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Subject: Question about the katana permutation

I'm 100 Gamerpoints away from 1000, which is enough to get the katana, people are saying that its glitched and i need 49 cheevos and 1000GS for halo 3 to get it, is this true?

  • 07.13.2012 4:37 AM PDT

You need to get the original 49 Halo 3 achievements, which is all the ones before the TU2 Achievements which will total to 1000GS in total.

Until you get the original 49, the Katana will constantly lock & unlock every time you get a new achievement.

  • 07.13.2012 4:39 AM PDT

BE HUMAN

Fight for Earth. Fight for Humanity.

Actually, I don't think you need all of the original gamerscore. I have the Katana but I don't have Marathon Man achievement and the double laser achievement.

I guess you only need 1000. :P

  • 07.13.2012 4:55 AM PDT

Thanks guys, as soon as i get things done, i'll see how it works out

  • 07.13.2012 6:54 AM PDT

"What are we holding on to, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

This achievement is horribly glitched and it seems that everyone has a different expeience. I had the Katana long before I had every original achievement, and it never relocked for me. It's different for everyone, so there's no real way to know.

  • 07.13.2012 7:05 AM PDT

Posted by: crazyfoomandude
Actually, I don't think you need all of the original gamerscore. I have the Katana but I don't have Marathon Man achievement and the double laser achievement.
Folks to clear up the confusion...


When Halo 3 was released, you needed all 49 achievements. The ones that shipped with the game- the only ones there were. In 2008 when the Legendary Mappack came out, it screwed everything up.

This situation continues today. Now, you can unlock it anywhere from 300GS-1750GS. There really is no set score. It is not 1000GS, that is a completely false rumor started on the basis that the original Halo 3 achievements, like every game, total 1000GS.

You will unlock it randomly. Maybe it will be at 1000GS, but that's only chance. You're just as likely to get it at 1300GS. However, with this glitch came another one. The armor permutation of the katana and Security helmet RElock themselves for a lot of people. Why does this happen? This happens because those people do not have the original 49 achievements.


So no, you don't necessarily need the original achievements to get it. However, if you don't, there's no guarantee they won't just disappear. Some people are lucky and never have them disappear regardless. Most aren't that lucky. So the safest bet is to just tell people to get the original 49 achievements, because it will secure them and make it so you don't have to type out a long explanation like this one every time someone asks.

  • 07.13.2012 10:15 AM PDT

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Think getting all the skulls helped. Don't really know.

  • 07.16.2012 9:52 PM PDT

burrito loves it when posts like this come around.

  • 07.16.2012 11:32 PM PDT

Black Ops 2 I run two accounts warmup only at 1.97kdr...real is at 3.77. i'm in master division 4 league play. pm 4 clan inv...must have 2.5 kdr or better

My account has 48 achievements and around 925 gamerscore. I got the Katana. It won't glitch out unless you get another achievement which may mess it up.

[Edited on 07.17.2012 12:08 AM PDT]

  • 07.17.2012 12:07 AM PDT