CHALLENGING GAMING MOMENTS: HALO COMBAT EVOLVED

Hello guys. Today i wanted to discuss with you my challenging gaming moments.
I would be talking on the game HALO COMBAT EVOLVED which i played for years.

I am personally a fan of HALO games, I have played a bunch of them but there are times when the missions can get really frustrating.
It's no secret that over the years, HALO games have had some of the best campaign modes across all of gaming, well with the exception of HALO 5. HALO 5 campaign was terrible.The HALO games have had numerous of beautiful campaign missions designed to encapsulate you in the story of HALO. However some of those missions while beautiful are actually designed to cause you a ton pain.
So in this write up i will be talking about my most challenging HALO COMBAT EVOLVED gaming moments and what made it so difficult.
So I will talking about my experience in legendary difficulty which is HALO's hardest difficulty. For those that are not really into gaming, legendary difficulty means that the enemies have the best health, best damage, best weapons atimes.

HALO COMBAT EVOLVED

Mission: The Library

Flood; The Flood are fictional parasitic alien life forms in the game.
For me, it was my first introduction to the true ferocity of the flood. This isn't the first mission where i met the flood, but it is the first across all of the HALO games where the flood is your only enemy, and the library teaches you very quickly that the flood fights nothing like the other enemies in Halo.

Common tactics that you get used to for the entire HALO COMBAT EVOLVED are thrown out the window when you play on The Library. The interesting thing here is that the flood in this combat evolved are generally weak creatures, there are no shielded flood in the game, there are no flood that have excess amount of health, so most flood that you fight in this mission die with just a couple of bullets from most guns. And with that you will think that the flood will be a fairly easy enemy to fight, but this mission and the flood are designed to overwhelm you, and they actually did overwhelm me in this mission. Part of the reason is that flood will literally spin out of the walls in this mission, so you never know exactly where the flood are going to spin out from. On legendary difficulty, Halo combat evolved likes to spun enemies behind you, and in the library they do this very often.
This means that your position has to constantly change or you will easily be overwhelmed. You have to make sure that you are always fighting the flood from one single direction. When they are constantly spuning all around you, its very difficult, and to add to that, this mission is incredibly long. So everything about it is filled with flood killing and gory remains.
The repetitive nature of the mission also tends to get you lost and when you get lost or turned around, the flood of course will just overwhelm you. This mission got me tired out, by the end of it, you will be done with killing flood and you would hope that you never see flood again because the mission is so relentless.
But this obviously is nothing out of the ordinary for Halo combat evolved. A lot of the missions are very expansive, very large and even to this day i still get lost in some of them especially when you play this mission on the classic graphic. The hallways, the floor appear to be the same color. And when you are fighting, spinning, turning and looking for flood that are spunning all around you, its easy to get turned around.

HOW DID I OVERCOME THIS FLOOD.

The first time I streamed this mission on legendary, I had my capture card set a little bit low in the brightness, this made my screen insanely dim to give me a better advantage against them just like in the picture below. You can say that was done smartly.

Like any mission in Halo like any game of all time, this has some strategies that you can implement to give yourself a better advantage against the flood. The shotgun in Halo combat evolved is easily one of the greatest weapons in the game for fighting flood, mostly because the shotgun has a high ammo capacity; you can fit 12 shotgun shells into the barrel of the shotgun before you need to reload.
However due to the high degree of difficulty in this mission, even the legendary halo combat evolve shotgun will not save you every single time you are playing The Library. Yes like any mission in this combat evolve, there are some easy tricks like the one in the pic below where you can just sit in the corner there and none of the flood would even try to kill you. And you can also skip entire sections of this mission if you do a nice grenade jump in the correct spot.
But just because there is a couple of tricks that can move you a little bit faster through this mission does not mean this mission is easy in any way. Its like you against infinite amount of flood, and sometimes all the Halo skill in the world would not save you from that.
Finally, just because the mission is difficult does not mean that it is impossible, with enough practice and enough skill you can find a way to do this mission very quickly. Moving through this mission can be your best option because most of the flood combat psychos are very slow, and you can outrun them fairly easily if you know what you are doing. After playing it for quite a large number of times, i found that it calls for very little engagement with flood. Infact you can get through most of this mission without engaging any of the flood forms. You can just run right past them. But trying to complete this mission by trying to run through isn't always a full proof strategy , I might have said stuff that makes it sound easy, but its not. Like any other good flood mission, this mission is designed to give the flood the ability to overwhelm you, and just because you think you can run by without a scratch on your head doesn't mean you always will. The diversity, the inconsistency, and outright randomness of the flood in this mission makes it very difficult for me.

I want to thank @enjar for organising this contest. I believe we all have one game or the other that has really challenged us. So if you have such, quickly go to this link and read the post for better understanding of the requirements of the contest.
Thank you all for reading.