Halo Reach Daily and Weekly Challenges Guide - 2/13/12

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The Challenges:
Blastin' and Relaxin' - Kill 180 enemies in any game mode in Reach. - 2343cR
A hundred and eighty enemy kills, whenever we see it, is a pretty easy number to hit thanks to the other challenge. Today is no exception at all. A hundred and eighty kills should come with no trouble at all as you will be playing Campaign for "Golden Opportunity" and the Weekly Challenge, one game of Firefight Matchmaking for the "Weapon Swap" challenge, and eight games of multiplayer Matchmaking for the "Credits for Completion" challenge. All in all, a pretty easy day.

Golden Opportunity - Find and kill the Gold Ranger-class Elite in any Campaign mission on Heroic or harder. - 5343cR

The easiest Gold Ranger-class Elite (or BoB) to kill in Campaign is on the mission ONI: Swordbase. Load up Rally Point Bravo on Heroic, which is before you make your way back to the Swordbase. Get on the Hog and gun it into the garage like area. Pick up the Target Designator that will be on your right and run up the ramp. To your left, there will likely be a dual-plasma-rifle-wielding-Elite. He is actually a Gold Ranger Elite, though he does not look like it. Nail him with the Target designator and watch him get annihilated. If he is still alive, follow up with some DMR shots to take him out.

Weapon Swap - Earn 10 sprees in a Firefight Matchmaking game on Heroic or harder. - 2000cR

A spree in Firefight Matchmaking is ten kills uninterrupted by death or the start of a new game. You will have been given five sprees once you hit fifty kills in a row but, after that, they spread out the sprees. The next medal will be awarded at a hundred, then five-hundred, and finally a thousand. You only get about a hundred and twenty kills in a single game, so you will need to die on purpose. Once you hit fifty kills, let the enemy overtake you or kill yourself. This will restart the count and you just need to score another fifty kills in a row, or ten kills in a row five times, to finish off the challenge. Easy as hell and should only take a single game.

Credits for Completion - Complete 8 games in multiplayer Matchmaking. - 2800cR

This will simply just require that you play through eight games in multiplayer Matchmaking. You do not have to win the games, but you also cannot quit, be kicked for team killing, or lose connection. Since eight games is a low number, at least relative to other times we have had this challenge, just play gametypes you enjoy and try to relax. Challenges are sure to get much harder later in the week as they did last week.



The Weekly Challenge:
Not Lough, High - Earn a score of 250,000 in any mission in the Reach Campaign. - 30000cR

We have had this Weekly Challenge once or twice before and it is actually really easy. What you are going to do is called Banshee hunting. You will load up New Alexandria and turn on the Iron, Tough Luck, Catch, Famine, and Thunderstorm skulls with scoring on. Basically, you will go around killing every Banshee and Phantom that you can find. The challenge we had before had a lower point total to achieve, which therefore took a shorter time and got you a larger time bonus. This time, you will need to hit a total of two-hundred and fifty thousand point in game since you will lose the time bonus with how long this takes. Just fly around as this is really easy. It will take about thirty minutes or so, but that is still faster than getting it through a regular playthrough. Look here for video of the method.