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Drill Sergeant

Drill Sergeant

Complete every Practice Drill (any difficulty)

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11.12%

How to unlock the Drill Sergeant achievement in Rocket League - Definitive Guide

To unlock this achievement, all you have to do is complete all 3 different trainings (saving, scoring and aerials) on any difficulty. However, you may be unlucky and have this glitch on you like it happened to me.

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.
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19 Jul 2016 20:17

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not sure what happened but i did this and lost everything i didnt get anything back and lost all my stuff
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By BuckShotNolan on 12 Sep 2016 08:36
So I took a few days but I finally checked this and sadly it seems you do lose all your items and level now when you synchronize & chose to keep your console save. I've updated the solution with this new info.
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By Runner eGirl on 06 Oct 2016 00:16
@ mfeforever thanks for the info, I've updated the solution :)
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By Runner eGirl on 22 Feb 2017 17:52
No worries happy to help. toast
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By mfeforever on 22 Feb 2017 20:40
I have used all workarounds I can find and this achievement still refuses to unlock. I'm s*** out of luck I believe
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By SL1CK CHR1S on 28 Feb 2017 07:14
Make it simple dont write essay for solution. Just add credits on top.
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By venksbond on 25 Apr 2020 14:45
I have set skill level to rockie 80%,70%,0%!!!! achiv pops.
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By venksbond on 25 Apr 2020 14:48
If you don't like the way I write my solutions, by all means go ahead and write your own. The solution works in cases where the achievement does not unlock by completing the requirements. From what you wrote, it seems it didn't glitch on you so what are you doing here?
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By Runner eGirl on 25 Apr 2020 15:02
Everytime you complete a training you should get a green star next to rookie when completed. I was able to get star on striker & goalie but not aerial even though I did the aerial training on rooking 4 time (getting good at aerials at same time.). I tried doing aerials on rooming then exit menú method or change mode/match. Cannot get the Green star to stick for aerials.
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By alpaca777 on 26 Jan 2023 23:41
Update : nm cheevo poped silent leaving my post for reference
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By alpaca777 on 26 Jan 2023 23:46
hmmm... that's strange... the only thing that comes to mind is that there was an update 2-3 days ago, maybe they changed something with it? I'll try to check with an alt account, I won't be able to do the achievement part (unless it doesn't pop), but I can check if now you lose your stuff at least. I'll keep you posted.
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By Runner eGirl on 12 Sep 2016 16:15
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...
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By mfeforever on 21 Jan 2017 12:49
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I think the "change training" method is outdated after update or something because it would not unlock for me. I completed aerial, hit exit to main menu on left side of screen, completed striker, exited to main menu, then did goalie and it popped.
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14 Jul 2016 05:53

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I tried this as well as doing the drills by choosing "change training" and the achievement didn't unlock for me (I must've tried at least half a dozen times now), so I think it's just buggy :/
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By Runner eGirl on 15 Jul 2016 16:19
Got it using this method; didn't risk the save deletion method. Pretty sure all three trainings have to be done in one session.
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By MulticronX on 16 Sep 2016 17:18
Followed this and it worked.
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By FatalBrush on 12 Feb 2017 10:12
Did this and the achievement still didn't pop so I did one drill within the pro category and the achievement popped straight away!
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By GHOST WORLD on 04 May 2017 21:35
^^That worked! I did the exit to menu method and it didn't unlock, so loaded up pro goalie training and it unlocked after the first save.
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By Lockie on 23 Oct 2019 09:57
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Go into 'training' from the main menu and complete each of the following three drills to unlock this simple trophy:

Goalie
Striker
Aerial

Please note that you do not need to get 100% on each drill, simply finish it.
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07 Jul 2015 15:22

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NOTE: You do not need to get 100% in each drill, simply finish them.
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By pixeldreams_txt on 08 Jul 2015 21:49
Confirmed...you can get 0% and still get this trophy.
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By ima1diot on 06 Sep 2015 17:42
You need to complete the three main tutorials:

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.
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15 Apr 2016 00:00

There are three different practice drills. Goalie, Striker and Aerial. Finish each drill in any difficulty and the achievement will unlock.

 

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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.

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It is not necessary to pass 100%
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10 Jul 2015 10:13

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It is not necessary to go through all the difficulties, but one selected level of difficulty must be completed in all types of training.
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By Timli on 17 Jul 2015 10:19