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This is includes all the achievements that you can get with the original game, DLC packs and Halo 3:Mythic. If you would like to send me an e-mail use the e-mail below. I will only reply to e-mails about this guide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.Version Update........................[VRUP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the version update of the walkthrough. The newest posts will be at the top. 1.00 Guide done ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.Achievement Guide.....................[ACHG] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The guide will be split into original game achievements and DLC/mythic achievements. They will also be organised alphabetically. If you want to find an achievement quickly press CRTL + F and type in what you want to find. Name: How to obtain: Gamerscore: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Original Halo 3 Achievements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Askar How to obtain: You have to finish the fourth level with atleast 15000 meta game points. It's almost impossible to do this without turning on skulls. Turn on the skulls Tough Luck, Catch, Fog and Famine. The others are not worth the trouble to turn on. Do this on Normal Difficulty. Try to get group kills, stickies, headshots ect. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Assault How to obtain: To get this achievement fully beat the fourth level from start to finish on normal or higher difficulty. Gamerscore: 30G Name: Black Eye How to obtain: You have to find the Black Eye skull. This skull is located in Crows Nest. Right when you start off the mission go to the other end of the room and above the stairs leading downwards should be a thin green shelf. Jump on this and end then on the Pipe. Walk down the pipe and pick up the skull. You must be on normal or higher. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Campaign Complete: Heroic How to obtain: All campaign levels must be beaten at the Heroic difficulty level or higher. Gamerscore: 125G Name: Campaign Complete: Legendary How to obtain: All campaign levels must be beaten at the Legendary difficulty. Gamerscore: 125G Name: Campaign Complete: Normal. How to obtain: All campaign levels must be beaten at the Normal difficulty level or higher. Gamerscore: 125G Name: Catch How to obtain: You need to find the Catch Skull. This skull is in the Storm Level. When you have to take down an Anti-Air Wraith drive a Warthog to the Circular structure near the AA Wraith. Drive it to the highest dirt hill around the structure and jump on the Warthog and onto the building. The skull will be located in the middle. Additionally you can play on CO-OP and stand on your partners head and jump on. You must be on normal or higher. Gamerscore: 10 Name: Cavalier How to obtain: You have to finish the third level with atleast 15000 meta game points. It's almost impossible to do this without turning on skulls. Turn on the skulls Tough Luck, Catch, Fog and Famine. The others are not worth the trouble to turn on. Do this on Normal Difficulty. Try to get group kills, stickies, headshots ect. Gamerscore: 10 Name: Cleansing How to obtain: To get this achievement fully beat the fifth level from start to finish on normal or higher difficulty. Gamerscore: 30G Name: Demon How to obtain: You have to finish the second level with atleast 15000 meta game points. It's almost impossible to do this without turning on skulls. Turn on the skulls Tough Luck, Catch, Fog and Famine. The others are not worth the trouble to turn on. Do this on Normal Difficulty. Try to get group kills, stickies, headshots ect. and other medals. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Exterminator How to obtain: You have to finish the fifth level with atleast 15000 meta game points. It's almost impossible to do this without turning on skulls. Turn on the skulls Tough Luck, Catch, Fog and Famine. The others are not worth the trouble to turn on. Do this on Normal Difficulty. Try to get group kills, stickies, headshots ect. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Famine How to obtain: You need to find the Famine Skull. This skull is in The Ark level. Work your way through the level and when you fall down a short cliff there will be a fork in the road. Take the right path and go past the ghosts and turn right. Along the wall to the right will be a protruding rock. Jump up and climb the cliff. Work your way across this bridge. The skull is on the last support. Place a grenade along the slant and grenade jump onto the support. You must be on normal or higher. Gamerscore: 10 Name: Fear the Pink Mist How to obtain: You have to kill 5 enemies with a Needler in either a Ranked Online game or in the Campaign. Needlers are everywhere. A lot of grunts carry needlers so just kill one pick one up and shoot other grunts. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Fog How to obtain: Find the Fog skull. This skull is in the Floodgate level. Make your way down from the beginning and to the industrial part. Look to right and up. Wait for the flood to appear and quickly kill and it will drop the skull. If you miss or it jumps away just go back to last save. Gamerscore: 10 Name: Graduate How to obtain: Go through basic training playlist. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Guerilla How to obtain: You have to finish the first level with atleast 15000 meta game points. It's almost impossible to do this without turning on skulls. Turn on the skulls Tough Luck, Catch, Fog and Famine. The others are not worth the trouble to turn on. Do this on Normal Difficulty. Try to get group kills, stickies, headshots ect. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Headshot Honcho How to obtain: You have to get 10 headshot kills in a ranked free for all playlist or in campaign. Easiest way to beat this is to start The Ark since you start with a sniper rifle and just pick off the enemies with the sniper rifle. There is the extra ammo on the first cliff where you meet up the other ODSTs. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Holdout How to obtain: To get this achievement fully beat the second level from start to finish on normal or higher difficulty. Gamerscore: Name: Iron How to obtain: Find the Iron skull. This is in the Sierra 117 level. Go behind the building sargeant johnson is behind and go up the stairs and jump on the little ledge. Jump on the pipes and jump on the ledge. Work your way across the ledge. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Killing frenzy. How to obtain: You have to kill ten enemies in a row without dying in a ranked free for all playlist. The easiest way to do this is play Crazy King on The Pit. Grab a sniper rifle and get on top of the tower. Pick off the players in the hill. If you can't aim for the head very well wait until there is a battle and then just hit them anywhere. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Landfall. How to obtain: To get this achievement fully beat the first level from start to finish on normal or higher difficulty. Gamerscore: 20G Name: Last Stand How to obtain: To get this achievement fully beat the seventh level from start to finish on normal or higher difficulty. Gamerscore: 40G Name: Lee R Wilson Memorial How to obtain: You have to get 5 grenade sticks in a ranked free for all playlist. Guardian is the easiest place for this. Plasma grenades can be found on the ledge beside the cloak and the adjacent edge across the middle. A good strategy is to just go right up to a player and stick them. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Marathon Man How to obtain: You need to find all 7 terminals in the campaign. You must keep going through the loh until it states /Fragment End 1: The Ark-Go through the level and when you find a room with 2 doors on the left go in and the terminal will be in the middle. 2: The Ark-When you activate the bridge to let the heavy armour across turn around and walk straight. 3: The Ark-After going down a long repetitive hallway and exiting left jump under the platform and go through the door under. The terminal is in this room. 4: The Covenant-After you get past the wraith and friends go inside and work your way up to the elevator. Instead of going up jump to the other side where there is an energy drainer. The terminal is right beside it. 5: The Covenant-When you get on the Hornet go to the second tower and land. Go inside and the terminal will be located on the inside wall. 6: The Covenant-When your going up the top of the third tower don't go up and go across and terminal will be there. (Similar to the 4th) 7: Halo-When you start off keep walking along the right wall. Keep going until you reach a small little hole. The terminal will be in this room. Gamerscore: 40G Name: Maybe Next Time Buddy How to obtain: You have to carjack a vehicle that you were just carjacked from in a ranked free for all playlist. Go to lonewolves and wait for Snowbound. Drive the ghost into the small room in the middle via the little hole in the centre of the map. Get jacked and hope your jacker is being pre-occupied or does not kill and jack the ghost back. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Mongoose Mowdown How to obtain: You need to get a splatter kill with a Mongoose in a ranked free for all playlist. Go to lonewolves and wait for High Ground. Splattering with a mongoose is very difficult. The best strategy is to go from the garge and go down to the beach picking up speed and try to splatter someone from there. Another good strategy is to try to splatter someone who is already in a fight keeping them distracted and weak. Gamerscore: 5G Name: MVP How to obtain: Go to any ranked playlist and get the most kills, most flag captures or bomb detonations to earn the MVP status. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Mythic How to obtain: You need to find the Mythic skull. It is in the Halo level. Keep hugging the right wall as soon as you start. The skull will be infront of some rocks at the end. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Orpheus How to obtain: You have to finish the eigth level with atleast 15000 meta game points. It's almost impossible to do this without turning on skulls. Turn on the skulls Tough Luck, Catch, Fog and Famine. The others are not worth the trouble to turn on. Do this on Normal Difficulty. Try to get group kills, stickies, headshots ect. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Overkill How to obtain: You have to get an overkill in Lone Wolves. The best way to do this is get the sniper rifle, get on the tower and pick off players in Crazy King in the Pit. Another way is to wait for swords in a map such as guardian and camp along the edges. When people come towards the middle kill them while they are fighting with each other. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Ranger How to obtain: You have to finish the sixth level with atleast 50000 meta game points. It's almost impossible to do this without turning on skulls. Turn on the skulls Tough Luck, Catch, Fog and Famine. The others are not worth the trouble to turn on. Do this on Normal Difficulty. Try to get group kills, stickies, headshots ect. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Reclaimer How to obtain: You have to finish the last level with atleast 15000 meta game points. It's almost impossible to do this without turning on skulls. Turn on the skulls Tough Luck, Catch, Fog and Famine. The others are not worth the trouble to turn on. Do this on Normal Difficulty. Try to get group kills, stickies, headshots ect. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Refuge How to obtain: To get this achievement fully beat the sixth level from start to finish on normal or higher difficulty. Gamerscore: 30G Name: Return How to obtain: To get this achievement fully beat the last level from start to finish on normal or higher difficulty. Gamerscore: 50G Name: Spartan Officer How to obtain: In any online playlist get to the lieutenant status (50 exp). This is an a single playlist NOT your total experience/your career rank. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Steppin' Razor How to obtain: In lone wolves get a triple kill with the Energy sword. Wait until you get the swords playlist in a small map like guardian and get kills off players who are fighting each other. Alternatively you can get the sword in The Pit and kill people who come into the hill. Having Overshields or Cloak is very helpful. Gamerscore: 5G Name: The Key How to obtain: To get this achievement fully beat the eigth level from start to finish on normal or higher difficulty. Gamerscore: 40G Name: The Road How to obtain: To get this achievement fully beat the third level from start to finish on normal or higher difficulty. Gamerscore: 20G Name: Thunderstorm How to obtain: When you get on the Hornet in The Covenant go to the second tower. Land, go up the ramp and across this ledge to find the skull. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Tilt How to obtain: When you get to the part in Cortana where you have to drop down into a room with a dead elite with an Energy sword go to the main cicular room. Get rid of the flood here and find a small thing that resembles a throne. Jump on that and then jump on the ledge on the left. Jump on the next one, turn around and jump again but watch your head because if you hit the ceiling you'll be sent down. After that jump to the middle purple area the skull will be right there. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Too close to the sun How to obtain: Go to the Squad Battle playlist and wait for Valhalla/Sandtrap. Kill any enemy Banshees with the Laser or Missle Pod. In Valhalla the missle Pod is in your base and Laser is at the hill in the middle. In sandtrap the lasers are located right before you enter the large tunnel in between two battle rifles. The other one is located beside the underground entrance near the warthogs on the other side. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Tough Luck How to obtain: On Tsavo highway, after destroying a large shield when you get back to road jump off to the left. Go to the left most support pillar. Jump around the pillar and to the small alcove to the left. The skull will be here. Gamerscore: 10G Name: Triple Kill How to obtain: You have to get a triple kill in Lone Wolves. The best way to do this is get the sniper rifle, get on the tower and pick off players in Crazy King in the Pit. Another way is to wait for swords in a map such as guardian and camp along the edges. When people come towards the middle kill them while they are fighting with each other. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Two for One How to obtain: You need to kill two people with one laser shot in Lone Wolves. Best way to do this is wait in the lower level of Snowbound and wait until two players start fighting. Angle and kill them. Hide behind the shield doors for protection. Gamerscore: 5G Name: UNSC Spartan How to obtain: Get 20 exp online Gamerscore: 15G Name: Up Close and Personal How to obtain: In lonewolves kill 5 enemies with melee/assassnation. This is easy in swords. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Used Car Salesman How to obtain: Easy way to do this is to go to Crow's nest and go to the part where the Phantoms start to come in. Melee the turret at the front. If it doesn't work the first time keep trying. Gamerscore: 5G Name: Vanguard How to obtain:You have to finish the seventh level with atleast 50000 meta game points. It's almost impossible to do this without turning on skulls. Turn on the skulls Tough Luck, Catch, Fog and Famine. The others are not worth the trouble to turn on. Do this on Normal Difficulty. Try to get group kills, stickies, headshots ect. Gamerscore: 10G Name: We're in for Some Chop How to obtain: In Tsavo Highway after the Wraith that pins the marines take the trip mines found in the little building at the top. Plant them in the next area where there are choppers running about. Gamerscore: 5G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DLC/Mythic Achievements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You will need DLC maps or the Halo 3 Mythic disc for these. Name: Alas, Poor Yorick How to obtain: Go to Rumble Pit and wait for Oddball on Blackout. Get 3 melee kills with the oddball. The best place to be is at the top of the long red air elevator. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Assembly Skull How to obtain: On assembly there will be three arms connected to the middle part. Look at the middle one and then go to the arm on the right. The skull will be on this arm. Go into forge and Monitor to reach the arms. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Awww Too Bad How to obtain: On any playlist, on any Mythic map get a killjoy (ruin someone's killing spree). Gamerscore: 25G Name: Blades of Fury How to obtain: On Heretic get a Sword Spree (5 kills with Energy Sword without dying). The best way to do this is to camp in one of the lower parts of one of the bases and wait for people to walk by. Make sure to crouch so they can't see you on the radar. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Came... From... Behind... How to obtain: Get 3 assassinations on any legendary map online. Jumping over people and assassinating them is a good way of getting assassintions. Gamerscore: 50G Name: Citadel Skull How to obtain: On the blue side go past the overshield and to the ramp. There should be two arrow windows here. Above these windows will be a small alcove. Get out of monitor and quickly pick up the skull. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Defend This How to obtain: On a Legendary map get a kill with the flag. Easy way to do this is to get a bubble shield and hope someone is stupid enough to come up to the bubble shield. Gamerscore: 50G Name: Delicious Brains How to obtain: On a Mythic map during an infection game infect two humans as a zombie. You can play in an infection in the Rumble Pit playlist or the special double exp weekend "Living Dead". Gamerscore: 25G Name: Double Double How to obtain: Get two separate double kills on any Legendary Gamerscore: 25G Name: Flag Dropped How to obtain: On any legendary map kill an opponent flag carrier two times. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Ghost Patrol How to obtain: On longshore get 3 kills with the ghost. You can play on Longshore in the Team Mythic Playlist. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Hammer Time How to obtain: On Assembly get 5 kills with Gravity Hammer. Easy way to do this is to either get invisiblity and kill your enemy or to hide where the Gravity Hammer spawns. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Have Fun Respawning How to obtain: Get an Extermination on a Mythic Map. Easy way to do this is to play Grifball on a Sandbox Varient and just stay in thier base and kill them as they spawn until you get your extermination. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Heretic Skull How to obtain: When you're on the bridge looking at the sword, look to the right and fly over to the flaps over the base. The skull will be on the bottom right of these flaps. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Killtacular How to obtain: Get a Killtacular on a Mythic Map. Easy way to do this is Grifball on a Sandbox Varient. Staying in thier base makes it much faster. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Longshore Skull How to obtain: Go to the defensive side (tall tower with a chaingun). Go to the water and look at the wall. The skull is behind the air ducts. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Look Both Ways How to obtain: On a legendary Map get a platter spree. This is easiest on Avalanche. Grab the ghost in the middle and kill the enemy. Spree meaning five in a row without dying. Gamerscore: 50G Name: Orbital Skull How to obtain: Go to the Area in which there is a large pit. Look at the windows or loading sign on the floor and fly up. The skull will be on the highest shelf. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Post Mortem How to obtain: Get two death from graves on Orbital. Easy way to do this is stick someone and hope you die before the grenade goes off. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Pull How to obtain: Get a Shotgun Spree on Citadel. Get the shotgun and bubble shield and go in the middle. Lay the bubble shield and kill the unsuspecting victims. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Road Rage How to obtain: On Avalanche get 5 kills with Warthog Chaingun in any playlist. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Sandbox skull How to obtain: Spawn a Trip Mine and press "x" twice and set the run time maximum and minimum to 1. Keep laying trip mines until they blow up. After that look at the sun and then look inbetween the two towers to the right. Keep flying towards that and get the skull. If you walk normally you will get killed. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Save this film How to obtain: Get a perfection medal (15 kills, no deaths in a game) on a mythic map. I would reccomend going to Longshore and staying in the backround and picking off enemies with the Sniper Rifle. Gamerscore: 25G Name: Tank Dropper How to obtain: Go to Forge and spawn a tank. Drop it and kill it on someone while still staying in monitor mode. Gamerscore: 25G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vidmaster Achievements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 How to obtain: HAVE 7 experience in a playlist on the seventh day of a month. If you have seven experience in a playlist but it's not the seventh, disconnect your Xbox Live and change the date. Gamerscore: 0G Name: Vidmaster Challenge: Annual How to obtain: Beat the final level of the game on 4 player Legendary, Iron skull on and everyone on ghosts. The trick here is to work as a team. The ghosts are located under the ramp right at the top of the contruct. Gamerscore: 0G Name: Vidmaster Challenge: Brainpan How to obtain: Find all 6 Mythic map skulls (see above section for specific skulls). Gamerscore: 25G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.Legal Stuff...........................[LEGL] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Only Gamefaqs has permission to host this FAQ. If any other sites or people take the entire or a part of this walkthrough legal action can and will be taken. Copyright 2010 Hangid (c)