Hi guys
Being the kind of player that I am, I am thinking about going through a campaign run of all halo titles on the master chief collection. The aim is to get all achievements. I created this thread just to see if anyone knows any tips that could help me along the way so I can get all achievements in the fewest attempts possible???
I’ll be doing it legendary I take it but what else should I look out for?
let me know guys
What a tall order!
Are you starting from scratch?
It will take awhile, but it’s a satisfying journey.
My suggestion would be to play through the MC Saga playlist first, to get the Lifestory achievement, and re-familiarizing yourself with the levels.
If you’re a decent player, you can probably speed through many of the levels during this, as it’s Normal difficulty, and knock out many of the par time achievements.
Also, if you’re quick about it, you can have guides open for the terminals, as many of them are easily accessible. Most of the Skulls (and toys in H2) are in tricky areas, so best to get them on non-timed runs.
(be careful of any playlist achievements involving Halo 2 - for co-op. Don’t do any playlists co-op that include Halo 2 due to the cut-scene missions screwing things up on co-op)
After that, I’d do your Legendary run of each Campaign - and try to hook up with a squad for each (except perhaps 4 and Reach, as they have solo completion achievements)
As you are doing your legendary run, you should be going for Par score when possible, but also have a mission guide handy to see any mission specific achievements that require Heroic or harder (some even legendary). Any of those that are too hard on Legendary can be re-done later on Heroic, but many are still achievable.
Then you could go for cleanup.
That would be my approach.
I have a google doc that has all the achievements categorized out by each level they’re in, if you’re interested.
Good luck!
Thank you for that,
I have the google doc and that is what I am using currently. So play through the mcc saga playlist first then
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> Thank you for that,
> I have the google doc and that is what I am using currently. So play through the mcc saga playlist first then
Yep!
That’s my suggestion anyway
As far as campaign is concerned, unlocking achievements related to it won’t be that easy. For one you need to complete them in under 3 hours. Which means you need to learn speedrunning tricks and those will take you a while to get down.
Not to mention the LASO playlists also… I still have nightmares from T&R, did it once, never again 
So not sure why’d you want to keep track of the attempts, looks kinda pointless to me.
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> As far as campaign is concerned, unlocking achievements related to it won’t be that easy. For one you need to complete them in under 3 hours. Which means you need to learn speedrunning tricks and those will take you a while to get down.
> Not to mention the LASO playlists also… I still have nightmares from T&R, did it once, never again
>
> So not sure why’d you want to keep track of the attempts, looks kinda pointless to me.
It’s called being a halo completionist!
Getting all achievements is tough in MCC. One thing to do is play the campaigns in the playlist and don’t play them via “campaigns”. That way you can knock out the playlist achievements along with regular campaign achievements. You may want to write out achievements so you can maybe link achievements to certain play throughs… For example when playing Reach on legendary try and get the data pads at the same time (some pads are available only on legendary). But good luck at getting all of them. I have A LOT and working on getting a few more reach achievements. I won’t get them all as I have no desire to play LASO or the under three hour legendary campaign runs.
When I started this initial post I had about 200 achievements now I’m at 505/700!
wish I seen your comment about the playlists first. I just did them through the campaign menu
I have all halo titles achievements 100% I can try to help just message if intrested and I’m interested to make some halo friend along the way
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> It’s called being a halo completionist!
I know. My point was, you will likely need to make multiple attempts, even on the same mission. That is why I personally do not see a point in keeping track of the attempts. But ok.
For example, getting par time on Sierra 117 is just brutal already, I managed to do it in 10 minutes and that was good enough for me.
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> I have all halo titles achievements 100% I can try to help just message if intrested and I’m interested to make some halo friend along the way
Very kind yes! That would be nice. There are some achievements that require coop and I’d love some help!
also a friend would be nice, friend!!!
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> I have all halo titles achievements 100% I can try to help just message if intrested and I’m interested to make some halo friend along the way
Hit me up on Xbox gamer tag is Artur s 004 pt
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> As far as campaign is concerned, unlocking achievements related to it won’t be that easy. For one you need to complete them in under 3 hours. Which means you need to learn speedrunning tricks and those will take you a while to get down.
> Not to mention the LASO playlists also… I still have nightmares from T&R, did it once, never again
>
> So not sure why’d you want to keep track of the attempts, looks kinda pointless to me.
I don’t think it is a matter of wanting to “keep track of the attempts” but instead just a desire overall to minimize them.
Wouldn’t you want to be as efficient as possible?
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> > As far as campaign is concerned, unlocking achievements related to it won’t be that easy. For one you need to complete them in under 3 hours. Which means you need to learn speedrunning tricks and those will take you a while to get down.
> > Not to mention the LASO playlists also… I still have nightmares from T&R, did it once, never again
> >
> > So not sure why’d you want to keep track of the attempts, looks kinda pointless to me.
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> I don’t think it is a matter of wanting to “keep track of the attempts” but instead just a desire overall to minimize them.
>
> Wouldn’t you want to be as efficient as possible?
Bang on mate
assuming I starting from scratch again, this how i would do the campaign portion plus mm if curious, having actually already obtained all 7000g
Laso playlists(and pray to god my playlists dont reset again as they did at games launch) then Leg sub 3 houes. Or maybe the reverse/a mix. Either way this alone would get rid of a bunch in a single go. I would get every difficulty, plus the solo legendary in reach and 2. Plus the laso chivo for each, a playlist chivo, the laso laso master, and poasibly many random grindy “kill x amount of y” stuff and possible random other level specific stuff. Plus it wasnt too uncommon i got plenty of lar score or time chivos doing laso/3 hour legendary. Then manually go back and obtain every par score and time i didnt obtain. Why these first? Just to get them out of the way, and possibly be a glod chunk done with others as a side effect
So far, 2 full playthroughs, plus change as needed.
Full playthrough 3 would be Master Chief Saga, plus manually odst and reach normal playlist as theh are not in the playlist, and go for the achievement for beatinf that playlist, plus a cross game playlist, plus go for EVERY COLLECTIBLE AND LEVEL SPECIFIC ACHIEVEMENT POSSIBLE!
So we have 3 full playthroughs plus change down.
After this i would go in and get the few level specifics that are easier with a certian difficulty(or required) or set of skulls.
Again we are at 3 full playthroughs plus more change.
After this i would still need 1 or 2 playlists for each game/cross game, sp i would select the easiest/shortest playthroughs.
Between the 3 sets if “plus change” lets just call it the possible equivalent of 4 playthroughs at this point.
So, equivalent to 4 full playthroughs down, and we now have Spartan Ops. Since the save and quit method doesnt work any longer, i would manually just play theough spartan ops legendary. Dont recall ifnthey had easter egg or level specific chivos, bit if they did i would do them if possible, or via clena up.
So if we include Spartan ops as a “full campaign playthrough” we have “5 playthroughs plus possible change” and i cant imagine i would need go go back and grind “kill x amount kf anything”
At that point should be done with the story mode side. Onward to mm
I would only play h2a to grind out environmentalist chivo and h2a splatters first.
Next i would play ce and h2/h2a for legendary medals. I am unsure if the others work now or not but they did not at launch when I originally did this. They SAID they counted but unless i played ce, 2 or 2a they did NOT, because i could easily get legendary medals in 4 mm every 3 games on average but they never counted. So between getting h2a splatters, h2a enviornmentalists and legendary medals, i should also have a good chunk of others as well.
After that i would use forge to get the few forge chivos, and the seasonal/map specific stuff, and the weird soda can in h2a maps.
After that, i should only have stuff i would grind out by playing regular halo mm.
This is all off the top of my head having obtained all 7000, and a good chunk of that not being very efficient at the beginning.
^this is great advice, if you are super familiar with the campaigns. LASO is super tough, so I’d either do it first (if you are familiar) or last (so you have more knowledge and practice).
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> ^this is great advice, if you are super familiar with the campaigns. LASO is super tough, so I’d either do it first (if you are familiar) or last (so you have more knowledge and practice).
Yep that about right I’ve technically done laso twice tho the first time didn’t count cause it was the check point glitch which on my other account this account I did legit and it is brutal even with a knowledgeable person
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> assuming I starting from scratch again, this how i would do the campaign portion plus mm if curious, having actually already obtained all 7000g
>
> Laso playlists(and pray to god my playlists dont reset again as they did at games launch) then Leg sub 3 houes. Or maybe the reverse/a mix. Either way this alone would get rid of a bunch in a single go. I would get every difficulty, plus the solo legendary in reach and 2. Plus the laso chivo for each, a playlist chivo, the laso laso master, and poasibly many random grindy “kill x amount of y” stuff and possible random other level specific stuff. Plus it wasnt too uncommon i got plenty of lar score or time chivos doing laso/3 hour legendary. Then manually go back and obtain every par score and time i didnt obtain. Why these first? Just to get them out of the way, and possibly be a glod chunk done with others as a side effect
>
> So far, 2 full playthroughs, plus change as needed.
>
> Full playthrough 3 would be Master Chief Saga, plus manually odst and reach normal playlist as theh are not in the playlist, and go for the achievement for beatinf that playlist, plus a cross game playlist, plus go for EVERY COLLECTIBLE AND LEVEL SPECIFIC ACHIEVEMENT POSSIBLE!
>
> So we have 3 full playthroughs plus change down.
>
> After this i would go in and get the few level specifics that are easier with a certian difficulty(or required) or set of skulls.
>
> Again we are at 3 full playthroughs plus more change.
>
> After this i would still need 1 or 2 playlists for each game/cross game, sp i would select the easiest/shortest playthroughs.
>
> Between the 3 sets if “plus change” lets just call it the possible equivalent of 4 playthroughs at this point.
>
> So, equivalent to 4 full playthroughs down, and we now have Spartan Ops. Since the save and quit method doesnt work any longer, i would manually just play theough spartan ops legendary. Dont recall ifnthey had easter egg or level specific chivos, bit if they did i would do them if possible, or via clena up.
>
> So if we include Spartan ops as a “full campaign playthrough” we have “5 playthroughs plus possible change” and i cant imagine i would need go go back and grind “kill x amount kf anything”
>
> At that point should be done with the story mode side. Onward to mm
>
> I would only play h2a to grind out environmentalist chivo and h2a splatters first.
>
> Next i would play ce and h2/h2a for legendary medals. I am unsure if the others work now or not but they did not at launch when I originally did this. They SAID they counted but unless i played ce, 2 or 2a they did NOT, because i could easily get legendary medals in 4 mm every 3 games on average but they never counted. So between getting h2a splatters, h2a enviornmentalists and legendary medals, i should also have a good chunk of others as well.
>
> After that i would use forge to get the few forge chivos, and the seasonal/map specific stuff, and the weird soda can in h2a maps.
>
> After that, i should only have stuff i would grind out by playing regular halo mm.
>
> This is all off the top of my head having obtained all 7000, and a good chunk of that not being very efficient at the beginning.
Thanks very much for the advise here is what I have done so far.
done every single mission on legendary except for Reach (need to buy add on).
got all par scores and par times again except reach.
got all skulls,terminals and toys.
got most of the specific mission achievements (I’m missing around 2/3 for every game) This will be done ASAP!
I have a total of 520 and around 90 of those are the reach campaign ones.
as with the playlists does this mean I have to do every playlist in laso to get all 700 achievements ???
im just worried about Laso and the under 3 hour ones!
im onto spartan opps next!
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> > as with the playlists does this mean I have to do every playlist in laso to get all 700 achievements ???
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> > im just worried about Laso and the under 3 hour ones!
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> > im onto spartan opps next!
Not every playlist, no.
You need to beat 3 playlists for each game and 3 in cross game.
Laso is a playlist already, and “master cheif sage” is one from cross game, so only need 2 more in each.
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> I don’t think it is a matter of wanting to “keep track of the attempts” but instead just a desire overall to minimize them.
>
> Wouldn’t you want to be as efficient as possible?
Not really. Maybe it’s just me.