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Auraxade at 01:52, 19 June 2014

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Auraxade: Version 1 of the Guide Finished!!!

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Version 1 of the Guide Finished!!!

Auraxade at 21:31, 18 June 2014

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Auraxade: /* The Side Objectives */

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‎The Side Objectives

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 | time = Easy: ~ 7:45; Legendary: ~ 8:30
 | time2 = Easy: ~ 7:10; Legendary: ~ 7:45
-| time3 = Easy: ~ 6:30; Legendary: ~ 6:50
+| time3 = Easy: ~ 6:40; Legendary: ~ 6:50
 | time4 = Easy: ~ 6:07; Legendary: ~ 6:13
 | time5 = Easy: ~ 5:54; Legendary: ~ 5:54

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 | caption = "Provide air support in a forest of crumbling skyscrapers."
 | game = Halo: Reach
-| time = Depends on order of objectives
+| time = Easy: ~ 7:45; Legendary: ~ 8:30
 | previous = [[Exodus]]
 | next = [[The Package]]

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 | game = Halo: Reach
 | time = Depends on order of objectives
 }}
 New Alexandria is the seventh playable level in [[Halo: Reach]]. See [http://www.halopedia.org/New_Alexandria_%28level%29 Halopedia] for general information.

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 '''Kat:''' "''Hang on. Noble Six, uploading coordinates.''"
-This building is located immediately east of he Vyrant Tower. You can't miss it. Since it begins almost immediately and ends immediately if you kill the Marines, this is one of the fastest side objectives in the mission. There are no Phantoms that drop off the Hunters.
+This building is located immediately east of the Vyrant Tower. You can't miss it. Since it begins almost immediately and ends immediately if you kill the Marines, this is one of the fastest side objectives in the mission. There are no Phantoms that drop off the Hunters.
 =====Vs. Jackals=====

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 ===The Main Objectives===
-These are the three objectives you are guaranteed to get in each playthrough of this mission. Each one involves you fighting through some enemies in order to overload some communication jammers. Fortunately for you, the "fighting" part is optional. Their order is random. You can tell where to go before seeing a waypoint by the dialogue that precedes it.
+These are the three objectives you are guaranteed to get in each playthrough of this mission. Each one involves you fighting through some enemies in order to overload some communication jammers. Fortunately for you, the "fighting" part is optional. Their order is random, except the Hospital is always the first objective on Easy ''only.'' You can tell where to go before seeing a waypoint by the dialogue that precedes it.
 ====The Hospital====

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 =====Banshee Manipulation=====
 When doing IL attempts, you need to know how to manipulate Banshee spawns so that they are consistent in your attempts and allow you to remove a major variable in the mission. When you first start the mission from the Campaign menu, get in your Falcon and fly a little to the right of the Hospital. Look for a pair of Banshees flying around near its entrance. If they are not there, save and quit, change a setting to delete your saved progress, and try again. If they are there, you can do attempts! The trick is to reset your attempts by selecting "Restart Mission" in the pause menu rather than saving and quitting and deleting the save. By restarting from the pause menu, the Banshee spawns remain exactly the same as before instead of being shuffled. This also wastes less of your time because there is less time between resets! :D  The only negative of this is you'll have to go back into Theater Mode and record your run afterwards in a long film. You can alleviate this by periodically saving and quitting and then ''resuming'' without deleting your progress. Then restart the mission right away from the pause menu and keep doing attempts.
 Congratulations! You survived to the end of the guide! Wow! Very impressive! And thanks for reading! You are officially an expert of New Alexandria! This guide may seem overly complicated and confusing at first, but you'll understand this mission more once you start playing it a lot like me. If you have questions about New Alexandria, you can ask me (Auraxade) via Twitch PM, Haloruns PM, or in a Halo stream's chat. I will do my best to answer and update this guide accordingly.
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 ==Easy and Legendary==
-New Alexandria is arguably the worst speedrunning mission in all the Halo shooters. It's not because the mission is difficult, it's because the mission is random. ''Completely'' random. Everything from the objectives to their order is determined by pure RNG. Fortunately, the mission itself is very easy compared to some others in Reach. The infamy comes from the fact that the amount of time it takes to complete the mission is based solely on your luck. So, without further ado, let's talk about the mission. Since there is no specific route here, I will just go over the objectives individually and go from there.
+New Alexandria is arguably the worst speedrunning mission in all the Halo shooters. It's not because the mission is difficult, it's because the mission is random. ''Completely'' random. Everything from the objectives to their order is determined by pure RNG. Fortunately, the mission itself is very easy compared to some others in Reach. The infamy comes from the fact that the amount of time it takes to complete the mission is based solely on your luck. This guide is intended to assist you in overcoming the randomness factor and becoming consistent at such an inconsistent level (this is the best NA guide you will find!). So, without further ado, let's talk about the mission. Since there is no specific route here, I will just go over the objectives individually and go from there.
 ===General Info===
-Before I start, here is some very basic info. The way this mission works is there are 5 objectives assigned to you before the final fight at the ONI Tower. Three of them are "main objectives" that you will always receive when playing this mission. They are the objectives that require you to enter a building and overload a jammer in the midst of a bunch of enemies. The other 2 assignments you receive are known as "side objectives." These are what can vary completely when you play through NA. Each one is chosen at random from a pool of 12 options (divided into 4 groups of 3--see side objective section below). They can range from helping Marines to escorting a Falcon to disabling a fourth jammer. If you can memorize the locations, dialogue, and other telltale signs for each main and side objective, then you can really cut down time on this level. The sequence of objectives you obtain is '''''Main Objective - Side Objective - Main Objective - Side Objective - Main Objective - ONI Tower.'''''
+Before I start, here is some very basic info. The way this mission works is there are 5 objectives assigned to you before the final fight at the ONI Tower. Three of them are "main objectives" that you will always receive when playing this mission. They are the objectives that require you to enter a building and overload a jammer in the midst of a bunch of enemies. Their order is completely random on Legendary, but on Easy for some reason the Hospital is always first. The other 2 assignments you receive are known as "side objectives." These are what can vary completely when you play through NA. Each one is chosen at random from a pool of 12 options (divided into 4 groups of 3--see side objective section below). They can range from helping Marines to escorting a Falcon to disabling a fourth jammer. If you can memorize the locations, dialogue, and other telltale signs for each main and side objective, then you can really cut down time on this level. The sequence of objectives you obtain is '''''Main Objective - Side Objective - Main Objective - Side Objective - Main Objective - ONI Tower.'''''
-Banshees are scattered throughout the entire city, usually in pairs. They spawn at the very beginning of the mission and stay flying around the whole time. If you kill some, more will spawn to take their places. Where do they spawn, you ask? Take a wild guess. Yes, it's random like the rest of the mission. As you play through NA, there will be a pretty large group of them following you everywhere. While this may seem like a concern on Legendary, they don't pose much of a threat as long as you keep moving. Your Falcon can easily outrun them at full speed. If absolutely necessary, you can meander around buildings to shake them off. If you happen to land on a rooftop, the Banshees will circle around above you like vultures, but they never shoot unless you're flying a Falcon.
+Banshees are scattered throughout the entire city, usually in pairs. They spawn at the very beginning of the mission and stay flying around the whole time. If you kill some, more will spawn to take their places. Where do they spawn, you ask? Take a wild guess. Yes, it's random like the rest of the mission. As you play through NA, there will be a pretty large group of them following you everywhere. While this may seem like a concern on Legendary, they don't pose much of a threat as long as you keep moving. Your Falcon can easily outrun them at full speed. If absolutely necessary, you can meander around buildings and drop altitude to shake them off. If you happen to land on a rooftop, the Banshees will circle around above you like vultures, but they never shoot unless you're flying the Falcon.
 Also randomly distributed throughout the city are special Shade Turrets that shoot large, long range plasma bursts. They look like ordinary Shade Turrets, but instead of a driver, these turrets have a bright blue "screen" around the cockpit. If you see one on Legendary, '''stay away or kill it immediately.''' They will destroy an unharmed Falcon in mere seconds if they hit you directly. It is recommended to either fly out of their radius or underneath the rooftop on which they are located. If you decide to kill one, do it quickly so it doesn't have time to shoot back.
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 ====Sinoviet====
-'''7D19:''' "''Mayday, mayday, 7 Delta 1-Niner to all UNSC forces.''"
+'''7D19:''' "''Mayday, mayday, 7 Delta 1 Niner to all UNSC forces.''"
-'''Kat:''' "''What's your status 1-Niner?''"
+'''Kat:''' "''What's your status 1 Niner?''"
 '''7D19:''' "''We found the jammer, but we're getting hit. Request immediate assistance. Sinoviet Center is *augh!*''"
-'''Kat:''' "''You still with me 1-Niner? 7 Delta 1-Niner, do you copy? Six, I'm uploading coordinates now. Get to SinoViet Center. Help those Troopers if you can, but get that jammer offline either way.''"
+'''Kat:''' "''You still with me 1 Niner? 7 Delta 1 Niner, do you copy? Six, I'm uploading coordinates now. Get to Sinoviet Center. Help those troopers if you can, but get that jammer offline either way.''"
 Sinoviet Center can be found to the south of the area. It is the large building with the big green arrow pointing down on the sides.
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 The Falcon spawns on a tower SE of the ONI Tower. The first checkpoint is right next to the same building after it takes off, so just stay close to it until then. The second checkpoint is between 2 buildings in Sinoviet's direction. Finally, it goes to a tower in the southeast corner of the city (right next to the starting point in the "pinned squad" objective above). Then it flies out of the map.
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 =====Classified Op=====
-'''Buck:''' "''Command, this is Gunnery Sergeant Buck, of the 11th ODST, over.''"
+'''Buck:''' "''Command, this is Gunnery Sergeant Buck of the 11th ODST, over.''"
 '''Kat:''' "''Copy Gunnery Sergeant. Go ahead.''"

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 '''F21:''' "''We got Hunters tearing us a new one!''"
-Kat: "Hang on. Noble Six, uploading coordinates."
+'''Kat:''' "''Hang on. Noble Six, uploading coordinates.''"
 This building is located immediately east of he Vyrant Tower. You can't miss it. Since it begins almost immediately and ends immediately if you kill the Marines, this is one of the fastest side objectives in the mission. There are no Phantoms that drop off the Hunters.
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 '''7C40:''' "''7 Charlie 40 to HQ, we've got incoming hostiles on top of the Maines-Traiger building. Requesting immediate assistance.''"
-This objective is located on the purple-lit tower to the west of the Hospital. There are several Jackals with PPs and Needlers, so be on watch for EMP shots.
+This objective is located on the purple-lit tower to the west of the Hospital. There are several Jackals with PPs and Needlers, so be on watch for EMP shots. This is also an objective that has a Phantom dropping off the enemies before the dialogue starts, so check here if a side objective is taking a while to begin.
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 '''IMPORTANT!!!!!'''
-This trick will only work if the Hospital is the first or second main objective you receive. If it is the third one, DO NOT get back into the Banshee after overloading the jammer! You will not teleport outside, and the door to exit will lock, trapping you inside. You can still fly into the building, but stay out of the Banshee after disabling the jammer. You'll have to fight the Rangers.
+This trick will only work if the Hospital is the first or second main objective you receive. If it is the third one, DO NOT get back into the Banshee after overloading the jammer! You will not teleport outside, and the door to exit will lock, trapping you inside. You can still fly into the building, but stay out of the Banshee after disabling the jammer. Even if you end up receiving it last in a full game Legendary run, it is highly recommended to snag a Banshee and fly inside as it allows you quickly reach the jammer and skip a large number of spawns in the process, including the Rangers that normally arrive.
 ====Sinoviet====