I did the same thing so don't feel bad get glad

" There is a different set of achievements for matchmaking firefight.  You used the game options within the scope of their intended use, it is likely Bungie intended for players to use invincibility to get the achievement. "

" @Teran said:

" There is a different set of achievements for matchmaking firefight.  You used the game options within the scope of their intended use, it is likely Bungie intended for players to use invincibility to get the achievement. "

i agree with this.  bungie must have known ahead of time this was a possibility. "

" @PrivateIronTFU said:

Side note: What was interesting to me is that you have dozens of elites around you and you're getting shot at and you're blowing stuff up. Yet the framerate in Firefight never seems to dip. The campaign on the other hand... "

Really? Huh... I've noticed framerate issues with campaign, but haven't played enough Firefight to notice. Interesting... "

" @Wezmon said:

" @PrivateIronTFU said:

Side note: What was interesting to me is that you have dozens of elites around you and you're getting shot at and you're blowing stuff up. Yet the framerate in Firefight never seems to dip. The campaign on the other hand... "

Really? Huh... I've noticed framerate issues with campaign, but haven't played enough Firefight to notice. Interesting... "

The only time I seem to notice drops in framerate are in the campaign's cutscenes, when the engine has to render complex movement beyond that of the typical animations the game's been programmed to run.  "

" no you are not a bad person "

" @Wezmon said:

" @PrivateIronTFU said:

Side note: What was interesting to me is that you have dozens of elites around you and you're getting shot at and you're blowing stuff up. Yet the framerate in Firefight never seems to dip. The campaign on the other hand... "

Really? Huh... I've noticed framerate issues with campaign, but haven't played enough Firefight to notice. Interesting... "

Yeah the only reason I noticed it is because of the bonus round when you're literally swarmed with elites and grunts,  you're blowing stuff up left and right, and seriously, the framerate is steady. At least for me it was. I think it might be because the level sizes are smaller in Firefight than the campaign. I dunno, I just thought it was interesting to point out. "

@rhacer63
 
That sounds completely reasonable. I had you pinned as an odd purist but as i thought about it more, i (and most people i know) subscribe to the same theory.

" @rhacer63  That sounds completely reasonable. I had you pinned as an odd purist but as i thought about it more, i (and most people i know) subscribe to the same theory. "

Bungie wants you to have fun, that why they have all the weird settings in the game.

" @Sethster: Jeff and Ryan got all the achievements in Fallout 3, by putting them in the command console, their reasoning was if you can do it in the game, and the developers made it possible for you to do it, then there is nothing wrong with it. Hacking on the other hand. "

From the Bungie Weekly Update: 
 

Yes, you are pure evil.

That's completely fine. If exploiting something doesn't effect anybody else that feel free to do so. In fact I would like to thank you for coming up with this plan.

You're gay actually

We all did it, son.

 With great power, comes great responsibility and Cooperative Multiplayer Lead Lars Bakken informs me that it was well understood that by adding full customization to Firefight certain players would decide to cheese the related achievements (i.e. the laziest, least skilled players). The solution to this problem would have been simple, we could have either cut the Firefight Achievements in question or cut Firefight customization altogether. Neither of those would have made Lars very happy.

So yeah, Firefight in Halo: Reach is literally what you make of it. If you want to take the easy way out, and download game variants from IGN’s File Share, feel free. You’re only impacting your own enjoyment. You're also a baby who sucks at Halo. Your call.

Luke has a slightly different take, noting that if you want to utilize the wealth of available Firefight customization options and our built-in File Browser and File Share features to download an easier way to snag these particular achievements, or if you create a variant of your own design, you've simply discovered yet another one of Halo: Reach's robust features. It's what you call a Win/Win.

" @rhacer63: troll, troll, troll, troll, troll "

I used the FF Invincible map that someone linked in the Giant Bomb "Heat in the Pipes" achievement.  I don't feel bad about it, and you shouldn't either.  If Bungie didn't lock custom Firefight maps with invincibility from giving you the achievement, that's their fault. 
 
Moreover, did you enjoy the time you spent doing it?  I'll tell you that even while I was invincible, I had a ton of fun playing it!  Then again, I also had the Tested podcast going while I was doing it, so I had the soothing sounds of Will Smith, Norman Chan, and Ana Hurkas-Robles making it even better.  = D 
 
@InfiniteGeass said:

"

 With great power, comes great responsibility and Cooperative Multiplayer Lead Lars Bakken informs me that it was well understood that by adding full customization to Firefight certain players would decide to cheese the related achievements (i.e. the laziest, least skilled players). The solution to this problem would have been simple, we could have either cut the Firefight Achievements in question or cut Firefight customization altogether. Neither of those would have made Lars very happy.

So yeah, Firefight in Halo: Reach is literally what you make of it. If you want to take the easy way out, and download game variants from IGN’s File Share, feel free. You’re only impacting your own enjoyment. You're also a baby who sucks at Halo. Your call.

Luke has a slightly different take, noting that if you want to utilize the wealth of available Firefight customization options and our built-in File Browser and File Share features to download an easier way to snag these particular achievements, or if you create a variant of your own design, you've simply discovered yet another one of Halo: Reach's robust features. It's what you call a Win/Win.

That's what Bungie has to say about it. So there's the official word. "

" @Immuniity said:

" @rhacer63 said:

" However, my kids would lose there Live privileges if I found out they did something like that. "

...is this a joke? Would you honestly take away their game because they used a shortcut to get like..25 gamer score? "

Absolutely no joke. We don't allow strategy guides in our home until after the game has been beaten once. Boosting and cheating are anathema to all of us. We believe in earning your scores, medals, achievements, etc. "

" @rhacer63 said:

" @Immuniity said:

" @rhacer63 said:

" However, my kids would lose there Live privileges if I found out they did something like that. "

...is this a joke? Would you honestly take away their game because they used a shortcut to get like..25 gamer score? "

Absolutely no joke. We don't allow strategy guides in our home until after the game has been beaten once. Boosting and cheating are anathema to all of us. We believe in earning your scores, medals, achievements, etc. "

So wait...  You're saying that customizing your own map the way you want it to work, one of the BIGGEST features of any Halo game...is off limits?! "

" @jNerd said:

" @Sethster: My question is... how long did it take? "

There is a custom map available which makes it possible to get the achievement in about 10 minutes or so. "

Moreover, did you enjoy the time you spent doing it?  I'll tell you that even while I was invincible, I had a ton of fun playing it!

I would say yes, but I have done the exact things to get to 50,000+ achievement along with the Killionaire and surviving Firefight on Legendary without dying achievements.  I didn't have enough time then to get up to 1,000,000 points.

Fuck no.  That's a perfectly good way to do it.  If it weren't intended to be played that way, there wouldn't be the option to be invincible. 

Yes you are. 
 
 
Bungie had this to say about people doing this:  
 
 So yeah, Firefight in Halo: Reach is literally what you make of it. If you want to take the easy way out, and download game variants from IGN’s File Share, feel free. You’re only impacting your own enjoyment. You're also a baby who sucks at Halo. Your call.    

" @jakob187 said:

" @rhacer63 said:

" @Immuniity said:

" @rhacer63 said:

" However, my kids would lose there Live privileges if I found out they did something like that. "

...is this a joke? Would you honestly take away their game because they used a shortcut to get like..25 gamer score? "

Absolutely no joke. We don't allow strategy guides in our home until after the game has been beaten once. Boosting and cheating are anathema to all of us. We believe in earning your scores, medals, achievements, etc. "

So wait...  You're saying that customizing your own map the way you want it to work, one of the BIGGEST features of any Halo game...is off limits?! "

I think it is possible you should re-read my post and my followup post. "

Well if my first or second post didn't make it clear...
 
...I believe boosting achievements is incredibly lame. You're welcome to brag about your enormous gamer score, and how big a stud you are with the achievements you've earned. The fact is that when you get past the bragging, your achievements were really achievements, it was self-gratification.

I'm sorry, but not even Bungie can make me feel bad for doing it that way. I earned my Recon the hard way, all 7 Vidmasters, and I don't want to have to be thinking like that again for these achievements. I did it this way so I could concentrate on the biggies: Legendary, and solo Legendary. Those have no way to make it easy on yourself, and will take me a real while. I aim to have this game at 1k before the year is out, and if Bungie make it so I can do that to speed things up, I'm going to. I'm sure me and some friends will re-enact our Endure scenario at some point...