Medals
Killing Spree!
Kill 5 opponents in a row without dying.
Killing Frenzy!
Kill 10 opponents in a row without dying.
Running Riot!
Kill 15 opponents in a row without dying.
Rampage!
Kill 20 opponents in a row without dying.
Untouchable!
Kill 25 opponents in a row without dying.
Invincible!
Kill 30 opponents in a row without dying.
Killjoy!
End an opponent’s killing spree – any spree.
Shotgun Spree!
Kill 5 opponents in a row with a shotgun without dying.
Open Season! (Formerly named Cheneymania!)
Kill 10 opponents in a row with a shotgun without dying.
Sniper Kill!
Kill an opponent with a Sniper Rifle or Beam Rifle.
Sniper Spree!
Kill 5 opponents in a row with a sniper weapon without dying.
Sharpshooter!
Kill 10 opponents in a row with a sniper weapon without dying.
Sword Spree!
Kill 5 opponents in a row with the sword without dying.
Slice ‘n Dice!
Kill 10 opponents in a row with the sword without dying.
Double Kill!
Kill 2 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.
Triple Kill!
Kill 3 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.
Overkill!
Kill 4 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.
Killtacular!
Kill 5 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.
Killtrocity!
Kill 6 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.
Killimanjaro!
Kill 7 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.
Killtastrophe!
Kill 8 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.
Killpocalypse! 
Kill 9 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.
Killionaire!
Kill 10 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.
Laser Kill!
Kill an opponent with the Spartan Laser.
Incineration!
Kill an opponent with a flame-based weapon.
Grenade Stick!
Kill an opponent by sticking them with a plasma or brute grenade.
Beat Down!
Hit and kill an opponent with a melee attack.
Assassin!
Hit and kill an opponent with a melee attack from behind.
Bulltrue!
Killed an opponent that was in the act of a sword lunge.Hijacker!
Board a vehicle.
Skyjacker!
Board an aircraft by forcably removing the opponent in it.
Wheelman!
Be the driver of a vehicle when a passanger kills an opponent.
Splatter!
Hit and kill an opponent with a vehicle.
Splatter Spree!
Splatter 5 opponents in a row with a vehicle without dying.
Vehicular Manslaughter!
Splatter 10 opponents in a row with a vehicle without dying.
Kill From the Grave!
Kill an opponent after you have died.
Extermination!
Get an overkill on the opposing team that results in all of the team being dead.
Perfection!
Win a slayer game with a score of 15 or more kills without dying.
Hail to the King!
Kill five opponents in the hill without dying and the hill moving.
Killed VIP!
Kill an opponent’s VIP in a VIP game.
Killed Flag Carrier!
Kill the opponent flag carrier in CTF.
Flag Kill!
Get a melee kill with the flag.
Flag Score!
Score the flag in CTF.
Killed Bomb Carrier!
Kill an opponent bomb carrier in Assault.
Bomb Planted!
Plant the bomb in Assualt.
Oddball Kill!
Get a melee kill while holding the oddball.
Killed Juggernaut!
Kill the Juggernaut in a Juggernaut game.
Juggernaut Spree!
Kill 5 opponents in a row as the Juggernaut without dying.
Unstoppable!
Kill 10 opponents in a row as the Juggernaut without dying.
Unconfirmed, but detected in code for Halo 3 Beta.
Last Man Standing!
Be the last human in an infection game.
Infection Spree!
Kill 5 humans in a row as the zombie without dying.
Mmmm Brains!
Kill 10 humans in a row as the zombie without dying.
Zombie Killing Spree!
Kill 5 zombies in a row as the human without dying.
Hell’s Janitor!
Kill 10 zombies in a row as the human without dying.
Is Quisnam Protero Damno!
Kill 15 zombies in a row as the human without dying.
Modes
Halo 2 kept its multiplayer game fresh for so long by regularly adding to and mixing up the different gametypes, and dozens more were created by enterprising users setting their own rules in Custom games. Here are the Halo 3 game types and the details on how they have changed since Halo 2:
VIP
One member of each team is the VIP, endowed with an Overshield. Players only score points by killing a VIP, and the first team to 10 points wins. If a VIP dies, the next person on that team to respawn becomes the VIP (as far as we can tell). It’s a great new mode, and allows for a lot of strategic choices in terms of choosing to use your powerful VIP on offense to hunt down the other teams’ main man, or have them stay back and defend themselves. It works surprisingly well on Valhalla, making for some lengthy hunting matches.
Territories
It’s so much better now. Territories was just measured chaos before, but it’s much smarter and more enjoyable now. There are offensive and defensive rounds, and five Territories throughout the level during each round. One team must defend the Territories from being captured, while the other tries to capture as many as they can per round. They take a while to capture (though it can be sped up with multiple people), but once captured cannot be taken back. It works fantastically on High Ground, as capturing each territory basically means fighting deeper and deeper into the base as the round goes on. A huge improvement.
Land Grab
Also changed for Halo 3, Land Grab’s capture points cannot be taken back after being captured, so each round is a competition to grab the majority of the five available plots. The team with the most captured at the end of the game wins. It’s not as good as Territories, but certainly much better than its original form and still very fun.
Capture the Flag
Flags are set on the level and players have to take the opposing team’s flag. It doesn’t have any changes that we noticed, though it very rarely comes up.
Oddball
It seems the same as before, only the (now ludicrously-detailed) Oddball now always kills instantly with a single melee hit. It’s also great to play in and around Bubble Shields and the shield doors on Snowbound.
Assault
The bomb doesn’t need to be armed manually anymore; it automatically arms when you plant it, and counts down from 15, giving the other team a chance to disarm it before the time is up. We haven’t played a ton of Assault, but it definitely seems to work better than before.
King of the Hill
The hill itself is now represented by a giant circular colored wall about 10 in-game feet high. It’s somewhat translucent, but it’s still difficult to see into or out of with any degree of accuracy. It definitely makes things more difficult for those in the hill; that may be for balance, but it’s not necessarily more fun. Bungie may want to consider revising this, either lowering the height of the wall or making it a much lighter color.
Slayer, etc.
The other modes that we can recall all play identically to those in Halo 2.
3: Tsavo Highway
Full Contact Safari
Objective: Lead marines away from the base
It’s time for you to lead the survivors out of the base and to safety. Take the hallway to the left of the burning path and get into the Warthog with a turret, while the marines will get into other Warthog.
Load up the Warthogs.
Drive along the path marked by red flares until you come to a small outpost where marines are fighting Jackals. Kill the Jackals and let the two marines load into the troop transport before you move out.
The marines will only load up after the Jackals are dead.
Follow the path and kill any enemies you come across. The path will fork around the little hills, but it’ll come back to the same point, so you won’t get lost. Once you reach the downed Phantom, kill the enemies and take the path on the right.
Kill all enemies around the crashed Phantom, the follow the other car.
You’ll pass through a short ravine into a small valley. Here, you’ll fight troops dropped off by a Phantom, enemies in hovering towers, and a turret on a hill. Neutralize the turret first — the biggest threat in the valley — and then drive around the perimeter eliminating the remaining ground forces.
You’ll have to deal with the troops and the Shade turret.
Next, drive up and over the dam, and follow the dried river bed. Eventually it will lead you to a human installation overrun with Covenant forces, where you’ll fight enemies on foot and on Brute Choppers.
Take out the Choppers fast.
Kill all the forces around the installation, commandeer a Brute Chopper — allowing your troops to take over the Warthog you were in — and head to the large purple shield just past the installation. The shield is guarded by Brutes and Drones; kill them and then use a grenade on the shield’s generator, allowing your vehicles to continue on their way.
Take a Chopper, kill the energy shield, then proceed.
Follow the path, preferably while operating a Brute Chopper, and you’ll come to a highway. If you have enough speed, you’ll not only make the first jump, but also the second jump. The marines in the Warthog will disembark and go on foot, which prompts the new chapter of the level and a new objective.
Get lots of speed for the second jump.
The Broken Path
Objective: Get to the town of Voi
Take the remaining marines and, in your Brute Chopper, head forward until you come to a group of marines fighting the Covenant. Kill the remaining forces in the buildings, prompting a message from your HQ about fighting the incoming enemy until Pelicans arrive with support. Head into the buildings on the opposite side of the Covenant floating tower, where you’ll find a turret as well as three Trip Mines. Take the Trip Mines and lay them in the road or along the choke points to the turret, and prepare for the incoming enemy.
The Trip Mines will soften them up.
A Phantom dropship shows up, so man the turret and kill the enemy as they jump out. Next, disconnect the turret from its mount and move towards the Wraith, shooting the pilots. Man the Wraith and move out. (If you destroy the Wraith, use the Warthog that the Pelican drops instead.)
Use the turret to take out the Wraith’s pilot, then claim it for yourself.
Continue down the path, clearing out the enemy towers and Choppers, then enter the tunnel ahead of you. When you come out of the tunnel, you will see two Brutes standing next to their Choppers. If you are quick enough, you can blow them up before they can reach their vehicles. Eliminate them and then head to your left, continuing along the broken highway.
Kill them before they reach their Choppers.
As you come down the ramp from the broken section of highway, you will be attacked by three Brute Choppers, a turret, and two Wraiths. Take the path on the right of where you came down the ramp, and kill the turret on your upper left. Next, kill the three Brute Choppers or let your marines in the Warthog kill them, then move to the Wraith dead ahead. Now all that should be left is the final Wraith.
There are a lot of enemies, kill the lower ones before the Wraith on the hill.
Drive up the hill and kill the final enemy Wraith, and proceed up the highway.
That is the last of the Wraiths.
You will encounter an enemy road blockade that, unless you have a Wraith, will force you to dismount and fight in a close firefight with several Brutes. Fight your way through the barricade, by using the sheer forces of a Wraith or by brutal ground fighting.
This barricade is much easier with a Wraith, just push your way through.
Unless you’ve captured a Wraith, this next part is going to be tough. You’ll spot a downed Pelican and a large energy shield blocking your way to Voi. You will have to fight several Brute Elites and a turret, so use the Wraith on them, thus ending the level.
It looks like a lot, but it all goes down before the Wraith.
5: Floodgate
It Followed Me Home
Objective: Find the crashed Flood ship
After seeing the Flood ship crash at the end of the last level, you have been tasked with destroying the ship and stopping the infestation. Head right at the start of the level, and work your way around the chasm towards the crash site.
Head through the fog and towards the installation.
You will come to a tight road. Follow it, and after it bends to the left, find the dead Brute on the left side of the path. Take his Gravity Hammer; you’ll need it.
Take the Gravity Hammer off this body.
Continue down the path until you come to a group of marines behind sandbags. To the left will be the first group of Flood you have to fight. Use the Gravity Hammer, and collect the Bubble Shield near the sandbags.
Once you hit the sandbags, take a left and hit the Flood with all you got.
Head into the building on the right of where you just fought the Flood. Inside, bash the enemy with your Gravity Hammer, then follow the Arbiter into the next room.
As you enter the next room you’ll see a dead Brute with two Spikers laying next to him. Pick up the Spikers, switch weapons, and pick up the shotgun on the left of Brute, next to a dead marine. Now that you’re properly equipped, move on out.
Get the Spikers and the Shotgun before moving out.
Move through the crates until you come to an area where marines are fighting the Flood. You’ll see a yellow catwalk above the fray, so head up there to find a flame thrower.
The Flamethrower will be your best bet against the Flood.
Now, take out any remaining Flood and cross the catwalk, going through the door on the other side, and dropping down the hole in the floor.
What a convenient place for a hole.
| Follow the blue arrow: If you’re lost, just look for the blue arrow that indicates the distance from the objective |
Falling through the hole, you’ll have to fight the Flood in very tight quarters. Use your flame thrower to take them out, but make sure you put as much distance between the Flood and yourself, otherwise you’ll set yourself on fire as they run towards you.
Roast them in the choke points.
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Proceed towards the blue arrow and you will come out onto a catwalk. A cut-scene starts showing several Elites dropping out of the sky. The start of a new chapter! |
Shadow of Intent
Continue following the blue arrow, passing the Elites fighting in the background. Follow the Elites into the building and through the hallway, destroying the Flood before you. As you follow the Elites into the second room of the structure, see that Cortana is on the crashed Flood ship, prompting a new objective.
Let the Elites go in first.
Objective: Search the ship for Cortana.
Continue to follow the Elites and Arbiter towards the blue arrow marking the crash site. You’ll come out onto a catwalk, where there is a mounted machine gun. Dismount the machine gun and use it to press the attack forward, destroying the Flood you come across.
Fall to the machinegun.
Eventually, as you fight your way along the path, you will come to a point where you can no longer proceed forward. To your right you will see the crashed Flood ship. Jump down and pick up weapons right where you’ve dropped down.
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Need a Weapon?: Chances are that if you need a weapon, there are plenty laying around. The Flood are constantly dropping their weapons, so take a moment and look around! |
Proceed up the ramp made by the ship’s wreckage, and then jump into the bright yellow hole, taking you into the bowels of the ship, prompting a new chapter.
Down into the bowels of the wreckage.
Infinite Devil Machine
Follow the tunnel of the ship. You will drop down another hole and then continue to follow the single pathway. The Gravemind will speak to you twice, and after the second time, you’ll see the purple box where Cortana is supposed to be, which you then have to interact with Cortana’s supposed location.
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After interacting with Cortana’s location, you will enter into a lengthy cut-scene that prompts the end of the level. |
8: Cortana
Rampant
Objective: Find Cortana
After the cut-scene, proceed directly ahead into the bowels of Flood’s lair. Fight your way through the first big room, and then pick up the pair of Spikers in front of the first door you pass through.
Spikers are excellent anti-Flood weapons.
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Do Not Shoot These: These pods are full of little Floodlings. If you shoot them they will swarm you, so do your best to keep your shots from hitting these. |
Through the first door, you’ll pass a short corridor, where you’ll have to jump down through another door. Time for a big fight.
Once you pass through this door the real fight begins.
Enemy soldiers descend down the hill landing right in front of you. Stay at the bottom and kill them as they come down. When you run out of ammo, simply run to the base of the hill — where you have been slaying enemies in mass — and collect a new one. Head up the top of the hill when you’ve finished the first wave.
Shoot them as they come down the hill.
Another wave of enemies will spawn when you reach the top of the hill. Fall back down the hill, and repeat the same strategy until they stop coming down. Then work your way back up the hill, killing the stragglers. Note: To the left of the hill (assuming you’re facing upwards), there’s a door outside, where you see a crashed Pelican.
Lying next to this Pelican is a flamethrower, which, if you hold onto it until you get the next one, can be incredibly useful to get through the first section.
The second wave includes infested Elites complete with swords.
As you proceed down the large tunnel at the top of the hill, make sure you have a long ranged weapon. There will be Floods that can shoot spikes from long distance. Use a gun to shoot them off the walls and roofs before proceeding.
The needles from the guys above you hurt as much as a Carbine.
Continue down the tunnel, following the blue arrow through the doorway. You will now get a brief reprieve; the next two rooms will have zero enemies.
After passing through another door you’ll come into a room where several corpses stand up. Kill them and then scavenge the area for weapons, then head for the tunnel.
These “corpses” are about to stand.
The tunnel will end with another hole that you have to drop through, which will lead you into a room filled with Floods. Hang back at the place where you’ve dropped down, letting them come to you.
Always keep your distance from the Flood.
Proceed slowly into the room and kill the remaining enemies. Your goal will be to get through the door on the opposite side of the room from where you started (look for the blue arrow).
The blue arrow will show you where to go.
Pass through the doorway and through the short hallway, until you come to a large room filled with enemies. To your right will be a small hallway, where there is a flame thrower.
Grab the Flamethrower and then burn ‘em up.
Grab the flame thrower and enter the large room, burning all who stand in your way.
Burn every last one of them.
When you get to the end of this room you’ll be out of ammo for most of your weapons, but that’s OK since in the next room, just through the door you’ve passed through, will be a Covenant Carbine sitting on a rack. First, use your remaining ammo to kill the wave of Flood that will hit you right at the door, and then pick up the Carbine. With the Carbine in hand, shoot the Flood on the upper pathway, and snipe the remaining Flood you can see from the doorway.
Take the Carbines off the rack and shoot the Flood from a distance.
After you have cleared out the Flood with the Carbine, ditch the gun, and pick up ranged weapons. Now, with guns in hand, proceed through the room, fighting your way up the various levels of the room. Eventually, when you reach the top, you’ll jump across a small chasm and go through a doorway.
Jump across to this door.
Go through the doorway, through the short hallway, and into the reactor room.
The reactor room has a lot of enemies, so watch out.
Kill all the Flood around the perimeter of the room, and then head out along the fleshy pathway that leads to the room’s center. From here, take the path to your right, which branches towards the rest of the room’s perimeter. It will be marked by a blue arrow.
Head through the blue doors.
Proceed through the non-Flood converted doors and to the computer in the center of the room. Punch your way through the shield, and free Cortana.
Beat the crap out of this shield to free Cortana.
Nor Hell a Fury…
Now that you have Cortana back, head back into the reactor room, prompting the following objective.
Objective: Destroy the reactor
Get back out to the center of the room and hit the switch on the computer, exposing the reactor’s pylons.
Hit this switch to expose the reactor’s pylons.
Now shoot the three glowing pylons marked by blue arrows. And don’t worry about getting close; even a pistol can set them off from a distance.
Shoot the pylons to get the reactor going.
You will be given a new objective when the reactions are destroyed.
Objective: Escape High Charity
After fighting to the other side of the reactor room, Cortana informs you that an explosion has made a new exit. She marks the path way on your HUD with a series of blue arrows. Follow them back through the rooms that you previously fought through, killing as much Flood as you need to. Remember, you’re not trying to kill them all; you’re trying to kill any who slows you down from getting to the exit.
Just shoot enough to let you pass through.
After you proceed through the areas you previously went through, Cortana will tell you that she has picked up a friendly contact. Run to the blue arrow on your HUD, which turns out to be the Arbiter, complete with a flame thrower.
Arbiter to the rescue!
Now, with the Arbiter leading the way, fight your way to the final blue arrow that Cortana puts up on your HUD. It will lead you to a Pelican that, when you board it, will signal the end of Mission 8.
Jump on and get the hell out of there!
Campaign Strategies
Follow the Arbiter: On any level where the Arbiter is around, he will show you the way if you get lost. You can always find him thanks to the big blue arrow above his head. Don’t be afraid to let him to some of the work if you need a hand.
Reload: You’ll often forget to reload — especially for that off-hand weapon — so reload anytime you have a free moment, even if you’re down only a few rounds in the magazine; you never know when you need a full magazine.
Different grenades for different situations: You have four types of grenades at your disposal: flame, spike, plasma and frag. Spike and plasma grenades stick — good against some enemies, but terrible when fighting the Flood. The point? You have options, so don’t just mash the right trigger, but choose the grenade based on the current situation.
Teammates: Before Halo 3, you teammates weren’t known as the smartest of the bunch. The allied A.I. in Halo 3, however, is quite good. Keep them alive and give them the most powerful weaponry you can, preferably a weapon that has a few shots left. Why? Because your teammates never run out of ammo.
Don’t always dual-wield: Dual-wielding has its ups and downs. Yes, you put out twice as much fire, but you can’t throw grenades or melee unless you drop one of the weapons.
Sneaky melee: Hitting enemies from behind is an instant kill. Moreover, it won’t alert the others to your presence.
Fire in bursts: Sure, you can unload a fully automatic gun in matter of seconds, but that doesn’t mean that you should. Unless the enemy is right in front of you, fire your weapon in bursts. This will make your shots more accurate, as well as conserve ammo.
Choose your equipment: Some equipment is better than others. A bubble shield, for instance, will often be of far more use than a flare. Think about what you might encounter next, and if an opportunity comes up, make the decision wisely.
Campaign Scoring
By default, Campaign Scoring is disabled but before you use in this feature, it is highly recommended that you first complete the game normaly so that you can experience the game in full.
Your campaign score is determined by a combination of many different factors. At the basic level, you will earn points for every enemy you kill. However, the amount of points earned will vary greatly depending on things like the type of enemy, how the enemy is killed or what difficulty setting you are playing. Most of the point multipliers are factored into the score for each enemy you kill, in real time, as you progress through a mission. The only real exception is the overall mission completion time, which provides one final multiplier to your final score once you have finished the level.
- Easy : 0.25x
- Normal : 1.0x
- Heroic : 2.0x
- Legendary : 4.0x
Let’s look at an example – a standard Brute kill would net you 20 points on Normal difficulty. That same Brute would only be worth 5 points on Easy (20 x .25), 40 points on Heroic and a whopping 80 points on Legendary. This can also work against you though – dying on Legendary will cost you 4x as many points as dying on Normal.
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Grenade Stick – Stick an enemy with a plasma or spike grenade to get a 1.25x bonus. So, that Brute we were talking about earlier, who is worth 20 points for killing on Normal difficulty, would actually get you 25 points if you stuck him with a plasma grenade in the same game.
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Headshot – Aim well and you will be rewarded for it. All enemies will give you a higher point value if you kill them with a well placed headshot instead of just unloading a clip into their torso. Headshots will provide a 1.25x base multiplier to the point value for any applicable enemy.
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Stealth Kill – Melee attack an enemy behind to earn a Stealth medal as well as a 1.25x point multiplier for the enemy.
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Road Kill – If you run down an enemy in a vehicle, you will get 1.25x the points you’d normally get for just shooting them.
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Multi-Kill – A multi-kill is defined as killing at least 3 enemies within 1.5 seconds. Successfully doing this will earn you 1.25x
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Needler-Superdetonation- If you manage to get eight needles into an opponent, you will trigger the “superdetonation” which explodes and sends their corpse flying. Doing so will also get you a 1.25x point multiplier.
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“EMP” – If you hit an enemy with a charged plasma bolt and then get the finishing shot off within 3 seconds, you’ll earn a 1.25x point bonus.
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Classification |
Base Points |
Example |
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Light Vehicle |
50 or 100 |
Most light vehicles, like Ghosts and Brute Choppers, are worth 100 pts. A Shade Turret is only worth 50 pts. |
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Standard Vehicle |
150 |
Banshee, Prowler |
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Heavy Vehicle |
200 |
Wraith |
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Giant Vehicle |
250 / 500 |
A Phantom is worth 250 pts, Scarab is worth 500. |
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Classification |
Base Points |
Exam |
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Infantry |
5, 10, 15, 20 |
Sentinel, Flood Carrier, Jackal, Brute |
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Specialist |
10, 20, 30, 50, 150 |
Spec Ops Grunt, Jackal Sniper, Brute Stalker, Flood Pureform Tank, Hunter |
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Leader |
50 |
Brute Captain |
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Hero |
150 |
Brute Chieftain |
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