Quote Originally Posted by ejburke View Post
Elites should never be able to survive a sniper shot to the face. Any class, any difficulty. It just shouldn't happen. The Halo 1 Elites were the high water mark. On Legendary, just about every weapon worked on them, yet they were still bad-asses to be feared. Elites in Reach... it's like they hacked the game in their favor or something.
The Elites in Halo 1 were jokes until they started berserking. I think the Sniper made them too easy, which is why people thought they were so fun. The Elites in Reach can survive one sniper round to the face, but the second one will finish it unless it's a Zealot, which takes three shots (two anywhere and one on the face). I think it makes a LOT of sense in making sure the player can't just clear away a bunch of enemies like they're just targets; this is the problem I had with Halo's 1, 2, and 3.