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[quote name='soccerstud652']Thanks guys...so any tips for a single player looking to get this achievement, I stacked up three ghosts the last time to get up but that is going to be a lot harder to do with a wraith alive.[/QUOTE]
You can't get a partner?

It's very easy to do by just standing on your partner's head.

For single player, you need to grenade jump.
 
Shotty Snipers sucks dill water, because of how frequent it is... but it's good for much needed Marine Sniper practice.

I've become better with this incarnation of the sniper rifle, thanks to that trite gametype. :)
 
[quote name='zewone']You can't get a partner?

It's very easy to do by just standing on your partner's head.

For single player, you need to grenade jump.[/quote]

Or the passenger Warthog in the beginning. The back end of it is high enough to jump off of.
 
[quote name='Mattte']Or the passenger Warthog in the beginning. The back end of it is high enough to jump off of.[/QUOTE]

To avoid the purple wraith blowing everything to hell, park the passenger warthog in the back of the silo, plant a deployable cover on top, and jump off the cover to the top of the silo. One of the brutes in the AA-wraith dropped a deployable cover for me.

You need to NOT destroy the purple wraith first, else the skull will vanish.
 
[quote name='zewone']You can't get a partner?

It's very easy to do by just standing on your partner's head.

For single player, you need to grenade jump.[/quote]

Na, no partner. This is going to be tough. If you wanna help me out, let me know, I can be on whenever.
 
[quote name='soccerstud652']Thanks guys...so any tips for a single player looking to get this achievement, I stacked up three ghosts the last time to get up but that is going to be a lot harder to do with a wraith alive.[/quote]

You can disable the Wraith thats right next to the Silo thing the skull is on, just dont kill the wraith thats up that ramp near the door where you go to continue the level.

I stayed in my Warthog and disabled the first wraith, the one right next to the silo, then I parked the warthog right up against the silo, climbed on top and grenade jumped right off the top of that warthog and got the skull no problem.
 
[quote name='Puffa469']You can disable the Wraith thats right next to the Silo thing the skull is on, just dont kill the wraith thats up that ramp near the door where you go to continue the level.

I stayed in my Warthog and disabled the first wraith, the one right next to the silo, then I parked the warthog right up against the silo, climbed on top and grenade jumped right off the top of that warthog and got the skull no problem.[/quote]

Good idea, I'll try that.
 
This update makes it impossible to get overkill. How many times do you even see 4 people right next to each other in a slayer match. Only in KOH, and maybe oddball does that happen.
 
Finished Legendary with Gmoney and Jrcom. It was a lot of fun. 130 more gamerscore and I will be 1000/1000. I am a point or two away from Gunnery Sergant Grade 2. Should have that tomorrow. Anytime you want to join me for Team Slayer ranked matches, let me know.
 
[quote name='Kendal']Finished Legendary with Gmoney and Jrcom. It was a lot of fun. 130 more gamerscore and I will be 1000/1000. I am a point or two away from Gunnery Sergant Grade 2. Should have that tomorrow. Anytime you want to join me for Team Slayer ranked matches, let me know.[/quote]

Sent you a friend request, MGD Hunterr. Look forward to playing.
 
[quote name='Danil ACE']This update makes it impossible to get overkill. How many times do you even see 4 people right next to each other in a slayer match. Only in KOH, and maybe oddball does that happen.[/QUOTE]

Nope, got mine in a regular slayer game on Guardian. It's all about being in the right place at the right time, especially since ranked free-for-alls are only five players now (really wish they would up it to eight again like in Halo 2). I picked off two guys fighting out in the courtyard with the battle rifle, turned around and killed the other two guys who were coming up after me with a shotgun. Free-for-alls are all about picking up the scraps while others are fighting each other. Just pick your fights well and you'll improve your chances for the Overkill.
 
[quote name='Danil ACE']This update makes it impossible to get overkill. How many times do you even see 4 people right next to each other in a slayer match. Only in KOH, and maybe oddball does that happen.[/QUOTE]

I got Overkill with the motha fuckin skull haha. 4 dudes on Isolation tried rushing me and I was in one of the underground hallways (not the fleshy ones, but the stone ones). The dudes were coming from all directions so i just strategically used the doorway as cover and whacked the hell out of all of them. I actually had to chase the 4th down, so I got pretty lucky with that.

On an annoying note, I almost had Steppin' Razor today, but I got killed mid-lunge on my way to the 3rd guy :censored:
 
[quote name='soccerstud652']Thanks guys...so any tips for a single player looking to get this achievement, I stacked up three ghosts the last time to get up but that is going to be a lot harder to do with a wraith alive.[/quote]

Another very easy way is to use a deploy shield. Use the arc of the shield to jump up. There should be one laying around after you killed some covenant on the level. I also use this method to get the Famine Skull later.
 
An easier way to get Catch skull going solo: There is a big, SQUARE, NOT RECTANGLE, SQUARE box on the dock on the left from when the gate opens. Get in a ghost and push it to the side of the silo where the purple Wraith can see you. You will have to move couple times, because the Wraith will shoot those balls of death at you. The dirt is raised in the area I am talking about, just ram the bo while listening for those fireballs of doom, and when the box is as close and high as possible, hop out of the ghost and jump on the box to the top of the silo.
 
Ii had no problems getting on top of the silo.....i think i drove a warthog to the side of it and then jumped and used crouch to get on top....it was easy.....also i found that "brute shot jumping" works really well at getting to hard to reach places
 
just do local co-op splitscreen by yourself , n00b.

super-easy.

hell it lets you beat any level easy by just leaving the other guy in back as a moving spawn point (see earlier guide this thread to clearing alien anus).
 
Matchmaking update is a good start. I think they need to overshield the VIP if they're gonna tell you where he is tho.

Still waiting on clanmatch...
 
Guess the update was just through bungie...I was hoping that it would have been a full blown update and that I would finally get my Graduate achievement.
 
If you see me on feel free to invite me for some Team Slayer. =)

[quote name='Kendal']Finished Legendary with Gmoney and Jrcom. It was a lot of fun. 130 more gamerscore and I will be 1000/1000. I am a point or two away from Gunnery Sergant Grade 2. Should have that tomorrow. Anytime you want to join me for Team Slayer ranked matches, let me know.[/quote]
 
I see this leading to a lot of VIP vetoing.

It's already hard enough to keep his ass alive with the radar.
I found a "in plain sight" spot to hide on Last Resort that won numerous matches, but with the waypoint it's useless now.
 
So what weapon balance updates does everyone want to see?

So far i really only have a problem with the Mauler. They need to slow the post-shot melee down. They don't have to completely gimp it, just tweak it a bit. It doesn't help that it is an extremely common and fast respawning weapon on some maps either.

I'm happy with everything else. Shotgun, Needler, Rocket, Sniper, Plasma Pistol, Starting Weapon - All much improved from Halo 2.

Edit- I thought of a few more things. I really miss being able to hold 4 frag grenades and 4 plasma grenades. Fire grenades are pretty much a no show in multiplayer so they should up the limit to 3 of each grenade type, even if only for the frag and plasma types.

The Spike grenade seems way too weak if you don't stick someone with it directly. I have had people run right through the spike blast and it barely scratches their sheild alot of the time.
 
Yeah, changing the weapons opens up the floodgates for Gears like issues ( stuff keeps getting changed and nobody is ever satisfied ).

Also, on an unrelated note, Finally broke the level 10 glass. Got a triple kill for the first time it was even in FFA :(.
 
My venting:

3. Isolation sucks ass for everything (maybe decent for TS)
4. I hate The Pit (exept for objective)
5. Sandpit occurs way to much in Big team battle.

2. Increase number of people in Lone wolf (getting tired of walking around looking for people (seems to happen most on The Pit, which is strange cause construct is bigger, yet has lots more action)

1. Mauler needs to be toned down, or have a slower melee.
6. Needler needles need to be slightly turned down (altho I like it, really ridiculous)

Numbers are order of hatred in halo3. Mainly the mauler, ive seen people use only a mauler (because of them being everywhere on the map) and use it the entire game to win in Lone wolf, yet they like crouch walking and camping with it.


Edit: And I hope Bungie doesnt restart stats in the future, or if they do, keep all the kill/death and neat info on the site. Stats on bungie.net are sick.
 
[quote name='BackInBlack']I like how i HAVE to get the Overkill achievement in free for all, and matchmaking will set up 4 player lone wolf matches. word.[/quote]

Totally, that's one of my biggest issues with that achievement. Seems like the best way to get it is with oddball or crazy king...I was really close with Oddball, that's how i got my "Triple Kill" but i was totally injured after I took the 3rd guy out that the 4th took me out.
 
Got Trippin' Razor and the Killing Frenzy achievement today. So close, I just need the Maybe Next Time Buddy, Two for One, Mongoose Mowdown and We're in for some Chop achievements.

I'm gonna try to finish them up tomorrow.
 
Overkill,Two For One, Better Luck Next Time and Legendary Campaign are the only ones I need.

Two For One I actually came ULTRA close today because I managed it... but suicided because I was too close. No achievement :\

Overkill I've came close to tons of times but usually the last person gets me.

The carjacking one is easy but I hardly ride vehicles, at worst u can just get a friend to "boost" it for you.

Legendary I'll probably save for last. The best for last ;)
 
This probably isn't the most fitting topic for this, but I imagine it will be the most effective:

I did some house cleaning of my XBL Friends List, and of 86 people, 14 being online, only 1 is playing Halo 3. Personally, I'm not done playing this game yet, but I like to party up. So if anyone is playing this game in multi a lot, add me as a friend. I always like to party up, and I'll play anything (preferably matchmaking or custom games, but I'll play the campaign too). For now I play pretty much every night. I'm east cost.

On kind of that note, I really love matchmaking, but I'm going to agree with those that say the game needs a server browser. If it had one, I'd use it to find custom games, but I'd still go into matchmaking for everything else. Say I've got a full friend's list, and 20% of them are online, and half of them are playing Halo 3... even with 10 people (which I had daily back at launch), custom games are difficult because only 1 or 2 of those are going to be in a position to join. I just don't see how it's supposed to work without scheduling a game time, which really seems counter to the rest of the Halo 3 philosophy. At the very least, the game desperately needs clan support, to at least get over the friends list limitations.
 
I have no idea how I get so lucky in games...A week ago, I got the mongoose achievement on lone wolf because some random dude and I communicated somehow that we both wanted to do it so we both did. Today another Lone Wolf game on snowbound and all 5 guys gathered around in a circle, and we each took turns getting an overkill then the 2 for one with the laser and then some of them got the carjacking one...man that shit was tight.

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[quote name='LinkinPrime']I have no idea how I get so lucky in games..[/QUOTE]
Lots of people are doing this.

There is an even more sure fire way to get the FFA achievements...but, you got to be pretty desperate to do so.
 
[quote name='zewone']Lots of people are doing this.

There is an even more sure fire way to get the FFA achievements...but, you got to be pretty desperate to do so.[/quote]Very desperate.
 
i found the overkill and killing frenzy achievements to be pretty damn easy on crazy king on the pit, just grab a turret and when all of the dum-dumbs go running for the hill, just aim and shoot, i got both of those achievements back to back doing this, on another note, does anyone know what they mean by "using equipment" on the we're in for some chop achievement? like grenades, or guns or what?
 
[quote name='zewone']Lots of people are doing this.

There is an even more sure fire way to get the FFA achievements...but, you got to be pretty desperate to do so.[/quote]

I wasn't desperate but once I saw what they were doing, I'd figure what the hell...

So what's the other sure way of getting them?
 
[quote name='LinkinPrime']I wasn't desperate but once I saw what they were doing, I'd figure what the hell...

So what's the other sure way of getting them?[/QUOTE]
I'd rather not say, I wouldn't want more people doing it and I don't want to encourage this sort of behavior. If you really want to know, I will PM you.
 
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