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Subject: Vidmaster Challenges do not unlock

A good leader gives his followers a common figure to hate.

EDIT: GOOD NEWS - Problem has been fixed by the kind folks at Microsoft!




Here's the basic story. June 7th, me and 3 guys are going for Vidmaster Challenge: Endure.

The player list:

Peetzaman
Crazymojo13
Kovonn
Atomininja (already had recon, helping because of boredom)

We start at 10:19 Central and 2 hrs 15 mins later, we reached Set 5. Everybody received the little "Achievement Unlocked"
notification, even me. Then we all die to burn off all our extra lives because we're tired, and I save the film just incase.

That was all Crazymojo13 needed for Recon, so he gets on Bungie and unlocks it. I decided to go on and edit topic saying we were done, because I was still getting messages asking if I needed more people. My bookmark on Bungie is my service record, so I see at the top, only 3 vidmasters are unlocked - Brainpan, 7 on the 7th, and Lightswitch. So I refresh the page just incase - no good.

Still locked, even on Achievements Page. I check Xbox.com, same deal. I began to wonder if it hadn't registered on the game review as completing Set 4, so I viewed the Game Record - which clearly shows Set 4 was completed

I was shocked. Maybe nobody had it completed. So I checked the achievements for the others in my group - Crazymojo13, Kovonn, and Atomininja. They all had it unlocked. So naturally, I proclaimed to the world, "What the -blam!-?"

I then proceeded to email Bungie about unlocking the achievement manually, and I still am waiting for a response. June 13th, I emailed Microsoft and received the following response -

Hello Brad,


Thank you for contacting Microsoft online support for XBOX. I am

Errol and I will be helping you today with this issue.

As I understand it, you have some questions regarding your achievements on Halo 3 ODST.

You have mentioned that you do not receive any achievements.

Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences you have felt regarding this unfortunate matter.

Unfortunately, we at Microsoft cannot verify whether your gamerscore was tallied correctly or make a correction. If you
think that you unlocked an achievement and did not receive the
appropriate credit to your gamerscore, we suggest that you try to unlock the achievement again.

There are two possible reasons, the points were not updated at the moment or you have missed one particular scene on the game that eventually will not earn a point.

You can check your achievements on http://www.xbox.com/en-US/myxbox/myachievements.htm

There are certain levels in a game that you need to complete in order to gain achievements. One possible reason that you do not get the overall achievements in a game is that you have probably skipped one certain level of the game. What you can do is to check your previous game or level of the game if you have completed the mission.

If you need to reply to this e-mail, please reply 'with history' (include any previous e-mail) or reference to Service Request Number ********** so we can expedite our service to you.

Thank you for visiting Xbox.com. If you should have future questions on Xbox products or services, please be sure to revisit our Web site as we are continually adding information to enhance our service.

Best Regards,

Errol

Microsoft XBOX Support Services

http://support.xbox.com/






But that just isn't enough, is it?

No, of course not. Last night, (June 14th) me and 3 guys try for Annual. We complete it.

---> Game Record and Saved Film

So immediately, due to the prior incident with Endure, I ask my party to compare games with me and see if it unlocked. I wait about 30 seconds and then I hear, "Dude, what just happened? You completed this with us! Why don't you have it?"


Which translates to ----> I wasted 4 hrs and now I can't unlock them. Even if I tried again. Because it's unlocked on the console.

In closing, PLEASE get this noticed by Bungie so I can get an answer to what's going wrong!

[Edited on 06.17.2010 7:27 PM PDT]

  • 06.15.2010 3:07 PM PDT

is your disc scratched?

  • 06.15.2010 3:45 PM PDT

A good leader gives his followers a common figure to hate.

no....

  • 06.15.2010 3:52 PM PDT

War,War never changes

did u check your achivements

  • 06.15.2010 5:17 PM PDT

War,War never changes

yeah the same thing happen but the next time i got on it worked

  • 06.15.2010 5:18 PM PDT

A good leader gives his followers a common figure to hate.

GOOD NEWS - Problem has been fixed by the kind folks at Microsoft!

  • 06.17.2010 7:27 PM PDT