6th November – Halo Reach Daily Challenges & Commentary

For those who are interested, I did finish Mass Effect 2 for the second time with my renegade (evil) character, I managed to get one of my missing achievements and made two decisions opposite from the Paragon playthrough (highlight the invisotext for spoilers – I kept everyone alive through the end mission, destroyed half the Geth and gave the station to Cerberus). She continued her relationship with Liara from the first game, and ended up with some wicked facial scarring.

I’ve now got Deus Ex: Human Revolution to work through in the next week or so until Anniversary comes out. I was planning to rent it but it was £15 down from £40 and they gave me the Ltd Ed instead of the standard anyways, so if I don’t get through it quickly and easily I can come back to it.

Frankly, it’s good having stuff like this to help occupy the mind.

Anyway, today’s challenges:

Covenant-cide – Kill 120 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking – 3200 cR

You could do this in one game of Gruntpocalypse, 2X Score Attack or some of the other variants. 2X is good because you’re likely to get slightly more than 120 so it takes account of TKs from the Covvies. Pick something in Holdout so that you can work at…

Just Holdout – Kill 150 enemies on Holdout in Firefight Matchmaking – 2500 cR

So you’re probably looking at two games of anything here – if you can get into Firefight Arcade on your own or with one other you might get this, but you might as well whizz through Gruntpocalypse, 2x Score Attack or something twice.

Mythic Evasion – Complete a Campaign mission on Heroic or harder with Tough Luck and Mythic on – 3500 cR

I’m giving exactly the same advice as every optional Campaign mission challenge – run Nightfall, get this done in 10 minutes, tops. As a guide to 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.

…Is a Virtue – Score 40,000 points in any Campaign mission with less than 3 deaths – 2000 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 and should take about 5-6 mins to rack up your points – just keep playing until you hit the target then quit the mission. Note that the Phantoms don’t give you points for destroying, so go after Banshees and Seraphs first. I played it on Normal, but the multiplier goes up depending on difficulty too. Just keep playing through and taking out ships and you’ll eventually get there. The alternative is again put lots of skulls on and play through the end of Pillar Of Autumn. When you get to the MAC at the end just sit there taking out Phantoms for stacks and stacks of points.