Winter Contingency
"There's a disturbance on the frontier."Beginner Goals:
Easy: ~7:00; Legendary: ~7:30
Intermediate Goals:
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World Class Goals:
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IL Records:
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Winter Contingency is the first playable level in Halo: Reach. See Halopedia for general information, the routes and strats are the same for both Easy and Legendary.
HaloRuns record page: http://www.haloruns.com/records?lb=501 (click the timestamps for video links)
Contents
Video Examples
Examples of every trick mentioned here can be found on either the Individual Level or the Full Game Records page.
Mission Start
After 47 seconds inside the falcon get out of the falcon and start sprinting. You can either try to gor for the Barrier Jump on the hill on your left or do the Classic Rout that involves some slide jumps to go down. Barrier Jumps saves 10 secs but if you mix it with Earliest Falcon and Earliest Out Of Bounds you can save about 2 minutes.
Starting Routes
- Barrier Jump Route
- In order to do the Earliest Falcon you need to do the barrier jumps, head up to the mountains on your left, and then after some precise jumps you will go over the elastic barrier and then do the Falcon Grab.
- You can watch an indepth Video Tutorial on how to do all the Barrier Jumps.
- Classic Route
- Sprint down the hill to the house try to get some slide jumps to save some time. Skip the house by going to the right and jumping up the cliffside.
- Here is the optimal slide jump route, if you do it correctly you will outrun the camo elite on legendary
Doesn't matter which route you take, try to get a plasma pistol from any of the enemies.
Falcon Grab
You can hijack a falcon to go out-of-bounds to get to the Relay Outpost before it is supposed to, for the trick to work you need first to deload Jun from the falcon.
- As you near the trucks, stop right where the ground is about to slope downward and look at the Falcon with Jun in it. You'll notice that the Falcon is flying in a triangular pattern.
- When the Falcon is on your left and at its furthest point away from you, immediately run down the slope and if done correctly the Falcon will teleport.
This process removes Jun from the Falcon, so that the Falcon Skip can be triggered later in the level (if you did the barrier jump route at the beginning of the level you don't need to do this process).
Normal Falcon
This is the first version of the trick from late 2014
When you reach the trucks get in and drive to the first structure, there will be a hill on your left where the falcon will reamin still, make sure you have a plasma pistol, if you don't, you can take one from the skirmishes on your way to the hill, climb it and shoot an overcharged Plasma Pistol shot at the Falcon. A good place to aim is the nose, just behind the chingun. Keep doing this until the Falcon flips over and the cockpit opens. Flip the Falcon back over and pilot it.
Early Falcon
Strat from early 2015
What you do is shoot the overcharge to the falcon as soon as it spawns without Jun. Instead of going for the truck try to snipe the Falcon with the plasma pistol, when the falcon teleports it will first go down, stop for less than a second and the fly to the hill, start the overcharge on it's way down and shoot at it before it starts moving, if you do it correctly the EMP will hit it and it will go down.
Earliest Falcon
Was a coop only strat but in mid 2018 became doable in solo.
For this one you MUST do the barrier jump at the beginning of the level and go over the buildings because you will skip some triggers by doing that. Jump back into the map and make sure to hit a load so you can get a checkpoint when you land, there are many grunts there so grab a plasma pistol from any of them.
Then there are 2 ways to do the grab.
Hard
Get back into the building. jump over the fence on your left and wait there until you the the falcon spawn on your radar, when it shows up wait under the stairs for 2 seconds and then run and exit the building, aim up and try to overcharge the falcon. I you do it good it will flip and then open.
Soft
Get near the building entrance aim up to the sky, shoot the overcharge to the sky and quickly run inside the building and jump. If you do it correctly the falcon will open, now jump from outside the building to reach where the falcon is.
Both of this strats are well explained on THIS VIDEO (note, add video)
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- Now fly in the opposite direction that you came, but stay near the mountain. Keep flying on this course until you see a Spirit Dropship. Follow it down to where it lands. While you follow it, try to take out its bottom turret.
- Wait for it to rise up and fly away, then fly in the direction that the Dropship flies. You'll pass it pretty quickly, but keep flying in the same general direction.
- Stop when you are clear of the trees and the mountain. Wait for the Dropship to come flying out of the mountain, face it, then land in between its two prongs. Hold the left control stick forward and lock your altitude. Wait for your shields to go down and the Falcon to shake - this indicates you've broken the barrier and are now outside the map.
If you've played this level before, you'll know where to go next. Just fly where the Falcon normally flies. You should find a deloaded area that will load when you get near it.-
Relay Outpost
Once you load the relay outpost, do not land in there. Instead, stay out of bounds above the outpost and kill every enemy you can with your Falcon. After you make sure every enemy is dead (use your radar to double check) land on top of the relay outpost, get out of your Falcon and then re-enter your Falcon. This is a vital trigger that you must hit or else the level will not continue.
For the next part, it is recommended that you watch the world record run to see where they go as it is hard to explain, but you need to reload the previous area of the level (avoid going too far or else you could get teleported into solid space and die) and wait outside the now deloaded relay outpost. Around the time the second spirit stops shooting you is when you should reload the relay outpost, then either scale the nearby rock to get back into the relay outpost or use the Falcon to fly over the wall - using the Falcon is risky as there is a chance for you to get locked in the Falcon. You should notice that the door you need to go through is deloaded, this is normal. Wait for the enemies being dropped off to die and then you should be able to continue with the mission as normal.
Final Area
After the cutscene, run for the first Zealot and backsmack him. This is not necessary, but is a consistency strat. If you run past the first Zealot, he will sometimes follow you into the last room, where you will have to kill him to proceed. However, sometimes he will not follow you. It seems to be random.
Run straight for the last room. Keep in mind that only the two Zealots, and the four Grunts in the last room, so you dont have to kill anyone in the middle hallway. At the last room, try hit all four grunts with a grenade. Pick off any survivors with a DMR then backsmack the Zealot. After that activate the junction and you're done.
