Vadam the truth the Prophets were not speaking.

This is best game and best mission EVER hope they do halo 2 anniversary

Clearly, you have never played it on Legendary. This game was broken as hell.

Anyone feel like a total monster when they kill cowering grunts..

When I hit a sleeping grunt on legendery, it just wakes them up, never kills them.

LOLZ! I can manually fix it, but I'm not gonna. Too damn funny.

Arbiter is more stronger than cheif because he can cloak have an old armor who is as strong than the new one cheif have.

fresh banshies in my opinion it doesnt matter they function the same when there damaged

notice if u throw a plasma at the enemy's weapon it wont stick