Week of 17 Dec 2023
“Changing this to a ground operation.”
Achievements Earned In:
- Halo Wars
This week was all about Halo Wars as I worked my way through the completion. The walkthrough on TA suggested a Heroic co-op playthrough of the campaign followed by the Legendary one, but since I wouldn’t actually be playing with a second person I decided to let my other console idle as I played through on Easy, working to also grab the black boxes and do the secondary objectives to unlock the Skulls as I went. Honestly, I’m kinda surprised how easy the game was overall. I didn’t even follow the TA walkthrough beyond the introduction and didn’t need any strategy videos or help. I easily cleared through the first, Easy run, then moved right into Legendary. Sure, for the latter I had to be a little quicker on my feet, but not only did I breeze through most of that run, too, I even got all but three of the needed par times, too (on missions 1, 6, and 14). I shifted the difficulty down to Heroic and getting those final par times is the first time I ran into real resistance. Mission 6 specifically was a huge headache, as you have to really be on top of things to make sure you’re not overwhelmed. And, really, that was the hard part, just surviving long enough to finish the objectives. How did I clear this so easily on Legendary?! With that out of the way, I was confused why the completion estimates have this at around 80 hours. I mean, I’m almost done! …It’s the online grind. Hoo boy, what an absolute grind it is. Most of the Skirmish and LIVE achievements are easy enough, but to reach the rank you need for the final achievement you have to reach around 960k experience. The quickest method I’ve found earns you about 30k in 30 minutes. And by the end of Saturday I’d reached almost 600k. I’m close! But what a bore.
Achievements unlocked: 57 (+41) | Completion: 98%
Oh, I’m sure this is not going to be an issue or anything.
