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Subject: Official Halo: Reach *Mythic Difficulty* Guide (LASO for all missions)

Hello, Community!

Hopefully if you're reading this, it's because you're interesting in kicking your campaign experience up a notch by cranking up the Legendary with all skulls activated :-) Need advice? A guide? Maybe even a friendly community to cheer you on and help guide you through the process? Then give our Mythic thread a read, and Godspeed on your Mythic journey!

Best Regards,
The Tyrant


Posted by: Stolen_Zombie
I never got why they didn't do that, H3 might have just been overlooked, odst maybe it would mess with save coding or something because it was H3's engine, theres no reason for reach


There were a number of things in Reach that were overlooked in the development process :-P

(See my rant about the Blind skull.)

  • 08.11.2011 5:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: Tyrant122312

Posted by: Stolen_Zombie
I never got why they didn't do that, H3 might have just been overlooked, odst maybe it would mess with save coding or something because it was H3's engine, theres no reason for reach


There were a number of things in Reach that were overlooked in the development process :-P

(See my rant about the Blind skull.)

Rant Incoming:
You see, I have ONE problem with the blind skull, ONE. Why does it hide your weapon? It makes no sense, in fact, the fact that I managed fly across forge world in a matchmaking game out of nowhere makes more sense. I could understand the HUD/reticule, making it so you have to be more aware about your shields/ammo/aim, but WHY YOUR WEAPON? Halo may not be about realism, but why is this even in the game? For the halo 2 part maybe it was for machinima or something, but there's theater in halo 3, so why should it hide your weapon and your HUD? It should just hide your HUD!
-End rant
I could rant on about other things, but this pisses me off for some reason

  • 08.11.2011 6:07 PM PDT

Twenty-ninth Halo 3 Mythic Conqueror
Eleventh Halo 3: ODST Mythic Conqueror
Fifth Halo: Reach Mythic Conqueror

Guys, please stop with the Halo: CEA talk. Ostensibly, I'm saying this since this is the Reach Mythic thread, but I'm actually saying this since that all this talk about Halo: CEA is just making me want to buy the game (something I pledged not to buy for the sake of my integrity)

I joke. The integrity thing is real, though.

Posted by: Tyrant122312
For the record, I have the utmost trust for our conquerors :-)


So, on the topic of fake Halo: CEA submissions, the burden of proof is on the community and not the submitter; I think this makes sense. One: as a logical rule, you're never called upon to prove a negative. Two: common sense. When you go to a relative's house and they show you pictures of their family vacation, you don't insist that they prove they aren't fake. Media is considered real until proven otherwise.


Posted by: Tyrant122312
There were a number of things in Reach that were overlooked in the development process :-P

(See my rant about the Blind skull.)


I disagree, respectfully of course. On their first playthrough, most people are not going to play with the Blind skull on; in fact, they're not going to touch any skulls. So the immersion factor is not really affected. People that do play with blind on have already played through the campaign ten times anyway.

For your complaint about it detracting from the realism, that's a good thing. Any game (or movie) that stresses realism looks weird whenever the slightest unrealistic moment appears e.g. my friend told me to download Resistance & Liberation (a Half-Life 2 mod) saying, "OMG so realistic!!!111!. I liked how you could reload the M1 Garand mid-clip, but the thing that bothered me the most was that even if you had one bullet left--when the user grabbed the op-rod and pulled it back, the clip would not eject until the user pressed the release button despite there being theoretically no ammo in the rifle; this ruined the game for me. Call of Duty 5 had the same problem, except that game wasn't realistic so it didn't detract from the fun.

"Realistic" in Halo would be months of boot camp followed by an extremely painful augmentation process where you would probably be rendered crippled or invalid. On the slight chance you would survive, you'd probably get killed by a roadside IED on your first mission out.

  • 08.12.2011 11:47 AM PDT

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I want a Dancing Skull so that Elites do the disco while shooting their plasma rifles and Hunters wiggle all the time.

  • 08.12.2011 11:54 AM PDT
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The Blind skull is the sole reason I never could get interested in doing Mythic runs.

  • 08.12.2011 12:15 PM PDT

Halo 3 (31st), ODST (14th) and Reach (4th) Mythic Conqueror. (Mythic is Solo, Legendary, All skulls on + scoring on and no deaths/saves).

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Aw man; I was literally 15 seconds away from beating Dark's Tip of the Spear run. Then an FRG Grunt got me :(

Aww, such a shame too; from BXR onwards it was SOO ridiculously awesome. Like, "You did WHAT!?" level of awesome.

I'm not too bummed out though: I'm still laughing at how ridiculous the route was!

[Edited on 08.12.2011 2:52 PM PDT]

  • 08.12.2011 2:47 PM PDT

#1 Daily & Weekly Challenges (100%)
#1 K/D in BTB All Stars (17.55)
1st Place in FLAG Firefight Tournament 2011*
*Won a rare Halo Comic-Con poster signed by Bungie!
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Reach, ODST & H3 Mythic Conqueror (Legendary, All Skulls On, No Deaths)
11 World Record Halo Speedruns


Posted by: RC Master
Aw man; I was literally 15 seconds away from beating Dark's Tip of the Spear run. Then an FRG Grunt got me :(

Aww, such a shame too; from BXR onwards it was SOO ridiculously awesome. Like, "You did WHAT!?" level of awesome.

I'm not too bummed out though: I'm still laughing at how ridiculous the route was!


Does want to see route!

  • 08.12.2011 4:03 PM PDT

Hi, my name is Stolen_Zombie! My morning routine is to bomb the ocean, eat a house, drink salt water, and kill a zombie. Many people consider me a jack ass because I eat corn flakes, I tell those people to go have sex with a kangaroo. After my morning routine, I rage over beating LNoS on mythic so I can get one step closer to mythic reach completion. I should mention that's after school. My diet is shotgun shells and paper airplanes, nice to meet you!


Posted by: Naked Eli
I want a Dancing Skull so that Elites do the disco while shooting their plasma rifles and Hunters wiggle all the time.

And marines do the worm

  • 08.12.2011 4:37 PM PDT
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good luck thats insane

  • 08.12.2011 4:38 PM PDT
Subject: Official Halo: Reach *Mythic Difficulty* Guide (LASO for all missions)

Halo 3 (31st), ODST (14th) and Reach (4th) Mythic Conqueror. (Mythic is Solo, Legendary, All skulls on + scoring on and no deaths/saves).

Staff Writer and speedrun record holder at highspeedhalo.net

Ignorance is the true enemy of all things.

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Posted by: RC Master
Aw man; I was literally 15 seconds away from beating Dark's Tip of the Spear run. Then an FRG Grunt got me :(

Aww, such a shame too; from BXR onwards it was SOO ridiculously awesome. Like, "You did WHAT!?" level of awesome.

I'm not too bummed out though: I'm still laughing at how ridiculous the route was!


Does want to see route!

Well maybe I exaggerated a little... but it felt really awesome! Think: splattering hunters and assassinating sword elites. The latter is where I died ;)

LOL! It's totally mad; I love it.

On the plus side, this gives me the excuse to try improving the route at Tyrant 1 again. I have a candidate route thats faster already, but I'm still exploring another option. The rocket hog is so cheap.

Oh, and off the back of my Mythic fail, I went and knocked 37 seconds off Legendary. No biggie. ;)

  • 08.12.2011 5:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: RC Master
Oh, and off the back of my Mythic fail, I went and knocked 37 seconds off Legendary. No biggie. ;)


My time, or your time?
I know mine can go faster, the route is old now, and we've found new tricks since then.

  • 08.12.2011 11:55 PM PDT

Halo 3 (31st), ODST (14th) and Reach (4th) Mythic Conqueror. (Mythic is Solo, Legendary, All skulls on + scoring on and no deaths/saves).

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Ignorance is the true enemy of all things.

Rocking Bungie.net for over 8 years!


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Posted by: RC Master
Oh, and off the back of my Mythic fail, I went and knocked 37 seconds off Legendary. No biggie. ;)


My time, or your time?
I know mine can go faster, the route is old now, and we've found new tricks since then.

Yours. My previous best was something slower than that. I was personally surprised to knock so much time off when I didn't even manage to get the Concussion Rifle for BXR.

  • 08.13.2011 4:03 AM PDT
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BXR = mining facility?

and what exactly are we using the CR for?

I've been away for a few days, and I'm a little lost.

  • 08.13.2011 4:58 AM PDT

Phew, completed the Package on Legendary today. The first part was one HELL of a time for me. Thank god the latter parts of the mission were easy. I followed Tyrant's method of using the Wraith where you defend the lab - thanks man!

  • 08.13.2011 6:40 AM PDT

Halo 3 (31st), ODST (14th) and Reach (4th) Mythic Conqueror. (Mythic is Solo, Legendary, All skulls on + scoring on and no deaths/saves).

Staff Writer and speedrun record holder at highspeedhalo.net

Ignorance is the true enemy of all things.

Rocking Bungie.net for over 8 years!


Posted by: knurdy
BXR = mining facility?

Yes. It's the BXR mining facility.

and what exactly are we using the CR for?
Oh, we're not using it for anything. Not on Mythic anyway. In Dark's (now beaten) 8:28 run he used it to scale the outside wall of BXR, taking from a n easy difficulty run by Rorcin I think. You have to get it from that very first Elite by the FRG shades though, so it's bloody hard to get in a timely manner.

Also, screw randomness. Really annoying.

  • 08.13.2011 8:40 AM PDT
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ah, thanks.

So I decided to actually make a mythic attempt today, and actually save all the films (i've beaten the easier missions on mythic already, but with no films that means a whole pile of nothing).

Got careless trying to splatter the grunts and elites on WC and failed miserably. But I think I will go ahead and give it a go, so stay tuned, I'm sure I'll have lots of questions.

  • 08.13.2011 9:27 AM PDT

Twenty-ninth Halo 3 Mythic Conqueror
Eleventh Halo 3: ODST Mythic Conqueror
Fifth Halo: Reach Mythic Conqueror

Wow, I saw the newspost on HBO about Tyrant's new capture card. That thing looks EXPENSIVE!

And Tyrant got it for free. From an anonymous person. Over the internet.

DOES NOT COMPUTE

  • 08.13.2011 2:22 PM PDT

Halo 3 (31st), ODST (14th) and Reach (4th) Mythic Conqueror. (Mythic is Solo, Legendary, All skulls on + scoring on and no deaths/saves).

Staff Writer and speedrun record holder at highspeedhalo.net

Ignorance is the true enemy of all things.

Rocking Bungie.net for over 8 years!


Posted by: Michael_Archer
Wow, I saw the newspost on HBO about Tyrant's new capture card. That thing looks EXPENSIVE!

Depends on your definition of expensive: it retails for USD$200

In other news, I beat Winter Contingency, Nightfall, Tip of the Spear, Exodus, and New Alexandria on Mythic (without scoring) today. I played through the other levels too, but I got completely messed up on Sword Base so didn't complete it, I had to save+quit LNoS (2 deaths), The Package (1 death) and PoA (2 deaths).

So, I think a 4 hour Mythic Single Segment may well be possible. Plus if they ever have a 'beat the entire campaign on Legendary all skulls this week' challenge, I'm so ready. ;)

I had a couple of really weird things happen though: on the Package, the first Wraith in the ice-cave just disappeared. I think it may have thrown itself off the cliff! I ended up doing most of it on foot and using the Banshee to bomb and splatter Elites (so funny :D ).

I had a really close call on the bridge of the Corvette on LNoS as well: I was going round assassinating the Elites, and I didn't see where the General was so I just walked right past him. He saw me as I was taking out the Sword Elite, I heard thim, and sprinted for my life, all the while with the General chasing me and shooting at me. Just as I thought I was scuppered from the fire, I turned around and saw him right behind me! So freakin scary! I don't even know how I managed to pull it off but, I did a dance with him and managed to assassinate him!

Just goes to show, every once in a while, you do get lucky on Mythic!

I still ended up getting stuck by a plasma nade when I got back to the hanger! The embarrassment!

Also: I need a bigger fileshare :(

  • 08.13.2011 5:28 PM PDT

Twenty-ninth Halo 3 Mythic Conqueror
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Fifth Halo: Reach Mythic Conqueror

Why does Quad-Mythic require the host to restart if one person dies? The reason why people restart on regular Mythic is that the Iron skull already does this and they want a pretty looking video. That's why Save & Quit is not allowed: it circumvents the hardest skull in the game. Why do you have to restart on Quad-Mythic? I guess it's that Mythic requires "no deaths," but I want to contest this. Mythic doesn't actually require "no deaths"; it's just that if you die on a Mythic run, the Iron skull sends you back to the beginning of the level. You could technically send a five hour video of you dying in Nightfall twenty times before you complete it and it would still be equally legitimate as a Mythic completion as a two minute speed run. If you continue from the last checkpoint in Quad-Mythic, you're not circumventing any of the skulls; all of them are affecting you just as nature intended them.

This is semantics, really; I just thought "Quad-Mythic" was a bit of a misleading name.

Posted by: RC Master

Posted by: Michael_Archer
Wow, I saw the newspost on HBO about Tyrant's new capture card. That thing looks EXPENSIVE!

Depends on your definition of expensive: it retails for USD$200


I guess that's reasonable, considering it captures in high definition with USB 3.0. My little Pinnacle Moviebox cost about $120 CAD with just the standard red, yellow and white ports or Firewire; I think I got ripped off.

Now that I think about it, I subconsciously think of any price with at least three digits as being "expensive."

  • 08.13.2011 9:54 PM PDT


Posted by: Michael_Archer
Why does Quad-Mythic require the host to restart if one person dies? The reason why people restart on regular Mythic is that the Iron skull already does this and they want a pretty looking video. That's why Save & Quit is not allowed: it circumvents the hardest skull in the game. Why do you have to restart on Quad-Mythic? I guess it's that Mythic requires "no deaths," but I want to contest this. Mythic doesn't actually require "no deaths"; it's just that if you die on a Mythic run, the Iron skull sends you back to the beginning of the level. You could technically send a five hour video of you dying in Nightfall twenty times before you complete it and it would still be equally legitimate as a Mythic completion as a two minute speed run. If you continue from the last checkpoint in Quad-Mythic, you're not circumventing any of the skulls; all of them are affecting you just as nature intended them.

This is semantics, really; I just thought "Quad-Mythic" was a bit of a misleading name.


That's the difference between LASO and Mythic. Mythic requires a single run from start to finish with no deaths. So yeah, you could have 5 hours of failed attempts with a 2 minute successful speedrun at the end and it counts because you had zero deaths for the duration of the successful run.

When playing cooperatively, the effects of the Iron skull change, but our requirement for Mythic does not. So a manual restart is required, rather than simply encouraged for convenience, for it to be counted as a successful mythic run. The only time this may not be necessary is if the death is before ANY checkpoints are activated, resulting in the reset being at the very beginning of the level, but even then it's best practice to keep the slate clean of any deaths just to avoid the headache of dealing with comments about it.

  • 08.14.2011 7:59 AM PDT
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The Mythic Threads (Halo 3) (ODST) (Reach)

-blam!- me, -blam!- me, -blam!- me, -blam!- me!!! Moving away, university, studying, not bringing Xbox, no playing until Christmas break, no parents, no nothing!

I'll miss you all! I'll have to hang around here instead of playing.

  • 08.14.2011 5:15 PM PDT

WHA1LEY, A Jazzy Whale, Jol1ywood, WHA1LEY. I changed my gamertag 3 TIMES!!

Bye, Gazas. Good luck! ^_^

  • 08.14.2011 8:34 PM PDT

Halo Reach 2/3rds of the way mythic conqueror (6/9)

Bye gazes, you have definetally given me helpful things to help me through my mythic quest. That also goes to you tyrant and Dark and RC and archer and all you other guys who have helped me. Even if it isn't finished I wouldn't have gotten as far as I have without you guys like gazes. Thank you

[Edited on 08.14.2011 9:49 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2011 9:32 PM PDT

Best of luck, Gazas! Those straight-A's will be worth it. ;)

  • 08.14.2011 9:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: Gazas
-blam!- me, -blam!- me, -blam!- me, -blam!- me!!! Moving away, university, studying, not bringing Xbox, no playing until Christmas break, no parents, no nothing!

I'll miss you all! I'll have to hang around here instead of playing.


Oh no!!! We'll miss you Gazas! Buy another Xbox while you're there!

  • 08.15.2011 9:48 AM PDT