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Senior Chupon
108,636
Achievement won on 01 Dec 11TA Score for this game: 2,720
Posted on 17 November 11 at 16:27, Edited on 06 January 12 at 22:17
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This solution has 38 positive votes and 3 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
This HAS to be done on a Defiant map. Furthermore, this can obviously not be a multi-flag game type. For those who don't know, the Defiant maps are Highlands and Condemned and any of their variants (e.g. Uplink). The opposing team cannot even pick the flag up for this achievement to pop.
Update: When boosting, it is highly recommend neither team touch either flag for this to unlock. Several players have reported even though their flag was not touched the achievement did not pop because they were able to grab the opposing teams flag.
MAKE SURE you are on a Defiant map. If you are having issues getting defiant maps remember that everyone in a lobby has the have that map pack in order to even have those maps come up. I'd suggest doing to DLC specific playlists to have a higher chance of getting Defiant maps.
Lastly, you need to have the Anniversary pack, weather it is by purchasing Halo CE: Anniversary or purchasing the stand alone Anniversary Pack.One way to know for sure if you have this is to check your Halo: Reach achievement numbers. If the total still shows up as 59 you need the pack. Once you either play the Halo CE: Anniversary version of the multiplayer or purchase the Map Pack the achievement count total should increase to 69.
Update: For boosting purposes it is best to have someone remove the Noble Map Pack so that the only maps offered are Defiant and Anniversary. Team Objective is your best bet to get a 1 flag CTF game on a Defiant map.
Update to the update: Premium battle has been removed as of 12/5 so Team Objective is probably the best bet.
Update mark III: It looks like there are more playlist changes coming for January 2012.
http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headlines/post/2012/01/04/The-Hal...
Not sure if this will change the odds of finding Condemned or not, but they go live 1/10/12. |
SupernaturalH2O
109,691
Achievement won on 29 Mar 12TA Score for this game: 2,720
Posted on 19 July 12 at 05:16
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This solution has 9 positive votes and 0 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
I'm going to add my own take here as the comments are pretty full on the first solution. It seems to me that the main thing is that "touching" the flag is not "grabbing" the flag. When I got the achievement we had our flag grabbed and even captured the first round. We scored both rounds. However on the second round defending all but two of their players quit out. They didn't come anywhere near the flag and the achievement popped at the end of the round which was also the end of the game.
Based on this experience I would say one round is enough but they cannot touch the flag at all. That means that even if you kill someone and a dead body of the other team falls upon the flag this can mess it up, which might explain all the talk of glitches. I spent probably over a day worth of playtime getting the map and finally on the 4th try as I only got a defiant map that many times, I got the achievement.
If you aren't boosting you'll have to be worlds better than your competition and very careful. If you are boosting play it safe and if you are going to be fighting to pass the time stay out of the flag room entirely while doing so. Hope this helps and I wish you all luck with this pain in the butt achievement. |