They're shock troopers after all, equipped to absorb the heaviest weaponry the enemy can throw at them and return with devastating firepower, so making them your worst nightmare at midrange makes sense, while at long range they don't fire fast enough to be a threat, and at close range they're slow enough that a skilled opponent can outmaneuver them in the dance of death. And Infinite breaks that.įor Infinite, being an open-world game with good movement options, it would make sense for the Hunters to be upgraded as well, of course, but the better way to do that would be to make them better at keeping the player OUT, not to punish them for getting IN. If you have a 2 ton shield mounted to your arm, your movements will be slower and more predictable. If you want to remain mobile, you'll need to have weaker armor on your torso. If you have a highly lethal explosive, you can't shoot someone standing directly beside your buddy. If you have a slow charging explosive, you can't shoot someone directly in front of you.

The weakness they've had from the back has always made sense. NEVER has the strategy been to beat them down from the front, because they're weak from the back. The only reason I didn't have trouble with the Silent Auditorium was because I brought Escharum's gravity axe with me and just beat them down from the front. In Infinite they turn faster than I can get around them, I can't get them to melee (and the other completely ignores collateral damage and kills me for my troubles anyway), and at range it just turns into a slogfest of throwing explosives until I run out. You get close, outmaneuver, and stick to their weak point. In basically every Red Hunter encounter, my strategy eventually boiled down to just chuck explosives at their front until they die, which isn't how Hunters work. Not too related to the title topic, but even with maxed shields, Chief is still Paper Chief.Īgreed. My most problematic encounter was in a room that had no weapons other than the Mangler, Ravager (Which takes too long to charge, and overheat interrupts grapple hook), shotguns and Skewers, which they will just eat all the shots like nothing happened. If I wanted to fight bullet sponges in a fast paced FPS, i'd sooner play Destiny. It's uncreative, it's repetitive, it's unfun. This is actually a lame strategy shared by every other boss/mini-boss/heavy enemy in the game where the entire fight consists of them hugging your face and instantly killing you because you can't outrun or kite them even with the equipment. They don't use any other strategy other than abusing their own tankyness to chase you down, melee or rapid-cannon spam. Even if you manage to get behind one out of their melee range, the second will instantly beam you down with the rapid fire cannon. They'll just 180-degree melee swing and instantly kill you if you manage to get behind them. Almost always instantly kills you, but unlike it's previous incarnations, it's much faster and it's range is very misleading.ĭestroying their back armor is useless.

Damage sets in as soon as the melee animation starts, not when you'd expect the impact to connect like it did in previous Halo games. It also doesn't help that each hit also does massive amounts of damage and splash like a regular charged shot. Even if so, their 'burst' goes on far too long, easily outpacing Chief's grapple hook and/or thruster dodge. They have had shields and a melee attack for a reason in previous games. They don't need a rapid fire cannon mode.

Not only are their weaknesses from previous installments covered, but they are given way too much. In a closed room not in open-world, they are terribly balanced in Legendary.

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