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Tying Up Loose Ends achievement in Halo MCC

Tying Up Loose Ends

Halo CE: Kill every Elite on the level Keyes on Heroic or Legendary difficulty.

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How to unlock the Tying Up Loose Ends achievement

  • MelthrisMelthris
    Locked 18 Nov 2014 10 Jul 2018
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    Seeing as there is no guide here, I'm referring back to my guide that I posted under the original Halo: CE Anniversary achievement with the same name.

    Guide is as follows;

    There are three area's in this level, the first two have missable Elites:
    -The first section on the Covenant Cruiser (Elites are missable)
    -The cooling liquid pools area on the ground (Elites are missable)

    Everything after the Grav Lift is not missable. Follow a few steps below and you should be alright:

    - Use the Bandana skull for infinite grenades and sniper rounds (you will get the sniper just before the grav lift, it will help kill spec-ops Elites quicker. Specifically the Sniper is on the last bend before the opening to the Grav Lift area. You would be extremely unlucky if you managed to miss this)
    - If Elite's die before you get a chance to kill them, it counts as one of your kills.
    - The two Elites at the start on the Covenant ship (on the opposite side of the large hole you fall through) count towards this achievement.
    -Spec-Op Elites infinitely respawn in the Banshee hangar bay. They also hide. Cover all the floors and all rooms from top to bottom, then bottom to top and a third time on the way down to be sure. I have found 2 or 3 Spec-Op's in hiding when doing this. This will also stop the infinite respawn of the Spec-Op Elite's in the Banshee Hangar.

    Unfortunately I no longer have a capture card so am unable to record this for everyone but as a rule of thumb, extensively cover the first section when you are on the Covenant Cruiser and also when you fall into the cooling liquid pools on the ground of the level. Every other Elite will be easy pickings apart from the first two areas.

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    vHucsThis was a weird one. I did 2 full passes going up and down before I got in the banshee. Found 2 in a corner bottom floor. Then did another run all the way up to the top floor and down. Then ran around the bottom hanger. When I approached the banshee 2 elites spawned out of no where. Killed them then checked the whole area AGAIN. So when you think you've killed them all run around the bottom floor and approach the banshee to see if more spawn.
    Posted by vHucs on 24 Oct 22 at 23:18
    StingerI'd like to boost this achievement.
    Message @ Stinger8800. Thanks!
    Posted by Stinger#8800 on 27 Jan at 16:36
    BigFishPL2 elites at the start, before you jump down from the ship to the green pool, are best taken care off with a needler. Just send a bunch of needles at once toward one off the elites. They both tend to be next to each other so one explosion should take them both out at once.
    Posted by BigFishPL on 14 Feb at 18:14

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  • x Lethian xx Lethian x
    02 Feb 2015 03 Feb 2015 03 Feb 2015
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    My Coop Partner Breddist and I did this relatively simple on heroic without any skulls on.

    You can watch the Videos of our 4-Part Walkthrough below for a complete guide.

    The first two Elites are really easy to miss: they are across the big hole leading to the pool of green goo at the bottom - take a plasma pistol and fire off charged shots at the Elites on the other side (if done in Coop, your Partner can protect you from any flood Enemies spawning behind you).
    You know they're dead when any remaining flood on the other side start coming towards you and no more shots are fired.

    After jumping done, just clear out all Elites you can find until you come to the gravity lift.
    Once within the ship heck every nook and cranny for elites. The red and blue Elites are the ones counting toward the Achievement - I'm not sure about the Elites in black armor, because they keep spawning at the very end of the level. Run up and down the different Levels of the hangar bay shortly before leaving with the banshees and clear any black Elites you can find - they should stop spawning after a while.

    Also do this on heroic, because on legendary the black Elites are significantly more - hence my belief that they don't actually count towards the Achivement.

    Here are the 4 Videos - sorry for the non-HD quality, they were uploaded directly from Twitch:

    Part #1:

    Part #2:

    Part #3:

    Part #4:

    Hope the Vids can help and you can "catch'em all" - good luck ;)

    (Sorry for any typos or other mistakes - this is my first written solution ever :P)
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    RatManMDTotally possible to get the achievement on legendary solo, but it is the worst waste of time you can imagine. The spawns and checkpoints at the end are just plain awful, you have to hunt down upwards of 20 black elites, and if you run around enough they will spawn continually. I only managed to finish it because I ended up memorizing the criteria causing the spawns. If anyone is reading this, don't try to multi task, just do this one in its own solo run in heroic.
    Posted by RatManMD on 27 Sep 15 at 17:51
  • KungFuMonk3yKungFuMonk3y
    26 Apr 2020 23 Apr 2020 23 Apr 2020
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    Ok I know this game has been around a LONG time and there are plenty of good guides already written. However I did not like any of the video guides provided. So I figured I would list the video I am using for this Chievo.
    Hope there are still some out there that will find this helpful. I've slowly been coming back to Halo MCC to chip away at the mount Everest achievement list..... some day I'll crest that mountain!

    Obvious Items: Level = Keys & Difficulty = Heroic (at minimum)

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    festival toiletThankyou :)
    Posted by festival toilet on 20 Jun 21 at 02:13
    LaralasThis was an excellent walkthrough. I had started the Achievement before actually watching the video, but it got me the rest of the way there.

    It is worth noting that I died a few times since I'm terrible, and this caused some of the Elite spawns to de-spawn. The Achievement did still pop, though.
    Posted by Laralas on 27 Sep 21 at 00:45
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    Posted by KungFuMonk3y on 17 Oct 21 at 18:47
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