Rocket League
77 Achievements
2,200
22-30h
Drill Sergeant
Complete every Practice Drill (any difficulty)
25
11.12%
How to unlock the Drill Sergeant achievement in Rocket League - Definitive Guide
Fortunately, I found a workaround to unlock this, thanks to MustKillMoWhee's comment on the Team Player achievement (which is also glitchy). Note that there has been an update and, while this method still works, you will lose all your unlocked items and level. (Thank you ChingChongNolan for the updated info.)
I don't think it matters if you complete all trainings by selecting "change training" or if you go back to the main menu, but when I unlocked it, I did all 3 in a row using the "change training" option. Also, I don't think your percentage matters, I got 90%, 80% and 10% (yeah, I'm that bad with aerials haha), but I think you can get 0% every time and still get the achievement.
Now, onto the method itself:
1) Disconnect your Xbox from the Internet.
2) Go to your games & apps section, press the start button on Rocket League and select "Manage Game". Once in that menu, delete your local save file, (I also deleted the reserved space, just in case)
3) With your Xbox still offline, launch the game and complete the 3 training sessions as described above (you will be Level 1 and have no items). After completing the trainings, go back to the main menu and close the game.
4) Reconnect the Xbox to the Internet.
5) Open Rocket League. There will be a prompt asking you which save you want to use (console or cloud). Chose your Console save. The synchronization process will begin, and the achievement will unlock. After that, you can press A to load the main menu.
As mfeforever adds in the comments:
There seems to be a basic misunderstanding how game save and achievement data is split up and stored. The gamertag file contains achievement data. The game save file contains in game progress data (e.g., levels/unlock items.)
Following steps one through four, the achievement fired without ever starting Rocket League. (Be a little patient, when the gamertag synced back up. The offline gamertag had the achievement and needed to update the Xbox live gamertag. It happens fairly quickly, but not immediately.)
At this point, the achievement has fired.
In step five, the solution as presented resets the game save data, when the on console (recently created and mostly empty) game save file is selected.
Instead during step five, the Xbox live version of the game save file (the one with game progress data state prior to starting this workaround) should be selected. (Any xp/items you earned when offline will be lost, but the original state is restored.)
This was tested with my gamertag, which the achievement had been earned but did not fire, and with an alt gamertag, which had never started the game.
Hope this helps...
Since I already have the achievement, I couldn't test this, but it does make sense, so I thought I'd add it to the solution.
Goalie
Striker
Aerial
Please note that you do not need to get 100% on each drill, simply finish it.
Striker
Aerial
Goalie
Do these on Rookie difficulty.
You also don't need to play. You can let the timer run out if you wish.
There are three different practice drills. Goalie, Striker and Aerial. Finish each drill in any difficulty and the achievement will unlock.
On the main menu, select Training. From here you can see 5 options. The bottom 3 here are the Practice Drills; Goalie, Striker and Aerial. Select one to get started. I recommend Striker first as it is the easiest and you will have already picked up some skills from Step 1.
For Striker, you will be completing 10 basic goals. It starts off very easy as the balls are completely stationary. Later in the round the balls are moving, but thankfully very slowly.
For Goalie, you will be defending the goals from balls thrown at you at increasing speed. Even if you are bad at defending the Goalie drills are very easy and only require you to be able to hit the ball away. At the start of the first 8 drills, just charge the ball and you win that drill automatically. For the last 2, you will have to time it correctly as you approach the ball from the side.
Finally, Aerial features similar setups to Striker, but hitting balls in the air by using the jump () and rocket boost (). This is the hardest of the 3, but still very easy. For this section I highly suggest using the secondary jump by pressing in the air while not tilting in any direction. This will allow you to get on top of the ball and guarantee it will travel downwards into the goal. See below for an example:
The drills are very easy. Furthermore, you can press should you fail any of them to retry. The game will warn you that you will not earn any points, but that is acceptable as points are not required for the trophy. Also, you can complete these drills on any difficulty, so select rookie. Finally, you get infinite boost for all of these drills.