Halo Reach Daily Challenges Guide - 10/20/12

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The Challenges:
Covenant-cide - Kill 120 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking. - 3200cR
So, Firefight and multiplayer Matchmaking are the key modes today and these challenges will have you playing in both. Firefight will not actually take too much time and the challenges can be completed in a single game. This one is asking you to score a hundred and twenty kills today but a hundred and twenty kills is about what you will hit in a single game in the Score Attack playlists. You might end up just short, but hopefully a drop pod will take care of this for you. The preferred gametypes are 2X Score Attack and Gruntpocalypse as they are the fastest and allow you to score the easiest kills.

A Great Friend - Earn 30 assists today in multiplayer Matchmaking. - 3250cR
Oh, assists. This is one of the more aggravating challenges because you basically have to fail at killing your opponents, but you do need to damage them. Dealing an opponent forty percent damage and then having someone else take the kill will net you an assist. Now, the best gametype for assists, without a doubt, is the Multi Team gametype since you have a bunch of targets and a bunch of people to steal those targets from you. Do not expect to get thirty in a single game, but five to ten is not uncommon; it just depends on how hard you try for the assists. Expect this to take three to six games to accomplish.

Killagruntjaro! - Earn 10 multikills in a Firefight Matchmaking game. - 1100cR
So, a multikill is gained in Firefight Matchmaking when you score multiple kills within about a second of each other, as opposed to multiplayer Matchmaking where you have about four seconds. However, enemies are a lot easier to kill in Firefight and are more abundant so getting multikills is never really an issue. Now, you can get up to nine multikills (a Killionaire) before you need to wait and let the counter, so to speak, reset. Just wait a couple seconds and then start up again. This will only take a single game to complete as you can probably get thirty to forty or more multikills in a single game of Firefight Matchmaking. No reason to play two games for this challenge.

The Magic Number - Complete 7 games in multiplayer Matchmaking. - 3000cR
So, seven games. As always, I am happy that they have decided to stay away from the "Win X games in multiplayer Matchmaking today" challenges as those drive me insane and often take a long time. You simply need to complete games, a large chunk of which will likely be coming from the "A Great Friend" challenge which will take three to six games to complete. For the remaining games, just play whatever you want and have fun. Now, to have these games count, you cannot quit, disconnect, or get kicked from the game as that happening will cause the game to not count. As well, doing that too much can result in a temporary ban so be careful.

See the Weekly Challenge here.