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· Games / Halo 5: Guardians
**Halo 5: Unconfirmed — getting through Apogee Station and the first Warden fight** *Campaign spoilers. Halo 5: Guardians, not MCC.* Unconfirmed has a fairly sharp change of pace. You're following Blue Team through a mining station, then su...
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**Halo 5 — Meridian Station: finish the investigation and find all eight intel items** **Meridian Station spoilers.** This is a short, noncombat mission. You don't need a new loadout or a defensive strategy; you need to speak to the right r...
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**Halo 5 — Glassed: Iron, six intel items and the two restricted runs** **Glassed spoilers.** This mission's skull is the important exception to a casual collectible sweep: **Iron requires a Legendary-specific event**. Its ordinary intel ca...
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**Halo 5 — Glassed: the road to Meridian Station** **Glassed campaign spoilers.** This is a conventional completion route using the vehicles the mission provides. If you're attempting Going the Distance, stay on foot throughout; the separat...
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**Halo 5 — Blue Team: intel, Black Eye and the two special challenges** **Mission spoilers.** Blue Team has eight intel items and the Black Eye skull. Its two mission challenges are separate from collecting those items: one needs another pl...
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**Halo 5 — Blue Team: clearing Argent Moon and getting out** **Blue Team campaign spoilers.** This route covers the full mission, including the reactor, flight section and final hangar. This time you're Chief, with Fred, Kelly and Linda. Th...
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**Halo 5 — Osiris: seven intel items, IWHBYD and the Elite General** **Osiris spoilers.** This checklist is for Halo 5: Guardians, not MCC. The mission has seven intel items and one skull. A relaxed collectible run and the Elite General cha...
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**Halo 5 — Osiris: from the landing site to Halsey** **Campaign spoilers for Osiris.** This is the conventional route through Halo 5: Guardians, with extra care for Heroic and Legendary. There are two battles going on when Osiris lands: the...
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**Halo 5: getting the right version and planning the campaign** Halo 5 needs its own checklist. It isn't another campaign inside The Master Chief Collection, and the squad system changes how you handle fights from the first mission onward....
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**Spartan Ops: the other five Red vs. Blue radios** *Halo 4, episodes 6–10. Minor dialogue spoilers.* The radios continue into the second half of Spartan Ops. These are optional detours that change parts of the conversation, so finish a cha...
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**Halo 4: the achievements outside the campaign checklist** **This checklist is for Halo 4 inside The Master Chief Collection. Original Xbox 360 differences are separated below.** If you've finished the campaign guides and Spartan Ops chapt...
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**Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Exodus and the escape from Requiem** **MCC guide. Episode 10 and season-ending spoilers.** The last episode sends you after a replacement power source before you can reach the artifact keeping Infinity trapped. The mis...
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**Halo 4 Spartan Ops: following Halsey's signal through Key** **MCC guide. Episode 9 spoilers.** Key moves between signal tracing, a Scorpion assault and a long fight through Lockup. Science Mountain is the chapter where the route can be pa...
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**Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Expendable, from Apex to Switchback's rescue** **MCC guide. Episode 8 spoilers.** You're back on Requiem, and the Covenant keep arriving exactly where they can make the next objective unpleasant. Expendable also resolv...
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**Halo 4 Spartan Ops: fighting back through Infinity** **MCC guide. Episode 7, Invasion, spoilers.** The hangar, server room and engine room keep coming back in this episode. The objectives change even when the scenery doesn't. Pay attentio...
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**Halo 4 Spartan Ops: escaping captivity in Scattered** **MCC guide. Episode 6 spoilers.** Crimson starts this episode captured, without the comfortable opening of choosing a position and firing from a distance. Once you escape, the stolen...
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**Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Memento Mori and its two defense achievements** **MCC guide. Episode 5 spoilers.** There are two places in this episode where simply reaching the ending isn't enough for the achievement. Spartan Miller requires you to...
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**Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Didact's Hand, all five chapters** **MCC guide. Episode 4 spoilers.** The chase through Requiem's portals makes this episode easy to lose track of. You arrive somewhere familiar, get sent to a different control, and su...
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**Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Catherine, all five chapters** **MCC guide. Episode 3 spoilers.** Catherine keeps changing the kind of fight you're in. The first chapter gives you tanks, Galileo puts you back inside a base under attack, and Valhalla...
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**Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Artifact, all five chapters** **MCC guide. Episode 2 spoilers.** Artifact spends a lot of time sending Crimson to help people whose situation has already gone badly. The important difference from a simple enemy-clear m...
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