Halo 4: Campaign Weekly Challenges – Reclaim This! and Stormy Vengeance

This week’s Halo 4 campaign challenges continue the established trend: complete a campaign mission solo on Legendary and complete another mission with selected skulls. Read on for tips on snagging these Halo 4 Campaign Weekly challenges.

Reclaim This! (4750 XP)

“Complete Reclaimer solo on Legendary difficulty.”

Since Halo 4’s release, each week has included a challenge to complete a campaign mission solo on Legendary. They have been progressing sequentially through the Halo 4 campaign, so this week’s mission of choice is Mission 5: Reclaimer. Click here for our Halo 4: Mission 5 – Reclaimer video walkthrough.

 

Stormy Vengeance (2000 XP)

“Complete any Campaign Mission on Heroic or higher difficulty with the Mythic and Thunderstorm skulls.”

This is the first weekly challenge that’s required two skulls to be activated:

• Mythic Skull: Enemies have increased health
• Thunderstorm Skull: Major upgrade to the capabilities of enemies

On the first three Campaign Challenges, it was simple enough to just turn the skull on for whatever mission you had to complete on Legendary and just kill two birds with one stone. Last week’s Mythic skull challenge made that practically impossible. Fighting through the jungles on Mission 4: Infinity against hordes of Prometheans with limited ammo was hard enough without making them abnormally difficult to kill. For the first time, I completed the mission solo on Legendary without the skulls, and went back to Mission 1: Dawn to pick up the skull challenge.

This is probably the best path to unlock these two challenges as well. It is technically possible to beat Reclaimer on Legendary, by yourself, and with the Mythic and Thunderstorm skulls on, but is it worth the time it would take? I would bet that by the time you fight through that improbable situation, you could have already played through Reclaimer without the skulls, Dawn with the skulls, and all of the new Spartan Ops episode. The efficiency if snagging both weekly campaign challenges at once is pretty much out the window at that point.