: Damn. Enemies already got a boost to their base damage output in Halo 2, and
: excluding ODST it's stayed at that level every game since. This means
: you're going to be fragile as hell in Halo 5 on Legendary. The
: introduction of "downing" to the series may take the edge off of
: this, but still. We're looking at probably the most powerful enemies in
: Halo history in Halo 5. I'm definitely not attempting this game on
: Legendary the first time. I tried that with Reach and it took me 14 hours
: and I died over 200 times, so I think I'm going to ease into things first
: to enjoy the story. Heroic for my first playthrough it is, then.

Yep that concerns me as well, but we'll see. If Blue Team/Osiris are actually effective versus Noble Team, it won't necessarily be a big issue except maybe modifying speed running strategies.

I do wish that difficulty wasn't based so much on making you weaker or boosting enemy damage and such though. Sure, things like firing faster or more accurately have an ultimate end result of increasing difficulty, but they feel a little less cheap (in Reach, for instance, I was constantly frustrated that Elites would almost always 1HK you with their kick melee, which meant for all practical purposes, melee was a useless tactic on higher difficulties.)

I'd much rather have a difficulty curve where on higher levels Elites were more aggressive, or Grunts would be more likely to swarm you, or Jackals would strafe around the terrain and flank you. Something where it felt less like the developers are just amping the difficulty via a button (I have similar complaints with some of the skulls, as well, but since they're optional they don't bother me that much.)