There are currently two known glitches with Extra Credit on Halo: Spartan Assault, Xbox One. The second glitch also affects the 360 version. They are:
Glitch 1 (Fixed by 2/19/14 update)
Anyone who has completed an Assault Op (formerly Challenge) on Win 8 or WP8 are unable to unlock Extra Credit on Xbox One. Each Assault Op completed on Xbox One adds 1/90th to the Xbox One achievement tracker. Since some Assault Ops have already been completed, it is not possible for the tracker to reach 100% and unlock the achievement.
Glitch 2 (Not yet fixed)
Some players exceeding the number of kills needed for an Assault Op. That is, when they reach the number of required kills, the Op is not marked as completed and the in-game tracker continues to climb. For example, one player has 442/3 Grunt grenade kills on A-1. The Assault Op cannot be completed. The Xbox One achievement tracker is not incremented, so it is not possible to unlock the achievement.
There is now a report of Glitch 2 happening on 360, without having played on X1.
Edit (2/18/14): More thoughts on Glitch 2.
Glitch 2 is the same bug on both One and 360. On either system, sometimes an Assault Op can be “over-completed.” Like 100/3 Grunt grenade kills in A-1. In this case, the Assault Op is not counted as a completed Assault Op out of the 90 necessary. More detailed description in the first post of this thread.
Glitch 2 on Xbox One is not acknowledged on the Bug Investigation page. The description only applies to Glitch 1. So it is not clear if the upcoming patch will fix Glitch 2.
Glitch 2 could probably be fixed on the server side. It seems to me and others that the stats server could be programmed to correct any over-completed stats (say change 100/3 to 3/3) and recalculate the completed Ops out of 90. (In the future, the server could refuse to accept such bad stats and immediately make the correction.) The 360 version would be immediately fixed and the One version would be fixed as soon as the Glitch 1 patch is released.
Original Message
I have already completed the Win 8 and WP8 versions of H:SA. So when I start the X1 version, I see 90/90 challenges completed. When I go to the Achievements app, I see 0% progress for the Extra Credit achievement.
So I’m not sure how to unlock this achievement. I tried redoing an easy A-1 challenge, but to no avail. I also did one of the Weekly challenges with no luck.
The progress for Powered by MJOLNIR, Weapon of Choice, and Distinguished Service also did not carry over (even though I see 32/46 medals won). But I’ve been able to unlock Powered by MJOLNIR and Weapon of Choice by redoing the requirements, and I see progress for Distinguished Service. I haven’t found such a workaround for Extra Credit.
Also, the “117” achievement (Earn all gold stars) won’t unlock, even if the game shows that you have a golden star in each operation level.
When I had the same issue on the Windows Phone Version of the game, after my Windows 8 progress was carried over, I could work around the problem by just earning a golden star again in one of the missions, which would unlock the achievement.
Here, in the XBOX ONE version, this workaround does not work. You should really look into this.
You know, dear 343i team, I don’t want to be mean, but sometimes lately I wonder if you even test the achievement functions of a new game that you release. That is especially true with Spartan Assault.
I know a game is a complex work of programing, and that some minor bugs are nearly unavoidable, but if a game which is heavily advertised for “cross-platform synchronisation” comes with heavy problems regarding exactly that feature…
If you have the 30 gold stars already on Win8/Win Phone it will show you have them on ONE, however it will not award the achievement as you haven’t gained them on ONE. Waypoint should track your progress on every platform but you will need to track which ones you have completed exactly outside of the game, manually.
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> If you have the 30 gold stars already on Win8/Win Phone it will show you have them on ONE, however it will not award the achievement as you haven’t gained them on ONE. Waypoint should track your progress on every platform but you will need to track which ones you have completed exactly outside of the game, manually.
First of all: Thank you for the fast and informative answer. Keep the good work up!
Second: That does not sound like a very elaborate and convenient solution at all. Honestly, for a game that was advertised for its “cross-platform” features, tracking certain parts of the game progress outside the game “manually” (with pen and paper?) sounds like a joke.
Seriously? THAT is the “Next-Gen” solution for tracking progress? Pen and paper? I suddenly feel flashbacks to the good old Gameboy times, when you really had to write down certain codes to save your progress. Manually.
So basically we are at that point again? After all those years? People really… you gotta be kidding me.
Why can’t the achievements just synchronize? I don’t get it. Just unlock all the achievements that I did on the other versions of the game at the XBOX ONE and the XBOX360 version automatically. I already earned them! It are the same yoinking achievements. They synchronize (partly) between the Windows 8 and the Windows Phone Version as well. Why not here?
In addition: At the XBOX ONE version, after you leave a turret, your Spartan sometimes starts to fire his weapon uncontrollably until he is out of ammo. Maybe you want to fix this as well.
In the future when addressing separate issues please post a new thread so we can better track them. Are you noticing any consistency with the Spartan firing issue?
Actually I thought I do you guys a favor by using a thread about SA issues on XBOX ONE that already exists, rather than opening a new thread for every problem I encounter. Sorry for that, I really meant to make your life easier, not harder. But you surely have admin rights, can’t you detach my postings from this thread and put it in several different new threads, as you prefer?
I will keep investigating in the “automatic fire” issue I described, in the meantime!
@Vanilla Eice: I think once you complete all missions, regardless of star level, you will unlock 117. In the Achievement app, I can see progress on 117 after each mission, even if I only get Bronze. Also, I popped Prodigy on my first mission while only getting Silver. So apparently the X1 achievement system is counting our old Golds, but only after replaying a mission. Not as easy as Win 8 / WP8, but a lot easier than getting Golds again.
Hey man, thanks for the info. If this holds true, I am really happy. I already replayed half of SAs missions on ONE, now I go to bed because where I live its already close to 1 o’clock in in morning. Lets see if your assumptions are true tomorrow.
But what you said sounds very promising. Thank you. =)
His comment was correct: Once you play all the missions and beat the game, regardless of whether you get golds, you’ll get 117 if you previously unlocked all golds for the other missions.
The “Extra Credit” achievement, however, is still an issue. If you’ve completed all the missions on Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8, then there doesn’t appear to be a way to get them on Xbox One. Completing a weekly “assault op,” as they’re called on Xbox One, doesn’t work, either.
Hopefully we’ll see a solution after the holidays. I don’t think they’d let an achievement that’s unobtainable to a certain group of people pass like this. And hopefully it won’t happen with the 360 release of Spartan Assault.
I was directed here from twitter, to report problem with Extra Credit achievement. I completed all of the assault ops and the achievement status shows 97%.
Own Windowds 8 and Xbox One version of the game.
It is a shame that this was not tested by 343i. You guys should look at competition and see how awesome Sound Shapes works on PS3, PSVita and PS4.
Extra credit is glitched for me its showing 85% complete but I have 90/90 completed.
Also on my lumia extra credit is glitched on there, 90/90. Also A for effort is also glitched for me on my phone. I have completed all F mission challenges and it wont unlock.
I am having this same issue. Just posting to let 343 have some examples.
When I started Spartan Assault, it said I had completed 72/90 of the mission specific Assault Ops (which carried over from other platforms). I have since got every other achievement for the Xbox One version, and only have Extra Credit left. I’ve completed the remaining 18 Assault Ops, but no achievement. The progress says 20%, which is correct for the Ops I’ve done just on the Xbox One (18/90 -> 20%), but it doesn’t include my previously completed ones. I have attempted re-doing some of the earlier Ops, but the progress for the achievement still refuses to move at all.
Hopefully 343 can get this fixed in an update or something, because I would like to 100% this game rather than 29/30 it.
Same issue with me. Extra credit won’t unlock on my Xbox One, Windows 8 game, or on my Windows 8 phone. They all say 90/90 complete but no luck unlocking. When I try redoing specific assault ops challenges it doesn’t seem to change anything. Weekly challenges do seem to get completed but still no achievement. These are my last 3 To get 100% for all Halo games. Any info or update would be great.