Thanks for posting these - they've been a great help! I think the Marine that survives needs to be one of the first two male Marines that you meet (rally point Bravo). I completed this a couple of times with the female Marine (the one behind the wall at start of rally point Charlie) as the only survivor, and didn't get the achievement. First time one of the others survived, I got it.
DanS That's good to know! The only time I had survivors they were those two male Marines you were talking about so I wouldn't know if the female Marine would count. Thanks for the info :)
+Halo Completionist yeah i had that one female bitch left and it didnt count! so be carefull guys! we need a male apperently!! Thanks for the guides bro!
Two things to add to this guide. 1) If you check the HUD map, the marines(s) you need to keep alive are marked with green circles. If they are not showing up on the HUD map, you have to re-do it. 2) You can trap the first marine pair behind the doors solo and then don't need to worry about anyone else. After you clear all the enemies and reach the locked door, turn around and walk all the way back to where you first met the Marines and encounter that group of 5 Brutes (one has a Brute Shot). The marines will follow you all the way there. Walk up to the doors that open in that area, proceed up the stair case to the second floor and then Walk out to the Balcony outside. Stay there until the marines walk up there with you. Then jump off the Balcony and walk as fast as you can to the locked door, open it and move away from it so it closes. The marines will not have jumped off like you did and will have to follow the stair case down, so they are a long ways behind you and should now be trapped behind the closed door. Oddly enough, because those marines were trapped behind the door, the other Female Green Circle Marine stays put and I quickly sniped all the sniper jackals and Brutes, sniped the remaining enemies then killed the Hunters with grenades. I had at least 5 marines alive and simply walked over to kill the last e grunts and it popped after the final cut scene. Did it with the 3 cosmetic skulls on (Birthday parts, explosions and dialogue) on in Easy mode. HTH..
I guess I must be missing something major with this. They are eager to jump off the balcony in my game so idk what you mean "...the marines will not have jumped off..." and the doors open for them whether I am there, or not, so again idk what you mean "...should now be trapped behind the closed door." I thought maybe you meant to get them up to the second balcony, but they refuse to follow me through the door to the next set of stairs and when I try to push them through the doorway they run away and immediately jump off the first balcony.
Thanks, second advice worked for me. I didn't wait until the marine was next to the balcony, as soon as he was in the hall next to it I just jumped from balcony and ran towards the doors. He tried his best, but I ran through them and locked him behind.
This isnt working for me, I appreciate the video but I think my game is messed up. When I go out to be a human shield on the last part for all the marines, the second I turn my back, when they are not in my view they automatically die.
I was thinking about having all the master chiefs in the back ground and having a achievement pop up saying 100 G- Halo completionist or something like that :)
I just tried this and gave up then decided to do the easy speedrun and at 2min 47sec there was still a marine alive when I opened the drop pod ...achievement unlocked. Love the guides btw.
Just completed this on easy with the tilt skull on. Felt like the tilt made it harder as the grenades where useless. Used 3 stickys and 3 nades on one hunter and they ate it like coco pops. Best strat is to use as many nades as you can find. Get an ar and shoot them in the exposed areas as much as can while trying to lure them to the gate where the spawned from. There's a plasma turret there also so using that done some damage to them.
The Tilt skull does not help at all. It makes the Plasma pistol useless against Brutes an then the Hunters take 3+ sticky grenades to kill them on Easy.
The tilt skull makes the plasma pistol way more effective against brutes. Takes down their shields a lot faster, which is what you use it for, and then you can kill them with a headshot.
how can i use skulls in mcc for odst? There is no skullls there, this freaking achievement is such a headache even for easy difficulty, that marines are like paper fragile.
Matthew Garcia I think it'd be cool to incorporate a bunch of pictures of a wide variety of Halo achievements for the banner. Take a few from each Halo game that is out so far. Not really sure what else, though. And I'm not sure about the profile picture either, lol. I know that's not much help, but I'm not the best at conceptualizing this type of thing. Any ideas yourself?
media.giphy.com/media/3oz8xLd9DJq2l2VFtu/giphy.gif It makes plasma weapons take down brute shields a lot faster, and your bullets do more damage to enemy health. Win-win.
The Lonely Rogue It also makes it so that the hunters take 3-4 nades to kill instead of 2. I’d recommend not using tilt for that reason alone. A charged plasma still kills brute shields without Tilt so it’s not THAT big of a help
Two grenades do not kill a hunter stood there after using all my grenades and shooting all my weapons until i managed to kill them. Still got the achievement tho
CosmicTwister Strengths and weaknesses are increased. Normally ballistic rounds (Human weapons) are good against damaging health, but not shielding while plasma rounds (Covenant weapons) are good against shielding, but not health. With the Tilt skull on Human weapons are even better against health, but become near useless against shields while Covenant weapons become even better at taking down shielding and less effective at taking down health.
If anyone is trying this in 2022, I just ended up using the acrophobia skull on easy and just zoomed to the end. Got the achivement that way.
thx! 😆
Damn didn't know what it did but it sure was easy that way
TY man - that was so much fun
BUMP THIS!
Thanks! :)
Thanks for posting these - they've been a great help!
I think the Marine that survives needs to be one of the first two male Marines that you meet (rally point Bravo). I completed this a couple of times with the female Marine (the one behind the wall at start of rally point Charlie) as the only survivor, and didn't get the achievement. First time one of the others survived, I got it.
DanS That's good to know! The only time I had survivors they were those two male Marines you were talking about so I wouldn't know if the female Marine would count. Thanks for the info :)
+Halo Completionist yeah i had that one female bitch left and it didnt count! so be carefull guys! we need a male apperently!!
Thanks for the guides bro!
+blake4311 yeah idid it with the iron skull and had a male left over this time and it worked
DanS o
I’m absolutely disgusted by the weakness of these marines.
"You people sicken me!"
Two things to add to this guide.
1) If you check the HUD map, the marines(s) you need to keep alive are marked with green circles. If they are not showing up on the HUD map, you have to re-do it.
2) You can trap the first marine pair behind the doors solo and then don't need to worry about anyone else. After you clear all the enemies and reach the locked door, turn around and walk all the way back to where you first met the Marines and encounter that group of 5 Brutes (one has a Brute Shot). The marines will follow you all the way there. Walk up to the doors that open in that area, proceed up the stair case to the second floor and then Walk out to the Balcony outside. Stay there until the marines walk up there with you. Then jump off the Balcony and walk as fast as you can to the locked door, open it and move away from it so it closes. The marines will not have jumped off like you did and will have to follow the stair case down, so they are a long ways behind you and should now be trapped behind the closed door. Oddly enough, because those marines were trapped behind the door, the other Female Green Circle Marine stays put and I quickly sniped all the sniper jackals and Brutes, sniped the remaining enemies then killed the Hunters with grenades. I had at least 5 marines alive and simply walked over to kill the last e grunts and it popped after the final cut scene. Did it with the 3 cosmetic skulls on (Birthday parts, explosions and dialogue) on in Easy mode.
HTH..
Milton Aupperle this worked great after trying to get the female to live 3 times
Thankssss
Gonna reply to confirm this still works
I guess I must be missing something major with this.
They are eager to jump off the balcony in my game so idk what you mean "...the marines will not have jumped off..." and the doors open for them whether I am there, or not, so again idk what you mean "...should now be trapped behind the closed door."
I thought maybe you meant to get them up to the second balcony, but they refuse to follow me through the door to the next set of stairs and when I try to push them through the doorway they run away and immediately jump off the first balcony.
Thanks, second advice worked for me. I didn't wait until the marine was next to the balcony, as soon as he was in the hall next to it I just jumped from balcony and ran towards the doors. He tried his best, but I ran through them and locked him behind.
Just want give a quick thank you for all these videos, Silver! Great quality and super helpful
This isnt working for me, I appreciate the video but I think my game is messed up. When I go out to be a human shield on the last part for all the marines, the second I turn my back, when they are not in my view they automatically die.
I was thinking about having all the master chiefs in the back ground and having a achievement pop up saying 100 G- Halo completionist or something like that :)
I just tried this and gave up then decided to do the easy speedrun and at 2min 47sec there was still a marine alive when I opened the drop pod ...achievement unlocked. Love the guides btw.
My Marines keep despawning or something at the end. I don't find bodies. They just disappear.
Don't you dare apologize for your dog ever again give it a treat and tell it that it's a good dog
Another thing I found is if you just speedrun through it on easy with acrophobia and get to the end it pops the achievement easily.
It doesn't work
fucking legend.
thanks i did this just now on MCC after retrying it for like 10 times. and that one marine kept getting his ass whooped.
Just completed this on easy with the tilt skull on. Felt like the tilt made it harder as the grenades where useless. Used 3 stickys and 3 nades on one hunter and they ate it like coco pops. Best strat is to use as many nades as you can find. Get an ar and shoot them in the exposed areas as much as can while trying to lure them to the gate where the spawned from. There's a plasma turret there also so using that done some damage to them.
I was aiming to do par time on this mission and i got this achievement too
4:10 LMAO
mcc just got it with acrophobia skull. just gets a bit used to. if u fly to fast you are like a pigeon hitting a building at 50mph :D
you can use Bandana skull for infinite ammo and grenade, don´t use Tilt because grenade won´t do anything to hunters
The Tilt skull does not help at all. It makes the Plasma pistol useless against Brutes an then the Hunters take 3+ sticky grenades to kill them on Easy.
The tilt skull makes the plasma pistol way more effective against brutes. Takes down their shields a lot faster, which is what you use it for, and then you can kill them with a headshot.
Tilt skull does make the hunters take 3-4 sticks to die. Brutes are still easy though, noob combo.
Marines keep despawning at the end :(
I saved 2 and i didnt get the acheivement
how can i use skulls in mcc for odst? There is no skullls there, this freaking achievement is such a headache even for easy difficulty, that marines are like paper fragile.
What would you like your banner and profile picture to consist of?
Matthew Garcia I think it'd be cool to incorporate a bunch of pictures of a wide variety of Halo achievements for the banner. Take a few from each Halo game that is out so far. Not really sure what else, though. And I'm not sure about the profile picture either, lol. I know that's not much help, but I'm not the best at conceptualizing this type of thing. Any ideas yourself?
I’m throwing 5 grenades at one hunter and NOTHING. I don’t know where you’re getting the whole 2 grenades thing
I had one lived person but didn’t get the achievement, why?
thank u
DO NOT use the tilt skull! Trust me it made it harder than it should be!
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It makes plasma weapons take down brute shields a lot faster, and your bullets do more damage to enemy health. Win-win.
The Lonely Rogue It also makes it so that the hunters take 3-4 nades to kill instead of 2. I’d recommend not using tilt for that reason alone. A charged plasma still kills brute shields without Tilt so it’s not THAT big of a help
@The Lonely Rouge your full of shit mate
Two grenades do not kill a hunter stood there after using all my grenades and shooting all my weapons until i managed to kill them. Still got the achievement tho
This achievement is a bust. Every time I go through it despawns the marines each checkpoint so I can’t unlock it… that’s so effed up.
Have you been able to get the achievement, brother?
Were you able?
just speed run it and the achievement will pop
Epsilon Halo RNG.
What are the effects of the tilt skull?
CosmicTwister Strengths and weaknesses are increased. Normally ballistic rounds (Human weapons) are good against damaging health, but not shielding while plasma rounds (Covenant weapons) are good against shielding, but not health. With the Tilt skull on Human weapons are even better against health, but become near useless against shields while Covenant weapons become even better at taking down shielding and less effective at taking down health.