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Ground Control

Ground Control

In Moon, prevent each excavator from breaching the base in one game.

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How to unlock the Ground Control achievement in Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Definitive Guide

This achievement can be done quite easily with the use of gobblegums. But, let's first go over the changes to the Moon Map from the original Black Ops. The volume of the announcement of pending breach can barely be heard or be silent unless you are running in that area currently. And, having your helmet on or off doesn't affect the volume either. What happened to us was the last excavator came down and no one heard anything until the breach was complete. On our 2nd attempt, we got Tunnel 11 on round 7, Biodome on round 15, Tunnel 11 on round 20 (We let this one continue to breach), and Tunnel 6 on round 21 (While the prior tunnel is still trying to breach) TRICKY.

You can complete this one easily with 2 to 4 players.
cn_upright Gobblegums: the only mandatory gum is that at least 2 players have several POWER VACUUMS. Other gums can be anything that will give players perks: Perkaholic, Soda Fountain, On the House, Rain Drops, etc. Another useful gum is the Crate Power.
cn_downright Training Areas: The Hacker and others can run in the Biodome, One player has to run on the Moon outside by the Teleporter. This is key because since you may not hear the announcement, this player can see all 3 excavators and will know immediately when the breach is in process cause the excavator will start spinning and have blinking lights.

So, start the game like you normally would. Buy doors, hack doors, & hack box (try to get each player with some form of Ray Gun because you Will Not need to Pack A Punch the entire game. Also, don't even bother opening the tunnel 11 side as it is just a waste of time hacking doors.
On round 10 - 12, the fun starts. Have one player get the Power Vacuum gumball. If you have never used this gum all I can say is OHH MY GOD! Droppings will be laying everywhere, Nukes, 2X, Death Machines, Insta Kills, And I do mean everywhere, you can easily look forward and see 10 dropping in front of you, and your teammates are seeing the same thing in their areas. Just keep running picking these up and the rounds will all end in a minute or two and the amount of points you get is ridiculous. This gumball activates immediately and lasts 4 rounds. So, after 2 or 3 rounds, the next player needs to hit the gumball machine 3 times each round to get their Power Vacuum. The goal is make sure you have at least one power vacuum active at all times. Keep repeating this process to speed through the rounds. I've done this to the upper round 30, carrying only a ray gun and non packed a punch guns and still had no issues staying alive.
Lastly, stopping the breaches. Whenever, the breach starts, the hacker can easily make it to the start room solo. I found the easiest route is to run out to the teleporter and fall off the side so you land in the pyramid room. Run up the stairs and to the starting room and hack the one of the three consoles with the green blinking light. With all of the nukes going off, you shouldn't see a single zombie while enroute. The only thing you need to be cautious about is running in to the Space Man.
ENJOY and don't forget to dashboard at the end to save them damn gums!
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20 Jun 2017 15:12

17 Comments
Could you explain what you mean when you say you run out to the teleporter and fall off the side? I don't know how to do that or maybe I just don't fully understand
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By GSR CAOR on 21 Jun 2017 06:44
Okay!! thanks so much
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By GSR CAOR on 22 Jun 2017 15:00
Not sure why you're Saying the fun starts at round "10-12", simply because me and my friend played this map doing the Easter egg and During round 4 we got tunnel 6 breaching and around round 8 or 9 we got tunnel 11 and around round 12 we got the last excavator. So I really don't know why you went to round 20 Going for this achievement? Is it because you had 4 people? And I also heard that if you try speeding up the rounds the excavators won't start breaching , not sure why but you have to play the rounds legit in order for them to start breaching maybe that's why you went to the upper rounds because you were speeding up the rounds..
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By ol ALEXKING lo on 25 Jun 2017 20:32
I've played this map many times legit and have never have seen all 3 three areas breach before 12. Consider yourself lucky or full of it, as most will not have that same experience. This is a guide to help people who don't get that lucky and don't want to do multiple restarts to get the right tunnel to breach. So, if someone needs to go higher rounds because that what the game dealt them, this is a method among many to help them get through it if novice players and/or speed things up for others. If you think you have a sureshot way for everyone to get the achievement on 1 playthrough by round 12, POST YOUR OWN GUIDE>
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By Demon Slayer050 on 26 Jun 2017 01:43
I got this today (eventually) and funny enough after running less rare gums (stopped using Perkaholic,Round robin and Power vacuum) I got all three straight by round 14 with no duplicate breach?

Think it was just good luck :) but hey you never know anything is worth a go if you are struggling to get this toast
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By on 26 Jun 2017 06:41
Let's say you have a double breach(tunnel 6 and then tunnel 6 again) you stop the first one but on the second one you let it breach. Do you have to withdraw it?
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By 神Death on 11 Aug 2017 23:56
No , if you withdrawal the breach, you take a chance of the same section breaching again.
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By Demon Slayer050 on 24 Aug 2017 18:40
Question: Does depressurizing a room by destroying the windows with any weapon or grenades and not from an excavator void the achievement?
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By OptimalShadez on 21 Mar 2018 15:48
@OptimalShadez

I am not sure but I just did everything required for this achievement (on PS4) and didn't get it. I saved Tunnel 7 and Biodome, then let both of them breach because shit luck, then saved Tunnel 11 and didn't get the achievement. My lab was depressurized so that might have some stupid factor.
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By x1001x Puppys on 05 Apr 2018 03:23
Depressurized rooms have no bearing on the achievement popping, that I can confirm.
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By Demon Slayer050 on 07 Apr 2018 01:53
Personally I have had no issues hearing the breach announcement. It is always at the beginning of a round so just listen for it then. I wait near the Earth teleporter and if I hear a breach at the beginning of the round I will go to Earth and end up in the spawn room to easily take care of any breach.
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By FLUDD on 20 Dec 2018 01:20
Does this achievement only work for the person preventing the breaches ? Or does everyone in the game get the achievement?
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By Slayerrr 95 on 15 Aug 2022 10:50
Everyone in game.
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By Demon Slayer050 on 15 Aug 2022 15:18
I did this last night with 2 guys and it only gave me the achievement
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By Agent Active on 08 Dec 2022 21:17
The teleporter is located between the moon outside area (mule kick) and the back door of the Biodome. Jump on the pad like you would when you teleport, but instead, look down on the right side of the pad and you will see the pyramid room below you. Simply walk off the right side of the pad. You will land next to the pyramid and see tunnel 6 staircase infront of you to the right and tunnel 11 staircase to the left.
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By Demon Slayer050 on 21 Jun 2017 15:21
@Alexking. The Breaching is totally RNG. It has nothing to do with how quickly you get through the rounds. I have tried to get this in solo a few times now and I get Tunnel 6 twice or the Biodome and usually tunnel 11 the least as I don't open that till last. All the solutions to this on the original DLC back this up and it hasn't changed. You was lucky to get them in that order but that is RNG's for you.
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By on 26 Jun 2017 06:47
Two tips you should add.

1) If a potential breach hasn't happened by Round 4, RESTART. Do not wait until 6+ for your first breach. You're just asking to go 20+ to see maybe 3 breaches.

2) Say you have a breach on round 4 in Biodome, take care of it of course. If there is a potential breach in Biodome again after that, LET IT GO and don't hack it after it breaches either. Try to limit the potential number of times you get the same breach.
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By intheshallow on 30 Jun 2017 14:27
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Once the power is turned on, at the beginning of each round, you can hear the following: Warning, Excavator - will cause decompression of -.

There are three different excavators that can breach there different areas that can be breached.
*Tunnel 6 (Excavator Pi)
*BioDome (Excavator Epsilon)
*Tunnel 11 (Excavator Omicron)

Once you hear this message, go ASAP to spawn (not Area 51) and there are 3 consoles. Each console represents a different excavator. If you heard the message, then one of them is moving towards the area it's going to breach. The corresponding console will be flashing green. Hack this console with the Hacker to make the excavator stop.
That's one prevention done!

Now, it is random which excavator is going to breach, so this trophy can take forever. I was at round 29 and still only had the same excavator every time there was a breach.

There is a trick to this to make the odds in your favor: Once a excavator is going to breach which you already prevented before, just let it breach. You already prevented it, so you will still get your trophy. I can confirm. This way, the next time there will be the warning, it won't be this excavator anymore, because it's already still drilling in that location. So that means it's one of the other two locations.


Now, how to get through the rounds and to spawn.
Train in te BioDome, with the hacker (if you let it breach than this tactic doesn't work, you'll have to run through the labs then) and once you hear the warning (it's a bit harder to hear here) go to the teleporter and either teleport back and forth to Area 51, this way you're be teleported right into spawn, or don't and fall down from the teleporter, landing you at the MPD, then run through tunnel 6 or 11.

Once you're in spawn, either chuck a Gersch Device or pop an In Plain Sight and you can hack safely.

Good luck!
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21 May 2017 09:25

For this trophy, you need to hack all 3 excavators in a single game, and cannot let them breach the first time they activate.

There are 3 excavators in the map (one for Tunnel 6, one for Tunnel 11, and one for the Biodome), and none of them will activate until you turn on the power, so make that a priority first of all.

Once the power is on, your next task is to obtain the Hacker item. It is located in the labs and randomly spawns on 1 of the three floors, usually along the outer edges of each floor. It looks like a little brown rectangular book and it quite small.

Once you have the Hacker, you just need to survive until the excavators activate. When they activate, the background voice will usually announce it, but sometimes the volume is so quiet that it’s tough to hear it. Usually the first one activates around round 5 or 6, the next one around round 13, then again around 18. They tend to activate roughly every 5 rounds after that.

Once you hear an announcement for one, make your way to the receiving area as fast as possible! The times are usually really generous so you shouldn’t need to rush too fast. Usually, what I do is use the teleporter to earth, and then take the teleporter back to the receiving area as soon as it’s ready. Doing this allows you more time to hack the terminals before zombies spawn in. You can also use the Gobblegum In Plain Sight to give you 10 seconds to hack without a worry of dying.

There are 3 terminals for the excavators, and all of which are in the receiving area; two are located near the exit to Tunnel 6 and the other is located near the exit to Tunnel 11. Look for a green light on the terminal to know which one to hack.

After hacking a single terminal, you don’t need to worry about that one anymore for the rest of the game. You can even let it destroy the areas later so that that particular one won’t activate again later. I advise doing so because there is no pattern for which excavator activates, so it’s entirely possible that you get incredibly unlucky and have the same excavator activate 4 times in a row (It has happened to me before).

Once you have managed to hack each excavator once before it breaches, you’ll get the trophy!

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I recommend taking the “Messy Fight” gum and trying to pull it out right away in area 51. In 5 minutes with a weapon that doesn’t even need to be reloaded, you can score from 30 to 35 thousand points. Then open all the doors, buy weapons and stay in the dome. Buy perks and upgrade your weapon to "disconnected wire", in my opinion the best bonus. Excavators will start moving from wave 2-4. Then everything depends on luck. To disable the excavator, you need to use a hacker's device to hack the panels at the starting location (on the moon), at the moment when they are approaching the base. Getting this trophy is faster and more enjoyable this way. Of course, if you have such chewing gum.
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29 May 2017 16:06