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

Posted by: Reachtard
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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!


I'll tell you what, Alpha Zone has got to be the easiest way t get this achievement. Use this guide by mastercmj2003 for that map, and you'll have no problem whatsoever. We got the achievement for two more people last night using Alpha Site, and our fourth wasn't even playing the entire 4th set! It was a low points total (like 738,000), compared to our 3.1 Million on Lost Platoon, but it got the achievement for them.
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  • 09.26.2009 9:10 AM PDT

Carpe Diem dude

This was an awesome guide. Me and 3 friends 2 nights ago were attempting to get Endure. We were playing on Last Exit. It was lagging for a reason we can't explain pretty bad. Even so, we made it to the 5th wave of the 3rd round of the 3rd set. And 2 Honor Guard Brutes with Fuelrods and a Brute Chieftain killed us. We played for 70 mins.

I'm definitely gonna use this next time. Good job.

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Hi, a good strategy I found useful was for 3 people to go on to the hog in the begining and one person goes for the spartan laser and then goes into the passenger seat...then your gunner and driver go around the whole map shooting and splattering while your take out wraiths while your still in the hog,(EASY POINTS!)But while black eye is activated, I suggest that you get 3 choppers and your warthog parked into where you first spawned,preferably the spawn closest to the hog because there isnt steps to climb up and turn into and such and such.Now spam fire on the entrance.But once the invisible dudes and cheftains start to claim the field, one person goes outside in a chopper and stays close to that area while splattering these annoying foes.OH and the person not in a warthog, get a sniper rifle and carbine, go on a chopper, and follow the warthog, kill what they missed and claim that spot for sniping till its time to move.Almost forgot, Try and slow down while the person is spartan lasering, as he/she will have a hardtime not using the scope, and be moving.

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  • 09.26.2009 2:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: DarkRaider911
Hi, a good strategy I found useful was for 3 people to go on to the hog in the begining and one person goes for the spartan laser and then goes into the passenger seat...then your gunner and driver go around the whole map shooting and splattering while your take out wraiths while your still in the hog,(EASY POINTS!)But while black eye is activated, I suggest that you get 3 choppers and your warthog parked into where you first spawned,preferably the spawn closest to the hog because there isnt steps to climb up and turn into and such and such.Now spam fire on the entrance.But once the invisible dudes and cheftains start to claim the field, one person goes outside in a chopper and stays close to that area while splattering these annoying foes.OH and the person not in a warthog, get a sniper rifle and carbine, go on a chopper, and follow the warthog, kill what they missed and claim that spot for sniping till its time to move.Almost forgot, Try and slow down while the person is spartan lasering, as he/she will have a hardtime not using the scope, and be moving.


I don't understand the point in putting 3 people in the hog, when one has laser. It costs you 3 deaths if you die and the laser is a lot more accurate when the guy is outside the vehicle on the upstairs portion of the base.

But whatever worked for you obviously did ok, i just don't quite understand why that tactic would be used.

  • 09.26.2009 7:40 PM PDT

Another thing you could use in the guide is to get the wraiths and use them yourself with the glitch hehe.

  • 09.26.2009 8:52 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dark Splank
Another thing you could use in the guide is to get the wraiths and use them yourself with the glitch hehe.


Can you get into the wraiths???!!!

  • 09.27.2009 2:45 AM PDT

Why would anyone use glitches? If everythings goes easy, its no fun :)


But accordning to what ive read about this guide, its pretty similar of what we were doing :) execpt we called the postions diffrent aswell and got 1,734 323 points, But we kinda didnt play as seriouse after we got the achivment.


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  • 09.27.2009 3:26 AM PDT

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Doesn't the hog become useless againts brutes at set 2? With tilt on that is. I would have thought two people in choppers would be much better. 2 guns as opposed to one that can actually damage everything.

Even then, why not have everyone rolling around in choppers most of the time?

  • 09.27.2009 5:40 AM PDT

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Doesn't the hog become useless againts brutes at set 2? With tilt on that is. I would have thought two people in choppers would be much better. 2 guns as opposed to one that can actually damage everything.

Even then, why not have everyone rolling around in choppers most of the time?
Yeah, I prefer to dump the warthog after tilt comes on, because it just takes too long to be useful. The chopper seems to be a mix of plasma and projectile... It rips apart everything. And it's great for splattering hunters and chieftains.

What I usually do is have 1-3 people rolling around in choppers, making sure no enemies get into the building with our laser guy. It seems to work pretty well.

  • 09.27.2009 7:08 AM PDT

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  • 09.27.2009 8:09 AM PDT
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I got to the 4th set 3rd round last wave its not the best achivement but plz help GT K1NG B1LLY 1690 just add me or send message

  • 09.27.2009 11:52 AM PDT

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Great guide, I got it a couple nights ago on Windward. It takes longer there but it is much easier. You just get a plasma pistol and a headshot weapon and don't charge, let them come to you. Especially in the later rounds, camp the middle room. Chieftains are a breeze without their shields, just overcharge a plasma pistol into them and send a flurry of automag or carbine rounds at their head, works every time.

  • 09.27.2009 11:55 AM PDT

Used this guide today to get Endure. Some advice not included in the SV guide. Ditch the warthog in later rounds particularily mid 3rd set and on and use choppers instead. Shields deflect bullets and make the Hog largely ineffective. In the 4th set it also takes to long for the hog to kill grunts.

My suggestion, ditch the Warthog in favor of one chopper pilot and let the other guy support the laser and occasionally pilot the chopper. Made the 4th set and on incredibly easy.

  • 09.27.2009 5:30 PM PDT

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  • 09.27.2009 5:31 PM PDT

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  • 09.27.2009 7:28 PM PDT

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Sometimes it's good to run a chopper alongside a warthog, esp when the buggers come out to play.
Otherwise, yes you can run 2 or 3 choppers if you have enough and the Laser guy can defend himself.

  • 09.27.2009 8:45 PM PDT

Posted by: Reachtard
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Sometimes it's good to run a chopper alongside a warthog, esp when the buggers come out to play.
Otherwise, yes you can run 2 or 3 choppers if you have enough and the Laser guy can defend himself.
Lost Platoon is fun, minus some random kid lagging out...My screen froze, but i could look around. Its like time froze and i didnt...super lag!

  • 09.28.2009 5:37 AM PDT

hey i need some help getting this acheivment so can i have some help getting it. Only good people plz

  • 09.28.2009 8:07 AM PDT

Thanks guys....

Now my only problem is getting hte people I want to do this with.....to read this.....*sigh*

  • 09.28.2009 3:56 PM PDT

"Belive me, or what'cha see is what'cha get."

The zoo animal: Riker Watts
Map: Alpha Site
Purpouse: Trapped in a little elevator room to attract attention from brutes, grunts, jackals, buggers ect.

reason: Might be ADD.

2nd reason: Works like a gunshot to a grunts face with a pistol!

3rd reason: i dunno...

how it works: Zoo=animals=animals in cages=ATTENTION :D

  • 09.28.2009 4:05 PM PDT

one tactic my friends and i used to get teh 200k point achievment was to use the warthog to guard the staircase wheer it spawns and have a sniper and laser guy on the roof and one guy in the chopper supporting everyone all around/ or just parking the chopper next to the warthog..i was the best driver in the room so i coundt drive hte warthog so i jsut used the laser to kill the wraiths and this was on lost platoon

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  • 09.28.2009 4:07 PM PDT

I will be looking to get this thread locked, since we're starting up a new thread detailing scoring. I will be linking to this thread from our new one.

  • 09.29.2009 5:36 AM PDT

Get over yourself - drink vodka!

Posted by: SV Garlic
I will be looking to get this thread locked, since we're starting up a new thread detailing scoring. I will be linking to this thread from our new one.
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  • 09.29.2009 7:13 AM PDT
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there is also a good fallback position. it helps in case there is a serious problem, like someone isnt here or you are running low on lives.

me and my friends like to call it the bat cave, but there is a room that usually 2 people spawn in during the verry begining. it is a large storage room where the door opening is on the left of the inside. when you are at a situaltion that you are in desperate need for a rally point, this place gives you a secure retreating zone. store three choppers and a warthog in there so you can survive in there as long as possible. you have no need to take out the wraiths, because they can bombard you all they want and can never reach you. on rounds 1-4 you need all people in a chopper and the warthog turret. you should never stop shooting unless someone needs to go out and get amunition. on the fifth wave, have 2 chopper drivers and one warthog turret alwais shooting. make shure though that the choppers and the hog can moove in case under fire of fuel rods. the last person needs to hang around the door out of sight so he or she can assasinate any brutes that actually get through the deffence. if it makes you feel better, you can conserve 3 warthogs or 3 choppers, but i would strongly recomend a warthog for the drones, and 2 choppers for the brutes and jackals. remember to alwais shoot in case there are a few stalkers running around. this strategy has alwais worked for me, but i still dont have the achievement due to people with bad conections, people having to go, or my brother or my family forcing me off because it is sunday and i cant be on monday through thursday. i dont care if anyone thinks other strategies are better, i am just here to help, and add on to any strategies that might need a backup plan. you can use it as a backup room or you can use it from the verry begining to the verry end. if you do from the verry begining, only go out for weapons, amunition, and health.

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  • 09.29.2009 7:57 PM PDT