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x2i
84,086
Achievement won on 10 Oct 08TA Score for this game: 1,841
Posted on 09 October 08 at 17:47, Edited on 15 October 08 at 22:30
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This solution has 47 positive votes and 20 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
To get this you must reach the rank of Lieutenant in any one playlist on the new EXP system.
If you haven't already gotten the Spartan Officer achievement then it will unlock at the same time as unlocking this achievement too and not by obtaining a global officer rank like the previous requirements state.
The way I did it was to take advantage of a DoubleEXP event such as Grifball or Rocket Race. Doing so will award you a lot more than the other playlists and in theory, you will only need to win 25 matches in order to reach this rank - I did it from 0EXP in one day on Rocket Race with a friend. |
STARWARZ
115,010
Achievement won on 12 Jan 11TA Score for this game: 2,493
Posted on 12 January 11 at 16:27
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This solution has 28 positive votes and 1 negative vote. Please log in to vote. |
Double EXP weekends and Griffball are both history in Halo 3 so I think your best bet is to head into Social Skirmish unless you're really, really good at playing Halo 3, and in that case, you probably already have this achievement.
The good thing about Social Skirmish is that it's a team list, so if your team wins, the whole team gets 1exp. Basically, you have a 50-50 shot at getting 1exp instead of something like Rumble Pit where only the top performers get something.
A few marathon sessions and you should be able to gather 50 exp (50 wins). Tedious, but if you want the achievement, you need the 50 exp. Boosting works as well if you have lots of friends. |
EX sLay3r
66,439
Achievement won on 16 Jul 09TA Score for this game: 2,493
Posted on 10 February 12 at 21:54
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This solution has 9 positive votes and 4 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
You need 50 EXP in one playlist for this and the quickest way to do it is to boost them.
You need one person as a quitter (must have 4 controllers and an useless account).
You can boost 4 accounts at the same time (they don't have to be on one console).
First you need to change your language for the quitter and the booster party leader, it works best with chinese (the very bottom one).
On the bottom you see a vid how to change a language, so you won't have any trouble changing it back to your language. (it's the old Dashboard in the vid, but works the same)
When you have your language ready,
Booster party leader: go to Halo 3 Matchmaking lobby, then invite your friends, who also wants to boost this, or turn on your guests. After you have 4 players in your lobby, go to Social Skirmish or Team Mythic playlist (Must have all DLC) then press "X" and select the bottom one from the list. The quitter has to do the same (turn on guests, go to the playlist, press "X" and make sure you have to bottom one always enabled).
If you have done everything correctly, it should always find your boosters and every time just quit with the quitter, so your boosters gain 1 EXP per match. You can boost as much as you want, (for example boost rank or playlist rank) without getting banned. You can also do some other Achievements while you're doing this, but I suggest to get EXPs first and then boost the other Achievements, because it can get you banned from earning EXP.
There is many different methods for this, but the fastest is:
1. chinese language
2. 2 consoles, 4 controllers on the quitter's console and 4 controllers on the booster's console.
3. 3 guests on both consoles.
4. Social Skirmish
5. quit fast and start the game fast.
You should get this done in 1 hour. Good luck and hope this helps. ;)
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Mobius Evalon
226,797
Achievement won on 12 Aug 12TA Score for this game: 2,493
Posted on 13 August 12 at 01:25, Edited on 04 December 12 at 08:51
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This solution has 5 positive votes and 3 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
To earn Lightswitch (and Spartan Officer from the retail disc at the same time) you must earn 50 EXP in a single playlist. You can check this by selecting your gamertag in a lobby and looking at your stats, and the area at the bottom right will tell you how many EXP you have in that playlist. Your "Total EXP" does not matter, what you are interested in for this achievement is to the left of that stating e.g. "Rumble Pit EXP".
To boost this without extra consoles, get 8 people together, party up in social (where it does not matter how much EXP you have to play together), and play rumble pit. You want to veto anything that is not slayer or swords because every other game type makes it difficult or impossible to distribute the experience points. If you end up stuck with a gametype that you can't balance, just pick one person to own everybody and end the match as fast as possible. Take note, however, that all five DLC packs or the ODST bonus disc are required to play rumble pit.
In rumble pit, the top 4 all receive one experience point at the end of the match. This is most easily accomplished by everyone getting one kill to tie for second, then having one person go nuts until they win the match. You want to cycle the person coming in first to stave off the banhammer, because several consecutive rounds of one person kicking ass is going to arouse suspicion. Assuming everyone cooperates over the length of the session, you can finish this achievement from 0 EXP points in 3 hours for all 8 people involved.
Ideally you want no guest accounts and no zero scorers to stave off the ban hammer until after you're finished. I know enough of network programming and pattern recognition to tell you that it is not difficult at all for an automated system to tell if a guest account is simply *there* as opposed to someone actively playing it, and rubberbanding your controller does not fool anybody at Bungie. To get this done with maximum speed and efficiency, I highly recommend 8 actual people, and that each one of them remains to continue to same method even after they are finished.
Why rumble pit? Free for all modes are the only way you can get everyone an experience point at the same time. Though it is likely that many people have a lot of existing experience in team modes like team mythic from attempting the achievement on their own, it makes a poor choice for boosting because the losing team from each match will get no experience. In addition, the teams will not always be distributed the same, and it is very likely that a few people could make out like bandits and a few others could get the shaft. In short, EXP boosting on a team mode will take a lot longer.
To elaborate on Halo bans, all that happens when you are caught boosting is that you are banned from gaining experience for a short period, usually two weeks. You are not banned from XBox, nor are you banned from playing Halo online. As a matter of fact, you can continue to unlock multiplayer achievements, so you could, for example, participate in a session to unlock DLC achievements while EXP banned. |
Frozenghost001
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Posted on 15 October 08 at 21:42
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This solution has 21 positive votes and 22 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
The easiest way to obtain this is to go into a social skirmish playlist. My friend got his 50xp within hours doing that. I only played for a half an hour and got already 5xp on there.
Another easy one is griffball (when it comes out). Since it's a double xp playlist, you need to win only 25 matches. Matches range from 3 minutes - 10 minutes. Real easy if you have a good team. |