On the Sixth Respawn

Reach: Daily Challenge. Complete a Firefight Matchmaking game with fewer than 5 deaths - Complete.
2000 cR



Wow, I am ashamed to say that this was actually difficult for me. Gruntpocalypse on Holdout. I used to do this with no deaths and get the Invincible. This time it was 4 deaths and I was having a hard time keeping those bastards from creeping up my back door. But I got it done, another notch in the belt and an extra bag of jink.

The House of Blue Leaves

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 88 enemies in a single Firefight Matchmaking game on Heroic - Complete.
2500 cR



This was kind of cool. As mentioned, I was in Arcadefight NEP on Holdout. I had done the Katanarama and already taken out one banshee with a sniper rifle. I was bouncing around with an FRG taking out covies when another came in. I grabbed a mounted gun and took it out and he happened to be 88. Kind of kewl looking into the plasma explosion and seeing the challenge completed.

Katanarama

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 5 enemies using the energy sword in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
2500 cR



Going ginsu on grunts with FRGs. Yeah, this took two lives.

Light Fare

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 100 enemies in any game mode in Reach - Complete.
3000 cR




Not so bad. I got lucky. Paired up with just one other person for Firefight Matchmaking, and then the server screw up put me all by myself. Arcadefight NEP on Holdout. I got this and Katanarama and Blue Leaves in one turn. Obviously couldn't get 6th respawn. But with all the bells and whistles for being the only one on there I cleared almost 20k cR for just one round. Can't argue much with that.
Have you any idea how hard it is to kill two Hunters side by side with just a concussion rifle?

Hyper Lethal Vecter

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 150 enemies with headshots in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
2125 cR



Not a big deal, thanks for the coin.
I will be much happier in another year or so when I have my pistol all the way to onyx max in Firefight.

My Spartan Ops bungle

4: Spartan Ops
So, yeah, there I was working my ass off trying to get people with time to do all the missions of Spartan Ops with me on Co-Op Legendary. I thought I had seen an Achievement for it. Nope, the two with Bro in them are for campaign only.

I was really pissed off when my record showed all 50 missions completed and NO achievement until I went looking at them all.

Eclypse

Reach
Oh thank the gods. Thank you Bungie. It was their work, not 343 that made rank something one must WORK to achieve.
I now have over half a million credits on hand. I need 2 million to buy the last piece of armor, the Inclement Weather. I will definitely have that before Nova. I need 2.5 mil to get the next level. Lets hope I can do that before March.

Also doing rather well with the Firefight commendation. Several weeks of Gruntpocalypse and I should have the side arm maxed. Time I have, lets hope my fingers hold out.

Ride the Wave

Reach: Weekly Challenge. Complete 150 waves of Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
30,000 cR.




This was not hard, only took 2 nights out of my week. And with the daily challenges I have completed it only took me one more game of Firefight to earn enough credits to buy my next rank.
Also very happy to complete this as I only have 10 Weekly under my belt.

One Spartan Army

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 250 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
3500 cR.




Again: Yeah, sure. No Sweat.
Hell, have to kill 1000 on overlook and 40 with grenades. This was a no brainer, an extra 3500 cR.
Now, having to get Overlook as one of the three options AND getting everyone to vote for it SO I can kill 1000 bastards on there - THAT is the hard one today.

Blast Radius

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 40 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking with grenades - Complete.
1000 cR.



Yeah, sure. Read the challenge, went to work killing things. Did not even remember to do it until it popped up as complete. Even though "Pull the Pin" is maxed, we all still use grenades. Not only can they save our life when we need a reload, but they are fun.

Bulletproof

Reach: Daily Challenge. Complete two rounds in a Firefight Matchmaking game without dying - Complete.
2200 cR.



Not that hard. Took a snipers nest on the broken gun and proceeded to pop helmets.

More than a Handful

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 125 enemies in Multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
2500 cR.




Man, the Buddy Fuckers are out in force tonight. Went to Grifball to get some easy kills, but these guys were just awful.
One game got down to me VS 4. They just camped out and raped me until the clock ran out. You know me, I won't quit, very bad for one's health.
Next game had a guy on our team in cahoots with the enemy team. So their man got the ball and hid in the corner while being protected by our fucker. The other two players quit, so now it was me VS 5. I did not give a damn, I kept on hammerin'.
Last game was a glitch though. Our 4 on 4 became 4 on 3, our advantage. Then the game switched hosts and two people got bumped. So suddenly there is only one enemy and we already have the ball. He put up a good fight, and finally we just scored and got out of it.

So, I completed all of today's challenges (amazingly) and now will go on to some Firefight so I can finish the weekly.

... Got a Triple Double

Reach: Daily Challenge. Earn 3 Double Kills in the same match in Multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
3000 cR.



This was a terrible game of SWAT for me. Only got 9 kills. But in there I managed 3 double kills.

Between my eyes and my hands I don't think I have what it takes to be even the mediocre player I used to be. It is often all I can pull off to get 10 kills in swat or even stay up in Firefight. I don't mind being a bad player, so long as I can play. This is starting to be very depressing.

Flat Tire

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 5 enemy vehicles in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
2000 cR.




I lucked out that my first round of Firefight, everyone dropped out, so that got me 3. Then the next round no one seemed to care about banshies, so I took them out and then put down my controller. The system was lagging terribly and the other player was a douch.

Eyes in the Sky

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 10 enemies with the Designater in ONI on Heroic - Complete.
1500 cR.



Always happy for some coin. But didn't I do this last week? Whatever. Only took me a moment. Then I turned the weapon on Kat just for fun.

Demon

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 40 Elites in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
2800 cR.




Not hard when you can pick FRG or SPNKr as your primary weapon. Took one round in Corvette and one in Courtyard. The later I sat out the ending to, I had what I needed and wanted to share with the rest. Still need to be working on more rounds without dying to finish Perfectionist.

Now, if you will notice this and the previous 3 posts, they covered all the bases of challenges in FF Matchmaking. I don't think I can make a custom one to get more cR today. Inconsiderate bastards. These last 24 hours. Customs I can get paid once every 3 hours.

The House of Blue Leaves

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 111 enemies in a single Firefight Matchmaking game on Heroic - Complete.
2000 cR.



Oh, this pissed me off. I got 110 on my first game of Gruntpocalypse. I hate it when one kills another. If I shoot a bastard who drops a live grenade which subsequently kills someone else, their death is on my hands. At least that is how a court of law would see it. Cheep bastards. So the next round I made sure to get the best score I could. I think it was 118, I forgot to check. Yep, 118 with 95 headshots. Good practice.

Survivor

Reach: Daily Challenge. Earn 7 sprees in a Firefight Matchmaking game - Complete.
2000 cR.




This I almost thought I would not make. But in my attempt to earn a sticky spree I died several more times and thus got my killing spree on again. Got it in on the last wave of my first game.

Covenant-cide

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 120 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
3200 cR.




This took all of one Grunpocalypse and 10 kills of the next. Thank you for the coin.

J.H. Death Machine

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 40 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking with the Grenade Launcher - Complete.
2000 cR.



Not fun, but got it done. Got an assist spree with the first pop.

Fire When Ready

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 30 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
2100 cR.




Yeah, this was a real problem.

Not as Clumsy or Random...

Reach: Daily Challenge. Earn 5 kills with precision weapons in a multiplayer Matchmaking game - Complete.
2000 cR.



Was not a problem Going through SWAT trying to get the 700 for the week.
Fuck, my eyes are killing me. And my complaints about the pop ups in the lower left corner that interfere with the reticle are now even more pertinent.

Blastin' and Relaxin'

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 180 enemies in any game mode in Reach - Complete.
2343 cR.




Got over 100 just in my Multiplayer, then one game of Firefight and I was good to go.
Had to give up on the Weekly. I am just too sick and there was no way I was going to get the rest of them done before 1 am tomorrow. Next week I will see what can be done.

Credits for Completion

Reach: Daily Challenge. Complete 5 games of multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
2500 cR.




OK, what gives, 5 in a day and I get 500 per. 77 in a week and I get 101 per. 343 are comprised of cock-swabbing, inconstant, inconsiderate kikes!
And I still have 40 games to complete in the next 9 hours. Being sick sucks. But I want another weekly achievement in my belt. For Reach I only have 10 to date.

Light Fuse, Run Away

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 4 enemies with grenades in a multiplayer Matchmaking game - Complete.
2100 cR.



This surprisingly happened in my first game. A frag, a stick, and then a double kill F.T.G. with a frag. Not a bad play.

Foggy Notion

Reach: Daily Challenge. Complete a Campaign mission on Heroic with Cloud and Famine on - Complete.
2500 cR.



Also threw on the Grunt Birthday. It is always fun to watch the little fuckers pop. I don't think I have ever bothered much with Campaign challenges. Usually they are set to LASO.

Close Talking

Reach: Daily Challenge. Earn 20 kills with Close Quarters Combat in multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
3000 cR.



This was almost a byproduct after matchmaking, swat, and then some grifball. Thanks for the jink.

Fire When Ready

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 30 players in multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
2100 cR.




Too freaking easy. Funny thing is the other challenges are to kill 20 in CQC and 100 with precision.

Katanarama

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 5 enemies with the Energy Sword in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
2500 cR.



Too easy and very lucrative. Thanks.

Demon

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 40 Elites in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
2800 cR.




This one took a surprisingly long time to get over. And what sucks is that the 3rd round left me at 39 and my head was bugging me. One more Elite to go, and a long round it was.

Hyper Lethal Vector

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 150 enemies with headshots in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
2125 cR.



Easy to do in Gruntpocalypse. Helped with the other challenge as well. And I spent most of it with the magnum so that I could get that commendation up.

Shootin' and Lootin'

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 400 enemies in any game mode in Reach - Complete.
4000 cR.




10 extra cR per head doesn't seem like much, but since I was going to kill each of them little bastards anyway, might as well have the jink.

Eyes in the Sky

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 10 enemies with the Designator in ONI on Heroic - Complete.
1500 cR.



Thankfully when I only got 5 the first time I was able to restart mission and do it again. Fun killing hinge-heads from orbit.

Un, Deox, Trois

Reach: Daily Challenge. Win 3 games in multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
2900 cR.




Surprisingly, I won my first 3 games of the night. The first I was carried, second I was last with 11, third I was second with 14. Not a great night, but I'll take it.
To finish the week of 77 games I still need 9 more tonight after playing Sword Base a few times.

Be Their Huckleberry

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 200 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking with the Pistol - Complete.
1200 cR.



Now, do you see the problem here? 120 enemies with any weapon I like, 3200 cR. 200 enemies with just the pistol and it is 1200 cR. For the mathematically challenged, That is 67% MORE work for only 37.5% of the pay.

Second, do any of you lazy fucks even know where this name comes from?
When one of the Clanton gang challenged Wyat Erp to a gun fight and Wyat declined, Doc Holiday stepped forward and said "I'm your Huckleberry" meaning that HE would be willing to duel with pistols.

Covenant-cide

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 120 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
3200 cR.




Yeah, this took one game of Grunpocalypse and then 3 more kills. Done. Thanks for the cR.

The Long Night of Solace

Reach
OK, I just completed LNoS on normal. Good News is that Shooting Banshees, Seraphs and Phantoms do get credit of vehicles destroyed. I clocked 39 for this expedition. I wonder if the Corvette was one of those? Anyhow, here is the problem. At the end of the mission, when George told me to form up on him to tell me to jump out of the ship while he blew himself into oblivion, I still had 2 marines with me. Now, never in my recollect had I even made it onto the bridge with backup, let alone back to the pelican and defended the slip space drive. But George blew them up, too.

In my humble opinion, he could have explained to them "You have no way to survive landing, I do. Sorry, you have just been volun-told to press this button." And then I would have my friend George with me. But that is now how the story goes. So at the very least they should have had a quick scripted death thanks to the elites rather than me thinking of the two of them huddling in an alien ship while George effectively prepared the Kool-Aid.

Demon

Reach: Campaign Challenge, Custom. Earn 50 kills with Assault Rifle in 3 hours - Complete.
213 cR

This was not a particularly difficult challenge, but with the reach custom challenges, I have had a few problems in the past. So now that I know that this works to my advantage, I can allow the time limit to elapse and then make more difficult ones and see just how much extra jink I can make in a few hours time. Sure beats playing Gruntpocalypse all the time.

For Love of the Game

Reach: Daily Challenge. Complete 17 games in multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
3700 cR.




This was convenient as the weekly challenge is to complete 77 games. So, since I did not play yesterday that leaves 60 games in the next 5 days. I think I can manage that.
Also, with this I have now made almost 70k in cR today, I am rather happy with that idea. Now I am going to go play reach campaign so that I can try to rack up more for the Demon commendation.

This is My Rifle...

Reach: Daily Challenge. Earn 77 kills with precision weapons in multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
1400 cR.



SWAT of course is good for this. And since this is all about the cR, it was rather interesting that I got the 3k slot machine after this.

Gunslinger

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 75 enemies in multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
2250 cR




Not so hard, just some time. Extra cR not to mention the kills themselves.

Pestilence

Reach: Armory

Finally got the Pestilence armor ability. Only one more to go - Inclement Weather.
I am still very disappointed that I am was no longer ellegable for the flaming helmet or the name tag banner when I got my 360. Microsoft, you fucked us all by giving Halo to 343 and booting out Bungie. Halo 4 is the proof.

Aggressive Negotiations

Reach: Daily Challenge. Earn at least 19 kills in a multiplayer Matchmaking game - Complete.
1900 cR



This one was rather fun. I actually took a video clip from the game I got these 19 kills in. Made a new friend in the fight. It is fun to have rivals in a set of fights where you constantly track each other down for another Revenge.

Want to complete more Reach challenges so I can get extra cR and finally get the last 2 items and the last few ranks. I am Noble, gods, how much longer will it take?

Three Dog Fight

Reach: Daily Challenge. Earn a Triple Kill in Multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
2000 cR




I cannot believe I actually pulled this off while I was getting my ass beaten tonight.

Good note, there was a major hot female player in the SWAT room tonight, and she beat me up in ways you KNOW I like. But the best part was when I got an assassination on her and got to hear her scream. I liked that.

Destroyer of Grunts

4: Spartan Ops Weekly Challenge. Kill 30 Grunts - Complete.
4500 XP.




That is an extra 150 XP per Grunt. Stupid. It was easy enough as I sat down with my daughter to clear all of Episode 7 today. We messed up EVERYBODY. Almost done with all 10 Episodes in Legendary Co-Op.

Lets see what other stupid shit pops up on my Halo itinerary.

Linked Up with Bungie.net

Reach: Daily Challenge. Link your gamertag with Bungie.net and play a game in Halo: Reach Matchmaking - INCOMPLETE.
1 cR.

OK, what the fuck, over? Bungie.net has not been used in like 2 years. When I got my 360 in November of 2011 it was already too late for me to link up with Bungie and get my nice flaming blue helmet or ribbon for my name in the games. So how in the hell is this a challenge?
I tried it. I went back to Bungie. I linked in with my name and it knows all my friends including those added last night. But it doesn't know my rank or score, hasn't since last November or so. I linked in and I tried all of the games. Matchmaking, Firefight, Score Attack. Nothing works.
So who in the bloody hell decided that this was part of today's challenges and to make it worth 1 cR? 343 - WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS DOING? Who is running this ship? You are really disappointing me. Get on the ball, or I am switching to Gears and Destiny.

One Spartan Army

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 250 enemies in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
3500 cR.




Yeah, not that big of a deal. Thank you for some cR.

Clip it, Share it.

Reach: Daily Challenge. Make a clip from your Local files and upload it to your File Share - Complete.
1 cR.




No, that is not a typo. ONE CREDIT. But that is completely on par with the difficulty of the challenge. What the fuck? What did I say the other day? I need to be on the board to make the challenges for this and 4. This was stupid. But I did it to increase the number of challenges I have completed and the number of days I have completed ALL challenges. But this one is still bogus.

Cannon Fodder

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 50 infantry-class foes in the Campaign today - Complete.
2000 cR.




I am now putting more time back into reach. I need to get promoted and finish some stuff on there before I can concentrate on 4. However, I also need to complete Anniversary, do ODST on Legendary, unlock some 3 armor, and ther are achievements all around un-achieved.

Destroyer of Grunts

4: Spartan Ops Weekly Challenge. Kill 100 Grunts - Complete.
2500 XP.




Yeah, real challenge. And no pay off. Almost done with Covenant Kill Commendations.

All That Glitters

Reach: Custom Challenge. Earn 800 Medals in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete.
10,000 cR

Cannot make Medals and Headshots at the same time. Bummer.
Note to self. Kills of Enemy: 600 grunt infantry is not possible in 3 hours on Gruntpocalypse, nor will it earn 10k credits if it were. Find a new enemy and be happy with some cR number that is possible in 3 hours since you will be killing them anyway.

Blastin' and Relaxin'

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 180 enemies in any game mode in Reach - Complete.
2343 cR




Not so difficult, since I have set up for myself challenges for 800 medals and 600 grunt infantry.
You know out of over 100 enemies in Gruntpocalypse there are 40 or less infantry? I think I fucked that up. Oh well.

Juggalos for Halo

After my last post it came to my mind that I resent the corporate connection between Halo and Mt. Dew,
I hereby form the Coalition of Halo Players for Faygo. I want all you Juggalos and all your other Faygo lovers out there who play Halo to join up with me and help make Faygo the official beverage of Halo.

"I said FAYGO! FUCK Mt. Dew!"
That shit is just NASTY!

Credits for Completion

Reach: Daily Challenge. Complete 4 games in multiplayer Matchmaking - Complete.
2400 cR.




So this comes as a bonus of only 600 cR per game we play. I am sure I can compare that and find it completely out of whack with other such challenges. And only 4 games? Yeah, that is a hardship. Really guys, come up with some better shit.

In Halo 5 I want there to be a standard block of challenges for the day plus special AND custom. But the daily benchmarks should be like 100, 250 and 500 players. Kill each of those levels and get a bonus. 500, 1000, 3000 enemies (other than players) and get extra bonus. And so on. And each day have special ones created. 14 kills with shotgun, 10 banshees, whatever.

Yeah, 343, I will happily sit down and dream these up for you. I'll be the Head Fucker In Charge of the challenges department. I can designate these levels for everything in a few weeks and have it balance AND I will provide you a whole months worth of weekly and daily challenges in under a week. I'll even do it for minimum wage plus faygo!
"I said FAYGO! FUCK Mt. Dew!"

Up Close and Personal

Reach: Daily Challenge. Kill 5 enemies with close quarters combat in a multiplayer Matchmaking game - Complete.
2343 cR



Thank the GODS the shotgun counts and CQC. I got two beatdowns, one assassination, and two shot gun kills. I was actually not going to stress over this challenge and just go for the 4 games today. I am glad I got it. See you all on the field.

Showtime

Reach: Daily Challenge. Earn 5 assists in a multiplayer Matchmaking game - Complete.
1250 cR




This was a bitch to pull off. Thankfully the sniper rifle helped.

Covenant Slayer

4: Commendation
I got the Commendation for Covenant Slayer. I clicked off all the nice little check boxes for the types of Covie enemies to kill. There are still more to be tallied for the general classifications of Grunts and Jackals, however, the specific ones for this Commendation have been met.

Creeping and Crawling

4: Spartan Ops Weekly Challenge. Kill 200 Crawlers - Complete.
4000 XP




This one took quite a bit, but earlier this week I was just going through Spartan Ops in order trying to rack up more kills of everything. Then I went back to Episode 2 Chapter 5 - Gargarin. That place had approximately 100 Crawlers for the kill.

I am the 99 Percent

4: Spartan Ops Weekly Challenge. Kill 75 Elites - Complete
4500 XP




Not so much the XP as wanting to get all my kill scores completed.
And if anyone has actually read any of this, REGICIDE is not gone, thank the Gods. It is now an option in the Rumble Pit. And after playing 4 games in there, Regicide was all we chose. So I imagine KotH is in there somewhere.
But I am still uber pissed off that there are no Waypoint challenges available yet. I don't even need the XP, I just want them to finish what they started. 343, GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES!