Halo 5: Guardians

Can this be done in co-op? I don't see why it couldn't be?

Yes it can be done in co-op

Confirmed. 30-10-2015 (16:07pm-GMT) still works for now i assume a paych will be released

Everyone needs to do this achievement and try and do the mission co-op on Heroic before its patched! Saves like an hour of trying to kill them! Wish I knew this a day earlier after I did legendary run

Does this have to be done in one sitting or can you carry on from a save at another time? In otherwords does loading a checkpoint prevent you getting this achievement?

I can confirm that if you don't manage to make the jump on your first attempt, you can resume from the last checkpoint (which is just outside) and still get the achievement.

I got across with A - wait - hold LT - B - hold RB - A. Similar to the way you get to the Mythic skull, but adding in the RB.

done it solo. just reload checkpoint a while before everyone die. thanks for glitch video

Senseless Ogre's suggestion of boosting off the man cannon and ground pounding worked great for me! First time. Thanks.

Many Thanks to WOW DYLAN ! He helped me get this and it took a few seconds.

Brilliant! Made the end of a tricky level that bit easier. Stills works as of 2/11/15.

still works, had to restart checkpoint a few times as i went down and rest of team already down (did this manually rather than being forced too).. and still popped at end.

the skip last 3 wardens is class.. should make legendary solo a piece of piss

Thanks for this. A huge tip which helped me was a comment on the YouTube page - Go to the other tower; it's taller so much easier to make that last jump

Just wanted to add I did this on co-op and I very quickly reloaded last checkpoint when all team members went down before the game forced the reload and I still got the achievement.

Confirming 2 things;
1: You can reload from checkpoint in game, several times, and still get the achievement (I did reload before I bled out though)
2: Boosting then ground pounding straight from the man cannon is easiest, don't bother landing on the pillar!

Thanks for the guide. I did it by using the jump pad, then boosting and ground pounding. No need to land on the pillar. Also, the achiev only pops when you start the next mission after the cutscene, so don't freakout if it doesn't pop right away.

Highly suggest adding the "boost off the man cannon" method to the solution. I suck at the part after you land on the pillar. The man cannon boost got it for me 3rd try though. +1 either way. Don't think I could have solo'd the wardens without a lot of death-rage-retry -repeat

Took a few attempts on the jump .... (more then a few!) But worked a charm! Also we all went down but if you quickly reload the last checkpoint it still counts

Interesting enough I did this on Solo Legendary today. Save a checkpoint prior to the End fight against the three Wardens but the achievement won't unlock. The entire fire team is still alive when I land on the platform and trigger the check point. Not why it won't pop. I'll try again tomorrow with a clean load of the mission and try again.

THX you can't have a game over auto reload or let all 3 be dead when hitting a checkpoint.

Thanks DURDENS WRAITH. I am starting fresh again today and will post my result.

Can confirm as of 11-12-15 this still works

Thanks DURDENS WRAITH. I am starting fresh again today and will post my result.

You can restart at checkpoint if you die.

Success! Still works. Solo and Co-Op as of 11-15-15. Thanks BURDENS WRAITH!

Yes still works, don't lose your time to kill them

Still works as of 11/18 update.

Still working today, makes this achievement a doddle. Quickly restarting from last checkpoint if you die/get incinerated works. Thanks :-)

Still works as of 12/4/15

Still works as of 12/25/15

Still works 1/13/16

Yup I just got it too... Skipping the last battle makes this pretty easy.

Still works as of 23/02/16

Easy enough reloading checkpoints and doing the skip at the end :)

Still works 29th of Arpil 2016

Still works as of 17th of May 2016. Was a real pain to pull off, but it worked. Also, if it does not pop right away when the cutscene starts, skip it to start Mission 15 and it should pop.

I'm going to assume that if you make it a checkpoint, save that checkpoint, and then every one dies but you reload that manual save then you're still in?

Did it! Skip still works. And yes, you can save a checkpoint, fail, and then exit and load that checkpoint. The game will see it as one complete run with no deaths

Can reloading a checkpoint null the achievement, cause so far I've thought I was doing really good with the occasional reloading when I get downed and AI are nowhere near me or retrying the skip and failing. Or does getting downed also null the achievement even if you get picked back up?

great find!

I finished the mission two times together with my friend (7-2-2016): he never died, but We didn't get the achievement. I only reloaded the last checkpoint one or two times during the mission.

Just remember you can't just revert to the last checkpoint, you have to leave then load up your saved checkpoint. :)

OK, thank You. And what about playing with a friend? Can I reload a manual save while I'm playing Coop mode? last question: can I die and respawn near my friend after few seconds (if He is still alive)?

as long as one of you stays alive, you can respawn as many times as you'd like, you just cannot die all at once.

Avoid using the 'Restart from Last Checkpoint' menu item if you get instakilled, e.g. by a beam rifle, Warden blast, incinerator cannon shot.

You'll have to go back to the main menu and load a manual save to carry on with the achievement.

I finished this Level twice, no skulls, no score attack. Whenever I got killed I reloaded from the Main Menu, not "Restart from last checkpoint". Still no achievement - I have no clue why. Are you really sure that:
a) The Warden Bossfight skipping method is still legit?
b) The "Loading" Option from the main menu works for this achievement?

24/07/2016, Solo/Co-Op: any use of the "Restart from Last Checkpoint" WILL VOID the achievement, it doesn't matter if you just get downed, DO NOT USE IT IN ANY CASE. Reload the save from the main menu.
I've just did it after skipping the Wardens fight, so you can still make it with the glitch.

Still works 2nd of January 2017

I just did this and still didn't unlock the achievement. What the heck is going on??? I had no skulls on, died once in the beginning of the mission, and my teammates were still alive when I ran to the end.

Silly question, but could I just keep sending the AI to kill all enemies and at the end skip the boss fight and get the achievement ?

Not on Legendary. The AI gets wrecked.

So AI can die but not me ? Might send them forward and I pick them of afar with less risk of death

So AI can die but not me ? Might send them forward and I pick them of afar with less risk of death

Yeah pick them off from afar and send your squad in for tactical 3 v 1 kills so you don't have to risk it and then call them back. Beware the shotgun soldiers that charge you in a few areas like when you first see auto turrets spawn

After many attempts at skipping the fight i finally got it to work

Solo, didn't use "Restart from Last Checkpoint" in-game, only manual saves.
Left game then loaded a save (not "Resume") whenever I got disintegrated.
Still works as of now, including the boss skip at the end!
If anyone's interested in not skipping the boss...it worked out alright one time when every AI ally had an incineration cannon. First Warden went down pretty fast, but maybe this is a massive fluke.

I did everything right, and the achievement still wouldn’t pop. Must be a bug. So fucking annoying. :/

Still works 11-4-17

Yup! still works. Just got it.

I still do not understand what I have to do. Do I have to go through the mission without dying? It is?

You cannot die, you can go down but if you die you need to start the mission over. The trick is if you do die or get incinerated you need to quit out BEFORE the game over screen shows up.

The second trick is skipping the warden fight at the end of the level

Thanks!

Thanks, I can confirm this still works as of 28 March 2018

Still works - Boost off the Main Cannon - so much easier!!!

As of 16 May. This still works.

Its easier to boost off either Cannon at an angle, then boost towards the ledge, then ground pound.

Skipping the boss fight still works as of 26th June

Didn't get the achievement though as didn't realise couldn't load last save - so may be worth adding to the guide, as there may be others like me who didn't read all the comments first,

Still a thumbs up for the skip video though :)

Although next time i'll try from the man cannon if that is apparently easier.

Also, I got downed as soon as I landed on the platform - the AI managed to glitch up and revive me :)

metallicafan459 playing Halo 5: Guardians

That's odd I reloaded last save quite a few times during the campaign but I did it before I got killed.

Metallica fan did you reload last save after getting killed?

I would like to point out that it still works as of 8/14/2018

I completed it solo and the achievement didn't unlock for some reason, so I completed the co-op achievements with a friend and had him run along with me on it as it was the last I needed. It worked the second time. I remember going down once in solo, but was pretty much instantly revived so I kept playing. The second run I sat back with a precision weapon and picked off high priority targets while he ran around cleaning house. Needless to say, making sure I didn't go down granted us both the achievement. Apparently you can't go down either, unless it was a bug. (I did load the last save once or twice as well, to avoid going down when I was about to get hit with an incineration cannon shot. That may have been the reason too.)

Just got this today (finally) co-op with 2 people. My mate just hung back and I went in with the AI and died lots - didn’t load any saves and used the skip warden glitch :)

if anyone is still looking to do this send me a message last one i need for this game. happy to be the camper who survives or the person who goes in and dies a lot. Cant seem to do it in solo.

i can confirm as of 4/7/19 that it still works

thx

Thanks for the info! Confirmed working on June 28, 2019.

Thanks also. Confirmed working July 18 2019. Also not sure if it was stated but I can confirm that you are allowed to get downed so long as you get back up with restarting.

Can confirm exploit works as of 12/26/19. IMPORTANT NOTES THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN MENTIONED:

1. This CAN be done on score attack.
2. Even if your team is all dead and the game is about to reload, by leaving the game before it reverts to prior checkpoint, you negate the game from counting your death. Resuming doesn't add your death onto the final counter. (Just like how you can subvert the Iron Skull in Halo MCC for LASO)

The trick still works on 2020

The advice about boosting off the cannon at an angle and ground pounding is spot on. I couldn’t get the main strategy to work for like thirty minutes. That one worked first try.

Jeez I was wondering why the achievement wouldn't pop. Should be noted in the guide that you can't reload your checkpoint and you have to leave the game and reload from the main menu. I had to do this 3 times. If I didn't read the comments I never would have known that. I did it in score attack fyi. I got one shotted by snipers and still managed to quit out before the death animation finished, reload the save from the menu, and carry on.

You can reload a checkpoint but you have to exit the mission back to the main menu. You can not reload from the pause menu or die.

At least, that's how it worked for me when I did it in 2015.

The solution works perfectly and the video works also in 2020. Just got it done thank you.

I wasn't trying to get this achievement on my solo Legendary run. I had to revert last checkpoint so many times, but the 3 Warden boss fight was the quickest and easiest of the whole mission. No one one died on that part. I went in with the whole team having incineration cannons and binary rifles and took out the 3 Wardens within maybe 3 minutes.

So we found out yesterday that the right hand (as you enter the arena) pillar is significantly higher than the left, making the exploit infinitely easier.

Still works May 2021

Sweet @Fonslayer. I was wondering if it was still active. Just a few achievements to mop up before the next one!

Solution works. However the right side works much better since it's taller. I couldn't get it on the left for some reason. Got it first try though on the right.

I swear the human AI is Halo CE level stupid in this game. Getting them to not moronically position themselves in the line of fire is the hardest part of this achievement. At times they would just stand around while Crawlers circled them shooting. I kept sending them as far to the rear as possible and resending them when they got back.

Well thanks walkthrough, that says you can just reload the checkpoint, but both these guides says you can't.

So that's a wasted run. I even beat the 3 Wardens, guess I'll try this skip trick this next time. OK, tried again, made sure never to reload checkpoint, and popped just fine.

EarthboundX, was the problem with my guide, or the main walk-through?

Nah, nothing wrong with your guide. I meant the main walkthrough, it says you can just restart from checkpoints normally. I had just been following the walkthrough and not opening single solutions, so I had to do the level over.

Could you restart from checkpoints for this achievement at one point? So maybe the main walkthrough was written before that, and was never updated?

Yes, at the beginning you could. As long as you did it yourself and not the game killing you

@Gilbert Prime There is a reason why co-op exists

The warden skip still works as of 29th January 2022.

Warden Skips still works July 2022.

Can i send ai to fight and die and still get this

Warden skip still works as of April 2023. Assuming at this point it won't be patched.

Got a discord group going for anything halo 5 co op campaign and mp related. join up so we can have a little community going for anyone who needs help.

https://discord.gg/5UBSbzGc

Warden skip still works (June 2023) - Make sure you wait for any AI to spawn back in before proceeding, seems obvious but thought I'd mention it

This skipping the bosses at the end glitch still works 9/10/23

It does not work

Worked for me, March 2024. Thank you.

Worked for me, April 21, 2024 using the following method. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUXW-EW0FGI

Watch the video, but instead of landing on the pillar, just boost and ground pound in midair. Its wayyyyyyyyy more efficient.

Just got this in 4 player co-op. It took 20mins.
Manual checkpoint save after each firefight.
Ending Game if you wipe and Loading from that save before the wipe doesn't void the achievement. I had to reload a few times on the last bit.

Looks like this option has been removed. Can anyone confirm?

Still works 22nd March 2016, I'm guessing they didn' patch it cos only the most talented gamers can do it solo on legendary, the AI die after 20 seconds and me not long after, then launch ramp, boost, ground pound and fuck you Wardens!

i was just about to comment how stupid this is and that i've been doing everything right.

well it turns out, i wasnt. just as ShockWaveZ mentioned, you cannot just revert a checkpoint, you must reload your saved one and continue off it. you cannot revert throughout the entire mission, just keep manually saving and keep reloading it.

i finally got the achievement. 800/1250 to finish off the free play, i'm content with that. i highly enjoyed this campaign.

Here's exactly how I got it. If you follow this, you should get it too.
1) Select Legendary - Solo - Mission 14 (Make sure you play from beginning to end)
2) No Skulls or anything else active.
3) Save Checkpoint every time it says "Checkpoint Reached".
4) If you go down or die, quickly pause and Leave Game. (You may be able to go down and get revived by the AI but I didn't take that risk and quit out as soon as it happened)
5) When loading back up the game, go to Solo. Then select Load Game, and pick your last Save you made.
6) Don't worry about the AI. If they die, let them die. As long as you do not go down, you're fine.
7) Once you reach the end, do the glitch. It takes a bit of practice and timing and if you die, do what you're supposed to do.
8) The achievement will pop after the cutscene and if it's your first time playing the level, it will pop after the level related achievement unlocks.

It's quite frustrating having to constantly quit out and load your game, but it gets the job done.

DO NOT allow the game time to automatically reload checkpoint (if it does that)
DO NOT allow the game to give you a game over
DO NOT restart checkpoint. Always select Load from the menu and pick last save.

You can't die at all during the entire mission. Hope this clears up a few comments.

Misleading guide made it not work. Description really needs updating so it says you have to quit out...

My friend and I just got it today, you can't reload from checkpoint even if no one has died. We were reloading the checkpoint after missing the jump and that invalidated the achievement. The achievement only popped once we tried with a perfect jump attempt from the Warden checkpoint.

I did this in co-op (which really should be how this achievement should be obtained anyways), and of course, I picked Fred because not only is he my favorite character, but his loadout is quite useful (starting with a DMR means you can headshot up to 81 Crawlers, and the extra starting grenade really helps). This is simply what I did: fall back to a safe spot if all three of my team members were down and wait until they all respawned. As for the Warden boss fight, I have managed it on Heroic or Legendary without any skips, but for this achievement, I needed to skip the boss fight.

Extra challenge: Try to get this achievement without anyone dying.

Can confirm still works. Thanks for the tip.

Just completed this this afternoon. I was killed once by a Binary Rifle and used this trick, so I can confirm that it still works.

I would suggest taking your time and ordering your AI to help kill units and pull them back if they start getting hurt too much.

Pressing reload last checkpoint invalidates the achievement, even if no one dies.

My friend and I just got it today with the Warden skip trick. We were reloading the checkpoint after missing the jump and that invalidated the achievement. The achievement only popped once we tried with a perfect jump attempt from the Warden checkpoint.