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ICptJackSparrow Posted: Tue, Apr 28 2009 3:58 PM

A friend of mine, Xenocidic, on the Xbox forums put this together.  I thought it would be relevant to post here.

Hope you guys like it. (Here is the original post)

I am also hoping you will post any tips or strategies here as well.

There's been a lot of questions on how to unlock achievements, as some of the explanations are vague, and some of the achievements can be quirky. This is my fourth (and final) attempt to clear up the confusion.

Note this is being called v4.20, as someone posted an achievement guide inappropriately titled v4.0, which has nothing to do with my series of guides.

Thanks to anyone who explained these in other threads, or v1.0 , v2.0 & v3.0 of this thread, allowing me to compile this authoritative list. Please feel free to chime in on the ones we're still a little unsure about, post strategies for particular achievements, or ask for clarifications if required. Your assistance in keeping this thread on the first page would also be appreciated =). Here's hoping this final version is polished enough for a sticky...

General Information

* You must be connected to LIVE (except training achievements)
* You must be in a game with at least 4 actual gamertags on each team (bots do not count, nor does a 5v3, 6v2, etc.)
* Team kills do not count towards achievements such as Resurrector, or the "kill" achievements such as Elf Bane, Popgun, etc.
* Achievements do unlock even if the server quits before the end of the game (and any progress made towards achievements is registered).
( * paraphrased from http://forums.xbox.com/12993269/ShowPost.aspx )
- Achievements can be earned in private matches that fulfill the above requirements, unless stated otherwise in the achievement description. That being said, achievements should be earned, not boosted.

Achievements Explained

100 Wins (100) Win 100 games during your Shadowrun career. 
This means games, not individual rounds. [ unclear if joining a game in progress after several rounds have already passed would grant the win ,  though I assume it does ]

3 for the Price of 1 (25) Kill three enemies with one grenade.
Hint: use enhanced vision to look for tight groups of enemies.
Possible quirk: I'm pretty sure that when I unlocked this achievement, the grenade I threw only killed 2 people. The third had been rezzed by one of those and bled out. can anyone else verify they got the achievement in this fashion?

Assistant (20) Get a 5:1 damage-to-kill ratio.
This means you dealt enough damage to kill "X" enemies but only killed "X div by 5" enemies i.e. you either had a lot of your kills stolen or a lot of the damage you dealt got healed. Under combat stats you can view your damage integer for that game. Shoot (no pun intended) for at least 5.0 with only 1 kill or a similar ratio (10.0 to 2, etc).

BFF (20) Play Public Match in a Party with players on both XBox 360 and Windows Vista.
You need to party with someone playing on the opposite platform. Vista players on your friends list will have a PC icon next to their name.

Blowhard (10) Gust 5 enemies to their deaths.
Either gust them off a cliff or gust a smoked enemy to death. This is a career achievement (i.e. does not have to be completed in a single round/game). eck52 reported that shooting an enemy so they run off a ledge will also count towards this achievement. This has been confirmed by myself as I got this achievement in a game that I did not buy gust, but shot someone such that they fell to their death i.e. game reported "Xenocidic forced n00bface to fall to their death".

Brother From Another Mother (20) Perform a cross-platform Resurrection.
Cross-platform means a 360 player rezzes a Windows Vista player or vice-versa.

Healer (10) Save your allies with the Tree of Life.
Heal 50 pips with your Trees of Life in one round (per Vigor cA). Health is divided into rectangular blocks - a pip is one block of life.  Healing you do to yourself doesn't count towards this achievement. Throwing a tree for teammates who are bleeding out is a good way to work towards this achievement (per mattinater). Also, try to be the dedicated tree-thrower for your team.

Heavy Smoker (10) Ignore a great deal of damage using Smoke.
You must be in smoke for a total of 60 minutes. (confirmed by Vigor cA). This is quite obviously a career achievement.  watch out for gusters!!!  =)

Master Thief (25) Deliver the Artifact untouched despite heavy defense.
Score flag without taking damage and at least four enemies within 20m of the score zone (per Vigor cA).
tip from MaDzMaN , "Just try and do it on a map where there are various ways to get to the extraction point... I got mine on Maelstrom, i delivered it behind everyone by jumping up those 3 floating blocks that lead up to the VTOL..."

Mine Is The Superior Platform (50) Kill 100 players on the opposite platform.
If you are on 360, kill 100 Vista players and vice versa. If you're having trouble finding 100 Vista players to kill, why not try and borrow Shadowrun for PC from someone and kill 100 Xbox360 players? =) Alternatively, try to arrange a private match of at least 4 360 players vs 4 Vista players. This would not be considered boosting as long as the matches were played legitimately, i.e. both teams attempt to win, etc.

Resurrector (10) Bring back one hundred allies from the dead
Pro tip: Practice using the B-radial menu to quickcast and resurrect enemies even while under heavy duress. Hold down B, move the left thumbstick left, and up-left and pull the right trigger to cast resurrect. This way res does not take up a spot on your assigned buttons and you can still get that warm fuzzy feeling that comes from being a good team player.

Runner (10) Carry the Artifact all the way to the delivery point. 
You must pick it up at the start location and deliver it the whole way. You cannot pick it up mid-way or drop it and re-pick it up. If you're having trouble getting try using an elf with wired reflexes on the first round of extraction and just make a mad dash for the flag. Typically in the first round base defenses aren't shored up yet.

Small World (20) Play Public Match with players on both XBox 360 and Windows Vista.
You should get this achievement without effort as long as you're playing public matches. Vista players on your friends list are indicated by a PC icon next to their name.

Teleporter (10) Teleport one hundred times. 
This is a career achievement i.e. you don't have to do it all in one game.

That's One Frustrated Sniper (10) Block ten sniper shots with Wired Reflexes.
Wired reflexes has to be assigned to be active. It will attempt to block the shot on its own as long as you are facing the sniper. This is a career achievement.

That Was Close (20) Kill the Artifact carrier less than ten meters from the delivery point, and win the round.  
You can either deliver the artifact yourself or eliminate the rest of the team , as long as you've fulfilled the 10 meter requirement. For our American brothers, 10 meters is about 33 feet. 

Unstoppable (50) Kill ten enemies in a row without being killed.
This will carry over from round to round and webnerd has reported that it carries over from game-to-game. Many people report having a lot of trouble getting this one to unlock. According to the official achievement FAQ, only initial kills count towards this achievement (not rezzed people on their second life). Furthermore, the counter is currently bugged and being reset if you die (a fix is in the works). Until the fix, once you kill 10 people on their first life without dying you need to not get killed (read: hide) until the game ends. Due to the initial kill requirement, I would suggest shooting for at least 15 kills and no deaths.

Well-Traveled (20) Play a Public Match on each map. 
You must play both the small and large versions of the maps in order to unlock this achievement. Some claim that you must also win on each map, though I can't verify as I unlocked this achievement a while ago. This is one you shouldn't really stress about, it will happen on its own whilst you work towards other achievements. For a list of maps, go to matchmaking preferences.

You're Coming With Me (25) Avenge your own death!  
This means you were rezzed and killed the person who killed you, or you threw a grenade right before you died, and that grenade ended up killing them, or any other combination of you being killed and somehow killing that person after the game reports your death (in the same round). Killing someone who has made you bleed out will not count as you haven't actually died yet. Also note that if you kill someone else simultaneously i.e. you both shot each other dead at the same time , it won't count.

Zombie Scores! (20) Deliver the Artifact while bleeding out
Your rezzer is killed by an enemy and you deliver the artifact before bleeding out and dying yourself. Does not work if you get mortally struck with a katana and then deliver it before dying, also seemingly will not work if your rezzer commits suicide or your initial death was a team-kill.

Weapon Achievements

As a new feature, I have included links below some of the weapon achievements. The linked threads provide advice on using that particular weapon.

Master Blaster (10) Kill one hundred enemies with the Rocket Launcher. 
http://forums.xbox.com/13119521/ShowPost.aspx

Popgun (20) Kill one hundred enemies with the Pistol.
http://forums.xbox.com/13188632/ShowPost.aspx

Sniper (20) Kill one hundred enemies with the Sniper Rifle. 
http://forums.xbox.com/13094490/ShowPost.aspx
http://forums.xbox.com/13060254/ShowPost.aspx

Summoner (10) Kill one hundred enemies with your Minions. 
http://forums.xbox.com/12701519/ShowPost.aspx
http://forums.xbox.com/13162160/ShowPost.aspx

Tatter Tatter (20) Kill one hundred enemies with the Rifle. 
http://forums.xbox.com/13152324/ShowPost.aspx
http://forums.xbox.com/13191057/ShowPost.aspx

Target Lock (10) Kill one hundred enemies with SmartLink active. 
http://forums.xbox.com/12889944/ShowPost.aspx

Lead Hose (20) Kill one hundred enemies with the Minigun. 
Special Delivery (20) Kill one hundred enemies with Grenades. 
Street Samurai (20) Kill one hundred enemies with the Katana. 
Shotty (20) Kill one hundred enemies with the Shotgun.
There haven't been any threads specifically on advice using the above four weapons, but when there are, I will add them to my link compilation thread here - http://forums.xbox.com/12860051/ShowPost.aspx

Notice the lack of SMG kill achievement...but for help on using the SMG, here's a link:
http://forums.xbox.com/13128294/ShowPost.aspx

Training Achievements

For all the training achievements you need to do the bot match and you must win the bot match game. The difficulty setting does not make a difference. (Apparently you don't have to do the actual training, or so I've been told, I assume as a nod to the beta testers who wouldn't need training)

Chapter 1 Training (10) Complete Chapter 1 Training.
Chapter 2 Training (10) Complete Chapter 2 Training.
Chapter 3 Training (10) Complete Chapter 3 Training.
Chapter 4 Training (10) Complete Chapter 4 Training.
Chapter 5 Training (10) Complete Chapter 5 Training.
Chapter 6 Training (10) Complete Chapter 6 Training.

Please note that the Vista version of this game has a glitch where you will not be able to actually complete one of the training missions, for this I suggest that you simply go to the associated bot match at the end of the training mission, and you will receive your achievement.  -CptJack

Obtaining all six training achievements will unlock the Troll gamer picture.

Racial Achievements

Dwarf Scourge (10) Kill one hundred enemy Dwarves. 
Elf Bane (10) Kill one hundred enemy Elves. 
Trollhammer (10) Kill one hundred enemy Trolls
Here's a link to a thread entitled "How to kill a..." for general advice on taking down a particular race or build: http://forums.xbox.com/13195498/ShowPost.aspx.
Also visit my link compilation thread which has some links to threads of a similar nature
( http://forums.xbox.com/12860051/ShowPost.aspx )
Notice the lack of a "Kill one hundred humans" achievement... The reason for this is that humans are so overpowered that no one could possibly kill 100 humans in their lifetime. Nerf humans! ;>

The links below each of the following achievements are threads dedicated to playing that particular race

Dwarf Player (10) Play as a Dwarf for one hundred games.
http://forums.xbox.com/13149500/ShowPost.aspx

Elf Player (10) Play as an Elf for one hundred games. 
http://forums.xbox.com/13149554/ShowPost.aspx

Human Player (10) Play as a Human for one hundred games. 
http://forums.xbox.com/13149596/ShowPost.aspx

Troll Player (10) Play as a Troll for one hundred games
http://forums.xbox.com/13149453/ShowPost.aspx

Well-Rounded (20) Win a Public Match game as each race.

continued in next post...

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ICptJackSparrow replied on Tue, Apr 28 2009 4:00 PM

Secret Achievements Revealed

Shadowrun Fever (25) Catch it!        "Teabagger achievement"
This is a viral achievement. You must kill and tea-bag someone who already has this achievement. Tea-bagging is standing on their face and pressing the left-thumbstick(crouch) thus making the ball-to-face connection. Repeat as desired for massive damage to the teabagged player's ego. Try not to get killed whilst teabagging as this will inevitably lead to a fierce teabagging retaliation. The devs started with this achievement, so that's how the fever got started. Virtual herpes 4tw! This achievement unlocks the FASA logo gamerpic (the one I'm using at the time of posting). Some people have been having trouble getting this one. I'm pretty sure you have to actually have to be the person who scores the kill to teabag the infected person. And no, I'm not joking about this achievement =).

Triple Rez! (10) Resurrect three allies at once.
Fairly self explanatory. Note that you can move around while res is casting, if your teammates weren't considerate enough to die in a tight little bunch. You could also gust the bodies closer together. Benefits of rezzing more than one person at a time is that it only holds the base amount of essence no matter how many people you res in one cast! P.S. Having res in attrition games is absolutely required. Please pick it up first round unless you're a troll.

Winning Streak (10) Win ten consecutive rounds.
This carries over game-to-game, obviously. Some have reported that if you are teamswitched whilst working towards this achievement you may have your counter reset. Also remember that the 4 v 4 actual gamertags rule has to be met during the whole streak or your counter will likely get reset.

Godlike (25) Kill all opposing players on other team without taking damage (at least 6 enemies).
per PsycheOutCyrus . Most suggest using the sniper rifle for this one. This achievement is quite difficult, but resist the urge to boost in a private match as others have done - Achievements are meant to be earned.

Master Gardener (25) Kill 5 enemies with strangle. (per TheBoogeyman209)
Strategies for this achievement include - mortally wounding an enemy with the katana and then laying strangle for him to die in (per the purple pwny). Alternatively, as RNA, use strangle to hold down the flag in raid, wait for them to teleport in (Power station works good for this one) and then shoot them up just enough to not kill them and let the strangle finish them off. In extraction, watch the flag, shoot up any potential grabbers and then lay down strangle to finish 'em off. Note the game must report that "Xenocidic killed n00bface with strangle"

Master Ninja (100) Inflict one hundred mortal wounds with the Katana.
Go through elf-training to learn how to deal a mortal wound. Your enemy must be unawares of your prescence as indicated by the "?" (question mark) over their head. Arterial spray from the carotid artery is what you need to look out for to confirm you've dealt a mortal wound. 
As far as I know, as long as you do land the mortal wound (i.e. you see them start to bleed out) whether or not that person dies by bleeding out, you or a teammates kills him, he gets rezzed, or the round ends, you still get credit towards this achievement.
My strategy for earning this achievement was to use Elf, and purchase abilities in this order - Resurrect, Smoke, Enhanced Vision, Teleport. Res first to earn money and help your team, EV to scout the enemies and TP to get behind them. Smoke for escape.
dzs Awezome reported that this achievement can be unlocked by killing someone who rezzed someone else - whoever they rezzed will begin bleeding out and the game will count this as a mortal wound. This is proven by people who have unlocked this achievement without using the katana much. Confirmation of this by Decestation v2 in this thread.

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ICptJackSparrow replied on Tue, Apr 28 2009 4:01 PM

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Just in case you haven't seen what the actual achievements look like, here you go:

(directly from GfW site HERE)

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ICptJackSparrow replied on Wed, Apr 29 2009 1:28 PM

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- Reserved for Updates...

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DarkestSoul X21 replied on Wed, Apr 29 2009 1:30 PM

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Pretty nice guide.  Will it be alright to put this on the achievement website?

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ICptJackSparrow replied on Wed, Apr 29 2009 1:34 PM

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Darkest,

no problem man, just make sure you include Xenocidic's name as the creator.  He put tons of work into this, of course he had a lot of help, but I know the amount of time that he put towards it, so I think he should be recognized for his efforts.

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The Communizer replied on Mon, May 11 2009 7:14 PM

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damn i already made one on here this ones much better though

@darkest

i put one on a thread about The GFWL community for DOW 2 if you would like that

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LATEXXJUGGERNUT replied on Tue, May 12 2009 10:14 PM

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I CANNOT GET THE "THAT'S ONE FRUSTERATED SNIPER"

I FACE GUYS FAR AWAY AS AN ELF WITH WR EQUIPPED, YET THEY STILL SHOOT MY HEAD OR BODY, MUST THIS ALL BE DONE IN ONE ROUND OR WHAT?

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ICptJackSparrow replied on Wed, May 13 2009 1:47 PM

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No, this achievement can be "accumulated"

so every time you block it will add up to your total.

Remember even with wired and Katana, you only "enhance" your ability to block. All characters with a Katana will block some degree of attack.  Wired Reflexes simply adds to the ability, kind of like Smartlink "enhances" your ability to shoot more accurately.

So you will still get shot, just less.  Now keep in mind that Shadowrun is all about balance, so if the shooter is using Smartlink, they have effectively all but cancelled out (or put better matched your ability) your Wired Reflexes.

Just give it some more time, it shouldn't take that long if you are actively trying for that achievement.

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ICptJackSparrow replied on Wed, Jun 10 2009 9:37 PM

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Well, I finally got the "That's one frustrated sniper" achievement myself this week, a pleasant surprise really.

And I know for a fact it had to be cumulative, since I only occasionally use wired and try to take on a sniper...

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K00PA TR00PA replied on Wed, Jun 10 2009 10:08 PM

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ICptJackSparrow:

Obtaining all six training achievements will unlock the Troll gamer picture.

I didnt know that! I thought it just came standard.

BTW, you misspelled achievements throughout your whole post. Not a big deal but that irks me.

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ICptJackSparrow replied on Wed, Jun 10 2009 10:31 PM

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... jeez, I thought I got all those, I can't believe I missed so many!

Fixed (lol, I hope).

Ya, it bugged me too, sorry.

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ICptJackSparrow replied on Sat, Sep 12 2009 12:41 AM

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Bump!

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Neon12025 replied on Sat, Sep 12 2009 12:51 AM

Awesome guide :D

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ICptJackSparrow replied on Tue, Dec 8 2009 3:51 PM

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I says BUMP