Welcome to the first of nine weekly challenges geared toward pitting you against the most challenging aspects of the Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo: Reach Campaigns with a chance at gaining a very precious reward. Each week, we will be selecting a campaign mission from each of these games. Each challenge will become progressively harder since we are ordering the missions from easiest to most challenging. The first nine weeks will be comprised of missions from Halo: Reach, week 10 will surround a special raffle for the folks who manage to complete each of the previous nine challenges, and the weeks that follow will focus on the most challenging missions from both Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST.

This week’s missions? Complete Nightfall on Mythic Difficulty and submit your entry for a chance to win three months of Xbox LIVE Gold and Reach Recon! The rules are fairly simple. Load up the mission, make sure your settings are on Solo Legendary, switch on ALL 13 skulls (both Gold and Silver), and also turn on FFA scoring. For Halo 3: ODST, there are only 12 skulls, so don’t go looking for the 13th! When you complete the mission successfully, upload the film to your File Share, and send me a tweet on Twitter with the hashtag #wmrcentry along with a hyperlink to your film. Don’t worry about tagging the saved film. Simply put “Mythic Difficulty” somewhere in the film’s description, and that will suffice.

Just a few other tidbits of information for you to keep in mind:

1) You must have an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription.
2) You must have your XBL gamertag linked to your Bungie.net profile.
3) The mission must be completed while you are online and during the seven-day contest period. Make sure you can view it in your Game History.
4) The mission must be completed in one setting. No save/quit abusing! Only Solo Mythic rules apply here (Legendary, all skulls active, FFA scoring).
5) If you die, you must exit and reload the mission. This generates a ‘clean’ carnage report for the film.
6) Only one submission is allowed per person, per challenge.
7) You must submit your entry during the seven-day contest time period.

This contest begins 12:00 AM Pacific Time on Friday, 2/3/2012, and lasts for seven days. This gives you all day Friday, an entire weekend, plus four additional weekdays to complete the mission. The winner will be notified the following weekend.

To help you out, there are a few tools to help boost your stamina and get you on your Mythic feet. Aside from Tyrant’s HBO Mythic guide and the massive Mythic Difficulty thread on Bungie.net, you can find other videos of Mythic and LASO runs on my website www.mythictyrant.com. Keep in mind we’re not judging you for time or score, so if you’d rather hang back and shoot your way through, that’s perfectly fine as well. Just worry about getting to the finish line. That by itself is an accomplishment you should be proud to have under your belt!

From Teh Spearhead:

“David Attenborough” returns to give you another informative look on the Brutes, otherwise known as the Jiralhanae. See? We’re educating you already!

The Lives of the Brutes – A Halo 3 Machinima

Author: Nikku 1805

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