Halo 2 Cairo Station Elevator Grunts and Elites Delay Strat (read description)
237Don't mind the modded version of Halo 2, aka Halo 2 Uncut, that I'm playing; I didn't alter anything here scripting / scenario-wise. This should still work in regular h2.
Basically, you aim to prevent the Grunts and Elites from boarding the elevator. Those Grunts and Elites will spawn when the group of Buggers reach a collective 35% of their original health. I'll explain what I mean here:
On Legendary, 9 Buggers spawn in this room, and each Bugger has 45 health points on Legendary, 90 if Mythic is on. 45 x 9 = 405, and 90 x 9 = 810. 35% of 405 is 141.75, and 35% of 810 is 283.5. The collective amount of health of this group of Buggers has to be 141.75 or 283.5 with Mythic on for the Grunts and Elites to spawn. A consistent way to achieve this would be to focus all of your firepower onto 6 individual buggers, but if, say, you threw nades at the incoming buggers and it damaged some of the others without killing them, try this strat after about 5 buggers are killed.
Anyways, when you achieve the above prerequisite, head to where I have MC standing 4 seconds into this video. I'm standing outside of the trigger volume "bsp_0,3." This is essentially a transitionary loading zone between 01_bsp_0 (the area right before the elevator room) and 01_bsp_3 (which consists of the elevator room, the Jetpack Elite encounter outside, and the bomb room). When you pass that transitionary trigger volume and go into 01_bsp_0, everything into 01_bsp_3 freezes in place and waits for you to come back. Stay there in that corner for about 10 seconds, then come back to the room.
This messes with the Grunts and Elites, preventing them from moving on to the elevator. This requires good amount of timing and awareness on how many Buggers you killed/damaged. Good luck with the Halo 2 laso no envy runs!
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