Since I hit SR130 on the 40th day after release of Halo 4, I’ve been happily going about mastering commendations. The following two are ones that I thought were going to take me FOREVER to get.
As you long time readers know, I’m not an assassin, nor a sniper. Yet, I managed to pull these off within the last two days respectively.
To finish off my Sniper Rifle Mastery, I simply forced myself to go into the sniper playlist. Is it me or is sniping easier in Halo 4??? Now the trick for me that I overcame was to go into this playlist late at night when the “tryhards” weren’t playing, so I wouldn’t get my butt handed to me (see I’m not a great sniper….)
Anyway, here’s proof. WOOT!
The other commendation, Assassin, is one that I didn’t think I’d ever get either. To finish this one off, I decided I’d try to get some easy assassinations via Grifball. Woot, turns out I got put into a match where there was one guy on the other team that was AFK. Yep, I took advantage of that and assassinated him every opportunity I could. (Oh and yes, my team won the game in the two times I did this)
Here’s proof of that one:
While I was happy to be done with the Sniping commendation, I was even more so the Assassination one as that unlocked the very cool “Venator” armor (as seen by my Spartan armor now).
I’m very close on about 4-5 other commendations. A couple of those bring either new armor or new emblems.
If anyone complains that there is nothing after SR130, they’re not going for commendations. There is SO much more to this game than rank.
With regards to these two commendations, all I can say is, this is proof that through dedication and hard work:
YOU can achieve anything.
You CAN achieve anything.
You can ACHIEVE anything.
You can achieve ANYTHING.
Never say never.
-Sal
There are 4 commendations that bother me because I’ll never get them! 1:Plasma pistol. How am I suppose to kill people with it!?!?! It’s the plasma pistol for god sakes! 2:Perfection. I’ve been playing halo for over 2 years and haven’t gotten 1 yet, but now I need to get 5! 3:Mongoose destroyer. Enemies hardly ever use mongooses and when they do I just shoot them off rather them rather than blow up the entire mongoose. 4: Scorpion destroyer. Of all the maps there is only 1 with a scorpion! I really hope there’s another map with a scorpion in the next map pack. Any suggestions on these?
All 4 can be a pain in the butt for sure. As for plasma kills, I suggest watching for teammates to whittle down an enemy then you take the finishing shot. Yeah, it sucks because you’ll kill-steal, but it’s one of the easier ways. Perfections are indeed tough. Unless you are mad skillz at sniping, might I suggest using a Mantis? Or Gauss Hog gunner. Of course when gunning, you’re going to need a good driver. One that won’t take you took close the the enemy so that you won’t get stuck. This is easiest on Exile. Which brings up the scorpion…yep, Exile is THE map for that. Again, the easiest way to kill it is with the gauss cannon. It’s too bad we could get some of these commendations through Spartan Ops. I’d be about done by now.