Okay, this isn't so much a trick as a failed attempt at one. Like many players taking their first spin on the wheel of pain that is Halo 2's Legendary difficulty setting, I got hung up on the second hangar bay. All my marines were dead, all my weapons empty, all my grenades gone, and there were still about a half-dozen Elites pacing back and forth behind the portable shields. One of them wielding a sword. [image:8926 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] I tried arming the Marines in the room with better weapons: plasma rifles, battle rifles. No apparent effect. I tried using the plasma cannons on the upper balcony: out in the open, though, you only last a couple of seconds, which wasn't enough to take out a significant number of Elites. Running away is no good because the passageways in the floor to the next area don't open until you kill everything in the room. [image:8925 right hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]At last what I figured I needed was more firepower; and thinking back it occurred to me that I knew where to get it: the beginning of the level, which was positively teeming with weapons and ammo. [image:8928 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]But how to get it? The door to the Commons area closes and locks once you head towards the first hangar bay. So what I'd have to do would be start the level over, and carry all those weapons down to the door past Commons before going into the hangar. Simple, right? Sure. Simple and tedious. I don't know how long it took, although for the dual-wieldable weapons it is fairly simple. It's a relatively easy process to take, say, a plasma rifle and a plasma pistol back to the weapons racks at the beginning of the game, swap the PR for a BR, and the PP for an SMG, and then dual-wield a second SMG. Then I run down to Commons, drop the second SMG and swap the first SMG for another PP and the BR for a PR. [image:8927 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]After quite awhile, I built up an impressive-looking pile of weapons just outside the Commons area, before the stairwell leading to the first hangar bay. However, to my shock and dismay, once I moved towards the bay and triggered the checkpoint that locked the door behind me, most of the weapons, specifically the human ones, had disappeared. [image:8929 right hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]