The way they executed firefight in this game was absolutely great. A halo horde mode was perfect for this game. I just wish it was recreated in a more similar way in future games
Took me forever to get, but totally worth it to get recon...that I never wore because I liked EOD way more. But made me feel accomplished to say I did it.
Back in the day my brother was friends with CMNeir and would often help him make his videos. He would occasionally let me play with him while they were filming. I have a memory burned in my brain of trying to get that firefight achievement Everyone was dead except me, and it was the last round before we got more lives (we had 0 lives). Being like, 11 at the time, the pressure to perform was enormous, and I wanted my brother to take my controller. He refused to take it, and I spent the next 30 minutes sweating my butt off trying to do everything I could to stay alive I survived, and we were able to get the achievement. I’ll always be grateful my brother not only included me in stuff like that, but also pushed me to be better. Fun times.
Your brother must’ve been so proud of you and if I’m being honest here if I was your brother I bet you I would be too. That’s a memory that will go down in the history books for you my friend
11:45 there is a captain in the bottom right (just under the sign) that sticks you before you backsmack another one. ODST firefight has been my favourite iteration of firefight, being slightly weaker and smaller makes the stakes feel so much bigger
I know this is months later but I think that Brute also dropped grenades and if a grenade blows up near other grenades they blow up so it was that combination of spike grenades
This game is absolutely legendary. The unique enemies their weaknesses, and just the way they don't act like a total npc. They can actually dodge stuff
Endure was the second to last vidmaster we completed. I remember getting constantly bombarded by friend requests after completing all the vidmasters and unlocking the recon helmet. I proudly wore it in every matchmaking lobby but I quickly found out every single kid is gonna see it and beg that you drop everything and help them do it too. Every time I played BtB it meant at least 1 or 2 friend requests and maybe a message. Still never switched helmets though.
Thats hilarious, I remember everytime me or my friends saw a recon we just assumed it was the no life guy from the South Park episode with World of Warcraft.
What a champ. To this day Endure is the only vid master I haven’t gotten cause of my crappy internet. However hats off to you for soloing a harder version of it
I think you're absolutely right. when he meleed the brute it dropped its grenades, which were in range of the grenade which that specific brute just threw, and since grenades proc other grenades badaBOOM. neat.
Ah a frog after my own taste. We share the same favorite ODST firefight map! I am impressed! This is the map i got the vid master achievement on back in the day. Man would it be great to go back
With skulls turned on (especially ODST) your best bet is to committing to back smacking the brutes. Majority of the time if you get close to them they'll stop shooting and charge you (It's doable with multiple charging you too). Plasma and pistol is also great too but close quarters just commit to back smacks. Also would love to see a SLASO playthrough on a mission or content! I bet you'd make a crazy video on it. Love the content!
I just discovered your channel and i am rapidly BINGING through your videos. Love it. Im into it. Fwiw, i used to be a part of the trick jumping community, and was very active on High Impact Halo.... I wasnt any good, but i was definitely there 😅
Lost Platoon is my favorite. Love driving the chopper. Just got back into Halo MCC as I just found out about the flood being added to ODST firefight. Need to find more people for that achievement too.
The amount of head shots you got with the pistol when those guys were jumping at you was impressive. I don't even really know anything about Halo, but I like binging your videos
Well done man. When you're fast forwarding a late round hunter kill and the clip is still around 10 seconds it really expresses the pain you went through at that current moment. 🤣
Remember having a lot of fun with endure back when odst came out, did all the score achievements for odst when the multiplayers were shutting down for 360 and it really took me back. Wish we had endure etc on MCC so I could get the rush an additional time.
I remember having to do this in order to get recon back in the day. It was even on this map. It was such a long firefight but definitely one of the best achievements/rewards in all of Halo.
Oh and also a flood version would be nice and i have an ideal loadout Carbine full ammo: start using since the first time you see it because famine can suck A Hammer/brute shot: Both the hammer and brute shot can one-shot all pure flood forms Why the carbine and not the BR is because eventually tilt will turn on so shielded flood becomes a problem to the BR but becomes a breeze to the carbine
Did this on Alpha Site myself with 3 good high school friends, we did all the ODST/Halo vidmasters, definitely took months to get them all but we had a ton of fun doing runs, spending hours a night just to fail.... only to succeed (eventually) xD
this was the last game my brother and I played together before he OD'ed and passed away. To this day I can't play it with out getting distracted at some moment during firefight remembering him and all the inside jokes we had...love you bro.
Lost Platoon is the best map to play if you want to endure legendary firefight for as long as possible. Spartan laser for wraiths, chopper for taking out enemies from a far and great distance to safely evade... usually.
Fun fact! The silenced SMG can headshot drones killing them instantly, so if your aim isn't as good as froge, you cam just grab an smg off the rack and hold down m1.
I couldn't get the vidmaster Endure achievement back in the day. not because we couldn't do it, but because we couldn't get a stable connection long enough to do it. It was so frustrating, we rage quit when we lost the host with 2 rounds to go. nowadays I lack the friends to beat it :)
Ahh. Vid master. That achievement is ridiculous not cause of difficulty but because of lag. It got so bad we were getting 10 frames a second. Took almost 3 hours to complete it. This was back in maybe 2016
I remember getting the endure achievement back in 2011. Some randoms from halo 3 matchmaking were using the mythic disc from odst & asked if I could help them out with getting recon helmet. We stayed up to 5am getting endure & the next afternoon we did the achievement for coastal highway legendary with everyone in mongoose with those 1000 round rocket launchers. Never seen those 3 people again after that. From my experience the best way to deal with drones was the smg or assault rifle.
I made it. I went into Theater and took a screenshot of the ODST in that pose, then cut him out. The background is just the level art with a Gaussian blur and red satin. The legendary symbol is a png with 50% transparency. The scoreboard I recreated based on the game's actual scoreboard because it was too low res.
11:47 there is a brute at the foot of the staircase that throws a spike grenade at the same time the brute in front of you throws a grenade to your left, so as you move right to avoid the grenade on your left you move onto the grenade the other brute threw.
I remember lasting a fairly long time when I played with my cousin, our teamwork was pretty solid, a lot of it was aggro management so we were consistently getting that backstrike
Dude, I'd it with you. It was hard for me to find "friends" to get that achievement with. Plus, I love the older Halo games and Firefight. I've been itching to play it again for some time now. But... I'm all alone so I'd get destroyed in a heartbeat.
In the outro you often recommend a video - it would be awesome if you could include referenced videos in the description. It can be hard to click the video on screen, when there is no video on screen to click (ie, not all player interfaces support cards/etc. - would also be nice for when youtube makes changes that break embedded/interactive content yet again.)
I understand Bungie probably did not want for players to just camp in their spawn or otherwise be able to "stop" the game by being there. However, I always did find it very harsh to allow enemies to enter and stay in the player spawn area. Having enemies like a Chieftain or Hunters there was not fun
I liked Reach firefight's approach to it more where you could choose where you respawn. I don't know how well it would've worked on this map though, considering...
I still love playing firefight. I don't play very often because I've got no one to play it with, but it is still pretty enjoyable if you set a challenge for yourself.
I remember playing this with my freinds SO MUCH. We would always crank the speed up and the gravity down with extra blast resistance so we could rocket jump all around the map al night long.
Did the endure achievement with another guy, both of us had a second account on local co op to avoid disconnecting. Went from 32 lives to 7 on the way to getting the achievement. Couldn’t believe the difficulty spike
I remember getting to set 12 on legendary solo, and the game had lasted for 6 hours or something. This was like 15 years ago 😂 I’m gonna go buy an Xbox and start playing this game.
Its easy to tell you're a big Halo fan. Its my fav game All-time. Thanks for the video 👍 I prefer using whatever weapons I find on the ground in each round but will use your strategy next time for a high score! Btw - what's the highest # of kills you've got in Reach Firefight?
The way they executed firefight in this game was absolutely great. A halo horde mode was perfect for this game. I just wish it was recreated in a more similar way in future games
Loved rotating between L4D2, Halo 3 ODST, and Gears 3 Horde mode. I wish I could do it again
@@hachelyd_i03 Almost the best gaming days if only odst had matchmaking back then.
I might be the only one but I hope they put Firefight in Infinite! 😀
It literally was. Halo reach? Smh..
There’s firefight in infinite now
I remember playing this with friends when ODST launched. Good times, good times.
Vidmaster Endure was the one achievement I could never get. You did an incredible job in this run. Also Alpha Site is the best map; no contest.
THE most legendary achievement of all time if you ask me
Took me forever to get, but totally worth it to get recon...that I never wore because I liked EOD way more.
But made me feel accomplished to say I did it.
It was sooooo hard
@@DivusMagustimes when skins meant something
@@eelite1111111 fr.
Back in the day my brother was friends with CMNeir and would often help him make his videos.
He would occasionally let me play with him while they were filming. I have a memory burned in my brain of trying to get that firefight achievement
Everyone was dead except me, and it was the last round before we got more lives (we had 0 lives). Being like, 11 at the time, the pressure to perform was enormous, and I wanted my brother to take my controller. He refused to take it, and I spent the next 30 minutes sweating my butt off trying to do everything I could to stay alive
I survived, and we were able to get the achievement. I’ll always be grateful my brother not only included me in stuff like that, but also pushed me to be better. Fun times.
Your brother must’ve been so proud of you and if I’m being honest here if I was your brother I bet you I would be too. That’s a memory that will go down in the history books for you my friend
@@darklord1366 ^.^ wholesome comment and reply
Dude that's such a beautiful memory!
I just looked at his account, and seeing those thumbnails just punched me in the gut with nostalgia cheers for that.
CMNeir is a household name. That sounds like a good time playing halo with your brother and friends!❤
"I survived 100 days in ODST Firefight"
For real?
11:45 there is a captain in the bottom right (just under the sign) that sticks you before you backsmack another one.
ODST firefight has been my favourite iteration of firefight, being slightly weaker and smaller makes the stakes feel so much bigger
Yep you can hear the grenade "stick" into him it's clearly the brute greatest and not the covenant one
Covenant grenade makes a beep the brute one makes a notch sound
I know this is months later but I think that Brute also dropped grenades and if a grenade blows up near other grenades they blow up so it was that combination of spike grenades
This has easily becoming one of my favorite halo channels gg
This game is absolutely legendary. The unique enemies their weaknesses, and just the way they don't act like a total npc. They can actually dodge stuff
Endure was the second to last vidmaster we completed. I remember getting constantly bombarded by friend requests after completing all the vidmasters and unlocking the recon helmet. I proudly wore it in every matchmaking lobby but I quickly found out every single kid is gonna see it and beg that you drop everything and help them do it too. Every time I played BtB it meant at least 1 or 2 friend requests and maybe a message. Still never switched helmets though.
Thats hilarious, I remember everytime me or my friends saw a recon we just assumed it was the no life guy from the South Park episode with World of Warcraft.
absolutely fantastic vid dude, i was glued to the tv for so many hours playing firifight with my brother as a kid 😂 bring firefight back!
I almost didn't recognize you with the new pfp
@@frogarchist imma ghost
What a champ. To this day Endure is the only vid master I haven’t gotten cause of my crappy internet. However hats off to you for soloing a harder version of it
11:47 the spike grenades triggered other spike grenades on the ground so it was a chain reaction
i think the other brute threw the grenade that set them off
I think you're absolutely right. when he meleed the brute it dropped its grenades, which were in range of the grenade which that specific brute just threw, and since grenades proc other grenades badaBOOM. neat.
@@741podnammoc Still not as intense as chain reactions on CE lmao
Ah a frog after my own taste. We share the same favorite ODST firefight map! I am impressed! This is the map i got the vid master achievement on back in the day. Man would it be great to go back
Can we all take a moment to admire how well these graphics still hold up?
I loved ODST, I truly do miss it. Doing the Recon Armor "quest" was so gratifying.
With skulls turned on (especially ODST) your best bet is to committing to back smacking the brutes. Majority of the time if you get close to them they'll stop shooting and charge you (It's doable with multiple charging you too). Plasma and pistol is also great too but close quarters just commit to back smacks.
Also would love to see a SLASO playthrough on a mission or content! I bet you'd make a crazy video on it. Love the content!
LAST ROUND IN THE MAG 13:36 that was AMAZINGLY BADASS low-key best fps clip outta the past three years, that was amazing bro!
Great vid loving the halo content
Oh, thanks a lot. I haven't seen your channel, but it looks like really good stuff. I'll have to check it out.
frog video on a sunday made my day 🙏 keep up the work man 🤘
Awesome work, man! My favourite ODST Firefight map was Chasm Ten. Playing all night with my mate and never switching that HUD light off :D
Great map man. My favourites are crater, lost platoon, and windward.
I love all ODST firefight maps in general.
Not gonna lie, you are quickly becoming one of my favorite TH-camrs. I love seeing the notification that you posted!
That was really dang good, not only are you a fantastic halo player, that match of firefight was AWESOME
I just discovered your channel and i am rapidly BINGING through your videos. Love it. Im into it.
Fwiw, i used to be a part of the trick jumping community, and was very active on High Impact Halo.... I wasnt any good, but i was definitely there 😅
Finally, a good halo content creator 🙏🏻
Love the videos. A good halo TH-camr is always welcome to me
Lost Platoon is my favorite. Love driving the chopper. Just got back into Halo MCC as I just found out about the flood being added to ODST firefight. Need to find more people for that achievement too.
I'll do it with you
The production quality always makes watching your vids worth it. Thanks
The amount of head shots you got with the pistol when those guys were jumping at you was impressive.
I don't even really know anything about Halo, but I like binging your videos
honestly amazing you did this solo, even with a full team of 4 this is rough as guts
Ah memories. Got all vidmaster challenges with some friends before Reach came out to get the Recon helmet
Ahhh the Benny Hill song w/ Halo reminds me of some of the old school Halo Machinima’s I used to watch.. loved that. Great run btw!
Well done man. When you're fast forwarding a late round hunter kill and the clip is still around 10 seconds it really expresses the pain you went through at that current moment. 🤣
Holy shit, to me this is an achievement beyond epic proportions. Then again, I'm pretty casual myself. Good work, great video. I like how you edit.
ODST's firefight is honestly more fun than reaches firefight, when they announced it was finally coming to mcc i was so frickin happy
Remember having a lot of fun with endure back when odst came out, did all the score achievements for odst when the multiplayers were shutting down for 360 and it really took me back. Wish we had endure etc on MCC so I could get the rush an additional time.
This made me wanna play ODST again X)
If he was any better, hed be a spartan
TH-cam seemed to change their algo so you get random smaller channels, and I gotta say I like it. This was a fun video.
9:12 That brute gave a whole ass speech while you walked past lmao
Firefight has what other horde based shooters don’t…. satisfying metals and points that make you feel all happy inside
I remember having to do this in order to get recon back in the day. It was even on this map. It was such a long firefight but definitely one of the best achievements/rewards in all of Halo.
Oh and also a flood version would be nice and i have an ideal loadout
Carbine full ammo: start using since the first time you see it because famine can suck
A Hammer/brute shot: Both the hammer and brute shot can one-shot all pure flood forms
Why the carbine and not the BR is because eventually tilt will turn on so shielded flood becomes a problem to the BR but becomes a breeze to the carbine
Flood firefight is amazing on ODST on mcc
Nice any plan B loadouts?
@@casedecker Flamethrower is also good for pure forms
Did this on Alpha Site myself with 3 good high school friends, we did all the ODST/Halo vidmasters, definitely took months to get them all but we had a ton of fun doing runs, spending hours a night just to fail.... only to succeed (eventually) xD
this was the last game my brother and I played together before he OD'ed and passed away. To this day I can't play it with out getting distracted at some moment during firefight remembering him and all the inside jokes we had...love you bro.
This is my favorite halo channel
11:45 you got stuck by a spike grenade. You can hear it happen
Such a niche video. But I enjoyed it. Subbed. Hope to see continued success!
Bungie actually wanted endure to be 7 sets on legendary, but the playtesters said that shit was waaaaay too hard
I was glued to this video bruh, so engaging
Lost Platoon is the best map to play if you want to endure legendary firefight for as long as possible.
Spartan laser for wraiths, chopper for taking out enemies from a far and great distance to safely evade... usually.
Bro use that silenced SMG for the drones, easy work! Respect for playing on Alpha Site, that’s my favorite Firefight map as well.
We need a part 2 it'll be how long can frog survive flood firefight on legendary
Never had friends to play Halo. If you need friends for ANYTHING Halo. Hit me up!
3:56 🤣 flying brute
Fun fact! The silenced SMG can headshot drones killing them instantly, so if your aim isn't as good as froge, you cam just grab an smg off the rack and hold down m1.
I can only really get past the first set so I'm impressed. Great job
Geez, Legendary Too! Great Video my dude.
I couldn't get the vidmaster Endure achievement back in the day. not because we couldn't do it, but because we couldn't get a stable connection long enough to do it. It was so frustrating, we rage quit when we lost the host with 2 rounds to go. nowadays I lack the friends to beat it :)
The fact you and that chieftain did that at the end was amazing
Ahh. Vid master. That achievement is ridiculous not cause of difficulty but because of lag. It got so bad we were getting 10 frames a second. Took almost 3 hours to complete it. This was back in maybe 2016
Christ bless you, bro this was so sick good job
Imagine this. An ODST kills nearly 1000 Covenant enemies, 912 specifically, on his own. That’d be a hell of a news story.
I remember going for like 7 hours with some bros to get some armor
You need to submit this to Anoj's Halo 3 Top 10 Series Episode 44: Firefight Kills.
Plasma Pistol preferred weapon huh. Interesting words from a frog
L + cope + seethe + speedrun a good game + skill issue + ratio
😀
Entertaining stuff man keep it up (:
I love this games especially the firefight, loved playing it with friends and my brother.
Doing the vidmaster achievements and getting that recon armor in Halo 3 is still one of my greatest achievements in life
I love the concept of the spike grenade
I remember getting the endure achievement back in 2011. Some randoms from halo 3 matchmaking were using the mythic disc from odst & asked if I could help them out with getting recon helmet. We stayed up to 5am getting endure & the next afternoon we did the achievement for coastal highway legendary with everyone in mongoose with those 1000 round rocket launchers. Never seen those 3 people again after that. From my experience the best way to deal with drones was the smg or assault rifle.
Wow, Frog is amazing
lol
I'd love to see you do some non-speedrun guides of the Halo series, like a guide on your deathless/John Wick runs
I've thought about doing one big one for CE
well played!
upload more solo legendary gameplay! :)
That one death that's weird? Probably that grenade blew up another one that's right next to you. My best take
Btw this was impressive af to watch. Miss odst
If you ever want to do Vidmaster Endure, let me know. I’ll be totally down to play with you.
Damn I want to know where you got that thumbnail, sick!!
I made it. I went into Theater and took a screenshot of the ODST in that pose, then cut him out. The background is just the level art with a Gaussian blur and red satin. The legendary symbol is a png with 50% transparency. The scoreboard I recreated based on the game's actual scoreboard because it was too low res.
Yo I would play any firefight with anyone it's my favorite gamemode. Great vid.
Dude if you want to do this vidmaster then LET'S DO THIS! I when ODST premiered and now I have nobody to play it outside randoms in matchmaking :(
That “Never change Jackal Snipers… Never Change” I could feel in my *soul*
11:47 there is a brute at the foot of the staircase that throws a spike grenade at the same time the brute in front of you throws a grenade to your left, so as you move right to avoid the grenade on your left you move onto the grenade the other brute threw.
I remember lasting a fairly long time when I played with my cousin, our teamwork was pretty solid, a lot of it was aggro management so we were consistently getting that backstrike
Dude, I'd it with you. It was hard for me to find "friends" to get that achievement with. Plus, I love the older Halo games and Firefight. I've been itching to play it again for some time now. But... I'm all alone so I'd get destroyed in a heartbeat.
The best player and the best frog in halo.
In the outro you often recommend a video - it would be awesome if you could include referenced videos in the description. It can be hard to click the video on screen, when there is no video on screen to click (ie, not all player interfaces support cards/etc. - would also be nice for when youtube makes changes that break embedded/interactive content yet again.)
Didn't know that. What are you on where it doesn't work?
Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/3FV-pJTqLZo/w-d-xo.html
I’ll play a firefight group, my friends hate halo so I’m forced to grind by myself 🤣
I'm Xbox if you want to play man. I'll always be on this game!
Good video
You posted this one minute after it was uploaded. I'm onto you, buddy.
@@frogarchist first
I understand Bungie probably did not want for players to just camp in their spawn or otherwise be able to "stop" the game by being there. However, I always did find it very harsh to allow enemies to enter and stay in the player spawn area. Having enemies like a Chieftain or Hunters there was not fun
I liked Reach firefight's approach to it more where you could choose where you respawn. I don't know how well it would've worked on this map though, considering...
Every time that last wave music hits “You know the music, time to dance”
ODST has the best firefight in my opinion but id like to see reach too :)
I still love playing firefight. I don't play very often because I've got no one to play it with, but it is still pretty enjoyable if you set a challenge for yourself.
You're a Legend P fr 🎉
I tought you could change spawn location even in solo FF, isn't that the case in Halo ODST?
Great video anyway, brought back a lot of memories
Nah, they didn't add that until Reach.
I remember playing this with my freinds SO MUCH. We would always crank the speed up and the gravity down with extra blast resistance so we could rocket jump all around the map al night long.
Did the endure achievement with another guy, both of us had a second account on local co op to avoid disconnecting. Went from 32 lives to 7 on the way to getting the achievement. Couldn’t believe the difficulty spike
Damn, that's sad man, I hope you find other people to play with.
We believe in you.
I remember getting to set 12 on legendary solo, and the game had lasted for 6 hours or something. This was like 15 years ago 😂 I’m gonna go buy an Xbox and start playing this game.
Its easy to tell you're a big Halo fan. Its my fav game All-time. Thanks for the video 👍 I prefer using whatever weapons I find on the ground in each round but will use your strategy next time for a high score! Btw - what's the highest # of kills you've got in Reach Firefight?
I have no idea. I didn't play much of Reach's firefight.
GJ frog, proud of you!
Can you upload more ODST firefight matches?
"If he was any better he'd be a Spartan"