GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
Type: Kill
Setting: Campaign
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 10 minutes
Value: ★★★★★
Reward: 2500
Find and kill the Gold Ranger-Class Elite in any Campaign mission on Heroic or harder.
The Gold Ranger-Class Elites (or BOBs, as they’re known to friends) appear as Easter Eggs whom Bungie has laid throughout the campaign. You can easily find entire Internet guides on tracking them down if you’re planning a BOB Hunt — and wouldn’t that be cool if your name was Bob Hunt? — but we really only need one to pocket this Challenge, so we’ll leave the rest for you to BOBhunt at leisure. Head into Winter Contingency (mission start), since as the campaign’s opening level it’s also by design the easiest, and play through till you hit the turretless Warthogs. The BOB will spawn in one of three places:- At the first structure you drive past, where Jun says they’ve detected heat signatures;
- on the bridge down the hill to the left just past that; or
- on the road up the hill if you skip the bridge.
Just paint your Warthog grill with them once they’re spotted; they splatter real nice like. Can’t find ’em? Don’t worry. Here’s a handy YouTube guide for a complete, ah, rundown.
There is an easier BOB to get on nightfall.
When you make it to the first big area patrolled by covenant, hug the left side of the map and go around behind the buildings. When I did it there was a general and then behind him, a BOB. 4 sniper shots to kill him as long as the last one is to the head.
I did it in legendary.