Headmaster LASO - you shattered my dream :( So destroyed

So today should have been a happy day, because I finally completed Halo Infinite LASO after putting in 80 hours.

Bear with me, I know people say this is the easiest of all LASOs, but I am not gaming as much as when I was younger… I also did not cheat/skip really except legit skips in few places (legit= just grappling or thrustering through rooms without clearing enemies). Even if I’d new the cheat skips or gone tank gun thing before, I wouldn’t have used them, because I would have wanted the real achievement.

Especially the beginning warship Gbrakoon was so superhard for me, getting acquainted without any cores, sword and rocket launcher, learning you need to have full shields for a checkpoint, etc etc… I think that and foundation Tremonius boss were the hardest…
Sure it gets easier with cores, rocket launcher, special sword, and finally thrusters. But boss fights, hunter and brute chieftain pairs still veeery challenging and also always requiring a bit of luck after many attempts…and then sometimes setbacks even before a completed boss if you didn’t get your shields filled up. All was okay as I was always progressing though :slight_smile:

Today I finished, so excited and happy now to do the speed runs or pvp achievement, but but guess what? The “normal” completion heroic and legendary achievements popped, but not headmaster!!! :cry: :sob: Take these back, I just want my LASO Headmaster (and I though you couldn’t do others with skulls?)

I had read of problems, quite a bit ago though and would have hoped they been fixed (I mean they have removed the tank gun, but left problems with an >80 hour achievment in, WTF, srsly? What is so hard to get it right, or let players at least check if it works for them somehow?).
Anyway, I never quickresumed when game crashed and loaded fresh (but my xbox just suspends, so I usually continue right where I have been, that problematic too?)
Also, I regularly checked that all 12 skulls are still on (cannot miss that also with blind skull…)

I’m really not that demanding, I can live with bugs, with glitches, with imperfections, I really like Halo Infinite, while it is annoying I can even live with things like setting me back 10-30 minutes in progress. But voiding 80 hours of challenging game time? Seriously?

Can anybody tell me what I did wrong? I read that achievment progress tracking is broking and just stays at 0% even if you are on track, so even if I wanted to retry (not sure if I would though, but lets assume theoretically) there is just no way in-game to verify that I’m still on track besides completely finishing the game? Why cant you just lock the skulls in for a certain campaing, or have a usual confirmation asking “if you continue now your headmaster achivement will stop counting” or something… I don’t get this UX or in what way it can be broken for basically the longest and hardest achievement in this game :frowning:

Is there anything I can still try and do? (Quit and also completely restarted game already multiple times), is there an official support ticket I can file anywhere? I’m just staring at my

Man, its so destroying… almost believe that may be the end of me touching this game again if there is no cure :(, and maybe that is good then. :frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

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I think Head Master has been broken since Season 2 launch or somewhere around there. There were also the restart issues when the game launched.

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The game has no reward for this kinda broken for one of the hardest achievements

Maybe I should go for a LASO achievement myself bravo Im guessing its still has some hard points I imagined using rockets would make it quite easy

What does LASO stand for?

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Legendary All Skulls On

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Thank you for reminding me to try and get LASO. Even if I cheese it, it’s still completion lmao.

There is a bug that deactivates the skulls sometimes when you load/continue.

I had this happen several times during my LASO run and did notice it immediately because there suddenly was a HUD.

Check Halo Completionist on YouTube for some super fast ways to get LASO (skips, glitches etc.) to not waste your time again due to incompetence on 343s part.

Your 80 hours will be more like 3-4.

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I’m sorry to hear that you spent so long on it, but yes, it’s still broken.

I submitted a ticket 3 months ago (as other have done, and have done since), but there’s been no response of a fix.

If you have to redo it, just use the tank gun. I beat the entire laso without using any guides, just went in and went for it. Took my like 2 or 3 afternoons? I didnt know about any skips either! Just tank gun and went for it

Im sure with skips its way easier now

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Thank you for all your condolence : > 2nd day after that and writing this felt not as bad anymore.

Also it wasn’t 80 hours (phew, at least something, the 80 hours shocked me very much after not getting it :smiley: ) but more only 40h, because the timer just being cumulative I realized (geez what is not broken? would have been also surprising, because looking up the achievments it took me a month and I couldn’t have averaged that much per day, surprised it has been actually a bit more than 1 hour… )

I think Head Master has been broken since Season 2 launch or somewhere around there.

Yeah, researching found that out now also … since July trueachivements is full of such reports … unfortunately I started before where it was just “do not continue but load because skulls may turn off” :confused:

Im guessing its still has some hard points I imagined using rockets would make it quite easy

It sure does, as well as getting the full unlimited invisible thrusters… and you can spam electric grenades fright from the start. But by having infinite ammo and these things, it is really just a completely different game/challenge … especially if you do the speed run on easy in direct comparison %) You still die like a glass cannon … and while I have looked up vids of most bosses and strategies, I usually went for trying and figuring out my own one, which means that some encounters can easily become 1-2hour long attempts until you get everything right and maybe a bit of luck.

I had this happen several times during my LASO run and did notice it immediately because there suddenly was a HUD.

Yeah, as I wrote I never continued and always checked for all skulls on, I was aware of that - but it seems it is even more broken now :frowning:

Check Halo Completionist on YouTube for some super fast ways to get LASO (skips, glitches etc.) to not waste your time again due to incompetence on 343s part.

Tank gun and even some skips I believe have been removed? Yeah if I really need to repeat it to satisfy my completionist OCD I will likely look for some options … :frowning:

Btw, I had also opened a ticket; support was responsive and told me to play a multiplayer game to verify I’m online, than load the campaign again, play around and fight for at least for5 minutes, and verify it pops then - but it still didn’t. Not sure if they did something, or if they would just expect that it pops at some point … anyway not working, lets see if they have another idea.

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Has there been any additional feedback on this? Any actual official announcement that the achievement is bugged? I started a LASO playthrough (my first ever) and just started the third act. Wondering if i should even bother and furthermore if this playthrough is already ‘infected’ with whatever is causing the issue in the first place…

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Yes, they thanked me for confirming (by this “play for 5 minutes”) that I played through with all skulls on and said the issue is logged and investigated, and the support wants to keep the ticket open until the issue is resolved.

So there is till hope on my side… but I wouldn’t bet on it and would disrecommend to try it that way…

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First rule of LASO: Set game on Legendary and Have all the skulls active.
Second rule of LASO: There are no more rules other than the ones you put on yourself.

I’m sorry about you not getting this achievement. This happened to me too. Turns out when you load a save file it’s sometimes turn of some skulls and then turn them back on. If you get a checkpoint without noticing it you get boned and have to start another run.

On the plus side, you can now run hog wild with the tank gun and skipery-doos since you did it the hard way already. And make sure all the skulls are active when you load in. If they are not back out and load in again until you see them all active.

Would be great if they let us know when the issue was fixed so we know when it’s safe to start our runs :stuck_out_tongue:

It’s worth noting that the Headmaster achievement won’t unlock since the Season 2 update was released. Apparently, the Devs are aware of the issue, but are yet to fix it. I think it’s something to do the the final mission, Silent Auditorium. It states you do not have the Bandana skull, even though you would have it on to do the LASO run.

With that, it maybe worth holding off doing the Headmaster achievement until 343i actually fix it.

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