I was playing Reach on my Xbox one last night and managed to perform the Elite assassination to survive the fatal fall, to unlock the “If they came to hear me beg achievement” but I never got it.
I even recorded it with Xbox capture.
How would I go about getting the unlocked? Or are retroactive achievement unlocks not possible?
It can be a bit finicky.
Try it on The Pillar of Autumn. Start the level, sprint and jump off the cliff when the Elite is in range, cancel the sprint mid-jump (otherwise it won’t register—you need to die of fall damage if you miss), and assassinate the Elite.
It might take a few tries to get it to work, but you can revert quickly.
Here’s a video on it - it’s old but unless the game mechanics have mysteriously changed it should work just fine.
If that fails, you could try Nightfall; it’s how I got it years and years ago. Memory’s hazy but I’m fairly sure it took me <10 attempts.
This is on my personal hardest/most frustrating achievements Top 10 list. I made easily over 100 attempts, some of which were successful but was not granted the achievement.
I completed it following the Pillar of Autumn method as Improbable Dee suggested above.
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> I was playing Reach on my Xbox one last night and managed to perform the Elite assassination to survive the fatal fall, to unlock the “If they came to hear me beg achievement” but I never got it.
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> I even recorded it with Xbox capture.
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> How would I go about getting the unlocked? Or are retroactive achievement unlocks not possible?
did u do it on easy?? many achievements don’t work on easy