Halo: Spartan Assault

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Pension Plan

Pension Plan

Earn 25000 XP throughout your career

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How to unlock the Pension Plan achievement in Halo: Spartan Assault - Definitive Guide

Use the first level (A-1) and turn on the Hollow and Black Eye skulls. This will give you a 4.5x multiplier, meaning you get 900 XP if you get gold and 450 XP if you get silver.

I got gold about 2/3 of the time without even trying. With menu and load time, it's almost 2 minutes per round, putting you at 25k in no time.

The Hollow skull means you only have a shield, so you can't go too crazy. Even then, I only died 3-4 times in 40-50 runs through the level. If you really wanted you could try to get your shield back my using melee (that's what Black Eye does), but that will probably cause more deaths than it saves since you get shot pretty quick.

Good tip in a comment from Darkened Night. If you do end up with low shields, you have a Regeneration Field as your AA. I had actually forgotten all about that while I was playing.
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24 Dec 2013 07:54

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The first level starts you off with a Regeneration Field, you can use that to recharge your shields if you find yourself taking a lot of damage.

Thank you for the solution, I thought about using skulls and never thought about using the first level.
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By Yin on 24 Dec 2013 16:18
Just a note, Hollow and Pacifist together give you a 5x multiplier, but it's very easy to die if you keep shooting.
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By Vestride on 24 Dec 2013 22:14
Darkened Night - Good tip, I actually forgot all about the regen field. I'll add a note.

Vestride - I learned the same lesson very quickly. Much better to take the 4.5x option with a way higher chance of finishing the mission.
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By AL1 on 25 Dec 2013 00:40
Also it seems like XP is carried over between different versions of the game? I had played it a bit already on Windows Phone and it looks like my progress transferred. I don't know if this will automatically pop for people who got 25k XP elsewhere already.
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By Fadi kun on 25 Dec 2013 18:22
If your actively trying to 1k this game you will get 25k with out even trying, im on operation C-3 and have 17k already since im doing assault ops as I go, each assault op gives you 100-550 XP and you still get level completion XP.

Should not be something you need to actively farm.
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By Prometheus Nyx on 29 Dec 2013 14:35
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D5C89A67EB9C26AB!....mp4

Video showing the fastest way through the level. Switch to pistol at the beginning, use grenades for elites, and drop your shield regen where shown since you have time to stand still (shouldn't need it anyway).
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By GrumpySnyper on 02 Apr 2014 18:25
As Prometheus Nyx said, the majority of this will come naturally by finishing the game. However, if for whatever insane reason someone wants to get this achievement out of the way first, it will take 28 successful attempts at the level with a gold medal (not too hard if you chain the kills together). This however excludes the Assault ops for the mission so it is probably closer to 27.
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By Ditto51 on 30 Aug 2015 18:25
Does your XP go down again if you buy stuff like Spartan laser or rockets?, or are these unrelated to each other?
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By count023 on 30 Sep 2015 13:39
It's been ages since I played this, but I think you buy items with credits, which are completely separate from XP.
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By AL1 on 30 Sep 2015 18:38
nope, you actually buy them with XP. OR credits. Sniper is 1000XP or 50CR for instance.
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By count023 on 30 Sep 2015 23:20
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My version is pretty much the same as AL1. Just i use Hollow and Pacifist. This will give you a 5x so if you get gold its 1000xp.

Basically if you shoot you will lose shields but you have a regen shield to heal. Use the pistol to one shot distant grunts or melee (your choice) and use the grenades or machine guns kill elites the elites. Also just a tip if you can try and get a killionare on the grunts at the start. You should have just about enough points for gold or to easily make it to gold.

But just wait till you have finished all the missions and gotten Gold Stars on them so you reduce the amount of time needed to grind.
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26 Dec 2013 02:06

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Trade the trade-off

Buy a sniper rifle

Every match an easy gold and you are a monster. Sure, you don't gain any xp per-se as you spend the 1000xp you earn but if it's your last achievement who cares :)
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By Skinstakovic on 24 Feb 2018 22:12
brilliant
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By ReliantGung ho on 17 Aug 2014 00:52
The trade-off is not worth the extra 100xp. It's far to easy to die when grinding this.
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By The Hot Glue on 05 Mar 2015 19:59
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I found that it's not necessary to boost this achievement at all. After one run through of all six operations and working toward Extra Credit, I unlocked this by the time I finished with the Assault Ops through mission B5. You have to play each mission multiple times to get all the Assault Ops requirements and if you use the skulls strategically it won't take long at all to get to 25,000 experience. For reference, the skull multiplier values are below.

Hollow x3
Pacifist x3
Famine x1.5
Black Eye x2.5
Thunderstorm x2
Blind x2

Hollow and Pacifist are the highest combo, but for some reason it only adds up to five if you select them both. Hollow and Famine are great on levels where you use a vehicle the entire time, like B5. Pacifist does deplete vehicle health and it doesn't recover at all.
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31 Dec 2013 19:23

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While doing the assault ops, I use damage booster and restart the level over and over until I complete all ops in the mission. Thus I get XP reward only once, but I complete assault ops way, way faster. I rather do few XP farm runs than spend hours more on assault ops.
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By Darth Hawk CZ on 25 Aug 2019 08:23
Yeah and the weekly assault ops nets you 800-3000 Xp Each
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By Prometheus Nyx on 01 Jan 2014 01:21
I agree that it isn't necessary to play the same level over and over. I played through all the operations and did all the misc. achievements and got it half way working through the extra credit achievement.
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By Homunculus Fury on 14 Feb 2015 14:06
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Video-guide of Halo: Spartan Assault to gain experience easily so you can get the Pension Plan achievement, which consists in gaining 25.000 experience. This method is based on what AL1 explained in his comment. For this select level A-1, which is the first one. Select skull hollow, which make you have only one shield, and "ojo morado", which let you recover the shield only with hand to hand battle.
I'll show you in this video an easy way to get the Gold Medal with no mistake, and the skulls will multiply the experience x4,5. So instead of get 200, you'll get 900 every 2 minutes. So in the than 1 hour you'll get the achievement and you'll be prepared to buy any object you need.
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19 Jan 2014 23:25

This achievement is cumulative between both the Single Player and Co-Op Modes. Chances are, even after you have finished every Co-Op achievement and a majority of the Single Player achievements, you will still not have this achievement. Despite this annoyance, do not be afraid to actually spend your Spartan Points on weapons, boosters, or armor abilities in the pre-game lobby of each mission, as subtracting points from your total does not harm the achievement progress.

There is a simple way to grind this achievement out that involves very little skill and does not take anymore than thirty minutes – although you will not even have to grind that long if you are using this method post game after you’ve already obtained some thousand-odd points.

Basically, load up Operation A, Mission 1. You will want to turn on both the Black Eye and Hollow skulls, because these will give you a 4.5x Multiplier to your overall score at the end of the mission. Once the missions starts, simply proceed to eliminate all the enemies that spawn. There are just about twenty-nine Covenant forces to kill, and once you know where they all spawn, this mission should literally take one minute and fifteen seconds to complete. By the end of the match, you should be gaining around 900XP.

If you are using this method right off the bat, then simply do this anywhere from twenty-five to thirty times and the achievement will unlock. As stated above, that would only take you thirty minutes tops. If you are using this method after finishing all the Single Player and Co-Op missions, you’ll unlock the achievement sooner.

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While 25,000 XP may seem like quite a daunting task, it should eventually come as you repeat missions to get more stars and complete challenges (which also give XP). You may also want to use a skull or two, depending on how confident you are at the game (I played most of the levels with at least Hollow on).

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