Halo 4

Worked perfect. +1

Worked a treat, thanks!!

works! and i did NOT use "find a game" either just in case anyone wants to know

Exactly how I did it.

Did it solo at heroic loosing only one generator. I died like 30 times but still got the achievement.

Worked like a charm thanks

Thanks for all the positive feedback. Glad to hear that people are able to get it done.

Currently on normal solo and nothing is spawning,im at the 3rd orange button

Thumbs up from me. This solution did work solo Heroic though it didn' t pop until I'd killed the very last enemy.

I had previously completed it on both Legendary and Normal without it popping. I can't be certain whether I did save one of the generators but I almost certainly did make a dash for the final activation button previously. That seems to be the crucial difference. An incredibly misworded achievement. Thanks for the solution. Game completed :-)

Btw a very tricky episode. 158 kills, 46 deaths :-( and I consider myself a moderate to reasonable player. But an achievement is an achievement, especially if it completes the game.

Took me 48 minutes to complete on Heroic Solo and cheevo popped just before last Promethian was slain. Just when you think you've had enough, another wave spawns. You will know when no more waves will spawn when the achievement pops, FYI. Thanks for the tip!

I just managed to get this one. I think the trick is to slain the two knights who spawn on the higher platforms asap, otherwise you will get an unlimited number of waves. My chievo popped when I took out the last of the two on the higher platform and there were still other enemies below. Hope this helps.

Fantastic method. I was able to get it in about 10 minutes using myself and one of my friends. Thanks a bunch!

Got this on Co-op, Heroic.

One generator was destroyed, and we died.

We just didn't hit the orange button and just kept killing until it popped
Took a few rounds of killing enemies for it to unlock.

I love when I follow a guide exactly and it doesn't work =(

I'm sorry that this didn't work for you silence. Make sure you're playing on heroic or legendary and that at least 1 generator survives. After that just keep killing wave after wave of enemies and make sure you DO NOT PUSH THE ORANGE BUTTON which makes them stop attacking you. It will pop and you can die as many times as you'd like. I've done this on 3 different profiles and have had 7 friends and countless strangers confirm that it works. Good luck my friend.

It works mission took exactly 1 hour which is a bit to much of a conicidence

Works perfectly, but goddamn, this mission is an awful pile of shit. 156 kills and 25 fucking deaths. Incredibly frustrating! I recommend people use a plasma pistol as their secondary to quickly wipe out the Knights' shields and then use a precision weapon to quickly take them out.

161 kills and 77 deaths later.. whatever, it's done. Thanks go out to everybody, this one really took a village!

153 kills and 40 deaths, but I got the achievement, thanks for the solution!

Just found this solution, and implemented it. I think the trick is to make sure you kill the two Knights that spawn on top with the launchers or the rest will keep coming. Took about 20, 30 min to do. Thanks for the tips

Oh, I was 143-25 when it popped

Did it on Heroic. Died once and achievement popped in matter of 10 minutes. Thank you :D

I followed your instructions but the achievement never popped on multiple tries until today. The difference was how I killed the last Knight at the top of the tower.

I did this on solo, heroic, with one generator left standing. After I wiped out the first wave of Prometheans, there are two black Knights with Incineration Cannons at the top of the tower. I blew away one of them with a rocket launcher but the other knight got me with his cannon. A new army of Prometheans respawn when only one of the black Knights are left on the battlefield. I defeated my second wave of Prometheans (black Knight w/cannon still alive) but no achievement popped. On my third wave of Prometheans, I defeated every single Promethean except for one watcher and the black Knight with the cannon on the top of the tower. I turned on my camo, snuck up behind him and assassinated him. The achievement popped even with the watcher alive.

This is one of the glitchiest achievements in Halo 4. If the achievement hasn't popped after following this solution, I recommend wiping out all the Prometheans except a watcher, then going after that last knight at the top of the tower. If you kill the last black Knight in the middle of battle, he does respawn at the middle section of the tower and will call in a new army of Prometheans if left as the last man standing.

Took 40 minutes with countless deaths. I forgot my killcount though.

164 kills, 46 deaths on heroic! Thank you!

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but take advantage of the turrets on the sides of the structure. This didn't seem very difficult at all for me (143 kills, 19 deaths, 21 minutes).

Just DO NOT detach the turrets and go to town on the promethians (kill the flying things first obviously).

Did on heroic solo.

Seems like this has been patched. I've tried it a couple times solo now and I keep failing it. I guess you really have to do this with some other people

Just played this 9/1/13 and my coop partner and I died A LOT and we lost both generators, but we killed every wave, after wave and did NOT hit the orange button up inside the building and we got it.

I just gave up thinking I had missed it, and apparently I didn't wait long enough!!!!!

Worked great!!! Played solo on Heroic. I died over 50 times with one generator destroyed and the other down to 60% before it gave me the final item to activate (which I did not hit). Continued clearing wave after wave of everything and when the last enemy was killed, I got the achievement. This is still obtainable as of 2/5/14

Ah, thanks. No wonder I failed at normal.

I need two players for professional and I'm not good at shooter and my friend and i need this achy with legendary.

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For reference:

Solo
Heroic
143 kills, 57 deaths

Seemed to pop once I got down to the last flying thingy in the last wave. Took roughly a half hour.

Oh and both generators destroyed. So basically just set it at heroic and keep on shooting. It'll pop..

I did it on Heroic and nothing popped for me...

Alright. I had a lot of trouble with this but I finally did it.

To start with, if you fail to defend at least one generator, and they both get destroyed, the mission fails and you will have to start from the beginning. All the people saying they did it with no generators are lying. Either that or it works differently in co-op.

Now when you're actually defending the generators, the first couple waves are easy. They're mainly comprised of Crawlers with only a few Knights, and they don't attack the generators too much.

The third or fourth wave is when it gets really hectic. I think there's 8 or 9 Knight spawns all at once and at least a handful of Watchers. I failed on this wave twice, the second time I was at 112-3! Even with only three deaths (and I think only one was at the defense part) the enemies still went bat shit crazy on the generators and failed me.

The wave after that is even worse. There's so many Knights I couldn't even guess the actual number because they were killing me so quickly. Luckily, I got the objective to press the button about halfway through with my last generator at about 20%.

My strategy was to put the Health Regeneration armor ability on my class. I set up on the turret on the rightmost path (if your back is towards the area you spawned. This gives you a good view of both generators and enemies won't spawn right on top of you like they do the turret on the left path. Whenever you lose your shield, quickly jump off the turret and activate your Health Regeneration bubble. This will heal you and allow you to keep mowing down enemies with the turret.

The most unfortunate thing that can happen during these attempts is the Knights throw a grenade at your turret and knock it off. If that happens you can try to go on foot and take out the enemies that are directly shooting the generators but you'll probably have to restart.

Once the objective came up to press the button I fought 4 or 5 large waves of enemies (died a ton of times) and finally got the achievement after killing the last Knight.

Still works
08 October 2014

Completely glitched for me, all difficulties and nothing.

Just got it, I had to do it with another player in a random game for it to pop.

Just did it solo, on Heroic, losing one generator.
170 kills, 31 deaths, 32 minutes.

Solo, Heroic, lost one generator. Key is definitely killing both knights up top or it is endless waves of enemies

This is old but just to clarify a few things. First, they're "sensors" not "generators". Also I let both sensors get destroyed and still got the achievement but it took to like wave 6. I also made sure I killed everything but one knight and the achievement popped. Not sure if they had anything to do with it but I had read that elsewhere. Worth a shot.

Old thread but why doesn't it work on Nornal? Description says Normal or harder? God dammit 343.

I just got achievement and can confirm that a Knight doesn’t have to be the last enemy. I accidentally killed the last knight with a watcher floating around and still got the achievement.

Did it solo Heroic, 155 kills, 24 deaths, lost BOTH generators and still got the achievement.

If somebody wants to do this you can add me on Xbox. Just to make it easier.

Can anyone tell me what to do in this situation?
lightsup55 playing Halo 4

Used the WRITTEN guide above. Video not helpful. Guide is right they do seem endless But once you finish all the waves without pressing the button underneath the ramp the achievement popped. died multiple times on Solo. Used never every weapon in the case

Please note: the flying promethians should be considered highest priority get them taken out first each round they spawn so they do not revive or shield other promenthians. Most confusing achievement ever!

Great guide, it still works: you have to play it heroic

Guide still works, done solo. Thanks!

Cheevo description says” normal or harder “ but you say normal doesn’t work, nice !
Let’s try in Heroic then…..

Just completed this solo on Heroic and no achievement. Sick

1h and 3 minutes to kill 141 and die 113 times, that was terrible to do it alone.

If you're confused, press the 2 buttons to start the analysis, then protect the towers the best you can (I lost one), then don't go to press the button (that would end the mission too soon). Continue to kill enemies wave after wave and you'll get the achievement.

I tried to combo Crimson Alone & this achievement and it didn't work. I got Crimson Alone but not this achievement.

Got it. Play on hard and wait it out. It should pop once you kill all the enemies. I even killed the ones next to the orange switch.

Just got it playing solo on heroic 07/01/22

Got it on my 2nd attempt on heroic due to pushing the orange button too early. On my 2nd attempt, after I finished off the 3rd wave while the ‘activate’ prompt is on screen my achievement popped.


PS: Doesn’t matter how much you die and don’t lose both satellites

Short and sweet solution. I like it. As long as you don't fail the mission, meaning you defended at least one of the power nodes. and get to the point where it's time to press button number three... Keep fighting (don't take the "easy way out" by pressing the button and thus opening the portal). I just did it solo, as while it's pain (and I died a LOT), it popped when I was down to my last Knight. Just get to know where all the weapon crates are and you'll do fine.

They hot fixed the dying i believe because i only lost one of the objectives and i cleared more than 5 waves before i hit the third button and it never gave it to me.

zane - as of now there still has been not fix added to the dying. I just played solo today and unlocked it after many many deaths. make sure you have it on Heroic as the solutions mention. If on normal, it will not unlock.

This still works as of June 26, 2013. It just popped for me. Thanks.

You're welcome.

I died A LOT, solo, heroic - no achievement...

Try again.

I died a lot, solo on normal - no achievement.

I can confirm this still works as of January 8th, 2016.

Can anyone tell me what to do in this situation?
lightsup55 playing Halo 4

God bless you.. Still works 13/01/21

No achievement on normal solo, died 22 times, 152 kills. So this achievement is clearly buggy or not clear on what counts as "survive".

Still works 2021. I lost 1 satallite and died bunch of times. It was on Heroic.