Halo 1: "Assault on the Control Room" - Legendary Speedrun Guide (Master Chief Collection) 

"This huge jump save's you about an hour of fighting" Spends 2 hours trying to do the jump

This is Fireteam Zulu requesting immediate assistance from any UNSC forces. Does anyone copy? Over!

“Interesting... the wether patterns seem natural not artificially” Playing over and over again in my head

Halo:MCC Carnage Report: Time: 1 hour 55 minutes Score: -36,937 Deaths: 325 ... and 17 kills! FML

Whoever thought at 343 industries that this mission on average (par time) takes 15 minutes is insane. Even on easy mode you have to book it all the way to get that kind of time.

"Interesting, the ring's weather patterns here seem natural" *banshee noises* HUUUAAAAHHHHHH

every time i land safely from the second jump i just slide right off the edge

Interesting! You want to know what is interesting Cortana, That I can fall half the distance on the other side of the bridge and die but the other side you fall forever and don't die. Perhaps the game is malfunctioning...or if the designers WANTED it to be a pain in the ass.

Thumbs up if that Banshee gave you hell.

1:08 "Where dark becomes light" Sounds deep, man

"Where dark becomes light" except on my TV the that shit is just dark all the way through.

Dying over and over to the bridge jump shortcut is a small price to pay for a entire level of peaceful driving, it’s so satisfying when you finally get it right and can enjoy that 6 minutes of quiet driving after all the power enemies you’ve dealt

That damn banshee on the bridge drop really has it out for me

I tried to bridge method so many times and just can't get it. I've been able to do the first drop, but when I drop the 2nd time, I slide off the mountain.

Two hours and finally got it!! Everyone having problems with the second jump, the key for me at least is to wait a bit longer before turning/turn a bit more slowly because most of the time I was landing short of the little spike that you need to land to not slide off.

The wall jumping part is way too vague. What does, “curve around the mountain” even mean on the second jump?

Does anyone have any tips on the second drop, I cant really see were he lands when he does it, I tried for more than 40 minutes and I succeeded once only to fall off at the jump part.

Will definitely be putting these guides to use to get the "legendary run in under 3 hours" achievements, thanks Eli!

Bro try this trick it’ll make the level go by 10x faster!! *four hours later* You gotta hit the angle just right!!

I am now traumatised by banshees

For anyone needing more help on the bridge drop you can find some good tutorials here on youtube by searching "assault on the control room skip" I also found the first jump off the bridge to be easier going off the other side. You just jump forward about 3-4 feet before you reach the lip.

After 55 minutes, I finally made it. That drive was so calm and relaxing.

I have just done this on legendary using the banshee method from garish goblin. Took a bit of practice but worked

Spent so much time getting to the end and the door is locked.

Several hours and a broken controller later, I finally pulled it off, thanks man!

Mastered this jump in 14mn, pretty happy about it

Could not get the Banshee grab down but managed this after about 10 tries or so. Thanks a bunch!

15 minutes to drop down, I thought I would never do it. glad that's all it took

Watching the video: Alright doesnt look too bad, I got this Reading the comments: crap

There was a time when I got bored at the bridge threw a grenade at my feet and flew down and survived. I sat there for five minutes wondering what happened and why it was so funny. Never could make it happen again.

Can you do a step by step walk through on just the bridge jump please?

whos here for the helioskrill amor?

Wow this turned the nightmare that is this level into a proper walk in a winter wonderland, amazing!

I cracked open a beer thinking I was gonna be doing this awhile. Got it 3rd try. Holy crap.

Dude I manged that landing trick in like 10 min THANKS A TON FOR THIS VID

MCC carnage report: Time: 0:39:14 Score: -12,881 Deaths: 76 Kills: 15 Damn... Made the fall first try and forgot to jump.. then another 70 attempts later I get it.

Following up on my last post. You DO get the achievement for beating par time. I just did it on normal to get through that first section faster. I got it done in 9:01. Thanks again Eli!! That's awesome. Now to beat it on legendary, the normal way.

A breath of fresh air after the warthog launch

Loving the speedruns man. Keep up the good work.

I remember finding this in the original! I can't remember if my neighbor showed me or if we just happened to stumble across it when messing around but it was an awesome bypass method. I'm glad they didn't fix that in the remastering.

I love your videos so much, makes me feel like such a badass completing a halo level in under 10 minutes

It took me 35 minutes of practice from not ever having done that part, to confidently being able to do it. Cheers Eli.

Some great video guides. Still learning how to play Legendary but just did AotCR Leg in a shade over ten minutes. Pretty chuffed with that, nailed second and third parts of bridge-jump first time :O Thanks Eli!

This run is so satisfying to pull off

The longest level in Halo history and he does it in 6 minutes.

Took me 4 tries to get the first jump down every time. After 30 minutes i had gotten the second jump twice (i fell off after walking a bit on the first one :P).

I smile every time I see one of your speedruns pop up in my RU-vid feed. Keep up the good work, man. :)

That second drop was a pain in the ass, but nothing compared with that part on "Silent Cartographer" when you have to launch yourself out of the Hog and go through the damn door

I just did this for the first time on Halo CEA on xbox 360! Took me about 30 minutes. I actually defeated all of the enemies on the bridge APART from the final elite with the sword and his grunts. I also took out the banshee with the a turret. I think that helped me a LOT, not having to avoid the banshee doing the second drop. Really a pain in the ass but such an awesome trick!! I loved going through that landscape with no enemies. I also read that this doesn't work for PAL? Well, it seems it does for Halo CEA on the 360...

took me about a half hour, but i finally got it. Thank you

Just a tip for people having trouble with the bridge jumping, it is easier to do in co-op. Right before the first player makes his descent, have the second player die and if you can get Chief to slide down the bank without dying on Impact, the second player will respawn up there and save you the issue of constantly restarting. Obviously not useful if you're doing a LASO run, but works fine for the 3 hour speedrun achievement.

drop off when dark becomes light, it doesnt let me walk that far

Wow, this was ironically the easiest strat I've learned from you Eli, I don't know why it only took me 3 mins to do it. You're such a great mentor man! Your videos are great as always!

A fun glitch I noticed is that in actuality, you can still get the full level de-spawn half-way through the mission. This is how: In a normal playthrough, you get the tank after getting past the area at the bottom of this first bridge, where the pelican drops off marines. Now, when going across this bridge where Eli drops down, however painful it may be, do not kill the Banshee. Instead progress through the level as normal until you get to the tank. Now once you have the tank, clear out the first 'tank area' where there are like 2 - 3 (maybe 4?, area at 2:17) wraiths in this canyon like basin. Here, there is a natural ramp (as in there is no metal, the ground is just dirt which slopes down, area at 2:30). Go down that ramp and make sure the Banshee comes down with you and starts circling there. Once again, do not kill it. Instead, get out of the tank and try and get it to bash into the wall so that the Elite drops out. It can also help to have the sniping marine from the original location of the tank (the guy who looks like Johnson, he's pretty obvious so you won't miss him) as he can actually snipe the Elite out of his Banshee making the Banshee grab easier. Now after you have the Banshee, continue on with the mission and clear everything in the underground canyon like bit with the bridge, two hunters and such in it (its the part literally right after the sequence I described above, this area at 2:55) with your tank, leaving the Banshee where the Elite fell out of it near the door (this door at 2:39). Once you have done that, run back to your Banshee, get in and fly through the rest of the underground section, all the way to the part where the cave opens up into the next canyon (area at 3:32). When you come out of the cave mouth fly straight up until you get above the butte in the middle of the canyon (this thing at 3:32 which Eli is looking at). At this point you can grab a new Banshee from the top if your original is damaged, but from this point onwards as long as you fly as high up as possible until your reach this bridge (bridge at 4:39), every enemy from that point on should be de-spawned and you can run on through. So if any of you are struggling with the bridge drop and want an easier albeit much slower method then use that. So far it has a 100% consistency rate for me out of the 13 times I've tried it.

Thanks Eli , it took me a while to do the bridge jump but totally worth the effort

ok not bad... this one took me 15 minutes to complete with your strat! The ring's weather patterns here seem natural...

Have I ever told you, the definition, of Insanity?

complete CE 3 and 4 on legendary on the 360 have to do it again for that helioskrill

instructions unclear, broke everything within vicinity

Doing this on PC, finally did it and was pumping fist, walking to my ghost when Mr. Banshee decided to let me down one more time.

I caught on real quick on how to do it. Was a success with getting through the level!

holy shit holy shit holy shit did it first try thanks eli!!!!!!!! come back and make more vids!!!!!! speed running community needs youuuuuuuu!!!!

Finally got that beginning part.

Great tutorial, managed to do it on my 6th attempt. Just be critical with yourself and why you missed it each time you fail and you'll get it

Wow thank you! I stupidly accidentally restarted the mission on legendary at the very end when I had to quit and was so not looking forward to spending an hour and a half to beat it! I was literally at the spot where it gives you the banchee on the snow bridge… Took me 15 minutes to accomplish this!

INTRESTING THE WEATHER PATTERNS HERE SEEM NATURAL

that whole bridge drop explanation was entirely pointless without having it shown on video at the same time as the explanation of how its done

i am now beginning with trying this trick, thx for the tips, the prophets will be done!

Instead of the bridge jump, you can grenade jump onto the pelican that flies past the bridge and it lands near the entry to the underground area thingy

Wow. After all these years, playing Halo from start, I never knew this.

You can skip the bridge jump by jumping off the opposite side and holding forward....

Yes. I just nailed it after failing each drop multiple times. Final time 8:44, not great, but good enough for the achievement! Thanks, Eli!

learned this in 1 hour and completed the level in 9: 50. thanks Nak3d Eli

You can actually steal the Banshee that’s shooting at you which is a lot easier then doing the jump

This shit took me 1 hour to complete but it's worth it definitely my favorite speedrun technic same with the keys mission I came back and did this mission and I can still do the second first try but definitely practice guys this shit looks easy but its gonna take a lot of work

I did a variant of the bridge jump by accident once when I was a young'n. Made it to the ground below. Spent years trying to redo it.

I made it in less than 30 times, thank u Eli

How do you know all those tricks? When and how did you find them? Nak3d Eli

Ooooh really:D well, I've just done that trick after 10 minutes of trying (tried to do something like that for the first time)...I investigated the whole level from above with one of those banshees, I made 2 or 3 my child dreames come true..but than the damn door was closed. I've watched your video again and again and found out that THERE ARE 2 DIFFERENT CASES OF CONNECTED ROOMS in the moment when you leave your banshee. In the first case, when the door is opened, there is a room, with 2 glass bridges and the small passage between these two rooms, also in this case the second room has blocked passage on the left side of it and a big square structure in the middle with sparks above it. In the second case, when the door is locked, the first room is just a room, WITHOUT those glass bridges in the middle, the passage in between is a typical huge doorway, but without the door, it leads to the passage with pillars on the left side of it and than to the second room with a huge 2-floored installation in the middle (there are usually a lot of enemies inside those installations), then the doorway and this locked door:)

I saw a drop that is just off the first bridge like you did to the right. But it is all the way to the bottom. Then you wait for the pelican to come down right near you and then you get in the pelican and it flies you quickly through the first canyon to the first ghost. Saw that about 12 years ago.

Woow I'm trying/practice this for a 40mins and when I put in on legendary and PUM first time! I got 2 archivements. Thanks a Lot

Took me about 10 minutes to get it down pat. Restarted the level and got it in 7:58. Thanks. 💪

That skip glitch is fantastic

This mission took me about 2 hours to complete on legendary.

This is the most boring level ever. Extremely repetitive. They basically copy and pasted the same building interior 8 times

You can snipe the elite out of the banshee because sometimes he gets stuck in the door and then use the banshee through the level and no one will spawn.

Damn I was happy when I finally got that jump down. For that first drop I held the stick all the way up and to the left, kinda North-West if you will, and I hit it pretty much every time. Second part of the drop was harder but I got that eventually. Great video!

Co-op saved my life on the 2nd drop. And after some shenanigans we made the level in 14:58. Par time

After trying and failing for about 45 minutes on normal, I went back and did it in about 6 tries on legendary. Practice is definitely necessary on this one.

If anyone new is coming to the video, there’s a way faster and way easier trick. Look up Garish Goblin’s “Banshee Grab” tutorial and then you’ll beat this mission no sweat

Took me an hour and a half to get it.... But i finally did it! Thankyou!

I did this mission and disconnect instantly as soon as the final cutseen started. That’s why I’m here

Took me about 30 min, but I got it! Thanks for sharing this strategy!

Lets gooo pulled it off took a long time though

After I started the cut scene at the end of the mission I saw Cheif get squished to death by the banshee😂.

There's an easier way of doing the first jump that only takes a few seconds longer; jump off the opposite side of the bridge and hold forward as much as possible, you'll land on a little slope just before you hit the ledge which softens your fall, sometimes completely. You can then move backwards to where you jump off for the second jump.

"literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally...literally, literally"

when i do the part where i fall off of the cliff i die every time... 5 times in a row now. what am i doing wrong? im doing exactly as he does.

what do you mean by dark to light

Thank you SO MUCH!!! After a bit of practice, I got it down in 8:48.