Or “How to Find Master Chief’s Record”
Achievement Name: Digging up the Past
Achievement Value: 20 G
Achievement Description: Found and accessed Chief’s Record in mission 1.
The Halo 4 Digging up the Past Achievement is one of the easiest achievements to unlock in Halo 4. All you have to do is know where to look.
From the description, you know it’s in Halo 4 Mission 1: Dawn. And as you can see from the video walkthrough for this achievement, it’s actually at the very beginning of the mission. Simply go down the staircase on the left as you exit the very first room. Turn around when you reach the bottom of the stairs, and approach the terminal. Hold X to activate Master Chief’s record.
You don’t have to listen to the whole record to unlock the achievement, but it’s a good reminder of what happened in the first three games if you haven’t played them recently.
The achievement description doesn’t list a difficulty requirement (which wouldn’t really make much sense anyway since it doesn’t require any skill to get this one). However, when I tried it on Easy, it did not unlock. I went back and tried it on Heroic and it did unlock. I have read reports of others being able to unlock it on Easy and others who had to try to watch it several different times before it would unlock. I’d recommend that if it doesn’t work the first time you try, quit the game and start over.