Nice to see some rare challenges this week so far. The weekly is pretty easy if you do the save game glitch. I played through Winter Contingency once on heroic (to kill the golden elite)... saved the game after the screen went black after hitting the switch at the end... then resumed 9 times to get the weekly.
Noob i actually played through thr entire campaign to EARN the challenge. Also because i got some commendations up doing that.
Yeah I like the avenger one. I've never seen it before, so for me it's a cool new experience. I also like how now the credit payouts are a bit more 'random' Ex: one challenge today granted 1840cR
All my campaign commendations are silver or higher, and have been for almost ten months now. I played just about five days worth of reach campaign before many people even had three days of multiplayer. This was a few months after they broke the credit cap at Lt. Colonel.
Sarcasm? Cos if it is im just gonna say that semi-speedrunning it is still better than the Winter contingengy glitch.
You're sensitive, aren't you? Who cares how people get the credits? I'd like 30k credits too but I don't have 4-5 hours this week to play the whole campaign for the 7th or 8th time. Bungie should have fixed that glitch a long time ago but since they haven't, people will naturally exploit it. When you get down to it, even a big payout like 30,000 is a drop in the bucket. At my current rank it won't buy me a single piece of armor (more like a quarter of one) and will barely move my credit bar to rank up. (If Bungie hadn't made it so damn tedious to gain ranks, I might feel even slightly guilty about using exploits. As it stands, I don't... not even kinda.) Most of the weekly challenges are basically busy work. There's no "challenge" to them except for playing hours and hours of Reach. I prefer the actual challenges (like the LASO weeklies). These, I'm happy to either not do at all, or use a glitch to get a few easy credits.
I can get it done in 15 minutes with the glitch. If you're talking about speedrunning the entire campaign in under an hour, your speed run mojo is stronger than mine. The only missions I even know how to speed run are Winter Contingency (15 minutes or so) and Nightfall (maybe 5-6 minutes unless the forklift glitch fails to work, which it seems to always do for me; then it's more like 10 minutes). I guess I could always look up speed run tutorials for the other missions, but if saving time is my goal that kinda defeats the purpose... Or you could mean speedrunning Nightfall a bunch of times, I guess. But if that's the solution, I'd just as soon glitch it. I like Nightfall OK but not enough to want to play it nine more times back to back. That's exactly the kind of boring busy work I was talking about, even if it takes 75% less time than intended.
Exactly its fun. Challenges are there as they said, for the challenge. What would be the point if you could glitch and cheat every challenge? I understand 30k might not get you anywhere along your rank progress (believe me, i know) so you think theres no point in actually trying it. Btw by playing through the campaign i accumulated probably 10k extra through commendations and game completions. Just saying. tl;dr i dont care if you cheat by i still see it as cheap way at getting credis you should earn.
Who are you to judge him for judging these people? I admit my sentence is hypocritical, and accept the shortfalls of this therefore making any retorts of a 'witty' nature appear stupid.
My strategy is just play nine matchmade co-op campaign missions. Not only can you complete the challenge, but when all is said and done, you have at least an extra 10,000 Cr.
My point, which was made previously, is precisely that it's NOT a challenge. It's busy work. It's slogging through a campaign I've already beaten in its entirety multiple times, on harder difficulty settings even. I'm not above getting the cheap credits by glitching, but if it weren't for the glitch I wouldn't bother doing it at all. I don't want to run the whole campaign again and I don't want to play Nightfall nine times in a week either. I like doing the LASO challenges because they are actual challenges. Same thing with things like "stick two players in one game" or "get four multikills" - at least they require some measure of effort and skill. Challenges like this just reward you for sitting in front of your XBox and playing Reach, basically. So I'm either going to glitch them or not do them at all.
LOL So playing hundreds of games on four different maps with the same number of people, same weapons, same sets of objectives, etc is better than playing a dynamic, emotional, and epic campaign twice?
Get off your high horse. I played the campaign on legendary first... and got it done in the first week. I have no desire to play through the entire campaign again and don't have the time to waste playing the entire campaign again. They know all of the glitches by now. If they cared how you completed the challenge, they'd have either fixed it... or removed the challenge from the pool. Whether it's fun or not is a matter of opinion, not fact. I've played through the campaign solo and co-op and it's lost it's appeal... and I've earned my credits by actually playing the game, unlike most people ranked higher than me. I gain little to no credits in Campaign. Most of the time I don't even bother touching campaign challenges unless I can earn some quick credits... and this was one of those opportunities that presented itself and was worth the time. I play smart and use whatever time I have to play wisely by spending the least amount of time to earn the most credits. At least I didn't mod a save game file and do it. I took the time to play through the mission before saving and glitching. If anyone's the noob, it's the guy that spent a few hours earning 40k credits, when you could have spent 15 minutes glitching the weekly, then playing firefight for the rest of the time and probably reaching the credit cap for the day in the same amount of time. I also love the irony of the guy who used the target locator glitch 300+ times calling other people noobs. Total hypocrite.
By dynamic do you mean you have to defend one area instead of a different, although basically the same, area? And the only emotion in the game is in the music. I'll give you epic, though.
Take it in comparison to the multiplayer though, as I was doing; dynamic meaning anything at ALL changes, unlike multiplayer. Emotional meaning anything at ALL emotion-evoking, unlike multiplayer. Epic meaning anything at ALL is awe-inspiring, scenery, plot, big explosions, all unlike multiplayer.