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Subject: Recon Unlock Failure: Vidmaster Flags Required

Posted by: Reachtard
Did someone call for me?

Posted by: Aurora Spitfire
Hey i played ODST and completed it within 24 hours of having the game. I have all 7 vid masters but the same message comes up every time. So what should i do ?
Same here, I've been told to just be patient, and bungie will fix it. Can't say I didn't see a bug coming though (just as the acheivement expansion did to the Halo 3 original acheivements).

  • 09.22.2009 8:33 PM PDT

aaah makes sense then not very fair though still. oh well add me if you like. keep me in th eloop and all that. Aurora Spitfire

  • 09.22.2009 8:56 PM PDT
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My friends and I all just finished a grueling process to attain this recon. However we all have gotten the same message.
Recon Unlock Failure: Vidmaster Flags Required
WE DID NOT CHEAT>>> CHECK IT. i got the game on its midnight release and haven't stopped playing it just so i can have recon.
Come on Bungie please be formal enough to explain to your customers what is wrong. After all we have been led on to believe this was the way to attain recon. And now in some way you've manipulated the process.

Respectfully,
your concerned customer

  • 09.22.2009 9:00 PM PDT

~ "Over and Out..."

so... mastercmj how do u have endure if u only had 80k points in firefight?

thats kinda low for having to get thru all 4 sets.... hmmm, kinda fishy.

  • 09.22.2009 9:00 PM PDT

jeremy duvall

Well I don't know about u guys but I got all my vidmasters clean u can cheek if u don't believe me and I still don't have recon

  • 09.22.2009 9:13 PM PDT

Posted by: Reachtard
Did someone call for me?

Posted by: SoloCerberus3
so... mastercmj how do u have endure if u only had 80k points in firefight?

thats kinda low for having to get thru all 4 sets.... hmmm, kinda fishy.
bnet hasnt updated yet. I hate that it hasn't yet either. I got 2 killionaires and 2 invincibles during the endure session. Just be patient, i will link you to it when it appears, and prove that I am not a cheater. Cheating is a waste of time and effort imo.

  • 09.22.2009 9:21 PM PDT
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UNBELIEVABLE!! my friend had the same problem.... i got most of the achievements with him... it told him-- Recon Unlock Failure: Vidmaster Flags Required-- just like it is telling me right now... after some time he suddenly was able to unlock it... Now he has it and i who did most of the work in firefight still dont have it. How can he suddenly have it change from the failure screen to the blue button that says gift recon!???
PLEASE PLEASE BUNGIE TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS

  • 09.22.2009 9:44 PM PDT

Just an average player who wants some other people to play with. Check out
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I have the same thing i did not cheat to get any of my achievments i legitly got all of them y am i having this problem?

  • 09.22.2009 9:51 PM PDT

i finished my last achievement about an 30 mins ago and I dont have it I mean it should be an automated process this is frustrating knowing that some ppl get it instantly.

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  • 09.22.2009 10:12 PM PDT

Get over yourself - drink vodka!

Posted by: Achronos
Oh, by the way, for everyone else. We'll put up some info at some point for those who think they should have it but can't unlock it for some reason or another. But we've found the vast, vast majority of these people are users who have cheated in some way.
Orly?
I haven't cheated an instant in my life and I have the same -blam!- problem.

  • 09.22.2009 10:16 PM PDT
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I am experiencing this too as I have just completed the road to recon achievement line. I'll just leave it alone for now and hopefully things will be resolved. I think that part of the issue may be how slow stats are being recognized on the site right now. The match in which I just completed vidmaster dejavu, probably won't show up on the site for a few hours.

  • 09.22.2009 10:38 PM PDT
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because you have 7th on the 7th unlocked on the 8th

  • 09.22.2009 10:42 PM PDT

You can pull your pants up now I am finished.

I also just got all the rest of the vidmaster achievements and got this error, I got my game at like 1am last night and played it and then spent my entire day getting the endure achievement finally got it then spent another hour getting the highway one, and then got the last classic one and I am also getting the same error. I have not cheated and I would also like to know what is wrong with this button that is supposed to be working?

  • 09.22.2009 10:45 PM PDT

Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb!
Who the heck do you think I am?!

If he did them offline, then he cheated them.

  • 09.22.2009 10:47 PM PDT
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I have not done all of the Vidmasters yet ,but could somebody please explain what button people are talking about .

  • 09.22.2009 10:50 PM PDT

Posted by: GCO RAGEnFECTED2
I also just got all the rest of the vidmaster achievements and got this error, I got my game at like 1am last night and played it and then spent my entire day getting the endure achievement finally got it then spent another hour getting the highway one, and then got the last classic one and I am also getting the same error. I have not cheated and I would also like to know what is wrong with this button that is supposed to be working?


Same here.

Also heres my endure game http://www.bungie.net/Stats/ODSTg.aspx?gameid=1258189&pla yer=Neewom48

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  • 09.22.2009 10:50 PM PDT

Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb!
Who the heck do you think I am?!

It means you cheated.
There is no possible way you could ahve gotten those when your firefight record is basically empty and your highest score is 10k.

  • 09.22.2009 10:50 PM PDT
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Hmm, he has marathon on Trials HD... He is god, Lestropie, or an achievement hacker...

  • 09.22.2009 11:01 PM PDT

You can pull your pants up now I am finished.

I just noticed that my most recent game of firefight hasnt even updated into my profile maybe that is why I am getting the error. We will just have to wait and see I will update if it changes.

  • 09.22.2009 11:03 PM PDT
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what is the button some people are talking about ?

  • 09.22.2009 11:08 PM PDT

MBC

hey, me and my other 3 friends got halo 3 odst on september 22 and we tried to do as much achievements as we can, we live in Australia and we got to play it a few hours before Americans did. we got all vidmaster achievements but it says we need vidmaster flags, we actually played these games out and got the achievements.

  • 09.23.2009 2:05 AM PDT

MBC

yup same thing happen to me, me and a few friends did it and we are so mad we cant get recon, my GT is Ausgamer7 add me if u wish, check my achievements, this is really wierd!

  • 09.23.2009 2:08 AM PDT
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Yeah my firefight games and my campaign games hasnt updated yet, maybe because i got the game on saturday. They were selling it in game mania in holland. And i got the achievements but no recon?

  • 09.23.2009 2:09 AM PDT

Get over yourself - drink vodka!

The servers are overloaded. It knows you have the achievements cause that's stored on the XBL servers, but when it can't match a game to the unlock it freezes it. Give it a while to update your game stats and it will unlock.

  • 09.23.2009 2:13 AM PDT

You hacked the achievements. Game wasn't out February 2009.

  • 09.23.2009 2:17 AM PDT