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Harbinger achievement in Halo 5: Guardians

Harbinger

Complete The Breaking on Legendary difficulty without the entire fireteam dying.

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How to unlock the Harbinger achievement

  • DURDENS WRATHDURDENS WRATH
    30 Oct 2015 30 Oct 2015 20 Apr 2023
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    So here are the tricks. (Still works as of April 20, 2023)

    First, you can't have a "game over" and have the game reload a checkpoint or revert a checkpoint. You have to quit out and reload from saved checkpoint from main menu. All 3 members can die, at any point. However, just to be safe, at a checkpoint have at least one alive.

    Second,
    When you get to the Warden fight, do this. I just did it 10 minutes before this solution, and I confirm it works.

    Found this on reddit, and I cannot take credit for it.

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    BigBubbaDThis skipping the bosses at the end glitch still works 9/10/23
    Posted by BigBubbaD on 10 Sep 23 at 19:00
    BlazewashereIt does not work
    Posted by Blazewashere on 26 Nov 23 at 13:57
    mikachu93Worked for me, March 2024. Thank you.
    Posted by mikachu93 on 17 Mar at 06:02

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  • FantasticFranc0FantasticFranc0
    28 Jul 2016 28 Jul 2016 11 Aug 2016
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    For anyone trying to get this achievement on July 2016 and onward, please read:

    First, play The Breaking on Legendary (solo is harder and below is how you'll get it).

    WARNING
    DO NOT RELOAD FROM LAST CHECKPOINT. This nullifies the achievement. Here's what you must do.

    1. Every once in a while, manually save your game in one of the three save slots.

    2. Whenever you die, immediately press START (cn_start) and LEAVE GAME. DO NOT LET THE GAME RELOAD FROM LAST CHECKPOINT OR SHOW A "GAME OVER".

    3. Go back to Solo Campaign and click LOAD GAME and select the save file you manually saved. This will place you somewhere near where you saved the game.

    4. Repeat every time you die.

    Edit: Please turn off all skulls just to be sure nothing goes wrong. I know at least one achievement in Halo 5 can be bugged with skulls turned on so please turn them off for this one as well.
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    J ROLLER 1979Whenever you die, immediately press START (cn_start) and LEAVE GAME. DO NOT LET THE GAME RELOAD FROM LAST CHECKPOINT OR SHOW A "GAME OVER". Does this work in co-op? And is it ok to go down then reload from last checkpoint?
    Posted by J ROLLER 1979 on 11 May 17 at 00:16
    TalvalinTo add to this solution (since it's not explicitly recommending the skip), it's entirely possible to beat the three Wardens on solo Legendary.

    Basically, make sure that you make your team pick up the Incendiary Cannons that you come across during the level (there should be three that you can pick up from ammo caches, and one or two more that are dropped by Knights), then get them to focus on one Warden at a time.

    If you all stick to one side, then the third Warden should stay put and then it's a matter of dodging the attacks and reviving at least one teammate (use the man cannons and drop down on to the middle platform by zooming in on it, as if you were trying the skip)
    Posted by Talvalin on 05 Jul 17 at 03:19
    KumekerionPressing reload last checkpoint invalidates the achievement, even if no one dies.

    My friend and I just got it today with the Warden skip trick. We were reloading the checkpoint after missing the jump and that invalidated the achievement. The achievement only popped once we tried with a perfect jump attempt from the Warden checkpoint.
    Posted by Kumekerion on 18 Sep 20 at 22:18
  • v iOsirisv iOsiris
    08 Feb 2023 08 Feb 2023 08 Feb 2023
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    Hello for anyone asking if the trick/tip of saving checkpoints works on co op yes it does as long as the one saving the checkpoints leaves as soon as the last person of the team dies. Also did the skip and all good.

    February 7, 2023.
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