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So Lonely at the Top

So Lonely at the Top

Won and had the Highest Score in a Matchmade Skirmish Game on Xbox LIVE

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How to unlock the So Lonely at the Top achievement in Halo Wars - Definitive Guide

Simple Answer-

Search for a game, start it, lag out right at the start, so pull out the Ethernet cable. The other player will leave for having no connection to you and you get the highest score because they have left. That how I got the achievement in 2 seconds of joining a game.
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09 Nov 2009 06:10

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haha its cheap, but i can confirm it works. you'll also get n00b n0 m0r3 if you don't have that already.
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By ErichRunner on 13 Jun 2010 06:37
tooo easy
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By ARC 180 on 01 Sep 2010 10:07
lol thanks, also got N00b n0 M0r3 too
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By DubC8944 on 06 Feb 2011 03:11
I don't understand. If you pull out your ethernet cable, won't YOU be disconnected, and thus lose?
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By WraithTDK on 15 Feb 2011 16:45
@WraithTDK

The game doesn't recognise it as a loss. It says that the other player left giving you the achievement.
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By Kapt Reynolds on 16 Feb 2011 05:34
sorry but this solution is to similar to lag switching not a very good gaming ethic.
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By Team Bisset on 24 Jun 2011 15:25
So then don't use it. I'm sick of people discrediting solutions because they involve a turbo controller, or idle playing, or lag manipulation. Blah blah blah. So what? Just don't use that solution yourself. Maybe 3% of the achievement-hunting community disapproves of these things, and the other 97% don't give a rat's ass about those feeling and gets pissed off when you insert your opinion where it isn't warranted.

Seriously. In competition, yeah, you have a point - if someone's using lag to their advantage to win easily like in the early days of Halo 2, that's one thing. But if it's for one goddamn achievement, just let it be.
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By Scheme in Rhyme on 09 Aug 2011 07:29
Awful, but it works!

Also, Kapt Reynolds - loving the gamertag.
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By Zombie Deej on 04 Oct 2011 10:25
This way wouldn't give you the time stamp on the achievement, would it?
(or am I wrong?)
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By smplguy on 21 Mar 2012 19:53
You don't get the time stamp ... just in case you wondered.
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By smplguy on 03 Jul 2012 15:52
Obviously. You'd be offline.
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By THEpaynexkiller on 14 Jul 2012 20:20
Whether or not it's right to use this technique, it does work perfectly. My LIVE connection is a bit patchy at the best of times and it dropped out whilst i was playing this. Before it could even make it back to the main menu, i'd popped this cheevo, along with N00b n0 M0r3 and Basically Naive all at once, since i didn't have them either. Possibly not the most ethically sound way to do it, but if you're not worried about that then it does definitely work
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By Brasshande on 04 Aug 2012 13:14
I'm surprised people are still commenting on this.

@smplguy
I got the achievement this way and got the time stamp. I guess its a stroke of luck whether or not the achievement is counted as online or offline.

@Zombie Deej
Not many people get the reference.
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By Kapt Reynolds on 04 Aug 2012 14:15
Obviously this gets a big thumbs up from me, The Rime Scheme probably put it best, if you don't want to do it this way then just don't bother, it's your look-out. I got it by accident which is quite frankly of very little concern to me, it got me three achievements without actually having to do anything, which is surely why most of us are signed up to this site in the first place. Good technique mate, a definite +1 from me
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By Brasshande on 04 Aug 2012 22:21
Got banned for this, dont obtain achievements by disconnecting, got banned for doing this in Reach, Halo 3 and Wars.
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By Darth Hawk CZ on 17 Sep 2012 13:00
Obviously you'd get banned if you abuse it constantly across other games.
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By Kapt Reynolds on 17 Sep 2012 22:05
^^^^^ Gee, thanks for the warning in your guide, oh wait, wasn't one there. laugh

Seriously Kapt Reynolds, this is how you get yourself in trouble with TA Solution Mods and XBLPET.
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By Crater Bob on 04 Dec 2016 04:44
Lagged out of my boosting session. Offline timestamps. Yuck.
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By Vudix on 03 Jul 2023 03:56
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Search for a player or players over Xbox live, it must be ranked, no skirmish offline. It can be done in any playlist online. Depending on how good you are you should either play 3v3 standard for people who have just started or 2v2 deathmatch for people who can play deathmatch. At the very end of the game after the bonus multiplyers have been added, the person with the highest score gets the achievment, but they might not win the actuall game, this is down to the bonus multiplier. I.e.- Player 1 scores 306 and gets a bonus multiplier of 3.5 which equals 1071, but player 2 scores 297 with a bonus multiplier of 7.9 which equals 2346, player 1 might have won the game but player 2 got more points and the achievment.
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Warthog rush. It's the easiest way to get this achievement. Build 3 supply pads as Sergeant Forge, 2 reactors, upgrade the Warthogs once, and start pumping them out as fast as you can. It's also important that you get the supply crates around your base too. Once you have about 5 or 6, send them to the nearest base and take it over. Build a reactor and put more supply pads in the rest of the slots. Move your Warthogs to about the middle of the map and upgrade them to gauss cannon. Then set your rally point to somewhere close to the enemy base. Send in the group of Warthogs you've already made and as they die, start building more Warthogs and sending them to that rally point just outside the enemy base. It helps to have each of your 2 bases make half the Warthogs to speed up the process. Once your first group of Warthogs has died, send in your next group you have waiting outside the enemy base and keep repeating this process until you win. It also helps a lot to use your carpet bomb and disruption bomb whenever possible. Hope that helps.
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25 May 2009 21:23

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I rape people who use the warthog strategy. :P
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By fritz ownz you on 25 May 2009 22:52
Thats cool. I personally don't like the Warthog strategy, I just used it for the achievement.
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By BlackArrow420 on 25 May 2009 23:37

Select Xbox Live, play a public game and win the game with the highest score. Upgrade everything, take over lots of bases and build maximum amount of units.

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