I’m sure there is allot of people here that agree with me that it is set way to high for the amount of vehicles you get per game. Allot of people just respond with " play holdout, theres allot of banshees " of to play on beachhead for wraths. The problem with that is you still only get maybe three of four of each on the mentioned levels and you need twelve thousand to get it to onyx max. If you do the math out on this with getting anywhere between 3-4 vehicles per levels it will take you four thousand to three thousands games to finish the commendations not even including the rounds you are unlucky enough to only get one or none. I think the commendation should be lowered or a new game type should be added. The game type I am thinking about would either be the part of Longnight of Solace around the Corvette or in New Alexandria around one of the main buildings.You would start off with only ten lives like you do in Score Attack and the banshee, Seraph, and the Drops ships would be powerful with allot of health. It would make the commendation possible without having to give up your life but still be challenging enough to where you wouldn’t max out in one day.
I’m too fussed about this one. I don’t aim for commendations unless I’m really close. If I get it, then cool. If not… meh…
Well I can understand that but with this achievement its almost impossible to finish it unless you have no life and play firefight non stop for months.
They should add a “Firefight Vehicle” level where you can start off in a vehicle and take on other vehicles. That would be AWESOME. However, at this point I think they’ve move on to H4. So I don’t see it coming…
Getting kills with the HUMAN Machine Gun Turret counts as a vehicle kill.
They completely rip through enemies on 2X Score Attack, I advise you give that a go.
> Getting kills with the HUMAN Machine Gun Turret counts as a vehicle kill.
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> They completely rip through enemies on 2X Score Attack, I advise you give that a go.
That will advance the Vehicular commendation. The OP wants to onyx Grounded.
I suggest playing score attack and looking for Holdout. Try to pick sniper attack, fiesta, rocket attack, FRG attack or 2x score attack. Get a Grunt to use the center machine gun turret and then blow it up for the first vehicle kill. Anywhere between 4-5 Banshees will fly in every three to four minutes so you can get up to 6 vehicle kills in one 15 minute game.
It’s ridiculous because the only playlist they spawn in is Limited.
OH WAIT
As a FF fiend myself, I understand the OP’s frustration about this Commendation. As it has been mostly a Comm that I have just avoided, and got tired of fighting for the vehicle kills in a normal Arcade match, and 2X single player just takes way to long, until now.
As we know, Holdout and Beachhead are really the only two play maps that generate anything for this Comm. with Corvette and Unearthed having a few, as well as Outlook from time to time.
I would have like to have seen more maps that spawn vehicle, but we have to do with what we have and make the best of it.
I do however suggest, a simple way to get more vehicle kills per game, by simply using a guest controller, and playing on Holdout.
Holdout, on Arcade in FF doubles, has a neat little hiding spot, and no not up at the Mac Cannon, that you can place a player and do all of the killing of the Covey with your guest, and when the Banshee spawns, take it out with a Sniper on your acct. You will still get plenty of kills to avoid the AFK offense (so yes, you do have to work the second controller a little), and average 6-8 Grounded Comms per game, plus the Perfections as well.
The neat little hiding spot is on the back side of the top tower, above where you spawn. For whatever reason, Covey have a real hard time seeing the player there, and allows for a hide in plain sight spot to take out the Banshee very easily.
I hope this helps the OP and anyone else that needs to work on this Commendation.
Oh and BTW, you can set up a custom challenge around this, and really rack up some extra credits too.
I’ve been playing Beachhead.
You can get a good amount of ghosts and wraiths…
Additionally, steal the ghost that spawns right away and tuck it away someplace safe…on a round where there are a lot of elites, get back in (FRG equipped) and gently go up to an elite…he will hijack you and you can blow him up for credit towards grounded.
I’ve never seen anyone else do this, so it’s nice that I can almost always get 3 ghost kills per game on this map plus however many ghosts and wraiths that spawn in on the beginning and end rounds. I agree that this commendation’s bar is set WAYYYYYY too high
This is taking me forever. I need like 800 more vehicles to get it to 2500 which is gold. How much is Onyx and how much to max it all out? Probably 12,000 or more. That’s insane. I get the most on 2x score attack Holdout from the banshees. I usually get about 4 a game.
6,000 to onyx and 12,000 to max it out.
> Getting kills with the HUMAN Machine Gun Turret counts as a vehicle kill.
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> They completely rip through enemies on 2X Score Attack, I advise you give that a go.
doesn’t it have to be stationary though? When i walked around with it it didn’t give me anything for vehicle kills?
> > Getting kills with the HUMAN Machine Gun Turret counts as a vehicle kill.
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> > They completely rip through enemies on 2X Score Attack, I advise you give that a go.
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> doesn’t it have to be stationary though? When i walked around with it it didn’t give me anything for vehicle kills?
Use the chain hog on instillation 04. Sit it in that and kill all the enemies that you see. It tears through them and you get your Vehicular commendation up.
Maybe it would be possible for 343 to make destroying the guns of the dropships count towards your grounded commendation, i mean they count as kills but do nothing with your commendations (same as the banshees in 2x score attack if you don’t shoot em with a heavy weapon). And also like half of my vehicle kills don’t count anyway because i kill the driver before the vehicle.
Oh and the turrent doesn’t have to be stationary for you vehicle kill commendation, and plasma turrents work as well.
> This is taking me forever. I need like 800 more vehicles to get it to 2500 which is gold. How much is Onyx and how much to max it all out? Probably 12,000 or more. That’s insane. I get the most on 2x score attack Holdout from the banshees. I usually get about 4 a game.
You have to be careful on 2X. Many types of damage will kill the pilot BEFORE you kill the vehicle surrounding them. The 1.5X damage of Arcadefight ensures the vehicles dies before the occupant.
And one other thing, you CAN shoot the human and Covenant turrets while they’re being used to earn a vehicle kill. I recommend sniping them because you have to hit ONLY the turret while its in use and not the user. I almost always grab one extra vehicle kill on Holdout using this method.
> You have to be careful on 2X. Many types of damage will kill the pilot BEFORE you kill the vehicle surrounding them. The 1.5X damage of Arcadefight ensures the vehicles dies before the occupant.
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> And one other thing, you CAN shoot the human and Covenant turrets while they’re being used to earn a vehicle kill. I recommend sniping them because you have to hit ONLY the turret while its in use and not the user. I almost always grab one extra vehicle kill on Holdout using this method.
True, that’s why I always wish for a laser in 2x. Otherwise I’ll just grab a fuel rod jetpack up to the banshee and destroy it.
> The neat little hiding spot is on the back side of the top tower, above where you spawn. For whatever reason, Covey have a real hard time seeing the player there, and allows for a hide in plain sight spot to take out the Banshee very easily.
I don’t understand where this spot is.
Hell, it’s not Grounded I’m worried about, it’s Perfectionist.
> > The neat little hiding spot is on the back side of the top tower, above where you spawn. For whatever reason, Covey have a real hard time seeing the player there, and allows for a hide in plain sight spot to take out the Banshee very easily.
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> I don’t understand where this spot is.
Simple. When you start the game you spawn inside the store room.
After you die, you spawn in the room ABOVE that, or can move the directional pad to choose another location, like at the top of the stairs, near the Sniper platform, and health pack. There is a roof on the little shack with the health pack, and the back side of the roof, is just inside the gameplay area, otherwise it says that you’re ‘out of bounds’ on the other parts.
Like I stated before, it seems that the Covey can see you, but never really shoot at you, or come up the stairs to make easy pickings of you. Hiding in plain sight, and you can easily snipe the Banshee just as it appears. 6-8 per game, 4-5 on average.
You can use a Jetpack to easily get on top, OR crouch jump on top of the create, and jump over to the roof, your choice, but make sure you have a Sniper.
Hope this helps.
> Hell, it’s not Grounded I’m worried about, it’s Perfectionist.
Play FF Arcade. Each round you don’t die is a perfection so you can get three perfections per game.