The Truth and Reconciliation (Level): Difference between revisions

'''[[Cortana]]:''' "We're in. I've got a good lock on the Captain's [[Command Neural Interface|CNI transponder]]. No Covenant defenses detected."  

'''[[Cortana]]:''' "This looks like the ship's command center. The [[Jacob Keyes|Captain]]'s transponder signal is strong, he must be close."

''When the Chief comes across a full detention center..''  

'''[[Cortana]] (O.S.):''' "One moment, sir. Accessing Covenant battlenet. (Pause) According to the data in their networks, the ring has some kind of deep religious significance. If I'm analyzing this correctly...they believe that Halo is some kind of weapon. One with vast, unimaginable power."  

This level can be one of the most fustrating levels, let me give you an overview. You start off with a Sniper Rifle, one of the weapons a Halo Player would love and loathe in equal measures. Foehammer will drop you down somewhere near the Truth and Reconciliation, and you must venture into the ship to save Keyes's sorry butt.  

Continuing, snipe the Grunt in the Shade, then go for the [[Jackal]] next to him. Move your sights down, and blow away these few Grunts that stick their behinds around the sheltering rocks. Eventually, an Elite will show up. Proceed to dispose him off the cliff, then when things stop popping up like gophers move in a little.

There are two Grunts on the far right side of the upper ledge. Aim for one of them, then quickly move your sight down. A Major Elite will be hiding in a little corner there. Time to practice No-Scoping, right through the heart to take care of the shields, the a quick melee to finish him.

There may be a Shade with a Grunt Gunning it on the upper ledge. Take him out before your Marines wake the rest up. Once he's down move your zoom to the other ledge, where there is always an Elite keeping guard. Sometimes he's walking; most of the time he's running, so this is a slightly tricky shot, but you can do it.  

Once your back at Sniping spot #2, take a moment to access the situation. You have just sniped a whole Gulch-load of Covenant. Think you're done? WRONG! Move across the natural bridge, and keep you zoom on the patch of rocks and trees where your very first Active Camouflage power-up is at. As the music starts, an Elite will step out of his hiding spot; Take him down. Then, turn around, switch to your Assault Rifle, and shoot the Grunts that are down there. After they're gone, keep moving across the bridge to find a hidden squad of Grunts engage your Marines. Flank them, and the Gulch is yours.

Alright, you have forty-five seconds to quietly kill as many Covenant as you can. Creep to the ledge across from the Active Camo, and drop down. A Minor Elite and a Major, followed by a group of grunts will rush out. Drop a grenade on the Major's helmet and assassinate the Minor. Hey look, the grunts are running. Stick one's face, and watch them get blown sky-high. Pull out your sniper and pop a bullet through the gunner above you and creep forward. There's a Minor patrolling the area in front of you. You don't need to scope for this-just pop his face open. Now a dropship and an onslaught of Covenant are coming in. Shoot the dropship's load (the covenant reinforcements from the gravity lift won't come through until you've killed the jackals from the dropship, so aim for them AFTER the grunts), and grab the Shade near where you came through to the gravity lift area (since the Covenant troops will have to go up the hill to where you are to attack you, thus bottle-necking their attack.) Open fire on the Gravity Lift and kill the Covenant as they come up the hill to attack. Your Marines will take care of the stragglers.

As soon as they are dead, scour the place for ammo and grenades. Remember to take the frags from the dead marines because you'll need them. You may notice that the graphics in this game aren't exactly top notch (though they are pretty good for a 2001 game), but there are some scenes which just leave you staring at the breathtaking view, like the arc of the Halo extending over the sky, the ending cinematic, the silent cartographer level, the first level, the huge chasms and gorges, large indoor outdoor scenes, ice bridges, flood-covenant battles, Halo's Control Room, the light bridges, Proto-gravemind, the crashed Piller of Autumn at "The Maw", etc, etc.  

Sometimes, energy sword elites will come inside after you, pull out your sniper rifle and put a few rounds in him. Try not to go for plasma grenades as they'll run up to you thus killing you both, though it does occasionally work without substantial harm to you.

Once the fight is over a big door will open and a Hunter pair will jump out. Go and get the Active Camo from behind the crates, go around the hunters and put one sniper bullet each through the orange area on their backs(you're invisible, this will be easy). The area where they came from is sealed off, you'll have to use the other gate.  

Now there's a few more hallways and then you'll come across a dropship bay with one Spirit dropship docked and one casting off anchor.

Worst case scenario: They split up and one comes through around each side of the middle platform, in which case it's gonna be tough because they've surrounded you from both sides and there's very little cover that'll protect you now. So, try to lure them through ONE SIDE on first contact. As soon as they're just around the curve, run as fast as you can to the other side( a whole lap around the platform), sniper rifle in hand, and you'll be looking at their backs, hit the orange part of their backs from behind with the rifle. He'll drop dead in one shot if you hit the orange spot. Now the other will realize he lost his bond brother and come after you, repeat the same trick and go around the platform and shoot him from behind. In the best case scenario, it should be a 1-shot 1-kill deal in a row.

Instead, whip out your sniper rifle and shoot them from where you are. When they're dead collect plasma grenades and walk to the middle platform. As soon as you hear the sound of the door opening, throw your entire load of plasma grenades at the enemy and back off to a good distance behind the middle platform (not near the door though on the other side though). Use your sniper rifle to finish off the survivors of the plasma barrage(if there were any). Now more covenant(an Elite and a squad of grunts) will come out and trap you in the middle.  

If there are any survivors on the other side(where you threw the plasma grenades), then you have been surrounded and as I said before, Enemies on Legendary rarely miss.

In this case, jump down onto one of the crates below(to prevent fall damage) and restock your dwindling ammo(there are two dead marines near the door Cortana opened) and go back all the way up, sniper rifle in hand. You will catch them off-gaurd, it should be very easy so go trigger happy with your sniper rifle, there's lots of ammo downstairs.  

Now here comes a tricky part, the ship's command center, otherwise known as the Bridge. There's some health and ammo to the hallway on your left, take it if you need it.  

Now for the tough part, there's 2 major elites, a zealot and 6 grunts over here. So run and gun isn't an option. Pull out your AR and run into the room and melee the nearest sleeping grunt. Then run like hell. Go back to the previous area, the game should give you a "loading... done" message. It'll unload the previous area from it's memory and load the new one. Now go back, the covenant won't remember you because their AI was unloaded from the memory, so you can do multiple surprise attacks this way by going back and forth between loading areas. It gives a considerable advantage.

Now move into the next area to the brig, there should be two brig areas. One has no gaurds and no live marines either, but lots of much needed supplies.

The other one holds Keyes and 3 other marines. There's multiple Zealots and Jackals gaurding them. Mostly invisible. Though they shouldn't be a problem.

Free them and watch the cutscene. As soon as the cutscene ends, two more invisible elites with plasma rifles will come through. They are quite capable of killing Keyes and most of your marines if left to run their course so shoot them with your sniper rifle the moment they open the door.

Open the door and kill the two Jackals. Now fill up on your sniper ammo. You're leaving this area so fill up on everything you can. Now there's a fairly formiddable group of Covenant that have an advantage in their position and availability of cover. There is an empty hallway between you and them, with absolutely no cover. Use all your frag grenades on them to scatter and disorganise them and charge in. Remember to take the lead so your marines and Keyes will have less chance of dying. Once you've broken this group's lines, the rest is fairly easy all the way back to the Bridge.

Once you get to the door leading to the Bridge there will be two invisible elites with energy swords. Wait untill the walk by eachother to take them both out with a single sniper rifle shot.

Run to the back of the room(there are no doors on that side) and wait for them to finish talking. When the music starts, the Grunts are coming. They'll focus on throwing grenades and will take all your fire without answer. Remember, losing Keyes is mission failed. These Grunts are the Covenants best bet at taking him down, so stay away from the grunts.

You've killed 3 Hunter pairs(4 counting end cutscene), 18-20 Zealots, 30+ Elites(Majors and Minors), atleast 4-5 dozen Jackals and 70+ Grunt(including the enemies on the ground as well as in the ship) at a loss of around 15 marines(on Herioc and below, you get more reinforcements then Legendary, so that should be around 25).

*If you grab the Cloaking in the empty brig, then go into the Captains brig and kill all except the Zealot and hit the switch, your marines will get out and run around, occasionally stretching their arms out to their sides and standing still for a few seconds. This is due to the fact that there is no animation for the marines, so they just go into their default NPC position. This is due to a glitch. Also, Keyes will be invincible while the remaining Zealot can kill the frozen Marines.

*There was a bug earlier in the development of the game in which Keyes had AI behavior which was "taunt enemy corpse" and when he picked up a Needler he would fire it into a dead [[Covenant]] soldier, which would explode and kill himself. This bug was described by [[Joseph Staten]] on the [[Halo 3]] Legendary Edition Bonus Disc.

*There was a level cut from the final game that necessitated the cutscene in which the Master Chief frees Captain Keyes and the marines. The level, in a more elegant way, described the theory about Halo. This was explained by Joseph Staten on the Halo 3 Legendary Edition Bonus Disc.

*At the last cutscene when [[Keyes]] runs over the [[Hunter]]s you can hear a [[marine]] say ''nice one sir'' if you have marines survivng at the end.

*If all your marines except one are killed, then if you walk up to him he will say,"It's just you and me, Chief!".

*Truth and Reconciliation is most likely one of the only levels to have a cutscene for if you fail to complete the objectives.