Road to Recon!
Recon Armor in Halo 3 multiplayer is an exclusive handout available
only to a select few, but with ODST it's become a badge of honor that
dedicated Halo fanatics can unlock for themselves. There are seven
Achievements that must be earned—three in ODST, and four in the
original Halo 3 before you can head over to Bungie.net to get a download code. These are those seven Achievements.
The following characters can be unlocked for use in Firefight. Most are unlocked by playing the Campaign.
- Buck - Complete Mission 02 on Normal, Heroic or Legendary
- Dutch - Complete Mission 03 on Normal, Heroic or Legendary
- Mickey - Complete Mission 04 on Normal, Heroic or Legendary
- Romeo - Complete Mission 06 on Normal, Heroic or Legendary
- Dare - Complete the Campaign on Legendary
- UNSC Sergeant Avery Johnson - Unique pre-order codes were given out for this character
The following missions can be unlocked for
Firefight.
- Alpha Site - Complete Mission 05 on Normal,
Heroic or Legendary
- Chasm Ten - Complete Mission 08 on Normal,
Heroic or Legendary
- Last Exit - Complete Mission 09 on Normal,
Heroic or Legendary
- Lost Platoon - Complete Mission 03 on Normal, Heroic
or Legendary
The following armor can be unlocked for use in Firefight:
- Dare's Recon Armor - Finish the Campaign on Legendary
Hidden
skulls have been with the series since Halo 2, so naturally ODST brings
with it a unique set of hidden skulls to find. There are three total,
each hidden inside one of the new multiplayer maps. Fortunately, you
don't need to search for the skulls while in the midst of a multiplayer
battle—in fact, you'll need to find them in Forge mode (Forge is
available on the multiplayer disc). Load up the level and use the
flying camera mode to navigate to the skull locations, which we've
outlined in the video below. When you've found the skull, position
yourself above it and then toggle out of the flying camera mode and
hold whichever button you've got mapped to picking up weapons (default
is RB). Your character should fall past the skull and pick it up on the
way down—if you miss it, just try again.
Stunning! (5) (Stop a vehicle with an overcharged Plasma Pistol and quickly kill the driver)
The best place to get this one is at the Uplift Reserve. Switch to
Easy to make this Achievement a breeze. When you come to the area with
the overturned warthog and ample Brutes on vehicles, grab a Plasma
Pistol from a nearby Grunt and charge it up. Shoot a Brute in a cycle
from close range, then approach him as he just sits there and melee him
in the face.
My Clothes! (5) (Plasma Pistol Overcharge and quickly kill 10 Brutes)
You can do this one on Easy, and Kizingo Boulevard is perfect due to
its high number of Brutes. Approach a Brute with a charged Plasma
Pistol. Unload it on him and his armor will drop off. quickly melee him
twice (or shoot him in the head with a pistol). do this ten more times in the same level
Both Tubes (5) (Get 10 Rocket kills on Kizingo Boulevard)
You'll start out with two rockets, and you can get a bunch of kills
with just these. But a secret Rocket Launcher can be found behind the
empty Scorpion you are directed to get into. It's lying on the ground
behind a small structure. Use these four rockets to get a few more
kills.
Laser Blaster (5) (Get 10 Spartan Laser kills on ONI Alpha Site)
you can do this on Easy. Although you start with a Spartan Laser on
this level, you can get a second one in the next scene to get some
extra kills (the area with two Wraiths and the hill). Search the top of
the hill for the Spartan Laser.
I Like Fire (5) (Kill 10 enemies with the Flamethrower on Data Hive)
You can do this on Easy. The Flamethrower is located at the end of a
hallway after the icy area in the tunnels. For more information, check out our guide section on this.
Naughty Naughty (5) (Killing things that are new and
different is good / Kill 10 Engineers at night in New Mombasa, alone or
with another ODST)
Find a place with Engineers that spawn repeatedly and shoot them
with charged Plasma Pistol shots for one-hit kills. You'll have to get
ten all on the same level (Mombasa Streets).
Good Samaritan (20) (Killing things that are new and
different is bad / Do not kill any Engineers at night in New Mombasa,
alone or with another ODST)
You must avoid killing Engineers for the entire campaign. Start to
finish. If you see a count appear for the Naughty Naughty Achievement,
restart the level.
On
Uplift Reserve, at the first Warthog Area, enter a Hog and give a
soldier in the passenger seat your Spartan Laser. Make sure you have a
gunner as well and, with some clever driving, you can get though the
level without firing a shot! You may die as many times as you want.
If
you are getting tired of trekking to those Data Terminals in the New
Mombasa segments, you should know that there are secret Mongooses
available for you at the Superintendent Supply Caches. Pick one up in
the northwest corner of the map -- where you start out -- once you've
unlocked the cache there.
Vidmaster Challenge: Classic
Finish any level solo on Legendary, on LIVE, with no shots fired or
grenades thrown.
25G
This one is pretty difficult if you don't know what you're doing.
Firstly, under no circumstances should you shoot, throw a grenade or
use any weapons (turrets for example). Other than this, feel free to
splatter, melee, hijack and use the warthog (gunners are fine).
Classic is easiest on the Uplift Reserve level. Grab a warthog (don't
beep the horn or power slide as it disables the achievement) and rush
past the two wraiths (took me like 20 tries). After the last wraith,
grab the ghost and zoom through the level. You must be connected to
LIVE and you must be on Legendary difficulty, needless to say. I
accidentally threw a grenade, then died and restarted from the
checkpoint. I continued and beat the level and I still got the
achievement. This means that you can still fire and throw grenades by
accident then die on purpose to reload the checkpoint. It's handy to
know.
