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The Ninja Armor was a Challege to Aquire Yes..But Well Worth it..all its missin in the katana on my end,

  • 02.17.2009 11:20 PM PDT

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I didnt get it when I reached 49 and 1000, so i did a cod 5 achievment and a cod 4 achievment and still i dont have it, do i need to do a halo 3 achievment to get it to unlock or do other games achievments work?

  • 02.18.2009 4:17 AM PDT

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Posted by: Fridge Gnome
I didnt get it when I reached 49 and 1000, so i did a cod 5 achievment and a cod 4 achievment and still i dont have it, do i need to do a halo 3 achievment to get it to unlock or do other games achievments work?


If your talking about security/katana armour variants, you must have all 49 original achievements, you dont have to go to another game and get achievements.

  • 02.18.2009 4:28 AM PDT

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I got 49 halo 3 achivments and 1000 gamerscore in halo 3, so i did a couple achivement that were easy for me to do in another game, and see if that would change my gamerscore and fix my katana, but it didnt.

I know that it can be the new and the old achivments many people have gotten it that way

Do i have to do halo 3 achivements to try to unglitch it?

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  • 02.18.2009 4:32 AM PDT

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Posted by: Fridge Gnome
I got 49 halo 3 achivments and 1000 gamerscore in halo 3, so i did a couple achivement that were easy for me to do in another game, and see if that would change my gamerscore and fix my katana, but it didnt.

I know that it can be the new and the old achivments many people have gotten it that way

Do i have to do halo 3 achivements to try to unglitch it?


Well, the katana isnt "glitched", it is just tempormental, if you have the original 49 achievements your safe, and you wont loose it, if you get the katana with the newer achievements, you may get it faster, but it may end up re-locking, and if this happens you must unlock original achievements and that should re unlock it.

  • 02.18.2009 5:04 AM PDT

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so if i get some of the original achievments it should unlock

  • 02.18.2009 5:08 AM PDT

first i go security then i locked i back up

  • 02.18.2009 5:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: Paintbalsniper
How do you unlock the Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 achievement if you have already started!?


It goes by the per playlist ratings. For example, you have 103 exp. in Social Slayer.
You need to get to 7 in one of the playlists you don't have over 7 exp on.



Posted by: Schmitty59
i have definately done the last mission on legendary with iron on, finishing with ghosts with 4 players

For some reason it shows i havn't done it, i know i have done, my friends know we've done it, but none of us have the achievement


Mmm. Did you do it online co-op? I don't see it in your game history. I don't believe it can be done all on one xbox locally. Not sure about system link either.

Sorry for the late reply, my computers mucking up....
i don't know why it's not there, i am completely sure we have completed it, it was with...
Link272, xxhughgesxx and wehttam266 who are all on different xboxes...

and its really annoying because all i'd need is 2 more vidmaster challenges completed then i could get recon

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  • 02.18.2009 1:11 PM PDT
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I locked up the Katana armor and Security helmet with all the original achivments, but as soon i got Vidmaster Challenge:7 on 7, they are gone! And that happened in novemeber 2008, and now its February and its still gone! What am i supposed to do? I dont have the legendary map pack so i cant unlock those achivments. Please Help, i thought Bungie would come with a solution for this!

  • 02.18.2009 2:01 PM PDT

I got the global rank of Spartan officer, and I still didn't get the Acivement, or my Rouge Helmet, so is there any thing Bungie can do like give me(Templar94) Rouge Helmet, since I know Microsoft controls Acievements, and you guys only have an influence.

  • 02.18.2009 2:15 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: MR T3
I locked up the Katana armor and Security helmet with all the original achivments, but as soon i got Vidmaster Challenge:7 on 7, they are gone! And that happened in novemeber 2008, and now its February and its still gone! What am i supposed to do? I dont have the legendary map pack so i cant unlock those achivments. Please Help, i thought Bungie would come with a solution for this!
Others have had this same problem, and they later unlocked the Katana and Security helmet by unlocking a few of the new achievements as well. To be honest, I'm not sure what to tell you. There aren't any plans to make the Legendary Map Pack free, so I would recommend you consider purchasing it.

Posted by: Zane56
I got the global rank of Spartan officer, and I still didn't get the Acivement, or my Rouge Helmet, so is there any thing Bungie can do like give me(Templar94) Rouge Helmet, since I know Microsoft controls Acievements, and you guys only have an influence.
No problemo!

Just earn 50 EXP in any one playlist. Doing so will unlock the Vidmaster: Lightswitch achievement, the Spartan Officer achievement, and the Rogue helmet.

Your best bet would be to try for it in a Double EXP playlist as you will only need to win twenty-five matches. Team Flag is up this week so get going! ; )

  • 02.18.2009 2:22 PM PDT

i got 1000 gs in halo 3 and i didnt get the katana or security shoulders but i got some replasement shoulders called metredainoin...

  • 02.18.2009 4:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: robby118
There aren't any plans to make the Legendary Map Pack free, so I would recommend you consider purchasing it.


I thought that when a new map pack is realesed for Halo, the map pack before is free! So the Legendary map pack should be free in the next week i think. Just look at the Heroic Map pack for an example.

  • 02.18.2009 4:20 PM PDT

so theres no way to get my achievement any other way than gettting to lieutenant AGAIN in another playlist even though im a lieutenant globally? i didnt get the spartan officer achievement even though im a lieutenant globally

  • 02.18.2009 7:31 PM PDT

It's all in your head.

I lost my katana and security helmet a few weeks ago. Still gone...

  • 02.18.2009 8:32 PM PDT
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Thanks. although i was truly pissed to not find my security head and katana at 1000gs this has not solved the problem but has eased me through the pain considering iam not the only one. lol

  • 02.19.2009 4:28 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: MR T3
Posted by: robby118
There aren't any plans to make the Legendary Map Pack free, so I would recommend you consider purchasing it.


I thought that when a new map pack is realesed for Halo, the map pack before is free! So the Legendary map pack should be free in the next week i think. Just look at the Heroic Map pack for an example.
You thought wrong. Sorry. : (

Posted by: Beaknose21
so theres no way to get my achievement any other way than gettting to lieutenant AGAIN in another playlist even though im a lieutenant globally? i didnt get the spartan officer achievement even though im a lieutenant globally
Just earn 50 EXP in one playlist and the Spartan Officer achievement will unlock.

Posted by: Starquake x
I lost my katana and security helmet a few weeks ago. Still gone...
Posted by: Mitch973
Thanks. although i was truly pissed to not find my security head and katana at 1000gs this has not solved the problem but has eased me through the pain considering iam not the only one. lol
The both best of you can do is to continue earning earning achievements. Neither of you have completed the meta game achievements, so I would suggest you both take a crack at it. If the Katana and Security helmet still do not unlock after completing the meta game achievements, unlock a few more, preferably original achievements.

Best of luck ; )

  • 02.19.2009 4:52 AM PDT
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49 achievements, 1120 gamerscore, still nothing

  • 02.19.2009 8:50 AM PDT

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yea me too 51 achivments and nothing, only the original makes it for sure, so im just trying to get more and see if it unlocks

  • 02.19.2009 8:54 AM PDT
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  • 02.19.2009 8:56 AM PDT

ok my shoulders werent appearing intill i got marathon man so i told my friend to get marathon man and 1000+ gamer score for halo 3 and it worked

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  • 02.19.2009 11:56 AM PDT

Cheese!!!

The spartan officer glitch didn`t do anything to me, so i gues that means it`s fixed or only harms some unlucky players??

  • 02.19.2009 1:33 PM PDT

Posted by: J00N1S34
The spartan officer glitch didn`t do anything to me, so i gues that means it`s fixed or only harms some unlucky players??

Nah. It's becuase you have 50 exp. in Social Slayer. You actually met the requirements.

  • 02.19.2009 1:36 PM PDT

Ok well my problems been solved. they locked up for me after getting the 7 on 7 achieve.. but since i got the lightwsitch achievement, they unlocked themself again.. so just keep on going and maybe youl have some luck.

  • 02.19.2009 4:55 PM PDT

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right ok my halo is going completely AWOL. two peices of armor that have been unlocked for a while have decided to relock themselves (security and Katana) and now when i do the described things for achievments they dont unlock. i was on ranked team slayer today and full on lasered a full Warthog and destroyed it. now unless im wrong i should have got the "used car salesmen" but it never unlocked can anyone help me work out whats wrong before i go out and sell halo to buy CoD world at war

P.s i have a video of me lasering that warthog on my file share its slot number 5 and the video is called con

  • 02.19.2009 5:45 PM PDT