15th November – Halo Reach Daily Challenges & Commentary

My copy of Anniversary hasn’t yet arrived. I’m sure it’ll be here today. I’m not nervous about it not coming.

*taps foot*

Come on Royal Mail, deliver to me now!

It can’t be as bad as my copy of Reach that came a week late. Not that I’m bitter about that.

Anyway, today’s daily challenges are:

1. Shootin’ and Lootin’ – Kill 150 enemies in any game mode in Reach – 2250 cR
2. Hyper Lethal Vector – Kill 200 enemies with headshots in Firefight Matchmaking – 3000 cR
3. Deathless Pillar – Complete The Pillar of Autumn on Legendary without dying – 5000 cR
4. Up Close and Personal – Kill 8 enemies with close quarters combat in a multiplayer Matchmaking game – 1600 cR

Commentary follows after the break…

Shootin’ and Lootin’ – Kill 150 enemies in any game mode in Reach – 2250 cR

Interesting… do MPMM kills via Anniversary’s disc count towards this? I expect so, but Campaign kills shouldn’t. You’re better off doing the other challenges first then mopping this up if you’ve not done it yet. Best options for this specifically:

• Forge – make a game with players spawning in one spot and camp it
• Firefight – Download my Firefight Invincible game type on my File Share, lots of Elites, lots of medals, lots of kills (plus ‘cheevos if you’ve not done the Firefight ones)
• ONI: Sword Base – Use the Target Designator trick (run past everyone at the beginning, grab it, turn around, fire, wait for the killing to stop and restart the checkpoint)
• Package – There are points where you can get a checkpoint just before a number of Grunts appear in the final battle, so you can gun them down and restart

Hyper Lethal Vector – Kill 200 enemies with headshots in Firefight Matchmaking – 3000 cR

Gruntpocalypse and 2x Score Attack are great ways of doing this, you should be looking to get a lot of headshots in a game, especially if it’s on a simple map where you can line up the Grunts, like Corvette or Courtyard. If you get to a high number rather than doing a whole game again jump in Crashsite or Generator Defense and only defend until you have your total then give up the goal.

Deathless Pillar – Complete The Pillar of Autumn on Legendary without dying – 5000 cR

Key to this challenge is the point that if you die, quickly hit pause, then select Save and Quit, then reload your last checkpoint in the menu, and you’ll be reset back, having never died. The best advice I can give is to have a read of Tyrant’s Mythic guide to PoA, which will serve you well here for getting through the mission, and is much much easier than trying to figure it out yourself. Previously we have been able to play through as you would with dying included, then at the very last checkpoint quit the game, go back in and finish it and you’re good.

Up Close and Personal – Kill 8 enemies with close quarters combat in a multiplayer Matchmaking game – 1600 cR

Close Quarters Combat is essentially melee, assassination, sword, hammer or shotgun kills. Grifball is 100% melee and easy to get lots of kills when you get your timing right. Infection can be really good, and it does appear that sword kills count double for the sword and the pummel.