31st May – Halo Reach Daily Challenges & Commentary

Today’s challenges are listed below, click Read More to view the commentaries:

1. One Spartan Army – Kill 100 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking – 1000 cR
2. Support Structure – Earn 30 assists in Firefight Matchmaking – 2250 cR
3. Points Pyramid – Score 25,000 points on any Campaign mission – 1500 cR
4. Explosive Ordnance Distribution – Earn 5 kills with ordnance weapons in a multiplayer Matchmaking game – 1250 cR

Commentary follows after the break…

One Spartan Army – Kill 100 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking – 1000 cR

Normally I’d recommend a quick Score Attack game type (Gruntpocalypse, 2X Score Attack etc), but if you’re going after the next challenge then I’d target that first, since you might have to do a couple of Firefight Arcade rounds to get it, which should see you most if not all of the way to this one. If you need to top up the kill volume then as always just jump into Generator Defense or Crashsite.

Support Structure – Earn 30 assists in Firefight Matchmaking – 2250 cR

Assists are slightly harder on Firefight I think (you have to deal 40% damage and someone else kills them within 4 seconds). My recommendation is to play Courtyard, as you tend to stick together in the entrance to the spawn room so you’re more likely to help assist and get assists from your team mates, whereas you spread out on other maps. Particularly the Brutes and Elites are easiest to get this on, and communicate with your team that you’re doing this so they can get the kills and you get the assists.

Points Pyramid – Score 25,000 points on any Campaign mission – 1500 cR

Long Night of Solace, Rally Point Alpha. You’ll be going into the space combat, with as many skulls on as you’re comfortable with. Last time I used Black Eye, Tough Luck, Catch, Cloud, Famine and Thunderstom. That gives you a 6.80 multiplier. After 8 minutes in the combat I had 45,000 points. Note that the Phantoms don’t give you points for destroying, so go after Banshees and Seraphs first. I played it on Normal, as there’s no need to make it any harder.

Explosive Ordnance Distribution – Earn 5 kills with ordnance weapons in a multiplayer Matchmaking game – 1250 cR

EOD weapons include: Rocket Launcher, Grenade Launcher, Spartan Laser, Plasma Launcher, and the Concussion Rifle. The very best mode for this is now DinoBlasters, found in the Action Sack game types. You’re given a Concussion Rifle with an unlimited clip, so 5 kills should be really simple.

Two notices today – there’s a call for Party Leaders for tomorrow’s game night (and for regular PLs going forward too), check out the Game Night hub page to see which groups you might want to play. And please do let us know in the Game Night comments which party you’re going to be joining – if we don’t get interest in one then we’ll not have it running, and whose fault will that be huh?? 🙂

As ever if you have your own thoughts for these challenges please put them in the comments.

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