Fail, bungie. This will probably get patched, but anyway.... YouTube - Halo: Reach Achievement Farming
Well, you never know... It might be possible for them to change the achievement requirements? So then you have to get the achievement without customizing the firefight settings.
I had that idea from the very beginning. They might patch it, so I will get them in the very beginning.
So what? If you can get easy achievements, then get them. I personally feel better when I deserve my achievements. But if gamer score or achievements are SO important to you, then change traits and get them by rolling in the middle of the map.
I see it as kind of agood thing because it means that the achievement part of a game is less important so you can focus on other things as you do not need to worry about having a hard time getting those achievements.
Most of those achievements they showed were easy to get anyways. If that was a video showing how to get easy cR, then Bungie would do something about it. Achievements are for people that think they're good. Gaining the cR to get all armor permutations will be a bigger achievement anyways.
If an achievement is entirely based on chance, then I would do something like what they're doing in this video. If it actually takes time and skill, its something I will go for. I doubt I'll actually use these methods to obtain the achievements (its not really an achievement if you do), but I still think its funny.
I thought of this as soon as i saw the list of achievements. I'm probably not even going to bother seeing as ill get most of these naturally.
Looking at the difficulty for all of the other achievements (besides maybe 1 or 2 of them), it seems like it was intentional. They probably wanted to make players aware that they can change the settings like this.
That just makes it boring. If it comes to it, in several months, I'll do it but I want to try to get them while enjoying the game "as intended."
I remember Bungie saying something making the Achievements easier to get in Reach. Maybe this "problem" was done on purpose.
Exactly, it was Bungie's fault that they did that. One screw up and bam! looky here easy achievements.
It'd feel kind of, i dunno... dirty. Like it's a tainted victory. It'll be fun for a mess around (Ultimate Health, for example, if you want to get used to controls again/training/ Vs. Mode between friends in customs), but otherwise it's just another form of boosting.
I recall "Score Attack" being a non-customizable firefight gametype which is the only one that puts scores into your rank or something, so they might fix it so this is the only gametype for getting such achievements.
I'm getting those firefight achievements FOR SURE before they patch it... that is, if they do patch it. If not then they probably made it like that just to make it easier for players. In that case, I <33 U BUNGIE!!!
I say they keep it just for the simple fact that like, noobs will be noobs and some are really shitty and can't get the achievements the legit way so it's a way for them to do it. I will probably not use this as I'm sure a lot of you will also do because like TheTitch said, it's a tainted victory.