Halo 5: Guardians

73 Achievements

1,250

44-56h

Xbox One

Xbox Series

Warlord

Won a match on all three original Warzone maps.

9.93%

How to unlock the Warlord achievement in Halo 5: Guardians - Definitive Guide

FaceTheCarnage

TrueAchievements

16 Apr 2017 09:17

STUCK AT 66%? - Updated: 04-11-19

IMPORTANT: May require several attempts.

Game version: Digital Copy*
*Works with game pass confirmed.

Solution credit: jetCrownDPrince

WILL NOT require reinstalling the game.

1. Go to Halo 5 Hub (NOT your service record). To do this, hit the guide button on controller. Scroll down to "Halo 5" then hit the three line button on your controller. Select "Official Club".

2. From the Hub, select "Progress" tab at the top. Go to "Stats". Note your matchmaking victories. Now your service record, check to see that you have won at least once on all three maps (storm, arc, spec 7) for both firefight and regular warzone.

3. Delete profile from console. Do not recover it, you will do that later.

4. Clear blu ray persistent storage 5 times. (Located in Xbox settings)

5. Hard reset Xbox (hold down console power button for 10 seconds til it turns off). Don't turn back on.

6. Unplug power cord. Make sure the power brick light is completely off.

7. Wait ten minutes. Have a snack, I did. Recommended.

8. Hook it all up, power on via controller.

9. Start up halo 5. Remember your profile? It will ask you which profile. Click "add" and recover your profile. Sign in while on the halo 5 main menu.

10. Wait to be fully sync up. Super important. Without being fully synced, your efforts will not count. A way to tell if this failed, start searching matchmaking but you get booted back to the main menu. If this happens you are not synced. Start over.

11. Now start heroic fire fight. Win! Yep, try to win the first or second one. Doesn't matter the map.

12. After win, check halo 5 Hub and make sure the victories I pointed out earlier increased. If NOT, you are not synced. Revert back to step 3.

13. If it went up, you're good to go! Jump into regular warzone and do not leave queue. Play every match and do not quit. Me, I would run around in the back of the map and watch YouTube til I found one of the three maps since I didn't know which ones I needed.

Important note: I pick regular over firefight because of better map rotation. This achievement can be unlocked in either.

14. When you find the maps needed, win/lose keep track on paper. Wait to watch your character leave on a pelican. Stay in queue, load up next match and give it a few minutes before checking the hub again so that data has time to upload and be accuate if counted. If you win and victories doesn't change. Restart back to step 3. If they do change but no achievement then continue onward til it pops.

15. Achievement has popped. Freedom!

I popped mine losing on Escape from ARC. It's rough but it's better than doing 60 hours + guessing when it will pop. Total time spent trying to figure this out/ warzone games/ all other sultions and reinstalling digital copy which I did not need to do: 44 hours. Hope this solution saves you time. Good luck!

IMPORTANT NOTE: I helped people pop this for over a year, however, as of 7-01-18, I will not take anymore requests due to how busy I have become. I do wish you all luck.

Important: post updated 04-11-19

16 Apr 2017 09:17

158 Comments

Thanks Acemccloud for advice. I added some formatting to help reading easier.

By FaceTheCarnage on 11 Apr 2019 07:28

After weeks of trying Carnage's method without success I finally unlocked this annoying achievement - it was Carnage's method that finally worked after countless fails.

The only difference between success or failure that I could see was when doing step 9 and 10: when my console was synching, it would abruptly stop at around 10% or 12% - when it did this my wins weren't being recorded in the game hub.

However without any clear reason and without doing anything differently to earlier efforts, this weekend, when doing steps 9 and 10, my console would synch to 62% before taking me to the lobby - my wins were now being recorded in the hub.

So it seems the method itself is a little hit or miss, its strength being that it forces the console to synch, but whether you are successful in fully synching seems to be beyond one's own control.

My only advice would be to keep trying Carnage's method, especially on weekends and perhaps play some other games that show your console synching (I was playing BF1 as well), if you see it synch at the Halo 5 title screen to above 60% you're probably good to go, if you see 10-12% then you're better off trying again rather than wasting time

By robbozskii on 27 Feb 2018 00:03

I was stuck on 66% for about three days and I played dozens of games, but the victories count stayed firmly at 17. However, the other stats kept incrementing as I played firefight games so the game was definitely in sync.

During this time I had read every guide and tried all imaginable tricks, I can only summarise that I needed to play more Warzone games. I had deleted my account, saves and reinstalled the game from my xbox as well as clearing the blu ray cache. I don't believe any of these worked as the victories progress indicator in the hub never incremented after any game.

I don't believe that using Req's affects this achievement as in my last game I used many.

Firefight:
Stormbreak Won 2 Lost 2 Tied 0
A.R.C Won 6 Lost 1 Tied 0
Apex 7 Won 6 Lost 4 Tied 0

Warzone:
Stormbreak Won 2 Lost 3 Tied 0
A.R.C Won 1 Lost 3 Tied 0
Apex 7 Won 1 Lost 3 Tied 0

As you can see I played more firefight than war zone and it didn't make any difference.

In the end the final game that unlocked the achievement was a victory on storm break (regular warzone). The victories then went up to 18.

By DELT4 UK on 29 Jun 2018 23:25

Thanks a million for the guide Carnage!! And TrashMan, thanks for the extra tips!

So how I unlocked it (hopefully this will help someone) is by first first completing Carnage's first 10 steps, yet when I won a match of warzone firefight, the win didn't show up on the Game Hub. So, I simply removed and redownloaded my profile and won a match (the win STILL didn't show up on the hub.

At this point I decided to start from scratch and follow Carnage's guide to a TEE, this time I did indeed wait the 10 minutes after everything was unplugged (don't know if that made a difference) but I then won a match on temple and it finally recorded my win! I then eventually won on escape and march but LOST on raid! It popped during the scoreboard after the loss on raid ahaha.

A few tips, I did all of this after winning a match of warzone and warzone firefight on all three maps prior to attempting this solution. Also, I got the achievement by ONLY playing heroic warzone firefight and I was even kicked for inactivity (had to get a drink) and started the search again without having to redownload my profile. So staying in the same queue doesn't seem to be necessary!

Cheers

By PharaohsForce on 07 Aug 2017 03:50

After a long and complicated process I finally got the achievement to work. Here's what I did as a last resort:
-factory reset my xbox one which included the option to purge of all games/apps
-redownloaded halo 5. The game is 97GB so be patient. I did this step overnight while sleeping.
-won a couple of firefight & warzone regular games but no progress made on the achievement
-using the advice of tuhin94, I restarted my xbox (just the normal way, not the hold button down for 10 seconds way)
-cleared blue-ray persistent storage a couple of times
-played a ranked match of team doubles. Even though my team lost so hard, for some reason my "matchmaking victories" went up +1 on the halo 5 achievement page.
-won a game of heroic firefight on raid and the ticker went from 0% to 33%
-lost a game of heroic firefight on stormbreak and yet the ticker went from 33% to 66%
-won a game of heroic firefight on sanctum, obviously no change on the ticker
-won a game of heroic firefight on stormbreak, obviously no change on the ticker
-won a game of heroic firefight on arc and achievement unlocked at the end of match

So I'm definitely not guaranteeing this will work for you. But who knows? Give it a shot but only if you've exhausted all other options because it is time consuming. I think if the matchmaking victories goes +1 after a game then that is a good indicator that the achievement will probably work. After I cleared persistent storage, I didn't quit a single match though I did unintentionally lose connection to one of my matches. I think quitting may cause a loss of synchronization so to be safe don't quit.

By francthetank23 on 10 Aug 2017 16:17

Wow I finally got this glitched achievement, thanks to FaceTheCarnage and other comments. I had previously achieved victories on all 3 maps in regular Warzone and FF. Here is what happened:

Attempt 1: I followed his steps exactly. From reading robbizskii and some other comments above, I was prepared to look for the sync profile process and it stopped around 30%. Then, I was in the process of waiting 5 minutes per his steps, and about at the 4 minute mark, I got a red Connection Lost screen briefly, but then it went away. I loaded up Heroic FF, lost, won and noticed that my matchmaking victories had NOT gone up in GameHub.

Attempt 2: Started all steps over again exactly. This time I noticed the sync profile process hit 92%. I loaded up Heroic FF, won and GameHub matchmaking victories went up! Now I was synced and I eventually got it after several hours (I kept on getting Prospect and Urban, my least favorite maps, back to back several times). It popped after a loss on March on Stormbreak.

As alluded to by some people above, I believe this achievement is also linked to the profile % getting high enough to sync correctly, which is out of your control. Could also be because I lost connection on Attempt 1. Thanks to everyone for posting!

By KangarooBrandon on 15 Apr 2018 07:56

SICKENED 88 Some people thought/think you needed both Warzone and Warzone Firefight wins, you don’t, you just need wins to count but Halo 5 isn’t reliable at sending this info to Xbox Live.
Firefight is preferred over Warzone as it’s usually easier and quicker, plus faster to get a match as you don’t need so many players.

Wylaf Beulbe and Eclipse GX you just have to keep trying the steps, but I will say the only things I did was closing the game, clearing persistent storage, logging out and in and a restart of the console, didn’t want to do the other things.

It may or may not be important that I used the Xbox app on my smartphone to check if wins increased on Xbox stats for Halo 5 so I didn’t have to switch out from Halo 5 game at all.

I think it is actually important that I played Arena, Big Team battle (or Slayer works, but not Team Arena or Elimination) and luckily was on the winning team, the counter increased so I then went to play Warzone Firefight, I believe this "win" condition remained while I played Warzone Firefight, even if we lost it was counted as a win.

I also didn’t skip any screens after a map and waited for it to continue itself.

AceMcCloud's blog post - Halo 5: Guardians - Warlord Achievement

By AceMcCloud on 04 Jun 2019 04:31

I just unlocked the achievement so I wanted to share what worked for me. Everyone is having an issue getting their in-game win counter to sync with the win counter on Microsofts official club stats menu, this seems to be a symptom of the progress bar not incrementing in achievement tracking and the achievement not unlocking. I tried many of the suggestions to get the win counter in Halo 5's official club stats to increment, with no results. However, I tried something that I did not see as a suggestion, which did result in my achievement tracker progress bar incrementing after a win if I had no previous win on the required map or after a win or loss if I had a previous win on the required map. I cannot guarantee that this is a solution that will work for everyone but after doing this, it immediately started working for me. Go to your xbox settings -> network -> network settings -> advanced settings -> alternate MAC address -> clear. It will then state that your xbox needs to be restarted. Once your system is restarted, join a warzone game and play until you get one of the required maps. If you win and it is your first win, you should see the achievement tracker increment. If you lose or win and you have previously won on this map, you should still see the achievement tracker increment, given it is a map that has not already been counted by the achievement tracker prior to this solution. Please let me know if this works for you or if I should clarify something. If it turns out that this solution is not just a fluke, I will post it as an official solution.

By ilMaTic BUTCH3R on 09 Jul 2019 17:40

I finally managed to get this. I did everything this solution suggested, and I would recommend anybody going for this try it as well, if only to clear your Xbox.

After doing a bit more reading, someone on Waypoint suggested mixing games up between Warzone and Warzone firefight. Now obviously, it was luck based, but I played a game of Warzone and lost. I looked at my tracker for matchmaking games in the hub, and it went up! I am certain this happened a few days ago as well, because when I first started going for this, my matchmaking victories was on 37. As I started it yesterday they were on 38 (I remember checking my matchmaking victories after a quick game and it going up after losing on a normal Warzone map).

After seeing the victories had gone up, I thought that this has got to be the opportunity I have been waiting for. I had played countless games over the past few days and none of them made my matchmaking victories go up. I loaded up Warzone firefight on Legendary. First map was ARC and we won - I checked my matchmaking victories and they went up to 39! Second map was Darkstar and again, we won. Third map was Stormbreak and we lost and it popped?! I checked my matchmaking victories and they were now on 42.

As you can see, I played four games, won 2, lost 2 and they all counted as victories in the game hub tracker.

Personally, I think this has affected people who had the game before the Warzone update. If you look at most of the recent winners, they have only clocked up 30 - 50 hours play time or not finished the story.

So, out of the 50+ times of loading up the game over a one week period, my game managed to sync twice.

Good luck to whoever reads this and whoever goes for this achievement. It's bugged, won't get fixed and is hugely dependent on luck.

By Hero Of Courage on 29 Aug 2019 11:12

I did all of this, got a win on each map, and no achievement or even any progress on the tracker.

By Knoell on 20 Apr 2017 09:30

Not saying this isn't worthy btw, just providing feedback. I'm open to trying anything to get this dang achievement out of the way! I heard in halo way point that a boss refresh last May, might be making the achievement wonky.

By Knoell on 21 Apr 2017 03:34

With refresh the achievement pop

By on 21 Apr 2017 05:10

Really? It worked for you? Nice! Give me some hope!

By Knoell on 21 Apr 2017 08:26

Yeah my achievement tracker is still showing 0% despite winning on 2/3 required maps in warzone.

By Avidous on 28 Apr 2017 04:41

That sucks. Let me know if you get it to work. I've tried everything I could and no luck.

By Knoell on 29 Apr 2017 18:59

I mean the refresh of the achievement, ie from 60% to 0%

By on 29 Apr 2017 19:51

If any one still needs help, please message my gamertag and I will help you get it. Don't message me on TA, I'm hardly on here. I went through it, so I know it's rough. Since someone came back to help me I will do the same for you guys.

By FaceTheCarnage on 30 Apr 2017 22:18

Ok FaceTheCarnage was nice enough to walk me through his guide. My mistake was looking at the service record to see if I was synced up instead of the game hub section under achievements. We played and won a firefight, saw that it was synced and tracking and then I went into warzone and luckily got the 3 maps right in a row. Since I already had wins under each of them, all I had to do was play on them win or lose. I won on 1 and lost on 2 and then it unlocked.

Thanks Carnage for taking the time out to walk me through it. Perfect solution to this achievement!

By Knoell on 01 May 2017 11:47

I can't see any halo game hub. Can anyone help?

By J ROLLER 1979 on 06 May 2017 16:44

Press the Guide button and select Halo 5 in the Recent list. Then press the Menu button and select Game Hub. Switch to the Achievements page and you should see Matchmaking victories listed. Mine reads 28 but I actually have 72 wins across Arena and Warzone according to my Service Record.

By KAW 24 on 06 May 2017 21:24

Ya cool think I know where you mean thanks. I'm also on 0% still after winning all 3 does anyone if this will fix it?

Okay mine says 5 on Halo 5 game hub but not to sure what I am looking for in the service record

By J ROLLER 1979 on 07 May 2017 17:24

Thanks facethecarnge you are a god that worked great thanks again for helping me.

By J ROLLER 1979 on 08 May 2017 16:31

Going to give this a try to see if it works fingers, crossed.

By KEBAB MASSACRE on 10 May 2017 16:48

A quick shoutout to FaceTheCarnage for helping me with this. I messaged him, and he almost immediately reached out to me and helped me figure this out. All I actually needed to do was win a match on the firefight version of warzone on escape from A.R.C, so I would note that to you who may be trying to do this in 2017. Definitely win a match on all three of the original maps in firefight mode as well.

By savedbyjc12 on 13 May 2017 03:58

Recent update seems to help. Someone popped it easy. Please confirm if this achievement has been fixed.'

By FaceTheCarnage on 01 Jun 2017 18:26

it worked, I was at 33%, he told me the steps. I never beat A.R.C. in normal warzone but did in firefight and STILL got the achievement. Turns out however before doing his steps I only had 3 synced games, out of well over 60 games I'd played... so yeah... that was fun to know :-/ so much wasted damn time.
Got it within an hour with his steps. However to FaceTheCarnage you had to specify some stuff to me and another guy you were helping at the same time, I would suggest updating the solution with what you were specifying to us, that way people know to do it that way.

By darkmikasonfire on 06 Jun 2017 15:46

Thanks Dark. Updated.

By FaceTheCarnage on 06 Jun 2017 17:03

It worked for me, took a few attempts, had to actually use a different internet source for it to work, did it a friends house and it finally worked, might be worth a shot if it still isn't working

By lifebringer23 on 08 Jun 2017 22:40

shoutout to FaceTheCarnage for this, got it on my 3rd attempt

By Enrique Pelaez on 21 Jun 2017 21:30

I got this achievement to unlock at step 11. Saw that I had 2 wins of every map on both modes. Maybe that was it but who knows. Thanks for the help Carnage

By OMG IT5 EJ on 28 Jun 2017 14:52

It just jumped from 33% to 66% once I finished the firefight on Stormbreak. Thanks! :) I finally see myself unlocking this. I didn't wait 10 minutes after unplugging everything, maybe 30 seconds. I got impatient. lol

By VRETENAR 906 on 17 Jul 2017 02:57

Just got it. Unlocked the last two in Firefight which I find much much easier than regular Warzone.

By VRETENAR 906 on 17 Jul 2017 03:15

This worked for me too! Thanks!

By VafaMottahedin on 19 Jul 2017 01:44

So after trying to get this achievement for what seems like forever, I finally got it. The steps above are great. It took me a week to get with this method, just my luck. I was at 66% when I first got this. I didn't know what map I was missing. During the time I was trying to get this, I was keeping track of my wins. SO when I won on a map and your victory count went up, I crossed off that map. I won on Escape from ARC when it popped. This is what I was able to narrow it down to. Having to go through the map rotations anyway, you are at the mercy of the game, but it may help at least narrow what map you need. The main improve I would add is when you re-download your profile, I would put play two fire fight matches. If you win the first and it counts, play the second, if it counts, you should be go to go and flip over to regular warzone.

Thanks FacetheCarnage for the solution!

By AverageZombie90 on 05 Aug 2017 06:33

Thank you TrashMan677, I have put about 50 hours into Warzone and probably 40 hours of that has been trying to get from 66% to 100%. I have tried every solution. I decided I would just do what you said about removing my profile and adding it.

I did NOT do any of the steps involved in this solution when I started playing today. I had already played 147 games. I won 12 regular matches of Warzone on the necessary maps, at least three per map. I won 18 matches on the maps for Firefight, the lowest map was two wins. After removing my account after starting Halo 5, I then started Halo 5 again and added my profile in game. I played Heroic Firefight Attack on Sanctum and won. I checked my Match Making wins after the game and noticed my 11 wins FINALLY went to 12. I just let the next game start which happened to be March on Stormbreak and it was already the third round. We lost and at the score break down page the greatest achievement sound went off and I am forever done with Warzone.

By casa de morte on 06 Aug 2017 04:17

I'm stuck at 66%. Followed your steps twice but my halo hub still shows the same amount of wins as before (only 3 wtf). Any ideas?

By Dobi93PL on 08 Aug 2017 23:17

7. He told me to have a snack, I did. Recommended.

Best .
However great guide !

By on 08 Aug 2017 23:23

Wow, I have to admit you've been busy so much to unlock it. also I have participated in the first time, without abandoning, in more than 5 games, I had won 3 times (but also lost some in the middle, not for 3 wins in a row)

By on 11 Aug 2017 08:08

This achievement is fucking bullshit. This is undoubt the best guide out there with all the good responses I have seen but I am starting to lose hope. I've done these steps twice a day for the past 6 days and still still haven't seen my 9 victories go to 10

By BlackRain228 on 23 Sep 2017 21:49

Won multiple times in matchmaking and still stuck to 1 victory in the gamehub.i'm depressed .... :(
Should i deleted my save file ?

By pithiviers on 27 Oct 2017 21:05

Ok got it this morning. Started at step 10 of this guide afin deconnnecting/connecting of my profile directly from the game screen. Key is probably to wait while profile is fully synchronized with halo/Ms servers before starting the first game.
Went from 1 to 12 matchmaking wins + achievement in firefight (previously had wins on all maps in classic warzone.
Happy it's done.

By pithiviers on 29 Oct 2017 22:53

Do you mean deleting and recovering profile or just signing in and out?

By darkling1542 on 06 Nov 2017 23:32

Just signing out and in from the game menu

By pithiviers on 12 Nov 2017 23:01

Alright, i will try it for a couple of days

By darkling1542 on 14 Nov 2017 16:43

Glad this solution has helped most. Thank you all for the support.

By FaceTheCarnage on 15 Nov 2017 11:01

Thank you very much! This worked for me-

By GoldenNoirX on 23 Nov 2017 02:45

After trying this solution and several others mentioned in the comments for several days I decided to try a variety of the methods. One of them finally worked! Today all I did differently was launch Halo 5, clear the blu-ray 6x, go back to Halo 5, then launch a heroic firefight. The first match was a join in progress on ARC with 2 minutes remaining. Somehow we won the battle despite me only having the starting weapons. Then the achievement popped! Went from 66% to 100%. I've been trying to pop this stupid, broken achievement since December 3, 2016!

By DragonFangDan on 24 Nov 2017 02:36

I'm guessing this achievement is just tied to servers with crappy uptime, which is why it seems to get unlocked in batches. Timing is probably more important than going through all these steps.

By Teh Halo Guy on 08 Dec 2017 06:42

Re-downloading Halo 5 now to attempt this again, wish me luck. Oh and 96 gigs, wtf?

By ForNorrath on 09 Dec 2017 02:21

What I don't understand is how I can have some of my stats updating and not others. At least some of my "warzone bosses killed" and "multiplayer spartans killed" get counted, but, after getting all other mp achievements, I'm still sitting at 0 matchmaking victories. wtf

Edit: Started tracking a few days later. I didn't do any of these steps except for signing out before I started the game, and then signing in at the title screen.

By aneurysmi on 20 Dec 2017 21:19

Just wanted to say the 12 step process worked for me. My problem was I was not synced. I had several wins on all 3 required maps in Warzone and in Firefight and my progress would not budge from 0%. I did the 12 step process and played a game and still wasn't synced. I did the 12 step process again, played a game and won, then I was synced! Kept playing firefight without leaving que until I got all 3 of the required maps again. I won on two of the maps and lost on one and this son of a b!T#h achievement popped. Thanks for sharing your knowledge carnage :D

By StivaIa on 17 Jan 2018 20:29

I know this is waaaaaaaaay late, but I thought I would try some of these steps by themselves to see what worked. I was able to just sign in after starting the game and it started counting after that. I did not need to do all of the other steps.

By DeltaAgent on 29 Jan 2018 03:29

Just got it! I tried doing all the steps multiple times and my game hub wins wouldn't go up. I searched the comments on this guide for some tips and here is what worked for me.
- Moved halo 5 from the external hard drive to internal hard drive.
- Force closed Halo 5, deleted account, redownloaded account in halo 5 start screen.
- Went into a quick match for normal competitive multiplayer, shredded the opponent (recommended) and waited ten seconds on the scoreboard screen before backing out of the lobby.
- Checked game hub and my 21 wins went up to 22!
- Joined a heroic firefight warzone match and the achievement popped on the first map!!! (Escape from arc)
Hope this helps others and maybe saves some time for you

By GSR CAOR on 29 Jan 2018 20:20

man this is stressing me out, i have done all steps. xbox.com has me at 100%. ive won again in all the require maps on regular warzone and fire fight and still at 33%. plus my progress keeps going up in wins.... so annoying

By PlanesWalker 97 on 05 Feb 2018 02:02

Got it playing a bunch of firefight warzones without exiting... I hate this achievement. So glad i finally got it

By PlanesWalker 97 on 10 Feb 2018 15:15

Just unlocked, thanks FaceTheCarnage and everyone else who has contributed. It took quite a few tries today. It started counting some and not others, but eventually it started counted them all. I kickstarted the clear run with a couple of QuickPay arena matches to get it going solid before going in Warzone Firefight. I only disconnected everything once and from then I just kept deleting my account from the Halo main menu and redownload it. I would also like to point out that I disconnected from one game AND the game crashed, so I had to dashboard, but the wins still kept going up on the Game Hub regardless. So glad this is out of the way.

By KillswitchKyren on 20 Feb 2018 20:13

Just unlocked this myself. Many thanks to Carnage for his help on party chat and his solution. For those having trouble I rinsed the above method tirelessly but it was a variant of the above that won me the chievo.

I found that the cache clearing method didn’t really work for me so I would just remove my gamertag and add through the halo main menu without rebooting in any way. However the key difference was that I played ranked team slayer to increase my matchmaking wins in the gamer hub. This seems to work well. I managed to get my wins to move after having only won one match and jumped into some firefight however sadly I had to go out which obviously unsynched me again. However, when I returned some hours later I simply fired up the box (I did do a cache clear/hard reset as it happens) then removed and recovered my tag then jumped straight back into slayer. I drew the match, my wins increased. I then lost a match on Arc and won on stormbreak and raid. Pop!

By Dan Solo 88 on 24 Feb 2018 18:28

^ works like a charm, just delete your account and resign it and let it sync and go for any game and hope its pop.

By Nopeace1 on 05 Mar 2018 17:43

Thanks FaceTheCarnage. This worked perfectly for me.

By Ascending SSJ3 on 06 Mar 2018 08:39

Tried it twice yesterday. My wins didn't go up despite winning multiple times on WZ FF Heroic. Interesting was, that the first 3 bosses I killed counted in the hub. But after I killed the last boss, it stopped counting.

Should I just continue trying with deleting / restoring account from the Halo 5 main menu each time I play? And hope for the wins to go up?

By nLz06 on 07 Mar 2018 09:03

Okay, after trying it again, it worked. What did I do?

Doing all the steps. In step 7, I only disconnected it for 30 seconds. In Step 10, my profile synced up to 48% and then the progress bar disappeared. I then immediately jumped into a ranked slayer match and won. My wins finally increased in the game hub. I was already ranked in the playlist, don't know if it matters.

I then left the lobby and started heroic firefight. Got Stormbreak, won and the progress gone from 0 to 33%. Next map was Arc, won, increased to 66%. Raid on Apex 7 didn't show up until a few games later. I joined midgame (not from the start), won, and got the achievement in the score screen.

Important: You do NOT need to win in reg. Warzone. I only won Stormbreak in reg. Warzone, lost on Arc and NEVER played Apex 7 in reg. Warzone. I won several times on all 3 maps in Heroic FF and Legendary FF though.

It really is all about the sync with the gamehub, then the game mode does not count, I believe.

By nLz06 on 13 Mar 2018 11:29

What about for people that have digital versions of the game? If you sign out in game, it takes you to the dashboard saying whoever has this game needs to be signed into the console. Does this still re-sync data?

By B4LL15T1C xBRx on 14 Mar 2018 06:35

My wins started going up today. I didn't do anything special. It was a game of regular Warzone on March on Stormbreak that triggered the achievement.

By TG Mafu on 17 Mar 2018 03:51

Post updated: 4-4-18

By FaceTheCarnage on 04 Apr 2018 14:01

I scrupulously followed the proposed guide (I have also increased the waiting time in the various steps), but unfortunately it did not help me, but I discovered that it does not increase the victories in the game hub.
I specify that the game service log and Halowaypoint give me at least one win in ALL the maps (heroic firefight and normal warzone).
I have also uninstalled and installed the game twice.
I'm quite desperate and worried

ps. I'm always fixed at 66%, the first victories increased normally and then arrived at 66, it is stuck to life. I've been there for 2 months ....

By DarkSquallXx on 04 Apr 2018 23:51

Worst buggy achievement ever ! I could never have done it without FaceTheCarnage solution thanks a lot man.

By FeerBueno on 03 May 2019 14:48

Updated: 4-22-18 - Still helping people pop it.

By FaceTheCarnage on 22 Apr 2018 04:10

Thank you FaceTheCarnage! And the many commenters who have added to the Solution.

I would not have got this achievement without your help.

Cheers

By WiizKiin on 22 Apr 2018 22:56

I can't get the game hub stats to update

I've followed almost all the steps multiple times over multiple days but no luck.

I can't do Step 10 because when I delete my account, it closes Halo 5 and brings me back to the dashboard. I have a digital version and I own the game, but my Xbox One is NOT set as "home" so I need to be logged in, to be able to play the game.

I even played regular ranked Arena PvP and actually won, but the game hub stat did not increment. Still stuck at 6 wins. And my achievement is stuck at 33% - it increased from 0 to 33% when I lost on one of the required Warzone (not Firefight) maps.

By KiloOscarZulu on 25 Apr 2018 08:33

Updated 5-03-18

By FaceTheCarnage on 04 May 2018 01:16

Thank You I Finally Unlocked This After 1 Year Of Trying

By Karrisz on 08 May 2018 07:07

anyone else think this could be to do with Req's?
even with this process after about 2 games it would desync.

However, today I didn't use any req's in any of my games and every one counted.

also not required to have wins in both firefight and normal warzone.
my wins were:
March On Stormbreak FF:
W1 L2
Escape from Arc FF:
W4 L3
Raid on apex7 FF:
W2 L2

March on Stormbreak:
W1 L1
Escape from Arc:
W0 L2
Raid on Apex7:
W0 L2

By Sky Maniac on 14 May 2018 23:57

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but I did exactly what Sky Maniac said and I unlocked my achievement after a win on Apex 7. Maybe you will need to play a game on each map this way, but it worth a try ! I kept the assault rifle and the magnum for the whole game and did not use any REQs.

It unlocked at the end of the game after the cinematic when I was back at the menu.

Thank you Sky - I got my achievement because of your solution !

By Martinezzzz 89 on 15 May 2018 23:53

it just seems odd that normal game modes will add to the win counter whenever I played, but as soon as I start playing warzone thats when it desync's

need a few more people to try it and find out!

My first win which added to the counter was with REQ's though (Using this solution), but it could be that the desyncing issue is caused by them.

By Sky Maniac on 16 May 2018 00:39

Sky if this can be confirmed by other players i will include it to this solution and credit you. Players reading this please confirm.

By FaceTheCarnage on 18 May 2018 12:12

Post updates:

Included important notice that it may take more than one attempt.

Cut down on some wording for less reading.

By FaceTheCarnage on 18 May 2018 15:49

I had wins on every map but my achievement popped when I failed on wave five of firefight on stormbreak. Followed this solution about a week before I popped it.

By BIGB EC on 20 May 2018 05:41

One person on waypoint said he got 1st place on the leaderboard when the achievement popped. I told a friend who was having trouble and he got it when he lost on stormbreak and in first place on the leaderboard.

By BIGB EC on 02 Jun 2018 13:08

I have the same issues where normal multiplayer stats count but not war zone aka the only mode that matters.. and it keeps stopping at 54% when syncing, man 343 suck at making games

By IZZY MELI on 12 Jun 2018 18:51

finally unlocked it just now, after like 15+ hours of trying this it wouldn't work, I was using a friends account who had game pass to open the game first but didn't work so I just bought the pass while it was on sale and did the steps on my own account only and got it first try, my sync stopped at 54% like usual so i thought that might stuff it up still but it worked anyways, checked stats and the win counted. I loaded up war zone firefight on apex 7 and after we won and score board came up it worked. thank fuck for that

By IZZY MELI on 18 Jun 2018 09:28

Reports coming in that this solution may not work with digital copy from game pass. Can anyone confirm otherwise?

By FaceTheCarnage on 26 Jun 2018 04:35

Confirmed, can unlock this achievement with game pass copy. Updated solution to mention that.

By FaceTheCarnage on 28 Jun 2018 23:15

How do you know when you're synced? When I get to Step 10, the sync profile process gets to 5% and disappears. Right now I'm at 2 matchmaking wins. I hope to get this royal pain in the ass achievement out of the way.

By AWC GOTTI on 20 Sep 2018 05:24

By AWC GOTTI on 20 Sep 2018 23:06

Major update, taking no more requests to help due to picking up a lot more hours at work. Sorry everyone but I wish the people still trying to pop this awful achievement good luck. Stay strong.

By FaceTheCarnage on 30 Jun 2018 18:03

Been trying the past 2 wks, my # of wins refuse to update when playing any warzone, during the initial syncing screen I can not get anywhere higher than 46% before the screen drops me onto the main menu. And yes I do wait 5 mins on the main menu lol.

Only 1 win is registered to my acct, the 1st time I won on 1 of those 3 maps on Warzone, been stuck at 33% since January 2016. Thought this would've been fixed by now. I hope this is not because I have an old game save like what happened to people who could not unlock Fatal Redirect for Dishonored 2 & had to delete everything & start over with brand new save.

The only time my # of wins updates lately is if I win a game in the Ranked modes. Anyone have any other suggestions other than the ones mentioned here?

By DolphinChic03 on 11 Jul 2018 15:47

I cant say i ever had a problem Syncing at point 10 of the above. If your victories are going up in Ranked, you must be synced to the server. Ensure youre checking the game hub victories, not the ingame victories.

I suggest playing ranked still and check to see if you gain a victory after each game. If you do, jump straight into Warzone after that match.

This is what i had to do. Sync up in other playlists, then jump into Warzone.

By Law Violation on 17 Jul 2018 09:56

When I switch game modes to Warzone (even though they all just counted in Ranked), I end up being unsynced is what I meant....I think u only remain synced while in the same mode like all the different Warzone types.
Has anyone with an old game save been able to unfreeze the progress bar for this one recently? I hope I don't have to delete my gamesave from everywhere, I'm only 2 achievements from 100%.

By DolphinChic03 on 18 Jul 2018 12:25

Multiple tries and the game clearly isn't syncing at all.

By Falcon SVN on 21 Jul 2018 00:17

Perhaps try some of the featured game types?

By Law Violation on 23 Jul 2018 19:23

Already tried that. I managed to unlock it after trying this strategy for the 10th time. Just random luck I guess.

By Falcon SVN on 24 Jul 2018 14:29

After trying all the methods above tirelessly, even using a different xbox and a physical copy/digital copy, I couldn't get my wins to go up in the hub, when it was syncing it would only go up to 13% and then stop. So I tried a different method, I did use all the steps up till 9, but instead of recovering the profile I wanted the achievement on, I recovered my secondary gold account. When I recovered that account, it synced to 100%, then I hit guide button and clicked switch profile and then just signed into the account I wanted the achievement on. Then I signed out of my alternate gold account and tried going into firefight, and won the first game and the wins went up! Had to play all 3 of the maps again to finally get it!
Let me know if this method helps!

By Across Concrete on 11 Aug 2018 16:32

Worked perfect for me yesterday:

- Stucked at 33 %
- needed 4 -5 trys (delete & restart)
- your bestr friend is the game hub (Solution Nr. 1 - 11 - 12 !!!)
...
- personal advice: use Nr. 7 before you combine a hammer with your console

Edit:
After deleting and reinstall your gamertag check your "personal online settings" and set it back like before / to your personal settings

By Oo 8 B4LL oO on 09 Sep 2018 07:52

Finally got this yesterday after trying everything.
This weekend's Mythic FF map was Escape From ARC. Did almost 3 hrs of that and all the sudden my matchmaking # went up.
Went back to FF menu & swapped to the other modes so I could get the Apex map since my 33% recorded back in 2016 was from Stormbreak. Had a few timeouts trying to find matches & got thrown back to the FF menu but miraculously I was still connected/synced. Achievement popped after failing Apex XD

By DolphinChic03 on 17 Sep 2018 07:52

Hey guys just an update, ive tried almost every thing on this solution list and comments and was getting nowhere, but today i played around with going through the settings and cleared out all the xbox saves under storage, and when i did that my victories went up, so i thought there might be hope, played on stormbreak and HALLELUJAH! 66%, sonif yiu are stuck try clearing out the cache and all of your saved game storage...thats what worked for me just thought I'd let everyone know....good luck

By The Butchr on 03 Nov 2018 22:14

Hey, sounds good! Could you explain a little bit more about your solution?
What does it mean"the settings and cleared out all the xbox saves under storage,"?
Under Seetings->System->Storage-> do what? Delete all local games?
Thanks! :-) After trying every solution for month....

By Fischfutter on 06 Nov 2018 18:39

I'll have to add some of these to my solution and give you guys credit. Been awhile since last update.

By FaceTheCarnage on 09 Nov 2018 07:37

10 weeks and still no achievement the annoying thing is if I look on the xbox app or xbox.com it tells me my achievement progress is 400% I just wish either 343 or Microsoft would fix this already

By fatjay4lisa on 10 Nov 2018 16:41

Can anyone confirm if Darth Hawk CZ's and The Butchr's methods work?

By EgaBog on 30 Nov 2018 04:35

I have been trying every method for 12 to 13 weeks now and none of them are working unless the devs stop being lazy and patch this shit all you can do is hope

By fatjay4lisa on 01 Dec 2018 10:07

Thanks so much for this! Did every step had to do it twice to get it to work though, ended up losing 2 heroic firefights in a row but I noticed after each game it was still counting the games as a win! First game I've ever had to do the delete and recover my GT trick for to get an achievement to unlock.

By oG Yeah on 27 Dec 2018 15:14

I swear I have been at this for so long and reset my xbox and delete my account off my account so many times, and this isnt working

By ct1O8 on 21 Jan 2019 05:54

This achievement is driving me insane! I've tried everything from the hard resets, deleting saved data, removing my account, I even got gamepass to try a digital version of the game - nothing works.
I've definitely won multiple times on all 3 maps (warzone and firefight).
Spent HOURS playing warzone, plus played the mythic playlist on a weekend with no luck. I've also ranked 1st place in a couple of games, so that's not necessary like some comments I've read.
It seems the issue is syncing up. When I load up the game it slowly syncs, goes quicker and then at 51% it goes to the menu (anyone elses game do this?).
Must have connected at one point as its unlocked 33%, just wish I'd have known to carry on playing while I was synced :( Anyway that's my rant over!

By Mattiixk on 22 Jan 2019 21:46

Post updated 1-23-19

Updates include:

-game hub referred to as "Hub".
- Xbox renamed their pages "Official clubs".
- cut words for shorten reading
-explained things better
-re wrote a few steps for clarification. Steps 2 & 10
- shorten reason I am no longer taking requests

Any other changes or updates are appreciated. Please confirm what does work and doesn't to help others through this crappy achievement. Thanks everyone.

By FaceTheCarnage on 23 Jan 2019 07:03

So still can’t get this to work - tried the above and in my first match the Warzone boss kill stat went up by one in the first round - but then lost all tracking straight away! :(

By metallicafan459 on 14 Feb 2019 08:32

Tried getting all 3 wins in one session but that also didn’t work :(

By metallicafan459 on 14 Feb 2019 08:33

So finally got this - worked for me playing on ‘Normal’ Warzone - had to change the search to expanded. Only way I could find a match.

By metallicafan459 on 16 Feb 2019 21:26

Why do I need wins for firefight if the achievement is for warzone?
I can tell mine is glitched already. I’ve won on 2 of the 3 maps and it hasn’t passed 33%. I’ve tried this guide once. Only thing I didn’t do was power my Xbox back on with the controller.

By SICKENED 88 on 10 May 2019 22:15

Im sad since I am glitched at 0% with all wins on firefight mode. I have not been able to update my matchmaking wins on the game club since I started the MP portion of the game, none of the guides have helped.

By Wylaf Beulbe on 11 May 2019 01:17

I tried this solution five times, and i m still glitched at 0%. Victories had gotten in regular and firefight warzone mode with no results (no victories had synchronized with halo 5 hub). Sorry T_T

By Eclipse GX on 22 May 2019 17:47

The achievement unlocked for me few hours ago thanks to this guide, I have to say I started the game for the first time 6 days ago, I never played classic warzone in 2 of the 3 maps and the achievement progression went on 66% four days ago after I played some farefight matches losing most of them, so what can I say is: 1) the guide works, 2) you don't need to play on classic warzone, 3) you don't need to win the farefights.

Bye

By DeadBardt on 01 Jul 2019 00:38

@ilMaTic BUTCH3R .. OH MY GOD IT WORKED! Thank you, sir.

By ClevelandFan on 10 Jul 2019 00:06

@ClevelandFan Excellent! I'm glad to help!

By ilMaTic BUTCH3R on 10 Jul 2019 16:14

Just wanted to give a first hand account of unlocking this achievment. Big shout out to everyone on FaceTheCarnage's comment, and him of course.

Heres what happened for me. I had been stuck on 66% for about 8 months. My Game Hub tracking said I had 2 wins, when in fact I had probably 20-25 wins in warzone. In order to get this achievement, I just removed my account from my xbox and signed back into it when opening Halo 5. This process is discribed above. Sometimes the syncing would get to about 12% and then stop. This will cause the tracker to continue to fail. In order to get the game hub tracker to work, I kept retrying to remove and re sign into my account until the syncing bar got to about 55%m I tried a slayer match and won, and the tracker went up. I then went into warzone until I got A.R.C. I won, tracker went up, and the achievement popped.

Stay strong guys, this is achievement is possible!

By Geezr Pleazr on 19 Jul 2019 05:57

Did it! After 1 year!
Problem was: Ipv6 and Pihole
Solution: Adding this xbox live servers to my whitelist:
https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/commonly-whitelisted-domains...
Bamm!

By Fischfutter on 19 Jul 2019 14:05

Great solution, worked like a charm 7-20-19 for me. Use the Xbox App (or waypoint website) and go into your Halo 4 achievements. Note the "Matchmaking Victories." After following the steps, if you don't see your victories go up after a win, start the process over. Took me less than a week to get this. Just read carefully and follow the steps.

By x athiktos x on 20 Jul 2019 06:07

Same here ... popped while not playing the game for more than a year. Oh well ...

By Sol76 on 08 Feb 2021 16:03

This is a truly awful achievement.
I have 15+ firefight wins on all maps. As stated on here, it's about getting your game to sync properly. I've just won a matchmaking game in slayer and it didn't count when I went to the hub. Surely this isn't impossible to fix?
I've tried all suggestions and done extensive reading on this and nothing has popped. Every time my game data is syncing, it stops at 40%
I'm currently re-installing the game to see if that has some kind of effect - although on here it states it doesn't work. But tonight is probably going to be the last night I spent wasting my time trying to get an achievement I have already unlocked.
I've even checked xbox.com and my progress towards this achievement is 200%!

By Hero Of Courage on 25 Aug 2019 11:32

Well, it didn’t work.

By Hero Of Courage on 28 Aug 2019 10:32

After having 1 win on each of the three maps and only being at 33% complete progress i completed step 1 got me my achievement unlocked. Thank you so much @FaceTheCarnage!

By ConfideValkyrie on 12 Sep 2019 06:31

Glad to see people are getting creative with solutions and finally unlocking this. I haven't updated my solution for a long while. Sadly, it's a time issue for me. When some frees up I will update it and credit those who have helped here with their added comments on unlocking this awful achievement.

By FaceTheCarnage on 30 Oct 2019 22:49

Took me a while to get, I played the Mythic Warzone Firefight. The Apex7 map took ages to appear for me, seems to be uncommon.

By JRAycfc00 on 21 Aug 2020 12:00

Stfu and stop wasting people’s time with a guide that doesn’t work

By on 26 Aug 2020 16:21

My achievement didn't pop for the longest day and one day my friend went to my stats for halo 5 and the achievement unlocked lol

By HUNTING WARRI0R on 27 Aug 2020 16:41

This just popped for me and i cant remember playing the game, i hope no one has hacked into my account.

By catfish4wat on 11 Sep 2020 15:14

I don't even know if this was a glitch, but I assume it wasn't. After playing on all three maps, not even winning all on three, the achievement popped. This worked as of January 2, 2021

By Bunny Breakfast on 02 Jan 2021 07:54

I popped this today without having played it for years...while playing a different game.

By imaidiot19 on 06 Feb 2021 18:12

This just popped for me 2.5 years later while my Xbox wasn’t even on and I haven’t had the game installed for years lol.

By erod550 on 07 Feb 2021 17:56

I almost had a heart attack seeing this pop after 2 years

By Astariah on 08 Feb 2021 05:08

Also had this achievement pop today while having not played in years. I was playing a different game on PC. Freaked me out that someone was on my account. Glad to see it seems to be popping randomly for others also.

By Dracieldefender on 13 Feb 2021 20:00

this just popped thought someone hacked my xbox lol

By Nazule80 on 14 Feb 2021 21:09

Same here. Haven't played the game in five years. Popped while I was playing Hitman 2.

By cobalos on 17 Feb 2021 07:43

I was really worried for a minute when it popped even though I haven't played it for a long time. Glad every thing seems to be fine!

By Fluzi Goliath on 25 Feb 2021 19:47

unlocked out of nowhere today, haven't touched the game for a year

By C4B0S3 on 04 May 2021 21:56

Also unlocked for me today - haven't played the game in well over a year.

By LepraSaun on 03 Jul 2021 07:58

This unlocked for me on the 6th of July without reason as well. Haven’t played for over a year.

By Hochberg on 12 Jul 2021 05:10

According to Xbox, this just unlocked for me today. I haven't played the game in over two years.

By Aravain on 12 Jul 2021 15:14

Randomly unlocked for me too - haven't played the game since 2017

By J0SHtheJ0KER on 29 Jul 2021 10:48

this unlocked for me and i haven't won a single warzone match. just started playing and lost 3 in a row. i didn't even know i won it as it didn't pop up

By lethelerror on 09 Sep 2021 20:22

I got it just by playing and it took about 3 hours, zero reqs used. My avg KD in warzone was 8:1

By d0x360 on 28 Nov 2021 06:47

This just popped right after I synced my Xbox library with GOG Galaxy on PC...? I haven't played Halo 5 in years and didn't even know this was stuck. Really weird solution, but might be worth a shot if you're stuck.

By Chaotic Fiasco on 30 Dec 2021 04:30

You do not need to “win” the match, you just need to complete the match.

By CrimsonBohemian on 05 Dec 2022 17:07

Step 12 did not work for me. But the key is to keep trying this and not to give up, thank you FaceTheCarnage, he contacted me today helping me to try to make this achievement pop. This is probably the best solution there is available for anyone. It all comes down to being synced online on halo 5 which saves alot of time because you know from the game hub when the game is actually tracking your matches. Going to give this another try tommorow.

By KEBAB MASSACRE on 10 May 2017 23:55

After 3 days of hard grinding i finally unlocked my Warlord achievement, would have never been possible without FaceTheCarnage. I was really surprised to see him reach out to me and send a party invite and help me out, much appreciated mate you are a LEGEND. This is the best solution available for one of the most stressful and buggy achievements i have experienced. I would like to point out a couple things though to help anyone else who was one of the really unlucky ones like me who finds it very very hard to get synced ( which is everything up to step 12 in the guide) i literally had to repeat all of this process of getting synced quite a few times till i got synced BUT ones you get synced do not mess around or you will regret it. Do not get disconnected from a game for you will get unsynced. Dont dashboard quit either, dont do anything which could potentially get you unsynced, just be patient and carry on playing through and completed each match utill you do the maps you need and remember to always check the game hub to see if the match you won counted and you are in actual fact SYNCED. I would also like to point out that it updates in the game hub after the game completely ends after it shows the scoreboard. Also another important thing which i think. Is to do this in warzone heroic FIREFIGHT and continue even after you are synced, not in regular warzone in my opinion regular warzone map rotation just took far too long for me and the games where so much more frustrating and longer than firefight. On a last note thank you FaceTheCarnage i owe you big time!

By KEBAB MASSACRE on 12 May 2017 07:27

Gonna preface this by saying this has been one of the most tedious achievements to unlock. But, follow Carnage's guide and you'll be able to unlock it. He's a seriously helpful guy and will guide you step-by-step if this guide does not work for some reason :-) I'll leave a few points here that might help make the process smoother.

1. The game hub and achievement tracker are your friends. If you don't see any changes there, don't bother continuing the process.

2. You can play Firefight as long as you have won on each of the maps in the regular mode. This might not be true, but I found it worked for me.

3. Wins/losses don't seem to matter as long as you have already won on the map before.

4. Based on my understanding of how hardware works, it's not necessary to leave your Xbox off for 10 minutes after you clear the cache and unplug all the USB devices. But, if you'd like to be safe, go for it. I did not leave it off. However odd it may be though, you should unplug everything, ie., power cord, hard drive, controllers, etc.

5. Carnage informed me that getting banned resets the map rotation. So don't leave more than a couple of matches when attempting this.

6. For me, Stormbreak would not show up in Firefight. If you notice it doesn't show up after like 5 matches, switch to regular Warzone.

I think that's all for now. If I remember any other points, I'll add them here later.

By tuhin94 on 07 Jul 2017 06:31

GOT IT!!! Even after I screwed up on the steps above and use a game share account. My friend owns the copy of Halo and I thought I might not be able to start the game unless his account or mine was signed in, but it still worked. Here is what I did:

Followed all steps to step 8. I then realized my game was installed on my external drive so I had to add my profile back and transfer it to my internal drive. Then unplugged my external drive. Next I launched Halo, I was already signed in with my profile but decided to try it anyways. Played a match of heroic firefight and my wins didn’t go up. So I said screw it and from the Warzone lobby I hit the guide button and went to settings to remove my profile. After that Halo automatically shut down but I started the game up (thinking it wouldn’t let me since no profile was signed in and I’m not the owner of the game) the game actually started. When asked to choose a profile, I clicked Add New and signed in to my gamer tag. Played a game of heroic firefight and my wins went up after the match! Next I turned on the achievement tracker and kept playing un till I got my 3 maps. After each required map the tracker would go up just a few seconds into the summary screen after each match.

So I guess my point is I would just try to remove and add your profile while in game and see if it works. Maybe do steps 1-8 first, but after that just keep adding and removing in game when needed.

Credit and thanks to the OP

By TrashMan677 on 24 Jul 2017 15:53

Just got it. The solution works just takes a lot of time resetting every time and making sure you are synced up

By BlackRain228 on 05 Oct 2017 00:54

I finally got y achievement today, however I didn't need to do the steps described in this guide. My game was stuck at 2 wins (Game Hub) while my service record said 20. Now I'm not sure if what I did will work for everybody but it might be a lot easier/faster to try before following this guide.

Here's what I did:
My game was originally installed on my External HDD and all I did was move it from my External HDD to the Internal HDD. I did that a few days ago and didn't play the game again until today (or used my Xbox One for that matter)

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Today I started it up played a match and the counter went up from 2 to 3, after a few matches the achievement popped all of a sudden (counter was then at 5 or 6).

So before going through the described process just try moving the game (and all installed content) from one HDD to another (from Internal to External might also do the trick) and see if it helps. If not follow this guide

By Finnisher JvB on 22 Oct 2017 21:32

Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. My number of matchmaking victories doesn't go up. I'm stuck at 33%. I have at least one win on the three listed maps in Warzone and Warzone Firefight. Xbox.com had me at 100% for a couple days. Today it changed to 200%. I spoke with MS support about it.

They had me remove and re-add my profile (Settings > All Settings > Account > Remove Accounts), clear cache (settings > system > storage > clear local saved games), clear MAC address (settings > network > network settings > advance settings > alternate MAC address > clear), and check for console updates (https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/update-xbox-...). The only other thing they could recommend, other than reaching out on the Halo Waypoint forums, was to re-install the game.

By TG Mafu on 10 Feb 2018 17:34

I guess I'm lucky that it popped when it was supposed to but I played March on Stormbreak 5 times (won 3), Raid on Apex 7 3 times (won 2) and a bunch of other random maps many many times before Escape from A.R.C. finally came up. I wasn't shy about using high REQs to ensure the victory because I didn't know how long it would be before Escape showed up again.

By Gilbert Prime on 22 Nov 2021 20:03

Firstly, i had a lot of trouble trying to get this, as I'm sure many of us here have. I did manage to get this to pop yesterday by using the method above to help the game Sync with the Game Hub.

The only difference for me, is that rather than play Warzone Firefight, i played the H3 Throwback playlist.

I have previously tried playing on Warzone Firefight by using the method above a few times, however i only managed to Sync up once! Therefore this didn't seem like it was working well for me.

I had previously played over an hour of H3 Throwback one evening last week and managed to Sync up without using this guide. I had played a good amount of games with a friend but only received one victory on the game hub. Not bad, but not enough.

This is what brought me to try H3 Throwback instead of Warzone Firefight while using this guide.

I hadn't had any progress on the progress bar at all until i reached around 6-9 victories in the Game Hub, i was then stuck on 66% for a few days. This is when i used the method above with H3 Throwback.

History.....(This may relate to some of you)

I had played a tonne of games prior to noticing any progress on either the progress bar or the game hub. Essentially, i was stuck at 0 Victories and 0% for a long while before any progress was made. I hadn't done many attempts to try and Sync at this point.

I played all manner of playlists with plenty of wins & losses all round. This means i already had a good amount of wins which hadn't synced - this to me, explains why victories/progress bar go up even though people have lost the game. This also happened to me.

Finally, when this popped. I had synced up by playing H3 Throwback, i had played about 6 - 7 games, lost more than won, and even played on the same maps. Bearing in mind i have won/lost on all of these maps over and over these last couple of weeks.

I'm led to believe that you need at least 6+ victories before you notice any progress on the bar.

Ensure you're synced before you play otherwise you're wasting time.

I think it's ideal to play multiple matches to earn wins on your account. This means, when you do Sync up, losses will count towards the Victory counter on the Game Hub. This is just from personal experience.

I'm interested to know if this helps anyone, let me know. Sorry I can't be much more help however i hope it does!

By Law Violation on 02 Jul 2018 16:06

You know you're synced by winning something in matchmaking (any type of match) and then seeing the number of victories counter go up within the game hub. If it doesn't go up and you've just won something, you're not synced so start the steps over. I found that I got desynced whenever I did anything other than play the game. If you can get yourself synced, just keep playing match after match in Heroic Warzone Firefight until you win on all 3 maps. Don't quit the game, don't leave the match, don't go offline, just keep playing. I recommend trying this when you've got a lot of time to spare. :)

By on 02 Oct 2018 21:22

After more than a week and 20hrs trying to sync my victories (I already won on all 3 maps in both warzone and firefight), I found a post on reddit that got it finally working for me. I stayed in the heroic firefight and got my achievement after losing on a map. I am gonna add another variation here:

1)Go to settings, then network and go to offline mode

2)Delete your gamertag (settings > account > remove acounts)

3)Restart console via snap menu

4)Sign out of any profiles (if instant sign-in is on)

5)Go to settings, then network and go back to online mode

6)Open the game

7)Let the game force you to recover and sign in your profile

By Darth Hawk CZ on 12 Oct 2018 20:03

I really wish I'd read FaceTheCarnage's solution more thoroughly the first time, I realised that 75 wins and 111 Warzone games did NOT count. That is really annoying.

I'd recommend using some formatting to better get gamers to look at what Halo Waypoint thinks you've won in matchmaking (Arena + Warzone wins) and what the Xbox Live Game Stats think you've got for Matchmaking wins.

I didn't do everything on the list, only clearing the persistent storage under Blu-Ray in settings and logging out and back in for the game (one slight panic as it looked like I had reset my rank to 1, but closing and restarting the game again my rank came back).

The biggest point is for people to check that wins are incrementing the Matchmaking wins when playing Warzone Firefight, if they're not then you are wasting your time.
I recommend using the smartphone app, and refreshing on there to see if wins are going up at the end of Warzone Firefight matches, don't press anything, wait for the ending animation, wait for the post game award screen (if applicable) and for the scoreboard to appear by itself, now refresh, has it increased? Yes, good. No? Ok, wait a few seconds and refresh again, no still? Repeat until the matchmaking timer for the next game is down to 10 seconds, if it still hasn't increased then its not counting, exit matchmaking, close the game, clear the persistent storage, log out, login in, start the game again. You could try doing an Arena match first and see if the wins go up, then go to Warzone Firefight, doesn't matter if you accidentally go back to the main menu, I did.

I will say I do have a win on each match in normal Warzone, and Firefight I have as many wins or more than loses on the maps in Firefight, but I don't think that matters.

Warzone Firefight wins on the three maps is all you should need, providing the game is counting any progress.

My final win was on Escape from A.R.C which I joined at the beginning of Round 2 which I thought might be a problem but wasn't.

By AceMcCloud on 28 Mar 2019 13:55

By SICKENED 88 on 10 May 2019 11:28

Can't seem to get above 50% for syncing before it disappears..should I play a game of Warzone each time after and just pray it pops? Currently at 66%. Or should I just not waste my time and keep doing it and wait for above 50/60% sync? Everytime I do all the steps I will see matchmaking victories stay the same but now and then Warzone bosses and Spartan kills will go up. (using a digital copy fyi)

By HeftyMoosemaid on 01 Aug 2019 13:07

Okay so this was my last achievement for H5: Guardians and it was stuck at 0%. I tried every method on this forum and nothing worked for this. I did as much testing as I could to try to figure out how to get this to unlock and managed to get it to pop in a few hours.

Context: I started this process having already won once on each map in Warzone.

Eventually this is what I landed on: resetting your account to re-download your account and re-sync is what gets this to count. Fancy tricks such as resetting persistent storage etc. don't immediately jump out to me as something that affects this.

I noticed that my "Syncing data from Xbox" or whatever would always stop at 41% and that playing after did nothing to help my win number. Everyone probably has a different % threshold that they need to reach, but that was my indicator. If it was above 41% it counted, at 41% or lower I would delete and re-download my profile.

What I did in the end was:
1. Delete and re-add my profile (for the 20th time)
2. As it was syncing my data (around 25%), I selected "Stop sync"
3. I was then in the menu and I hit the Xbox button and quit the Halo 5 app
4. Went back into the game and then it began re-syncing my data faster, jumped to 48% and died
5. Played a game of WZFF on Stormbreak and it counted!
6. Played a handful more and left games* that weren't on the map I wanted
7. Continued to play in that session until I got all of them.

*I saw often times that leaving games messed up people's runs. I didn't find this to be the case. I could have gotten lucky, but it seemed fine.

Anywhere there's my anecdote. Deleting + re-adding continuously until you break a threshold was a more fun game than trying all these things. It was way quicker than clearing caches or anything like that. I didn't re-test this as I should, but hopefully it works for someone!

By PatheticToast12 on 18 Aug 2019 19:06

Okay, same happened here. I'm sitting here freaking out trying to figure out what the Hell is going on, glad I checked here.

By pezboyben on 11 Feb 2021 11:29

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IMPOSSABLANK

TrueAchievements

16 Nov 2015 01:41

You will need to win a match of Warzone one the original 3 maps, March on Stormbreak, Raid on Apex 7, and Escape from A.R.C.

If you are reading this before extra Warzone maps are added, unlock this achievement before any more are added, it doesn't NEED to be unlocked before than, but it will make your life a lot easier and you'll regret not getting it because later on when theres more maps, you'll need to keep searching for the original 3 and it will be harder to find them, and it will be frustrating if you're only playing Warzone for the achievement.

If you're reading this after maps are added just keep playing Warzone casually until you get it, it'll happen eventually.

16 Nov 2015 01:41

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As of 2022 you do not need to win, just complete the matches

By CrimsonBohemian on 05 Dec 2022 17:08

Teh Halo Guy

TrueAchievements

16 Dec 2017 04:06

***Note: This is a last ditch solution for those of you stuck dealing with shoddy servers. If this achievement is ever patched (which seems increasingly unlikely at this point), then this will not be necessary***

As others have said, the three maps you need to complete are Escape from A.R.C, Raid on Apex 7, and March on Stormbreak. From what I've seen reported elsewhere, you need to win these maps on either the regular warzone playlist or any of the warzone firefight playlists. Warzone assault uses variants of the maps, and does not count.

It sounds straight forward, but many of you may notice your progress doesn't track... After spending an hour to find the map you need and then having it not save your progress is demoralizing to say the least.

To avoid banging your head against a wall, I would suggest you use the mythic warzone firefight playlist whenever it is available.

A few properties of this playlist:
- Only available on weekends -- Friday to Sunday
- It is on ONE map each weekend. At the time of writing this, it is on Raid on Apex 7. It was on Escape from A.R.C last weekend. I believe that it is on a set rotation between all maps.
- Matches frequently end in the first round or two, making them short.
- It seems to track better more reliably than the vanilla warzone playlists -- this may be because a server needs to be reset to support the new playlist, or it may just be in my head
- As long as you have won on the map before (in mythic, or any of the other warzone playlists), your progress can update upon completion regardless of if you win or lose. This is in the buttered-up hands of the game hub servers...

Again, this is NOT a workaround to the server issues. It allows you to quickly try the same map without having to reboot between every match. It may recognize your progress on the first match, it may take 15. Just to be safe, I would recommend a hard reset prior to starting up halo 5 whenever you are going for this one.

16 Dec 2017 04:06

ThurminatorVII

TrueAchievements

31 Aug 2021 20:09

For anyone trying to do this in 2021 - All of the glitches here seem to be gone. I didn't have a single problem with any Halo 5 multiplayer achievements, this one included. I found that if you load into a Warzone Firefight match, but don't want to play the map that was chosen, you can just quit the game from the Xbox menu and reopen the game without any kind of ban or penalty. (It autofills games when people leave so don't feel too bad about ditching people). It probably took me playing about 3-5 hours and 12 rounds before I finally played through and won all three of these maps.

31 Aug 2021 20:09

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Can confirm that! Just go to Multiplayer > Warzone > Playlist > Warzone Firefight and make sure to win on those 3 maps:
- March on Stormbreak
- Raid on Apex 7
- Escape from A.R.C

By GPointExtreme on 02 Feb 2022 12:17

Krows Graveyard

TrueAchievements

21 Dec 2017 18:26

Warlord - 20G (Original Achievement)

Difficulty: Moderate (Currently glitched so random luck)

Estimated Period of Time: Varies
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Normally to unlock this Achievement, you must win a game of Warzone (NOT Warzone Assault) on all three original maps:

March on Stormbreak
Raid on Apex 7
Escape from A.R.C.

However this Achievement is glitched and will probably freeze for you at 33% or 66% completion. Personally it froze for me at 66% completion, and below are the stats from my games:

NOTE: The very last game I played was Escape from A.R.C. on Heroic Warzone Firefight BUT it was marked with a Gold Star next to it and it said "Featured" too. I was already at 66% forever and I only played that one map from the "Featured" Heroic Warzone Firefight. So maybe that's what everyone needs. a currently featured playlist that pops up weekly?

Warzone Firefight:

Prospect: 8W 1L
Temple: 7W 0L
Skirmish at Darkstar: 7W 0L
March on Storkbreak: 4W 3L
Escape from A.R.C.: 5W 1L
Urban: 6W 1L
Attack on Sanctum: 2W 3L
Raid on Apex 7: 7W 5L

Warzone:

Skirmish at Darkstar: 3W 9L
March on Stormbreak: 2W 13L
Escape from A.R.C.: 7W 11L
Battle of Noctus: 2W 9L
Attack on Sanctum: 1W 7L
Raid on Apex 7: 5W 7L

As I said, my best guess for getting that remaining glitched percentage to unlock is to play the 3 original maps on featured playlists.

Best of luck!

21 Dec 2017 18:26

ilMaTic BUTCH3R

TrueAchievements

10 Jul 2019 16:48

I just unlocked the achievement so I wanted to share what worked for me. Everyone is having an issue getting their in-game win counter to sync with the win counter on Microsoft's Official Club stats menu, this seems to be a symptom of the progress bar not incrementing in achievement tracking and the achievement not unlocking. I tried many of the suggestions to get the win counter in Halo 5's Official Club stats to increment, with no results. However, I tried something that I did not see as a suggestion, which did result in my achievement tracker progress bar incrementing after a win if I had no previous win on the required map or after a win or loss if I had a previous win on the required map. I cannot guarantee that this is a solution that will work for everyone but after doing this, it immediately started working for me. Go to your Xbox Settings -> Network -> Network Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Alternate MAC Address -> Clear. It will then state that your xbox needs to be restarted. Once your system is restarted, join a Warzone game and play until you get one of the required maps. If you win and it is your first win, you should see the achievement tracker increment. If you lose or win and you have previously won on this map, you should still see the achievement tracker increment, given it is a map that has not already been counted by the achievement tracker prior to this solution. Please let me know how I can clarify or improve this solution.

10 Jul 2019 16:48

BiggD, Harry94

XboxAchievements

In order to obtain this achievement, you will need to play Warzone - not Warzone Assault - and win a match on all three maps. The maps in this game mode are as follows:

Escape from A.R.C.
March on Stormbreak
Raid of Apex 7

In this new 12v12 Multiplayer mode, both teams will spawn on either side of the map in their respective home bases with the task of clearing out the Promethean or Covenant AI in order to lift the "lockdown" on the base. Once this has been completed, both teams will then compete for the capturing of three static territories on the map. Points can be earned by holding these territories (1 point every 3-5 seconds per base), killing players on the enemy team (1 point per kill), and killing AI bosses and their minions (represented by grey or yellow icons/markers on the map; points will vary).

Matches can be won in one of two ways. The simplest is by whichever team reaches 1000 points first. Matches can also be won by destroying the enemy team's power core inside their base. This can only be done once your team has all three static territories under their control at once. This will unlock the "doors" to the enemy's base, allowing you and your team access to the interior as a means of destroying their power core and ending the match prematurely. Generally, matches will last anywhere from 15-30 minutes, so be prepared to sink a decent amount of time as you work on winning a match on all three maps!

mihail461

stratege.ru

16 Aug 2019 12:32

This guide was translated automatically.

The achievement may be glitchy. Won 3+ times on each map, but the progress of the achievement was counted at 33%, i.e. 1 card. Perhaps clearing the local saves of the game on the console helps. Also, after winning one of these maps, the picture may freeze, you need to wait and not press anything to close the game. After these actions I was able to take the achievement.

16 Aug 2019 12:32

Ro11iN

stratege.ru

08 Mar 2018 12:56

This guide was translated automatically.

Names of original cards:
- Escape from ARC
-March on Stormbreak
- Raid on Apex 7

08 Mar 2018 12:56