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· Games / Halo 4
**Halo 4 — start with the right version and the right checklist** There is a lot more to Halo 4 than getting Chief through eight missions. There are terminals, individual combat challenges, score runs, playlists and another whole set of mis...
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**Halo: Reach — planning LASO and the three-hour Legendary achievement** **MCC campaign guide. Mission spoilers.** These are the two Reach challenges I'd leave until the ordinary Legendary route is familiar. One changes nearly every fight t...
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**Halo: Reach — a sensible order for finishing the MCC campaign achievements** **Campaign spoilers. This roadmap is for MCC, not the original Xbox 360 achievement list.** Reach gives you plenty of reasons to revisit a mission, but you don't...
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**Halo: Reach — Firefight, Forge and the achievements outside the campaign** **MCC guide.** Finishing the campaign leaves a few very different things on Reach's list. Some take a short visit to Forge. Others depend on finding the right matc...
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**Halo: Reach — Lone Wolf, the last data pad and the 150,000-point challenge** **MCC campaign guide. Full ending spoilers.** There isn't a rescue coming in Lone Wolf. Holding out longer doesn't unlock a different ending, and there isn't a h...
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**Halo: Reach — The Pillar of Autumn's two pads and the Chief cameo** **MCC achievement guide. Ending spoilers.** The achievement most likely to send you down the wrong path here is one that MCC doesn't actually have. The falling assassinat...
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**Halo: Reach — getting the package through The Pillar of Autumn** **MCC campaign walkthrough. Major ending spoilers.** This is Reach's mission called The Pillar of Autumn, not the opening level of Combat Evolved. You're still Noble Six, an...
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**Halo: Reach — The Package's tank challenge, data pads, and hidden rooms** **MCC guide. Mission spoilers.** The Package has two very different secrets: four Banshees near the beginning, and a hidden room after the final defense. Neither is...
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**Halo: Reach — The Package, from the flooded outpost to Halsey's door** **MCC campaign walkthrough. Major mission spoilers.** The Scorpion is the best thing you find in the opening half of The Package, but it isn't permission to drive stra...
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**Halo: Reach — New Alexandria's data pads, hidden music, and flyable dropships** **MCC guide. Mission and Easter-egg spoilers.** There is a lot hiding in this mission, and trying to collect it all while racing the clock is a good way to ge...
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**Halo: Reach — flying New Alexandria without getting lost between the jammers** **MCC campaign guide. Mission spoilers.** New Alexandria gives you a Falcon and a city full of distress calls. It also gives the objectives in different orders...
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**Halo: Reach — Exodus collectibles and achievement cleanup** **MCC guide. Location and mission spoilers.** Exodus has two easy-to-miss observation achievements near the beginning, two data pads before the Falcon ride, and a much stranger d...
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**Halo: Reach — getting through Exodus without losing the route** **MCC campaign guide. Mission spoilers.** After everything that happens in Long Night of Solace, Exodus drops Six into a city full of people who still need a way out. There a...
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**Halo: Reach in MCC — Long Night of Solace's data pads, space challenge and Pelican turret** *Full mission spoilers.* Both data pads are before the launch. Wake Up Buttercup is during the second space encounter. The Pelican turret is near...
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**Halo: Reach in MCC — Long Night of Solace, from the beach to Jorge's last stand** *Full mission spoilers, including the ending.* Long Night of Solace changes the controls on you halfway through, then puts you back on foot inside a Covenan...
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**Halo: Reach in MCC — Tip of the Spear's pads, Zealot and achievement checklist** *Mission spoilers. MCC requirements.* The mining facility is worth slowing down for. It contains a logo achievement, the escaping Zealot and the first data p...
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**Halo: Reach in MCC — Tip of the Spear, from the first gun to the Spire** *Mission spoilers. Conventional Normal, Heroic and Legendary route.* Tip of the Spear puts an enormous battle around you, but you don't have to solve the entire batt...
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**Halo: Reach in MCC — Nightfall's two data pads and mission achievements** *Nightfall spoilers. MCC numbering and achievements, not the original Xbox 360 list.* Nightfall has data pads **3 and 12**. The first is almost beside your starting...
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**Halo: Reach in MCC — Nightfall, without the forklift shortcut** *Mission spoilers. Conventional campaign route, with advice for Normal, Heroic and Legendary.* Nightfall gives you a sniper rifle, Jun and enough darkness to make the first f...
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**Sword Base — both data pads, the double-Wraith strike and Reach Racer** **Halo: Reach in MCC. Mission spoilers.** Sword Base has two data pads in very different places. One is outside on a cliff behind Farragut Station. The other is insid...
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