Halo Reach Daily and Weekly Challenges Guide - 8/22/11

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The Challenges:
Gunslinger - Kill 75 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking. - 2250cR
Getting seventy enemy kills today should be pretty simplistic. The daily challenges will not get you to this challenge, but you should hit it while working on the Weekly challenge. The Weekly challenge will be best earned on Grifball (and so will all the other challenges except for "Explosive Ordnance Distribution") and that is also the fastest way to get kills in multiplayer Matchmaking. Good luck.

Explosive Ordnance Distribution - Earn 5 kills with ordnance weapons in a multiplayer Matchmaking game. - 1250cR
Explosive Ordnance kills are typically a pain, unless you know the right playlist. Not much was though of Action Sack by most people when it came out, but it has turned into one place where you can get Rockets, Lasers, and Concussion Rifles at start and for the entire game. Go for the Splockets or Dino Blasters gametype and you will be all set. You only need five kills for the challenge. Try to get some revenge medals while you are at it too. If you get the gametype, this should take a single game.

Double Nickels - Earn 2 Killing Sprees in a multiplayer Matchmaking game. - 1500cR
A killing spree in Multiplayer Matchmaking is when you get five kills without dying. This challenge no longer counts Zombie killing sprees, which is sad, but Living Dead is still a great playlist as well as Grifball due to the pure number of kills you can get. You can get ten uninterrupted kills in a row and get this challenge via a Killing Frenzy, or you can twice get five kills without a death and score two Killing Sprees. There is a chance that you might need to get it the later way by two Killing Sprees but the challenge is not clear since a Killing Spree is a specific medal and also a type of medals. Comment below if one does not work.

Linked Up with Bungie.net - Link your gamertag with Bungie.net and play a game in Halo: Reach Matchmaking. - 3000cR
I'm going to go ahead and guess that 343 does not exactly have control over what challenges are picked every day. I'm also going to go ahead and quote what I said on this challenge last week. "If you already have an account and it is linked to Bungie.net, just play a game and you are set. If you do not have an account, go to Bungie.net and click on "Sign up" in the top right corner. During sign up you can enter your gamertag and then you just need to play a game afterwards to get the credits. (Note that this might take a will to kick in so give it time if it does not go the first time.)"

The Weekly Challenge:

Best Served Cold - Take your Revenge on 77 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking. - 7777cR
It seems like it has been a long while since we has a Weekly Challenge that asked us to play multiplayer Matchmaking. It probably has not been, but it sure seems like it. Either way, taking "Revenge" on another player is signified by a medal (Surprise, surprise, it is called the Revenge Medal!) and can be earned by killing an opponent who just killed you before anyone else does. It sounds simple enough but can be very hard.

Remember that you have the advantage after someone kills you since you will probably know their relative location, but they will not know where you spawn. You need seventy-seven over the next week so you should at least aim for eleven a day. Stick to games with low numbers of player and only two teams. More players and more teams mean more players who can kill the guy who killed you before you can. Grifball has always gotten me a lot of Revenge medals but you should also be able to score some in the regular playlists like Team Slayer and what not.

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