- “Defy the Covenant”— Defiant Map Pack motto.[1]
The Defiant Map Pack is the second DLC map pack for Halo: Reach, it was released on March 15, 2011 at the cost of 800 Microsoft Points. The map pack includes 6 new achievements that would amount to a total of 150 Gamerscore and two multiplayer maps, Condemned and Highlands, and a Firefight map, Unearthed.
Maps
Condemned
- Main article: Condemned
The final moments aboard Orbital Gamma Station, a human communications space station.
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Condemned is set in the human space station, Reach Station Gamma overlooking Reach. Prior to the Fall of Reach, the space station was essential in providing long-range communications for the UNSC between Reach and Earth.
Suggested number of players for this map is 2-8 players; supported playlists include Team Slayer, Team Objective, and Rumble Pit.
Highlands
- Main article: Highlands
Highlands is a large map set in a SPARTAN-II training facility in the Military Wilderness Training Preserve within Reach's Highland Mountains.
Suggested number of players for this map is 6-16 players; supported gametypes include CTF and Invasion.
Unearthed
- Main article: Unearthed
Unearthed is a large Firefight map set in a BXR mining open-cast titanium mine and refinery facility in a civilian sector of the Viery Territory on Reach.
Achievements
- Candy From a Baby - 75G - Capture two flags from an enemy capture zone in a matchmade Stockpile game.
- Crackin' Skulls - 45G - Kill 3 players with the Oddball in a matchmade Oddball game.
- Return to Sender - 30G - Successfully return two flags in a matchmade CTF game.
- Paper Beats Rock -15G- Assassinate a player who has just exited armor lock
- All Alone -10G- Be the last human player in a matchmade Infection game.
- Don't Touch That!- 25G- Prevent the attacking team from taking the flag in a matchmade 1-Flag CTF game.
Trivia
- The Defiant Map Pack was developed by Certain Affinity and published by 343 Industries of Microsoft.[2]
- The maps, Condemned and Highlands are based on known locations found in the Halo novels.
- If you go close to the downed Pelican in Highlands, you can hear a radio coming from the cockpit. Although the comm chatter is filled with static.
- In some screenshots for the map pack, a new helmet can be seen. Whether this is a glitch or a Bungie/343 Studios exclusive helmet is unknown. It could possibly be unlockable.
Mistakes
- On Condemned, if you look outside and focus your attention on the Banshees, they are actually the Ground Support Aircraft. Not the Space Banshee seen in Long Night of Solace, in Halo: Reach
- Also on Condemned, destroyed Sabre Fighters explode in a blue purple explosion, similar to how Covenant vehicles explode. This is strange as most UNSC vehicles explode in a red orange explosion.
- It is possible to unlock the DLC's achievements via Custom Games by using the official game modes from Matchmaking
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