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Grand Master

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^ Exactly. It's a very good length on a respectable difficulty level (read: Heroic or higher) as many reviewers have also stated. It doesn't really make sense to go play it on Easy or even Normal and then say it's too short... come on now. :rolleyes:

I played it on Heroic. tyvm. :)

Guys, when I beat the last mission on legendary I don't get the other ending, do I have to beat the whole game in legendary to do so?

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EDIT:

Also is there a way to rewind in the save movies?? It seems like a basic feature which doesn't seem to be there.

You cannot rewind a Campaign Save Film, so if you miss your moment, you gotta restart from the beginning and FF. The reason for this was given by Bungie on one of their updates, but I forget. Something along the lines with how things were scripted in story mode and that it'd be overly complicated to enable rewinding.

But in Multiplayer (Xbox Live Matchmaking, Local Custom Games, Forge, etc) save films, you can rewind. Just hit left on the D-Pad.

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You cannot rewind a Campaign Save Film, so if you miss your moment, you gotta restart from the beginning and FF. The reason for this was given by Bungie on one of their updates, but I forget. Something along the lines with how things were scripted in story mode and that it'd be overly complicated to enable rewinding.

But in Multiplayer (Xbox Live Matchmaking, Local Custom Games, Forge, etc) save films, you can rewind. Just hit left on the D-Pad.

aaaa that's a bit annoying.

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Well, 8 more acheivements for me. :)

All but 1 are in FFA games. The other one is to destroy a vehicle with equipment.

@Ayepecks: If you haven't played online yet, you might need to know that people can be extremely good online and you might become frustrated very often. Just some words from experience. ;)

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Why not give online multiplayer a go yet? It's really the only way to get better.

I want to, but the internet here has horrible lag for games because of everyone connected to it; it's a campus connection.

Trong: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that will be the case :) (No sarcasm.)

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Well, 8 more acheivements for me. :)

All but 1 are in FFA games. The other one is to destroy a vehicle with equipment.

@Ayepecks: If you haven't played online yet, you might need to know that people can be extremely good online and you might become frustrated very often. Just some words from experience. ;)

Heh I can vouch for that. I have DirtyLarry, IronMan & magik on my friends list. I bet they will hate me. :rofl:

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magik

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All but 1 are in FFA games. The other one is to destroy a vehicle with equipment.

Yea that equipment one can be done in Campaign IINM. I think a trip mine would do the trick, but I haven't been able to pull it off yet. The problem with the FFA achievements are that the FFA playlist is only 6 people, so it's a good amount of luck that you need for it since it's pretty rare to find 4 or so people in one area. I'm betting it'd be easiest on Guardian with a couple well timed 'nades. :) Haven't tried for those yet, going for all the other achievements first. Still have a couple skulls to find as well.

Heh I can vouch for that. I have DirtyLarry, IronMan & magik on my friends list. I bet they will hate me. :rofl:

I won't hate you, I love all. :wub:

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The one where you kill with an equipment can be done on Tsavo Highway, when you first see the Choppers, there is Landmines in one of the buildings, just grab one run to the street where teh Choppers are and get one to run over it or they will themselves.

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whats with these emo kids calling people fags because they are privates & they kick you what the hell this is why i only wish to play with mature adults who are not calling people names every 5 seconds some emo kid named Flava Flow talks all kinds of s--t but cant back it up

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whats with these emo kids calling people fags because they are privates & they kick you what the hell this is why i only wish to play with mature adults who are not calling people names every 5 seconds some emo kid named Flava Flow talks all kinds of s--t but cant back it up

Haha, yea, that's why I tend to play with only people I either know in real life or on Neowin. :D

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whats with these emo kids calling people fags because they are privates & they kick you what the hell this is why i only wish to play with mature adults who are not calling people names every 5 seconds some emo kid named Flava Flow talks all kinds of s--t but cant back it up

An emo kid called Flava Flow? Surely you mean some middle class teen with rich parents who thinks he's the next 50 cent surely! :p

Anyway, I've not had any problems with the language. More the language barrier (joined a huge amount of games with the French last night). That and my lack of skill with the backwards pad system. :(

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Brad.

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whats with these emo kids calling people fags because they are privates & they kick you what the hell this is why i only wish to play with mature adults who are not calling people names every 5 seconds some emo kid named Flava Flow talks all kinds of s--t but cant back it up

Lol, yeah that ****es me off!

Stop bashing emo kids though, i doubt someone called Falva Flow is an emo kid :laugh:

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can someone answer a skull question for me?

i cant seem to get the famine or iron skull, i goto the spot they are supposed to be, but magically they are not there!!! I have gotten a few of the other skulls but what gives?

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can someone answer a skull question for me?

i cant seem to get the famine or iron skull, i goto the spot they are supposed to be, but magically they are not there!!! I have gotten a few of the other skulls but what gives?

How do you start you game from the checkpoint or from start. You have to start the game from the beginning of the level and not from the check point I found out the hard way. :(

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BajiRav

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How do you start you game from the checkpoint or from start. You have to start the game from the beginning of the level and not from the check point I found out the hard way. :(

I am too lazy to look around. :blush: How do you actually use a skull once you have it ?

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Heh I can vouch for that. I have DirtyLarry, IronMan & magik on my friends list. I bet they will hate me. :rofl:

LOL, Not at all, I fully admit I am very sucky at MP, although I do feel I am slightly getting the hang of it now finally. My problem is I only get spurts of time to play, so once I may get into a groove I stop playing. But I have fun, and that is all that honestly matters. I have accepted the fact that I am pretty much going to be on the bottom of the list every-time on MP.

In regards to the length...

I am still on the Campaign and have yet to beat it

I have played the entire thing by myself except about half way through Chapter 4 and the start of Chapter 5 (which I went back and did do on my own).

When I went to play two nights ago I had some unexpected help as I did not realize I chose Campaign instead of Resume Single Player, so right away I just saw Literal Ship running around in front of me. It was without a doubt much easier with someone helping. Much easier. Even though I did keep dying at first, realizing it was an advantage having someone else there, I adapted to it and was much easier.

So I can imagine from seeing it in action going through the Campaign on CoOp could indeed be done in less than 10 hours, and probably much quicker.

But I can say playing the Campaign on Heroic, Solo by myself, I am easily going to be over 10 hours playing, probably closer to 15-20. So really not that short at all when played truly by oneself.

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LOL, Not at all, I fully admit I am very sucky at MP, although I do feel I am slightly getting the hang of it now finally. My problem is I only get spurts of time to play, so once I may get into a groove I stop playing. But I have fun, and that is all that honestly matters. I have accepted the fact that I am pretty much going to be on the bottom of the list every-time on MP.

In regards to the length...

I am still on the Campaign and have yet to beat it

I have played the entire thing by myself except about half way through Chapter 4 and the start of Chapter 5 (which I went back and did do on my own).

When I went to play two nights ago I had some unexpected help as I did not realize I chose Campaign instead of Resume Single Player, so right away I just saw Literal Ship running around in front of me. It was without a doubt much easier with someone helping. Much easier. Even though I did keep dying at first, realizing it was an advantage having someone else there, I adapted to it and was much easier.

So I can imagine from seeing it in action going through the Campaign on CoOp could indeed be done in less than 10 hours, and probably much quicker.

But I can say playing the Campaign on Heroic, Solo by myself, I am easily going to be over 10 hours playing, probably closer to 15-20. So really not that short at all when played truly by oneself.

I love MP but my job requires me to go anytime the boss calls me, if I start playing I have to quite in 4 min. I played thru SP on Normal and legendary all alone, I don't know how you guys keep track of time while you play the game I would guesstimate it took me around 7~8 hrs in normal and around same time for legendary. In normal I watched the entire scene and took my time while in legendary I just rushed thru.

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I love MP but my job requires me to go anytime the boss calls me, if I start playing I have to quite in 4 min. I played thru SP on Normal and legendary all alone, I don't know how you guys keep track of time while you play the game I would guesstimate it took me around 7~8 hrs in normal and around same time for legendary. In normal I watched the entire scene and took my time while in legendary I just rushed thru.

I just guesstimate honestly.

The most I get to play in one sitting is 2-3 hours, and 3 hours is pushing it. Usually it is around 1-2 hours. Since it has been released, I have played about 10-12 times, and over half of those times have been on the MP side of things. So if I take about the 4 times spent on SP, and figure that the average of how long I get to play is maybe 2 hours each time, I am guessing 8 hours so far, and in the beginning I took my time, now I am just kind of cruising through.

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can someone answer a skull question for me?

i cant seem to get the famine or iron skull, i goto the spot they are supposed to be, but magically they are not there!!! I have gotten a few of the other skulls but what gives?

the iron skulls easy to find its on the the right side of the map on a cliff by the 1st set on enemys you get in contact with

but myself am having problems getting 2 skulls catch skull & fog skull

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Having cruised through normal in about 10 hours, i'm now re-doing it on legendary and the difference is massive. You can be running full speed and a jackal will head shot you from miles away! So far it's not been too problematic, however i'm not looking forward to the flood ship level as that was a pain in the arse when I first did it. Don't be surprised if you get a co-op invite in the near future!

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