So yeah, there seems to be an issue with the assault ops for A-1. Instead of stopping at the required amount of kills and marking itself as completed the counter will continue tracking progress made towards it resulting in an uncompletable assault ops and by extension making Extra Credit unobtainable.
This glitch affected me when I was playing on the One and transferred over to the 360 version when I purchased that. There are also reports of it happening to 360 only owners as well.
XBOX ONE WORKAROUND - MathGuy42’s Solution
- Disconnect Internet.
- Delete console save.
- Start SA. You can Cancel the attempt to sync. Boot up will be slow as the game attempts to connect to the Internet.
- Play A-1 to get the Ops you need.
- Shutdown game (using Quit Game on the Home screen).
- Reconnect Internet.
XBOX 360 WORKAROUND - Unaware Boss’ Solution
From this TA solution.
- I loaded up Spartan assault and did not choose a save file.
- I then went to settings and choose my save file which has the glitched assault op on it.
- I went to a assault ops and it says i have 0/90 completed i then loaded up mission 1 and completed my assault op which was glitched.
- after that you should have 1/90 completed so i signed out and then back in and when i signed back in my ops was 89/90 BUT my op that was messed up was now fixed 50/50 and not 888/50.
- one of my ops was not completed for some reason kill 20 elites but all i did was go and complete that op and pop my achievement unlocked.
(note from Shadow–I tried this on one of my glitched saved files and it worked first try!)
Thanks to MathGuy42 and everyone else who have figured out ways to unlock this achievement after it’s glitched.
I own only the Xbox One version of Halo Spartan Assault. I have completed 88/90 of assault ops towards my EXTRA CREDIT ACHIEVEMENT. I should be 90/90 and have my EXTRA CREDIT ACHIEVEMENT but the counters on mission A-1 assault ops 1 and 3 have counters that do not track correctly. These counters go over the aloted amount needed to complete these specific assault ops. For example my counters on mission A-1 assault ops 1 shows 165/3 and assault ops 3 shows 86/50. This is very frustrating and preventing me from having 100% completion shown for this game. Not to mention I sank hours into earning the EXTRA CREDIT ACHIEVEMENT.
Aren’t you being a little hard on 343i?? I mean, they just fixed a massive amount of glitches in a relatively short expanse of time. The majority of players now have Extra Credit unlocked or un-glitched at least. I say, “cheers,” 343i!! Thanks for getting so many of us fixed up so we can be 100% complete!!
> Aren’t you being a little hard on 343i?? I meant they just fixed a massive amount of glitches in a relatively short expanse of time.
They told us to make a new thread for this issue when they locked the previous one
> If you have downloaded the 2.19.14 Content Update and are still experiencing this issue, please start a new thread with any relevant information in the post. Thank you.
I don’t see how any of us are being hard on 343i, we’re just bringing attention to an additional glitch that’s still affecting users trying to unlock Extra Credit post-TU1.
Update 4/17/14:
Son of Kyuss has found an Xbox One workaround by deleting saves. This also will reset all Xbox 360 progress. Details in the first post of the thread. If you receive a license error message when trying to play offline, it may be because you are not on your home Xbox One. Here are instructions for setting your home Xbox One.
Update 6/23/14:
And here’s an Xbox 360 workaround. Unfortunately, all 90 Assault Ops would need to be redone.
Update 7/7/14:
The workarounds may not work if the game was “purchased” for free via Games with Gold. Apparently you must be online to check your Gold subscription, to see if your license for the game is still valid.
Update 7/16/14:
An Xbox 360 workaround has been found. Also, the Xbox One fixes might work with Games with Gold now.
Original message:
While I am not personally affected, here are my thoughts on this glitch, as I try to summarize past information.
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The Counter Glitch 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. This glitch may be restricted to Mission A-1.
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The Counter Glitch on Xbox One is not acknowledged on the Bug Investigation page (as of 2/22/14). The description only applies to the original Extra Credit glitch. The
glitch on Xbox One was reported in this thread as well as the original Extra Credit thread.
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The Counter Glitch on Xbox 360 is not acknowledged on the Bug Investigation page (as of 2/22/14). The listed issue has to do with a licensing error, a completely separate issue. For the Counter Glitch on 360, there is this thread in the Support forum and this thread in the Spartan Assault forum.
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The Counter Glitch 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.) Assuming the player then has 90/90, the achievement should unlock at the Main Menu for both 360 and One (thanks to the recent One update).
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The Counter Glitch seems to only occur on two A-1 Assault Ops, namely “Warm Up That Pitching Arm” and “Sidearm Slaughter.” According to this post, the counters of these two Ops may be swapped in some unknown circumstances.
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The Counter Glitch can occur while playing only on Windows 8, as attested here.
Aside: In my opinion, the bug reports in this thread have been polite and reasonable thus far. And they were requested by 343i. A post by someone else in another forum is not evidence of this thread being hard on 343i. I did thank 343i for fixing the achievement for me, and I continue to be grateful. I would like to see everyone who has done the long grind of Extra Credit get the achievement also.
Bickering aside, 343 knows theirs a bug regarding the EXTRA CREDIT ACHIEVEMENT. Most of us are just a little confounded how only a couple of specific assault ops that do not count correctly could take so long to fix or identify.
I own Spartan Assault for the 360, and only for the 360. I have never played any other version of Spartan Assault. I noticed a couple weeks ago that I have the Assault Ops counter glitch on mission A-1. I haven’t played very much, so it only read 12/3, but it is not counted as complete.
I downloaded the Content Update released on 2.19.14 this morning, and the counter on A-1 still read 12/3. So I played through A-1 to see if it would change again. I killed three Grunts with frags and when I checked the counter again, it said 15/3.
I know this is being worked on, and I hope this information is helpful. Keep up the good work 343!
> I own Spartan Assault for the 360, and only for the 360. [snip]
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> I downloaded the Content Update released on 2.19.14 this morning, [snip]
I thought the 2/19/14 Content Update was only for Xbox One and that Xbox 360 had only had a 1/31/14 Title Update to fix crashing issues. I just fired up the 360 version and got another TU. Has anyone seen a formal announcement of 360 Title Update 2 and what it fixes?
I’m also curious: Has anyone had the counter glitch occur on a mission other than A-1? It seems like A-1 is the only one affected. The only special thing about A-1 I can think of is that A-1 is the only mission playable in the 360 demo. But there isn’t an One demo, or at least I couldn’t find it when I searched for One demos.
We understand that 343 have just released an update, but as a paying customer who has purchased a console which is supposed to be cutting edge, I am less than impressed. On top of the slew of glitches that were initially in the game that were not addressed, when a patch is released, there are still a significant portion of us that are out in the cold.
Ignoring the fact that continuing to fire after exiting a turret should be one of the easiest glitches to initially prevent, its a fault that doesn’t really matter a whole lot to the player. Achievements and completion however, are a large part of why I enjoy gaming, and to know a fundamental fault like the kill counter is BROKEN preventing me from completing the game, is less than satisfactory and looks really cheap if the achievement hunting community have to warn one another to steer clear of an otherwise polished game, because it could be incompletable.
Please sort this out 343, here are screenshots:
> > I own Spartan Assault for the 360, and only for the 360. [snip]
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> > I downloaded the Content Update released on 2.19.14 this morning, [snip]
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> I thought the 2/19/14 Content Update was only for Xbox One and that Xbox 360 had only had a 1/31/14 Title Update to fix crashing issues. I just fired up the 360 version and got another TU. Has anyone seen a formal announcement of 360 Title Update 2 and what it fixes?
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> I’m also curious: Has anyone had the counter glitch occur on a mission other than A-1? It seems like A-1 is the only one affected. The only special thing about A-1 I can think of is that A-1 is the only mission playable in the 360 demo. But there isn’t an One demo, or at least I couldn’t find it when I searched for One demos.
AFAIK, the only mission this happens on is A1. This might be useful information for 343 as they need only address a programming fault which occurs on one level, ie the very first one.
Yeah, this does seem to only be affecting A-1. The strange thing is that it did count for me at one point when I was grinding out A-1 for XP, but afterwards it marked itself as uncompleted and started counting itself again.
Let’s hope that the information in here is enough for 343i to pinpoint the root cause of this glitch.
Any news on when this will be sorted. Having same problem on the 360 version mission A-1 been checking the game everyday since i finished it and still hasn’t changed
No news, just silence, which is very WORRISOME. Like if they pretend they dont hear us and confirm the broken achievement in regards to A-1 counter not working, they dont have to spend time fixing it either.
The purpose of the Halo Support section is both for players to report issues they’re experiencing and for us to gather relevant information that will assist with our investigation. Having additional posts that don’t contribute to either thing hinders our information gathering process. Please use this thread to post specifics only. Conversations are welcome to happen in other sections of the forums. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
We are currently investigating this issue and will provide updates as they become available.
My apologies for not responding sooner, I’ve been working overtime this week. I got the updates confused. It was the 1/31/14 update that I downloaded. I hope my mistake did not cause too much confusion.
I wonder if this glitch has been fixed on Xbox 360 by the recent Title Update. That post only mentions crashes, but perhaps this bug was fixed also. I’m very curious to hear from someone experiencing this bug on Xbox 360.
I have posted before in another thread regarding this issue. But just to be sure 343 does know I the counter on mission A-1 and A-2 is glitched for me. I have only played on the 360. I just downloaded the update no change. Just hope when you fix this issue you don’t forget about A-2 since it is not just A-1 as everyone is saying. Thank you.
