Talk:Obtaining Mann vs. Machievements

Brotherhood of Steel

Can you get "Brotherhood of Steel" if you just complete the round with 5 friends, or do you need to play from the start to end? - Spur 02:49, 17 August 2012 (PDT)

No, must be from before wave 1- the end of the mission (end of level) adn your friends cannot leave until the end. Gamebro 15:14, 14 December 2012 (PDT)

Silicon Slaughter, Metal Massacre and T-1000000

Roughly how many rounds/missions would it take to earn these? Of course it depends on class and skill. I've played maybe 10 missions and have about 900 robot destructions and 15000 credits. Roughly how many credits are in a mission? - Spur 10:08, 17 August 2012 (PDT)

Hard Reset Maps

I earned this achievement on Decoy by air-blasting the bomb-carrier off of the bridges. I assume that this achievement is tied to The Announcer's voice responses, and can be done on any of the maps.--Magma Spire 15:52, 17 August 2012 (PDT)

I just tried to do this by dropping scouts into mineshafts on coaltown, and pushing the bomb carrier into a mineshaft 3 times did NOT award the achievement. I tried this twice on two consecutive waves, and both times there was no achievement despite the announcer acknowledging the bomb being reset. I suspect this is a bug, since I can't see how this would not be intended behaviour. --Savant 20:08, 26 August 2012 (PDT)

You can't get this on Coaltowns mineshafts, only at Decoy's bridge which will cause the bomb carrier to have to climb back up the long way. Maybe on Mannworks if you push them ito the small ditch at the bridge which leads into the building and back around. Not really reseting just stalling. --Gamebro 15:11, 14 December 2012 (PDT)

Get Maximum Perfomance easily

There is a map called mvm_open_v3 where you will start with 30,000 credits. You start a map on your listen server, upgrade yourself to max, then enjoy your Machievement. Easimer 12:38, 20 August 2012 (PDT)

Obtaining the credits may or may not be simple (server admins can use console commands to set everyone to the maximum credit number, too...probably why Mann Up is only allowed on official servers). Clicking all of the upgrade buttons, however, is. -- InShane 14:46, 20 August 2012 (PDT)

System Upgrade

Can anyone explain in detail how this achievement can be gotten? I have fully upgraded the Pomson 6000 on an Engineer but did not get the achievement. But this was right during a mission. Do you have to finish the mission with a fully upgraded weapon, or (like the achievement description implies) do you have to upgrade a primary weapon for maybe each class? Astartus 04:30, 3 September 2012 (PDT)

You only need to upgrade the primary on one class. Another note about this achievement is that I just got it by fully upgrading buildings for Engineer. Does anyone know if this is a bug or a feature? PinkieThePie 12:39, 30 September 2012 (PDT)

I think that some classes have different primaries, as a Spy fully upgrading the knife earns you the achievement. 3:35 Gamebro 8 Novemebr 2012

It means "primary weapon" in terms of the class' main weapon, as opposed to the one in the primary slot. For example, an Engineer's main weapon is of course his Sentry, while a Spy's is the Knife. IT's pretty easy to figure out which is which for the different classes - except the Demo. Anyone know if it's the Grenade or Sticky Launcher? » Cooper Kid (blether) • (contreebs) 12:57, 8 November 2012 (PST)

For me, the achievement appears to be bugged. I've played a few matches where I've been able to fully upgrade the Pyro's Backburner, and for some reason, while other players on the server got the achievement, I didn't. And even as recently as today, when I fully upgraded the Engineer's PDA, still no achievement. --PeabodySam (talk) 11:13, 22 November 2013 (PST)

For whatever it's worth, I'm not sure what happened differently, but a couple days ago I once again obtained enough credits to fully upgrade the Engineer's PDA, and this time the achievement was successfully achieved. --PeabodySam (talk) 14:36, 29 April 2015 (PDT)

Brotherhood of Steel is bugged

I've seen multiple sources state that "Brotherhood of Steel" and the other "play with friends" achievements are bugged and can not be obtained under normal circumstances. Is this true, and if so, shouldn't there be a note about that on this page? Dogman15 (talk) 15:26, 28 October 2013 (PDT)

The bug is already listed on the mvm achievement list page, so it may not be necessary here Emrfish6 (talk) 15:29, 28 October 2013 (PDT)

"A Bygone Century"

Isn't this achievement for knocking robots into the pit on Rottenburg? (Previously used for witches and such?) If so, this achievement should be harder than simply winning matches. Dogman15 (talk) 23:14, 28 November 2013 (PST)

For knocking/airblast into pit OR water. Until your (/yours friend) counter under 100- try. Better alone (on a private server).Kmyc89 (talk) 08:52, 14 January 2014 (PST)

Bank on it

I can't get this to work in Caliginous Caper (Ghost Town) Also, does mission mean 1 wave or the whole thing? Collateral (talk) 13:52, 30 November 2013 (PST)

On Mannhattan works.So maybe only on "Two cities"-update maps. Kmyc89 (talk) 08:48, 14 January 2014 (PST)

after many attempts on different maps I can confirm this achievement only works on mannhattan and i have updated the text to reflect this I also removed the incorrect statement about telling people to avoid collecting red money as the money is collected on kill as opposed to when the money expires Wingnut (talk) 04:05, 4 May 2014 (PDT)

I can't remember which map I received this achievement from, but, since Mannhattan is probably hardest Sniper map, I wouldn't bet on it being that one. Since this achievement existed since before Mannhattan was released, I have doubts as to your claim, and someone seems to have correspondingly retracted your edits. However, from my experience, you are correct in saying that other players running over red money doesn't matter, so I fixed that again. Leadfoot9 (talk) 09:38, 28 June 2014 (PDT)

Chippin' In

I got this pretty easily this morning. Just waited for the robots to take gate A and air blasted them into the pit while they are stunned waiting for the gate to open. Jumped down into the pit by the stairs and waited for them to capture B. Just stay in the pit while they are stunned and they will come find you before the bomb bot starts heading towards the end. Pop an uber canteen if you need to and get whatever you have left to get the achievement. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ryll1121 (talk) • (contribs)

Frags To Riches achievement awarded on an intermediate mission.

Was playing some Boot Camp Mann vs. Machine earlier today (Doe's Doom, Intermediate, Decoy, Valve Server) and after getting all the money on the first 2 waves, we set ourselves a challenge to get every pile. I was surprised to find that after completing wave 7 and collecting the last pile, 5 out of 6 of us were awarded the Frags To Riches achievement. Surprised because the achievement description specifies an advanced difficulty mission. It's also been rumoured that you have to complete the mission from start to finish without any wave failures but we lost the first wave repeatedly, after which however we completed all waves.

Proof:

I'm going to edit this achievement's tip to reflect this, as I find it highly unlikely to be one of those long-delayed achievements, a bug or coincidence.

Sarcastic Fantastic (talk) 15:23, 21 February 2017 (PST)

A Bygone Century - river

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/index.php?title=Obtaining_Mann_vs._Machievements&curid=154591&diff=2275484&oldid=2228058

It'd be nice for someone to double-check this edit. I might do it later if I have time. ⇒ Anyar (talk/contributions/giveaway) 06:53, 27 August 2017 (PDT)

Rewritting the content of the page

I have noticed many things in this page are either terribly outdated or completely misleading, such as Engine Block encouraging knockbacks and slowdowns, which tends to be considered bad advice in Mann Vs Machine. I would like to completely rewrite the content of this page to up-to-date advice, especially when considering the latest major edit was from 2015. Quenquent (talk) 10:31, 30 January 2020 (UTC)