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Posted by: MacEl3vin
Hi, jus wondering, the Halo 3 guide book says that to unlock the security helmet is by acheiving 1000 gamerpoints. My gamertag is MacEl3vin and I have 1005 total gamerpoints but have not unlocked the security helmet.


Well, the security armour perms are a bit different, to unlock these you must get the original 49 achievements.

  • 02.08.2009 4:41 PM PDT
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I too am missing my security shoulders (i don't have 1000 g score for halo so i guess i got the glitch) but i am also missing all of my hyrobusa armor i had the helmet and shoulders but they are gone also I had all the skulls and all campaign complete. but i just got on the other day and they are all gone. I have all of the achievements to prove it. i had recently done the vidmaster last lvl on legendary with mythic skull. but now i don't have any. help me bungie i want my stuff back. for proof just look at my achievements
sorry for the wall of text and bad grammer

  • 02.08.2009 5:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: Alec9224
Indeed. I haven't had XBL for a long time, but I still come on her everyday.

Posted by: Kroot2000
I too am missing my security shoulders (i don't have 1000 g score for halo so i guess i got the glitch) but i am also missing all of my hyrobusa armor i had the helmet and shoulders but they are gone also I had all the skulls and all campaign complete. but i just got on the other day and they are all gone. I have all of the achievements to prove it. i had recently done the vidmaster last lvl on legendary with mythic skull. but now i don't have any. help me bungie i want my stuff back. for proof just look at my achievements
sorry for the wall of text and bad grammer
That seems to be a common problem. My advice would be to unlock a handful of the original achievements you have not yet earned.

Guerilla
Earn over 15,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the first mission.
Demon
Earn over 15,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the second mission.
Cavalier
Earn over 15,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the third mission.
Askar
Earn over 15,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the fourth mission.
Exterminator
Earn over 15,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the fifth mission.
Ranger
Earn over 50,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the sixth mission.
Vanguard
Earn over 50,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the seventh mission.
Orpheus
Earn over 15,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the eighth mission.
Reclaimer
Earn over 15,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the final mission

Here is a decent guide if you experience any trouble.

We're in for some Chop
Destroy an enemy vehicle with equipment in a ranked playlist or in campaign.

Your best bet would be to complete this in Campaign. Start from Rally Point Alpha on Tsavo Highway and continue through the cave and you should come upon two Brutes. Kill them, and near them you should find a Trip Mine. Weaken a Chopper and throw the Trip Mine down. Achievement unlocked!

Marathon Man
Access all Terminals in the Campaign.

Here is a great guide.

Of course, you may not need to unlock all of these, but it will more than likely solve your problem and bring you much closer to unlocking the Katana and Security helmet. if your Hayabusa armor does not unlock, try clearing your cache or recovering your profile. Good luck ; )

  • 02.08.2009 6:07 PM PDT
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is there anywhere i can just report this to bungie and they can replace everything i lost. i don't want to have to re-download everything if i clear my cache or risk losing game data if i recover my gamertag. and i dont want to go through the campaign again and get the skull all over again

  • 02.08.2009 6:30 PM PDT
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yesterday (7th of the month) i reached 7 exp in SWAT, and then entered a match and won. im now 8 exp. Why didnt i get the achievment?

  • 02.08.2009 6:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: tA Mayhem
yesterday (7th of the month) i reached 7 exp in SWAT, and then entered a match and won. im now 8 exp. Why didnt i get the achievment?



well yesterday was the 8th for me and im EST timezone so maybe the console thought it was on the 8th day, but ill keep looking for anwsers for you, thats all i could come up with for now.

  • 02.09.2009 4:43 AM PDT

Posted by: blindx1
Posted by: tA Mayhem
yesterday (7th of the month) i reached 7 exp in SWAT, and then entered a match and won. im now 8 exp. Why didnt i get the achievment?



well yesterday was the 8th for me and im EST timezone so maybe the console thought it was on the 8th day, but ill keep looking for anwsers for you, thats all i could come up with for now.


Look at when he posted. He posted on the 8th. So, he did it on the 7th.

  • 02.09.2009 4:57 AM PDT

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ok, this might have been on there already but i must ask( and reading 20 pages of stuff is past my level of caring). i have beaten the game on legendary, 6 times, then our Xbox got, RED LIGHT OF DOOM!!!, and when we got it back, i rebeat the game on legendary. got the skulls, did all of that. had my stuff (well it was on my personal file, so not the Live stuff) then i loged on one day, just to sooth some anger, and wabam! i only had CQB, Mk 4. all of my elite stuff was there but nothing else. what, in the name of the shinto gods happend? if anyone could help. it would be really nice.

  • 02.09.2009 4:22 PM PDT
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Legends never die.

I have read every response in this thread and it hasn't helped one bit. How about fixing the bug Bungie? I got my 49th achievement today and when I didn't receive either the helmet or Katana I read this thread.

So after reading it i got two more achievements; Killing Frenzy in Lone Wolfs and a Double Kill with the Spartan Laser in Lone Wolfs.

STILL NO HELMET OR SWORD

NOW I'M UP TO 51 ACHIEVEMENTS AND 1145 GS AND STILL NOTHING

THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! ALL THAT WORK WAS FOR WHAT EXACTLY?? AND STILL NOT A REASONABLE ANSWER, JUST SOME CRAP ABOUT BUGS AND GLITCHES.

F U BUNGIE!

  • 02.10.2009 1:05 AM PDT

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Woah woah woah... I just went on my Xbox to play a little local gaming, and I tried to put my Katana on for laughs, and it wasn't there? Fair enough, it might be because I'm on local, so the game didn't load properly or something, but then I signed on to LIVE to see if the permutations would update, and they didn't. I restarted my 'box, and sure enough it was still missing.

I have 1250/1750 GamerScore for Halo 3, and all currently unlockable achievements. Can anyone suggest a solution?

  • 02.10.2009 1:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: Alec9224
Indeed. I haven't had XBL for a long time, but I still come on her everyday.

Posted by: dutch508
ok, this might have been on there already but i must ask( and reading 20 pages of stuff is past my level of caring). i have beaten the game on legendary, 6 times, then our Xbox got, RED LIGHT OF DOOM!!!, and when we got it back, i rebeat the game on legendary. got the skulls, did all of that. had my stuff (well it was on my personal file, so not the Live stuff) then i loged on one day, just to sooth some anger, and wabam! i only had CQB, Mk 4. all of my elite stuff was there but nothing else. what, in the name of the shinto gods happend? if anyone could help. it would be really nice.
Posted by: Dropship Dude
I have 1250/1750 GamerScore for Halo 3, and all currently unlockable achievements. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Try clearing your cache or recovering your profiles.

Posted by: TR1GGERHAPPYA55
I have read every response in this thread and it hasn't helped one bit. How about fixing the bug Bungie? I got my 49th achievement today and when I didn't receive either the helmet or Katana I read this thread.

So after reading it i got two more achievements; Killing Frenzy in Lone Wolfs and a Double Kill with the Spartan Laser in Lone Wolfs.

STILL NO HELMET OR SWORD

NOW I'M UP TO 51 ACHIEVEMENTS AND 1145 GS AND STILL NOTHING

THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! ALL THAT WORK WAS FOR WHAT EXACTLY?? AND STILL NOT A REASONABLE ANSWER, JUST SOME CRAP ABOUT BUGS AND GLITCHES.

F U BUNGIE!
Calm down. Try unlocking a handful of original achievements you have not yet earned:

Ranger
Earn over 50,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the sixth mission.
Vanguard
Earn over 50,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the seventh mission.
Orpheus
Earn over 15,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the eighth mission.
Reclaimer
Earn over 15,000 points in the Campaign meta-game on the final mission
We're in for some Chop
Destroy an enemy vehicle with equipment in a ranked playlist or in campaign.

I'm not saying you are wrong in being angry, but you have to understand things take time especially a patch for a large bug.

  • 02.10.2009 3:35 AM PDT

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Posted by: Dropship Dude
I have 1250/1750 GamerScore for Halo 3, and all currently unlockable achievements. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Try clearing your cache or recovering your profiles.
Thanks for the suggestion, but even that didn't help. I guess I'll have to wait a few days to see if getting any more achievements will kick it back up.

Thanks again.

  • 02.10.2009 4:16 AM PDT

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I Have an overkill in ranked: Check my medals, i didnt got the overkill achievement and the armor i should get? help?

  • 02.10.2009 6:12 AM PDT

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Posted by: toulatu
I Have an overkill in ranked: Check my medals, i didnt got the overkill achievement and the armor i should get? help?
You have to get it in a Ranked FFA playlist: Lone Wolves or Legendary Brawl.

  • 02.10.2009 6:50 AM PDT

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ok, i forgot, srry

  • 02.10.2009 10:58 AM PDT

it happens to me all the time but my brother never had a problem with the katana like i do???

  • 02.10.2009 3:44 PM PDT

This website was specifically built to study and contain Bungie disciples including myself. Our survival as a race is dependent upon it. I am grateful to see that some of us survived to reproduce.

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My profile is an example of the security and katana armor unlocking early, I think I have only about 42 or 43 of the original achievements. I do have over a thousand gamer score but the rest of my achievements came from the second wind provided in the AU2. I was just fooling around with my armor getting ready to play some lone wolves to get the rest of my achievements for the security and katana and as I was cycling through the perms, low and behold there they where. I was jumping off the walls for the fact that this is what I have been working toward.

Being a fulltime student, father and husband I berly find time to play but when I do I make the best of it. I have spent a lot of my rare free time playing the one game that I love working toward this armor perm. I know it sounds crazy but hey, everyone has there hobbies and this ones mine. I love Bungie, I love the fact that they are a self built company and once again independently owned. I am a Media Arts and Animation major and Bungie is on the top of my list to apply and work for.

I also wanted to say that, to whom ever reads this that has power, please don’t ninja fi my account and take it away, all I have ever wanted was the security armor. I love the katana but the security armor has grown on me over time since Halo 3s birth and now that I have it even unfairly early I don’t want it taken away from me. Thank you Bungie for giving it to me, and if it’s just a glitch then unfair glitch is bliss.

I guess this is a wall of text and I don’t expect everyone to read it but I rarely reply in the Halo 3 forums. I always take a look but never find anything worth replying too. I usually spend most of my time in my group
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  • 02.10.2009 7:28 PM PDT

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made a thread when the last update came out, and Sketch was nice enough to explain to me that the problem had been solved. (after I had been a total jerk)
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=26456547&p ostRepeater1-p=1#26456726
I was basically told that I would get graduate for receiving 20 exp in one of the new playlists. Obviously, since I am making this thread, it did not happen, and I am still without ODST helmet.

With the new Halo products coming out this year, I am getting back into Halo 3. Just curious if anyone has managed to overcome the Graduate achievement glitching after the update.

Also, not sure if much will happen since this thread is more concerned with Security/Katana.

[Edited on 02.10.2009 11:31 PM PST]

  • 02.10.2009 11:30 PM PDT
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Well my Katana appears to be gone. I unlocked it before they ever added new achievements so I got the original 1000 gamerscore. I recently got the 7 on 7 achievement in grifball so I dunno if that has bugged it. But really I don't see why this unlocks system is so buggy.

  • 02.11.2009 1:29 AM PDT

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Posted by: Alec9224
Indeed. I haven't had XBL for a long time, but I still come on her everyday.

Posted by: mastercraig
just curious if anyone has managed to overcome the Graduate achievement glitching after the update.
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear so. Two other members who posted in this thread are are having the same difficulty as you are. Since the EXP requirement for Graduate is 5 EXP, try for EXP in each of the primary playlists excluding Double EXP playlists.

Posted by: Sifer3
Well my Katana appears to be gone. I unlocked it before they ever added new achievements so I got the original 1000 gamerscore. I recently got the 7 on 7 achievement in grifball so I dunno if that has bugged it. But really I don't see why this unlocks system is so buggy.
The Katana locking after earning the 7 on 7th achievement seems to be a common problem. My advice is to unlock a handful of the new achievements. I personally found these to be the least difficult:

Flag Dropped
On a Legendary map, got 2 flag carrier kills during a ranked or social match.
Road Rage
On a Legendary map, got 5 Warthog chaingun kills during a ranked or social match.
Defend This
On a Legendary map, got a flag melee kill during a ranked or social match.
Double Double
On a Legendary map, got two Double Kills during a ranked or social match.

Of course, you more than likely will not have to unlock all of these but hey, an extra pile of gamerscore! Good luck ; )

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i just got to a luitenant in matchmaking but i dnt hav my rouge helmet is therer something elde i need 2 do

  • 02.11.2009 10:53 AM PDT

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Posted by: Alec9224
Indeed. I haven't had XBL for a long time, but I still come on her everyday.

Posted by: jonjo I PIE I
i just got to a luitenant in matchmaking but i dnt hav my rouge helmet is therer something elde i need 2 do
You need 50 EXP in one playlist. Already, you've earned 31 EXP in Social Slayer, so you only need 19 more ; )

  • 02.11.2009 11:10 AM PDT
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Thank You i finnaly understand!

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I am having this same problem with mine. I had the Kantana and Security Helment and now its gone. What is going on?

  • 02.12.2009 8:53 AM PDT