The Halo games on Xbox 360 will see their servers (mostly) closed for good this week. That's right, 343 Industries is sunsetting Xbox 360 era Halo on January 13th, in favour of supporting The Master Chief Collection. However, that hasn't stopped a squad of Spartans banding together for what may be the final time.
As spotted by Windows Central, a Halo Twitter account by the name of Hidden Reach posted a wholesome clip on Halo 3. Basically, a player joined their Slayer lobby on Halo 3, just days before its closure, requesting help for earning their final achievement.
Sure enough, the lobby obliged, and two players lined up to take one for the team. They were subsequently Spartan Lasered by the achievement hunter, who has now hit full gamerscore on Halo 3 for Xbox 360. Judging by the post-match lobby chat, they were pretty pleased with the outcome.
Note: The following video contains language you may find offensive.
There may be many more instances of this happening across Xbox 360 Halo games over the coming days, and we welcome it with open arms. Remember, if you need one last online achievement, it may be worth chancing a public lobby before January 13th.
What are your fondest Halo memories on Xbox 360?
[source twitter.com, via windowscentral.com]
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I got the original 1000g on halo 3....back when I had alot more free time
This guy is literally not the only person who's been doing this, loads of us have been boosting halo 4 3 and reach for 3 weeks straight. What doesn't help is arseholes who comment in ta forums asking for help and you go into a game with them, ask them to stand still so you can run them over for mongoose mowdown and they grab a rocket launcher and blow up the mongooses. I won't help players like that. Fortunately most people playing H3 now are boosters willing to help. As those lone wolves achievements are ridiculous
Also a massive thanks should go out to whichever legend dev on 343 made the last weekly challenge on reach not only fun but piss easy. After the awful rng one last week it was a welcome surprise, and one that was definitely deliberate.
I am running regular boosting sessions on 3 4 and Reach for anyone who needs help. Check out Resi Gamer 18 on True Achievements.
Relax, guys, this is 343i. I'm sure they'll mess up the shutdown and it'll still be running for years to come....
Damn, they're taking the "let's finish the fight" to heart
Ahhhhhhh, people chasing after virtual stickers that mean absolutely nothing but people think they do.
@GuyinPA75 incorrect. They each have a date attached to them and can be used for stat tracking or just looking back over your gaming history. I have achievements going back to Jan 2006 and find looking back at them really interesting. So they don’t mean “nothing”.
On top of that you get loads of reward points for earning achievements on a daily basis. It’s extremely easy to redeem £5 giftcards.
@K1LLEGAL Ok so you're a fan of NFTs. That's cool. Far as gift certificates with virtual stickers you get 50 points for each sticker ONLY ONCE a day. So if want play a game for 10 mins only a day that's up to you. And to earn a decent certificate I believe it's 10,000 points? Which is 200 stickers have to earn 👍 Hey more power to you. So basically yea, those virtual stickers are worthless.
@GuyinPA75 so technically not worthless? Lol you proved his point. Well done.
@GuyinPA75 not sure why you are going on about NFTs but judging from your comment history, you’re the random troll and i’m the idiot who took the bait. NFTs have nothing to do with this so enough about that.
Anyway sure if you see going for Microsoft Reward points as a full time job then that’s a bit dumb. But if you play naturally, and earn achievements, you can benefit from them in more ways than one. Thats a good thing.
Also it’s 5850 for a £5 giftcard. There is the 50 points a day; the 100 weekly treasure; the 100 weekly task; the 2500 streak bonuses; the 2000 monthly bonus; the 500 they offer for getting a single achievement in one game out of a specific 10 or so; along with a bunch of others for like using the app and playing a game on gamepass etc. If you play naturally you still earn a lot.
Anyway back to the point; achievements don’t hurt anyone so it’s fine to let people enjoy them
Just finished Halo Wars' one Online Only achievement having done the other games all of last year.
Now to focus on the rest of the offline achievements as well as enjoy the series for leisure and in order via MCC.
@GuyinPA75 Just let people enjoy their hobby man. Everyone likes different things. I think it's great to see random people helping others out when they will receive absolutely nothing themselves.
@GuyinPA75 You can easily stack about 10-20k "tickets" or points a month and it lets me try new games. Use it to buy game pass every month or get gift cards and purchase games and enter into raffles. NFT's have nothing to do with Microsoft Reward Points.
Why continue to pump resources into MCC when they could just port all the old maps to Infinite and call it a day?
@RadioHedgeFund yes or do a total remaster of all halo games using the new infinite engine
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