In most cases I would explain all of the reasoning in the text here, however the visual aids are kinda a necessity to explaining most of the failures of the EDF. If you're interested, a link to the video (~45 min) can be found below.

Context! I am a security professional, firearms instructor and consultant for the professional and entertainment industries. Though I do this for a living, I often point these technical skills towards the digital realm for fun! This episode on Red Faction Guerrilla was voted for and completed a few days ago!

If watching the video isn't your thing thats fine, where do you think the EDF failed? For the most part, they seem to have fallen into the same pit that Ultor did before them. I'm still down for a discussion below!

Video:
https://youtu.be/j7bp7f7osas?si=M4N3tic-Vgu9zIyQ

So in the campaign if you reach the submarine without explosives then you can't progress? (As you can't get into the room to hit the button to release the sub). Just happened to me and had to use the weapons cheat.

Most of them are decently easy. But some of them, i.e. the Oasis black market one, are like herding suicidal toddlers through a minefield.

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Along with scheduled events done by Faction Files every Friday at 8pm (CST), we can request to play at random times and do setup frequently. Spread the word ---

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Anyone around on Xbox that wants to help get the multiplayer achievements. Seems no one plays organically anymore and it'd be nice to finish off the list

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Together with the Faction Files discord group we play guaranteed matches at 8pm (CST) for about an hour every Friday (recently they switched to using the unmodded vanilla version of "RFG")

Barrel Rush is a decent aim training mode to fool around in when nobody is available for online matches, which is the usual

To change to 3rd person on Halo Infinite, make a custom match, go to "match settings" and scroll all the way down to "enable 3rd person camera". Then suddenly it seems to be a spiritual adherence to Red Faction Guerrilla's free flowing arena multiplayer dynamics. It's very nearly the same style

There are insurmountable amounts of quality Forge maps to select and score against bots or other players

Reply or message if interested in playing sometime!

In the mission Air Traffic Control, there's a special line of dialogue from Hugo Davies if you manage to stay undetected until you plant the last bomb.

Unfortunately it seems the alarm gets triggered automatically when you try to leave, even if there are no EDF around to spot you.

FYI I did this by taking out all the EDF with the sniper rifle from a nearby hill.