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Legendary Anniversary achievement in Halo MCC

Legendary Anniversary

Halo 2: Complete every level of the game on Legendary difficulty.

Legendary Anniversary-1.0
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How to unlock the Legendary Anniversary achievement

  • HU Soldi3rHU Soldi3r
    23 Dec 2014 23 Dec 2014 07 Jun 2015
    As of today 12/22/14 the Update that came out today let's you complete a mission with the scarab skull activated and still get the achievement for beating the level. Once you beat the level go to "save and quit" and go back to "mission select" and the achievement will pop. I don't know if they will fix this "glitch" so if you need to beat this on legendary, hurry up before they patch it.

    Note: It doesn't count towards score nor time. Just beating the level.

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    PanikUfo1978Today done
    Posted by PanikUfo1978 on 29 May 22 at 19:59
    MiadaskateThis is quite easy with the Scarab and Bandana skulls. I probably wouldn’t be able to do it without Scarab. I decided to to the later levels first as a test to see whether or not I’d be able to do it. The toughest part so far is Tartarus. Turns out, he is completely immune to the Scarab blasts. I had to kill him strictly with plasma grenades. It took quite a while. I have like 10 levels left, but I think I’ve completed all of the hard ones. I tried the sword, but I was lucky enough to get one swipe in before I was blasted to the other side of the room with his hammer.

    I also didn’t have to follow any of the steps above regarding turning the skulls off and on. I just played through the levels via mission select. When I went back, it showed I completed them on Legendary. I did multiple levels at a time before going back.

    Update : Just got it!
    Posted by Miadaskate on 30 Jun 22 at 11:46
    LuckySean2Thanks for the info!
    Posted by LuckySean2 on 10 Jul 22 at 03:01
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  • OhOneOneOhOhOneOneOh
    04 Jun 2020 08 Jun 2020 18 Jun 2020
    *I appreciate all up-votes. Considering this is the most recent and up-to-date solution, we should try and get this to the top.

    8th June 2020: I'm going to clear this up a bit and give an update to how to get this achievement in 2020. You can do this level by level or in 2 runs.

    The reason I have added step #2 is because me and my coop partner noticed that when we went through a level on Easy difficulty (originally going through because of Par-Time achievements) is that our achievement trackers for specific achievements started to increase. Testing and following the other steps, we noticed that this specific achievements tracker also started to increase.

    If you have already played through both difficulties before attempting this solution, try from step #5 onwards and see what results you get. If this doesn't increase the tracker, follow from step #2.

    Step #1: Play through all missions on Legendary with whatever 0 scoring Skulls you want. You'll complete the campaign without unlocking any level specific mission complete achievements and the tracker still at 0%.
    Step #2: Once your Legendary run is complete, start again and play the first mission on Easy with NO 0 scoring Skulls active - Make sure you also look at the level in Classic Mode to just in case.
    Step #3: Once you've completed the mission, you'll unlock the specific mission complete achievement and the next mission will load.
    Step #4: Once the new mission has loaded. Save/Quit/End Game once you have control.
    Step #5: When you're back at the main mission select screen. Load up the mission you just completed on Legendary with NO 0 scoring Skulls active.
    Step #6: Once the mission has loaded, wait 10 seconds just to be safe and then Save/Quit/End Game.
    - You'll now notice that this specific achievement tracker will increase.
    Step #7: Now repeat steps #2-6 for the rest of the missions until the achievement unlocks or steps #5-7 if you have already done the previous steps prior to this solution and if it works.
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    RaginRannellsDoes this still work?
    Posted by RaginRannells on 03 Mar 22 at 23:52
    Miadaskate@RaginRannells Yep. Just unlocked it a few minutes ago. I played through the levels via Mission Select. Some levels I played one at a time and then did Save / Quit, and others I played a few in a row before Save / Quit. Popped for Legendary and Heroic as soon as I got back to the Mission Select screen.
    Posted by Miadaskate on 03 Jul 22 at 01:16
    Amazed Youif anyone is having issues, try setting your options to scoring and time hud off, visual and audio classic then reach a checkpoint and then save and quit. This is probably not necessary but it was I changed on my settings to get it to pop after following steps 1-7
    Posted by Amazed You on 06 Aug 23 at 03:02
  • KillingJammerKillingJammer
    14 Oct 2015 14 Oct 2015
    As of October 13, 2015 this achievement is obtainable with the scarab, envy, bandanna, etc. skulls. No save/quit was necessary for each level. I played through the whole campaign with all those skulls on and the achievement popped once it loaded back to the mission select screen after the final mission.
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    Master OkojoDoes work with scarab skull 21-September-2020. I had to use the pinata skull to get grenades and the Johnson cloning glitch to kill Tartarus, because apparently the scarb skull doesn't do damage to him. I also had Grunt Birthday Party, IWBYD, and envy skulls.

    I had also previously beaten the campaign on Herioc.
    Posted by Master Okojo on 22 Sep 20 at 01:12
    TheDummynatorAs of 5/1/2021 it still works. Finished the campaign on normal as a fist playthrough. unlocking the progress achievements. Then played on legendary using the Bandana, Scarab, and Envy skulls. Just died a lot because of the Scarab skull. But I made it through.
    Posted by TheDummynator on 02 May 21 at 18:52
    MorgurtTheRoundI just earned this (8/27/21) in co-op. We played the final level with the Scarab skull enabled. The key to defeating Tartarus with this skull on, is to spam him with a constant stream of plasma grenades while Johnson snipes him. We didn’t wait for his shield to go down for the fact that it generally comes back VERY quickly. So while the majority of our grenades didn’t harm him, he was stuck with 3 or 4 each time Johnson took his shield down. It’s a tedious battle, but one that’s not too difficult. Good luck!
    Posted by MorgurtTheRound on 27 Aug 21 at 08:26
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