Can I Beat Halo 2 on Legendary in Under 3 Hours?

[@bobewellv.026]

The fact that nak3deli has been gone from the Halo community for almost a decade but still has his name mentioned here and there shows how iconic and influential he was in the speed running community

[@TheDeadricLordDagon]

I hope wherever he is, he at least still enjoys Halo

[@JonOPBR]

i’m new to the halo speed running community to be honest, is nak3deli like the halo runs jesus ?

[@Devin7Eleven]

@@JonOPBRHe is the reason why I managed to beat all campaigns on legendary initially. He even had an achievement named after him. I think he left because Microsoft since the 343 era started being very… eh. They wanted him to change his name because it had naked in it.

[@ZzPsych3dzZ]

@@Devin7Eleven But didn't they know? Though his name says "naked," he's a "mostly unclothed gamer." The keyword being, "mostly." 🤣

[@tomislavdatyrant]

@@JonOPBR Hes like the passage of "throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so easily entangles us and run the race marked out for us. My presumption would be Eli was saved and met Jesus after his betrayal and exiting from Halo community

[@truvc]

every one of those levels takes me at least an hour

[@bengokey5342]

Halo 2 in under 3 hours??? Now you just gotta do Halo 3 and you're a certified trilogy runner lilbro. Banger vid, regret had me chuckling at all the jackals, nice job Frog.

[@TheMcK777]

Consider that hurdle hopped

[@daveyjones7391]

I see what you did there…

[@rileyscorner]

guys… im no expert but i think he’s a frog

[@Jacob-360]

What’s your source of information

[@CARNIFEX420]

I’m a frog Expert and I can confirm that is a frog

[@unappealingpig8592]

Could be Krogan???

[@j03r11]

No cap?

[@notwillsmith5105]

Nah he a toad

[@agentmaryland1239]

The answer to why the reinforcements on the escape the prison segment died is simple. If you sit in the back of the second level lifts (where it has a wall mold that sticks up a bit), for whatever reason, it deactivates the lift, causing everything coming down to hit the fall timer instantly.

[@stylesrj]

Is that a repeatable thing or is it one of those "I think that's why it did it in my playthrough" while others had their own little spot where it happened or it doesn't happen when they did exactly as you or someone else told them would do it. Because I have had the lift deactivate in some of my playthroughs but I dunno if there was a specific spot or trick.

[@stever7665]

It is repeatable. I always stand in the center of the 2nd floor lifts. It's also timing. You have to get there before Cortan tells you that reinforcements are coming. Wait a bit, or until you see weapons fall over the side and you're good.

[@MintBlitz]

NEW FROG VIDEOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@tobythedevil1874]

Pro tip for anyone wanting to get this acheivement; to make it easier everytime you die save and quit and reload from your last checkpoint because if you get a checkpoint at 6:45 and then die at 8:13 reloading the game will also reset the timer back to 6:45

[@Mediocre_Gaming1917]

Blew my mind when I figured this out after I had already gotten the achievements for Reach and ODST (not that the ODST one is hard)

[@mountain_watcher_8730]

You've got to be careful doing this though. One of the posts on TrueAchievements says that you can do this, but not in the last area of a level, otherwise the time won't count.

[@Nickoshot]

@@mountain_watcher_8730 I remember reading that on TA but I reset to my last checkpoint on Metropolis a few times and didn't add time, also I had a hard time with the Regret boss and it didn't add time so who knows

[@laminar2477]

@@mountain_watcher_8730 Yea, I'm not convinced this is still the case. I did Monopolized just two weeks ago and reset continuously on just about every checkpoint on every level, and it popped with no issue.

[@IAmNotARobotPinkySwear]

​​@@mountain_watcher_8730nah mcc was patched in our favor, so you can save/quit at any point and it will work now For halo 3, 4, odst and reach, dashboard quit then restart game then resume from main menu. Same result, just takes a bit longer, note that this only works on xbox (dashboard quit method). On series x, it takes like 15 seconds tops to dashboard quit, restart Gane, resume game, and have it load you in to the checkpoint.

[@Jacob-360]

That Cat getting sniped jumpscare got me.

[@stylesrj]

After watching a lot of Slipspace Entertainment videos, it becomes kind of expected...

[@alexanderedwards4617]

I think this video perfectly captures just how hard this achievement is to get. With how great you play and all the routes you take and how fast the levels seemed to go and when all was said and done you cleared it with less than twenty minutes to spare. I think getting the LASO campaign achievements for ODST, Halo 3, and Halo 4 were all easier than Monopolized.

[@AmazingCrimsonDragon]

For anybody wanting to go for this achievement, if doesn’t make it entirely clear, but it does NOT need to be one consecutive run. It uses the best time you have from each mission to calculate the total.

[@DoNotCallMeGrimbles]

I was curious on that myself, thanks mate, im in no way a speed runner, i can barely complete outskirts on legendary normally lmao

[@comrademonolith5421]

New speedy frog guy Halo video just dropped. Happy Sunday.

[@danielhance3325]

"Now you speed by everything and hope you don't die" Frog: *makes it through with minimal damage.* Me: *immediately gets blown up.*

[@muji5875]

Welcome to the club, frog. H2 best speedgame. Learn cancels, they're free. It takes literally 5 minutes. Flies hard, Cancels free. Also, general tips: Cairo: You can just sword lunge the first two jetpack elites. No need for sticking with nades or anything like that. Metro: The moonjump strat for boarding scarab is easier and more consistent, and saves a nade. The antenna can get knocked down by wraith shots, which is what happened to you. It is also possible to deload the scarab after you board it if you go too fast. You probably weren't going that fast but there's a 6 second window where you're kinda doomed if you early-board the scarab. If you really were going fast its possible the antenna falling saved you from this. Arbiter: After you clear the hangar, 3 grunts will spawn with FRGs. A few seconds after they are cleared, a checkpoint will pop and the far door will open. So as soon as you spawn the grunts, take a couple out, grab a FRG and run for the door. Don't hang around or you'll have to deal with all the other spawns too. There's also an easy way to safely get through the room beneath the hangar, go up the ramp, headclip the box until you get camo then jump across the rafters next to you. Always bring a fuel rod gun from the grunts in the hangar. You'll want it to clear out one nasty hallway of grunts with needlers. Oracle: You can headclip to be safe for the whole elevator ride. When you hear the second lot of sentinels spawn in the death barrier goes away and it becomes possible to jump down to the lower platform early. Also, the lab fight is on a timer after you kill the initial flood, the heretics who enter, then 4 more flood. Flood will stop infinite spawning after 60 seconds. You can just chill for that time, then take out the remaining flood, and the door will open to let you continue. Regret: At the beginning there are fairly easy skips on MCC, it isn't too hard to learn something called the God Despawn. For some reason everyone uses a nade jump to cross the gap but its waaaaaaaay easier to just use a slidejump bouncing off the left railing. Also a lot of "guides" dont seem to mention that once you're on the gondola you have to delay the checkpoint until the phantom spawns in or the full trick won't work, so once youre on the gondola melee constantly until you hear the phantom fly over. But honestly the whole level is a cluster. lol you should see how bad it is on Classic. There are only a few IL submissions because the start is so awful - So enjoy MCC regret because it is the easy version. QZ: in the first room where flood are fighting sentinels, don't drive down the ramps, just boost the ghost straight towards the exit door. Fly off the ledge, its much faster and just as safe. Press jump to lift the nose of the ghost a bit to clear the "lip" on the ledge. Also yes you clipped a spawn trigger. There are a couple triggers that are crucial and a couple that are optional. If the FIRST room in the crashed sentinel factory is empty, you skipped a crucial one. If the wraith as you exit the sentinel factory isn't there, you skipped a crucial one. The skip you got in the middle is fine. GM: Good job making it through as fast as you did, but prison skip isn't *that* hard to learn. I would consider prison skip easier to learn than learning to do prison fast. Uprising: If you fly through that room you can sometimes skip a trigger that loads the enemies in the next few rooms. It is a few seconds slower for speedrunners since you have nobody to cancel on. But it is safe so thats cool. HC: Don't feel bad, that one room is hard for everyone - but you went in with a carbine+sword. In the second dark "garden room" there's a flood with a rocket launcher. Grab that RL for the best chance to get through the room fastish. Also - when you're going up the elevator, melee or swing a sword until the elevator is near the top. That'll delay a checkpoint until just before you get to the top, so if you need to reset it will be a quick reset not a long elevator ride. Great Journey: If you leave the starting spectre among the trees on the left, it becomes near 100% consistent but loses a few seconds. Where you left it is usually safe but you can get unlucky. Listen for explosions as you ghost away. Consider resetting if you hear something that could be your spectre blowing up. Often halfjaw will boost his wraith through it and wreck it. Sometimes an elite or brute can jump in it and drive it off, and it'll despawn that way too. At the very end you jumped into the load zone. Since you were there with a banshee you could fly the banshee into the load zone and the banshee would come into the monkey fight with you. Even if you dont wanna use the banshee you could load on the first possible frame since you can just hover in the load trigger. Anyway GG. Also running CE is for skrubs.

[@jesterjay420]

I earned the Goat Roped achievement using the save and quit trick for deathless runs on solo, some optimized co-op runs, and flood-bumping and the banshee drop on Keyes and AOTCR. That being said, my first and only time completing Halo 2 on Legendary was over 8 hours and I refuse to commit to the self-harm of going for Monopolized.

[@browe091]

It’s really just regret and Gravemind that reallllly blow. I saved those two for last and used like 50 minutes of my 3 hours just on those two levels 🤣.

[@jesterjay420]

@@browe091 regardless, I’d rather drag myself through LASO CE than touch Halo 2 Legendary again.

[@tobythedevil1874]

The save and quit trick works for halo 2 aswell. Pretty easy after that

[@JA-kr1lz]

@@jesterjay420 you’d really love halo 2 laso. Hours and hours of ‘fun’

[@jesterjay420]

@@tobythedevil1874 noted, but where I’d average 5-10 deaths on a CE run, I’m not going to use that exploit 50-100 times just to rage through Regret again

[@NexusSomnia]

In my recent run, I found that hiding under the shades at the end of Outskirts and weaving between them when your shields are up makes running with a ghost much more survivable.

[@jhinabloomingflower807]

Liked and Respect for showing the Original Art and Beauty of the Original Graphics of Halo 2 ❤

[@onyxcideYT]

Major respect. This isn’t an easy feat.

[@tunics3946]

The fact u mentioned NakedEli is crazy to me, I watched him when I was younger n always was curious why he quit, same with RCVGS

[@adepressedgamer7786]

I know the pain you went through to complete this. As I too am part of that 0.03% that have monopolised. For those curious here where my final times: Cairo Station: 11:39 Outskirts: 6:05 Metropolis: 11:41 The Arbiter: 12:39 The Oracle: 19:35 Delta Halo: 6:31 Regret: 30:31 Sacred Icon: 11:32 Quarantine Zone: 08:37 Gravemind: 37:17 Uprising: 1:53 High Charity: 6:26 The Great Journey: 15:04 I decided I would improve my times on every level except regret and gravemind in the hopes of not having to do them again, which it worked out well for me, as I had 38 seconds to spare.

[@Lilac_005]

I have no idea how you do this on legendary. It's really impressive to me. Great stuff Frog!

[@fromthegrave69]

Frog is so good at the game he can despawn enemies multiple times without even meaning too 🫡

[@jesuschrist7833]

I’m subscribing for the Title and the title alone.

[@MythicTyrant]

Your Jackal Sniper remarks and reactions had me rolling 😅

[@JonesHS]

Killer video. Can’t wait to see more of Halo 2!

[@I_enjoy_some_things]

It’s incredible how well the Halo games hold up. It’s so easy to see why they revolutionized FPS games.

[@ComaToast712]

I wonder if there’s a Cody Miller CE speedrun equivalent for Halo 2 that you could cover. I adore that video, we could use more like it.

[@hydry6317]

I was about to write a joke where I said "Halo 2 on Legendary is like playing as Kat from that scene at the end of New Alexandria" but you beat me to it damn

[@briansardinha5396]

Halo 2 is my fave and I'd love to see more Halo 2 speedrun content. I liked all the Halo CE speedrun content, too.

[@bengonzalez1598]

The "HI, I'm a frog" keeps me coming back.

[@tomdr93x]

Incredible, and to think it was a frog playing all along.

[@vulpinitemplar5036]

Pretty solid run, not really any mistakes that one wouldn't encounter casually from what I can tell other than silly speedrun shenanigans.

[@Grimpy970]

On 'the oracle', during that slow elevator ride down, you can do several jumps and load glitches that will bring you to the bottom of that shaft in like 1 minute flat. I could never get it right, myself, but if you know the loading zones, you can at least drop yourself to the bottom near the end of the elevator, and you don't even need to glitch a death barrier or shuffle around in the way speedrunners do. My cheap method only saves like a minute or so, but it's better than nothing! I personally just can't seem to figure out all of the load glitches, only the final one.

[@zanzibarcraig1174]

I will definitely shout-out this walk through when doing my Solo run for the channel 👏 new subscriber

[@dndgeek4112]

I was expecting another sniper death before Regret, then Kat caught me off guard 😂

[@ferretthegod]

HELLO FROG! I enjoyed watching this video at 12:31 pm on Super Bowl Sunday!! Congrats on getting the Monopolized achievement!!

[@Mattcchu]

Dude the jumpcut to cat getting sniped gets me every time

[@TwiceTheBitsGames]

Imagine this. A Halo channel where someone actually makes content about playing Halo. Incredible. Fantastic edit as always Frog

[@sethcurtis7167]

Flood scared me as a child. Now it's those damn sniper jackals.

[@Mediocre_Gaming1917]

I appreciate the "let's hop in" at the start of every video

[@bazukawars9354]

5:41 longest elevator ride of your life…so far

[@JacobT-1]

This was a fun watch. I liked the fast pace and your effort in editing. Would still be happy with slower/longer videos too (not criticizing or suggesting, just saying). Congratulations in getting this achievement and for the KC win.

[@charlief.]

Congratulations Frog! Looking forward to more Halo 2 speedrunning!

[@flawless_cowboy1]

Nice. I had to take a break of a couple months when i did this achievement. I kept gravemind for the last mission. It was worth it, im glad im part of the 0.03%. good job on this one

[@anguscrawford381]

new subscriber! absolutely love the content! PLZ keep it up!!!

[@CyberKnight1]

Monopolized is probably the achievement I'm most proud of, not just from the MCC but across all of Xbox. It was a lot of work, especially since I'm not great. I can't remember what my total time was (and Waypoint is having issues when I try to look it up), but suffice it to say I had very little time to spare.

[@mattchooblink]

Good job, frog. I really liked that you did this while not sword flying because~~[gets sniped by jackal]………

[@getampt22]

The gravemind trick (the enemies coming down the elevator dying from falling), all you have to do is go to the third level, trigger cortana saying "hostile reinforcements, coming down the lift" and before she finishes that sentence make sure you have already gone back down to the second level. Works every time.

[@DanielCornwall519]

I love Halo 2 so much so thank you for showing a video of the Monopolize achievement and proving to me that you don’t need to do Every modern Speed run trick. Please do more Halo 2 content, but I’m happy with your current content as well lol.

[@defaultgraycat]

This is my favorite Halo channel

[@prongs8488]

I'm sure someone else has brought it up, but the long elevator at the beginning of the oracle is on a simple timer; you can head-glitch into a spot on the upper structure of the elevator, wait till the kill-barrier is dismissed, and then drop down to the doorway safely. No fighting necessary Edit: also the sick guitar is the amazing Steve Vai, a lot of it was improvised in studio, there's some videos floating around on here of the OG session, and it's crazy to watch everyone realize they're listening to pure gold

[@Costilicious3]

6:29 the sentinel death there was so clean 😂

[@repostingmeme]

Awesome vid bro.

[@lukethomas.125]

@Frogarchist I really love the content. Keep up the good work. Also, I was inspired by this video, so I did Halo 2 Legendary for the first time, it's very enjoyable.

[@manfromhamaslume]

8:56 thanks for the jumpscare 🤣

[@legofilmsable]

Hey Frog! Someone who's gotten all 700 achievements on here, Monopolized was by far one of the hardest, honestly in some regards harder than the LASO. Good job getting it!

[@kylerbryant3772]

Good job! I personally know what it’s like playing legendary but never under 3 hours.

[@TackyPaladin]

Very good job Mr frog! Well done

[@marcooliveira7909]

Quality videos man!

[@Kostraproductions]

WOOOOOOOO!!!! FROG DOIN' A HALO 2 VID YEEEAAAAAA!!!!!!

[@thunderslug1066]

Just a tip for Gravemind, you can fire the needler as fast as you can pull the trigger, so you can get supercombines much faster

[@andrews3554]

I’m excited to see you learn sword flying. Very fun thing to watch and the payoff is insane.

[@muji5875]

For speed at least, the payoff isn't that big. It saves like 2 minutes in the run. Cancels are the most important trick to learn.

[@jameson7276]

In the Quarantine Zone gondola I always just sit at the back behind the little "railing" at ground level. If you crouch there, Flood won't bother you, no need to platform.

[@TonyC2328]

Dude as a kid on Outskirts I used to jump on the Pelican that picks up the Marines later, then go onto the buildings. Until I watched speedrunners a couple years ago, I didn't know you could go so much earlier haha There's an energy sword up above in the Sniper Alley, was never mentioned in the guide book.

[@xxchickenjoe]

frogida forg frog

[@TheEGrievous]

damn nice, I still have to do this.

[@Outcastsage9033]

4:17 "Wait what the fuc-"

[@Howtoeatrocks]

For fun you should try the mermaid marine glitch, when going on the under water elevator slam the door on a marine so they levitate outside. For some reason they don’t die while under water and depending on the angle they stick on they’ll swim super fast laps around the elevator in their idle position

[@sumomanify]

One day frog will go for the laso achievement 🤞

[@slightlyoddsalad7024]

6:28 a beautiful moment watching a sentinel get slammed

[@HomelanderXVI]

i remember my first halo was cea, i loved the series ever since

[@Rhylum]

12:26 pretty rude of those speedrunners tbh, I'd NEVER ask such a question

[@structor125]

Master Chief in the books: Kills 120 grunts in 2 minutes, slaps a scorpion missile away, etc Thel 'Vadam in the games: Jams his head into a wall so the enemies can't see him.

[@Halo64]

Halo 2 best halo

[@NarratorInSkylands]

..imo, No. 😭

[@quixquire1761]

Halo 2 definitely had the richest story and additions to lore, but in terms of enjoyment and emotional payoff at the end, Halo 3 comes out as my favorite.

[@thefreeden]

Honestly, Halo 2 is pretty boring for me. Everytime I play it I feel like I'm wasting my time with it, something that I never feel while playing any other Halo game, especially it's predecessor (Halo CE my beloved). The story is probably the best in the franchise, but I can just watch that on youtube.

[@asder2036]

On a side note, I think I may know some ''speed run trick'' that apparently others don't (based on this video, no idea about the rest). In the infamous super long final gondola of Quarantine Zone, if right at the beginning you enter the channel at the bottom center of the gondola (some flood spawn there early if you don't), then you will not be seen for the rest of the ride. It's a lot easier than the jumping around frogarchist did and just as effective.

[@muji5875]

Jumping up there is absolutely free, there's no way to mess it up. You jump onto the "handrail" bit, then jump onto the pillar. That's all the jumping needed. But its also slightly faster casually because you can run out THROUGH the front wall of it directly into the library as the gondola arrives, rather than having to leave a hidey-hole and run to the edge. But either way it is much faster for serious speedruns as once we're up there we can manipulate the position of some flood and do a funky sliding swordfly to make it all the way to the human's gondola entrance, which saves like 10 seconds.

[@asder2036]

@@muji5875 makes sense, thanks

[@Ionthepro]

Definition of halo 2: dual wield....jackal sniper....gondela.....epic one-liners.

[@Shadow0fd3ath24]

Gravemind prison, Regret fuel rod grunt gondola and Regret fight drives me nuts....sniper jackals dont even scare me anymore tbh

[@joshwatterson7841]

Another banger video

[@MrDoggson]

Would not have this cheevo if it wasnt for Bean, top speedrun carry.

[@JDDupe]

Love ur vids

[@robwrone]

Not bad at all considering you don't main this game. Good stuff, Frog

[@The_Array117]

I love your videos!

[@captaintophat6815]

Good job, like the progress of all the games.

[@BobsUrUncleWasTaken]

If you have sticky nades you can stick one inside of regrets shield to do a lotta damage. You just have to time the button press as you board. And occasionally it will stick to you and kill you if you don’t time it right but it makes it so you only have to board him 3/4 times.

[@shevelanepta]

This video doees help a little with getting through some levels that took me hours Doesn't help me with getting not killed within seconds At least i have the strategy guide thanks to a frog

[@lordkoth6735]

Dont know about anybody else but on legendary i call gravemind gravegrind

[@woodsyjones]

Frog is goat

[@Anonymous-nl1lt]

I wanna see a meme category where all enemies get replaced with jackal snipers

[@BuckeyeNut123]

very well done. also, nice achievement

[@ryanv3841]

8:51 now that was just uncalled for

[@ujingamer]

I just got monopolized yesterday and i am slightly pissed causr i learned some of the speedrun tricks and some of your times were still better than mine. Oh well i had some great times in there too.

[@hostlitd112]

9:35 lol just like me, i was really scared to go through the hallway full of green fog that endlessly spawns flood, and this was my limit in a childhood

[@killerspartanga8973]

@@hostlitd112 same bro

[@hostlitd112]

@@killerspartanga8973 nice gift for the future self. Did you finish the game in adulthood?

[@TheMartin1427]

When a I grow up I wanna be like you (I'm 24 lol), the under 3 hrs achievements are the only ones that I have missing in MCC

[@PhoenixPalmer88]

2:34 I hear a lot about how Halo 2’s Legendary is the hardest, but I can promise you this would’ve killed you on Reach

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

OMG, 20 years, and I had no idea there was a Warthog in the back of the bridge 🤯😱

[@stylesrj]

Huh, when I did Quarantine Zone, I would hang out in the lower tunnel of the gondola for the same effect as Flood couldn't spawn from there and the Flood on the gondola wouldn't bother coming down to deal with me so I just lived there for five minutes or so... Also, those Delta Halo skips... I should have done that when I tried to do the level on Legendary. I did the thing where I skipped the landing zone battle, slowly killed all the snipers on the path then took the tank and started blasting all the way to the spot with the Jackals in the bush... said "Nope" and ran all the way back until I found an intact Ghost and did the skip I normally would do with the tank. Only to die constantly to those Drones because I focused way too much on killing those two snipers on the walls.

[@Lunarice98]

Trying to get the par time on regret on easy was a nightmare. 15 minutes is average my ass. I only beat it by 2 seconds.

[@jackgaebler1170]

“Gravemind is my favorite level in the whole franchise” you ok man?

[@gabriellong4375]

The real achievement is the friends we made along the way.

[@Robxn0]

Kat out here catching strays.

[@jacobharrell8186]

When your casual playthrough is so good people think youre a bad speedrunner 😂😂