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Subject: Seasoned Veterans Guide to Vidmaster Challenge: Endure (Firefight)

I wish I could understand your point of view, but I can't stick my head that far up my ass.

Are there any open spots for your group? If you have strategies this thought out, I definitely want in.

  • 09.24.2009 5:07 PM PDT

It's like a retard riding a bicycle while eating hot wings.
Sometimes you have to take the bike seat off to really enjoy it.

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Posted by: Datruel3gend
Are there any open spots for your group? If you have strategies this thought out, I definitely want in.


We're still trying to get everyone in our group the achievement, tbh.

I say group as in Seasoned Veterans. We've got about 70 people, and not all of them are good at FF.

I've been looking for a good Firefight group, and I was in TGP.
I either haven't been accepted yet or you guys hate me.

  • 09.24.2009 5:30 PM PDT

Get over yourself - drink vodka!

Prone might not know who you are. Join the queue and I'll put in a good word for ya.

orrrrrrrrrrrr you could already be in XD

[Edited on 09.24.2009 5:44 PM PDT]

  • 09.24.2009 5:43 PM PDT

Excellent guide, very smoothly written.


The only real problem I've encountered is the connection issues. I have yet to find a team with little/no lag, so ATM I'm not too hopeful about actually getting this one.

From what I've observed, Crater(Night) may be the easiest non-vehicle map for the achievement; there are only two routes to your strongpoint, and there are no serious dangers beyond Engineers and Grunt 'nade spam.

  • 09.24.2009 6:00 PM PDT

Master Theory

Posted by: Flying Dice
Excellent guide, very smoothly written.


The only real problem I've encountered is the connection issues. I have yet to find a team with little/no lag, so ATM I'm not too hopeful about actually getting this one.

From what I've observed, Crater(Night) may be the easiest non-vehicle map for the achievement; there are only two routes to your strongpoint, and there are no serious dangers beyond Engineers and Grunt 'nade spam.

Very true. If you can keep the Engineers at bay, fighting off the remaining Covenant becomes a LOT easier.

  • 09.24.2009 6:46 PM PDT

im always hog gunner becuase im pretty good at that and feel comfortable doing that while sence im left haned lazering is a challenge for me i just need to find a really good driver cuz my hog always gets destroyed between waves 3-4 btw always looking for great players need lazerer hog driver and long range and i promise you wont be dissapointed in my proformance(just add me and we`ll talk when im online)

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  • 09.24.2009 7:41 PM PDT

Quick tip: on lost platoon on any round there is usualy one which includes a ton of drones, when the blackeye skull is on go to the top of the main base under the roof. Drones are forced to land and come inside making it easy to beat-down and regain sheilds. Took me around 90 minutes to complete it with friends.

  • 09.24.2009 8:05 PM PDT

How come I never get the sniper rifle?!
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--------____.`=====.-.~:________\___|================[oo]
|_|||___/___/_/~```|_|_|_|``(o)----------<)

My ROFLsniper goes POW!

I need to do that.

  • 09.24.2009 8:18 PM PDT

Get over yourself - drink vodka!

Posted by: trixrkids3815
Quick tip: on lost platoon on any round there is usualy one which includes a ton of drones, when the blackeye skull is on go to the top of the main base under the roof. Drones are forced to land and come inside making it easy to beat-down and regain sheilds. Took me around 90 minutes to complete it with friends.
This is where vehicle selection becomes into play - the chopper is way more powerful, but the hog can take more damage and distract the drones from attacking your ground-pounders.

  • 09.24.2009 9:03 PM PDT

Legit 100% Gamerscore completionist.

Me and a few buddies did this today using your basic srategy, although I'm not sure if they found it here or discovered it on their own. It is pretty much the ONLY way to do this map for vidmaster though. One spotter with laser, one guy on a chopper, and 2 guys runnin the hog.

We ended with 1,690,000 points and could have gone MUCH further as we still had ~20 lives when we reached the 5th set but two of us absolutely HAD to leave once we got the achievment for real life issues.

My two cents for this achievement is the following: ANY group of 4 SOLID (and I stress solid) players should be able to easily attain this achievement on platoon. We had the good fortune of having an absolutely OUTSTANDING Chopper driver. He is a beast in those things, and was a great asset. Not to mention our Hog driver can dodge like Whoa.

At any rate, this achievment just takes patience. I tried it with one other group. Epic fail. This group did it our first try and had like I said ~20 lives left when we got the achievement so it's well within the reach of seasoned players. If you are a seasoned vet, seek out your brethren and don't let this achievement intimidate you because it's really not all that hard on platoon with the hog, splaser guy, chopper guy strategy.

  • 09.24.2009 9:14 PM PDT

yeah ive noticed drivers make a huge differnce there ones who will abonane the vehichle while im in and ill get killed, if anyones looking for a gunner check my odst stats i think im pretty good(im not sure what people consider good)

  • 09.25.2009 4:54 AM PDT

here we were last round of firefight before the achievement and boom 4 enemies left .... player quit match.... WTF nooooooooooo 2 hours for nothing :( last night was a sad night

  • 09.25.2009 7:14 AM PDT

shatter what did you do(cuz im trynig to find people so let me know if you need a gunner)

  • 09.25.2009 7:52 AM PDT

London....I'll join up with you, just message me on Live
Gamertag is I BronX I

  • 09.25.2009 9:02 AM PDT

me and 3 guys were gettin this endure achv. and we made it to the 4th set 3rd round and 5th wave n we needed to kill one more guy and this dueche bag turned his 360 off -blam!- as hell

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  • 09.25.2009 9:20 AM PDT

A few friends from teamxbox.com got together and conquered the Endure Vidmaster..Took us 2hrs, but well worth it.
http://www.bungie.net/stats/odstg.aspx?gameid=14980105&pl ayer=RevitXman

Captured some vids. (NSFW Language)
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orDc2obDYyc

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY8qu-CDIb4

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_PJPilTTw

http://www.youtube.com/revitxman

  • 09.25.2009 2:51 PM PDT
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I did lost platoon and reached 1.5mil, i was always in the hog when the catch skull was on. top tip: run over as much brutes as possible, so much easier on later levels than shooting

  • 09.25.2009 3:11 PM PDT

I'm kinda new to this forum thing bungie all ready got mad at me for making my own topic and told me if I did something wrong again there going to ban me so I hope I'm doing this right ok

I need help for firefight I have a great way of beating it we just need teamwork it's going to take at least two hours to beat but you will get Ive done it at least eight times all ready but every time I get past or to the four round we lag out so I'm thinking it's one of the people I'm playing with and need new people my gamer tag is L HYPE L

  • 09.25.2009 5:04 PM PDT
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Yeah this is pretty much what my team did we died on the berry last wave 1 away... Wasted like 2 1/2 hours it sucks... But I'm sure we can get it next time

  • 09.25.2009 11:39 PM PDT

great guide me and my 3 brothers got 1.4million points on that level but failed to get the achievement when there were two brute cheftians left at the end of set4 round 5 wave 5. So noyed, so we tried again immediately on alpha zone and got it 2 hours 20mins later!

  • 09.26.2009 3:45 AM PDT

Get Your -blam!- mouse away from my avatar or im gonna kick you in the balls and laugh at you

Thanks for the help, and great details helps too.

  • 09.26.2009 5:10 AM PDT