Titanfall

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My Robot Army

My Robot Army

Hacked 20 Spectres using the Data Knife

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How to unlock the My Robot Army achievement in Titanfall - Definitive Guide

An enemy Spectre is hacked by walking up behind it, and then holding the once seeing the on-screen prompt. Any Pilot is able to do this, and after a few seconds the Spectre will become friendly. Doing this a total of 20 times will unlock the achievement at the end of a match.

You can also wait until level 43 to unlock “The ‘Icepick’” which is a Tier 2 Kit that allows for increased speed when hacking Spectres, as well as turret control panels. This isn’t necessary, but may make the achievement a little easier Additionally, it is recommend that you use the Minion Detector Tier 1 Kit to easily see enemy AI on your minimap. Lastly, don't forget about your burn cards. Some will offer the ability to make enemy AI ignore you, or allow you to be invisible at all times which can make this achievement much easier.

When hacking a Spectre within a group of Spectres, the game will sometimes automatically hack all the close proximity Spectres for you. Unfortunately, it seems that the game will NOT count any of the automatically converted Spectres towards the achievement. It will only count those Spectres which were manually hacked by the player.

Once you get to 20 total hacked Spectres, the achievement will unlock at the end of the game. You can track your progress towards this achievement in the Personal Stats menu under Misc.
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11 Mar 2014 07:00

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I can confirm that the 'region hack' does not count towards the achievement, only what is manually hacked is tracked, as i have hack 2 at the moment, but quite a few turned to fight for me, and according to TA's records (the little i) it says i have only hacked two.
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By xWaZZySsiKnEsSx on 12 Mar 2014 02:00
The burn card that automatically hacks spectres does not seem to count either.
Your solution has a flaw, by the way: Minion Detector is Tier 2, not Tier 1, so you have to choose between that and 'The Icepick'.
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By Terrificy on 12 Mar 2014 10:02
I'd like to point out that you can see your current progress by going to Challenges > General > MAKING FRIENDS
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By Waddaboo on 14 Mar 2014 20:07
Nice advice Maka thank you.clap
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By MORBSTA on 16 Mar 2014 20:28
There could be a glitch on TA it says that I have 21/20 (105%) but no achievement.
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By zico291 on 22 Mar 2014 22:56
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Alright! So I just want to add some things to be solution above.

The first thing, you do not have to be BEHIND an enemy Spectre to hack. Just get close to it and Hold X, once the prompt is on-screen.

Second thing, for a very short period of times after you hack a Spectre, you can shoot other Spectres close to it and they will automatically be hacked. I don't know if it's a glitch, but it works for now. Pretty sure it counts for the achievement, and if it doesn't I'll edit.

Have fun !!!!¡!!!!
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12 Mar 2014 01:39

This can be done on at any point. the Spectres are the robot A.I. enemies on the battlefield. When you see them you can go up to the and press and hold X to hack them. Doing so will hack the whole squad but the achievement will only track the one you manually hacked. they then will proceed to follow and fight beside you and even get revenge kills as seen at the end of the video.
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12 Mar 2014 17:02

This is fairly easily done on the final campaign level, "Made Men", since there are hundreds of specters that will spawn during the match. All you need to do is head towards a control point that an enemy has under control currently and you should run into a squad of spectres.
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13 Mar 2014 10:45

Spectres are the humanoid robot ground enemies that look vaguely similar to a terminator from the movie of the same name. When you are quite close to them you will see a prompt on the screen that says "Hold to hack." If you do so, you will automatically pull out your Data Knife, stick it in their head, and hack them. If there are other Spectres nearby, this will automatically hack them as well (apparently via wifi based on the text provided on a related burn card). The hacked Spectre/s will then follow you around and fight by your side, which can provide a small edge in some game modes.

Some maps and game modes have a lot of Spectres, while some have none. If you persistently hack ones you see, this can be one of the first achievements you earn. If you are struggling, cloak prior to hacking them so you don't get shot at and aim for groups to speed it up. You can also play Frontier Defense on Fracture, which contains 20 Spectres in wave 1.

You can track your progress in the achievement app, where each 5% progress represents 1 Spectre hacked.

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Spectres are the humanoid robot ground enemies that look vaguely similar to a terminator from the movie of the same name. When you are quite close to them you will see a prompt on the screen that says "Hold to hack." If you do so, you will automatically pull out your Data Knife, stick it in their head, and hack them. If there are other Spectres nearby, this will automatically hack them as well (apparently via wifi based on the text provided on a related burn card). The hacked Spectre/s will then follow you around and fight by your side, which can provide a small edge in some game modes.

Some maps and game modes have a lot of Spectres, while some have none. If you persistently hack ones you see, this can be one of the first achievements you earn. If you are struggling, cloak prior to hacking them so you don't get shot at and aim for groups to speed it up. You can also play Frontier Defense on Fracture, which contains 20 Spectres in wave 1.

You can track your progress in the achievement app, where each 5% progress represents 1 Spectre hacked.

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