I’ve returned to grinding Halo 5 lately to squeeze out Reqs. At this time of writing, when I open Silver Reqs I usually get Armour and Helmets as permanent unlocks. I have unlocked all Common and Uncommon Armour, Helmets, Visors, Loadouts and Certs for Power Weapons and Vehicles. I still have 1 Rare Armour, 7 Rare Helmets, 2x Rare DMR Loadouts and a staggering 65 Rare Emblems to go.
Strangely enough, I also got two Uncommon Emblems left, which should have turned up a long time ago. Are some Emblems, Armour and Helmets only available from Commendation completions? I haven’t actually got any Emblems from my Silver Req packs lately. The Reqs I covet the most are Certifications and Loadouts but I want to get rid of Uncommon and Rare Emblems in Silver Packs so that when I start on Gold Req Packs, they’ll only get Ultra Rare and Legendary permanent unlocks.
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> I’ve returned to grinding Halo 5 lately to squeeze out Reqs. At this time of writing, when I open Silver Reqs I usually get Armour and Helmets as permanent unlocks. I have unlocked all Common and Uncommon Armour, Helmets, Visors, Loadouts and Certs for Power Weapons and Vehicles. I still have 1 Rare Armour, 7 Rare Helmets, 2x Rare DMR Loadouts and a staggering 65 Rare Emblems to go.
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> Strangely enough, I also got two Uncommon Emblems left, which should have turned up a long time ago. Are some Emblems, Armour and Helmets only available from Commendation completions? I haven’t actually got any Emblems from my Silver Req packs lately. The Reqs I covet the most are Certifications and Loadouts but I want to get rid of Uncommon and Rare Emblems in Silver Packs so that when I start on Gold Req Packs, they’ll only get Ultra Rare and Legendary permanent unlocks.
There are emblems you get from commendation completions and getting to certain SR ranks… You know you have completed everything at the silver level when you get back two 1500 point req cards instead of unlocks… Just like in gold packs you will get back two 3000 point req cards instead of unlocks.
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> > I’ve returned to grinding Halo 5 lately to squeeze out Reqs. At this time of writing, when I open Silver Reqs I usually get Armour and Helmets as permanent unlocks. I have unlocked all Common and Uncommon Armour, Helmets, Visors, Loadouts and Certs for Power Weapons and Vehicles. I still have 1 Rare Armour, 7 Rare Helmets, 2x Rare DMR Loadouts and a staggering 65 Rare Emblems to go.
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> > Strangely enough, I also got two Uncommon Emblems left, which should have turned up a long time ago. Are some Emblems, Armour and Helmets only available from Commendation completions? I haven’t actually got any Emblems from my Silver Req packs lately. The Reqs I covet the most are Certifications and Loadouts but I want to get rid of Uncommon and Rare Emblems in Silver Packs so that when I start on Gold Req Packs, they’ll only get Ultra Rare and Legendary permanent unlocks.
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> There are emblems you get from commendation completions and getting to certain SR ranks… You know you have completed everything at the silver level when you get back two 1500 point req cards instead of unlocks… Just like in gold packs you will get back two 3000 point req cards instead of unlocks.
I’ve only seen 200 Req point cards from the Daily Log In and Daily Win packs, so I’ll be looking out for those juicy 1500 ones.
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> > > I’ve returned to grinding Halo 5 lately to squeeze out Reqs. At this time of writing, when I open Silver Reqs I usually get Armour and Helmets as permanent unlocks. I have unlocked all Common and Uncommon Armour, Helmets, Visors, Loadouts and Certs for Power Weapons and Vehicles. I still have 1 Rare Armour, 7 Rare Helmets, 2x Rare DMR Loadouts and a staggering 65 Rare Emblems to go.
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> > > Strangely enough, I also got two Uncommon Emblems left, which should have turned up a long time ago. Are some Emblems, Armour and Helmets only available from Commendation completions? I haven’t actually got any Emblems from my Silver Req packs lately. The Reqs I covet the most are Certifications and Loadouts but I want to get rid of Uncommon and Rare Emblems in Silver Packs so that when I start on Gold Req Packs, they’ll only get Ultra Rare and Legendary permanent unlocks.
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> > There are emblems you get from commendation completions and getting to certain SR ranks… You know you have completed everything at the silver level when you get back two 1500 point req cards instead of unlocks… Just like in gold packs you will get back two 3000 point req cards instead of unlocks.
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> I’ve only seen 200 Req point cards from the Daily Log In and Daily Win packs, so I’ll be looking out for those juicy 1500 ones.
Being that you are only SR 80 you probably still have a ways to go but just keep opening silvers till they refund two 1500 point cards instead of unlocks then move on to golds
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> Use your RP boosts when playing to get there faster.
Definitely, I always equip RP boosts and jackpots, followed by XP ones when the former runs out. The Rare perm unlocks I covet the most are 2x DMRs. H5 has way too many helmets, visor tints, armour and emblems, which significantly slows down the rate and chance of getting LoadOuts and Certifications.
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> > Use your RP boosts when playing to get there faster.
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> Definitely, I always equip RP boosts and jackpots, followed by XP ones when the former runs out. The Rare perm unlocks I covet the most are 2x DMRs. H5 has way too many helmets, visor tints, armour and emblems, which significantly slows down the rate and chance of getting LoadOuts and Certifications.
There are quite a bit, but you will get there. I focused on completing the commendations instead of the unlocks. By the time you get anywhere near completing most of the commendations you will have long unlocked everything available. Enjoy!
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> > Definitely, I always equip RP boosts and jackpots, followed by XP ones when the former runs out. The Rare perm unlocks I covet the most are 2x DMRs. H5 has way too many helmets, visor tints, armour and emblems, which significantly slows down the rate and chance of getting LoadOuts and Certifications.
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> There are quite a bit, but you will get there. I focused on completing the commendations instead of the unlocks. By the time you get anywhere near completing most of the commendations you will have long unlocked everything available. Enjoy!
I’m nearly useless at PVP Arena game modes so my weapons and vehicle kill count commendations have very low progression. For PVE (Heroic Warzone Firefight), the only ones I need to complete are Warden and Grunt Mech kills. Absurdly slow to complete because if’s a toss up who gets the award if several players score the final kill shot on these bullet sponges. I may see the ‘boss kill’ badge and the +xxxx score number appear on my screen as the Mech or Warden falls but I may not get the commendation progression.
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> > > > Use your RP boosts when playing to get there faster.
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> > > Definitely, I always equip RP boosts and jackpots, followed by XP ones when the former runs out. The Rare perm unlocks I covet the most are 2x DMRs. H5 has way too many helmets, visor tints, armour and emblems, which significantly slows down the rate and chance of getting LoadOuts and Certifications.
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> > There are quite a bit, but you will get there. I focused on completing the commendations instead of the unlocks. By the time you get anywhere near completing most of the commendations you will have long unlocked everything available. Enjoy!
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> I’m nearly useless at PVP Arena game modes so my weapons and vehicle kill count commendations have very low progression. For PVE (Heroic Warzone Firefight), the only ones I need to complete are Warden and Grunt Mech kills. Absurdly slow to complete because if’s a toss up who gets the award if several players score the final kill shot on these bullet sponges. I may see the ‘boss kill’ badge and the +xxxx score number appear on my screen as the Mech or Warden falls but I may not get the commendation progression.
Grunt mechs are easy to tell as you’ll get a grunt kill medal along with the boss kill.
Agree about wardens though. I think there is a way to tell with your reticle somehow.
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> > > > Use your RP boosts when playing to get there faster.
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> > > Definitely, I always equip RP boosts and jackpots, followed by XP ones when the former runs out. The Rare perm unlocks I covet the most are 2x DMRs. H5 has way too many helmets, visor tints, armour and emblems, which significantly slows down the rate and chance of getting LoadOuts and Certifications.
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> > There are quite a bit, but you will get there. I focused on completing the commendations instead of the unlocks. By the time you get anywhere near completing most of the commendations you will have long unlocked everything available. Enjoy!
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> I’m nearly useless at PVP Arena game modes so my weapons and vehicle kill count commendations have very low progression. For PVE (Heroic Warzone Firefight), the only ones I need to complete are Warden and Grunt Mech kills. Absurdly slow to complete because if’s a toss up who gets the award if several players score the final kill shot on these bullet sponges. I may see the ‘boss kill’ badge and the +xxxx score number appear on my screen as the Mech or Warden falls but I may not get the commendation progression.
I was bad a PvP too, you just got to keep playing it and suffer they the bad play to get better. When you die watch what the other players are doing that works and try to mimic.
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> > > > Use your RP boosts when playing to get there faster.
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> > > Definitely, I always equip RP boosts and jackpots, followed by XP ones when the former runs out. The Rare perm unlocks I covet the most are 2x DMRs. H5 has way too many helmets, visor tints, armour and emblems, which significantly slows down the rate and chance of getting LoadOuts and Certifications.
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> > There are quite a bit, but you will get there. I focused on completing the commendations instead of the unlocks. By the time you get anywhere near completing most of the commendations you will have long unlocked everything available. Enjoy!
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> I’m nearly useless at PVP Arena game modes so my weapons and vehicle kill count commendations have very low progression. For PVE (Heroic Warzone Firefight), the only ones I need to complete are Warden and Grunt Mech kills. Absurdly slow to complete because if’s a toss up who gets the award if several players score the final kill shot on these bullet sponges. I may see the ‘boss kill’ badge and the +xxxx score number appear on my screen as the Mech or Warden falls but I may not get the commendation progression.
I myself do not have the patience for Warzone (which is also why i wasn’t a fan of Firefight either), so I primarily play PvP matches. The best thing to do is to just stick with your teammates and use the pistol. If you don’t like the pistol, then tough poop; get used to playing with it and liking it! But ya, you’ll still get kills if you just run to your teammates compared to trying to find the enemy. They’ll always appear somewhere and in Halo 5, it’s best to run with the pack. That lone wolf stuff doesn’t play that great in Halo 5 like the earlier games. At least in my case.
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> > > > > Use your RP boosts when playing to get there faster.
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> > > > Definitely, I always equip RP boosts and jackpots, followed by XP ones when the former runs out. The Rare perm unlocks I covet the most are 2x DMRs. H5 has way too many helmets, visor tints, armour and emblems, which significantly slows down the rate and chance of getting LoadOuts and Certifications.
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> > > There are quite a bit, but you will get there. I focused on completing the commendations instead of the unlocks. By the time you get anywhere near completing most of the commendations you will have long unlocked everything available. Enjoy!
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> > I’m nearly useless at PVP Arena game modes so my weapons and vehicle kill count commendations have very low progression. For PVE (Heroic Warzone Firefight), the only ones I need to complete are Warden and Grunt Mech kills. Absurdly slow to complete because if’s a toss up who gets the award if several players score the final kill shot on these bullet sponges. I may see the ‘boss kill’ badge and the +xxxx score number appear on my screen as the Mech or Warden falls but I may not get the commendation progression.
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> I myself do not have the patience for Warzone (which is also why i wasn’t a fan of Firefight either), so I primarily play PvP matches. The best thing to do is to just stick with your teammates and use the pistol. If you don’t like the pistol, then tough poop; get used to playing with it and liking it! But ya, you’ll still get kills if you just run to your teammates compared to trying to find the enemy. They’ll always appear somewhere and in Halo 5, it’s best to run with the pack. That lone wolf stuff doesn’t play that great in Halo 5 like the earlier games. At least in my case.
I always try to stick to other allies, since I don’t stand a chance even in a one to one. Everyone seems to be able to headshot me fatally before I can even put my reticle on them. Might be my age that makes me slower + I don’t play Arena much so map familiarity is sparse. On rare occasions I get my licks and put other players to the ground. I’m not new to games like these - I have owned all the Halo games except Halo Wars 2, Spartan Strike and MCC, and have been consistently bad at Halo Reach, Halo 4 and now Halo 5. Strangely enough, I can hold my own in Battlefront 2 most of the time.
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> > > > I’ve returned to grinding Halo 5 lately to squeeze out Reqs. At this time of writing, when I open Silver Reqs I usually get Armour and Helmets as permanent unlocks. I have unlocked all Common and Uncommon Armour, Helmets, Visors, Loadouts and Certs for Power Weapons and Vehicles. I still have 1 Rare Armour, 7 Rare Helmets, 2x Rare DMR Loadouts and a staggering 65 Rare Emblems to go.
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> > > > Strangely enough, I also got two Uncommon Emblems left, which should have turned up a long time ago. Are some Emblems, Armour and Helmets only available from Commendation completions? I haven’t actually got any Emblems from my Silver Req packs lately. The Reqs I covet the most are Certifications and Loadouts but I want to get rid of Uncommon and Rare Emblems in Silver Packs so that when I start on Gold Req Packs, they’ll only get Ultra Rare and Legendary permanent unlocks.
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> > > There are emblems you get from commendation completions and getting to certain SR ranks… You know you have completed everything at the silver level when you get back two 1500 point req cards instead of unlocks… Just like in gold packs you will get back two 3000 point req cards instead of unlocks.
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> > I’ve only seen 200 Req point cards from the Daily Log In and Daily Win packs, so I’ll be looking out for those juicy 1500 ones.
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> Being that you are only SR 80 you probably still have a ways to go but just keep opening silvers till they refund two 1500 point cards instead of unlocks then move on to golds
I’m glad to say that just last night I got the 2x 1500 Req cards in Silver Packs - my last two perm unlocks before these cards turned up were the remaining Rare DMRs in one Silver packs. On to Gold Req packs now! So relieved I didn’t have to grind Silver packs to get my remaining unlocked Rare Emblems, seems that 83 of them are commendation or SR promotion based only. I suspect that the two Uncommon Emblems I don’t have are associated with Ground Pound and vehicle ramming commendations.
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> > > > > > Use your RP boosts when playing to get there faster.
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> > > > > Definitely, I always equip RP boosts and jackpots, followed by XP ones when the former runs out. The Rare perm unlocks I covet the most are 2x DMRs. H5 has way too many helmets, visor tints, armour and emblems, which significantly slows down the rate and chance of getting LoadOuts and Certifications.
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> > > > There are quite a bit, but you will get there. I focused on completing the commendations instead of the unlocks. By the time you get anywhere near completing most of the commendations you will have long unlocked everything available. Enjoy!
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> > > I’m nearly useless at PVP Arena game modes so my weapons and vehicle kill count commendations have very low progression. For PVE (Heroic Warzone Firefight), the only ones I need to complete are Warden and Grunt Mech kills. Absurdly slow to complete because if’s a toss up who gets the award if several players score the final kill shot on these bullet sponges. I may see the ‘boss kill’ badge and the +xxxx score number appear on my screen as the Mech or Warden falls but I may not get the commendation progression.
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> > I myself do not have the patience for Warzone (which is also why i wasn’t a fan of Firefight either), so I primarily play PvP matches. The best thing to do is to just stick with your teammates and use the pistol. If you don’t like the pistol, then tough poop; get used to playing with it and liking it! But ya, you’ll still get kills if you just run to your teammates compared to trying to find the enemy. They’ll always appear somewhere and in Halo 5, it’s best to run with the pack. That lone wolf stuff doesn’t play that great in Halo 5 like the earlier games. At least in my case.
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> I always try to stick to other allies, since I don’t stand a chance even in a one to one. Everyone seems to be able to headshot me fatally before I can even put my reticle on them. Might be my age that makes me slower + I don’t play Arena much so map familiarity is sparse. On rare occasions I get my licks and put other players to the ground. I’m not new to games like these - I have owned all the Halo games except Halo Wars 2, Spartan Strike and MCC, and have been consistently bad at Halo Reach, Halo 4 and now Halo 5. Strangely enough, I can hold my own in Battlefront 2 most of the time.
Understandable. Halo 5 is very hard to get used to if you’re used to playing the older Halo games, including Halo 4. What I did was actually look up Youtube videos of some pro players to get a hint as to how to aim, strafe, dodge, dip, duck, etc. It definitely helped me but I also forced myself to use nothing but the pistol as well. And it took A LONG TIME. I even adjusted my controls from Recon to Bumber Jumper so I can aim while jumping at the same time (I don’t have a Scuff or Elite controller). I did quite a bit before I started doing not so bad in Halo 5. It was a long process for me but now I can get Diamond rank in Slayer solo on the regular now (Team Arena I can’t seem to place higher than Platinum 4 at the start).
But ya, I’d recommend observing how some people who are good at the game play to get some “hints”.