When I was playing this I thought no way was it possible to beat this but I was laughing so hard after I took your advice and when my allies where taking down everything
Trev Rob Yes! This is what I want to hear! I want you guys to be enjoying what the game has to offer, rather than slogging through it or skipping stuff! I’m so glad to hear that my strategies made the game more enjoyable for you!
When I first played this mission back when H3 was released I loaded up the troop transport hog with all fuel rod marines. It destroyed everything so damn quick it was amazing.
@@ZyrusSmith There's enough Brutes using them and I believe a dead one that by the time you reach Rally Point Alpha, three of your four Marines will have Fuel Rod Guns.
this mission epitomizes why i love halo 3's campaign. Its a combat sandbox. No other shooter just lets your ai teammates potentially go to town on your enemies while you stand back and enjoy the show. God dammit halo 3 is one of my all time favorites. Thanks for these vids Hokie, i used to apply the same ideas when i beat it on legendary. I wanna go back and do it all again. love you man
Bioshock is a combat sandbox. Far Cry is a combat sandbox. Dishonored is a combat sandbox. Metro is a combat sandbox. Fallout and Elder Scrolls are combat sandboxes. Gta is a combat sandbox. Zelda: BotW is a combat sandbox. Even fucking minecraft is a combat sandbox. No other game, pshhhhh.
I would like to sincerely thank you for this guide. When i was trying The Broken Path my own way, i close to chucking my controller out the window. But, when i did it your way, it was 100x easier, and i caught myself with a smile on my face! You sir, have earned yourself a new subscriber!
This is one of the handiest game walkthroughs I've ever used. The first time I ever finished this one on Legendary was a number of years ago on my RROD 360. It took two frustrating sessions to complete, and the Broken Path bit was a couple solid hours of teeth gnashing. Your shooting gallery setup with the Marines at the bunker makes the firefight section so manageable that I finished the level in one sitting, in less than an hour. Major props Birdman!
+Hokiebird428 at 12:03 and before I do everything right but when I haul my ass to the bunker the idiots stay outside to get mauled by the brutes. Only one last left who died very quickly. Any tips on getting all Marines to the bunker before the phantom arrives? (other than listening to the music)
Hokiebird 428 at 7:37 at that building to the right of the warthog, there's a grav lift in there. You could use that to go over the bridge with the warthog instead of ditching the warthog. I do this myself and it makes life easier.
Thanks to the MCC on PC, I'm finally playing Halo 3 and I just tried my first mission on Legendary. I chose T'savo Highway thinking it would be easier than others... Well I was very, VERY wrong about it apparently. Still made it through, but the funniest thing is that I then came here to see how a pro deals with this mission and one of the very first things Hokie says is: "Unlike Halo 2, Jackal snipers are far less likely just to one-hit-kill you in a vehicle" which is exactly the first thing that happened to me as soon as I found the first two of them!
Tried the Quad-Rod Hog. You can do it and make it work, but you're really gonna miss that chain gun for the Roundabout, and even moreso for the two Brute Packs at the end. Saturating the air with Fuel Rod Missiles only accomplishes so much if the Brutes just evade them all.
Best fuelrodmaxxing guide ever. Your guide in this level turned a section that made me quit Halo 3 on legendary into a mass brute mogging session. Thanks, man.
Hey man, first off, thanks for your videos. Half a year ago when I started the MCC I never thought I'd be doing legendary campaigns. But I've now done 5, 4, reach, odst and partway through 3 on legendary thanks in huge part to your help. I don't always follow your tactics to the letter but they're always useful. In the hardest part of this mission (and the game) my marines wouldn't follow me from the broken bridge. And all the marines in the big area were dead already! It took me an hour just to crawl through the area on my own, eventually running for my life from the bunkers to the right side, pausing only to do a mental fuel rod wraith kill. Utterly horrific but wanted you to know it's entirely possible even if the game screws you! Keep it up mate anyway:)
I actually managed to get a scenario where I got the troop transport hog,warthog and all the marines alive on a playthrough For keeping the troop transport hog and warthog alive I didn’t get in the warthogs rather I just had them follow me and I consistently equipped them with fuel rod guns and beam rifles so I got the marines in the hogs, plus the marines on the broken path after doing everything in the video correctly and the marines that arrive with the pelican I also managed to get marines in a wraith, two in choppers, a full transport hog, and two regular hogs against the 8 choppers and the wraiths I ended up getting through the whole mission without any marine deaths or any of my deaths it was the most hilarious play through I had
I played H3 on Legendary long before I knew about your guides, and the stress of that battle early on where one Elite has a Fuel Rod Cannon probably took several year off of my life from stress. Cortona? Forget it, this is the hardest mission.
Hey Hokiebird, I recently discovered your channel and I've replayed all the Halo games using your ideas. I especially like how you use the marines; I always try so hard to keep them alive in spite of all the efforts they make to get themselves killed. Tsavo Highway is one of my favorite Halo levels because of the mix of vehicle and ground combat and the amazing siege section. Thanks to you, I've been experiencing the level in a whole new way. I have done a few hilarious play-throughs of this level following your techniques as shown. The last play-through I wanted to see what I could do with the troop transport, after seeing how well it did on its own in your video. I got through the first few few combat areas at the beginning by swapping back-and-forth between the transport and chain hogs. After I got it loaded up with marines toting beam rifles and a fuel rod, the troop transport really kicked ass. I tried hard to keep both warthogs alive all through the early sections but was never able to do that. A huge advantage of the troop transport is that you can bring four marines with you to the Broken Path, where you meet two more as soon as you arrive. With a little pre-planning and some creative swapping, this gives you six heavily-armed allies at the beginning of that battle. One reason I tried so hard to keep both hogs alive was to see if the second hog would follow me through the tunnel after the first chopper fight; that would be an extra three marines. Even though the troop hog worked really well during the first brute chopper fight, I think that was because the choppers were distracted and the lines of sight were interrupted by obstacles like trucks and buildings. Even loaded up with fuel rod marines, they simply did not react quickly enough to fight off wraiths and choppers in the later portions of the level. I'd get behind a chopper and set up perfect shots for them and they simply wouldn't fire, or would fire too late. Often they didn't seem to notice a chopper unless we were getting shot at, even at point-blank range. After getting killed more than 50 times I gave up and swapped to the chain-gun hog, and finished it pretty quickly. This was playing on Legendary. Perhaps it would have worked better on lesser difficulties. Thanks again for your videos and for breathing new life into Halo for me.
Very old comment, I know. Been playing these games as part of the MCC, So much nostalgia, Your guides have been a huge help for me. I remember struggling as a kid back when I played these. But your guides have been great and are helping me breeze through these games during this Quarantine.
I use to pass the missions by myself but it takes me lot of time and always is comforting watch your videos to know the most efficient way about how I should have done it and also they have helped me too much when definitely I can't pass a mission for example to kill the firts scarab, thanks man.
11:31 F*ck...this...part... OMG I could NEVER get past this part on Legendary thank you SO much. Everything else was pretty straight forward after that.
Im so glad to hear that was the most difficult section in the entire game. It was literally the only part, in any mission in Halo 3 and Halo 3 ODST i couldn't beat on legendary without a guide.
I thought it was very clever of you to take full advantage of your marine allies, by giving them very powerful weapons they can use to support you to the maximum. I've always thought the marines were useless, but now I realized that if they are properly equipped with effective weaponry, they make a truly formidable ally in the game. Well done. I also loved your performance in the game too.
hahahahah dude I'm learning mouse and keyboard by replaying halo 3 on legendary annnnnd this is where I got stumped for so long the game gave me a pity checkpoint with less enemies and ammo and I still couldn't progress. Very happy to hear its the hardest fight of the game. Glad you have this walkthrough. This is such a well designed game.
This mission is fun as hell. Nothing is better than see your marines destroy those covies bastards. It plays like a fps and rts at the same time and I love it. H3 is my game 💚
Watching this walkthrough coz my marines always die at the final wave of broken path...Also having a full team against those brutes is so satisfying to watch
Out of all 4 games, this is the hardest mission for me. After the road block my marines ran in and got themselves killed every time and to get a checkpoint straight after. Endless restarts !!
The Broken Path phantoms kind of remind me of a sequence in Gears of War 3. You clear out a mortar nest on a bridge and then, you notice enemy troop carriers in the distance. The carriers are basically giant blimps filled with a fictional gas that I can only assume is lighter than air and highly flammable because one of your squad mates says: “wow, a big, floating target filled with gas! I wonder what we can do.” You’re standing next to a bunch of mortar launchers when he says this.
dear hokie thanks for walkthrough. i managed to finish halo 1 and 2 thanks to you. now doing halo 3. on this mission's hold out part, all my marines had died by the time i got that sniper rifle. but i got lucky and just skipped the whole fight by running past them until i got the next checkpoint. when the next checkpoint activated, the game just landed the palecons with the warthhog for me and all the brutes were dead. i did not kill them. weird but it worked. i skipped the hard part.
The one positive thing - conceptually speaking - about Halo 5: Guardians was the allied commands function. That’s one thing I wished the Bungie games had. Allied firepower is such a staple of the Halo combat experience that it’s a shame when the player can’t use it to its full potential. Halo 3 obviously compensated for that by very cleverly designing the encounters but man, can you imagine how awesome it would be if your allies fired on targets you mark? Especially when you’re driving a warthog. Sometimes, my marines just don’t fire on the targets I want them to fire on even when they have a perfect angle.
Funny i was thinking how the holdout section must be one of the hardest in the game, and you mention it. Then you arive at the roundabout and it turns out that's your favorite section of the game aswell haha. I'm not exactly sure why it's my favorite, but when i think back of the halo 3 campaign back in the days, i picture finally taking down that last wraith! And it's just fun map design from a non-biased perspective haha
Compare this 2007 game AI to a 2019 Call Of Duty Modern Warfare in which on Veteran the AI just stays behind walls and each enemy on the map shoots only at you, your team never shoots their rifle so it's 100v1 and once you take down everyone and advance the team advances too, but suddenly someone appears and they just pass through them without seeing or shooting the enemy and keep advancing, and of course the enemy doesn't shoot them it shoots you who are 100 meters away. And i don't wanna talk about the granade spawn lel, "how do we keep the players moving?" "let's just spawn 4 granades at their location each time they stop running for more than 5 seconds". Halo for ever
Lol I remember doing something similar with the marines in a level in halo 2 where you have to rescue marines from a jail cells, I armed them all with convenient carbines and watched them decimate the white elites at the end of the mission.
One of my marines keeps derping off the bridge. >.< Can't figure out how to get him to not do so. After over a dozen tries at the holdout section, I got a "perfect" run with 5 marines. The troop transport naturally did not make it to the final area, but after some trial and error I finally got past the final vehicle area. This level was a slog. I just want to thank you for this guide. Had I not found it, I wouldn't have had the satisfaction of watching marines with fuel rod guns tearing the brutes apart. :)
Mortamer James, I was having trouble just like you. And I'm guessing its because we are having trouble with the flying brutes but I found a solution. Restart the mission from the beginning but DO NOT take the warthog with the chain-gun like Hokie suggests. Drive the transport hog yourself. The reason is that you will have 2 extra marines to help you out. I gave those 2 extra marines beam rifles. By the time I got to the big battle I had 6 marines with beam rifles and fuel rod cannons. The fun part was trying to get them all to jump the bridge. All off them made it except for 1 dumass with a beam rifle who fell off. But that extra fire power definitely paid off and it pretty much played out like Hokie shows in his guide.
Most of the time, the marines don't have enough cognitive capacity to successfully jump over the broken path to get to the other side with their fuel rods. "Herp derp. I r ossim m4r1n3 .H0w does I jump LOL?! XD." - Chips Dubbo, 2552.
So those marines you said you lost actually survived and helped you kick ass. If you had waited back at the bunker though, sometimes the marines will jump into the wraith, and take out the choppers from a distance, it is rare however
It's funny how I did this slightly differently, I took the larger hog at first and had 4 Marines at the start who all had beam rifles or fuel rods. Same result except all the Marines can't cross the bridge for some reason, one always falls off
Just did that fight at about 14:00 today without marines because they didn’t survive to that point. I tried for a good half hour before just sneaking into the next area to grab the wraith. The enemies behind me despawned.
I watched your stream for this level. After watching it I had to come watch this to watch to play with the chain gun hog instead of the troop transport
Wait, you could take over the carrier hog right? Being able to both offensivelly and defensivelly position it yourself would make it super super strong with all the fuel rods (as the one sniper on the carrier would be replaced with another fuel rod from your gunner hog)
Eddie Adams People on Twitch requested that Hokie replace his regular Hog with the Troop Transport Hog. Naturally, it did not work out for him. At all.
***** Naturally? It worked out 10x better for me for the exact reasons i explained. You can keep the strongest units alive by positioning them, and peek out on the most threatening enemies and keep defensive angles on most other enemies. Instead of having an a.i(diot). driver go kamikaze
My first time seriously playing a Halo campaign on legendary. Have beaten most of the games on heroic no problems. Legendary forces you to get good. Anyways, this level. The part after you ditch the warthog and face all the brutes and the first wraith. My god. Took me 179 minutes to make it through that part but I killed every last fucking brute. That last brute death animation was soooooo satisfying. I died at least 30 times. All my marines were dead after the first wave. I didn't follow any guides. FINALLY found a spot behind a truck trailer where I could snipe them solo with a carbine and a battle rifle. Came to this guide after the fact to see how easy it couldve been. But I wanted to do it on my own first ha
That Wraith fight was so fucking hard. They don't give enough weapons I had to snipe all the brutes and then come in with a plasma pistol to destroy the wraith
Oh and the part in the beginning of the Storm level where you encounter wraith, anti-air wraith, some ghosts and maybe banshees was really painful as well even though with the sniper. I'm willing to see how did you cope with that.
My god as much as I love this mission as Hokie does, the broken path holdout section is not fun if you’re marines don’t follow you. More often than not, I’ve seen it happen before where the four marines you had from the warthog and at the beginning of the broken path will not move up with you to the hill where the other marines are and will stay right where the phantom spawns and get obliterated by the brutes with brute shots as well the chieftain with the fuel rod gun. If you get a bad checkpoint at this part, there’s absolutely nothing you can do to keep those marines alive. I’ve also seen it before where the marines at the top of the hill will sometimes all of them are dead by the time you get there. It sucks that in my case it tends to happen a lot and I never really get to experience the awesome firepower
Did you notice the moment when when your marine ally shot two fuel rods at two choppers, with both hitting each one,and one shotting one of the choppers? Because that is a good shot by your ally.
Man, Hokie, I can never get past the bunker area because every time my marines die even though I try an support the most in danger. But they end up dead way before the first phantom.
The roundabout in this level was the most infuriating part of my most recent play through of Halo3. I had the rocket hog and kept getting killed. Also I don’t think Halo 3 got vehicles completely right. Better than Halo 2 but the Master Chief should never die first when the vehicle takes fire. I watched my marines live for 5 seconds after I died in the warthog. I know it’s Legendary but come on!
13:37 nahhhh something happened in this section where all my fuel rod marines where in one spot and a fuel rod gun brute killed them all and the chekpoint was done JUST IN TIME WHEN THE MISSILE WAS LAUNCHED so yeah there was no way i could have saved them and the chekpoint always loaded when the missile was already launched at them
I found if your marines die hide behind the two huts at the hard bit. I camped there with grenades , carbine and a sniper i cleared them out in 2 tries but the other tactic is very quick too
Actually, that's where you're wrong. Sniper Rifles aren't useless against vehicles, and a lot of times when the Marines carry them, they'll be able to shoot the driver, not just the vehicle. Ballistic weaponry such as the Warthog's chain gun and the Sniper Rifle have an interesting sort of "stun" effect on vehicles, and make it much easier to land Fuel Rod shots when the two are paired together.
the way I usually do the roundabout, is I destroy everything except the wraith on the highway, then I'll let my marines drive the warthogs around to divert some of the focus from me as I climb up the hill and kill the brute on the plasma turret of the wraith then sneak up on it and jack it for myself. After that, you can drive it to the next area and blast the mortar repeatedly. the brutes wont stand a chance. Just my preference lol. On a side note, I've had this game for almost 8 years and NEVER knew about that sniper at the beginning of the broken path area you used to kill the captain with the fuel rod canon in the beginning lol your walkthroughs are so thorough. Much respect.
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"The Demon! The Demo-HUAAAUGH"
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If the Halo games were turned into movies, the Master Chief would behave with the Marines just like you do. ;)
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When I was playing this I thought no way was it possible to beat this but I was laughing so hard after I took your advice and when my allies where taking down everything
Trev Rob Yes! This is what I want to hear! I want you guys to be enjoying what the game has to offer, rather than slogging through it or skipping stuff! I’m so glad to hear that my strategies made the game more enjoyable for you!
When I first played this mission back when H3 was released I loaded up the troop transport hog with all fuel rod marines. It destroyed everything so damn quick it was amazing.
Where did you get four fuel rod guns?
@@ZyrusSmith There's enough Brutes using them and I believe a dead one that by the time you reach Rally Point Alpha, three of your four Marines will have Fuel Rod Guns.
this mission epitomizes why i love halo 3's campaign. Its a combat sandbox. No other shooter just lets your ai teammates potentially go to town on your enemies while you stand back and enjoy the show. God dammit halo 3 is one of my all time favorites. Thanks for these vids Hokie, i used to apply the same ideas when i beat it on legendary. I wanna go back and do it all again. love you man
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Bioshock is a combat sandbox. Far Cry is a combat sandbox. Dishonored is a combat sandbox. Metro is a combat sandbox. Fallout and Elder Scrolls are combat sandboxes. Gta is a combat sandbox. Zelda: BotW is a combat sandbox. Even fucking minecraft is a combat sandbox. No other game, pshhhhh.
Caden Parsons You compare them to Halo 3!
I had the exact opposite reaction to this mission.
@@cadenparsons2994 Love them all!
I would like to sincerely thank you for this guide. When i was trying The Broken Path my own way, i close to chucking my controller out the window. But, when i did it your way, it was 100x easier, and i caught myself with a smile on my face! You sir, have earned yourself a new subscriber!
This is one of the handiest game walkthroughs I've ever used. The first time I ever finished this one on Legendary was a number of years ago on my RROD 360. It took two frustrating sessions to complete, and the Broken Path bit was a couple solid hours of teeth gnashing.
Your shooting gallery setup with the Marines at the bunker makes the firefight section so manageable that I finished the level in one sitting, in less than an hour. Major props Birdman!
Cheers!
+Hokiebird428 at 12:03 and before I do everything right but when I haul my ass to the bunker the idiots stay outside to get mauled by the brutes. Only one last left who died very quickly. Any tips on getting all Marines to the bunker before the phantom arrives? (other than listening to the music)
Hokiebird 428 at 7:37 at that building to the right of the warthog, there's a grav lift in there. You could use that to go over the bridge with the warthog instead of ditching the warthog. I do this myself and it makes life easier.
I’m finally playing this game on the MCC. It’s awesome that this content from 10 years ago exists ❤
Kitting out your marines with powerful weapons is always a hilariously fun, but effective tactic. I did it too back in the day.
Deadly Green Fuel Rod Missiles....EVERYWHERE!!!!
I see you enjoyed making this, I wish I could have been older when this game released.
Thanks to the MCC on PC, I'm finally playing Halo 3 and I just tried my first mission on Legendary. I chose T'savo Highway thinking it would be easier than others... Well I was very, VERY wrong about it apparently.
Still made it through, but the funniest thing is that I then came here to see how a pro deals with this mission and one of the very first things Hokie says is: "Unlike Halo 2, Jackal snipers are far less likely just to one-hit-kill you in a vehicle" which is exactly the first thing that happened to me as soon as I found the first two of them!
keeping your Marines alive and using them properly it's feel like a real military but 343 doesn't understand this I want to make a Call of Duty clone
@BiccyThiccy can't get more negative than negative infinity
N-Crash56 tries not trys
N-Crash56 both tried and both failed
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all my fuel rod marines ran toward the danger instead of staying behind the big cargo boxes while i sniped the chefitain
Tried the Quad-Rod Hog. You can do it and make it work, but you're really gonna miss that chain gun for the Roundabout, and even moreso for the two Brute Packs at the end. Saturating the air with Fuel Rod Missiles only accomplishes so much if the Brutes just evade them all.
Best fuelrodmaxxing guide ever. Your guide in this level turned a section that made me quit Halo 3 on legendary into a mass brute mogging session. Thanks, man.
Hey man, first off, thanks for your videos. Half a year ago when I started the MCC I never thought I'd be doing legendary campaigns. But I've now done 5, 4, reach, odst and partway through 3 on legendary thanks in huge part to your help. I don't always follow your tactics to the letter but they're always useful. In the hardest part of this mission (and the game) my marines wouldn't follow me from the broken bridge. And all the marines in the big area were dead already! It took me an hour just to crawl through the area on my own, eventually running for my life from the bunkers to the right side, pausing only to do a mental fuel rod wraith kill. Utterly horrific but wanted you to know it's entirely possible even if the game screws you! Keep it up mate anyway:)
22:32 Brute: (*sees Transport Hog) BWAHAHA easy meat...
22:37 Also Brute: (*sees Chief in Rocket Hog)
NOPE...
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I actually managed to get a scenario where I got the troop transport hog,warthog and all the marines alive on a playthrough For keeping the troop transport hog and warthog alive I didn’t get in the warthogs rather I just had them follow me and I consistently equipped them with fuel rod guns and beam rifles so I got the marines in the hogs, plus the marines on the broken path after doing everything in the video correctly and the marines that arrive with the pelican I also managed to get marines in a wraith, two in choppers, a full transport hog, and two regular hogs against the 8 choppers and the wraiths I ended up getting through the whole mission without any marine deaths or any of my deaths it was the most hilarious play through I had
I played H3 on Legendary long before I knew about your guides, and the stress of that battle early on where one Elite has a Fuel Rod Cannon probably took several year off of my life from stress. Cortona? Forget it, this is the hardest mission.
Hey Hokiebird,
I recently discovered your channel and I've replayed all the Halo games using your ideas. I especially like how you use the marines; I always try so hard to keep them alive in spite of all the efforts they make to get themselves killed.
Tsavo Highway is one of my favorite Halo levels because of the mix of vehicle and ground combat and the amazing siege section. Thanks to you, I've been experiencing the level in a whole new way.
I have done a few hilarious play-throughs of this level following your techniques as shown. The last play-through I wanted to see what I could do with the troop transport, after seeing how well it did on its own in your video.
I got through the first few few combat areas at the beginning by swapping back-and-forth between the transport and chain hogs. After I got it loaded up with marines toting beam rifles and a fuel rod, the troop transport really kicked ass. I tried hard to keep both warthogs alive all through the early sections but was never able to do that.
A huge advantage of the troop transport is that you can bring four marines with you to the Broken Path, where you meet two more as soon as you arrive. With a little pre-planning and some creative swapping, this gives you six heavily-armed allies at the beginning of that battle.
One reason I tried so hard to keep both hogs alive was to see if the second hog would follow me through the tunnel after the first chopper fight; that would be an extra three marines.
Even though the troop hog worked really well during the first brute chopper fight, I think that was because the choppers were distracted and the lines of sight were interrupted by obstacles like trucks and buildings. Even loaded up with fuel rod marines, they simply did not react quickly enough to fight off wraiths and choppers in the later portions of the level. I'd get behind a chopper and set up perfect shots for them and they simply wouldn't fire, or would fire too late. Often they didn't seem to notice a chopper unless we were getting shot at, even at point-blank range. After getting killed more than 50 times I gave up and swapped to the chain-gun hog, and finished it pretty quickly.
This was playing on Legendary. Perhaps it would have worked better on lesser difficulties.
Thanks again for your videos and for breathing new life into Halo for me.
My man kept the marines alive right up til the end. Props
"Someone, anyone, please respond!" I heard this so much because I kept dying...
Very old comment, I know. Been playing these games as part of the MCC, So much nostalgia, Your guides have been a huge help for me. I remember struggling as a kid back when I played these. But your guides have been great and are helping me breeze through these games during this Quarantine.
I use to pass the missions by myself but it takes me lot of time and always is comforting watch your videos to know the most efficient way about how I should have done it and also they have helped me too much when definitely I can't pass a mission for example to kill the firts scarab, thanks man.
11:31 F*ck...this...part...
OMG I could NEVER get past this part on Legendary thank you SO much. Everything else was pretty straight forward after that.
The guitar kicks in right when he says "rocket hog" 4:20
Also haha 420 weed number
Im so glad to hear that was the most difficult section in the entire game. It was literally the only part, in any mission in Halo 3 and Halo 3 ODST i couldn't beat on legendary without a guide.
This is one of the most satisfying videos on UA-cam
That Brute is utterly annihilated at 13:06. Talk about a sitting duck LOL
Yet again hockie your vids ate awesome and very helpful and have got me thoroughly the first 3 missions without any struggle.
I thought it was very clever of you to take full advantage of your marine allies, by giving them very powerful weapons they can use to support you to the maximum. I've always thought the marines were useless, but now I realized that if they are properly equipped with effective weaponry, they make a truly formidable ally in the game.
Well done.
I also loved your performance in the game too.
Thanks for the guide. I couldn't follow it exactly but the marine I gave the rocket launcher and the one I gave the sniper made all the difference
Nice memories.. still love this game in 2019! Think I'll go play on the highway again tonight 🤩
hahahahah dude I'm learning mouse and keyboard by replaying halo 3 on legendary annnnnd this is where I got stumped for so long the game gave me a pity checkpoint with less enemies and ammo and I still couldn't progress. Very happy to hear its the hardest fight of the game. Glad you have this walkthrough. This is such a well designed game.
Thanks for this walkthrough, i just couldn t get past this mission and finally after watching this video it worked :D
This mission is fun as hell. Nothing is better than see your marines destroy those covies bastards. It plays like a fps and rts at the same time and I love it. H3 is my game 💚
your walkthoughs helped me with the first 2 missions, going to attempt this tomorrow sometime, thanks alot
Thank you I couldn't get past tsaca highway until I went on this video
Watching this walkthrough coz my marines always die at the final wave of broken path...Also having a full team against those brutes is so satisfying to watch
Out of all 4 games, this is the hardest mission for me. After the road block my marines ran in and got themselves killed every time and to get a checkpoint straight after. Endless restarts !!
I fall in love with you each time you set up a Rocket-hog
Now i understand why this is your favorite mission in Halo 3.
The Broken Path phantoms kind of remind me of a sequence in Gears of War 3. You clear out a mortar nest on a bridge and then, you notice enemy troop carriers in the distance. The carriers are basically giant blimps filled with a fictional gas that I can only assume is lighter than air and highly flammable because one of your squad mates says: “wow, a big, floating target filled with gas! I wonder what we can do.” You’re standing next to a bunch of mortar launchers when he says this.
Oh, I wasn't even talking about that part. I meant the Broken Path Phantoms. Much more green in the air than the Roundabout.
dear hokie thanks for walkthrough. i managed to finish halo 1 and 2 thanks to you. now doing halo 3. on this mission's hold out part, all my marines had died by the time i got that sniper rifle. but i got lucky and just skipped the whole fight by running past them until i got the next checkpoint. when the next checkpoint activated, the game just landed the palecons with the warthhog for me and all the brutes were dead. i did not kill them. weird but it worked. i skipped the hard part.
this halo has the feel of a true adventure where the other ones just feel like a battle
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When I finished this level on legendary I was so releaved because all my marines died before the first phantom even arrived
The one positive thing - conceptually speaking - about Halo 5: Guardians was the allied commands function. That’s one thing I wished the Bungie games had. Allied firepower is such a staple of the Halo combat experience that it’s a shame when the player can’t use it to its full potential. Halo 3 obviously compensated for that by very cleverly designing the encounters but man, can you imagine how awesome it would be if your allies fired on targets you mark? Especially when you’re driving a warthog. Sometimes, my marines just don’t fire on the targets I want them to fire on even when they have a perfect angle.
luckily idrc this mission fun as hell lol keep up the great work hokie!
Funny i was thinking how the holdout section must be one of the hardest in the game, and you mention it. Then you arive at the roundabout and it turns out that's your favorite section of the game aswell haha.
I'm not exactly sure why it's my favorite, but when i think back of the halo 3 campaign back in the days, i picture finally taking down that last wraith!
And it's just fun map design from a non-biased perspective haha
Rod Hogs!
Marines with Fuel Rods!
By the Gods, this mission is just the funnest.
Compare this 2007 game AI to a 2019 Call Of Duty Modern Warfare in which on Veteran the AI just stays behind walls and each enemy on the map shoots only at you, your team never shoots their rifle so it's 100v1 and once you take down everyone and advance the team advances too, but suddenly someone appears and they just pass through them without seeing or shooting the enemy and keep advancing, and of course the enemy doesn't shoot them it shoots you who are 100 meters away. And i don't wanna talk about the granade spawn lel, "how do we keep the players moving?" "let's just spawn 4 granades at their location each time they stop running for more than 5 seconds".
Halo for ever
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Master Chief waiting for the marine
Marine: I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT
I love this part of halo 3, you gotta love being on the highway
The only bad thing about tsavo highway is if your marines die while you are getting a checkpoint and you have to restart the whole mission
Thx again for the tips! Now I've beaten Halo 3 on legendary! Dankeschön from Austria :D
I love that every vehicle,even the Scarab is destructible.Makes the game more realistic.
Lol I remember doing something similar with the marines in a level in halo 2 where you have to rescue marines from a jail cells, I armed them all with convenient carbines and watched them decimate the white elites at the end of the mission.
This was just what I was looking for, thanks!
halo 3 is the perfectly balanced Halo game
One of my marines keeps derping off the bridge. >.< Can't figure out how to get him to not do so.
After over a dozen tries at the holdout section, I got a "perfect" run with 5 marines. The troop transport naturally did not make it to the final area, but after some trial and error I finally got past the final vehicle area. This level was a slog. I just want to thank you for this guide. Had I not found it, I wouldn't have had the satisfaction of watching marines with fuel rod guns tearing the brutes apart. :)
You, sir, are just like this video's difficulty level...legendary.
Mortamer James, I was having trouble just like you. And I'm guessing its because we are having trouble with the flying brutes but I found a solution. Restart the mission from the beginning but DO NOT take the warthog with the chain-gun like Hokie suggests. Drive the transport hog yourself. The reason is that you will have 2 extra marines to help you out. I gave those 2 extra marines beam rifles. By the time I got to the big battle I had 6 marines with beam rifles and fuel rod cannons. The fun part was trying to get them all to jump the bridge. All off them made it except for 1 dumass with a beam rifle who fell off. But that extra fire power definitely paid off and it pretty much played out like Hokie shows in his guide.
Most of the time, the marines don't have enough cognitive capacity to successfully jump over the broken path to get to the other side with their fuel rods. "Herp derp. I r ossim m4r1n3 .H0w does I jump LOL?! XD." - Chips Dubbo, 2552.
I wish there was a walkthrough of my life like this one
"Open your wallet and buy some coffee. It's not necessary but it makes the start of your day way easier"
Love your videos, you really have the strategy nailed. I just hope I can use it. IMO Cortana is the hardest level because of the Flood hell.
Lmao I did this level like a chump with no marine back up on legendary back in 06/07. Awesome guide.
If you lose your Warthog, or your Marine, you revert to your last checkpoint.
man hokee was hittin those turns like he was starring in tokyo drift
Thank you Hokie, i never tried rocket hog but now i do and it works great!
So those marines you said you lost actually survived and helped you kick ass. If you had waited back at the bunker though, sometimes the marines will jump into the wraith, and take out the choppers from a distance, it is rare however
It's funny how I did this slightly differently, I took the larger hog at first and had 4 Marines at the start who all had beam rifles or fuel rods. Same result except all the Marines can't cross the bridge for some reason, one always falls off
Plus the most epic music in the entire game,playing while battling 10 or so choppers and 2 wraiths!
Just did that fight at about 14:00 today without marines because they didn’t survive to that point. I tried for a good half hour before just sneaking into the next area to grab the wraith. The enemies behind me despawned.
I watched your stream for this level. After watching it I had to come watch this to watch to play with the chain gun hog instead of the troop transport
another thing is often you can ignore all opposition until you come across the first barrier as long as you dont screw up the driving.
Wait, you could take over the carrier hog right? Being able to both offensivelly and defensivelly position it yourself would make it super super strong with all the fuel rods (as the one sniper on the carrier would be replaced with another fuel rod from your gunner hog)
Eddie Adams People on Twitch requested that Hokie replace his regular Hog with the Troop Transport Hog. Naturally, it did not work out for him. At all.
***** Naturally? It worked out 10x better for me for the exact reasons i explained.
You can keep the strongest units alive by positioning them, and peek out on the most threatening enemies and keep defensive angles on most other enemies.
Instead of having an a.i(diot). driver go kamikaze
***** If you're talking about a carrier hog with 2 ar's on board, i agree lol, but in this specific mission the carrier hog is godly
Jynx MSC Not according to the footage of his Halo 3 stream.
***** What happened for it to go wrong though? If executed properly it's way stronger according to my own playthrough :P
Hoki I love watching your halo walkthrough ~
My first time seriously playing a Halo campaign on legendary. Have beaten most of the games on heroic no problems. Legendary forces you to get good. Anyways, this level. The part after you ditch the warthog and face all the brutes and the first wraith. My god. Took me 179 minutes to make it through that part but I killed every last fucking brute. That last brute death animation was soooooo satisfying. I died at least 30 times. All my marines were dead after the first wave. I didn't follow any guides. FINALLY found a spot behind a truck trailer where I could snipe them solo with a carbine and a battle rifle. Came to this guide after the fact to see how easy it couldve been. But I wanted to do it on my own first ha
That Wraith fight was so fucking hard. They don't give enough weapons I had to snipe all the brutes and then come in with a plasma pistol to destroy the wraith
Oh and the part in the beginning of the Storm level where you encounter wraith, anti-air wraith, some ghosts and maybe banshees was really painful as well even though with the sniper. I'm willing to see how did you cope with that.
Hmm seems I’ve done everything the hard way when watching this video 😂 I never think about arming my marines with better guns.
My god as much as I love this mission as Hokie does, the broken path holdout section is not fun if you’re marines don’t follow you. More often than not, I’ve seen it happen before where the four marines you had from the warthog and at the beginning of the broken path will not move up with you to the hill where the other marines are and will stay right where the phantom spawns and get obliterated by the brutes with brute shots as well the chieftain with the fuel rod gun. If you get a bad checkpoint at this part, there’s absolutely nothing you can do to keep those marines alive. I’ve also seen it before where the marines at the top of the hill will sometimes all of them are dead by the time you get there. It sucks that in my case it tends to happen a lot and I never really get to experience the awesome firepower
Wow, I never thought the marines could be so powerful!
Did you notice the moment when when your marine ally shot two fuel rods at two choppers, with both hitting each one,and one shotting one of the choppers?
Because that is a good shot by your ally.
Man, Hokie, I can never get past the bunker area because every time my marines die even though I try an support the most in danger. But they end up dead way before the first phantom.
The roundabout in this level was the most infuriating part of my most recent play through of Halo3. I had the rocket hog and kept getting killed. Also I don’t think Halo 3 got vehicles completely right. Better than Halo 2 but the Master Chief should never die first when the vehicle takes fire. I watched my marines live for 5 seconds after I died in the warthog. I know it’s Legendary but come on!
The broken path is fun and dangerous on legendary
Best mission in all of Halo in my opinion
On master chief collection my little brother watches your tutorials of halo 3 and plays on easy mode while following your directions
My marines died, but I managed to use a chopper to kill the driver in a wraith and used the wraith the rest of the mission
3:13 - Gotta' love Broken Gates 2.0!
13:37 nahhhh something happened in this section where all my fuel rod marines where in one spot and a fuel rod gun brute killed them all and the chekpoint was done JUST IN TIME WHEN THE MISSILE WAS LAUNCHED so yeah there was no way i could have saved them and the chekpoint always loaded when the missile was already launched at them
Halo's checkpoint system is total garbage.
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U r the OG my mans
10:11 There is a plasma rifle in that left booth.
I found if your marines die hide behind the two huts at the hard bit. I camped there with grenades , carbine and a sniper i cleared them out in 2 tries but the other tactic is very quick too
Actually, that's where you're wrong. Sniper Rifles aren't useless against vehicles, and a lot of times when the Marines carry them, they'll be able to shoot the driver, not just the vehicle. Ballistic weaponry such as the Warthog's chain gun and the Sniper Rifle have an interesting sort of "stun" effect on vehicles, and make it much easier to land Fuel Rod shots when the two are paired together.
the way I usually do the roundabout, is I destroy everything except the wraith on the highway, then I'll let my marines drive the warthogs around to divert some of the focus from me as I climb up the hill and kill the brute on the plasma turret of the wraith then sneak up on it and jack it for myself. After that, you can drive it to the next area and blast the mortar repeatedly. the brutes wont stand a chance. Just my preference lol. On a side note, I've had this game for almost 8 years and NEVER knew about that sniper at the beginning of the broken path area you used to kill the captain with the fuel rod canon in the beginning lol your walkthroughs are so thorough. Much respect.