Halo Reach Weekly Challenge & Commentary – w/c 27th June
27/06/2011 101 Comments
This week’s challenge is below, click Read More to view the commentary:
Fleet Feet – Complete any Campaign mission on Legendary in 12 minutes or less – 10000 cR
Commentary follows after the break…
Easy, easy, easy. In fact I would challenge most of you to do this in 6 minutes.
Nightfall, speed run. I’ve picked this video off Youtube randomly, but there are hundreds like it. In fact we have further options and details on the time we did it in LASO on this Weekly Challenge page and comments. There are other levels you may be more familiar with, but honestly, you can do this in 5-6 minutes with minimal stress.
Update – JustHawkeye has confirmed that this HAS to be done Solo, not Co-op. Shouldn’t change the advice – just do the Nightfall run solo then hand over to your gaming buddy to do the same.
This is good for us so we can spend less time grinding (hurr hurr) and more time enjoying the spontaneous heat wave that’s gripped this part of the UK, with temperatures around 30 c (85 f) yesterday.
Game Night this week is likely to involve the newest additions to the playlists, Premium and BTB All Stars. We’ll be updating the hub page later on today so keep your eyes peeled for details there. And we’ll be starting out planning for the 7/7 Game Night where we’ll hopefully get some 4 person squads going in to try and take on* Bungie employees.
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Eh, Nightfall is too easy to do it on. I think I’m going to push myself to get a Legendary speedrun on Tip of the Spear instead.
Yeah screw nightfall. I’ll just do it on LNOS or POA…
I did it in 11:35 and it did not give me the challenge. However I did it on Multi-player is that why?
Yes, if you see the update in the post it seems this has to be done solo. It’s still dead easy to do in Nightfall using the speed run.
Why make yourself suffer. Get the 10k in 6 minutes, then use the time in arcade and rack up 6k in points.
i see RDC has hit 800,000 hits!!
does anyone know if nightfall glitch could be done in coop??and how long it would take??
today im reaching rank of legend finally.. need another 15,000 credits and im buying the last attachment for security helmet
Nightfall CAN be done on Co-Op, but I don’t recommend it. Any time I’ve done it on Co-Op and use the forklift glitch, all of the enemies spawn on the other side of the door. On solo, they don’t and you can just breeze through it.
ye,even if enemies spawn there, is it still possible to kill them and finish mission under 12 mins???
Micko – if you and your brother just take it in turns to do this, it would still be quicker than doing it co-op.
That’s going to depend on how good of shots you and your teammate(s) are, and how quickly you get to that point in the first place. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but remember the difficulty scales depending on how many people you’re playing with.
I don’t think the glitch can be done in co-op, i’ve tried it a few times and the enemies always spawn on the other side
You can still get through the door, which is the glitch, on Co-Op. I’m not sure what causes the enemies to spawn in Co-Op but not in Solo though.
Anytime the enemies spawned on Co-Op it was usually because we, a)all crossed the bridge to the gate, b)shot at the enemies just before the gate, or c)took too long to glitch through the gate. I remember doing this twice without the enemies spawning in a 4 player Co-Op, but it seems to be much harder to do the glitch without enemies spawning now.
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Yep nice and easy Nighfall run, just right for me this week as between sun and festivals I’ll have little time for gaming. So now off I trot outside for a bit of sunshine. It’s so damn hot, milk was a bad choice.
this is absolutley the easiest weekly challenge that has been offered. Do winter conyigency with whatever skulls that you prefer, and go until you reach the very end. then save and quit and start again. And your timer will restart so you can finish the level in 5 seconds!! i also put scoring to- “free for all”. I just got the weekly within 15 minutes of seeing it!
Not quite – a few weeks ago there was a challenge to complete a Campaign mission in under 15 minutes. This one is 3 minutes tougher!
And regarding your method – Nightfall is SO much easier. You can complete the entire level in under 4 minutes without having to save and quit at any point.
And the last one you had to have Black Eye on as well.
i think what he meant was you can take as long you want to make the winter contigency, and at the end save and quit, then resume the campaign mission and timer will reset, so you may take maybe 2 mins to kill the elites and done
haha, your right scruff uk, my bad
Finishing Winter Contingency takes around 15 minutes on a fast run. Even though you’re only being counted for the last minute or two, your actual time spent in front of the Xbox is still going to be upwards of 15 minutes.
Finishing Nightfall takes around 5 minutes on a slow run.
FATALITY. Nightfall wins
^ that was at Micko. Curse you Vast Archangel and your swift replies
mickoboy90, your right. and it also has the benifit of being the easiest to complete without dying, so if you choose you can do every objective and kill all the enemies and still get the challenge.
Winter Contingency can be done in under 12 minutes on a fast run, it’s easier than last time as there’s no blackeye this time which was a pain for running past enemies. That’s how I plan on getting this rather than glitching nightfall
well it appears I’m way too late to post my tip for this challenge. Its already been posted, discussed, critiqued, joked about, and then discussed again. But yes I must agree, easiest 10,000 credits earned in a long time (since I already had a Legendary campaign save at the end of a mission).
DONE & DONE!!!! Did a really fast 8:58 run on WC last night, even managed to start off the Flawless Cowboy and Demon glitch while still getting the weekly.
Dear me, this is easier than expected. Bit lame that it’s basically a repeat of one we had a few weeks ago though; isn’t it about time that we had another Dedication / Time challenge? They’re my favourites…
So, Nightfall then.
Yes the forklift thing still works.
No the enemies don’t spawn on the other side (unless you’re really slow at doing the glitch).
Although this will only take me 5 minutes, I still think I’m going to wait to do it until I can combine it with another Campaign challenge on a different day (such as ‘complete a mission with the [x] skull on’). 10,000 cR would be nice, but it’s not like I’m anywhere near close to ranking up or having enough cR for my next purchase (for a shoulder piece I don’t even want, grr). So it can wait a few days.
Hi, been reading this blog for a while so thought i would start posting. I just did Nightfall on Legendary like normal but the enemy’s behind the gate had spawned when i got there , which has never happened to me before. Does anyone know if this just sometimes happens or is it possible that they’ve patched it?
It’s not been patched (I did it yesterday with no problems) – you just took too long to glitch through the gate. You’ve got to get through the gate before Jun says a particular line of dialogue. It happens sometimes
Just re-start the mission, or run through the last section and hope you don’t get killed.
Okay cheers, i got through the gate first time but i did die a few times earlier on so thats probs why then. Will just try it again.
i tried doing it on nightfall i go a couple of minutes in then got to a big open area and just kept on dying the elites just follow you and kill you instantly
Whereabouts? Do you mean the part between two buildings, relatively near the start? If so, that’s the one place I used to have problems with, the easiest thing to do is leave the first building, wait until Jun starts shooting or mouthing off at the Covenant, then sprint through to the next building and up the stairs.
You know that you’re supposed to run through the whole thing without firing a single shot, right? You’ve watched the video guide?
The faster you can kill the grunt on the turret (and run before that elite beside him can jump off the ledge), the easier it is.
You can then slow walk the rest of the mission, and take in the splendid evening scenery.
Aaaaaand done. Tip of the Spear in 10 minutes: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=671662037&player=Sergeant%20Jinto
No way!
I honestly thought you wouldn’t have done it so soon!
I read your last post and was just like ‘naahhh he won’t do it!’
Way to prove me wrong
Jinto likes to prove people wrong.
crazy man went out and did a flawless skirm game just because i told him he couldn’t do it. harrumph.
Darn straight! I love a good challenge.
you sir, are nuts. Flawless Skirmageddon?! Crap I can’t even get through a whole game of that!
Wait how do we know you didn’t just go through most of the mission save and quit and then continue and make it look like you did the whole mission?
Jinto doesn’t lie, it’s legit.
I still have the last checkpoint in New Alexandria saved from yesterday, so I think I’ll just load from there and do it that way. Challenge done in about 2 minutes.
Nice, I wondered if anyone would still have that there!
Yeah, it was a lucky break.
Holy crap dude! Thanks! That never crossed my mind. That’s why I love this blog!
Hey Niisama – you might have noticed that your comments don’t always appear. They often come through marked as spam so won’t be posted. Current theory is because a number of your early comments had a few links in them they were caught then, and Akisment (the spam filter) ‘learned’ that you were a spam junkie.
We’ve been trying to find a way to easily undo this, but it doesn’t seem to exist.
Snickerdoodle and I will mark your comments as not spam in future so it should re-learn that you’re an okay person, so don’t worry about commenting several times to try and get one through.
Ok Matthew. Thanks for the explanation. I was beginning to wonder about that myself and began thinking I was marked somehow for spamming. lol I noticed it started a few days ago after I tried posting a link multiple times. So that was the cause.
When I noticed the comments weren’t posting I started just to copy/paste what I wrote back in. Now I get a message saying my comment(s) is a duplicate; so I figure I just wait for it to post.
I’m guessing at least 80 percent of the gamers who own Reach knows about speed running through Nightfall. With that being said, I can’t believe Bungie would still come up with such an easy challenge. Oh well… thanks, Bungie. lol
Need help. Online right now GT: Robert Swift
any tips? or anyone want to give it a shot with me?
No offense, but do you really need help with THIS challenge? Just do a level normally, save and quit at the end, and then complete it. Or do Nightfall forklift glitch
Here’s a tip:
Read the guide for this challenge. Watch the video. Copy what happens. Win.
If anyone even thinks to say TL:DR to my shortest commentary ever I’ll be amazed!
TL:DR? Please elaborate, I’m not familiar with the language you oldies speak
TL;DR means “Too Long; Didn’t Read” in internet speak.
It’s internet lingo – too long, didn’t read.
TL;DR = Too Long; Didn’t Read.
It is a Hip Young Word created by Hip Young People like yourself who like to abbreviate just about everything
Us old people say things like “Terribly sorry old bean but that paragraph you have constructed was a little too long for my tastes, would you possibly mind ensuring it is slightly shorter the next time you’re feeling creative? Thanks awfully.”
Ha lol, I’m a little behind with the times then, I’ve certainly never come across it before
I know lol, lmfao, ttyl, brb and that’s probably it. I only ever use Lol… So yeah… Lol 
Video of thespeedrun I just did for Tip of the Spear: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=19679887&player=Sergeant%20Jinto
Video is currently rendering, but it should be up soon.
Have to say, that was very nicely done. Bit manic around the bridge-drop bit and a couple other sections but you pulled through well. Kudos to you sir.
I think I am going to combine the weekly with today’s daily challenges and just pretend that the 15k I get is for one bad ass weekly that took a while to complete lol. Last time it was the 15min and BE challenge I did it on WC in about 11 minutes, I think this time I will give it a shot on Nightfall, especially considering I am working on commendation boosting at the begining so the level is loaded and ready to go!
Well it’s good that all 3 of us are on the same page, I guess
All three of who?
Yeah, in my haste to reply I totally put that comment in the wrong place. Fail. What I was referring to was the 3 of us explaining TL;DR at exactly the same time
Me, Matthew and Scruff.
I am having trouble getting the weekly challenge to activate. The only challenge available for completion is the moa challnege (even on nightfall), it won’t activiate the weekly for me >o I don’t know what’s going on. Any thoughts?
I know it sounds patronising but – have you got it on Legendary?
Nevermind I figured it out. The weekly has to be done solo and not in coop. I wish they would have put that in the description. Bungie fail.
That’s weird – I’ll throw it in the post so people know (I’ve seen others ask about doing it co-op).
Heat wave? ._. dude its been over 100 for the last week and in the high 80s-90s the last month
Heat wave by British standards. Go away with your superior weather, we’re depressed enough about our own without you rubbing salt in the wound
Oh I AM looking forward to another snowy Christmas though! /weakdefence
Goodness…. 100s?! That’s pass out temperatures for me. Actually, anything over 85 is too much for me.
Best way to describe this as per my Californian (from San Jose) minion ‘dude, it like totally feels soooo different, y’know?’
Or she said some of those words anyway.
When you live in a place that averages about 15 C in Summer and 4 C in Winter (and around Jan/Feb we get a high of 0 C), this is definitely a heatwave.
FYI, she does know I put this, she found it funny, but did want the caveat. We talked about temps in Fresno as a comparison to London. But it’s hard because she hates the cold, so England can sometimes not be her favourite place!!
Anything pretty much over 20 up here is a heatwave, even 17 or 18 degrees feels ‘warm’ given last week we were hovering around 12/13 degrees.
John
Here in South Florida, we’re roughly 31-36 degrees year round. It usually goes higher in the summer if there is no rain
If we’re lucky enough to get a reprieve from mother nature, we’ll see somewhere around 20 Dec-Jan/Feb.
In Utah, it’s anywhere from 85-100 in the summer! In the winter, it’s not even unusual to get a foot of snow in one day!
Killing the moa on nightfall counts towards the challenge
It seems like you have to kill them in one mission because I killed 4 in nightfall, but they don’t show up after completing the mission.
Fleet feet would be a challenge if you could only use your feet! Look ma, no hands!
Wait how can you complain it is 85* F. That’s just getting warm!
I hope it didn’t come across as complaining – don’t forget we’re a traditionally ‘cool’ island, so very warm temperatures like this are a bit infrequent. As above, the Californian who works for me says it’s a totally different kind of heat to what she had back home, very close and humid.
And I’m an incredibly hot guy anyway, I rarely feel cold, so heat like this gets me close to melting point XD
But we enjoy it whilst it’s here.
ive done the weekly on winter contingency..i know that mission so well so itvwas piece of cake for me.
also got legend today and got my helmet attachment..whoo hoo
Nice one on reaching Legend. Did you do the weekly challenge then your brother run through WC too, or did he do another mission?
actually, ive done both runs since i can do them really fast lol.. even friend asked me to do his so i did
and thanks..i love that security last attachment so much..my brother also reacjed mythic today as well
Has anyone else had Jun screw them over on this level? The first five times I went to assassinate the elite on the bridge surrounded by sleeping grunts right before the forklift, Jun would open fire on something and wake them all up. Then I would get blown up by the forklift after a few plasma shots. Of all the AI buddies in the game, Jun is the shittiest.
I totally hate Jun. He shoots and misses all the time getting you killed the process. It’s annoying that he’s the only person to survive from Noble team.
When Jun starts shooting I just hang back and take out the plasma turret grunts and elite with my sniper then proceed to steal the forklift and glitch through.
Yeah, he ruins things all the time. Just revert to checkpoint – it tends to be quicker than fixing the mess he’s made.
He needs to get in a Warthog with Kat driving. That should sort him out
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Wow.. you guys are having better luck than me. I can do Nightfall usually in 5:45 or less on Legendary any day of the week.
I logged on tonight to see if anyone else thinks Bungie turned up the heat on this challenge.
I only tried 3 times last night, and none tonight, but I couldn’t get more than 20′ past the broken tow motor when you dart out of the room where the grunt is on the plasma turrett.
It seemed like there were twice as many Elites and they were all just nailing me.
I’m going to try again fresh tonight, I was really tired last night when I tried, but normally, I can just run through that map…..
Glad you guys didn’t have the issues I did….
Kill that grunt on the turret ASAP (one shot), then run to the tow motor, then sprint and stay to the right – while running toss a grenade at grunt/jackal pair, and you should be ok.
Yeah, that’s my normal route, but last night, WOW.
I just watched the posted video above, and that seems like my normal speed run.
I’ve been doing some work, and I am going in now to try it again tonight. I was just wondering if anyone else thought Bungie turned up the heat because of the weekly challenge.
I’ll post my results soon. Usually I have this well under 6 mins.
Thanks for your tip!
Man, I’m not joking, for some reason, my session was HOT.
Tonight, I had like 5 Elites nailing me with the bacon gun running around that balcony. They got me 2 times before I got to the room where you shoot the grunt on the turrent. This was even holding the plunger down.
I took the middle route on the 3rd try (not left where the 2 towmotors are, or around the right where the grunts are waiting). I went out the door and a little right and up the middle. Grabbed the health pack, jumped the fence and on.
ONCE I got past this, everything seemed like normal gameplay on Legendary. But from where you first hear Kat talking to where the Gúta are was just nuts.
I’ve actually had this happen a couple other times on weekly challenges, and friends think it’s just my immagination until they come here and play under my account, and say stuff like “Holy @#$#”, you were right…. LOL
Bacon gun?!
^^ i want one!
Works like a charm. Too easy.
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I managed to do this on nightfall earlier but for some reason it reset itself and reset the rank i gained so i go to do it again but cant as when i get to that first large area the jetpack elites see me and kill me i dont understand why this is happening they didnt earlier when i used the same exact route :S
Nvm my last comment i got past it by hanging left instead of going over the ridge they didnt see me at all
This weekly has to be the easiest in a while after the laso’s
Which is great
Yay its nearly bungie day
P.s. This site is amazing on iPad great work MV
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