He Is Made of Iron (4,400 XP): complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Iron Skull.
Reclamation (4,200 XP): complete the Reclaimer mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
I didn't have much to do yesterday so I created 4 walk thrus for the first challenge showing how it can be completed on the Shutdown, Dawn, Forerunner, and Composer missons.
Weekly campaign challenges for the week of 12/2 thru 12/8:
That's No Moon! (5,000XP) - complete the Requiem mission on Legendary difficulty.
Pinball (6,000XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Tilt skull.
Must be the holiday season. XP awards have bumped up a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PptOnPVzmIghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36fR642oswY
Campaign challenges for the week of 12/09 thru 12/15:
Prediction: Pain (5,500 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls activated.
He Is Made of Iron (5,000 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Iron skull activated.
Campaign challenges for the week of 01/20 thru 01/26:
Reclamation (5,800 XP) - complete the Reclaimer mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls activated.
Infinity and Beyond (4,800 XP) - complete the Infinity mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls activated.
I used some newer speed running techniques in doing these two challenges. Reclaimer has become very easy for me for some reason. I currently hold 5 world record speed run times for this mission.
Campaign challenges for the week of 02/03 thru 02/09:
That's No Moon! (5,000XP) - requires the completion of the Requiem mission solo on Legendary difficulty.
He Is Made of Iron (4,500XP) - requires the completion of any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Iron skull activated.
These might be worth a look. I used a few newer tactics in the first challenge and finished the mission 14 minutes faster than previous iterations. The second challenge was completed doing Shutdown in about 10 minutes or so.
Campaign challenges for the week of 2/10 thru 2/16:
Dawn SLASO (4,800XP) - complete the Dawn mission solo on Legendary difficulty with all 13 skulls activated.
Pinball (5,500XP) - complete any mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Tilt skull activated.
As in the past, the 343 staffer responsible for setting up these challenges is to say the least challenged. These challenges recycle every several weeks and to award more XP for Pinball than Dawn SLASO is just plain idiotic. Regardless, the two walk thrus follow:
Campaign challenges for the week of 2/17 thru 2/23:
Infinity and Beyond (5,600XP): complete the Infinity mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls (a lot of fun)
Still Alone In the Dark (5,200XP): complete the Midnight mission solo on Legendary difficulty (a pain in the butt)
Thanks for doing these, and good find on skipping the first two towers.
For those who do play the towers, I like to go to the right tower first, you can get the autosentry AA early-on. Also, if you shoot down a Phantom while it's over the landing platform, it'll drop a plasma turret or two, which is/are useful inside the towers.
Famine or Feast? (4,000XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine Skull.
Pinball (4,400XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty witht the Tilt skull.
The video below shows how to get both of these in one run. Easy to do, but the video does feature several neat Ghost tricks at the 4:35, 7:55, and 13:55 marks.
Weekly campaign challenges for the week of 11/11 thru 11/17:
Prediction Pain (4,000 XP): Complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Infinity and Beyond (4,100 XP): Complete the Infinity mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Walk thrus follow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mec6I1QaG1c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiBUX7UrNCM
Weekly campaign challenges for the week of 11/18 thru 11/24:
Dawn SLASO (5,500 XP): Complete the Dawn mission solo on Legendary difficulty with all Skulls on.
Pinball (4,400 XP): Complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Tilt skull.
Walk thrus below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDPG01EEfPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06i-vbPPuB4
Weekly campaign challenges for 11/25 thru 12/01:
He Is Made of Iron (4,400 XP): complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Iron Skull.
Reclamation (4,200 XP): complete the Reclaimer mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
I didn't have much to do yesterday so I created 4 walk thrus for the first challenge showing how it can be completed on the Shutdown, Dawn, Forerunner, and Composer missons.
Walk thrus follow:
Challenge 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIrszUAoPRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPJ_joAFMbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-46rm7fSPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO9Ys9bj0lE
Challenge 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOStK2fx7PE
Campaign challenges for the week of 12/09 thru 12/15:
Prediction: Pain (5,500 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls activated.
He Is Made of Iron (5,000 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Iron skull activated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Q_zkjc_Dg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiW5Cx9vjWU
Campaign challenges for the week of 12/16 thru 12/22:
Infinity and Beyond (4,500 XP): complete the Infinity mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Famine or Feast? (4,000 XP): complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine skull.
Walk thru videos follow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn9e2MBTMus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIcblFB1q7A
Campaign challenges for the week of 12/23 thru 12/29:
Dawn SLASO (6,500 XP): complete the Dawn mission on Legendary difficulty with all skulls on.
Reclamation (5,400 XP): complete the Reclaimer mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, TIlt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOw54XQSsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeO_7rM4tdM
Campaign challenges for the week of 12/30 thru 01/05:
Dawn Madness (4,800 XP): complete the Dawn mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Still Alone In the Dark (4,000 XP): complete the Midnight mission solo on Legendary difficulty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrLttuJGJA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lulaa34QJuY
Campaign challenges for the week of 01/06 thru 01/12:
He Is Made of Iron (4,000 XP): complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Iron skull.
Pinball (5,000 XP): complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Tilt skull.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmHMQa8p5zI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-CjX9S1kKQ
Campaign challenges for the week of 01/13 thru 01/19:
Dawn SLASO (5,500 XP): complete the Dawn mission solo on Legendary difficulty with all skulls on.
That's No Moon! (4,500 XP): complete the Requiem mission solo on Legendary difficulty.
343 is still recycling challenges every 3 to 6 weeks, but I still enjoy putting up "fresh" walk thrus each week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1nG9MrS0Ns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhk_t3FKT04
Campaign challenges for the week of 01/20 thru 01/26:
Reclamation (5,800 XP) - complete the Reclaimer mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls activated.
Infinity and Beyond (4,800 XP) - complete the Infinity mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls activated.
I used some newer speed running techniques in doing these two challenges. Reclaimer has become very easy for me for some reason. I currently hold 5 world record speed run times for this mission.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e2MXtdA9vU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDnov8hU8Q0
Campaign challenges for the week of 01/27 thru 02/02:
Prediction Pain (5,800 XP) -- complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Famine or Feast? (4,500 XP) -- complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine skull.
Note that completing the first challenge will get one the second challenge as well. Regardless, two separate walk thru videos follow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBpPwNHqWLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jqHhfzEWo
Campaign challenges for the week of 02/03 thru 02/09:
That's No Moon! (5,000XP) - requires the completion of the Requiem mission solo on Legendary difficulty.
He Is Made of Iron (4,500XP) - requires the completion of any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Iron skull activated.
These might be worth a look. I used a few newer tactics in the first challenge and finished the mission 14 minutes faster than previous iterations. The second challenge was completed doing Shutdown in about 10 minutes or so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shsyBAWmQu0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBM8twAA-L8
Campaign challenges for the week of 2/10 thru 2/16:
Dawn SLASO (4,800XP) - complete the Dawn mission solo on Legendary difficulty with all 13 skulls activated.
Pinball (5,500XP) - complete any mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Tilt skull activated.
As in the past, the 343 staffer responsible for setting up these challenges is to say the least challenged. These challenges recycle every several weeks and to award more XP for Pinball than Dawn SLASO is just plain idiotic. Regardless, the two walk thrus follow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhv8EBwndV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6hg3DbVp4M
Thanks Achy. :)
Campaign challenges for the week of 2/17 thru 2/23:
Infinity and Beyond (5,600XP): complete the Infinity mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls (a lot of fun)
Still Alone In the Dark (5,200XP): complete the Midnight mission solo on Legendary difficulty (a pain in the butt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewO58EIcXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddb76Oox7Hg
Campaign challenges for the week of 2/24 thru 3/2:
Reclamation -- complete the Reclaimer mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Famine or Feast? -- complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine skull.
Both of these are pretty easy to do. Walk thrus follow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzmwWndaRPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdYzXUzwuk
Campaign challenges for the week of 03/03 thru 03/09:
Dawn SLASO (4,800 XP) -- complete the Dawn mission solo on Legendary difficulty with all 13 skulls on.
That's No Moon! (5,000) -- complete the Requiem mission solo on Legendary difficulty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHp7Ap9pDfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwlZcR8rzGw
Campaign challenges for the week of 03/10 thru 03/16:
He Is Made of Iron (4,500 XP) - Complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher level of difficulty with the Iron skull.
Pinball (5,000 XP) - Complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher level of difficulty with the Tilt skull.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l48V-Y-hE5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8bp0OnBZY
Camaign challenges for the week of 03/17 thru 03/23:
Prediction Pain (5,200 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Reclamation (5,200 XP) - complete the Reclaimer mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Both challenges can be accomplished in one run by setting up for the Reclamation challenge and adding the Famine skull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25kUQTs40FM
Weekly campaign challenges for 03/24 thru 03/30:
Infinity and Beyond (5.,200 XP) - complete the Infinity mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Famine or Feast? (4,800 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine skull.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHIIdNSjorg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOiCK0ViC9Q
Weekly campaign challenges for 03/31 thru 04/06:
Dawn Madness (5,400 XP) - complete the Dawn mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Still Alone in the Dark (5,800 XP) - complete the Midnight mission solo on Legendary difficulty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2574GWuuio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5xxGM5g71Y
Weekly campaign challenges for 04/07 thru 04/13:
That's No Moon! (4,600 XP) - complete the Requiem mission solo on Legendary difficulty.
He is Made of Iron (4,200 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Iron skull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ19K8PgxNk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT1KrLRtHLk
Weekly campaign challenges for 04/14 thru 04/20:
Dawn SLASO (4,600 XP) - complete the Dawn mission solo, on Legendary difficulty with all skulls on.
Pinball (4,500 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Tilt skull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSryyXJHkeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LutwQX9aivY
Campaign challenges for 4/21 thru 4/27:
Prediction: Pain (4,800 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Famine or Feast? (4,500 XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine skull.
Complete the first one and you get the second one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzS2RBvMjz4
Thanks for doing these, and good find on skipping the first two towers.
For those who do play the towers, I like to go to the right tower first, you can get the autosentry AA early-on. Also, if you shoot down a Phantom while it's over the landing platform, it'll drop a plasma turret or two, which is/are useful inside the towers.
Weekly campaign challenges for 04/28 tru 05/04:
Reclamation (5,000 XP): complete the Reclaimer mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Infinity and Beyond (4,600 XP): complete the Infinity mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFzHzBj2pAg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5mHiLnXZXo
Weekly campaign challenges for 05/05 thru 05/11:
Prediction: Pain (4,500 XP) -- complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
Dawn SLASO (4,200 XP) -- complete the Dawn mission solo on Legendary difficulty with all skulls on.
The individual from 343 who set the XP credits for these two challenges is an idiot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5d_ufxXs0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xdo1Me11A4
Weekly campaign challenges for 05/12 thru 05/18:
Famine or Feast? (4,000XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Famine Skull.
Pinball (4,400XP) - complete any campaign mission on Heroic or higher difficulty witht the Tilt skull.
The video below shows how to get both of these in one run. Easy to do, but the video does feature several neat Ghost tricks at the 4:35, 7:55, and 13:55 marks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj39eagmAU
Weekly campaign challenges for 05/19 thru 05/25:
Dawn Madness (5,200 XP) -- complete the Dawn mission on Legendary difficulty with the Mythic, Tilt, Tough Luck, and Thunderstorm skulls.
That's No Moon! (4,400 XP) -- complete the Requiem mission solo on Legendary difficulty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnpWrWz4yY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtRLBz9GSxc