Overview
I have created a shareable google sheet that can be distributed to allow people to download a copy and use to help them keep track of everything. The sheet can be found here.
Downloading Maps
You need to download and rate 25 different maps for Adventurer. From the main menu, head to Map Community and then Download New Maps. Pick 25 and download them. Back out to the main menu and go to multiplayer. Start up a Deathmatch player match and in the map cycle, click through the first 15 that you downloaded. Start the game solo and after it starts press Start and Cancel the Match. Quickly press Y to rate the match and the next map will be in rotation. Start the game and rinse/repeat until you have played through all 15. Back out to the player/ranked match menu and remake a lobby using the remaining 10 maps that you downloaded. Rank Achievements
We are going to start with the achievements associated with rank. If you do this 'legit', it is going to take you a very long time. I am going to explain how to use the xp exploit that Ubisoft left in the game. If you don't agree with this approach, then I hope the servers stay up long enough for you to get to rank 30. - Hired Gun - Reach Rank 5 (Ranked Match)
- Professional - Reach Rank 10 (Ranked Match)
- Mercenary - Reach Rank 20 (Ranked Match)
- Warlord - Reach Rank 30 (Ranked Match)
If you have played before and already carry a rank, that is okay. You will just need to play a few additional games to derank back down to level 1.
To get started with this, you will need 3 players. You shouldn't be hosting this lobby with the profile that is going for these achievements. Create an Uprising lobby on Bastion; or if you can do the USB trick, use the boosting map floating around out there. Make the respawn timer 5 and click advanced settings to change the mode to hardcore. Make sure the account getting the achievement is on Team A and the other two are on Team B. After the game has started, meet somewhere in the middle. That account needs to press up on the D-pad to equip the sword and then press RT to swing it once at the other team captain to down them. The third account is now going to revive them. Keep following this cycle until the account going for the achievement exceeds 1,500 XP. Now, go cap the flags so you win the game as the Captain and unlock Superior Captain. You will probably unlock Best in Class for having the highest xp total in one match, too. If your game crashes/dashboards/turns off anytime after this point, just exceed the 1,500XP again before proceeding.
Now, we are going to derank. We only need 2 accounts to do this part. Start the next game and press X in your loadout to equip one diamond and then press Y to take it back off. It should give you a warning about losing XP, but that is what we want to see. Have the account on the opposite go cap all of the flags so they win the game. Keep repeating this however many times until you are back to Rank 1 at 0 XP.
Next, back out to the main menu of the game. Go down and click on Additional Content and then Exclusive Content and press A on the Ubisoft popup. This will take you back to the main menu. Go back to multiplayer and rejoin the lobby with the second account. Upon arrival in the lobby, Warlord will unlock.
All you have to do here is go back to the deranking step and use one diamond per match with the other account winning and you will be at level 5 in 25 games, which is roughly 1 hour 15 minutes. This will net you Mercenary, Professional, and Hired Gun. Go ahead and close the game properly and load it back up. You will be back at level 30 with 29 diamonds. You only need 18 diamonds to have access to all weapons.
Revives
Field Hospital is for nabbing 500 revives. This isn't as bad as it seems. It should take you 2-3 Uprising games (30-45 minutes) to get these if you have an actual person to be the one to kill in the revive strategy for deranking that was discussed above. After the first boosted game, you should also get First Response Team for having the most revives in a ranked match. Game modes and maps
You need to play one full round on each of the following maps to unlock Safari Tour. You can set up the map rotation when the lobby is created. Uprising is probably the fastest to end, but if you want to work on your weapons, feel free to grab kills in Deathmatch.- Clear Cut
- Coup D'Etat
- Crude Awaking
- Cut Bait
- Dirty Work
- Far Cry
- Last Bastion
- Love Shacks
- Mud Maze
- Pit Bull
- Riot Control
- Rumber Strip
- Rusty Beef
- Sand Blasted
You also need to play a full round in each game mode for Battle Hardened. I would use the USB trick for a small map, but if you can't just load up Bastion in each of these modes and finish it however you please.
- Deathmatch - 25 kills end the match
- Team Deathmatch - 100 kills ends the match
- Capture the Diamond - Grab the diamond on the other side of the map and bring it back to your side, 3 times.
- Uprising - Cap all flags and then kill the other team captain
The last miscellaneous achievement is a doozy. Hit up as many people as you can to fill a lobby with 16 total people to unlock War Party in a game mode of your choice. You can put 8 people that need it all on one team and play Team Deathmatch to net everyone the achievement at once, instead of playing something 16 times.
Manuals
The manuals are going to take up most of your time. There are 27 different guns and require kills, executions, headshots and/or headshots. Executions/Headshots/Multikills
Create an Uprising lobby with 5 second respawn timer on hardcore mode and add as many accounts as you can. The rule of thumb for solo boosting is go for an odd number of accounts in the lobby. This will allow you to put 1 extra account to kill on the enemy team, so you need 2 accounts to give you 1 extra to kill since Uprising auto-balances teams. Note: There is respawn protection and you need to shoot the gun to disable it.
Start the game, apply your diamonds to pop Upgraded Player for upgrading a class 3 times, pick a gun, and start with body shots on the other team. This will down them on the ground. Shoot them while they are down and you will get an execution kill. You can track this on the scoreboard. Once you have finished the executions for a gun, switch to headshots. You will find a rhythm between working your own controller and reaching to press RT on the alt accounts to disable the respawn protection. I was averaging 150-200 kills per Uprising match (15 minutes).
The explosives are kind of crappy to use. They just aren't that good. I aimed at the ground in the center of the feet circle standing as close as I could without killing myself each time and it still took me 2 round/gun to get kills. You could also try shooting their bodies once or twice to help lower their health before you shoot the explosive.
Kills
Create a Deathmatch lobby with 5 second respawn timer on hardcore mode and add as many accounts as you can. This mode means it is a free-for-all and there are no teams. The upside to switching to this mode for the kills is to avoid the executions if you don't damage them enough. The downside is after 25 kills the round ends. Get back in your spawn protection/killing rhythm and you should be able to cycle through a game and load times every 3 minutes. I finished up my multikills here with the MGL because that gun was being a pain. Once you have unloacked your final manual, you will get Soldier of Misfortune. A well deserved achievement for sure.
