What did you do differently?
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I went into the editor and found the problem. I’m not sure how I did band of brothers but the problem is the game doesn’t check for WHO is making the unit.
So when the AI enemy makes a unit, which is not an scv, medivac, or merc (so, ANY unit) it instantly blocks the achievement. AI seems to make its first unit in normal difficulty at about the 3 minute mark, so yeah no this is unachieveable.
Additionally, it appears the “hard core” achievement is also bugged, and you get it simply by finishing the mission on hard or brutal. This part I found purely by looking at the editor, so someone might need to test it to confirm.
Edit: ok, band of brothers has the condition “owner of trained unit = player one” so that’s something. There’s a chance that SPIDER MINES count against you for band of brothers, since in my successful attempt I purposely avoided them
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Yah can confirm, using only what you start with and the units you rescue doesnt grant the achievement 
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lol also blizz fix portraits, i will NEVER use Mira as a portrait EVER
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Yeah i’m experiencing the same problem on these two achievements, I have tried to not create anything at all while directly flew all my buildings away at the start and only used any rescued units but the achievement just does not pop.
Band of Brothers did not pop for me either, probably because I did lay the spider mines from vultures, I even avoided dropping mules but I had totally forgotten about the damn mines, will try it again tomorrow and see if Band of Brothers works.
From what I recall, the forums are run by a 3rd party.
Just completed Band of Brothers by following conditions and not using spider mines. Rhyme’s statement appears to be correct.
-Valas
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I’m pretty sure it’s related to the fact that at the start of the mission you get 2 medivacs carrying 4 regular (non-merc) marines, which are netrual and then switch to your color / control. I think the game sees this as unit training, unlike if, for example, you would have them from the start of the game directly under your control.
Trying to use “computer-logic”, in that case, you would start with them by default, that would be the initial set-up, you should refrain from training something. As it is, they are assigned to you at some point, so… where did you get them from, if you haven’t trained them?
Not sure how the achievement is coded, but a quick-fix for it would be allowing marines to be trained… like ticking one more box (marines) of units that are allowed.
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I noticed that too. I wonder though if it won’t award the achievement because the “Action” element is missing… because the entire trigger is missing. I’ll fire up a free account and see what happens on Hard.
In the Gates of Hell mission there’s an achievement that uses the same trigger layout. In Gates of Hell, we rescue all sorts of non-mercenary units but the achievement still pops. Like Rhyme mentioned above, it seems there’s a missing line in the achievement trigger:
https://i.postimg.cc/5t05LhFt/Comp.png
So it appears that if the Zerg AI makes anything, it trips the trigger and disables the achievement.
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I can’t get either of the achievements for The Mobeius Reactor or Gates of Hell. I thought it was because I was “training” MULEs but even then I didn’t get them. Dunno what to do. Forgot I even had vultures for spider mines.
EDIT: I did a run of Gates of Hell without training ANYTHING whatsoever (no SCVs, MULEs, merc, etc…) Only supply of army came from the drop pods scattered around. And it did work. However, I tried the same thing with the Mobeius Reactor and still no achievement.
Did you rescue the drop pods and not make spider mines in the same play through? How about Mules?
I’ve built mules, spider mines, raven turrets and pdd in Gates of Hell, but still got the “Band of Brothers” achievement.
Why hasn’t it been fixed yet?
The mission is completed without any construction at all at the normal level of difficulty.
Fixing scripts should take 2 minutes. of which 1 minute is the start of the editor
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I have tried again today a few times to see if I can finish this before the zerg build units, and the quickest I can kill all 3 buildings is 3 minutes and 11 seconds… but all of the NPC chatter ends up taking me up to 3 minutes 57 seconds before the level completes… so it does seem that if the Zerg building units cancels out the ability to complete the achievement, this seems pretty impossible.
I hope this gets patched soon. Thank you all for your input at least now we know not to waste further time attempting it.
Are you really finishing it before the AI builds any units? The hive at the 3rd data core starts making lings when you go near it which means you have to finish off the core before those complete. This makes it impossible to get the achievement as is.
You can complete the mission in less than 3:32 (that’s the time when the achievement failed for me when I did absolutely nothing, so it has to be the softest limit) including dialogue. I got a 3:30 with the achievement restrictions but since I triggered the lings, I would’ve had to win at 3:10 or something which is just not possible without making units
Edit: Meant to reply to Trosdan
I rescued all the drop pods but built 0 units or structures in the process. I did not use mines, mules, raven summons, etc. The only things I spent money on were repair and infantry weapon upgrades
Yeah it is the only one I am having trouble with.
The text of the “Band of Brothers” achievement specifies that we can build Medics, which appears to be incorrect based on this screenshot.
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That looks like the problem. Good eye
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Ya, I’m having the same problem. I literally built nothing. I floated my CC off to a corner and beat it with just the starting units and rescued units. Still nothing. Looks like I’m not the only one.
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