Posted by: Lord Friendship
Feel free to post here with any thoughts, theories, or strange things you may have noticed on this level. I can probably save people some time, as I've tried quite a few obscure theories myself.
I just visited your thread at Grunts Pajamas. Awesome.
I see you investigated the far left banshee too. I wouldn't have conjectured it to be a banshee bob, as it has a pilot. In the tapes I looked at last night (of ToTS with no Bob), that pilot is sometimes clearly not gold. (The rest of the time, I think it's copper but wouldn't have ruled out gold.) But in any case, this is old news.
I'm sure you're following the thread over at Bob and GRD helmet, where Lord Zedd and Paul Torrance have decided the last spawn point is at the second AA gun near the cliff behind the northwestern wraith. He isn't there in my saved BOB-less games. So what's the trigger?
I don't know how to get onto the center part of the broken ramp, where the DMR is (and a data pad on legendary?). Picking up the data pad is perhaps a plausible trigger.
To hunt for the trigger (and I'm sure you know this -- posting for the benefit of others), watch for BOB and play the game through to the spire. If he hasn't spawned by then, save the game before completing the mission. (It might be wise to verify the absence of BOB in theater mode, since BOB under the spire can sprint away fairly quickly.) Resume the game and restart the mission. Bob won't spawn in any of the known locations. You can play it through again to verify this. Play it to completion, if you like, as the saved game will remain on your menu. Resume and restart the mission, and look for possible triggers at the second AA gun .... Good luck.
On another note, in your thread on GP, you refer to results when there was a Golden Tree Challenge, which I think has only happened twice (1/17/11 and 11/2/11?). But you make it sound like you did the challenge several times. How did you do this? Is there a way of resetting your account so that you can do the challenge again? Or were you using several different accounts? (I guess you don't need xbox live gold to participate in this challenge.)