REACH DAILY CHALLENGES: 30 APRIL 2011

Check in here for strategies on completing the Daily and Weekly Challenges in Halo: Reach. If it’s your first time, click through the About HRD link above; and add comments below if you’ve got a good idea of your own for tackling the Challenges today.

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SCREENSHOT OF THE DAY

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SCREENSHOT OF THE DAY: Bubi8894

Screenshot Of The Day today courtesy of Bubi8894, who waves hello (and, probably, goodbye) on this fine Saturday. Hello to you too, Bubi! Everyone, click to enlarge!

Meanwhile, if you haven’t done it already, yo: Send your screenshots to haloreachdaily@live.com, or just make a file recommendation to us on XBox (Gamertag: Ender Xer0, with a zero), and we’ll take care of the rest. Remember: we’re not looking for plain Forge art or random pix from the Internet; it should be a screenshot of YOU!

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WEEKLY CHALLENGE

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ENDURE: THE RETURN

Firefight

Heroic

Single Match

Type: Completion
Setting: Firefight
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 15-20 minutes
Value: ★★★★★
Reward: 10000

Complete four Sets on any Firefight map in Co-op play on Heroic or harder.

[ ACCESS COMPLETE INTEL: CLICK HERE ]

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DAILY CHALLENGES

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Summary

TYPES: Assists, Completion, Kills, Killstyle
SETTINGS: Any Game Mode, Multiplayer
AVERAGE DIFFICULTY: Easy
TOTAL TIME: 35-50 minutes
OVERALL VALUE: ★★★★★
TOTAL CREDITS: 5250

REACH DAILY CHALLENGES: BLASTIN’ AND RELAXIN’

BLASTIN’ AND RELAXIN’

Any Mode

Kills

Type: Kills
Setting: Any Game Mode
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 5 minutes
Value: ★★★★★
Reward: 1350

Kill 180 enemies in any game mode in Reach.

Take on this one last. You’ll rack up most kills working your way through today’s other Challenges; for your leftovers, our standard recommendations:

• By far the most convenient carnage remains at the opening of the Campaign’s ONI Sword Base mission. If you know it and don’t like the stigma of naked credit boosting, skip down. If you don’t know it, you can find a detailed rundown in the Owning On ONI permanent link on the top of this page.
• But, if you don’t like the open credit farming that goes with Target Locating, simply rack up some quick kills in a Custom Game instead. Click on the Grunt Game Settings link at the top of the page for instructions on the best settings; you’ll also find a Custom Game there already set up for you.

REACH DAILY CHALLENGES: NO ‘I’ IN TEAM

NO ‘I’ IN TEAM

Multiplayer

Single Match

Assists

Type: Assists
Setting: Multiplayer
Difficulty: Grind
Time: 15-20 minutes
Value: ★★★★
Reward: 1500

Earn 6 assists in a Multiplayer Matchmaking game.

The real challenge here will be not just to rack up Assists, but to collect at least six in the same match; miss the mark, and you’re back to zero.

Because of that, your best bet becomes to focus on nothing but Assists until registering the Challenge; yes, that means walking away from some otherwise deserved kills as you crash an opponent’s Shields but let another player punch his ticket. You’re flying wingman here, helping other gamers score the chick even if the party’s a free-for-all.

Just click on the Assist-O-Rama standing link at the top of this page to see our complete guide to Not Closing The Deal. You’ll lose a few extra points by not claiming the kill yourself, but you’ll still get cR points for an Assist, and the Challenge bonus will way more make up for the ones you handed away.

REACH DAILY CHALLENGES: CAME FROM BEHIND

CAME FROM BEHIND

Multiplayer

Single Match

Assassination

Type: Killstyle
Setting: Multiplayer
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 10-15 minutes
Value: ★★★★★
Reward: 1200

Perform 3 Assassinations in a Multiplayer Matchmaking game.

Probably the most fun you’ll have snaring a Challenge all day.

• Halo’s latest tragic combination of professional sports and K/D farming, Action Sack’s Hockey, offers probably the easiest Assassination opportunities, since you’re moving at Barry Allen superspeed and your victims have no concealment or cover. The main drawbacks: it’s not always easy to vote your way onto the Hockey Rink; and, when you’re done assassinating, you’ll still be playing Hockey.
• Instead, we prefer Rumble Pit on smaller, tighter maps: Wherever you can sneak up on someone, catch them by surprise as they come ’round a corner or make a straight Sprint toward their unsuspecting spines will offer all sorts of banzai backstab openings.
• Although you can Sprint for a cheetah-like takedown, you can stalk just as easily with Active Camo if you don’t mind alerting your prey to nearby danger, since Camo-crouched near a doorway or corner for a lightning strike will make the Discovery Channel highlight reel as well.
• Though it often goes hand-in-glove with Rumble Pit recommendations, avoid Multi-Team for this one: There’s just too much damn gunfire everywhere, and you could easily find yourself Yoinked — or worse, Showstopped — as the Assassination animation plays.
• Finally, an excellent point from reader MAL, who in real life makes his living as a professional assassin:
  

  Choosing a ‘Pro’ game in Matchmaking Rumble Pit, like Crazy King Pro or Slayer Pro, makes this extremely simple. The lack of radar will make it easy to sneak up on opponents and get multiple assassinations.

Thanks, MAL!

REACH DAILY CHALLENGES: PARTICIPATION COUNTS

PARTICIPATION COUNTS

Multiplayer

Type: Completion
Setting: Multiplayer
Difficulty: Retarded
Time: 20-30 minutes (Concurrent with other Challenges)
Value: ★★★★★
Reward: 1200

Complete 4 games in Multiplayer Matchmaking.

Yes, you really can earn this by doing absolutely nothing for four games; it’s hard to call it a “Challenge” when the only requirement is that your controller doesn’t turn off. (And even then.) But, hey, it’s 1200 free cRedits — so don’t complain, eh?