Anomalies on missions and Achievements

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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This will be looking at the Achievement list that 343 posted, and therefore will contain minor spoilers by its nature. If you want be dark as the shadows then probably will be best not to scroll down.

Ok so looking at the Achievement list 343 announced we have some insight into the missions yet I have seen some anomalies.

Now we seem to have 15 mission but when we go down to the individual mission achievements we only seem to have 12 mentioned missions (and one of them is just called “The thirteenth mission”)
Here is the list the complete mission achievements

Into the Fire
Complete Mission 1.

Argent Moon
Complete Mission 2.

Glasslands
Complete Mission 3.

Roots of the Earth
Complete Mission 4.

Stolen Gauntlet
Complete Mission 5.

Escape
Complete Mission 6.

Together Again
Complete Mission 7.

Swords
Complete Mission 8.

Old Bones
Complete Mission 9.

Breakthrough
Complete Mission 10.

Stormbound
Complete Mission 11.

Civil War
Complete Mission 12.

Reclamation
Complete Mission 13.

A New Dawn
Complete Mission 14.

Sentinels
Complete Mission 15.

Heres a list of the individual mission names from achievements

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Your Team is Your Weapon

Command your team of Spartans in Osiris.
2
I Thought I’d Lost You

Escape the Hunters in the lab and fight them in the hangar in Blue Team
3
Going the Distance

Complete Glassed without entering a vehicle.
4
Waiting on You

Kill an enemy that’s had its armor repaired in Unconfirmed.
5
Savior
Keep 6 miners alive at the elevator in Evacuation on Heroic difficulty.
6
Take a Hike

Traverse the canyon in Reunion without a Phaeton on Heroic difficulty.
7
No Knock Raid

Destroy 10 walls or floors in Swords of Sanghelios.
8
Kraken Lackin’

Complete Enemy Lines without destroying a Kraken turret.
9
Death from Above

Kill a Grunt and smash a grate with a Ground Pound in Battle of Sunaion
10
Tank Still Beats Everything

Finish the 13th mission without losing the Scorpion on Legendary difficulty.
11
Prison Break

Simultaneously kill two Wardens in The Breaking on Heroic difficulty.
12
Icy Cool

Ground Pound an exterior power core in Guardians on Heroic difficulty.

So over all we seem to have 12 missions named here

Osiris
Blue Team
Glassed
Unconfirmed
Evacuation
Reunion
Swords of Sanghelios
Enemy Lines
Battle of Sunaion
“the 13th mission”
The Breaking
Guardians

So by using the power of deduction and logic I put together a vague list of what the campaign set up will probably look like.

    • OSIRIS = Into the Fire
    • BLUE TEAM= Agrent Moon
    • Glassed? = Glasslands

  4. ??? = Roots of the Earth

  5. ??? = Stolen Gauntlet.

  6. ??? = Escape

    • Reunion? = Together Again
    • Swords of Sanghelios = Swords

  9. ??? = Old Bones

  10. = Breakthrough

    • ENEMY LINES = Stormbound
    • BATTLE OF SUNION = Civil War
    • “the 13th Mission” = Reclamation
    • THE BREAKING = A New Dawn
    • GUARDIANS = Sentinels

So what do you think about it? The 13th mission seems interesting and also why they would miss out the achievements for 3 missions is perplexing too.

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anyone?

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There doesnt have to be an achievement for every mission. The achievements list says 15 missions, so it will be 15 missions.

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I don’t think that its always the case that every mission has a level specific achievement. I doubt they would tie an achievement to a cutscene. My real concern is the achievement that says “complete a match on all 3 original Warzone maps”. That might refer to the three maps tied to the default Warzone mode, but that wording makes it seem unlikely to me. At this point I wouldn’t even be surprised if there were only three Warzone maps at launch, with a slightly different variant for Warzone assault that they considered a seperate map in PR messaging, but not in their own achievement list.

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> There doesnt have to be an achievement for every mission. The achievements list says 15 missions, so it will be 15 missions.

It seems illogical that they would have two achievements per mission for 12 of them and the remaining 3 just have no achievments tied to them.

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> > There doesnt have to be an achievement for every mission. The achievements list says 15 missions, so it will be 15 missions.
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> It seems illogical that they would have two achievements per mission for 12 of them and the remaining 3 just have no achievments tied to them.

Not really. There’s an achievement for completing each level, the others are about playing the level slightly differently. Maybe that isn’t possible in those 3 levels. Nothing untoward here for me

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> > > There doesnt have to be an achievement for every mission. The achievements list says 15 missions, so it will be 15 missions.
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> Not really. There’s an achievement for completing each level, the others are about playing the level slightly differently. Maybe that isn’t possible in those 3 levels. Nothing untoward here for me

How can it not be untoward. What mission in any halo game has such little variation that you cant think of at least one achievement on it. That makes me worried that these 3 levels will just be cutscenes or some nonsense.
The severe lack of any achievements is kind strange. That or 343 just forgot to put them on the list.

Edit - Upon adding up the Gamerscore it seems that it does add up to 1000, so it looks like these 3 missions do lack achievments.