Okay folks a very cool Easter Egg has unfolded. Besides watching the terminals in Halo CE: Anniversary you can earn credits by unlocking them on Waypoint through the XBOX.

Here is how. First watch a terminal you have unlocked. At the end you will see a sequence of symbols like in the following pic (this is the terminal for the level “Halo”):

Write these down, then go to Waypoint on your XBOX.

Press start and you’ll go to the normal screen:

From here do not go any further. Instead press the “X” button on your controller. You will then go to a screen with a series of colored circles:

Those represent the color buttons on your controller. They are random so don’t enter the ones you see here, enter the ones you see on your screen. Enter them left to right. Don’t worry about if they are higher or lower on screen, that doesn’t matter. Just left to right.

If you do that correctly, then you will go to this screen:

This is the master list of Forerunner glyphs. Enter in the code from the terminal that you wrote down. Note: You MUST unlock the terminal in the campaign first for this to work. If you enter in a code you found elsewhere you will get an error saying you must first find the terminal in the campaign (so you can’t cheat and look them up on YouTube).

As you can see the code is entered and you just need to go to the bottom right to complete the entry. Once done properly you will see this screen:

Note that the Forerunner glyphs are now brighter blue. From here you will go to another screen showing the terminal you unlocked. When you do this for the first time for each terminal you will earn 7K credits (for each terminal).

Once you’ve found all 10 terminals in the campaign and unlocked them on Waypoint, you will receive an additional 37K credits AND a special 11th terminal that can’t be accessed through the game.

If you want to watch the video of where I got the screenshots from watch below:

Today I tried out the challenge feature on Halo Wayoint. Not on XBOX, but through the website. You can assign a certain challenge by what the goal is, if you want it on a specific map, if you want it to be Firefight, Campaign, or Multiplayer, level of difficulty and if you want the people you are challenging to have to put on specific skulls to get the challenge.

I created three separate ones today.

In the first pic you’ll see the parameters I set up for that challenge: 

As you can see you can add your own special name for the challenge. This one is for Campaign, killing 500 enemies on Oni Sword Base at Heroic difficulty with several skulls on. It only had a window of 3 hours to complete.

In the next pic you can see a challenge similar to the first one. Here you see which skulls had to be turned on for the challenge, as well as how many credits a person can earn by completing the challenge. You have no idea how many credits it will assign until AFTER you’ve confirmed the challenge. I’ve noticed that the shorter amount of time given significantly adds the credits one can earn by completing a challenge.

In the third pic you can see that three people (including myself) completed the challenge. I got first place because I finished it first. I thought that the person issuing the challenge couldn’t earn the credits but it turns out otherwise. So challenge away!

Now to further explain this all… In order to get the credits you MUST first log into Waypoint, either through XBOX, or online. ACCEPT the challenge. Then go play the game and get the challenge done within the time allotted. You will not see the challenge in the challenge screen while playing, so you’ll have to check online or go to Waypoint between games to check your progress. Note: It may take a couple of minutes after a game for your just finished game to upload to Waypoint and the stats calculated.

Once you complete the challenge, you won’t see anything that says you completed it, however at the end of the game you will see the credits add up. In the case of the 10K one, I had one of my friends check his credits before the game we expected him to get the challenge done. When the game was done the credits were awarded and he confirmed that by the total of credits he had, seeing that it had gone up by more than 10K (which included the other credits for performance bonus, slot machine, etc.).

If you do issue a challenge to your friends, be sure to let them know by a message on LIVE so they know about it and can accept it.

Have fun!