Halo 5: Guardians
73 Achievements
1,250
44-56h
Savior
Kept 6 miners alive at the elevator in Evacuation on Heroic difficulty.
10
0.53%
How to unlock the Savior achievement in Halo 5: Guardians - Definitive Guide
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!
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.
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
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!
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:
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.