Vidmaster Challenges

The Vidmaster Challenges are a series of 7 achievements available for Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, four in Halo 3 and three in Halo 3: ODST. Most of the Vidmaster Challenges do not reward the player with gamerpoints, but if all Vidmaster Challenges are completed, then the player will be rewarded with Recon armor for multiplayer use. The Vidmaster Challenges for Halo 3 did not ship with the original game, but became unlockable with the Title Update 2.

Halo 3

 * Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch: "Get the rank of Lieutenant in any playlist in the new EXP progression system."
 * Vidmaster Challenge: Annual: "After 9/25/08, complete Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts."
 * Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7: "Entered into a ranked or social playlist with 7 EXP on the 7th of the month."
 * Vidmaster Challenge: Brainpan: "Find all the hidden skulls on the Mythic maps." (The only Vidmaster to give Gamerscore on Halo 3)

Halo 3: ODST

 * Vidmaster Challenge: Endure: "On Firefight, on any mission, pass the 4th set on 4-player Heroic LIVE co-op."
 * Vidmaster Challenge: Deja Vu: "Complete Coastal Highway on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and no 'Hog or Scorpion."
 * Vidmaster Challenge: Classic: "Finish any level solo on Legendary, on LIVE, with no shots fired or grenades thrown."

Trivia

 * The Vidmaster Challenge: Annual could have actually been completed before 9/25/08, as some players did it the day before due to Time-Zone differences.
 * The Vidmaster Challenge achievements for Halo 3 did not ship with the original game. The Halo 3 Title Update 2 increased the amount of achievements for the game from 49 to 79 allowing for a 750 gamer point increase for Xbox Live users to unlock.
 * The Vidmaster Challenges concept spawns from Bungie's Marathon series, where players who wished to prove they were the absolute best had to complete insane challenges such as playing through the game without the use of health items, with only fists, on the highest difficulty setting. Those that succeeded made videos to mark their achievement, thus spawning the term "Vidmaster."
 * All of the pictures for the challenges have the Marathon symbol in the background.
 * The total number of Vidmaster challenges is another example of Bungie's infamous series of "7" references.

Internal

 * Halo 3 Achievements