Halo Reach Daily and Weekly Challenges Guide - 4/11/11

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Changing up the format a little again.  Just moving the rewards part really.  A more extended guide for the Weekly Challenge will be up later.

The Challenges:

Gunslinger - Kill 75 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking. - 2250cR

Well, this challenge is simple enough.  Seventy-five will be easy to hit in a single day.  I would recommend Grifball, just because it really racks in the kills.  If Grifball really grinds your gears, then play whatever you enjoy and get to killing

Short, Controlled Bursts - Kill 100 enemies with automatic weapons in the Campaign today. - 1000cR

This is easy enough to go for while working on "The Little Guys" if you are on Normal difficulty.  With all the Elites and Jackals mixed in as well, this challenge can be finished in a single playthrough of Winter Contingency.  There are two tricks to getting kills with the AR, since that is what you will be using the most

First tip is this.  Get close.  Deceptively simple, right?  Because the AR does end up having a bit of a spread, the closer, the better.  At range, it simple has no accuracy.  The second tip is like the challenge title.  Short, controlled bursts will help you get the kills.  This is because of recoil and accuracy.  Just squeeze the trigger and you lose control.  Do short bursts and you can be deadly.

The Little Guys - Kill 135 Grunts in Campaign today on Normal or harder. - 1200cR

Every mission has a lot of Grunts.  In an earlier post I recounted some of the numbers on the earlier levels on Normal.  Eighty-seven on Winter Contingency, ONI: Sword Base had seventy, and Nightfall had eighty-two.  Now you could player any of those levels twice or combine two of them and break a hundred and thirty-five kills.  Good luck.

Hyper Lethal Vector - Kill 150 enemies with headshots in Firefight Matchmaking. - 1125cR

This will, undoubtedly, take you two games.  And I would make that two games in the Score Attack playlist.  I know, I know, I'm not a big of Firefight Matchmaking.  I prefer just playing with my friends because we actually communicate.  Anyway, you can get a hundred and twenty kills, or so, in a typical game of Gruntpocalypse or Score 2X Attack.  Logic dictates here that it will take an extra game.

Gruntpocalypse is the better option as opposed to Score Attack or 2X Score Attack because every enemy is basically a one shot kill.  This is ignoring the Ultras that pop up and require two shots.  Pick whatever map you enjoy and shoot away.

The Weekly Challenge:

Not Lough, High - Earn a score of 80,000 in any mission in the Reach Campaign. - 7777cR

This is very easy.  It takes less than ten minutes.  Later tonight, I will upload a video with the best way to get this done, but I have work so I will explain it here.  Load up New Alexandria and turn on the Iron, Tough Luck, Catch, Famine, and Thunderstorm skulls.  Basically, you will go around killing every Banshee and Phantom that you can.  Doing this, get to at least forty-thousand points before ten minutes and quit the game.  You should get a 2.00X times bonus, which put you over eighty-thousand. 

Video for the challenge is here!

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