Saturday, April 27, 2013

Spray and Pray

4: War Games Daily Challenge. Get 50 kills with an Automatic Loadout Weapon - Complete.
This is the ONLY one I got done today, and it has been a long day. Onwards and outwards.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Spartan Ops Episode 7 Easter Egg

4: Located in chapter 3 this time. Found it thanks to someone who put it on youtube. Simons is such a BITCH. :))

Victory Lap

4: Spartan Ops Episode 7 Chapter 4 Complete on Legendary Solo.
This marks all of Episode 7 completed on Legendary Solo. Since I have been trying to only log an Episode instead of Chapter completed. I'll get back to more later. This has proven taxing.

The Guns of Infinity

4: Spartan Ops Episode 7 Chapter 4 Complete on Legendary.
Wow, yeah, I know how far behind I am. But I will be caught up before season 2 starts.
Have I mentioned how much I hate the Dissolve on the weapons? Sucks picking up something you need and then you die and the weapon is gone in moments. I guess there are those people who do not have this problem, but I die frequently.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Spartan Takedown Update

4: War Games Monthly Challenge. Kill 5000 players. 1000 complete.

One, Two, Three, Four...

4: War Games Weekly Challenge. Earn 50 Multikill Medals - Complete.
Now, two punches today earned me 5000 XP. But these only made me 10,000 XP. What is up with that? This took a lot of work.

In Your Face

4: War Games Daily Challenge. Earn 2 CQC Medals - Complete. 2 punches earn me 5000 XP. What a hard days work.

Previous DLC

OK, I have stated several times before that I am not always up to date on every facet of this game. I don't think I have to be, this is for my fun. I have been making sure to use my season pass to download all the new map packs as they come out. Three so far. And damn glad I am to have them.
But the Achievements for the DLC are now bugging me. The room for DLC Matchmaking closes pretty damn quick in the scope of the life of this game (i.e. before Halo 5 comes out). Am I already fucked out of the first two updates worth of achievements? I don't think I went into those specific DLC rooms more than twice each and checked off not one.
Damn, this makes me mad. I don't need to be the first to get any damn thing done. I like to take my time and get it right and have fun with what I am doing. But if I am now permanently barred out of like 20 achievements, I am gonna be fucking PISSED!

Destroyer of Grunts

4: War Games Weekly Challenge. Kill 100 Grunts - Complete. And another 10,000 XP up as well.

I am the 99 Percent

4: Spartan Ops Weekly Challenge. Kill 50 Elites - Complete. 15,000 XP closer to Level 90.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Deft Hand

4: War Games Daily Challenge. Earn 2 Combat Skill Medals - Complete.
5000 XP? For just 2 Kill from the Graves? I swear they just make this shit up.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

War Games Update

4: War Games Monthly Challenge - Spartan Takedown, kill 5000 Players. I am at 699. That makes 216 kills today. I need at least 200 every day to make this happen.

Monday, April 8, 2013

To Be Precise

4: War Games Daily Challenge. Get 20 kills with a Precision Load-out Weapon. Complete.
And 41 kills into today's 207 quota.

Vengeance Found

Reach: Earn your "Revenge" in a multiplayer matchmaking game - Complete.

Demon

Reach: Kill 50 elites in Firefight Matchmaking - Complete

Light Fare

Reach: Kill 100 enemies in any game mode - Complete.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Deposed

4: War Games Daily Challenge. Earn 5 Regicides in a single match. Complete. And in the same Regicide match as the previous challenge for today. It was funny, after my first 2 regicides I was king. So I had to stand there and twice let someone just kill me so I could loose the crown and do it again. The second time this happened I just kept fighting. Got all 5 and the Fully Automated and 3 more combat skills medals for the weekly challenge. Somehow I finished 4th though. It was a good close game.

Fully Automated

4: War Games Daily Challenge. Get 10 kills with an Automatic Loadout Weapon in a single match. Complete. Good Regicide Game.

Harvesting Hunters

4: Spartan Ops Weekly Challenge. Kill 50 Hunters. OMFG did this take forever. But I finished it. 10k extra XP for my trouble. And the last mission I did to finish it took 11:11. Ha!

CRAP! Forgot one.

Reach: Last night a daily challenge was to earn a triple kill in matchmaking. That was real easy to do in Grifbal. Got it complete. Thanks for listening.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Shield Break!

4: Spartan Ops Weekly Challenge - Kill 250 Jackals. Complete. And this was a hard earned 8000 XP. I improved my commendation for killing some of them as well.

Episode 7 Heroic

4: Spartan Ops Episode 7 all 5 Chapters complete solo on Heroic.

Wow, long fight and lots of fun. Did not find the egg on my own this time. We will see about the legendary run through.
Was interesting fighting elites with promethian weapons.

Episode 6 Easter Egg

4: Spartan Ops Episode 6 egg was kind of a bitch and a let down. Thanks again to 3Gents for showing me the path. I re-started maybe 4 times trying to keep the reference point on a confusing map packed with tangos. The way it is seated offers very few vantage points to turn it on. Then have to wait the whole episode to hear it, and it is dumb. But they, not EVERYTHING these guys do can be epic, right. Thanks RT and 343 for putting them in.

Onward to Episode 7, way behind schedule. And now that I know they can be anywhere, I will keep my eye out for them.

Episode 5 Easter Egg

4: Spartan Ops Episode 5 Easter Egg in chapter 4. WOW! This is the best egg yet. Not only do you get the RvB dialogue on the mission, but it actually changes part of the game play. Grifball - 1 spartan VS 16 hunters. ROUGH! Awesome. Thanks again to 3 Gents.

Episode 4 Easter Egg

4: Spartan Ops - thanks to 3 Gents I found the egg in Episode 4 Chapter 2. Vic, you my favorite.

In completing this round once more I also improved my slaying commendations for Wraith, Crawler and Jackal. Not a bad day.

Fan Fiction

Now, some may say that I am slow on some uptake. That may or may not be the case. But it is true that I don't spend a whole lot of time trolling, browsing, searching and otherwise scouring the internet for every shred of anything related to what I like.

Whilst I was on a quest to find videos of interesting things pertaining to Halo 4 on youtube, I came across this interesting bit:

Project: Middleground

Thank you to the people who put such work into this. It is quite enjoyable to see new ideas based in the world I love. Just like reading new Dungeons and Dragons adventures. (Don't give me shit, you are reading a blog about my halo games).

If anyone else knows of a good series or movie made by other fans, let me know.

Keep the footage rolling guys. If it doesn't, I'll have to make some up myself, and you don't want that.

Red VS Blue Easter Egg 3

4: Spartan Ops
Now, I have the idea in my head that every episode of Spartan Ops will have an easter egg in it. Somehow I got it in my head that each episode would have it in chapter 5. Episodes 1 and 2 did. And it seemed to me that such would make a nice bonus for completing the episode.
This was mistaken. Thanks ONCE AGAIN to Achievement Hunter, my second favorite department of Rooster Teeth, for showing me the egg in Shootout in Valhalla. Now I will quit looking for hours through each chapter 5 and instead look for hours in every chapter in episodes 4 and onward that I have not found.

Switchback - Legendary

4: Spartan Ops Episode 6 Chapter 5 Completed solo on legendary. :) And on we go. Hopefully I will have Episode 10 done before a new season comes out.

Spartan Slayer

4: Ny commendation for Spartan Slayer is now mastered. Seems like that took no time at all.

Got Backup

4: War Games Daily Challenge - earn 25 kills with a backup weapon. Complete. I love SWAT.

Assistant

4: I have completed the Commendation for assists in War Games.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Rear Admiral

Reach: in matchmaking I elevated this medal to Bronze.

Gunslinger

Reach: kill 75 enemies in matchmaking. Complete.

Up Close And Personal

Reach: Earn 5 close quarters kills in a matchmaking game. Thankfully Grifball counts for this in reach.

Neuroscience

Reach: kill 10 enemies with headshots in a matchmaking game. Complete.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Unto The Breach

Reach: Daily Challenge - Kill 125 enemies on Corvette in Firefight Matchmaking. Complete.
And in one round of Score Attack there are less than that. Hard couple of rounds by myself.

Hyper Lethal Vector

Reach: Daily Challenge - Kill 200 enemies with headshots in Firefight Matchmaking. Complete.
Nothing like some Grunpocalypse.

A Simple Spree

Reach: Daily Challenge - Earn any spree in Firefight Matchmaking. I am almost ashamed to claim this 2000 credits.

Blasting and Relaxing

Reach: Daily Challenge - Kill 180 enemies in any mode. Complete. Few credits to help get the last two objects in the armory and eventually max out my rank.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

In Your Face

4: War Games Daily Challenge. Earn 10 CQC medals. Complete. But the 1000 XP was hardly worth the effort.

Combat Opportunity

4: War Games Commendation.
I usually don't notice the commendations mid game. But this one I did. I have mastered the combat opportunity medals. And less than 6 months after the release of this game.