As well as many Skulls and Terminals to find in Halo: Campaign Evolved, there are several miscellaneous achievements / trophies to unlock. In this guide we will show you how to unlock the Map Quest achievement / trophy for completing The Silent Cartographer without shooting, using grenades, melee, dying, or restarting. This achievement is actually a lot of fun to do, and it can be done very quickly if you know where you’re going. It’s also not as difficult as it sounds, I did it on my first try.
Mission: The Silent Cartographer
This achievement / trophy on mission 4, The Silent Cartographer. You will need to play the whole mission rather than starting at Rally Point Bravo or later.
Before we start, a few tips:
- You can unlock this on any difficulty but if you’re replaying for achievements / trophies, be sure to have the game set on easy difficulty.
- This guide will make a lot more sense if you’re familiar with the mission. For new players, enjoy this legendary mission first. Each attempt at this will take 10 minutes maximum.
- Sprint passed every enemy, you can’t kill them anyway
- The use of a Warthog is fine, however you simply don’t need one. An important note: It is understood that if you enter a Warthog and press any of the melee, shoot or grenade buttons on your controller, it has been reported that can void the achievement.
- Controller players: move your right hand to the bottom of your controller to avoid muscle memory making you press any buttons you shouldn’t.
From the start of the mission, you will disembark the Pelican dropship. Instead of going the clockwise way around the island the game wants you to go, turn and go counterclockwise. You’re going to head to the door opening control panel before being instructed to do so.
Head counterclockwise around the beach and when you see the Covenant forces to the right, sprint passed them, then passed the outdoor Hunters and into the Forerunner structure. Sprint passed the Hunters inside and hit the control panel:
From there, you’ll want to back out of that structure and follow the main path back to this location and head inside as normal:
Sprint passed all enemies to descend the structure to reach the next objective panel. Press it:
After the cutscene, it’s a simple case of following your path back out of the structure. This is straightforward, but the one enemy to be mindful of is the Elite with an Energy Sword. Make sure you sprint around them and get out.
Once outside, take a left and hide in the cave until the Pelican arrives to pick you up. About 30 seconds later, it’ll arrive. Sprint out to board and you’re in the clear – just remember to not jump on!
Once the cutscene has played you’ll unlock your Map Quest achievement / trophy, congratulations!
That was our Map Quest guide for Halo: Campaign Evolved. We hope it was helpful! You can find more of our guides for Halo: Campaign Evolved below, or read our full review here.
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