Mass Effect: Andromeda

55 Achievements

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Veteran

Successfully complete a combined 25 strike team missions or APEX multiplayer mode extractions.

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How to unlock the Veteran achievement in Mass Effect: Andromeda - Definitive Guide

LegendaryMarvel

TrueAchievements

20 Mar 2017 23:27

These are both located in the multiplayer menu of the game. Alternatively they can be accessed from the strike team mission console after speaking to Kandros on the Nexus. There is also a strike team mission terminal on the Tempest. From there you can go to "strike teams." You have 1 strike team to start. You can recruit more teams using mission points. Your first additional team will cost 40, and it seems to go up by 40 more mission points for each team you recruit. 1st team is 40, 2nd team is 80, 3rd is 120. I only have the 3 teams, so I don't know if that trend continues from there. Anyway, when in the strike teams menu you can select missions to send your teams out on. Some of these missions will have the Apex logo next to them. You will have the choice to send a team, or play in multiplayer for additional rewards upon successful completion. Successfully complete 25 and the achievement is yours.

You can also send strike teams using the Apex HQ app on iOS and Android. ***WARNING*** I'm completely unsure how the app communicates with the Xbox as far as achievements. I imagine you have to at least login to your game for the achievements to pop, cuz they surely won't pop in the app. But I am unaware if you get no credit whatsoever for using the app. I unlocked the achievement prior the apps release.

**Update**
It's looking as though completing missions within the app aren't being tracked for the achievement progression at this time.

**Update 2**
Confirmation that someone got this achievement from using the app first, then accessing the strike team menus in game. Achievement having popped after about 30 seconds of accessing appropriate in game menus.

**Update 3**
A lot of people are having issues with the progression of this achievement tracking properly. Some people in the comments mentioned different things that seemed to cause the game to "catch up" with progression, if you will. From anything to recruiting another strike team, to actually playing an APEX mission in multiplayer. Keep in mind, just cuz it worked for others, doesn't mean it will be the fix for you. Just another thing worth trying. Unfortunately it just seems that the tracking on this achievement is pretty buggy at the moment.

**Update 4**
Courtesy of a few commenters it looks as though checking your status via the prestige section and making sure to debrief number 25, and then access the prestige page again to have it start back at 0/25 is making the achievement pop. Could be another random way to force progression, but multiple people are reporting this method works.

20 Mar 2017 23:27

56 Comments

Been using the app for my iPhone and I have definitely done Won more then 25 strike team missions, but the achievement has still not unlocked so been warned that using app might not count towards the achievement

By jdogbits on 24 Mar 2017 03:47

I've been collecting my rewards in game for the missions but still nothing

By jdogbits on 24 Mar 2017 13:59

Alright, thanks for the info. Not sure if this is something they will patch in the future. But added a warning to the guide to reflect that using app doesn't seem to count towards achievement progression.

By LegendaryMarvel on 24 Mar 2017 14:44

Can confirm that "Update 4" works. Achievement just unlocked for me.

By PunkRawkSoldier on 09 Feb 2021 01:38

Anyone else can't send strike teams on apex missions?

By Lavindathar on 27 Mar 2017 00:51

I completed 25 strike team missions through the app before opening multiplayer in game. The achievement unlocked about 30 seconds in to using the menus.

The app certainly counts towards this, but perhaps a few ghosts in the machines so soon after launch.

By stupler on 27 Mar 2017 20:29

I got 25 from just the game mp and nothing.

By NMANOZ on 28 Mar 2017 12:22

By 'Successfully Complete", does that mean you have to win the mission? I'd assume yes,

By KD9 37 on 28 Mar 2017 20:53

I went and unlocked a 4th strike team and the achievement popped (did 54 missions). Try giving that a go.

By NMANOZ on 29 Mar 2017 13:35

@Bricked, I assume that is the case, as that's the way it is worded. That being said, there seems to be a good amount of issues with the way many of these achievements are tracked.

@NMANOZ glad you found a way to force progression to update and pop the achievement. Clearly an issue with the way the progression is tracking for many of these.

By LegendaryMarvel on 29 Mar 2017 13:56

Is there somewhere that I can check to tell me how many missions I've done and how many of those were successful versus failures?

By KD9 37 on 29 Mar 2017 14:28

Not that I'm aware of.

By LegendaryMarvel on 29 Mar 2017 14:56

Does any Strike Team Mission count? Or do you have to successfully complete 25 of the APEX missions, the ones with the Sergeant bars on them?

By PaperCircle on 29 Mar 2017 15:00

Any strike team mission. I got this with the cumulative of my APEX extractions, and my successful strike team missions.

By LegendaryMarvel on 29 Mar 2017 15:19

Anybody struggling to unlock this achievement? I've completed 12 APEX missions and countless strike mission successes, and still haven't gotten the achievement.

It appears that under 'Prestige' in the mp menu there's a way to track it via challenges, but I'm not sure if it's accurate or not. According to that, I have 59 completed and still no luck.

By x1001x Puppys on 29 Mar 2017 20:35

By x1001x Puppys on 30 Mar 2017 02:24

I just got this achievement. The challenges menu in multiplayer said I'd gotten Veteran x3 and had done plenty of missions through the app, but no achievement. I finally decided to actually play an Apex mission. So I joined up with a group. We failed the mission, but I popped the achievement.

By PaperCircle on 30 Mar 2017 21:41

not really sure what is up with this bad boy ... i now have 2 level 20 strike teams and 3 others in the teens and nothing O.o very odd not sure what more its wanting at this point lol

By R3f1CuL on 31 Mar 2017 19:53

finally got it after what was the 7th time obtaining veteran in my prestige accomplishments while doing absolutely nothing different then the first 6 times i had done it ... such a shitty ach ... on the bright side i almost have enough for my 6th strike team tho ... so i guess thats some kind of positive :/

By R3f1CuL on 01 Apr 2017 21:27

Could it be "strike team missions" are the apex missions you can send strike teams on and not just normal missions?

By Fuzzmeister J on 02 Apr 2017 17:44

I think it might just be the Apex missions, not the normal strike team missions. I got the Explorer achievement this morning only after completing 5 Apex missions (doing so myself and by sending strike teams to do them via the Xbox and the mobile app) - completing the 'starndard' non-Apex missions didn't seem to count. Maybe the same thing applied here. I don't think the achievement description is very clear if that is the case however.

By Stevo6483 on 03 Apr 2017 10:36

I was at 24/25 and completed an Apex strike mission and failed a normal one and didn't get credit. Maybe the normal ones are the only ones that count?

By Fuzzmeister J on 03 Apr 2017 11:51

Same as above lol.

The in game tracker under multiplayer seems to be counting my victories and failures. Currently on 11/25 for the 6th time.

Going to try ensure I debrief #25 in game to see if it helps. At this point I am liable to try anything to get it to pop though haha.

By Flezza on 03 Apr 2017 21:38

I've completed the Veteran accomplishment 5 times, and still nothing. I've done a mix of multiplayer, sending Strike Teams out in single-player and multiplayer, and using the app. Rather annoying, considering this is the last achievement I need...

[UPDATE 4/4/17] So I got up to 24/25 on the Accomplishment tracker, debriefed another successful Strike Team mission, went to the Prestige menu again to check the tracker, and the achievement popped when I selected the Veteran accomplishment (it said 0/25). Kinda weird, but hey, I have this game perfected now.

By Crimsonverse on 04 Apr 2017 19:40

I've completed the Veteran accomplishment 3 times, and still nothing. I've done a mix of multiplayer and sending strike teams, have three trike teams with one team level 20. I will try the 24/25 trick as mentioned by Flezza & Jack DC 93.

By MAJICO70 on 05 Apr 2017 17:06

Randomly unlocked for me while I was buying more strike teams in single player (for the 6 strike teams cheevo).

By F1 Viking on 06 Apr 2017 05:47

same for me 24/25 method, debriefed another one and went to prestige in MP and it popped right away.

By Calex dEUS on 06 Apr 2017 20:44

Is this one supposed to track cause ive been doing on single player since day one, almost got 6 strike teams still don't have achievement

By Lots a LOUD on 07 Apr 2017 18:22

Same here :-) the 24/25 method

By MAJICO70 on 09 Apr 2017 07:45

For me worked the method: Switch from Storymode directly to Multiplayer, Open the Prestige Section, Open challenges and it popped.

By Drethe1st on 14 Apr 2017 20:21

Same here... I had done 11 missions and the Explorer achievement (for doing 5 successfully) never popped when doing it with the Apex HQ App. It mentioned in the Challenges that I had fully completed 2 and the 'new' series was at 20%. So yes, make sure the 5th and 25th missions are done in-game and not through the app. I'm actually at version 1.05 of the game.

By Trikke den 1e on 18 Apr 2017 06:34

Uh so it says for me I have accomplished Veteran 9X. Yet no achievement. Bizarre

By NxtDoc1851 on 23 Apr 2017 03:35

My cheevo unlocked after I went to the tutorial menu and claimed the first gift. (Explorer also unlocked)

By chrisloughnane on 24 Apr 2017 15:37

So for me this just wouldnt pop with all the suggestions...

I did it the long and hard way... started all the missions from the Game in Single Player on the Tempest.

After doing the last one i used a Strike APEX mission to Get the option to go to multiplayer then went into Prestige menu to the Veteran challenge and checked it and it showed it reset to 0. After going out back to the main menu it finally popped for me after completing this for the 4th time.

By XenitXTD on 26 Apr 2017 05:02

Tracking is definitely buggy for me. Nothing tracks through the app nor using the strike team option in multiplayer menu. Yep, doesn't work in multiplayer and I've tried all the catch up options.

Am running some more missions so hoping these will catch up on using the ship terminal to finish them.

Edit: After trial and error over a day, my missions are only counting for veteran if I do everything from the console on the Tempest. No app stuff or anything through the multiplayer menu counts.

By I am Gears Noob on 05 May 2017 18:07

Can confirm that the method in update 4 does work - achievement popped after going into prestige section of the menu after debriefing 25th mission.

By Osirian08 on 13 May 2017 01:37

Update 4 still works, I think I'm playing version 1.07.

By BlinkFandangoII on 24 May 2017 17:45

I've already reset my progress once when I was 23 missions. I've pretty much only been opening the game to do strike missions and I still don't have the achievement. I really don't want to check progress again because it may reset my progress AGAIN. Do we know if this thing is working yet?

By Xelliz on 13 Jun 2017 12:57

Does anyone know if this needs to be completed in a single playthrough? Also, can you combine them to the 25 needed (as in playing 15 APEX missions in multiplayer and then sending out 10 strike teams on missions?)

By IronLegion53 on 16 Jul 2017 03:29

Playthrough doesn't matter, as I got this before ever having touched the single player. Yes, the achievement states "combined." Keep in mind that if you do APEX missions your team needs to extract in order for it to count.

By LegendaryMarvel on 19 Jul 2017 21:40

I've done a ton of strike team missions successfully and its still showing nothing on the tracker? Tried going into Prestige through MP and that didnt do anything. Won a handful of APEX missions personally and was extracted but still nothing either

By rudest on 25 Jul 2017 22:15

@rudest, sorry to hear about your issues. I would suggest maybe submitting a ticket through EA and seeing if there is anything they can do to help you out.

By LegendaryMarvel on 29 Jul 2017 14:27

Update 4 is correct:
I completed the requirement for this many times over. Some missions from the game (sent strike team alone), but most from the phone app. The achievement would only pop when I went into the multiplayer screen when I had exactly 25 complete so it would show 0/25 remaining and a bunch of times I had completed it.

By I Argonaut I on 21 Nov 2017 18:10

+1. I suggest moving the latest Update to the top since I believe that is how the achievement will unlock for everyone moving forward since updates to the game are done I think.

By I Argonaut I on 21 Nov 2017 18:11

The "Update 4" solution is working in 2020. Definitely the recommended way.

By NZT21 on 04 Oct 2020 16:05

After Two years the achievooo finally unlocked. Update 4 works

By ZIBBIE 17 on 21 Dec 2021 20:08

Update 4 worked for me in 2022! 😏

By SKIVER619 on 03 Jun 2022 19:16

im still vague on why this isnt popping for me when i go to the challenge tab and look at vetran says ive completed this 3 times. do i have to get it back to 25 then relog into multiplayer ?

By JoKeRWiNs89 on 27 Jun 2022 00:53

Because this game is coded like shit so if you're not there in multiplayer exactly at 25 it's like oops you missed it.

Got it to pop using the update 4 method. Missions via the app, checking the accomplishments in the proper game until it was 24/25. Turned in 25 IN GAME as my latest save was at the console. Save and exit, loaded multiplayer, pop.

By Chucklestyle on 05 Aug 2022 20:12

Holy heck, I had this in achievement limbo since 2017. Update 4 finally got it to pop for me. Thanks a bunch!

Now to wait a couple more years for ME4.

By Tozi Tiberius on 12 Sep 2023 08:56

Checked today and looks like my progress got reset. In the challenge section it says 2/25 . I was around 20.
Also other challenge progress isn't tracking at all

By OZRIC DUB on 26 Mar 2017 22:10

My challenge section says "2x finished" but still no achievement

Until now, been most using the app for all the missions, damn.

By Hirogen D on 27 Mar 2017 12:20

Achievement is somewhat bugged for me as well. I've done a lot of strike/APEX missions (enough to have a couple teams up to lvl 20 and enough funds to buy 5 teams) yet the tracker under Multiplayer > Prestige > Challenges > Accomplishments says I've only completed 9 missions. Annoying - looks like I'll be sending out strike teams into my next play through before I get this one.

Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I've only done strike missions through the single player interface, never done an APEX mission in multiplayer or anything through the app.

By OniAegis on 30 Mar 2017 14:44

Yup same as above guys.

Did what I said I was going to do and got it to 24/25 and debriefed #25 in game (in the multiplayer menu). Went to check to see if it counted in the prestige menu and it popped upon selecting veteran and it showing 0/25.

Game perfected.

By Flezza on 05 Apr 2017 13:13

Ok, so I got this last night. I'd mostly being completing a mixture of the regular strike team missions & the Apex missions via the mobile app, plus 1 Apex mission that I played myself on console. Like others have stated I debriefed the strike team I'd sent out for the 25th mission on the console, but the achievement only popped when I went into the Prestige -> Accomplishments menu, which also showed that I'd completed the Veteran challenge.

In short, looks like both Apex and non-Apex missions count for this one, whereas with the Explorer achievement I found that the non-Apex missions didn't seem to count, despite the challenge being completed at least 3 times when I unlocked it. Whether this is intentional or just buggy is anyone's guess - likely the latter though.

By Stevo6483 on 06 Apr 2017 10:25

In case you need more detail for Update 4, that's select Prestige in multiplayer, then Challenges, then Accomplishments, and finally Veteran to check status.
The strike team system is such half-baked garbage. So many times my only mission options have been ones that take 4+ hours and that my teams have less than a 15% chance of succeeding. It's like they took the mission system from the Assassin's Creed series and made it even more pointless and annoying just like the multiplayer is a ripoff of Call of Duty's survival mode.

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brickarys

TrueTrophies

29 Mar 2017 14:36

You unlock the ability to send in Strike Teams, after gaining access to the Tempest and speaking with Kandros on the Nexus.

You start out with 1 Strike Team to send on missions with the ability to recruit more. The first time you recruit it's free, then your second team costs 40 mission points, with each proceeding team increasing by 40 points. (0, 40, 80, 120, 160, 200)

When you choose your missions, some of them will give you the ability to send a Strike Team or play in multiplayer. Do whichever you'd like. Completing 5 will net you:

The Explorer trophy in Mass Effect: Andromeda worth 21 pointsComplete a combined five strike team missions or APEX extractions in multiplayer mode.

I believe, given the wording on this trophy, that by 'Successfully Complete', it means that you have to win the mission and not fail it, 25 times. I will try to confirm that however unless someone else can.

You can also send your strike teams using the Apex HQ app which can be downloaded for iOS or Android. I can confirm that you can send out your strike teams via the app and it will count. You will not gain the trophy from the app, you will first have to go online via the game and log in from the Tempest, at which point the trophy should unlock for you.

Edit: In the Multiplayer menu under Prestige -> Challenges -> Accomplishments, you can check your progress towards this under the Veteran Accomplishment. You will see a #/25 and how many times you've completed it. Most people say that this does not unlock even though most have completed it. To date I have completed it twice and am at 23/25 towards completion number 3.

Edit 2: waited and made sure to unlock the 25th successful mission via the multiplayer hub in the game, not the app. As soon as I did the debrief, I got the trophy. It would seem that using the app to get the successful missions is fine as long as the final (25th) mission debrief occurs in game, not in app.

29 Mar 2017 14:36

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Thanks for the info! I've noticed that mine says completed 2 times and 23/25 on the third time. I'm going to try and complete #25 manually to see if that has any effect.

By brickarys on 02 Apr 2017 12:49

Patch has fixed the glitch mentioned above.

I only did 25 and it unlocked. Also, I failed a couple and it unlocked. Might be a different glitch now, but they've droped support so.

By SolaceCreed on 10 Jun 2020 06:52

I had some issues unlocking this trophy and figured I would leave some information here in case it was helpful to anyone else.

I had completed over 50 strike team missions (mostly through the APEX HQ app) but the trophy did not unlock when I was playing the game. I was finally able to unlock it today, however.

In the Multiplayer menu under Prestige -> Challenges -> Accomplishments, you can track your progress towards this trophy. Every time you complete 25 strike team missions, the counter resets to zero and adds one to the "Times Completed" counter.

I got this trophy to unlock by completing my 75th strike team mission from inside the game and not on the app. It took a few seconds but it unlocked once I debriefed my team.

By AlienVsRedditor on 02 Apr 2017 02:36

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XboxAchievements

Just like with the "Unwavering" achievement, you have an option of getting this achievement done in two ways. To send a strike team out, you can either enter the MP menu (but instead of going in to start a co-op match, choose "Strike Teams" from the list of options), or do this from the command center on the Tempest. Choose an easy mission to start and send a team out. Bronze missions will take 1-3 hours, so check back and send them out again when they return. These missions can be "failed" and you won't get a +1 toward the achievement if that happens (and you run the risk of getting a permanent negative trait attached to the team which will make them less effective, so try to only send teams with a high percentage of success). Just be sure to check back often to keep starting new missions, and recruit more teams when possible to speed this up.

NOTE: You can also work on this from the "Apex HQ" mobile app. However, make sure you complete the 25th mission in-game for the achievement to unlock properly.

For the actual MP route, you need to complete 25 total co-op APEX missions by successfully extracting. These can all be done on Bronze difficulty if you wish.

rmchiva925

PlaystationTrophies

You can do this trophy in single player or multiplayer.

In Single Player:

On the Tempest, you can deploy Strike Team on simulated mission. The teams will be gone for a couple hours, and will either complete or fail the mission. They get experience either way and level up constantly. Higher level teams have a higher success rate, but if you fail too many missions, the teams that failed might pick up a negative trait that hinders their ability. Complete 25 missions by sending Strike team out constantly to earn this trophy.

In Multiplayer:

You can complete 25 coop extraction missions. Each extraction mission consists of 7 survival waves while also having other objectives such as defending a point, disabling devices, or eliminating HVT's (High value targets). On the 7th wave, you have to survive for 2 mins and extract. Successfully complete 25 of these coop missions to earn the trophy.

Warning: if you are using the APEX app to send strike teams, make sure to send the last one while playing, as many have reported the trophy will not unlock unless you do so.

Phobie

stratege.ru

22 Mar 2017 11:37

This guide was translated automatically.

As with all tasks for shock troops, it is advisable not to forget about the application for smartphones, so as not to enter the game again and get all the trophies faster.

UPD: As of version 1.04, missions through the application do not count towards achievements

22 Mar 2017 11:37

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ATTENTION! I completed all the tasks from the mobile application and completed about 30-35 of them, but they never gave me the trophy. Then I simply collected a report from one task in the game itself and I got 2 trophies at once - this one

And "
Explorer / Researcher"

. So do everything in the mobile app, and then just get one success report in the game itself.

By SteelMashine on 26 Mar 2017 15:44

I'll correct my previous friend. Quests only count if you COMPLETE them in the game. And preferably in a single. I personally didn’t get the chance online either.

By Solbadguy891 on 26 Mar 2017 03:01

Through the application, you can release squads on missions, but close those completed or failed through the game itself.

By IR0NH1DE on 30 Mar 2017 08:08

By the way, the progress of this trophy can be tracked.
Multiplayer -> Reputation -> Challenges -> General Tab -> Achievements -> Veteran.
I also checked that the completed tasks of the shock troops through the application also counted.

By dumbaby_ on 20 Mar 2021 15:35

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seversss

stratege.ru

17 Nov 2017 17:53

This guide was translated automatically.

If someone played the digital trial version with the disc version, the trophy hangs. Purchasing the digital version allows you to get it. This happened to me

17 Nov 2017 17:53