Halo 2 - Save All Marines On Regret & Bring Them To The Boss Fight 

A moment of silence for those who always restarted missions and checkpoints to save the Marines/Friendly Elites, only for them to die at the end of every mission.

I remember bringing two marines to regret boss fight, I was so absorbed by that task, keep them alive, that I forgot how the mission ends, I was protecting them to give them a uglier death... I felt so bad after that...

I always keep my marines alive in regret and all my odst and marines too in delta Halo, it's just so satisfying to make it to the end with the entire gang. I just love keeping all my allies alive till the end

Halo 1 Marines: We’ll hold here. You move on ahead. Halo 2/3/ODST/Reach Marines: Follow you to the end. Halo 4 Marines: Just forget about us. Halo 5 Marines: New Phone, Who this?

I'm surprised more people didn't ever attempt this lol, I tried this when I first played Halo 2 and it's very possible on at least Normal difficulty. Had to reload quite a few times but I managed to do it solo.

Here’s a real challenge: Get all the Marines to the Mausoleum on the Gravemind. Did it once, could never do it again...

You’re lucky, kinda rare to get Sgt. Stacker as a marine follower out of the two at the start.

*The player:* Trying to save both Marines and Elites. *The Campaign:* You're only delaying the inevitable.

"You don't want to give the marines rocket launchers" Oh yes you do! Give them both rockets with Sputnik on, those two marines are going to juggle Regret...if they don't blow themselves up first. Also question: Does Regret have like, actual "health"? There have been a lot of instances where I'll jump on his chair, and without punching him, he'd just die. I know the "Demon" is scary, but you'd think a Hierarch of the Covenant would be a little brave and not die of fright.

It’s always puzzling to me when people never arm them with snipers or rockets, fuel rods on legendary help so much.

You should try to get out of the map on daytime missions in ODST and see if you can find other ODST pods like Dare's or Rookie's.

A spartan just ditching marines to die from glassing really paints a different picture than what I think Bungie was going for

Me & The Boys committing Heresy

Would've been the cherry on top if you see the marines naruto-running behind Chief in the end. Wasted potential. Still canon

Keeping marines alive is why It takes me over an hour to complete one mission

I get so attached to them...

I keep landing the episodes right as they release, thank god for fixing my sleep schedule. also good morning

You can do this solo on H1 - H3 legendary on every missions where marines follow you. I remember having 11 marines at the end of Assault of the Control Room in H1 (the part where the tank spawns is the most difficult for saving them). Also in Gravemind (H2) all 6 of them rock in the last part where elites and brutes are fighting if you give them fuel rods. Good memories.

I’ve done this a few times without even trying too much to keep them alive or without them getting stuck. I didn’t realise it was a challenge to keep them alive

That one guy who wants a 30 minute video

I do this almost evry time Although iv never had problems with them following me

GeneralHeed next week "today we figure out if Marines can board the Prophet of Regrets throne-"

chief throws a marine over each shoulder "i'm NOT gonna let that happen"

I did not know that abnormal for them to survive that long cuz every time I've played this mission they've survived to the very end but refused to get off the gondola

I mean, even if they die, in each pelican drop, you'll get new marines,

That should of earned you an achievement and a very rare mettle called "Livestock."

I wonder if thr covenant ships that come out of slip space are just a bunch of minature models and they are just right above the tower

Headcannon

I’m my youth I always brought them to the fight now a days when ever I play this again they always die in the boss fight by honor guards Besides in the boss fight I heard Cortana saying “there are to many honor guards what your back” and it felt like multiple waves of honor guards came at me

Here's an idea for a video: Can you save all of your allies from beginning to end?

Wished there was dialogs during cutscene or something to show the marines survive but are taken out by covenant or flood in Halo 1 to 3

That same room with the hunters and the giant hologram always killed my marines. I never thought this was possible

Yet again another great video

I managed to get all the freed marines through alive on Gravemind Legendary. The key is to give them all beam rifles and let them stay at a distance. there actually kind of useful on legendary with beam rifles.

Fun fact. Having the mythic skull on also doubles allies' health, so it's easier to keep them alive.

"not sure if people wanna see a half hour video" *YES WE DO*

I kept my marines alive until the very end with the Regret boss. I always feel some sort of duty to help my marines in halo games

lmaooooo started laughing when i saw the title, i think we all tried to save some marines at some point, but not all of them

0:28 "the marines arent very helpful" Joshsiwasepl who had the help of those marine the entire half of the mission: are you sure about that

i always loved bringing allies with me to places they didnt' belong

Maybe in canon once the gondola arrives at the temple, the marines head back to be picked up by a pelican.

oh yes 4:12 the art ofTbagshooting.

Good soldiers never leave a man behind

It's incredibly impressive, the way this game works cutscenes.

My buddy and I did this once. One marine almost made it to the end and the other one died at the end.

I used to play this way with one of my brothers during summer holidays, all night long saving marines. Good times

This warms my heart.

Halo reach How to save the trooper car in oni:sword base

I’ve never really had any problems with this, although I haven’t played MCC Halo 2 Anniversary in a while. I play on Project Cartographer.

In the original halo 2 I would always get them to follow me until the end. It was in MCC (from my experience) where the marine AI just broke.

On Delta I kept my Marines alive, even gave one a Rocket Launcher and surprisingly he didn't blow him self up and was really effective against Elites. Reach is the game I really try keep my troops alive, if one Army trooper dies I restart.

I've actually managed to get both the guys to the end on Heroic and Legendary before. It's pretty fun when you manage to keep them alive!

I think I was one of the few layers that would give a Marine a beam rifle or a grunt a fuel rod cannon. I don't know why everyone hates it, NPCs have infinite ammo.

Would it be possible to increase the marine AI intelligence and make them more helpful and more likely to survive on harder difficulties

“ the Marines don’t survive the...” I SAID WE LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND TODAY.

I've tried it many times and have kept them alive as much as possible

When I was a kid: Kill them ALL! Me now: The Master Chief will protect you.

u get two replacements after the Hunter fight and again once u exit the gondola

I always get sad when marines die and especially when grunts die when you play as the Arbiter :(

One thing I've noticed from the classic Halo 1 and 2 and the MCC versions is that marines will follow you much further and more easily in the Xbox version vs the MCC. I got annoyed in the MCC on Outskirts and Gravemind where the marines wouldn't follow you very far past where you initially meet them where in the Xbox version on Gravemind, the marines will easily follow you to the final room.

For those who want the marines to stay alive, first you have to go alone towards the prophet's fight when you have to go in a kind of boat, 2:05 go on your own and leave the marines alive there and go alone there, leave the marines, nothing will happen to them and you think that they were evacuated

If I remember right, there is even a "hidden dialogue" if those two marines are with you right before the last gondola ride. I remember not hearing it with the "reinforcment" marines you get in that area. They have to be marines from the beginning of the level.

Man what you talking about, marines are extremely helpful on Legendary or heroic, they just need appropriate weapons

I've had it where one marine will walk out of the elevator right as you push the button, drives me nuts.

Those are literally the 2 best marines in the game. Loved their quips.

master chief: (arrives to gunfight ) Marines: I’m in danger

More saving all marine videos please!

I did this multiple times, they would always walk off the gondola if I tried to push them on so I only ever saved one

Is this like the Mandela effect? Because I've gotten those marines to regret all the time(on the lower difficulties).

Keeping allies alive in the flood outbreaks are always the hardest for me.

I did this a couple days ago! The level has tons of UNSC power weapons so its really fun if you give them rockets and snipers

In Gravemind level, the marines always seem to become missing

Fun fact: the marines getting stuck later in levels is exclusive to mcc. For some reason ai lose their path finding right before load zones and won't continue until you go back to them. It's very inconsistent on mcc, sometimes they follow you through out a level just fine, others may need 2 load zone like the dual needler elite on great journey.

Unlike in Halo 1 where you couldn't give em other weapons, in Halo 2 your allies can be super useful if you can give powerful weapons like sniper rifles or explosive weapons like rocket launchers or fuel rod cannons. They help SO much in this mission if you're able to give em that, especially at the start of the mission if you managed to keep a rocket launcher transitioning from the Delta Halo mission.

Oh I've saved these Marines many times, it's no easy though. I usually just give them a sniper and a shotgun and switch it for a BR in open areas

It would have been funny, if such an achievement would include a secret cutscene of a marine trashtalking the Gravemind...

Surprised you didn’t mention the specific dialogue you get when Chips Dubbo is one of your marines, I know of two areas and the second requires that he be alive through the whole thing with another specific marine. Giant Regret hologram in submerged area “oh man he is so dead” Second gondola “we’re riding another one” “would you rather swim mate” (need confirmation haven’t been lucky with my marine rng never get chips)

When I was I kid playing the Halo games I always tried to keep the marines alive. I would reload last checkpoint no matter what if I lost even one. I’m now 25 years old and I’m still doing that whenever I replay a mission.

as a kid in halo 2 and 3 i would intentally do this on every level, especially the arbiter levels in halo 2

On headlong in halo 2 there’s a climb able pillars in the building all the west at the end of the right side where the water starts

I’ve actually had them survive to the part with the hunters quite a few times without breaking my back to keep them alive. But yeah, I’m pretty sure I remember being unable to get them to follow further Edit: this is wrong, I remember (at least once) seeing them in the cutscene where chief gets off the gondola. I actually think I remember one living the boss fight or at least having an ambiguous fate, while the other one got smoked by a guard elite instantly.

Now save all the marines on floodgate and bring them to the end, it’s pretty fun

Generalkidd: I keep my marines alive Mint blitz: I leave them behind Me meanwhile: hey give me your gun Marine: wha no- (Melee noise)

When I did my solo Legendary playthrough on MCC a few months ago I had them both with me. I had them go rocket launcher and beam rifle once we were out of the first indoor-bridge-indoor section. I never had issues with them getting trapped by buggy pathing in the room with the hologram so I'm not sure what that's about, and I borrowed the rocket launcher to take out the phantom guns in the one spot so those weren't an issue for me. I was surprised they both made it through - I was obviously trying to fight with them and protect them, but I would have carried on if they had died - but there they were outside Regret's little hall in the cutscene. Actually for a relatively casual H2 Legendary run (emphasis on relatively) I was surprised how well that level went for me on the whole up to that point. First attempt to get Regret, I was in there fighting and a sword-wielding honor guard charged across the room at me. I took his shields out with two or three fuel rods and then killed him with a closeup BR headshot, but before he even hit the floor, his body got nailed by a rocket that sent my body flying. After a string of spectacular deaths by friendly rocket, I realized that the marines had no plans of advancing at all. They were staying up high by the entrance door and simply blowing away anything that moved, so I had to readjust my tactics to stay the hell away from any Covenant footsoldier the rocketeer had a line of sight on. Once I figured that out though, this fight I had been dreading since the beginning of Delta Halo turned out to be astonishingly easy. The marines spawnkilled probably 80% of the Covenant that showed up before I even saw them, so all I had to do was stay out of the way, handle any Elites that got past the meat grinder, and beat the space cripple to death. 9/10 would recommend rocketeer marine.

Sometimes I bring them as close to the end as possible but because i know what fate awaits them I'll run ahead and get into the last underwater transport before they can catch me. Unfortunately sometimes they'll still follow and drown

I remember doing this younger and me and my friend doing everything we can to keep them alive.

Yea especially on Gravemind, marines put in some serious work on legendary if you can keep them alive. Hokiebird's hour long walkthrough of gravemind is amazing to watch and very helpful.

I believe they dont engage Regret very enthusiastically because he's a vehicle. Maybe with rockets?

I used to do this over and over again on Halo as a kid. I would restart checkpoints constantly.

Reminds me of the time i saved 5 guards in half-life. I used the scientists to keep guards alive and picked off evil soldiers 1 by 1 with my army of guards

I actually got one down there into the right once, I was angry when the cutscenes played and basically showed them dying

That is what i always do, on every playthrough i always save those that i can..i never leave a marine behind

I love trying to save the Marines, and elites on halo 3, I remember seeing a marine on halo 3 trying to drive a chopper and I tried my hardest to save them

I would watch a half hour of it

I did this and they would just stay outside of the room screaming insults at the elites

Lets just say an Oni Prowler picked up the marines but didn't have the time to grab Chief too before the glassing

For clarification, both Regret and Guilty Spark shoot the host until they die then they attack co-op partners, I found this out doing halo 2 and 3 laso, not sure about ai though.

I've tried modding each mission to make all allies invincible (10k health, body recharge fraction of 1, recharge delay/time of 0.1; same as Johnson and Miranda), and it amuses me how there are some missions where they clearly didn't expect you to have surviving allies at the end. Obviously something like Regret, well sometimes you just gotta admit that they can't outrun a carrier's glassing cannon, but others like Delta Halo or Outskirts they sorta just run to the end of the mission and then stand around. Other missions like Quarantine Zone though, where the Elites are pretty survivable during the Gondola, they will actually tell you they'll stand and guard the Gondola because "this vessel may be our only means of escape". Like they clearly didn't trust the Brutes, and I'll bet they all got slaughtered as soon as Arbiter got the Index.

I did this, without even knowing it. I relized it when i was at the boss fight and one threw a grenade, at me

been there done that! In that room at @1:50 an easy way to do it is to have them lured to an enemy that's on the other side