Receiving credit towards a commendation

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Been playing a bit of Firefight and Warzone here and there and I am almost done with the “enemy” commendations. All I need is the one for marines, grunt mechs and warden eternal. I am not really too concerned with the Marine one since it will come in time (I know all commendations come in time, but they require more kills and they are much easier to get) but I am a bit confused as to how credit is awarded towards killing boss AI like the gunt mechs and warden eternal.

Typically I look out for the something like the “banshee destroyed” medal as piece of mind for getting credit towards its respective commendation and double check my progress in the carnage report after the a match. Whenever I see a medal, I always see my progress increase but there have been times where I didn’t receive a medal in game but got the progress for a commendation. Like recently I finished my hunter slayer commendation but when I played the matchmade game where I got the last 2 kills I needed I never received a medal, but hey, I was the only player attacking the hunters in that area of the map, I clearly got the kills and rightfully got the credit for the kills to count towards the commendation.

I am not sure if like… medals or commendations are bugged (I do notice that several medals in the game aren’t reflected in the medals tab of a player’s service record on halowaypoint. I also notice some commendations that were added in after day 1 aren’t included in a mastery commendations, like the grunt mech slayer commendation for the covenant destroyer mastery), but can’t tell how kills are counted towards commendations.

At times I thought I had to be the person who physically got the last shot in on a warden or a mech but I thought, well that would mean everyone would steal kills and it can be hard to give credit to where credit is due since everyone seems to gank a warden or a mech at the same time.

Other times I thought all players participating in the kill (only those whose team gets the kill in warzone) gets the credit but every time I have gotten an assist or something I have received bupkis.

That only lead me to believe that a player must get substantial or majority of the damage in on the AI, and be alive during the kill to get credit but I am not sure if those are the conditions either.

I am not stressing over this and I am sure it will come in time, as long as nothing is seriously bugged (i originally thought grunt mechs were because I played firefight for 2 or 3 months, killing grunt mechs along the way, before ever getting a single kill count towards the commendation). I’m just interested to know how the game works in this regard. I know the warlord achievement is glitched, so I hope this isn’t also glitchy or poorly implemented in the game (especially commendations and medals added in post day 1).

Maybe I just don’t understand something. Does anyone know how the kills are counted?

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It is all about the final shot on the warden and grunt mech. You can get the kill medal for doing i believe 5% damage, but unless you get the kill shot, no commendation progress. This has been a common question.

Tips are have a full team with you in firefight and they let you get the final shot, or just use tanks, wraiths, etc to get the kills.

Edit: The Grunt Mech Kill, Wasp Gunner/Destroyer, Grenade Launcher, Sentinel Beam, Hammer, and Brute Rifle commendations are not tied to the “Completion” commendations in their respective classifications

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> It is all about the final shot on the warden and grunt mech. You can get the kill medal for doing i believe 5% damage, but unless you get the kill shot, no commendation progress. This has been a common question.
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> Tips are have a full team with you in firefight and they let you get the final shot, or just use tanks, wraiths, etc to get the kills.
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> Edit: The Grunt Mech Kill, Wasp Gunner/Destroyer, Grenade Launcher, Sentinel Beam, Hammer, and Brute Rifle commendations are not tied to the “Completion” commendations in their respective classifications

Wow… that’s kinda wild. I often felt that was the case but disregarded it since it seemed impractical with AI that are huge bullet sponges and so many players on the map engaging it at the same time. Seems kinda unfair and intuitive for the situations they are presented in.

Thanks for the input and tips.

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> > 2533274811192667;2:
> > It is all about the final shot on the warden and grunt mech. You can get the kill medal for doing i believe 5% damage, but unless you get the kill shot, no commendation progress. This has been a common question.
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> > Tips are have a full team with you in firefight and they let you get the final shot, or just use tanks, wraiths, etc to get the kills.
> >
> > Edit: The Grunt Mech Kill, Wasp Gunner/Destroyer, Grenade Launcher, Sentinel Beam, Hammer, and Brute Rifle commendations are not tied to the “Completion” commendations in their respective classifications
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> Wow… that’s kinda wild. I often felt that was the case but disregarded it since it seemed impractical with AI that are huge bullet sponges and so many players on the map engaging it at the same time. Seems kinda unfair and intuitive for the situations they are presented in.
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> Thanks for the input and tips.

No problem.

The full team method is how me and a few friends finished our Warden commendation. I’m still working on that Grunt Mech though

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> Been playing a bit of Firefight and Warzone here and there and I am almost done with the “enemy” commendations. All I need is the one for marines, grunt mechs and warden eternal. I am not really too concerned with the Marine one since it will come in time (I know all commendations come in time, but they require more kills and they are much easier to get) but I am a bit confused as to how credit is awarded towards killing boss AI like the gunt mechs and warden eternal.
>
> Typically I look out for the something like the “banshee destroyed” medal as piece of mind for getting credit towards its respective commendation and double check my progress in the carnage report after the a match. Whenever I see a medal, I always see my progress increase but there have been times where I didn’t receive a medal in game but got the progress for a commendation. Like recently I finished my hunter slayer commendation but when I played the matchmade game where I got the last 2 kills I needed I never received a medal, but hey, I was the only player attacking the hunters in that area of the map, I clearly got the kills and rightfully got the credit for the kills to count towards the commendation.
>
> I am not sure if like… medals or commendations are bugged (I do notice that several medals in the game aren’t reflected in the medals tab of a player’s service record on halowaypoint. I also notice some commendations that were added in after day 1 aren’t included in a mastery commendations, like the grunt mech slayer commendation for the covenant destroyer mastery), but can’t tell how kills are counted towards commendations.
>
> At times I thought I had to be the person who physically got the last shot in on a warden or a mech but I thought, well that would mean everyone would steal kills and it can be hard to give credit to where credit is due since everyone seems to gank a warden or a mech at the same time.
>
> Other times I thought all players participating in the kill (only those whose team gets the kill in warzone) gets the credit but every time I have gotten an assist or something I have received bupkis.
>
> That only lead me to believe that a player must get substantial or majority of the damage in on the AI, and be alive during the kill to get credit but I am not sure if those are the conditions either.
>
> I am not stressing over this and I am sure it will come in time, as long as nothing is seriously bugged (i originally thought grunt mechs were because I played firefight for 2 or 3 months, killing grunt mechs along the way, before ever getting a single kill count towards the commendation). I’m just interested to know how the game works in this regard. I know the warlord achievement is glitched, so I hope this isn’t also glitchy or poorly implemented in the game (especially commendations and medals added in post day 1).
>
> Maybe I just don’t understand something. Does anyone know how the kills are counted?

If you get the red “x” in your crosshair once a boss is killed, only then can you assume you got a +1 for the commendation. It’s not a good system since it encourages waiting for the last shot and so on. I would have liked it if it was more like a threshold-based system. So for instance, get +1 for the commendation if you inflict damage greater than 12.5% of the boss’ health.

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> > 2533274900606824;1:
> > Been playing a bit of Firefight and Warzone here and there and I am almost done with the “enemy” commendations. All I need is the one for marines, grunt mechs and warden eternal. I am not really too concerned with the Marine one since it will come in time (I know all commendations come in time, but they require more kills and they are much easier to get) but I am a bit confused as to how credit is awarded towards killing boss AI like the gunt mechs and warden eternal.
> >
> > Typically I look out for the something like the “banshee destroyed” medal as piece of mind for getting credit towards its respective commendation and double check my progress in the carnage report after the a match. Whenever I see a medal, I always see my progress increase but there have been times where I didn’t receive a medal in game but got the progress for a commendation. Like recently I finished my hunter slayer commendation but when I played the matchmade game where I got the last 2 kills I needed I never received a medal, but hey, I was the only player attacking the hunters in that area of the map, I clearly got the kills and rightfully got the credit for the kills to count towards the commendation.
> >
> > I am not sure if like… medals or commendations are bugged (I do notice that several medals in the game aren’t reflected in the medals tab of a player’s service record on halowaypoint. I also notice some commendations that were added in after day 1 aren’t included in a mastery commendations, like the grunt mech slayer commendation for the covenant destroyer mastery), but can’t tell how kills are counted towards commendations.
> >
> > At times I thought I had to be the person who physically got the last shot in on a warden or a mech but I thought, well that would mean everyone would steal kills and it can be hard to give credit to where credit is due since everyone seems to gank a warden or a mech at the same time.
> >
> > Other times I thought all players participating in the kill (only those whose team gets the kill in warzone) gets the credit but every time I have gotten an assist or something I have received bupkis.
> >
> > That only lead me to believe that a player must get substantial or majority of the damage in on the AI, and be alive during the kill to get credit but I am not sure if those are the conditions either.
> >
> > I am not stressing over this and I am sure it will come in time, as long as nothing is seriously bugged (i originally thought grunt mechs were because I played firefight for 2 or 3 months, killing grunt mechs along the way, before ever getting a single kill count towards the commendation). I’m just interested to know how the game works in this regard. I know the warlord achievement is glitched, so I hope this isn’t also glitchy or poorly implemented in the game (especially commendations and medals added in post day 1).
> >
> > Maybe I just don’t understand something. Does anyone know how the kills are counted?
>
> If you get the red “x” in your crosshair once a boss is killed, only then can you assume you got a +1 for the commendation. It’s not a good system since it encourages waiting for the last shot and so on. I would have liked it if it was more like a threshold-based system. So for instance, get +1 for the commendation if you inflict damage greater than 12.5% of the boss’ health.

Totally, I feel the same way. This system for awarding the credit seems like its just been carried over from regular PvP without the AI. In that scenario it makes more sense… for example, if you are playing Slayer and you kill someone with a headshot, regardless if someone else assisted you, you clearly got the headshot kill and there are plenty of more changes for everyone to do the same thing.

In warzone and warzone firefight, against the spongey AI, it doesn’t make sense and it seems really lazy, broken, and can add to list of reasons why many players find warzone doesn’t enable and encourage teamwork as much as it should… which is a shame. Warzone was designed of to be an improvement over BTB with a twist, but I am sure most players feel that is far from the truth.

I was actually talking about how the system for awarding the credits towards commendations is flawed (and so are many other aspects of warzone) with my girlfriend and we both speculated that a better system for awarding credit towards commendations would be much like something you said. Its nice to know I am not the only one and someone else feels similarly too.