So for anyone who has an achievement that is showing up in the game ( the achievement menu ) but NOT on their gamercard this is what I've learned:
Ok people here is everything Ive found out after dozens of emails from activisinon (whom do not offer on the phone support) and hours on the phone with Microsoft ( I even got to talk to xbox live support and the head support supervisor, or so i was told). Ive tried everything they told me, recovering gamertag, trying to get the achievement again, etc etc.

The bottom line is: the achievements are stored on Microsoft online servers and according to the supervisor who filed an investigation report, there is some sort of problem with the servers and/or with the interaction between the game and the servers.

So if your in-game achievement tracker has an achievement unlocked that has NOT been unlocked on your gamercard, deleting your game save WILL NOT WORK. The only thing (according to microsoft AND activision) you can do is get Microsoft to investigate and fix their servers, so please if you have this problem and have tried everything, call xbox support so that  they know there are others with the problem and they fix it and we get out achievements!!!

k?

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for you its one man army for me its medicine man i want it unlocked

Yeah that would be nice.. They phoned me back and said they fixed it but i still dont have teh achievement, sold the game, might buy it back if i really care about completion for it. Its such a bad game i might not eve bother.

 The Danielnator wrote:

Yeah that would be nice.. They phoned me back and said they fixed it but i still dont have teh achievement, sold the game, might buy it back if i really care about completion for it. Its such a bad game i might not eve bother.

That's too bad.

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Midway used to have talent.

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Well, they are definately glitched. But for me in a good way! I was online yesterday with a buddy of mine and I managed to get the Annihilator and Team Player achievements without having 100 stars for the individual levels. I did however have 100 stars combined though... So I did get the Achievement (xbox live) but the ETQW Achivement list (first page in the game) says that I don't have it... strange

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>I've done questionable things.... Nothing the god of bio-mechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for.

Thats good, I hope I can at least get the rest of them and get 990 gamerscore out of the game, going to rent it wednesday and see what happens.

Even better: just got the Handyman achievement and I still need 21 constructs done.... tsk tsk tsk

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>I've done questionable things.... Nothing the god of bio-mechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for.

Found something interesting.  The Top Dog achievement didnt unlock for even though it said I had completed everything required.  Well,  I disconnected my console from the internet and started the game.  The info I had on that achievement was quit different.  It now was showing all the requirements were not completed.  I'm going through now offline and it appears to be working.

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52 games with maxed pts.

Well this does sound very interesting dead box, if you could, please tell me what you did to disconnect your console from the internet ( did you just unplug your ethernet cable/wireless adapter )? I havent tried this or heard anything of the sort from the guys at microsoft, who by the way phoned me about two weeks after my first post claiming that the issue was fixed. However I returned the game and I plan to re-rent it wednsday, I hope I can get my One Man Army and whatever other one I'm missing ( I already forgot ) in the manner you described.

Still going through instant action with Strogg (which is what it said I was missing,  though I have the achievement).  Will let you know what happens when I'm finished.  Yes,  just disconnect the cable.

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52 games with maxed pts.

Thanks and best of luck to you.

It worked!!!  The info was wrong when it was online.

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52 games with maxed pts.

That's good to know. So it seems Microsoft's assesment that the servers do not properly recieve info from the game is correct. I guess unless they actually fix the issue it will be impossible for me and other people who for screwed for the online achievements to get them :( .

Microsoft has a terrible record in this area.  This happened with one of DLC packs for Timeshift and they have yet to fix it.

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Aha, that might be it then! Two weeks ago I was doing single player offline and had 2 minutes to go to get one of the hard achievements. So I paused the game and connected to Live. No problem. Finished the campaign and got the achievement.
At that moment it wanted to save something but couldn't find the drive, so it suggested the default drive (duh...) and I said yes to overwrite it because I didn't think it would hurt. Turned out that I lost ALL progress up to that point. Although I had everything done on easy and medium it told me I had zero stats there. After that I went to the Achievement stat page of ET:QW and saw zeroes in every single case even the online stats!! Argghhhh!!! Turned of my xbox in disgust and did something else.
Later on I started the game expecting to have to start all over again. Checked my stats and they were back for the online part and the oflline showed the right stat for those campaigns I already had achievements for.

So I think something got crossed along the line. Seems to me that the game checks your Live achievements first and gets online stats from somewhere else (id, nerve, activision?) each time you check the achievements in the game.

Maybe the following is worth a try for you guys:
Start offline, play a bit, pause, connect to XBL, finish level, have it overwrite your save game, check stats, quit to dashboard (or power off machine like I did...), restart game, check stats....
But don't shoot me if this doesn't work for you :-)

cheers and good luck

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>I've done questionable things.... Nothing the god of bio-mechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for.

Thanks, Ill post an update wednesday if anything happens, good or bad.

Yep,  from what it appears.  If you want to see ur true progress on any given achievement, check it while u r offline.

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 Th3 RePL1c4nT wrote:

Aha, that might be it then! Two weeks ago I was doing single player offline and had 2 minutes to go to get one of the hard achievements. So I paused the game and connected to Live. No problem. Finished the campaign and got the achievement.
At that moment it wanted to save something but couldn't find the drive, so it suggested the default drive (duh...) and I said yes to overwrite it because I didn't think it would hurt. Turned out that I lost ALL progress up to that point. Although I had everything done on easy and medium it told me I had zero stats there. After that I went to the Achievement stat page of ET:QW and saw zeroes in every single case even the online stats!! Argghhhh!!! Turned of my xbox in disgust and did something else.
Later on I started the game expecting to have to start all over again. Checked my stats and they were back for the online part and the oflline showed the right stat for those campaigns I already had achievements for.

So I think something got crossed along the line. Seems to me that the game checks your Live achievements first and gets online stats from somewhere else (id, nerve, activision?) each time you check the achievements in the game.

Maybe the following is worth a try for you guys:
Start offline, play a bit, pause, connect to XBL, finish level, have it overwrite your save game, check stats, quit to dashboard (or power off machine like I did...), restart game, check stats....
But don't shoot me if this doesn't work for you :-)

cheers and good luck

I got the same message(unable to find storage device).  I overwrote aswell.  That is probably what caused my stats to be messed up.  It was like I started a new game.

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Well it seems I will never get Emmisary : Expert or One Man Army. I tried doing what you guys have suggested; checking my achievements in the tracker while signed out of xbox live but of course the achievements being online the trackers says 0 because the live records are not kept on the xbox I guess. :( When I do sign in again the achievement menu says I have Emmisary :Expert and One Man Army but they never unlocked on my gamercard... :(

Grr, this glitch annoys me so much, ive got the achievment which needs 10 2-star ranks for covert ops, but i dont have the achievment which needs 10 1-star ranks!!

=[

Yeah I have now got every achievement except One Man Army and Emmisary: Expert on my gamercard, although the game says  I have all 50 :(!

Funny, I just had the exact opposite happen.  I got an achievement I haven't earned yet.  I know full well I haven't earned it as the stats track is correct or nearly so because I've been tracking them myself.

 Team Player achievement 20gs wrote:

100 Revives
250 Ammo Packs Given or Received
100 Total FieldOps or Oppressor Stars
100 Total Medical or Technician Stars

 My stats show and this is pretty close to accurate by my tracking wrote:

100/100 Revives
144/250 Ammo Packs Given or Received
42/100 Total FieldOps or Oppressor Stars
66/100 Total Medical or Technician Stars

I hope I don't end up getting stuck with one I can't get that would annoy me after how time consuming some of these are.

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 Red Eagle LXIX wrote:

Funny

No its not :(. I cant get any more than 950 in this damn game now.

 Apostle of Fury wrote:

 Red Eagle LXIX wrote:

Funny

No its not :(. I cant get any more than 950 in this damn game now.

Sorry, I didn't mean not getting the achievement was funny.  I meant funny, strange, as I had the opposite happen.  Twice tonight it has popped achievements I haven't got the stats for.  The game even shows them as locked still.  The second one was Annhilator which I don't have enough stars in FieldOps or Soldier for.  Heck, as of this posting I am only up to 57 Stars in FieldOps and 49 in Soldier.  Clearly not the 100 either of those achievements require.  I did get my ammo packs past the 250 mark though.

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 Red Eagle LXIX wrote:

Sorry, I didn't mean not getting the achievement was funny.

Haha its alright :P best of luck to you with this time consuming and rather boring game.

I rather enjoyed playing the game online. don't know what it is, the game doesn't have anything great about it, but I got really addicted to the gameplay. Unfortunatly two of the achievements glitched out on me so I am screwed out of the full 1000.