1. Halo: Reach Achievements
2. Firestarter

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Firestarter

Score 50,000 points in Firefight on any map.

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How to unlock the Firestarter achievement

• JAGERMEISTER TX559,276

  15 Sep 2010 26 Sep 2010
  30 1 0

  Trying to help out TA get its solution database back up to speed.
  
  Credit to rabidkitty4
  
  Download this gametype to your fileshare to get these achievements with ease:
  
  http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=21550...
  
  If you are unable to download the gametype from Bungie.net. Then from the Main Menu of Halo: Reach, Press Start> Go to "File Browser"> Go down to "New Custom Search"> then search the Gamertag: "rabidkitty4" without quotes. Then download the Gametype titled "Firefight Achievements".
  
  
  If you want to put in the settings yourself, refer to this: Firefight Game Settings
  
  The gametype variant lets you have infinite ammo without reloading, infinite health, infinite jet pack, the max point multiplier with Legendary difficulty, and all the skulls turned on. You want to stick with the Rocket Launcher as it is given to you in the loadout screen. This will take you about 1 hour to do this on your own with ease. To get this done faster, get about 2-3 friends to join you.

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  The following options will get you this achievement in no time, and possibly more.
  
  Set your Difficulty to Legendary (for a score multiplier)
  
  Under Game Options, choose Firefight Settings and Wave Properties and change these settings for Round 1, 2 AND 3 Round Properties. You have to change the settings for EACH ROUND.
  
  Turn on these skulls: Mythic, Catch, Tough Luck, Famine, Tilt, Black Eye, Grunt Birthday, Cowbell, IWHBYD. These skulls will increase your multiplier. Note: You can turn on Cloud if you want, but having radar helps you anticipate enemy drops and score more points.
  Now, for each Wave, Initial, Main and Boss, change these settings:
  Uses Dropship: Enabled (You will be able to hit clumps of enemies dropping from Phantoms for high scores)
  Squad Selection Order: Ordered
  All Squads 1-5: Elites (Elites are worth more points than Grunts and you can kill them in one missile hit, unlike Brutes)
  After adjusting the settings and Skulls for ALL 3 ROUNDS, enter the Bonus Wave settings and make these changes.
  
  Bonus Wave Duration: 2 Minutes
  Uses Dropship: Enabled
  Turn on these skulls: Mythic, Catch, Tough Luck, Famine, Cloud, Tilt, Black Eye, Grunt Birthday, Cowbell, IWHBYD.
  Squad Selection Order: Random
  All Squads: Elites
  Back out of the Wave Properties menu and make these settings in the Game Options/Firefight Settings menu.
  
  Wave Limit: No Limit
  Turn Count: No Turns
  Time Limit: No Limit
  Enter the Generator Properties menu and make the following changes.
  
  Generator Count: Disabled
  Spawn Order: Sequence
  Loss Condition: Lose All
  Enter the Scenario Settings Menu and make the following changes.
  
  Hazards: Disabled
  Weapon Drops: Enabled
  Ammo Crates: Enabled
  You do not need to adjust the Custom Skull Settings. Back out to the Game Options Menu and choose Spartan Settings. Ignore the options here -- they won't matter -- and choose the Base Traits Menu.
  
  Choose Shields and Health and makes the following changes:
  Damage Resistance: Invulnerable
  Immune to Headshots: Enabled
  Immune to Assassination: Enabled (This is important -- even if you are invulnerable you can still be killed unless you enable this option)
  
  Back out to the Spartan Settings / Base Traits Menu and choose Weapons and Damage and make the following changes.
  
  *Damage Modifier: 300%
  *Melee Modifier: 300%
  *Primary Weapon: Rocket Launcher (or Fuel Rod)
  *Secondary Weapon: Any (I like the needler)
  *Starting Equipment: Jet Pack
  *Infinite Ammo: Bottomless Clip (Crucial: No reloading!)
  *Equipment Usage: Unlimited
  
  For Loadouts, I would usually just go with the jet pack, and the rockets. You can use any weapon that may help with a daily/weekly challenge, or a needler for the supercombine achievement.
  
  Since you are invulnerable and your rocket launcher will take out Elites in one hit, this just takes time. Your ultimate goal is to just hit clumps of Elites for high scores. After playing for a bit you'll learn the locations of Elite drops. Watch for the drop near the center of the map on the cement platform -- 8 Elites drop here at once! It took about 30 minutes and 750 kills for us to get 1,000,000 points, so 50,000 points should be all the easier.
• Manberlin94,185

  15 Sep 2010 16 Sep 2010
  11 3 0

  IGN made a video for easy Achievements in the Firefight mode. You can get about 9 Achievements in one game of Firefight.
  
  Follow this video exactly and in about an hour an a half you will have 9 new cheevies including this one. =)
  
  I highly recommend using the map Corvette and picking up the rocket launcher as it is way easier and faster to kill everything.