This is a collection of my posts from X, my main social and the first place I post everything. You’ll find video game guides, comics, fiction, my writing and author updates, and other topics I cover.
4,845 posts are available here. Each entry keeps the original wording and links back to X.
4,845 posts.
· Games / Halo: Reach
**ONI: Sword Base — clear the courtyard, restore the defenses, then fight your way upstairs** **Halo: Reach in MCC. Mission spoilers. Conventional campaign route.** Sword Base sends you outside to restore the base's defenses, then makes you...
Read the full post· Games / Halo: Reach
**Winter Contingency — the fleeing Elite, both data pads and the achievement cleanup** **Halo: Reach in MCC. Mission spoilers.** Before you start chasing anything here, use the MCC numbers. **Data Pad 1** is in the farm building. **Data Pad...
Read the full post· Games / Halo: Reach
**Halo: Reach — Winter Contingency, from the farms to the relay** **MCC. Mission spoilers. Normal, Heroic and Legendary advice; conventional route.** Winter Contingency takes a little time to let you see Reach before everything starts falli...
Read the full post· Games / Halo: Reach
**Halo: Reach — which version you're playing matters before you start chasing achievements** Reach is one of those games where an old guide can look completely right until you get to the achievement you actually wanted. Same planet, same No...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**Finishing ODST's achievement cleanup: what to check before calling it done** **This checklist is for ODST inside MCC unless a section explicitly says Xbox 360.** It brings the campaign, recordings, odd little challenges, and version diffe...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**ODST in MCC: Legendary time, par scores, and LASO without mixing up the requirements** There are several different things people mean by “finishing ODST on Legendary.” Completing the campaign, getting the combined time below three hours,...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**ODST Firefight: staying alive, and what Endure actually requires** Firefight is where ODST makes the difference between a good shot and a good teammate very obvious. You can kill plenty of Covenant and still ruin the match by spending the...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**ODST: the Mombasa Streets achievements that are easy to misunderstand** **Halo: The Master Chief Collection.** This covers the Rookie's nighttime hub, not the daytime flashbacks. There are story spoilers for how the investigation leads in...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**ODST: getting the last audio log without losing track of the other 29** **MCC guide. Data Hive and Sadie's Story spoilers below.** The final recording is not another telephone hidden somewhere in New Mombasa. It is behind a special encoun...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**ODST's 29 city recordings: a location checklist that won't mix up the story order** **For Halo: The Master Chief Collection.** This is a map companion, not a claim that every turn through New Mombasa fits into one short list. It covers th...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**Coastal Highway achievements: the final escort, Déjà Vu and the epilogue secret** *MCC. Finale and epilogue spoilers.* There is a big difference between finishing Coastal Highway and finishing it under Déjà Vu's rules. Get the requirement...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**Coastal Highway: protect the truck, then hold the building** *MCC walkthrough. Finale spoilers. Normal, Heroic and Legendary.* The highway looks like a long vehicle section, but the real job is keeping Dare and the Engineer alive through...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**Data Hive achievements: rear melees, a flame grenade and the last recording** *MCC. Major mission and audio-story spoilers.* Data Hive has enough going on without accidentally following an achievement list for the wrong release. The origi...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**Data Hive: get down to Dare, then get the Engineer back out** *MCC walkthrough. Major late-campaign spoilers.* The flashbacks are over. Data Hive follows the Rookie into the underground facility, and the objective changes halfway through:...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**Kikowani Station achievements: seven splatters and a song hidden above a doorway** *MCC. Mission spoilers.* The aircraft here are not just transport between objectives. They are the answer to the mission's splatter challenge and the way t...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**Kikowani Station: open the route before trying to fly through it** *MCC walkthrough. Mission spoilers. Normal through Legendary.* Kikowani is the Banshee mission, but it isn't all flying. You steal an aircraft, clear the squad's route, la...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**NMPD HQ achievements: put the sniper down, then watch the skies** *MCC. Mission spoilers.* NMPD HQ has two very different kinds of achievement runs: a careful rooftop completion without your starting sniper rifle, and a crash-site defense...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**NMPD HQ: cross the rooftops without giving the snipers a free shot** *MCC walkthrough. Mission spoilers. Normal, Heroic and Legendary.* Romeo begins with a sniper rifle and pistol, which is a very useful pairing for the rooftops ahead. Th...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**ONI Alpha Site achievements: seven Wraiths, three jetpack Brutes and the mission pars** *MCC. Mission spoilers.* This is one of the ODST missions where the achievement instructions can pull against the story instructions. Mickey wants the...
Read the full post· Games / Halo 3: ODST
**ONI Alpha Site: know when to hold and when to get inside** *MCC walkthrough. Mission spoilers. Normal through Legendary.* ONI Alpha Site keeps giving you a position to defend and then taking it away. That is the important thing to underst...
Read the full post