These Halo Achievements Are Actually The Worst

[@joshengland_yt]

At my rate I'll be able to complete everything in Halo 7 before I complete all the achievements in MCC.

[@Tailsfan06thezombieslayer]

Do u mean halo inf?

[@elord1314]

@@Tailsfan06thezombieslayer it's a joke. And infinite Is the 6th.

[@Tailsfan06thezombieslayer]

@@elord1314 yeah e

[@halolasomaster3900]

I only have 10 more to go will be starting laso soon!

[@pamelatahimthakur5681]

Everyone is probably screaming at this guy

[@SnipeMD]

The true Halo chads are the ones that helped you get the 50 achievements for the Katana in Halo 3 by standing in a line for the Double Spartan Laser kill or let you run them down with a Mongoose. They sacrificed their bodies in a ranked playlist for the good of their fellow Halo players, and they will always be the true MVPs.

[@levant5378]

Splocket weekends were the best for that.

[@markattenborough9107]

Dude i remember getting the achievement this way and all my friends from high school got it this way except for my boy KC who literally got a for real natural double kill without working with anybody.....he wouldnt stop showing us the screengrabs from it and bragging bout it

[@casedistorted]

I did that but nobody would do it for me so to get my Katana in Halo 3 I had to go for the double Spartan laser kill on my own. I am pretty sure I got it like 6-8 months after launch by lasering two guys in a warthog on one of the very rare maps that had both a warthog and a Spartan laser spawn in matchmaking. Oh and a triple kill with the melee sword was near impossible too without dying and losing the laser sword. Took me around 7-8 months to get my katana, I was always sad no one would help me get my achievs after I helped so many get theirs.. but I felt proud to get every single achiev legit on my end.

[@casedistorted]

@@markattenborough9107I would also brag about it because I got mine legit too, double kill with Spartan laser was one of the last achievs I needed to get. Double kill in a warthog did it for me I think, I dnno it was literally 15 years ago lol.

[@markattenborough9107]

@@casedistorted i remember how he did it because he screen capped it and showed it to all of us constantly. Double kill (obviously) and he basically headshotted the one guy immediately in front of him and in the distance he got the other guy midjump in the ass....was actually a pretty funny screencap

[@cyanimation1605]

the Watcher achievement should've included Sentinels.

[@writershard5065]

Honestly, it's such a good example of bad achievement design. Achievements should be fun challenges, not mindless grindfests of doing the same thing over and over again.

[@austrakaiser4793]

And especially having poor royalties. I know MCC has 7K Gamer Score but it also has 700 achievements making the average achievement score a shitty 10G, but that also goes down scale to 5G because you need good royalties for hard achievements right? Halo 3, ODST and Reach were pretty generous in the gamer score of their campaign achievements, Halo 3 giving you 20G to 50G for simple mission completions and then 125G for Normal completion and same for Heroic and Legendary. In MCC it is horrible, the most difficult Halo game (Halo 2) will only reward you 50G for completing the game on legendary not to mention it basically has a permanent Iron Skull, so when you complete Halo 2 on Legendary in MCC all you get is spite, and maybe Helioskrill but it's still spite.

[@insaincaldo]

It baffles me that you don't run into enough watchers over the course of the campaign and Spartan Ops combined, when playing through all several times. There are allot of them.

[@drakenn342]

@@austrakaiser4793 My main issue with MCCs achievements are just that: gives you practically nothing for completing games on legendary.

[@diegomolina800]

Reset the first 2 minutes of the Spartan Thorne mission on Spartan ops over and over. You get about 15 right away and a sniper to instant kill them. You don't need to complete the level for the counter to go up.

[@ShareTheBeans]

When Spartan Ops first released there was a glitch in which you could just load the level then save and quit and it would count as completion. Took me 15 minutes to get that solo legendary achievement

[@austrakaiser4793]

You know I think I wanna revert Halo 4's updates

[@nathangarland9453]

Boring

[@ArtyTheBasedGod]

@@nathangarland9453 yeah that's halo 4s legacy

[@rodimusmaximus3912]

@@nathangarland9453 That's just what happens when something is designed poorly. If you make a shitty achievement for no reason that requires way more time than it's worth people are gonna find ways to cheese it.

[@SigmaSixSoftware]

Lucky I actually played through and I missed one, lucky for me I got the glitch where the game stopped logging which Ops I completed in Legendary and which ones I didn’t. At least I know it’s not in the last 5 chapters.

[@danielmorrison26]

Don't know if this helps, but the Killionaires you get in Reach Firefight matchmaking count towards your progress for Domination, because I certainly haven't gotten any in pvp matchmaking. You could probably gather up enemies for one player to get killionaires, or let them take on the bonus round grunts.

[@londondeer]

I had no idea!!! Wish I knew this when I was grinding Steaktaculars hahaha

[@killerkitten7534]

Firefight counts for other achievements too. I had no idea until I meleed a brute in firefight and it gave me the achievement for beat down medals

[@soolop9000]

If this is correct this needs to be a pinned comment, you can save lives with this information

[@pdalmao]

@@killerkitten7534 and Spartan ops too! I got my beatdown achievement from beating down an elite!

[@sledge7106]

@@soolop9000 you know some work in customs right? So you can meme around then overtime get them easily, but yeah FF to do it quick

[@NathanWibe]

I love the idea of the audio logs in ODST. They are cool to listen to, plus the more you get the more weapons caches you can access for better weapons and sometimes vehicles. Good idea if a little buggy

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I only considered some of these achievements fun, because I did them with my friends back in the Xbox 360 days. Times were so different back then.

[@Kclanks]

You are literally everywhere.

[@pilarwolf8818]

@@Kclanks he is

[@Toni77144]

Its like the 20th time i see you

[@MADVILLAIN669]

WHO ARE YOU, WHY DO YOU ALWAYS GET LIKES

[@SikuKskt]

@@Kclanks I know right, it’s insane

[@Ahri.]

Killionaires count toward the achievement in Firefight matchmaking, so do headshots and assists. This is likely the easiest way to get legendary medals if you play Arcade Firefight

[@sidewinder1176]

My least favorite achievement for the MCC so far has been One Final Firefight. You have to get a score of 150,000 on the level Lone Wolf. Its so tedious only because if you die even one time then you must restart the entire mission.

[@mechmaster-so4hr]

There's something so much worse. The Endure achievement. Like the Vidmaster Endure achievement from ODST on the Xbox 360, you have to last 4 sets with limited lives and 3 other people. It's impossible for solo players and and getting a group of decently skilled players to play for a few hours is very difficult.

[@PARTY_MUTT]

Set it to Easy/Normal with a bunch of skulls on and just grind it for an hour or so. It may be annoying but I just listened to some music and took like a break in between. You'll get it in no time.

[@just_ugu]

This one is a bit of a pain, but once you get the hang of backsmacking the elites, it's a matter of time until you rack up all the points

[@grilledcheeseaddict]

I'd just put Black Eye skull on, grab an Energy Sword and go to town

[@resijade4342]

it took me like 75-90 mins not hard, but annoying

[@playaplays57]

I'm now starting to think doing spartan ops solo legendary as my first playthrough of it was worth it

[@christopherortega]

It's good cause you can respawn right back

[@gc6096]

I tried that once I had to give up after the beach mission

[@jamesofteamrocket3810]

I did it on the 360 back in the day. I remember it being easier than I first thought.

[@aerialmacaroon6312]

I can’t imagine the hell in this mode with laso; legendary is tough but that would be insane

[@danieldockery3904]

I finished 700/700 earlier this year and you did really well with your list. For whatever reason, getting 100 splatters in H2A matchmaking was a pain as well. You can get melee'd on the Ghost when you attempt to splatter someone and they jump over you. It was extremely frustrating.

[@hudsonbeery7326]

I got the splatters done with the banshee on Zenith.

[@Abraisive]

Recently just finished this game 700/700. H2 LASO was by far the hardest pain I've endured but this has been my favorite series since 04'. Took me 6 years 8 months and 26 days

[@mcdonaldswarfare3]

Same bro, gravemind took me like 10 hours on laso

[@Ares_gaming_117]

Congrats bro thats nuts

[@blockproducer_sigma]

Wait wait wait it took you 6 years and 8 months to achieve all achievements?!?! I just bought the MCC to do all the achievements...

[@J_West]

@@blockproducer_sigma In 2014 the game laucnhed with 500 achievements. In a later update it gott 100 more, so 600 in total. After that, another update added another 100, toalling 700 achievements. I actually 100%ed this game three (3!) times. Finally beat 700/700 in 2020 at 6AM in the morning, it was a pain.

[@isaaczuren5380]

Easy way to get Environmentalist, Domination, Catch This: grab a friend (both on PC or both on xbox), set matchmaking to input based and platform based and search for 1v1 on H2A only, hit search at the same time and the game should put you against your friend, you should be able to grind all the achievements in a day or two. For Roadkill Rampage do the same but in big team H2A and hope matchmaking puts you in different teams (whoever grabs a vehicle first do the splatters!)

[@Fallentoast345]

Keep in mind killing a player with the icicles gives you both the environmentalist and splatter medals, so you can kill two birds with one shot :)

[@hounsdjentlow3074]

Your implying i have friends to try this with ...

[@jamisonlynch6437]

@@hounsdjentlow3074 I think using a second controller works too.

[@luckyvulp]

I heard of pairing up 4v4 like this, but never heard 1v1. I may need to try that later, since I only have two friends that actually play Halo. Thanks!

[@Zepravity]

another tip for roadkill rampage if you're playing alone; hornet. get the halo 2a bloodline map and get in the hornet and just squish people the whole game. i think my first game doing that strategy i got like 30 splatters lmao

[@nicolasparvin]

For grenade kills, I found H4’s custom loadouts help cuz u can equip plasma nades and just go for sticks. Makes it easier if u want to grind them out.

[@ratoz8127]

5:02 I didint get it cause I’m an Easter egg hunter, I got it cause I love ODST.

[@austrakaiser4793]

Awww thanks mate

[@The_Nocturnal_Raven]

That's the same reason why I did ODST on solo Legendary. It was too much fun for me. : )

[@nicolasparvin]

Exactly why I got it. I couldn’t say no to roaming Mombasa Streets for a couple of hours.

[@wesss9353]

I got that a few days after the game came out on Xbox 360

[@lizipancake]

I used the Mombasa Streets playlist, worked on my ODST Legendary stealth while trying to find it all

[@unsortedguy]

Yikes. Some of these are just... No! Just checked for fun and I have 3% of those environments kills in H2A 😅

[@noodlemaster4719]

Thats 3 more then me

[@tagg946]

the only reason the h2a achievements are so rare is because no one plays h2a mp. the rarest achievement for h2a is earn 100 splatter medals. so many people would already have that on reach and halo 3. The second rarest achievement for halo 3 is Mind The Gap at the moment, which was basically just annoying to get, rather than difficult.

[@Xumbie]

Just boost them with other players it’s not worth doing legit

[@bonehawk1173]

@@tagg946 I just cheesed the mind the gap achievement, you don’t even need skulls or be on legendary, I went on easy and put on the acrophobia skull, lined up 4 hogs and made sure I knew where each grav lift was, you can do it solo like me but if you have a buddy or 2 it’d be easier. I did this earlier today so it still works.

[@igee1605]

​@@bonehawk1173 I did it recently as well lol

[@termentir7257]

The only bad MP achievements are the ones that you can’t do in custom games. Like Environmentalist.

[@EastDallasKicks]

Those are easy if you aren’t against boosting

[@termentir7257]

@@EastDallasKicks I’m not against boosting it’s just a pain to be only able to play on like two maps to grind out 200 kills. It’s just the hassle of hoping you get those maps.

[@221Prohunter]

@@EastDallasKicks They’re a huge pain even with boosting. Realistically, they’re almost impossible without boosting because Halo 2A MP is dead and lockout is only really farmable in 1v1s. They’re bad achievements no matter how you do them lol

[@EastDallasKicks]

@@221Prohunter Recognize you from the completionist discord. If you consider them a pain, I boost with friends which makes the game fun especially when you get tired and miss a jump or blow someone up in a weird way. The 1v1 playlist wasn’t always the only way, those of us who have been on the game from 2019 on older had multiple opportunity’s to clear out that achievement. It’s still far easier to boost then expecting to obtain through regular multiplayer. The environmentalist achievement isn’t really bad as I’ve seen numerous people who had mcc from launch or soon after have most of the achievement knocked out before wanting to boost the last 30 or so. Dudes who are really good at the game and play a lot of h2a also seem to have the achievement. Forgot what twitch streamer it was but he has it unlocked but isn’t a hunter though I know that doesn’t reflect everyone

[@EastDallasKicks]

@@termentir7257 Boost with friends have a fun chat.

[@catcharide56]

The one upside to the Spartan Ops missions was that headshots count towards the multiplayer headshot achievements. Grind time was reduced significantly.

[@Ikcatcher]

I’m starting to think even 343 didn’t actually test their achievements and just put out whatever they felt like that day

[@volrogue]

Why? Because they're too hard? Outside your comfort zone? 😔

[@Shlungoidwungus]

@@volrogue Because Halo 4 Spartan Ops is a trainwreck and playing it Solo Legendary is a prostate exam.

[@volrogue]

@@Shlungoidwungus so I was right then? Because... I have it. It's legendary. Like they said, it's a co-op gamemode, so it's a challenge. The achievement is a challenge. You're complaining that a challenge is too hard

[@Ikcatcher]

@@volrogue Bragging that you completed a three-legged race while crawling isn’t a good thing you know. Just because a blatant design flaw makes something hard doesn’t suddenly make it a ‘challenge’ You bragging about it just feels like you’re trying to justify the time you spent comepleting it.

[@Shlungoidwungus]

@@volrogue You literally just made my point. They have an achievement to play a gamemode balanced around co-op solo on the hardest difficulty and they don't adjust the difficulty to account for the fact that you're a single player. And no shit, yes challenges can be too hard. If they had the challenge "literally make a new Halo game" you'd say that's too hard, so this nonsense point about "there's no such thing as a challenge that's too hard" is completely asinine. It isn't hard because it's like supremely well crafted, it's hard in the same way Halo 2 Legendary was hard, there are things that are bullshit and unfair constantly, because it was literally made for 4 people and wasn't rescaled to account for different playercounts.

[@TheWideMurloc]

CE assault on the control room is also a harsh par time that requires some skips to complete. It’s probably the longest CE mission normally but the par time is super gogo mode

[@PhoenixRNH]

I did it pretty easily just with stealing the first banshee

[@TheWideMurloc]

@@PhoenixRNH that is still a skip. The intended route takes AT LEAST 20 minutes, yet the par time is only 15, which clearly shows par time expects some kind of skip

[@luock3505]

i did it without any skips, as i did with regret and reclaimer, you just need to run through and ignore all the encounters

[@eliteguard225]

It's really easy if you do the early banshee trick. Took me 5 tries, 10 minutes to complete in total.

[@TheWideMurloc]

@@eliteguard225 that's kind of my whole point though. It's impossible unless you use early cheeses and skips. that's not something that should be accounted for in a par time

[@5ch3nk]

When Halo CE Anniversary came out I got all the achievements in the game solo. The only game I ever did 100% of the achievements. Love that campaign and it gave me new ways to play it. There was a couple hard ones that took multiple tries. Stuff like not being able to take any damage on certain levels or not being able to pick up new weapons for an entire level. The one I still remember as the hardest was beating The Library on Legendary in less than 30 minutes. That one took A LOT of tries....

[@AlejoConejo-vb8ln]

Ikr? CE is awesome. Also the only one I have 100% completion on. Challenging but fair. It's still the perfect Halo to this day!

[@austrakaiser4793]

Probably the easiest game to complete is Quake II, because there's 9 achievements that are unlocked by literally completing the 9 campaign levels... no score though which makes it utterly pointless XD

[@JuiceboxCE]

Pacifist Silent Cartographer is my uphill battle, I absolutely despise the rng towards the end on making it out successfully

[@AlejoConejo-vb8ln]

@@JuiceboxCE Facts it pretty much IS rng. Took me like 7 tries to escape the Gold Elite at the end. My strategy is to run past him into the edge where Chief kicks a rock into the abyss earlier in the mission (there's an invisible barrier that the Elite can't cross) so you trick him to get past him and try to outrun him all the way to the beach where you can get an overshield, and by the time you climb back Foehammer should have landed so just never stop moving until you can hop on. Good luck!

[@PurpleTheta]

That 30 minute Library run was so goddamn hard. I remember doing It too, but managed to do it…somehow.

[@mushroomfish300]

You can use ANY skull in Spartan ops for the legendary solo achievement, no matter what. Yes, that includes bandanna and acrophobia. It really helps a lot.

[@thieving_fox_]

Hey I have 698 Achievements in MCC (Halo 2 LASO is the last i need) Heres some tips for a lot of the annoying achievements. 500 Nade kills - You and a friend can que into halo 2A 1vs1 and stick eachother. 100 Splatters in 2A - You can get this with the Environment kills because the hitbox of the icicles has a splatter effect if the player is killed by the projectile. 100 Environment kills in 2A - Just like the nade kills you and a friend can que into 2A 1vs1 and wait to get lockout. 500 wins in multiplayer - You can solo que into customs and end the game and it gives you the win. 100 Legendary metals - Steak taculars in reach heaves and also killionares in firefight (they count) are the easiest ones to do. Another tip for multiplayer DO NOT PLAY HALO 3! A lot of achievement progress does not count like assists and metals.

[@regnumsolipsi5935]

For the Firefight achievements, you were able to unlock all of them by completing just the last level. I don't know if that was ever fixed or not, but it was a huge help when I was going for my 100% as well.

[@J_claud]

For ODST I found all the audio logs and didn’t play the story through. So that’s a rough way of going about that unfortunately

[@Ryan50Ryan]

KZbin: Hey, you wanna see this video? Me: I'm pretty sure I've seen it twice already. KZbin: So... you wanna see it or not.

[@PARTY_MUTT]

Hey Rocket Sloth! I've been watching you for a while and I must say it is unreal to see you talk about the same achievements that have plagued my journey to 100%ing the MCC. I'm currently at 678/700 and am also trying to 100% the game before infinite so this video was a real treat to watch! Hopefully, we both knock it out before release!

[@ericzenger4435]

Are you still working for that 100%? I am 3 achievements away and looking for some other achievement hunters trying to finish the fight prior to Infinite's drop. GT: XxAnimanthiumxX

[@PARTY_MUTT]

@@ericzenger4435 hey yooo FR I’ll add you

[@ErikJohnsonFMA]

I checked and it turns out I have the domination achievement. definitely mostly from getting steaks in big team

[@confusedindividual]

When I first got MCC, I didn’t have any friends that played Halo but I still wanted to go through all of it on Legendary… including Spartan Ops. I wasn’t even thinking of the achievement. It came as a complete surprise when I finished. I thought: huh… well, I guess it makes sense to create an exclusive achievement for doing something solo that was meant to be done cooperatively. Cool.

[@Afluffycookie117]

If you still play, I'd be happy to play with you

[@luckycow7710]

Im pretty sure that can get body shots in swat and even though it doesn't actually do dmg u still get assists, worth trying for the legendary medals

[@bepis254]

You still do damage in swat with body shots

[@luckycow7710]

But does it count towards assists?

[@just_ugu]

@@luckycow7710 it does, but it's still hard to get a triple double

[@Lucas12v]

Btb is the easiest way to get triple double. Sit back with the dmr and hit headshots. Lots of times other people will actually get the kill but that's a good thing. Best Playlist for steaktacular too bc the score difference doesn't need to be so extreme.

[@austrakaiser4793]

SWAT plays like normal Slayer only no shields, no radar and no weapon spawns but you have a Precision Weapon. Body shots still do damage but if you're trying to get body shots in SWAT then there's something wrong with you XD

[@BnHHandofGod]

As someone who has completed all MCC achievements, I have to say that the “Environmentalist” achievement is only annoying because is has to be done in H2A. Other than that, I really enjoyed changing up my play style and getting creative with the map.

[@Kamelot33]

What about "Back in my day" achievement? How did you complete it?

[@BnHHandofGod]

@@Kamelot33 There is only really one way to do it. You need to have four controllers and load into a custom game. Try typing the achievement into KZbin for a tutorial.

[@icetina117]

@@Kamelot33 If You are in PC just make a custom game in halo CE with other 3 friends play a match and you'll get it

[@samlaws2688]

Roadkill rampage? No one even plays halo 2A enough for vehicle maps

[@BnHHandofGod]

@@samlaws2688 believe it or not people used to play it a lot.

[@slimjunkin4635]

There's one mission in Spartan Ops that has around 15 watchers right at the beginning. Made getting that achievement so much easier because I got a checkpoint right before they spawned

[@mushroomfish300]

For players trying to get the IWHBYD skull in halo 2, you don’t need to trigger certain checkpoints. All you need is to trigger is the sniper alley checkpoint and go to the area where the skull spawns, and get the 1/7 chance of the skull spawning.

[@asnowmanthattalks2489]

you can do 8 player ffa with all 8 people being in your party so maybe you can set something up in your discord so you can get the environmentalist achievement in h2a

[@just_ugu]

Wuut?! I didn't know you could jump on ffa with a squad, now I'm considering getting these achievements

[@Zepravity]

@@just_ugu as far as i know you can't, but what you could do is have everyone input lock and region lock themselves to the same settings, then search at the same time. pretty decent chance of getting into the same game especially for 1v1s

[@ManuCarrotman312]

I've jumped in FFA with friends a lot of times so I know you can unless they recently changed that. I've never brought a full lobby there because I just haven't had enough people but I brought like 6 people counting myself so the games only had 2 randoms. It was actually a lot of fun and if you can set up a good party this becomes a very viable strat for most of these

[@austrakaiser4793]

Having two groups of people region locking, input locking, platform locking and then joining a matchmaking playlist in MCC is the only thing you can do to get rewards and actually just have fun with your friends since Halo 3 and Reach where you could join up with people during matchmaking and stick with the same people forever.

[@ManuCarrotman312]

@@puredamian5862 In Halo 5, and maybe OG games, but I'm pretty confident MCC lets you take anyone there

[@metroidhunter965]

I remember an achievement in the original _Reach_ where you had to survive a fall that would have been fatal by assassinating an Elite. You do not know the rage in that achievement

[@skunkstriped]

That achievement is still part of MCC if memory serves me right. And it’s nowhere near the worst achievement, I did it after only a few tries

[@no-barknoonan1335]

@@skunkstriped It's not in MCC, and I don't remember it being that difficult in OG Reach got it within 20 tries, but keep in mind I was doing the elite at beginning of Pillar of Autumn which if I hadn't been told to use that elite, it would have been much more difficult.

[@jacobeiden415]

@@no-barknoonan1335it doesn’t exist as an achievement but I think it was a challenge to unlock the Halo Reach helmet ‘Mister Chief,’ before it was put into the exchange

[@generalsam101]

Getting the Environmentalist achievement was the most painful thing I have ever done in a halo game. SO MANY GAMES OF H2A SWAT

[@SeekerGoldstone]

2:16 There is a bug in MCC that causes your completion to not tract on the mission selection screen. Not only do you have to spend the countless hours playing through them on Legendary solo, you also have to keep track of which one you last completed.

[@johnalberto9600]

This is actually something that is happening to me, and I was not aware of this so I don't have any idea of what missions I've completed.

[@SeekerGoldstone]

@@johnalberto9600 Its been a while since I've made any progress but I think there is an achievement for completing each chapter... if my memory serves, you can check which chapters are incomplete and then you just have to replay each mission in those chapters

[@SeekerGoldstone]

@@johnalberto9600 Although, if you have previously completed them NOT on Solo Legendary, I think you're screwed.

[@johnalberto9600]

Yep, there's an achievement per chapter, but actually I've completed all Spartan Ops chapters in Normal difficulty and I earned that achievement. Recently I started on Legendary (solo) and completed some chapters in a row, but the progress of the chapters still appears like if it only was completed on Normal, so now I don't have idea on what chapter I was.

[@caezzy_]

I hope you succeed with your achievements Rocket sloth!

[@rowanlochnea]

Could you theoretically grind grifball matches when the mode is available to stack exterm medals?

[@enderk9628]

I remember when people used to do this back during reach on the 360. Screw you and people who do this.

[@rowanlochnea]

@@enderk9628 oh dude yeah fuck those people. If you're gonna spawn camp, at least score the damn ball. I was talking about legit exterms, not cheesing through shitty means like that.

[@Xumbie]

People are saying reach firefight counts for killionaire medals. I personally can’t confirm if it counts but it’s worth a try

[@PaulRaynaudWeirdPG]

I got a killionaire and a extermination Medela in grifball you just have to be at the enemy team's spawn and kill them faster than they can kill you

[@LukemNukem43]

For Rock and Coil hit back, easiest way to get it is have the two of you search for a match in the 1v1 playlist with only the H2A maps selected and get paired against one another. Bc the score goes to 10, alternate kills and wait til the coils/icicles come back. Time consuming, but doesn’t take nearly as long as doing it legitimately. It’s what my buddy and I did. If we didn’t, no way I would have the achievement. Hope this helps!

[@cs82271]

As someone who didn't have a partner to play with, the two worst achievements you didn't include have to be the "complete two betrayals on legendary without killing any grunts" and "complete the ark on legendary without entering a vehicle". Other than that, all of the above are absolute nightmares

[@Ampluvr7]

The legendary metals, 100 Splatter in H2A, Environmentalist and the 500 Grenades are still KILLING ME! GAHHH!

[@PartOfTheGame]

A lot of the multi-player achievements feel like Bungie saying "the only way you'll get these is if Halo is your only online game that you play, Halo is your life, you LIVE for Halo"

[@erisi236]

Yeah, it's those multiplayer ones that are the real stickler, I never realized how little HA2 King of the Hill pops up till I needed it to

[@kevindosch8516]

Pretty sure you can do that in custom. Just grab a second controller and create a game of KOTH on Warlock

[@kevindosch8516]

The main POS achievements that HAVE to be multi are the environmentalist and splatter. Both are to 100 and both are H2a exclusive

[@ruffastoast8570]

I remember playing reach years ago trying to get the achievement: if they came to hear me beg.. I must have tried to do it for a total of 4 hours, it just wouldn't pop up. It's the only one I remember because of this .

[@Nonx47]

I never used the skip getting myself on the gondola early, just played in a rushed mode and beat the par time.

[@pyropsycho9292]

For the domination achievement you used to be able to get killionaires in firefight matchmaking and it would count towards your progress. I don't know if they patched it but it worked for me.

[@Zarrex]

I finished my 700/700 about a month ago, and I truly believe Smooth Operator is the worst achievement in the entire game. It's one you don't hear about as much because people focus on LASO, but holy hell is it gratin Also I was one of the people who had the 100 legendary medals from playing matchmaking lol. I imagine 99% of it was from exterminations and steaktacular

[@tTaseric]

90% of the issues with Smooth Operator is just that one mission where you have to protect the Phantom which is fucking impossible solo. Spartan Ops Solo was all just putting on a podcast and throwing myself at the enemy until they die, but the missions with actual fail-states are my worst nightmare.

[@QuintessentialWalrus]

Is that the Solo Legendary Spartan Ops one? Fucking hell, I've still never beaten Spartan Ops period. It's not a bad idea in a vacuum but it was a terrible replacement for Firefight because it's ONLY fun with friends, instead of MORE fun with friends.

[@Zarrex]

@@QuintessentialWalrus indeed. Just throwing yourself at enemies for ~25 minutes, except repeat that 50 times

[@Zepravity]

i haven't done laso yet, but smooth operator was definitely worse than the under 3 hour and multiplayer grind achievements for me. it's just so mind numbing, atleast the speedrun tricks and big team battle games were fun

[@helljumper960ragemonkeyult9]

I pretty much almost got my achievements done just need to complete the ones I haven't done yet

[@Zebaschtian]

The problem with these achievements is that you guys try to get them in a shirt period of time which rises pressure and frustration. But REMEMBER the game came out 7 years ago and in that time medals built up in Multiplayer.

[@bradleyhanson96]

I believe he mentioned wanting to complete MCC before Infinite is released, so perhaps he's putting too much pressure on himself for these "endurance" achievements.

[@writershard5065]

The thing is, when you are aiming for any of these achievements, you aren't gonna go "Okay I'm gonna start this now, and maaaybe in 5 years I'll finish it". You're gonna expect to be at it for months, but not for half a decade. Some of these achievements should definitely be tweaked. Especially the Spartan Ops one, and the Knights and Watchers ones.

[@Zebaschtian]

@@writershard5065 jep agreed. Knights and Watchers is hell. Like 500 would be enough

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

The audio logs one is really tough because there's always that one log you can't find even when looking it up online.

[@GeeWee700]

I got the halo 2 IWHBYD skull on my first try, it just took like 7 seconds to appear in front of me cus I was staring at it, I think people don’t wait for the skull to appear

[@russellbrown6888]

The third checkpoint is what triggers the game to decide whether or not to spawn the skull. You must have gotten lucky and managed to get to it with only 2 checkpoints.

[@TPDeluxe72]

Playing MCC multiplayer off and on since 2015 and just had the grenade achievement pop up like a month ago. I remember thinking "Damn... I've played hundreds of games and that was ONLY 500 grenade kills!?"

[@HandmadeGoose97]

Beating all the games on legendary while getting a time under 3 hours, ok then I guess I'll have to learn how to speedrun all the Halos 😭

[@keenanthornley7680]

If I am understanding your distress correctly but maybe you already know, but it isn't _all_ of the Halos combined, but per game (so with all of the games combined, you have 18 hours total). If you already know this but it is still intimidating, as long as you beat the par time on most of the levels, you will finish each of the campaigns in under 3 hours. One thing that, for me at least, makes it much less stressful is using the mindset that you are basically "rationing" your total time. There are really easy tricks you pull off on a lot of the longer par time missions, which will allow you to take longer on other levels. Basically, if you finish a mission that has a part time of, say 25 minutes, in 15 minutes, that allows you to use those leftover 10 minutes on missions that do not have any easy tricks that cut off a lot of time. I hope this all made sense and I hope it boosts your confidence like it did for me. It is far more achievable than you would believe, and I believe in you!

[@fiammaorsmth9840]

@@keenanthornley7680 If I play each mission separately, it will only add up the best times, right?

[@mcdonaldswarfare3]

Halo 1 and 2 are the worst for that

[@nextgennel5123]

I used to play Halo 3 matchmaking when I was a lot younger with my older brother and we had our little group online. Did everything from lone wolves to ranked slayer. Man I miss those days dearly. Getting exterminations and what not when you and the squad are playing together was always so fun! Unfortunately only 2 of us still play together still.

[@neon_lavander]

After watching this video for the first time I've started doing all of spartan ops on legendary alone and it's so far got me the 1000 crawler kill achievement and I doubt I'm far from the knight one (sidenote, assassinating watchers is possibly the most satisfying thing in history)

[@neon_lavander]

I've since completed h2, h3, h4, odst reach and spartan ops on legendary alone, completed both 1000 watchers and 1000 knights, and yet I can't get through the library on heroic

[@stevebaker494]

Domination: You plus three guests, friend plus three guests, 8 player FFA matchmaking...

[@mee4644]

Back when H4 came out, me and my dad did it all on Legendary. I was fairly enthralled and had a good romp. But I would not hunt that solo achievement.

[@nathangarland9453]

H4 on legendary single man aint that hard tho mate.i used to play that when i was drunk as sh1t.some times id play better drunk.good luck out there mate.

[@gbmgaming]

My favourite is always "Two for one" on Halo 3, mainly because my friend to this day has every achievement in Halo 3 except for that one. He'd go into game chat and no one wanted to help him get it from 2007-2010 which is always hilarious to me.

[@SuperCatElvis]

just checked apparently I'm 59% complete with domination, just by playing the game

[@HoneyICakes]

Funny thing with the Master Chief Saga playlist, it probably happens because I have an old xbox but I was going through it and stopped playing around the middle of Halo 4 and now the playlist sends me back to the campaign menu instead of the game when I try to start it and now I have to start the playlist all over again

[@NahEirreanFear]

I got my enviromentalist medal legit, i think my record was 7 in a game. Once you learn the spawn cycles it goes pretty quick actually

[@rhysraptor9249]

For the Legendary medals, I think one of the best ways to do them is sticking to BTB. I play so much BTB Heavies in Reach. Getting the latter two you mentioned are a lot easier when the score to reach is 150 imo (especially triple double), and sure it's usually still 1 per game, but sometimes you get 2. Exciting.

[@red5robb1]

i play mainly swat and ive gotten quite a few extermination medals (even got a kiltrocity once) but BTB is probably easier overall...but every time i play it there is always throwers or griefers on my team so i dont touch it much

[@Lucas12v]

I agree 100% i play a lot of btb and got domination without even trying.

[@4bidn1]

@@red5robb1 I main swat as well and have since 2009, the problem for me these days is that I'm in Australia and wait times for games are atrocious, and even when I do find a game there's a high chance it's a US West server and my shots don't register unless I'm playing like I can see the future xD I keep playing though soo... My eternal love for this game remains

[@Ethan_Wheeler]

Rocket Sloth: "Legendary Multiplayer Metals for Domination Achievement are so hard to get!" Mint Blitz: "I need a weapon" *The fight intensifies*

[@SikuKskt]

There is like 700 achievements or something like that

[@termentir7257]

700 exactly with no more coming anytime soon.

[@SurosAsr]

I remember solo playing through legendary halo 4 for the chief armour… I have to say I love those checkpoints break through them lol

[@mrbaitandwatch2259]

Spartan Ops caught my eye. It was surprising to hear that this was an entry here, since I never considered it. But then, I started to consider it, since I actually did play the whole 50 chapters alone on spartan ops on solo legendary, without knowing about the achieveme to for this section. Just gonna say, a solo run means about an hour and dozens of deaths per chapter, 50 hours in total, and dozens more deaths. I need to emphasize that. I'm glad it's over 😌

[@thatonemetalhead4176]

Pretty much the same as Nightmare on Doom Eternal, except Doom Eternal is amazing, while Spartan Ops is dogshit.

[@0984213]

Me and my cousin found a strategy for some of the multiplayer achievements. Load of a 1v1 match with your friend and essentially stand around and let the other kill you for killing sprees, killjoys, grenade kills, environmentalist, splatter, and even legendary medals since they can kill you 15 times and get it that way.

[@ravensailiata]

Took me 4 hours to get the IWBYD skull in halo 2

[@GeeWee700]

I got it on my first try it just took several seconds to appear in front of me I think people restart the level too fast

[@AnnieMay224]

That Dominion achievement only being worth 10 gamerscore is so insulting for how difficult it is to get

[@johnnylucio8298]

I've 100%ed MCC and I agree with all of these achievements, although I would've added having to get 5000 assists as a major pain cause u r once again relying on ur random (usually garbage) teammates to do some work. I also have some advice for getting the environmentalist and legendary medals achievements. If u have 1 friend load up an alt account, u can both search H2A 1v1 and most likely match each other. From there, if u get lockout, u can have the alt account player stand under the hanging ice and next to fusion coils for 15 kills (which'll give u a perfection). If u dont get lockout then u can pass the time by getting 15 nade kills and another perfection. This method is a little scummy, but the alternative is just simply not worth it for a 10g achievement. Hope this helps anyone who's trying for 100%

[@blujay5853]

Here’s a recommendation for grenades. Rush someone and when they’re about to melee you, stick them and pray it registers.

[@shanez1215]

People recommend Halo 4 and newer for triple double because Assists were changed from requiring you to down 60% of a players shields (3 DMR shots) to just damaging them. Sidenote but I had a weird af glitch where I loaded into Halo 4 on 360 and was granted like 20 multiplayer Achievements. It made no sense

[@corvax8644]

The Flipyap achievement was definitely the most grindy farm for any Halo achievement I’ve ever gotten. It literally took me like 5-6 hours straight of farming grunt dialogue from the group of 5 grunts at the end of crow’s nest to finally get it. And you know the funny thing? The very next day after getting it I was clearing out ODST par scores and I got the dialogue AGAIN from a grunt in data hive. Not even on legendary or with the IWHBYD skull activated😐

[@youtubefan1735]

10:54 Mint Blitz has definitely beat that

[@TheBeaconsAreLit98]

Best thing to do for ODST audio logs coop, is to load Mombasa streets 6 (The one before Kikowani station) Then get all the logs, and play kikowani station (load kikowani Station from Mombasa streets DO NOT quit to menu) After Kikowani, go straight to Data hive (load it from Mombasa streets again) and it will work. Me and my friend did it this way. This saves you having to play it all the way through. Alternatively, you can just do it solo and it will save you audio log progress even if you quit to menu. Hope this helps!

[@vergil1983]

For some reason the par time for depositary can be done in slection where the level starts after the elephant section and still counted, weirdly selection levels that are reduced other than this one did not count kind of confused and relieved

[@stupidflandrs4856]

Elijah: You have to really work hard and sweat to get a Steaktacular Infinite bots: allow us to introduce ourselves

[@Qwepzy]

Why doesn't MS allow you to remove games from your profile that have like 5G on a game you will never play again. My OCD can't take it that you can't hide the game or even erase it from your profile!

[@JohnAdams-ci6lh]

or at least put it in a junk folder lol

[@YouKnowThisBoy]

when you check your achievements and see you have domination without trying for it....

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

So, I got that domination achievement back in early 2020. MCC came out on PC in early 2019. That means I got the achievement without knowing it existed and without trying in a year of just occasionally booting up MCC with friends. Honestly those medals really aren't that hard to get. Extermination is occasionally comically easy in swat especially.

[@DesignatedHealer]

The only one that looks terrible to me is environmentalist tbh.

[@spectre9717]

I found all audio logs by using the hints the super intending leaves (like cars horning, money getting dispensed from a payphone,walkway lights etc)

[@ProfessionalJerry]

Halo 4 is so trash

[@Nefnoj]

I just went after the Master Chief Saga playlist achievement alongside all the par-time achievements since Normal difficulty is pretty easy if you've done them all on Legendary. There were a handful I had to do on Easy but beyond that, was really manageable.

[@Dolat1984]

I'm still trying to get the IWHBYD Skull in Halo 2... Hundreds of runs of that level and it has never shown up...

[@halinaqi2194]

Lmao you must be unlucky asf. Remember for it to spawn, you have to be playing on legendary, load the sniper ally loading zone, and rush to the sniper where the skull spawns. Idk if you have to beat the elites for the achievement, but if you have to, bring Johnson with you. If the skull doesnt spawn tough luck, reload from menu, I am not sure if restart mission gives a chance for the skull to spawn.

[@Dolat1984]

@@halinaqi2194 thank you for the advice :), gone through all the usual things to get it to spawn and more. I'm just an extremely unlucky person lol.

[@sambainbridge301]

How to get environmentalist: Grab a friend, go into 1v1, population is so low that you'll always match with each other.

[@Indiscrimi]

I found that I was getting Killionaire medals fairly consistently in Firefight. There's one map, in Reach (don't know what it's called, but it's on a cliffside, with a landing platform), where piles of grunts will spawn on top of each other. Combine with an explosive weapon, and you're getting at least three Killionaires per match.

[@llightskinned]

Out of all the achievements I’ve gotten in MCC thus far, by far the most tedious was the Nice Work Dawg! achievement (the one where you have to get 2500 assists.) Like the gernarde one, sounds easy on paper, but in practice it takes FOREVER. Surprised that one didn’t make the list cause that one was before the most annoying for me. And as a nice kick in the balls one last time, you get a grand total of 5G for unlocking it. The things we do for Halo sometimes lol

[@LegendStormcrow]

That assassination cheevo in Reach, yeah it's busted. I've succeeded a few times, but didn't trigger it.

[@ZuukaClips]

What about 1000 Crawlers? I really wish Halo 4 had Custom Firefight. It'd be so easier rip

[@Rusty_Mitchell]

What was really frustrating was that one of the early patches 343 released reset a bunch of players' progress on a bunch of achievements. My first 20-odd Legendary medals didn't count toward the achievement, so I had to get over 120 of them.

[@adamhoman8053]

Fun fact about the 500 grenade achievement: you actually need to get the grenade kill medal to pop up witch is exclusive to CE, 2, 2A, and 4. Grenade kills in 3 and Reach dont count as well as plasma sticks

[@corruptedpoison1]

When an achievement becomes a second job is when I stop caring about completing a game.

[@SmoothRYAN312]

Pro tip for the environmentalist medal, and some of the other multiplayer medals, you can queue up for obscure modes at the same time and likely will get put in a match together, for environmentalist, I believe me and my friends did 2v2 objective modes for H2A, found each other every time and just helped one another, saved so much time.

[@Lilly-bo1mi]

The positive side of Spartan Ops is that if you die, he does not restart to a checkpoint, the respawn system works like multiplayer

[@rinzevant6120]

I had so much trouble with the CE achievement where you kill the first group of enemies in truth and reconciliation without alerting any of them. I spent about an hour restarting the level over and over again with two different friends trying and failing to get it. And then one day I was just playing the level normally with a a friend who was new to Halo, and we just randomly got it without trying to.

[@dragonworksgaming]

100% agree with you, I happily enjoy playing through LASO, it is a challenge and it's really hard and at times can even be super frustrating but nothing bugs me more than multiplayer achievements that are either reliant on other people or just stupid rare RNG on top of stupid good skill. Nobody should be forced to try and spend hours trying to get these legit or even spending probably just as much time trying to find others that are willing to help them cheese it, because it is not an easy thing to do to find people willing to co-operate. Great video love your stuff, earnt a sub for sure it's nice to watch videos echoing my sentiments as I too am trying to get all of MCC achievements before infinite comes out. Currently at 542/700 and have only done Reach LASO so far and basically almost no multiplayer achievements so those will be the ones that end up taking the longest.

[@jcorey2005]

Honestly the audio logs are one of the coolest things halo as ever done. The best way to do it is the hunt then down AFTER you've finished the game. Takes about 2 hours.

[@quickzach]

I swear every other video you mention Luke getting screwed by ANOTHER achievement. Poor guy. My hearts out to you my guy.

[@matthewcochran8957]

Are you going to work on all the achievements in halo infinite before halo 7 comes out?