Talk:Obtaining Sniper achievements

Dead Reckoning

Two things:

• "Bind the 'explode' or 'kill' console command to a key and press it after firing." Nabbed from the Dead Reckoning achievement tips. Not a good tip to include in my opinion since it's encouraging players to be less useful. A better tip would be: "Spend more time near the front lines and engaging lone enemies with the Huntsman at close-medium range."

• Also, I suspect it may be possible to get this achievement in a similar fashion to "Fire and Forget" achievement for the Pyro, because there have been times where Snipers I killed gained the achievement upon me dying from the Tribalman's Shiv bleed effect. --Flying Pyro 20:16, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. When I'm heading through the so-far-unrevised obtainment descriptions, I'll be sure to take anything of the sort. Good thing that's been pointed out; I now have a justification for the removal of those things. -- InShane 06:03, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

My Brilliant Career bug

If if this achievement has stopped counting as for me when I was on 6/10 it may be related to "watching it". Try deselecting it from "Show in HUD" on Achievements screen, worked for me. Already reported.

Lex 17:59, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Robbin' Hood + Skewer taunt-kill

I got the Robbin' Hood achievement and the Shafted achievement at the same time. Is this worth adding to the Robbin' Hood guide or is this too impractical to add? The Seabear 18:21, 19 July 2011 (PDT)

It's an interesting bit of trivia but not really very helpful here. » Cooper Kid (Blether · Contreebs) 07:38, 20 July 2011 (PDT)

Shooting The Breeze

The how-to and difficulty is a little misleading. You can get this achievement with the kukri, which makes the achievement much easier to earn if you catch a spy cloaking after backstabbing a teammate and then hiding in a corner, (which is how I earned mine.) Sounds like it could do with a reworking here. --Bluedeanie 16:32, 18 August 2011 (PDT)

• That's enough confirmation for getting the achievement via a melee weapon. I'll go over it shortly. InShane 01:33, 19 August 2011 (PDT)

Last Wave

Just tested this and you can get it from multiple taunts. I just received it from the SMG heal-click taunt, but others work to. Is this worth noting as the advice specifically says Primary weapon?MEDUNN 04:38, 21 August 2011 (PDT)

I recently changed it from "Sniper Rifle" to "primary weapon." If you've got confirmation that others work, go for it. InShane 10:57, 21 August 2011 (PDT)