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Savior

Savior

Kept 6 miners alive at the elevator in Evacuation on Heroic difficulty.

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How to unlock the Savior achievement in Halo 5: Guardians - Definitive Guide

Mission: Evacuation
About halfway through when you run out of room to drive your vehicle you will get the first opportunity to start saving miners and must keep at least 6 alive until you clear the elevator of the first wave, hope this help!

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28 Oct 2015 04:27

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We had to go slow through each door to get the guys to actually come with us
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By Failure Online on 04 Nov 2015 07:49
Yeah wait until all the marines go through the door to enter
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By CU Aquaman on 08 Nov 2015 22:15
FLYxBOII, you should put the information about getting additional miners in your solution. I didn't have 6 or more left after the initial battle so I restarted the first section with miners 3 or 4 times until I read the comments here and finally kept going when I only had 4 miners but the additional ones gave me 8 going into the elevator and got the achievement.
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By aka Kryptonian on 01 Dec 2015 11:06
https://account.xbox.com/en-us/gameclip/76c20de8-3244-45bb-b...

Anyone else have this problem? I've searched the whole area and can't find any other enemies.
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By JezyJezyJezy on 12 Dec 2015 16:57
You can take the Warthogs in also all the way into the elevator for the final 3 fights,did this today in 14 mins
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By PlanetNoobies on 25 Jul 2016 10:46
Nice guide thanks man
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By ZiMba 4 LiFE II on 08 Feb 2017 03:36
Did this on co-op today, it it didn’t pop. Is there something I missed?
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By BMICKY4201 on 05 Jan 2020 03:13
Did this on co-op today, it it didn’t pop. Is there something I missed?
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By BMICKY4201 on 05 Jan 2020 03:27
I think there is a random factor in spawning miners because I made a hard save right when I drove up to the crashed Pelican. First attempt: 7 survived to enter the elevator (and 2 died inside). Second attempt: 4 miners. Third attempt: 17 miners!

EDIT: A few days later and I'm convinced there's a BS random factor. I did a score attack run on Heroic with Thunderstorm and Catch skulls. I took my time to max my score and still 10 miners entered the elevator with me. I completely ignored them but by the time the pulse wave killed them all at the top, there were 8 left.

So long story short, I don't think anything before the crashed Pelican matters. Make a hard save there then replay the skirmish until you end up with 8+ miners entering the elevator.
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By Gilbert Prime on 13 Nov 2021 02:11
Great guide! Also worth mentioning that once the large doors open you ALWAYS get an addition of 4 miners to the ones you saved in the last area. Therefore the minimum number of miners you can save in the main fight area is 2 :)
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By iAlecP on 29 Oct 2015 09:57
Did not notice that, thanks for pointing that out!
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By PapaSmerf on 29 Oct 2015 11:45
Keep the mongoose at the beginning of the stage, and ramp it over the debris before the first miner encounter. Makes the level so much easier, and you can take it with you on the elevator.
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By Senseless Ogre on 31 Oct 2015 22:11
Thanks for the solution. Reading this, totally thought you'd have to keep them alive through the whole elevator scene.
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By WhoIsJohn117 on 02 Nov 2015 03:14
I had thought that at first and was surprised when I received it after the first wave, makes it much easier!
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By PapaSmerf on 02 Nov 2015 03:32
Make sure enough walk through the last door. I saved 10, but only 4 went through the door. The door closes after you go through and cuts of the miners.
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By adrenilinn on 08 Oct 2021 18:36
Six miners made it to the very end of the elevator segment (the escape portion), but the achievement never popped. Is this buggy? Three were in a warthog, if that makes a difference.

Edit: I got the achievement on my next playthrough, but I can't tell what triggered it. I did too many things differently. First playthrough: score attack on, six miners in elevator, some in warthog. Second playthrough: score attack off, ten miners, none in warthog.
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By mikachu93 on 10 Mar 2024 21:28
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I'm not a fan of posting others' guides (then again this is the first time I post a solution), but after noticing that the only other solution for this achievement can result in frustrating trial and error, I had to share this. With this method by Life Expectancy, I managed to have 15 miners by the time I entered the elevator and could afford to have many of them die with no consequence to my achievement.


To add to what Life Expectancy does in the video, I found that a good way to get two miners in your Warthog(which he had trouble with) was to simply command your Spartans to go somewhere far away. The miners follow you around, but they do not follow your orders, so while the Spartans are away, you can get the miners to cooperate without the Spartans getting in the way.

Another thing: Try to rush the Phaetons while leaving the miners behind as far as possible, for obvious reasons. After crossing the bridge, particularly, you can go around to your right and wait for all of them to follow you to be kept safe. Once done, you can peek out and shoot that spot's Phaeton from a safe place. If the miners go out into the wild again, just rinse and repeat.

EDIT: I was playing through the level again, going for the skull, and decided to take this screenshot. This was on an Easy playthrough, but the point is to give you a visual of the large number of miners you can save. If you're like me, you probably didn't know you could save so many at first.

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17 Jan 2016 21:18

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The first six minutes of the video are a complete waste of time. The moment after Locke orders Osiris to clear the area, the two miners that you tried so hard to take with you in the Warthog despawn. There's a reset that brings any late Spartans past the wall and removes the extra NPCs. I ignored the Phaetons in my successful run as well. Just make a hard save at the crashed Pelican and replay the skirmish until you get enough miners entering the elevator with you. Also there must be a random factor that spawns more miners. First attempt: 7 miners survived to enter the elevator (and 2 died inside). Second attempt: 4 miners. Third attempt: 17 miners! There was nothing substantially different in my tactics in all three tries.
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By Gilbert Prime on 12 Nov 2021 19:56
Did this solo and this method does work when I did this few months ago.. u just have to trick the miners into the warthog with the Spartans either far away or purposely knocked out/busy reviving, if u drove slowly to have them catch up & were able to get both warthogs into the elevator then that's better, vehicles just tend to disappear if u move too quickly ahead coz of the loading points.

Problem with co-op is more enemies would appear. If you're still having issues, watch some of the speed run videos at https://haloruns.com/records?lb=0805 coz they have all the enemy spawn points memorized to prevent too many miners dying
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By DolphinChic03 on 29 Jun 2018 01:00
I found this guide to be the best method - definitely take out those Phaetons and pick up the miners after the bridge and get them in your warthog. You can easily have 6 miners with you by the time you have to ditch your vehicles. At the fight, send your team mates to mount the turrets and jump into the fray (or vice versa), definitely take out those snipers.

I couldn't make it past that big fight with more than 6 miners so restarted about five times until I realized that you can pick up 6-8 more soldiers between the two doors while Governor Sloan chats.

This is easily done in about five minutes once you know these few things.
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By adraedin on 22 Jan 2016 03:18
This achievement is co-op only. It is not for solo mode.
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By on 17 Mar 2016 23:17
No miners can be saved on Heroic difficulty.
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By on 17 Mar 2016 23:18
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Both of the above guides are great and helped me get all they way to the elevator (especially that part about killing the Phaetons) BUT I have one small addition.

Once I made it to the large door after the courtyard with the auto turrets from earlier, I had about 14 miners. I noticed that if I blitzed through the door and right to the elevator, many of them never made it inside, diminishing my numbers. The same thing happened at the large door to the elevator. All I had to do was stand near both doors and wait for as many miners to come through as possible and I had 12 for the elevator fight!

Just a little help if you notice you're saving a lot of miners and they aren't making it through.

Happy hunting!
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21 Jan 2016 01:40

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I would also like to add a very small tip, if doing solo in the very beginning have 2 Spartans get into the other warthog if you following the above guide's you will actually end up with 2 miners in yours warthogs, I managed to keep 12 miners alive and it was really easy.
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By zZombieCat on 16 Jun 2020 15:38
To add to the above solutions, when you make it to the top of the ramp after killing all the enemies leading up to the elevator, MAKE SURE ALL THE MINERS YOU SAVED MAKE IT THROUGH THE DOOR! I had to redo this because the miners were taking their time moving into the room and the door shut the majority of them out, thus negating the achievement. Also, make sure the miners you save actually exit that room and go into the elevator room too or else the door will shut them out there as well.
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Important tip.

I was able to save just 3 out of 6 miners in the first shooting section after the driving section.
I still got the achievement, because when you wait for the miners to enter the base, at the next door where you get a dialogue you automaticly get 4 miners by default standing at the door and a cheekpoint.
So the math is simple: i saved 3 miners within the first section + 4 miners waiting at the door = 7 miners total, wich i had to keep alive during the elevator section after the door opens.

Tips: *Before you enter the base, detach a tourret or a rochet launcher from the upper left or right side, so that you can fight the enemies at the elevator a little bit easier.
*Also make a savepoint after the ckeepoint where you wait for the door to open with all the miners, so that you can retry if one or more miners dies.
*I dindnt get a pop-up for the achievement, but i saw it at "recent unlocked".

I made a screenshot, 3+4miners and also the point when you should save the game:
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07 Aug 2020 23:02

This achievement must be done on the Heroic difficulty level or higher. It can be done entirely solo, though it's recommended to try this with one or more Co-Op partners.

About halfway into this mission, you will be be forced out of your vehicle and tasked with securing the grounds outside the space elevator facility. In this area, there are about 15+ miners under fire from dozens and dozens of Promethean Crawlers and Soldiers. Using whatever firearms that are at your current disposal, you'll need to work quickly - very quickly - in taking out the enemy forces.

The miners will be indicated with blue triangular icons above their persons as a means of keeping track of their positions. The squadron of miners are scattered all around the facility grounds, so push through with force, marking targets for your fireteam, and focusing on the Watchers and Crawlers before moving onto the Soldiers. Once the facility grounds have been cleared, count up how many miners survived the skirmish. If 6+ are still alive and well, pause your game and create a manual save! Allow the miners to enter the facility once its doors open, then move in behind them. If you move in first, the door will close behind you and lock out some of the miners!

Now that you're inside the space elevator facility, you'll need to protect them for one last firefight. After Sloan finishes his speech and the elevator's doors begin to open, stay at a distance and mark the Watchers roaming inside the elevator platform. Once the Miners begin to enter the platform and open fire on the enemies within, rush in behind them and eliminate the Prometheans on the left and right sides of the room. If you manage to clear out the platform with six or more miners still alive, the achievement will unlock. If you failed the task, reload your previously created checkpoint and try clearing out the elevator platform once more.

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