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Veteran Commander Achievement in Terminator Salvation

Veteran Commander223 (180)

Offline Required - This achievement requires play in offline game modesSingle Player - This achievement can be obtained in single player game modesCooperative - This achievement can be obtained in non-versus game modes where players work togetherMain Storyline - This achievement is gained automatically by progressing through the main game modeDifficulty Specific - This achievement requires play on a certain difficulty level
Complete the Game - Become a commander on Hard difficulty

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Batman5273
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Batman5273
Achievement won on 28 May 09
TA Score for this game: 1,103
Posted on 01 June 09 at 09:36, Edited on 29 June 09 at 13:55
This solution has 132 positive votes and 40 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
How to beat this game on Easy and get the Medium & Hard achievements

*You will need TWO 360 controllers and a backup account signed in to do this trick.

Step 1 - On your MAIN PROFILE/first controller (the one you want the 1000gs to go to), beat the entire game on Easy. On this difficulty it will only take you 4 hours or less

Step 2 - After you beat the game go ALL THE WAY OUT to the main title screen. With the BACKUP PROFILE/second controller start a NEW GAME on HARD, choose Co-Op, and join with your Main Profile/first controller when the game screen tells you to press start. Right after the new game begins (when you get control of John Connor and hear a guy ask "John are you okay?") quit out back all the way to the main title screen again

Step 3 - With the Main Profile/first controller, select Replay Scenario. Choose "For The Resistance" on Hard and Co-Op, joining with the Backup Profile/second controller when the game tells you to press start. Now beat this level. If you don't have anyone to play the Backup Profile/second controller, just have it idle while you do all the killing. It's a very easy and short level, even on Hard. After you beat the game the Backup Profile will get the achievements "For The Resistance", "Seasoned Commander", and "Veteran Commander".

Step 4 - Now exit out to your Dashboard, go to My Xbox / System Settings / Memory / Hard Drive / Games. Scroll down to your Terminator Salvation save file. You will notice both of your accounts that played the game have a save file created now. Now, DELETE the save file for your MAIN PROFILE. If you own a memory card, back up the save first if you aren't sure about this or don't trust me. After you delete the main save, this will only leave the save for your Backup Profile

Step 5 - Boot the game back up again. With the Main Profile/first controller start a NEW GAME on Hard and Co-Op, joining with the Backup Profile/second contrller when the game tells you to press start. Again, right after the new game starts quit out just like in Step 2 and back out to the main title screen. I cannot stress how important this step is, if you don't do this you WILL NOT get credit for the Medium and Hard achievements

Step 6 - With the Backup Profile choose Replay Scenario and select "For The Resistance" level on Hard in Co-Op, joining with the Main Profile/first controller when the game tells you to press start. Again, beat this level. This time when you complete it your Main Profile will get the achievements "Veteran Commander" and "Seasoned Commander" and you will now have 1k in this game without having to play all the levels on Hard.

credits to YouStayClassy at x360a
Fliipz360 credits to YouStayClassy at x360a
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=14...
Posted by Fliipz360 on 03 Jun 09 10:23:28
Cameron Speirs Who voted Negative, i mean who doesnt want an easy way to 1000 point a (from what ive heard) shit game
Posted by Cameron Speirs on 05 Jun 09 22:58:02
Batman5273 it is
Posted by Batman5273 on 06 Jun 09 10:50:42
fcabalm Works like charm, thanks!!!!
Posted by fcabalm on 06 Jun 09 17:38:26
fcabalm Works like charm, thanks!!!!
Posted by fcabalm on 06 Jun 09 18:11:05
mikeldd2 Lol me and my buddie beat the game on hard in 4 hours.. no point in even playing on easy
Posted by mikeldd2 on 10 Jun 09 22:16:31
MissingC3C4 Thanks...worked a charm. Glad I only rented this game although it is nice to have another game complete and the 1000gs.
Posted by MissingC3C4 on 11 Jun 09 20:23:14
sXc HERO Honestly, who would take the time to do that?
just beat the game on hard by yourself, I just started and it doesn't seem to hard to me.
Posted by sXc HERO on 12 Jun 09 18:14:36
Maximus Rage rented this game, gonna try this. Thanks for the info. :)
Posted by Maximus Rage on 29 Jun 09 00:35:26
Maximus Rage worked like a charm!!
Posted by Maximus Rage on 30 Jun 09 21:37:03
gbischel I beat the game on medium and then finished off the last achievement with this method and it worked perfectly. If it weren't the worst game I've played, then I would've been interested in beating it legitimately, but the game was painfully disappointing. Also, there's no reason people should be voting negative on a guide that works perfectly...
Posted by gbischel on 05 Jul 09 10:18:25
Arrrgh Zombies I want my 40 quid back! 4 1/2 hours on hard and I didn't even cheat!!! The guide works fine tho cos my lass used it on her account. Cheers Batman5273
Posted by Arrrgh Zombies on 13 Jul 09 09:30:37
PHUTURE 909 ************B E W A R E **********
I tried this out and it popped the 2 achievements out of order, first was the Hard diff, then Medium... oh well.
Posted by PHUTURE 909 on 10 Aug 09 11:34:32
HoCo Duvster who cares about achievement order. you got the points
Posted by HoCo Duvster on 11 Aug 09 18:39:17
GTFerrari Is there any possibility to get band for this? It works great but after deleting the savegame I only have now the choice to replay a senario only for the first and the last stage but when I beat the game on easy I was able to select any stage I wanted. Isn't this bad?
Posted by GTFerrari on 21 Aug 09 23:13:08
Ninja Scroll I just beat the game on Easy because I tried hard at 1st and even though it wasnt the hardest game it got annoying as shit when you die. It forces you to watch that half hour long load time of a terminators red eyes. Are you F'N kidding me. I even put it on the hard drive as I do all my games until I'm done w/ them, then I delete it off the HDD.
I just couldnt put myself through this garbage ass fake me out Gears style rip off.
glad I waited it out all these months and got it brand new sealed for $10.00 plus $3.99 S&H from an ebay seller.
Game sucks balls. And this glitching to get the Medium & Hard achievements is cheating and too much to go through, call me lazy, but it's still glitching the system and I aint never doing that.
But good for those who want to pull an A-Rod or Manny Ramierez! =D
Posted by Ninja Scroll on 16 Oct 09 05:57:51
Nv Defines Phuture that happens with most games' stackable achievements when you actually beat hard first and dont play easy. It's actually a way of showing that you never played easy and jumped right to hard. Some might find it desirable to have it show that way.
Posted by Nv Defines on 07 Jan 10 23:30:08
xxx iFIGHT xxx Just tried this and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the easy 1000G.
Posted by xxx iFIGHT xxx on 31 Jan 10 19:40:21
l Ant Tr4ckzZ l just play the game f****** glitchers
Posted by l Ant Tr4ckzZ l on 05 Feb 10 14:04:15
nickb2819 I beat the game on easy like the first week the game was out and i deleted the save off my HDD. Would this method still work if I just completely skipped the first step and staredt with the second?
Posted by nickb2819 on 15 Feb 10 07:13:52
KING KENNY YNWA that just sad man i just play the game on hard and done it
Posted by KING KENNY YNWA on 03 Mar 10 14:03:11
subtoast Thanks for this. Playing the game on hard was an exercise in frustration and I had to give up. (I'm bad at swerve-heavy turret sequences, it turns out).
Posted by subtoast on 09 Mar 10 11:53:27
SparkyMP Wow thanks for that. My save file is now gone and now I have to replay the whole game! At step 2, when you join with your main profile it overwrites your save file. Therefor eliminating my save of the final chapter. So thank you for wasting my time. You may want to edit you guide about this issue. Maybe a little tid-bit about using a different save location so it doesn't overwrite the file. You need to tell people to make a backup of there save at the beginning, not after step 4.
Posted by SparkyMP on 12 Mar 10 22:45:08
Snow Marley jeah.... same to me.... you really should change your guide like SparkyMP says.... now i have to play that bullshitgame again ^^
Posted by Snow Marley on 22 Mar 10 07:47:20
heiwaboke this is definitely the way to do it. everyone says this game is easy but i thought it was really hard even on easy
Posted by heiwaboke on 24 Mar 10 03:47:39
Batman5273 For the people having trouble you didn't follow the steps properly then. Read and do ecactly like the guide tells you. And for the people that vote negative. Why? This is a proper solution. Do don't have to do it this way. But the solution works.
Posted by Batman5273 on 24 Mar 10 04:44:48
Dalimbak Worked a treat, Thanks dinna dinna dinna dinna BATMAN!!!
For the people who say it has not worked, you must have done something wrong. Cos it definitely works
Posted by Dalimbak on 08 Apr 10 20:32:03
Benjy666 Perfect solution. F**k the negative voters.
Posted by Benjy666 on 01 Jun 10 21:35:04
gameoverloser worked a treat - thanks! single player on hard was a nightmare, might have been easy co-op but I wouldn't suffer this game on anyone else
Posted by gameoverloser on 30 Jun 10 22:45:01
The Onyx Kid YouStayClassy is NOT associated with x360a in any way, shape, or form anymore. By all means, you can remove that last line from your guide.
Posted by The Onyx Kid on 26 Jul 10 07:19:37
Iceberg082006 Wow people it's not that hard. I played hard and beat it. The people that use this way r babies
Posted by Iceberg082006 on 30 Jul 10 04:53:54
bizzomb Does this trick happen to work on the PS3 version?
Posted by bizzomb on 12 Aug 10 11:55:09
The Onyx Kid SERIOUSLY?!?

This website crashes and loses tons of data, but can't lose this solution? YouStayClassy is not, and I repeat ****NOT**** associated with x360a in any way, shape, or form. YouStayClassy would rather be associated with NAMBLA than that "site". Please remove that last part from this solution already.
Posted by The Onyx Kid on 30 Sep 10 11:48:53
alaaruzz 100 % trusted working like a magic thank u bro
Posted by alaaruzz on 12 Nov 10 22:05:40
TheNutman69321 @Phuture 909
That is the correct order. If you were to beat it on hard legitimately the hard achievement pops first, then the medium.

@Otilia e Gabita
YouStayClassy posted it at x360a and that is where this person found it. So the author of this solution followed the rules of this site and credited where he found the solution. He never claimed YouStayClassy was anything more than a user of x360a.

@anyone who is thinking about using this glitch
The original poster of this glitch at another site has now had his gamer score reset. I don't know that this glitch is the reason for it but I imagine it probably is since this is a game save glitch (Microsoft resets gamer scores for game save glitching). So be warned before doing it. Game is extremely easy to beat on hard anyways.
Posted by TheNutman69321 on 13 Dec 10 21:19:45
Batman5273 doing this will not reset your gamerscore. playing on a modded Xbox will. And the game save glitch you are referring to is when you get a game save off the internet and mod it into your game. this is not that type.
Posted by Batman5273 on 16 Dec 10 06:56:12
Run Lolette Run @TheNutman69321

No, using this method is EXACTLY why YouStayClassy got her Gamerscore reset. I'm a very good friend of hers and I saw the email she got from Microsoft. This is a horrible, horrible method and even though I love her like a sister she deserved her reset 100%.
Posted by Run Lolette Run on 07 Jan 11 11:21:04
Batman5273 Sorry but there had to be another reason the score got reset. I have posted this over a year an a half and my score was not reset. Nor was any of my friends who did the same thing. You have to tamper with software and hardware and be found 100% at fault for cheating. Not even 99%. this is not a cheat. This is a glitch in the game that can be exploited. There are plenty of other games that something like can also be done. So your friend might not be telling you the whole story.

After the big Gears of War cheating scandal and the Call of duty mass bricking of modded xboxes Microsoft posted what will and won't get your score reset. This is not one of those occurances. Hacking software, modding an xbox, using glitches in multiplayer games to determine the outcome, hacking a game to be unlegitamitely on top of leaderboards, or tampering with memory cards from file share websites and using a computer to hack a save are such offenses. So because I beat Transformers War for Cybertron on hard by only replaying the final checkpoint and it gave me the achievement is not me hacking the software or modding my xbox. It is a exploit from the game manufacturer.
Posted by Batman5273 on 07 Jan 11 12:21:48
YouStayCla55y Lola linked me to this thread, she tells the truth. What I did wasn't gamesaving in the literal sense, but apparently someone at Microsoft considered the WAY I did it, with the manipulation of save files via a memory card qualified JUST ENOUGH to count.

I think I still have the email somewhere, but it's too depressing to even think about to look for. When Microsoft went to their new server system with the new Xbox.com it became much easier to find stuff like what I did, but I really really hope only I get punished since I'm the creator of it. I don't think I could live with myself if I got hundreds? Thousands? of innocent gamers' scores reset for my mistakes.

Once again, I'm so SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry everyone. If you do get reset because of me, well I guess you can find me on Sony's PSN network as "VousRestezChic" and holler some venom at me. I certainly deserve it. :(
Posted by YouStayCla55y on 07 Jan 11 13:26:17
Chojin22000 worked perfectly first time, very easy to follow.
Posted by Chojin22000 on 16 Sep 11 16:24:06
Testave perfekt thx!
Posted by Testave on 09 Oct 11 19:52:40
TRIGGA MORTIS The solution sounds long, and with possible risks, just play it through on hard, it's so easy anyway, started it yesterday (18/10/11 @ 8.00pm,stopped at 11.00pm, carried on @10.00am on 19/10/11 and completed it at11.15am) and im no top gamer, still, each to their own
Posted by TRIGGA MORTIS on 19 Oct 11 11:05:10
TRIGGA MORTIS Yes, i know it was posted at 11.05, 11.15 was approx
Posted by TRIGGA MORTIS on 19 Oct 11 11:08:30
II N0 Scope45 I Microsoft will NOT reset you for this, they only reset you if you earn online only achievements offline or like 100k in 1 day. The amount of idiots who think you can get reset for this amazes me.
Posted by II N0 Scope45 I on 09 Nov 11 19:54:42
mcdougg Is it possible to just complete the last stage on hard instead of the whole game? Already completed 5 of the stages so far, but it's just a pain in the arse waiting on the game loading when you die.... Cheers
Posted by mcdougg on 23 Jan 12 13:54:38
troyoy Wouldnt everyone that did this trick be reset? Not sure if I would even chance it though.
Posted by troyoy on 05 Mar 12 16:55:49
blazinclintejak Go sir blaze
Posted by blazinclintejak on 20 Mar 12 11:20:22
THEpaynexkiller Still works.

But instead of deleting your game save, just choose a different thing to save on. Simples
Posted by THEpaynexkiller on 05 Jun 12 21:22:11
TinSigmund666 56th complete game off the list> Check! Can confirm this STILL works as off June, 16th 2012 :)
Posted by TinSigmund666 on 16 Jun 12 19:50:27
Paul Wesley 91 Maybe it's because I don't really play shooter that much at all, but I did not find "hard mode" to be "easy" at all! Going to use this trick instead.
Posted by Paul Wesley 91 on 28 Jun 12 21:09:51
Paul Wesley 91 I'm also really surprised that people think you will get punished for this. I've looked at people's achievements that one this achievement this way and they all still have it.
Posted by Paul Wesley 91 on 28 Jun 12 21:13:08
Paul Wesley 91 Hooray it worked! Thank you!
Posted by Paul Wesley 91 on 29 Jun 12 00:36:24
Fix8s worked great - and I'm so glad to see an end to this awful game.
Posted by Fix8s on 24 Jan 13 15:07:02
XxDerUeblexX Still works perfect
Posted by XxDerUeblexX on 09 Mar 13 21:05:57
WizeDog Nice.
Posted by WizeDog on 12 Mar 13 16:35:39
RateD DemoNic Works to the letter, done it this morning and i have no pride when it comes to gamerscore, especially when its a glitch and not actual tampering. Thanks for the tip :)clap
Posted by RateD DemoNic on 07 Apr 13 10:39:21