Has anybody else noticed that there is 1 medal in Halo Reach that is impossible to earn in matchmaking, even if you try to boost it?
I am of course talking about the Thriller medal, which is earned by killing 15 humans in a row as a zombie without dying. And why is this impossible to earn? Let me explain:
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Infection matchmaking is limited to 12 people per game, meaning there will be at most 11 people as humans (depending on the game type).
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This means that the highest zombie spree medal a zombie can earn is the “Mmmm… Brains” medal (10 kills as a zombie without dying).
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Sprees do not carry over to the next round, so the highest spree a zombie can get is 11 (again, depending on the game type).
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As said above, the “Thriller” medal requires 15 kills as a zombie without dying.
Since sprees don’t carry over round to round, this medal is impossible to obtain outside custom games. Anybody else think this was bad planning on Bungie’s part? (since 343 didn’t create the medal). Please share your thoughts.
There’s more example of not so easily earned medals. Inconceivable & Unfrigginbelievable in Firefight also needs to be done outside of matchmaking because otherwise there are not that many enemies. In Campaign those same ones can be done on lone wolf or with infinite spawns on Winter, Long Night, New A or Pillar.
There are some medals which aren’t meant for the gametype but still occasionally earned, like bulltrue and killjoy medals in campaign (kinda glitchy, google if intrested). And one which you would expect is possible but isn’t; skyjack in firefight (there are banshees on one map but unjackable).
Also I think for instance Sticky Fingers and Corrected are very hard to achieve in multiplayer.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KDdRytUoEk
Somebody obviously doesn’t know how to read properly. I said it’s impossible in online matchmaking, NOT IN CUSTOMS. The last paragraph I wrote clearly says “this medal is impossible to obtain <mark>outside custom games</mark>”.
Seriously, learn to read buddy.
> There’s more example of not so easily earned medals. Inconceivable & Unfrigginbelievable in Firefight also needs to be done outside of matchmaking because otherwise there are not that many enemies. In Campaign those same ones can be done on lone wolf or with infinite spawns on Winter, Long Night, New A or Pillar.
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> There are some medals which aren’t meant for the gametype but still occasionally earned, like bulltrue and killjoy medals in campaign (kinda glitchy, google if intrested). And one which you would expect is possible but isn’t; skyjack in firefight (there are banshees on one map but unjackable).
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> Also I think for instance Sticky Fingers and Corrected are very hard to achieve in multiplayer.
Good examples of other medals, although Inconceivable and Unfrigginbelievable were possible in Firefight matchmaking in the Limited gametype if you play long enough and didn’t die (although this was removed in 2011). Also, it turns out that Mmmm…Brains is now also impossible to achieve XD
Never thought of trying to get Skyjack in Firefight. Good eye on finding another impossible medal (I checked and it is actually in the Firefight medal chest).
Did a little research and found some other “broken” medals that don’t work and which game modes they don’t work in (even though they should lol). Here’s a list including the ones mentioned above:
INVASION
- Funkadelic (Play a game with Pestilance enabled for all players) (reason unknown, apparently has NEVER worked)
ARENA
- Splatter Spree, Vehicular Manslaughter, Sunday Driver (no vehicles available on any map)
- Laser Spree, Red Menance, Sunburst (no laser available on any map - also like to add that I believe Bungie mispelt “Menace” as “Menance” - haha)
- Wheelman Spree, Road Hog, Road Rage (no mutli-capacity vehicles available on any map)
- Spawn Spree, Wingman, Broseidon (buddy-spawning system only available in invasion and competitive)
- Splatter, Highjack, Skyjack (see reason for 1.)
- Laser Kill (see reason for 2.)
- Wheelman! (see reason for 3.)
- Funkadelic (reason unknown)
COMPETITIVE
- Mmmm… Brains, Thriller (no zombie gametype with more than 9 starting humans available)
2. Funkadelic (reason unknown)
CAMPAIGN
- Spawn Spree, Wingman, Broseidon (buddy-spawning system only available in invasion and competitive)
- Revenge (reason unknown)
- Pull (reason unknown)
- Avenger, Protector, Avenge Me, Bros To the End (reason unknown)
- Funkadelic (reason unknown)
FIREFIGHT
- Inconceivable, Unfrigginbelievable (time and round limits mean no one player could ever kill more than 300 enemies max. per game)
- Spawn Spree, Wingman, Broseidon (buddy-spawning system only available in invasion and competitive)
- Skyjack (Banshees on Holdout are non-jackable)
- Wildcat Destabilizer (no generator defense mode available in firefight versus playlist)
- Funkadelic (reason unknown)
CUSTOM
- Funkadelic (reason unknown)
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KDdRytUoEk
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> Somebody obviously doesn’t know how to read properly. I said it’s impossible in online matchmaking, NOT IN CUSTOMS. The last paragraph I wrote clearly says “this medal is impossible to obtain <mark>outside custom games</mark>”.
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> Seriously, learn to read buddy.
Irrelevant. It would require a full party anyway. Matchmaking or custom.
So after you get a party together, with the purpose of just getting the achievement… Why wast time-
1)going into matchmaking
2) voting
3) getting only 3 people the a Achievement (or however many rounds are in matchmaking )
4) more time voting again
5) 3 more people (6 total) achieved
6) more voting!
And on and on till everyone has their achievement
So 6 games of matchmaking or 1 game in custom games with settings set for additional rounds… Yarp, matchmaking would still be a poor choice.
The inconceivable medal is possible to obtain in regular firefight. There is exactly 350 enemies including bonus round grunts. In a match of doubles I got 343 kills no deaths. So mad I couldn’t get it.
Corrected is easy to get. Beach head 2x score attack. Get to the upper level right at the spawn and wait for grunts, brutes and elites to get to the end of the stairwell.
Corrected!
Yeah, that’s why I said multiplayer. 
I have a corrected medal on firefight.
> Yeah, that’s why I said multiplayer. I have a corrected medal on firefight.
Whoops! Yeah it would be tough but not impossible.
> The inconceivable medal is possible to obtain in regular firefight. There is exactly <mark>350</mark> including bonus round grunts. In a match of doubles I got 343 kills no deaths. So mad I couldn’t get it.
Nope. To get the Inconceiveable medal in Firefight you need 500 kills, so getting 350 kills would still leave you 150 short.
Also, the standard “old style” firefight gametype from ODST is no longer available as a gametype in Halo Reach’s online firefight. The 500 kills can only be done in custom firefight, which isn’t included in the list.
Therefore, Inconceiveable is not available in online firefight
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KDdRytUoEk
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> > Somebody obviously doesn’t know how to read properly. I said it’s impossible in online matchmaking, NOT IN CUSTOMS. The last paragraph I wrote clearly says “this medal is impossible to obtain <mark>outside custom games</mark>”.
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> > Seriously, learn to read buddy.
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> Irrelevant. It would require a full party anyway. Matchmaking or custom.
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> So after you get a party together, with the purpose of just getting the <mark>achievement</mark>… Why wast time-
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> 1)going into matchmaking
> 2) voting
> 3) getting only 3 people the a Achievement (or however many rounds are in matchmaking )
> 4) more time voting again
> 5) 3 more people (6 total) achieved
> 6) more voting!
> And on and on till everyone has their achievement
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> So 6 games of matchmaking or 1 game in custom games with settings set for additional rounds… Yarp, matchmaking would still be a poor choice.
What achievement? Nobody said anything about the medal giving an achievement. And he already said you can get the medal in customs, he said its impossible to get in ONLINE MATCHMAKING.
This post is to show medals that Bungie put in the game, that are in the online matchmaking medals chest, and that are impossible to earn in the matchmaking game modes they were made for. This has nothing to do with custom games or achievements.
> > The inconceivable medal is possible to obtain in regular firefight. There is exactly <mark>350</mark> including bonus round grunts. In a match of doubles I got 343 kills no deaths. So mad I couldn’t get it.
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> Nope. To get the Inconceiveable medal in Firefight you need 500 kills, so getting 350 kills would still leave you 150 short.
> Also, the standard “old style” firefight gametype from ODST is no longer available as a gametype in Halo Reach’s online firefight. The 500 kills can only be done in custom firefight, which isn’t included in the list.
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> Therefore, Inconceiveable is not available in online firefight
I stand corrected. I thought it was 350 for some reason.
> There’s more example of not so easily earned medals. Inconceivable & Unfrigginbelievable in Firefight also needs to be done outside of matchmaking because otherwise there are not that many enemies. In Campaign those same ones can be done on lone wolf or with infinite spawns on Winter, Long Night, New A or Pillar.
>
> There are some medals which aren’t meant for the gametype but still occasionally earned, like bulltrue and killjoy medals in campaign (kinda glitchy, google if intrested). And one which you would expect is possible but isn’t; skyjack in firefight (there are banshees on one map but unjackable).
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> Also I think for instance Sticky Fingers and Corrected are very hard to achieve in multiplayer.
I only know one player whom has ever got a Corrected medal in Matchmaking and it is his only one. I took him about 2 weeks of playing BTB games and focussing solely on sticky kills to get it as well.
Wow, that’s what I mean by ‘hard’. 
Cool tough, I like these ‘quests’.
Similarly, I lately got an Unfrigginbelievable in offline firefight, got all possible 5/10/15 sprees in campaign, and will soon give Inconceivable/Unfrigginbelievable in campaign a try. =]
Btw, anyone got the ‘Killed Bomb Carrier’? I’ve killed tons of bomb carriers on Grifball and Team Objective playlists, but still haven’t got the medal. Is it only available in BTB ‘Assault’ games or something (not sure if I got it there)?
> Wow, that’s what I mean by ‘hard’. Cool tough, I like these ‘quests’.
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> Similarly, I lately got an Unfrigginbelievable in offline firefight, got all possible 5/10/15 sprees in campaign, and will soon give Inconceivable/Unfrigginbelievable in campaign a try. =]
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> Btw, anyone got the ‘Killed Bomb Carrier’? I’ve killed tons of bomb carriers on Grifball and Team Objective playlists, but still haven’t got the medal. Is it only available in BTB ‘Assault’ games or something (not sure if I got it there)?
According to HaloTracker.com, I’ve got 16 Bomb Carrier kill medals. Not sure which playlist it was in but they are still possible I guess.
I just found out, it is (at least) gettable in Big Team Assault games. Got a few, now.
If anyone ever wants to get in customs and earn these (and/or) other impossible/very-hard-to-get medals, let me know! I like filling my medal overviews at my stats. =]