So I think that this achievement for me is bugged. I am looking to find out if there is anyway I can still get this achievement or if there are any methods I have not yet tried.
So I already know that it is incredibly hard to unlock, and I knew I needed to put some time into it (I was expecting an hour at most). I Have now put a estimated 24 hours into purely running off cliffs to assassinate Elites.
I have tried the method on the pillar of autumn (followed the Achievement Hunter guide) Where you run off the cliff to assassinate the elite below. (Hit about 600 times).
I have tried the method on legendary nightfall, where you run off the cliff to assassinate another elite below. (this one is a glitched method to get the it)
I have even hit this a few times in matchmaking.(maybe about 4-5 times). I have also tried doing it custom games/forge to get it.
I have also tried resetting my system cache and recovering my profile.
Nothing seems to be working, so some help would be much appreciated. Thanks very much <3
Just to add that I am not an idiot. I am playing on normal/heroic/legendary. I do have scoring on (not that it matters). I am Assassinating the elite with the animation. I am falling from a height that should kill me. Please don’t link me to the achievement hunter video or say " keep trying you’ll get it eventually" It isn’t useful to me.
I got this achievement on Pillar of Autumn from jumping off the cliff. It took me a good 10 minutes to do it though. Here’s a better way of achieving it. As soon as the game starts, walk up near the cliff to get a checkpoint. Keep randomly sprinting off the cliff and hold your analog stick up. The elite will sometimes be in front of you or somewhere else wandering around. If the elite is in front of you and your close to him, hold down the melee button earlier than usual. (Do not stop sprinting while your in the air, if you do, you will not have enough momentum to get behind the Elite)
Wish that I can upload a clip to file share to show you how I did it. Xbox red ringed, so I’m getting a new slim tomorrow.
So this happened to me a few times, you need to make sure that you hit the LB (sprint) again once you are in midair. For some reason, I believe I was told that the game won’t register it as an assassination or something stupid like that. It ticked me off A LOT when I found that out. I also got the achievement on the pillar of autumn level, so thats my two cents.
I did it on Pillar of Autumn a long time ago…and it took me a long time:p
I’ve probably jumped 50 times before i had it and the only thing i remember is to stop sprinting in mid air. Sry if you already knew that…
This is a very specific achievement. I got it at the beginning of pillar of autumn. What you have to is wait for the elite on the ground below you to come as close to you as possible. Get back a ways before sprinting off the cliff. If you have sprint on the whole way down there is a chance that hitting the ground won’t kill you. Sometimes when I do this I’ll land and not even sustain shield damage. When you leap off turn sprint off half way down so the energy bar has half the juice left. At the same time that sprint is turned off hold back on the movement stick as if you want to walk backwards so that you decrease momentum. When you land if you miss you should die. Do this on Legendary as you take more damage that way. It took me 30 minutes to get this. Good Luck!
Really hard achievement… What you should do is jump and dont put off your sprint… just before you hit(when you go down) put it off and as said be4 hold melee a little erlier than normal… Your gonne love this… my 9 year old brother got it for me!
I tried holding the melee button for the duration of the assassination and got it straight away. It’s probably a coincidence, but it could be worth a try.
Perhaps if you have very little health left it might make it easier to trigger. Try grenading yourself a couple of times to drop your health and then try it…