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| Kill 5,000 enemies. | ||
| Rate this achievement | Average Rating (Based on 12 votes) |
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 | Comment #1 by GhostCamarox75 Saturday, February 04, 2012 @ 02:30:41 PM Hopefully this doesn't take forever... |
 | Comment #2 by Andy the Black Saturday, February 04, 2012 @ 02:47:51 PM Maybe we get to blow up another star system. Boom, done in one. Seriously though, this will probably come just though normal play. If not you'll probably be close by the end and kills will likely carry over to NG+,plus multiplayer kills might count as well. |
 | Comment #3 by Fiery Phoenix Saturday, February 04, 2012 @ 02:58:50 PM Should be easy enough. As Andy said, you'll probably get this one within two single player playthrough's anyway (assuming you are the completionist type when it comes to side quests and whatnot). |
 | Comment #4 by BosmaniaK Saturday, February 04, 2012 @ 04:48:02 PM we'll probably get this in a 2nd or 3rd playthrough |
 | Comment #5 by High Lord Sigma Saturday, February 04, 2012 @ 06:36:18 PM This means that either the game is really, really long, or the game requires a repeat playthrough. I'd like either of those possibilities. |
 | Comment #6 by General Boredom Sunday, February 05, 2012 @ 12:18:40 AM Hopefully this will be cumulative between singleplayer and multiplayer. |
 | Comment #7 by Primal Tiger Sunday, February 05, 2012 @ 08:40:31 PM Over 5,000!!! |
 | Comment #8 by Mr Gollywoggins Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:15:14 AM To be honest I'm not really worried about this one, I usually do multiple playthroughs of mass effect games so this should be no problem. |
 | Comment #9 by GrIzZLY Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 01:12:37 PM damn, it will take for ever .... |
 | Comment #10 by IFC3000 Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 04:00:36 PM kill kill and kill again ... |
 | Comment #11 by Alanosborn1991 Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 11:35:36 PM They should have made it 99,999 kills cuz that's how long I will be playing |
 | Comment #12 by BritishBoogaloo Wednesday, February 08, 2012 @ 02:32:23 PM I like killing things. |
 | Comment #13 by xSandMan v1 Thursday, February 16, 2012 @ 06:20:07 AM lets do this |
 | Comment #14 by fohf Thursday, February 16, 2012 @ 11:45:36 AM I bet that the MP kills count towards this as well. |
| Comment #15 by Fiery Phoenix Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 12:54:26 AM If the MP kills do count then this will be a breeze. |
 | Comment #16 by grantandsherri Tuesday, February 21, 2012 @ 10:39:57 AM I know just off of my ME1 playthrough, i have this many kills. It should have been titled... Reaper Madness...... |
 | Comment #17 by sera07 Tuesday, March 06, 2012 @ 04:31:29 AM @14 I believe so |
 | Comment #18 by Raynre Tuesday, March 06, 2012 @ 05:31:35 PM Multiplayer does count towards this goal. |
 | Comment #19 by CromUnlimited Saturday, March 10, 2012 @ 12:57:55 AM I confirm NUMBER 18's comment. Single player and multiplayer kills are added. |
 | Comment #20 by chizrocker88 Saturday, March 10, 2012 @ 06:59:21 PM Are they also added across multiple play throughs? |
 | Comment #21 by Braven10 Saturday, March 10, 2012 @ 11:14:26 PM Im not done with the storyline yet (at Priority: Thessia) and im sitting at something like 700-750 kills. So this will probably take 2-5 runthroughs depending on difficulty and how much work you let your squadmates do (not sure if their kills count) |
 | Comment #22 by Kozzy1712 Sunday, March 11, 2012 @ 03:13:34 PM I was just wondering if they were carried over another play through. I was playing through till some of the missions were bugged and decided to start over. I'll let you know if it does carry over the kills. (FYI some missions are bugged if you go ahead and do another mission you'll not be able to complete a pending mission) |
 | Comment #23 by Paregmenon Sunday, March 11, 2012 @ 04:55:32 PM This is the last achievement I need, I had gotten 3,745 kills. Played online and went down to 0 WTF! |
 | Comment #24 by bryson 06 Sunday, March 11, 2012 @ 07:51:12 PM Im at 2,000. One play through got me around 1,000 or more, and mp going to level 19 or 20 got me another 1,000 or so. Not bad if you already planned on going through the game multiple times and play a little mp. |
 | Comment #25 by Theoretic Eagle Monday, March 12, 2012 @ 12:55:24 AM First play through on insanity netted me about 2k then i got another 250 from multiplayer. another play through on normal and ill be there. |
 | Comment #26 by KohrinSoulez Tuesday, March 13, 2012 @ 11:01:25 AM my counters keep resetting and game keeps losing the "resume" not sure what causing it. but lost kills for 2 level 20 co-op players and a whole playthru on game.. :( |
 | Comment #27 by darkmikasonfire Tuesday, March 13, 2012 @ 04:05:59 PM going through the game and doing all the extra N7/side missions will net you over 2K each play through, you might even be able to do it in a single play through, i got a little over 250 kills my first play through i was at over 2K before i even got half way through the game. so if you play your cards right you might be able to get 5K in one playthrough but you'd have to do absolutely everything. also @11, not two shits were given about how long you plan to play the game, achievements shouldn't be based on the fact that you haven't any life and plan to get 99,999 kills, 5K is fine and not obscenely stupid like your suggestion was. |
 | Comment #28 by punkrockfox Wednesday, March 14, 2012 @ 12:36:59 AM After finishing the campaign on Insanity and playing a little multiplayer, I only have just over 2,000. I am curious as to how some of you got over 2,500 in the campaign. After one playthrough, I was only missing 5 achievements. So I did virtually everything. Did you guys die a lot or something? |
 | Comment #29 by gundamcreed7 Wednesday, March 14, 2012 @ 06:21:43 AM i wish they still had the achievement progress in your room like in 2 and not just in the extras |
 | Comment #30 by Louchavelli Wednesday, March 14, 2012 @ 12:48:25 PM @27, Dude, i'm with #28, curious to know how you got over 2k in one single player playthrough. I'm a completionist and have done every mission up to Priority Thessia. I'm also level 14 in Multiplayer. All together, I'm currently in the 970s range. I can bet by the end of this playthrough with my multiplayer gaming, I'll probably end at around 1200 -1300. There is no way to get 5000 kills in one single player playthrough without tapping some multiplayer. I call bullshit on your comment. |
 | Comment #31 by hythloday Thursday, March 15, 2012 @ 10:17:05 AM @28, 30 It doesn't matter how many playthroughs are needed for this. As long as your droping enemies the counter is still going. A single playthrough for me on normal netted a little over a thousand kills which makes me believe #27 is either really bad and kept dying or kept reloading missions over and over. |
 | Comment #32 by Kash Howard Thursday, March 15, 2012 @ 10:32:11 AM @26 I did every mission on my insanity run and didn't realize my tracker reset so didn't get some achievements. If its constantly resetting it'll make getting 5k kills hard |
 | Comment #33 by TommyD758 Thursday, March 15, 2012 @ 09:36:44 PM 2 playthroughs & got to level 20 in multiplayer and still only have 3400 kills. I might just find a spot with lots of enemies and keep playing that section so I can get this over with. |
| Comment #34 by TommyD758 Thursday, March 15, 2012 @ 09:38:58 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXEO4VqMbj8 Guess I'm gonna get this done faster than I thought. |
| Comment #35 by KohrinSoulez Friday, March 16, 2012 @ 11:46:04 AM yeah reset on me again today ...anyone heard whats causing this or how to stop it ? |
| Comment #36 by gundamcreed7 Friday, March 16, 2012 @ 08:46:04 PM two and a half play through s and finished all mp achievements and still just got 2500 kills very later last night |
 | Comment #37 by Hurricane Of 87 Sunday, March 18, 2012 @ 12:01:53 AM Got 1,500 kills on my Insanity playthrough and had 1,500 from multiplayer before I even started. Final achievement for the 1000Gs! Obviously finding the right class for your style on multiplayer and going loco is the key. Found the Soldier firing concussive shots or an Engineer, any power to be pretty easy as they return super quick and can be used relentlessly. |
 | Comment #38 by ttdrevan Wednesday, March 21, 2012 @ 01:41:33 PM About 1500 in SP and today hit 1000 in MP, only half done.. damn |
 | Comment #39 by kokumaker Wednesday, March 21, 2012 @ 03:45:00 PM Good lord. Multiplayer mode, here I come... I finished the campaign last night with just over 1000 kills to my name. At least that got me the "Soldier" achievement... |
 | Comment #40 by Punkfish85 Wednesday, March 21, 2012 @ 04:10:00 PM At3k on my second playthrough and a decent amount of Multiplayer. High number, but certainly not impossible. How do you check how many you have though? Other than it popping up at certain "milestone" numbers? |
 | Comment #41 by Flinchmeister Wednesday, March 21, 2012 @ 09:01:40 PM On the main menu, go to extras and choose accomplishments, all the counters are in there. |
 | Comment #42 by Jen197707 Thursday, March 22, 2012 @ 11:29:16 PM I have played 2 full playthroughs and lots of MP and net 3900s, I have a friend who found a spot early in the game (with Anderson when you first see Husks) Anderson says take cover but instead kill the husks and they will continuously spawn. Took him roughly 3 hours to get his remaining 1500 kills. I will try that next because MP only has roughly 50 enemies per battle and there is no guarantee you will kill all 50 to count! |
 | Comment #43 by xguard10 Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 04:15:46 AM You get about 100 kills if you complete all 11 waves on bronze |
 | Comment #44 by ccrocker58 Sunday, March 25, 2012 @ 12:53:55 AM Yeah...had around 1,600 kills from normal, then around 2K from Insanity...multiplayer can get you the rest, but you're bound to run into some like minded players and end up competing for kills. I just went into single player, turned the difficulty to narrative, turned off conversation decisions, and picked up the remainder in a few hours...You can take Atlas missles, sniper shots, grenades and rifle fire without even losing half your shields/barriers, while most enemies go down in on point blank shotgun round; that's at Eden Prime...at level 5. |
 | Comment #45 by brandonator14 Monday, March 26, 2012 @ 05:48:00 PM I just started my third campaign on the same character, and all my kills just got reset to 0. Is something happening? |
| Comment #46 by gundamcreed7 Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 06:17:32 AM just do solo MP |
 | Comment #47 by extra pale Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:42:30 AM Good place for this achievement if u have already been through campaign is to load a save on priority: earth right before going back onto citadel. At end of that mission there are three waves, the last one is infinite and hectic (even on narrative after a bit). |
| Comment #48 by extra pale Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 10:43:46 AM *priority earth: London |
| Comment #49 by kokumaker Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 03:31:59 PM My counters always seem to keep counting up even if I die and have to redo a certain task or mission. My counter keeps ticking up based on whatever it was at when I died, not before. I actually got the Lost & Found achivement this way. Haven't had a counter reset to zero on me once (yet). That said, I have 49 out of 52 achievements on this game now, so I'm going to have to launch into an Insanity playthrough and see how many kills that nets me. I had just over 1000 after finishing on normal, and I'm not really racking up that many in multiplayer beacuse assists don't count as kills. :( I guess single-player is the way to go for this one, but it's still likely to take a few playthroughs... a hell of a lot of work for just 25G, if you ask me. |
 | Comment #50 by Haakon Johan Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 07:51:16 AM I had barely over 1000 kills after one runthrough in the campaign so I guess two more campaigns and a bit multiplayer games and that should do the trick ;) |
 | Comment #51 by NickSixx17 Wednesday, March 28, 2012 @ 03:50:27 PM #45 Evidently there is a glitch that occurs where all achievement progress gets wiped for no reason whatsoever. I was well over half way to getting this with around 2700 kills after I beat the single player the first go through and with multiplayer. This progress, along with lots of others (which I had them already), got erased and reset to 0. I only hit 2000 Kills again today. Sucks man. I'd have had this already by now if shit didn't get erased. |
 | Comment #52 by mcmichele5 Sunday, April 01, 2012 @ 04:34:34 PM Does anyone know at what tier of kills the counter pops up? I hit 2500/5000 a while ago. |
 | Comment #53 by Roose91 Sunday, April 01, 2012 @ 05:36:18 PM Oddly enough my only counter which has been reset on the accomplishments page is the two DLC Achievements, which I have and are obviously one off, but are blacked out on there now. |
 | Comment #54 by Xion3362 Tuesday, April 03, 2012 @ 01:01:14 AM Just finished my second playthrough last night (on insanity), had a level 20 soldier on multiplayer before premoting him and now have a level 15 engineer. I am currently sitting at about 4200 kills. Going to start a third playthrough and mix in some MP until I get my last achievement. |
 | Comment #55 by OhNoesNotNow Wednesday, April 04, 2012 @ 11:12:20 AM @52 I seem to recall it is in 500 kill increments once you get past the earlier ones. My 5000 popped with online play after I'd racked up 4300 or so in single player. FYI - if you want to do this fast, just replay high kill density missions in single player. Online is more time-intensive as kill stealing is common. |
 | Comment #56 by jedioniram Friday, April 06, 2012 @ 09:05:43 AM As much as I enjoy the multiplayer, I can't get enough kills online. I hope some new DLC comes soon so I can rack up more kills in SP. |
 | Comment #57 by MazterOfV1ctory Friday, April 06, 2012 @ 01:48:28 PM If you do two playthroughs and a few hours on multiplayer, you should have this achievement no problem. |
 | Comment #58 by Scott Ad Rock Wednesday, April 11, 2012 @ 09:25:23 PM I did 2 playthroughs, one on insanity and had about 10 hours into multiplayer and was still 550 short and I was getting an average of 50 kills every mp match. mp def is not the way to go, you can get about 200 an hour if you're good and don't have d-bags rushing into every pack of enemies to kill steal them all. However #34's video got me my last 550 in about 15 minutes |
 | Comment #59 by stoneskipper Wednesday, April 11, 2012 @ 09:26:37 PM @47 This, especially if you don't mind grinding. I dropped the difficulty to the lowest setting and I think I managed 1K kills inside of 45 minutes. |
 | Comment #60 by Freeman Wednesday, April 11, 2012 @ 11:27:48 PM i had over 2500 kills until my counter restarted :/. on my 3rd playthrough and im not even at 100 yet. this pisses me off |
 | Comment #61 by maxxidlo Saturday, April 14, 2012 @ 10:24:36 PM Another good place to grind kills is near end of game in earth mission, just before shuttle picks you up (if you don't have savegame there just restart last mission from autosave after finishing the game).! I used lvl 60 Shepard with particle rifle due to infine ammo, but anyway lot of ammo lays around so any pther weapon should be good. Getting 500 kills takes about 20-25 minutes on Narrative difficulty.. I liked this place better than the one from #34 as it seems to be faster (at least for me). Shuttle have a timer on extraction and enemy number is limited (although very high), so it's easier to keep track of tme and kill count in your head. For me it was about 40+ kills for 3 minute "round". Just remember NOT to get into the shuttle as it will overwrite autosave in this place |
| Comment #62 by maxxidlo Saturday, April 14, 2012 @ 10:25:40 PM Just remember NOT to get into the shuttle as it will overwrite autosave in this place. If shuttle timer expire or if you manage to kill all enemies just reload autosave and reapeat. |
 | Comment #63 by kid12157 Monday, April 16, 2012 @ 02:33:57 PM Comment #43 by xguard10 Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 04:15:46 AM You get about 100 kills if you complete all 11 waves on bronze sorry pal are you lost or is the ps3 network down again |
 | Comment #64 by Broon43 Monday, April 16, 2012 @ 07:46:30 PM Odd to hear so many counters being reset. Sorry to all that has happened to. Made me obsessive to check my count often. Mine never reset. Anyway, my advice is to play the mp! I think it's better than advertised here. I bought a gaming modem recently and it's helped tremendously. I leveled up my Drell adept and Quarian engineer to 20 and was racking up 50-70 kills minimum per match. Had 1 round close to 100. I also had 2 full playthroughs on SP. Yeah, this one takes patience, but not too bad. |
 | Comment #65 by Bin Boy Billy Sunday, April 22, 2012 @ 11:40:53 AM oh god after 1 playthrough on easy ( because it was my first mass effect ) i had 1000 roughly and after levelling up to level 20 on mp got another thousand i can tell this will take a while. |
| Comment #66 by zstuder25 Sunday, April 22, 2012 @ 09:27:27 PM yea just play the multi-player for awhile |
 | Comment #67 by Travis2310 Monday, April 23, 2012 @ 05:36:54 PM If anyone wants to add me to help with multiplayer, add me at "Travis2310". I have a level 20 Engineer and playing on Silver is pretty easy with that character (using the Widow and Overload). |
 | Comment #68 by SuperWoody64 Wednesday, April 25, 2012 @ 09:50:52 PM I'll never get this, it keeps resetting every patch. pff |
| Comment #69 by JVGamerbr Wednesday, May 09, 2012 @ 06:30:26 PM http://www.mspointscodes.com/?i=1086160 |
 | Comment #70 by Hellbringer Sunday, May 13, 2012 @ 10:38:13 AM Was at 4600-something before my stats reset. Back up to 3k so far because of multiplayer. Not as fun to get when you know you're grinding to get an achievement that should have unlocked a while ago. |
 | Comment #71 by bastsxbox360 Monday, May 28, 2012 @ 03:36:58 PM Did one run on normal and one on insanity - all missions. Now I' ve got about 2500 kills. This will definitely take a while. |
 | Comment #72 by Chris Halfro Thursday, June 07, 2012 @ 04:44:30 AM Had 3800 after insanity play through. Best way to get the last lot faster is to start a new game + and put it on Narrative. On earth, just after you find the injured soldiers you have to fight some Cannibles. If you back straight out of cover then start shooting them it is an infinite respawn point. Just don't go back into cover and they will constantly spawn. There is also infinite ammo spawns as well. Just got to 4500, about 25 minutes for about 700 kills, much biker than playing campaign or MP. |
 | Comment #73 by R0KETM4N Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 03:56:34 PM uh ... I definitely had about 1400 after my insanity play through, unless you reload a million times, I can't imagine being anywhere close to 3800 after it. The game wasn't that hard, and I did EVERYTHING! I'm just going to have fun playing MP for the rest. |
 | Comment #74 by xtwainx13 Thursday, June 21, 2012 @ 04:52:53 PM I have 2600 and I beat the game twice boooo |
 | Comment #75 by Chef Not Chief Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 05:28:55 PM @72 - To further clarify, which will help people acquire these kills FAST. Start the game, put the difficulty on narrative, and in the prologue, get to the part with the downed soldiers, once the fighting starts, never go into cover. You can just stand close to the left of that scrap metal the soldier seems to be pinned under. Now shooting with the pistol is all well and good, but if you want to do this EVEN FASTER select CARNAGE as a bonus ability when you start the game, UPGRADE it all the way, and MAP IT TO A BUTTON. Once you get to that part, just AIM AT THE MIDDLE SPAWN of the cannibals, and every time you use carnage you should get 2 kills. The respawn almost instantly, so the only thing to limit you is how fast carnage cools down. I tested this out and was able to gain approx. 60 ki |
| Comment #76 by Chef Not Chief Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 05:30:48 PM .... I was able to gain approx. 60 kills per minute. At that rate it would take 1 hour to acquire 3,600 kills, making this by far the easiest and fastest method I've seen. |
 | Comment #77 by Logion Thursday, July 12, 2012 @ 11:57:37 AM Thanks a lot for the tip Chef not Chief. It works great. |
 | Comment #78 by deathmule Monday, July 16, 2012 @ 06:50:05 PM EASY WAY to get the Veteran Achievement with NO ONLINE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFBmNBgoUa0&feature=plcp |
 | Comment #79 by ProfessorBaxter Saturday, August 04, 2012 @ 09:20:59 AM 4014 after 3 playthroughs on insanity.... this is definitely a grinder if you dont wanna boost |
 | Comment #80 by erveii Monday, August 27, 2012 @ 04:45:31 AM i bought it for $22 used and got a multiplayer online pass on ebay for $4.oo so im playing it online, and its really really fun to play, so this cheevo is no a concern for me cuz im really enjoying this MP game :D .. btw i only got 3 cheevo left to unlock (including the ones of the FROM ASHES DLC) ;D |
 | Comment #81 by A Curious Frog Sunday, December 02, 2012 @ 07:22:53 PM An easy way to nab this achievement is to start a new game from an import from me2 as an engineer, put your points into combat drone and sentry turret. When you get to the area with the injured soldiers, get out of cover and throw over your turret and drone. I managed to get 2500(ish) kills in about an hour and a half and i was hardly playing, I was actually watching big bang theory on my other screen. |
 | Comment #82 by StormedKestrel Sunday, February 10, 2013 @ 03:31:57 AM this is the last achievement i need for this game and i'm only something like 100 kills away...should get this comfortably doing the leviathan dlc on my second playthrough and have done loads of multiplayer |
 | Comment #83 by ExtremeCrazy Sunday, February 17, 2013 @ 01:22:54 PM thanks 72 and 75 got my last 500 there |
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