The hardest halo level is getting your mid 30s friends to agree to play coop with you.

The other frustrating thing about Halo 3's flood is that you'll randomly get elite combat forms that have an absurd amount of health for no good reason. Even multiple swings from an energy sword won't kill them.

Two betrayals is awful because of the sheer amount of armor you have to take on while dealing with elites. Very tough. You can run through a lot of Keyes.

The absolute worst part of Coastal Highway is that Buck's AI doesn't let him shoot and talk at the same time, so you'll be getting pegged by banshees and ghosts while Buck delivers scripted dialogue and lets you get melted, in or out of the warthog.

"I'm a frog" -Clearly a chicken

“House of reckoning is the hardest level” That one brute chieftain on the silent auditorium

I’m glad someone else agrees that the underwater room in regret is the worst. Whenever I hear people talking about halo 2 legendary, it’s always about gravemind, but I’ve always thought regret has more bs.

when I played Long Night of Solace on Legendary, after at least an hour of making my way through the first part of the Sabre section, for some reason, the game thought it would be a great idea to give me a checkpoint immediately as I died, which forced me to have to play through the level all over again

For LASO definitely Gravemind, honorable mention to Cairo Station

Having beaten every Halo solo Legendary EXCEPT Halo 2, your channel inspired me to go for it. I only used easy exploits to pass a few sections. 95% of the playthrough was legit. It was hard af. I gotta agree that Regret and Gravemind were the hardest and Halo 2 is def the hardest on Legendary. I have to add that Long Night of Solace saber section and Coastal Highway sections are the hardest of any halo for me. They pass the unfairness to borderline unplayable. So infuriating.

A great tip for halo 3, cortana: Try using a plasma rifle. I have no idea why but plasma rifles melt the pure forms (not the tank)

Slow sounding out Olifant had me absolutely cracking up

I think I died at least 60 times trying to kill Regret my first play through. Those elites are relentless.

I don’t know if it is the overall hardest or not, but for a first time play through, Coastal Highway probably took me longer to complete than any other level in the franchise.

Beating Costal Highway/Regret made me entirely convinced that bungie were a bunch of sadists

The random Spartan Assault stray was hilarious

As a Halo Reach fan, Long Night of Solace was absolute hell on legendary from the Sabre section, especially with the death spider Seraphs and how you can get shredded easily in the Corvette if you don't have enough Needle Rifle/DMR/Plasma Pistol ammo.

When I played infinite on leg at launch the hardest level was the one with the dual brute boss fight where one is in a chopper. Can't remember the name. House of reckoning was challenging but those 2 brutes were fucking bullshit. My neighbors knocked on my door asking if they should call the cops. They thought a domestic was going on.

All of your content on CE has motivated me to go back and play it on Legendary. I played through it once and was kinda meh about it but you've given me a new outlook on it! I was stuck on Truth and Reconciliation and because I kept using all the sniper ammo before even getting on the ship. Now stuck on getting Capt Dicknuts out.

I'd say one part that's really hard is the Nothing But Jackal on Delta Halo. Because of Jackal snipers & the several spawns of buggers. Took me along time to get past it

Any halo 2 mission that contains more than 2 jackal snipers should be an honorable mention

as someone who speedruns halo 2, gravemind and regret are tied for me for most difficult throughout the whole series. the boss fight in regret is just so outrageously difficult especially when the dual wielding elites come out. and gravemind has just so many sections where if you do the wrong thing or the enemies spawn in weird you can get obliterated before you can even react. game is just kind of unfair lol

Another thing about Two Betrayals is that it's the most dynamic level in the game, and it's very hard to have the right weapons for the right fight. Co-op is nice because you get to choose 2 extra guns to carry. But you spend so much of the level trying to decide between the shotgun, pistol, sniper, rockets, or plasma pistol, knowing that whatever you choose will make your life a little more difficult against either Flood, Shielded Covenant, Unshielded Covenant, Sentinels, Ghosts, Wraiths, Banshees or whatever else you may encounter at any given time. Plus cycling between short range and long range fighting. Of course the flipside is that it also makes it possibly the most interesting level, as you'll regularly have the wrong weapons and need to pick up needlers or plasma rifles from the ground to get through an area.

Long night of solace was so much worse for me on MCC. I think I died once or twice in the space battle on the original Reach, but I literally had to hide and let the frigate guns do most of the work on MCC after countless deaths 💀

If you picked the RTS ones, Arcadia (From Halo wars) would certainly be way up in the list. Considered one of the hardest RTS levels to beat on the hardest difficulty.

I finished my first full legendary CE playthrough a few days ago, and the ending of Keyes was a contender for the most grueling section of that game for me. The canyon sections were bad enough, even after I used active camo to sneak through the first half, but fighting my way to the bottom of the hangar through dozens of spec ops elites and fuel rod grunts with low health and ammo was an absolute nightmare. Still need to finish Halo 2 and 4 on legendary too, so I fear the worst is yet to come

Fantastic video chiggen. Man you time the cut aways with kat perfectly they caught me off-guard in the funniest way.

I wondered why I found the sabre section so much harder than I used to

Good list, I recently ran through MCC on heroic and definitely felt the most pain in Cortana and Long Night of Solace.

For me, it's definitely a mix between Gravemind, Regret and Coastal Highway My wife and I were trying to beat LASO on ODST, and it took LONG time to beat Coastal bc our connection kept cutting out. We once got disconnected after the very last encounter, as the phantom was flying in.

I did not know the difference between the MCC and original version of LNoS. That explains why I didn’t recall wanting to bash my head against a wall when I was a kid playing that level on legendary

Holy shit I am so fucking glad you had the exact same experience with Buck on Coastal Highway

Ok, so I am playing MCC through on Legendary with my friend who’s never played Halo before (Legendary because we do Grandmasters on Destiny 2 for fun and we ain’t bitches). I swear on everything to this man that when I played Halo Reach back on 360, Long Night of Solace wasn’t that crazy hard, and my first playthrough was solo Legendary. Even easier when helping friends do it later on. He claimed in jest that I was just bad, but genuinely that I might remember things differently or whatnot. So thank you so much for validating me! It actually was harder than I remember, and I’m not going crazy! 😂

Oh, I didn't know the sabre part in LNOS was changed. I was gaslighting myself because I didn't remember it to be this difficult back then.

4:05 I get PTSD whenever Cortana says "Brutes!"

enjoyed seeing you talk about all the halo games

Agreed throughout, the gravemind elevator thing happened to me on my legendary play through, halo 2 has a handy feature where if you die too quickly after a checkpoint a few times in a row it will revert it by one more checkpoint - this saved me

Instant sub, these are the real questions we need to be asking.

The flood guy with the rocket launcher in the cave tunnel in two betrayls is an absurd design choice.

Two Betrayals and Gravemind are both tied as my favorite level in the whole series. As terrifyingly difficult as they are, I'm always so happy to play them

Me and a buddy spent like 3 hours on the Regret boss, his laser can one shot you, shitty checkpoints, and constant enemy spawns. Gives me ptsd every time I see it

Bro I just binge watched most if not all your halo vids. Gahhdamn great job 👍

That tough room in Regret you can run past, it is what I almost always did. Running past stuff in Gavemind is way more difficult and more risky due to how long the level is.

Entering the roof of the corvette on Long Night of Solace on Legendary for me, 4 Elites in a room with minimal gravity so it’s easy to get surrounded or if you panic or get caught on something and jump you’re pretty much guaranteed to die instantly. Got so annoyed after 2 hours of screwing up that I quit my Legendary playthrough for a month and just played multiplayer or a different game entirely.

The Halo CE shotgun, perfection.

Nice video chicken frog

I just finished Halo Reach’s campaign on Legendary. My first time playing through any Halo game on Legendary. The Long Night of Solace fight was hard but didn’t seem any harder than the rest of the campaign, but that could just be that I died a lot on every mission as I am not great at Legendary yet. EDIT: I will add that I don’t own an XBOX: One so I was playing on the normal 360 version which appears to be a little less difficult than the MCC version.

the vehicle problem in legendary is pretty consistent across the entire franchise, where the entire vehicle is treated as an extension of your body and not an augment to it, making you ultimately just a bigger target. it pretty much ruins all the vehicle levels.

Commenting a third time, but I agree, Regret is much harder. The deaths feel fair in Gravemind, (usually), but having your progress sniped away in Regret is just so tough to swallow

On Outskirts in Halo 2, I usually have a tough time with the vehicle section because im trying to get the rocket launcher and give it to the marine in passenger of my warthog. But the marine AI in halo 2 is so eager to do their own thing. When I tell the marine to exit the vehicle, they will often get in the driver seat, or run off with the rocket launcher I just gave them, while another nearby marine enters the passenger, all while we are under fire from ghost. I have now develpoed a new methed where i quickly get out to grab the rocket launcher, get back in and drive to back to an earlier part of the level where there are no npcs that can distract us, then i get give the marine the rocket.

For Infinite (not taking the Tank Gun into consideration), The Tower was the hardest part for me, and only because you can’t have the Calcine Disruptor before it. That gun completely changes the game when you can get it, and I even used it on my LASO run, and it CARRIED

dude i thought i was going insane on long night of solace. I did legendary solo on 360 back in the day and I never remembered that part being unfair at all. Good to know it wasn't just me

4:30 omg I recently had an extra fun experience with the Prison level. From the upper room I thought it would be smart to jump into the grav lift towards the prison while havent yet killed all of the Brutes there. Bad choice, cuz they came after me into the grav lift, so right upon arriving at the prison level I had to fight even more Brutes than normally😂😂 I died a ton of times lol

So from experience of playing all the Halo games SLASO you're on the money with the levels, regret and gravemind alone took about 12 hours of pain, the rest only had maybe one tough level. For any wondering my rankings for overall game difficulty SLASO would be, Halo 2, Halo, Halo Reach, Halo 4, ODST and 3. I got the speed run achievements while doing these laso.

I’m glad that other people suffered through gravemind as I have. I know it’s by far the hardest encounter in halo 3 but the first time I played through it on legendary the brute chieftain on the way to saving the marines gave me a decent amount of troubles

I've only played Infinite on legendary, House of Reckoning was just tedious. You get a lot of ammo and have sufficient cover with the 2 bosses being health sponges that can't hit you with certain strategies. Hardest section for me was the end of Pelican Down with Hyperious and Tovarus (had to google their names lol). Can't stand on the ground without a Pimp my Ride-d chopper ramming you, but standing on a platform without cover means a scrap cannon is raining down on you. The safest place I could find only had 1 commando for ammo and Tovarus is a bastard with shields. Definitely still more tedious than difficult, but took more brainpower than running around a pillar to pacify Escharum.

I have never felt happier playing a Halo game than when I figure out you could “skip” the underwater room on Regret by just hightailing it to the door and praying

For that one covenant guarded generator section in Forerunner I always just get to that closest banshee before the elite does (usually by aplattering said elite with a ghost), get in the banshee and shoot down all the other banshees, and then grab a host and just splatter all of the enemies on the ground. I can usually get that done in a few attempts on legendary. That one section in composer with the infinite spawning covenant though jfc - fuck that section lmao.

Definitely agree with you about 2 betrayals, that shit was a nightmare

Hardest mission is lone wolf I always die, I've never completed it to this day

Regret is honestly the hardest imo. Not only is the amount of times you need to board regret to kill him annoying but the fact that checkpoints are so sparse means they can be given at the worst times. My first H2 legendary run of this level gave me a checkpoint in the middle of the room behind one of the ramps meaning i had to sidestep a sword wielding honour guard and run away from covenant hunting me down. The level on legendary sucks

seeing Kat getting domed out of context will never not be funny

Yeah, Halo 2 in general kind of takes the cake for a lot of reasons. It's absolutely ruthless; enemies will melt you, they're super aggressive, enemy variety is high, there are lots of bullshit scenarios and enemies, and the Regret boss fight is just outrageous. Gravemind is iconic because it just slaps you in the face RIGHT AWAY by spawning you in a big room filled with enemies with minimal cover where you have nothing but a single Needler, and enemy reinforcements will pour in from multiple places. Then the level does it again with the prison section, where it throws you right into the middle of a terrible situation without you being able to do anything about it, and you have to be fast and aggressive and accurate or you die. Honorable mention to coastal highway for forcing you between a rock and a hard place with Buck's shitty AI and the escort mission forcing you to hurry.

the Pillar of Autumn (last level in Reach) deserves a mention. You fight every enemy in the game, and while you can slow play some parts, its overall pretty relentless

Some honorable mentions for Halo 2 would be, imo, Cairo Station and Sacred Icon. Cairo Station, while not being absolutely ball busting like some later levels, and being generous with Marines and Battle Rifle ammo, is basically a "baptism by fire" for first time Legendary playthroughs. It can be absolutely brutal, but if you can survive it, you can survive most of Halo 2. Sacred Icon, while definitely being able to be run through with camo, and having a pretty easy opening minutes, can be fucking ridiculous for some players (me) once the Flood show up. The segment from turning off the barrier, up until you drop down to the ground level, can be an absolute slog if you play defensively. That one hallway where you see Marines fighting Flood has an insane amount of ranged Flood spawns, so it can quickly turn into a cycle of "move up a few steps -> 6 or 7 human combat forms with SMGs being spraying at you with stupid good accuracy -> retreat back to regenerate shields while Flood pursue -> take out remaining combat forms -> repeat" for like half an hour. Eventually, I just end up saying screw it and just run past most Flood spawns because they just never let up. Besides that, I pretty much agree with the list. CE has a difficulty spike post-GS but The Maw isn't quite as bad, Halo 2 is brutal in general, 3 & ODST are actually somewhat easy, and Reach is more just an overall challenge than varying levels.

Regret is the hardest by far for me overall. Like you said once you get a carbine Gravemind is still hard but it is doable. Regret on the other hand feels like you just have to get lucky with the Regret fight as getting dropped in the wrong place into a bunch of Honor guard elites after boarding him is basically certain death. Thats without mentioning all the other hard parts of Regret such as the very begininng, the sniper jackals, the underwater room etc... For CE my vote goes to Truth and Reconiliation. It has all the waves of enemies before you come up the Grav Lift, the ambush section when you first get into the ship from the grav lift, the hangar sections, and perhaps most annoyignly the section where you have to escort Keyes who is usually determined to get himself killed or worse kill himself. Two Betrayals and Keyes were defintely hard, but at least for me they didn't compare to T&R. In terms of the other games I don't think any of the levels come particualrly close to any of the aforementioned ones, but I agree with your choices from 3, ODST, Reach and 4. I haven't played 5 at all so IDK on that one. Infinte I haven't played on Legendary so not sure on that one either.

I know there are skips on Regret too, but Gravemind has a lot of fights that are completely skippable, but fairly challenging too, contributing to how hard it feels,especially to more inexperienced players

Idk what it is about Infinite, but I had a weirdly tough time playing the game on normal for my first playthrough. Then I did a legendary run, and had a FAR easier time. I barely died. To make sure I hadn’t just gotten good, I did a run on normal again, and I had a really tough time the entire playthrough. Idk what that’s about

4:39 Getting your coprse shot was pretty funny

When the flood levels began (more so 2 betrayals so on) i always carried pistol and shotgun. Then drop my shotgun for plasma pistol to noob combo elites in the area, then pick the shotgun back up

Man, I agree with you almost completely, incredible.

At Halo 3's Gravemind level don't forget that the pureforms when you stick them with a plasmagrenade in their ranged form they quite often transform and just simply "eat" the grenade which deactivates it. Happened to me many time in the original Xbox 360 Halo 3.

Truth and reconciliation in laso broke me

7:46 What’s worse about it is that the AI is so inconsistent. ODST is the same game as Halo 3, how does Buck have downgraded AI?

The silent auditorium was incredibly frustrating on legendary and I see few people talking about it. I was quite literally on the verge of tears with how frustrated I was becoming and had to stop playing for a couple hours to wind down.

Oh man Coastal Highway… I had managed to block that one from my mind. Most aggravating level I think I’ve ever played.

In that big room on Regret with the hunters and sniper jackals, if you just stick way to the right side of the room you can very easily just avoid all the enemies and enter the next room to get a checkpoint. That Boss Fight though is horror

Best part of ODST is the surprise cameo from Timothy Olifant

Weirdly, I never had a problem with Coastal Highway in my Legendary playthrough. Buck just kinda popped off in my game.

Truth and reconciliation is a bitch on co op if you lose that sniper on legendary

Gravemind was always my favorite as a kid, glad to see I'm not alone.

I love frogs and I love Halo already subbed

truth and reconciliation without a sniper is pretty hard, i did that my first playthrough because i didn’t know where the sniper ammo was

A friend and I were doing a halo 2 legendary play through together. Its almost more difficult playing coop... We got to regret and had a heck of a time. I remembered where the skull was (kind of) and thought that it made master chief's flashlight invisibility - that would have been a huge help. NOPE. I was wrong... All the enemies were invisible for the rest of the level. We were in too deep and couldn't turn around. We got it done though. Regret boss fight was a hell of a time. 💪

me and my friends are about to play every halo game so fun to know where we will suffer most.

I replayed reach recenrly and had no trouble with the sabre section when it normally kicks my ass. Is it possible they might have fixed it?

Long ass night of Solace all day. Always hated the Rogue Squadron missions. Went on forever.

Truth and Reconciliation was the hardest level ever before I knew about the sniper ammo.

I grabbed the skull on Regret my first legendary run bc I thought it turned me invisible…it turned everyone else invisible…

Lol the underwater section didnt do me in that badly.

I got caught in the death loop on Grave mind in the prison, then restarted the whole level, then immediately got caught in it again

Awesome video good homage

Whatever the hardest level is, I’ll play it today.

I have a relative who got stuck on Halo 2’s Cairo station hangar bay 2 for about 2 years

00:10 I’m surprised the flood got the rocket launcher. he had to drop the rocket, kill a flood near it, then let it get reanimated by an infection form for that.

i remember when i first played halo ce 1 year ago, on easy and on keyboard/mouse, and i thought keyes was the worst thing ever, but replaying it recently on steam deck and on medium i find it to be probably my favourite level in the entire game, my new view on tb is the exact same as yours though

I remember having a nightmare with regret a while ago hell of a feeling when I beat it. So for me that’s the one that stands out in all the bungie games, I can’t really remember anything about 4&5 and don’t want to 😅

A sorta honourable mention for halo 3 is the holdout section on tsavo highway. The phantoms in legendary drop off a ton of high ranking brutes and a fuel rod chieftain which overrun the little bunker where the marines spawn. If you’re especially unlucky the wraiths aggro too early and start mortaring you from over the hill. It’s not super difficult, but probably the most challenging part of halo 3

that “worst room” in regret, I managed to keep two marines alive my first legendary play through and they both had beam rifles. Made it much more tolerable

Very fun video and discussion (also really enjoy the chicken suit. Maybe you can wear it for an upcoming livestream? :-). Are we getting a little preview of a forthcoming Halo Infinite Legendary play through? I hope so.