Battlefield V
21 Achievements
1,000
40-50h
Xbox One
Xbox Series
Sins of the Fathers
Complete the War Stories Under No Flag, Nordlys & Tirailleur on Hardcore
90
0.37%
How to unlock the Sins of the Fathers achievement in Battlefield V - Definitive Guide
Hullo!
NOTE: You only have to do the final act of each story on hardcore for the achievement, you don't necessarily necessarily need to complete the full game altogether. Thanks to various commenters for pointing this out.
Where to begin.. The battlefield V campaign / selection of war stories is not long, at all. I don't have an overall walkthrough so much as I do have just general tips and tidbits that I've learnt while doing it. Overall the campaign isn't too hard, the most challenging part is just annoying objectives and enemies that are accurate enough they should be in the SAS. The achievements are thankfully stackable so completing the campaign on Hardcore will give you the achievements for Medium and Hard as well.
General tips will be tucked behind a spoiler tag for now until more people get their hands on the game. The guide will hopefully serve as a general overview now and may be changed upon request for more or less information. I did the guide for Battlefield 1 on hard and looking back at it it felt severely lacking so I wanted to help a little bit more this time around. Please do comment if there's something I missed, something you found that worked better, it's all useful information.
I will most definitely be coming back over the next couple days to try and tidy up or consolidate. Please excuse the crappy humour, tired as hell writing this but I was excited to finish the campaign and write a guide that I hoped would help.
Edit #1: Thanks to Triple Triad777 and P00R GRENDEL for noting that it is possible you may need to resume/restart the very last bit of Under No Flag for the achievement to pop. They have both reported that hitting resume on that particular war story and finishing it off will pop the achievement. Apologies for not bringing this up sooner, I didn't have this issue so I was hoping the achievement was working fine. :(
General Tips:
1) Flank: If you see an opportunity to avoid enemies by going around them and moving onto your objective, absolutely do it. There's no brownie points or participation awards going out to Nazi killers today. Many maps you will find opportunities to flank. The first mission of Under No Flag is a big open map, The second mission for Nordlys is an even bigger open map. Most missions in the Tirailleur are very linear but offer huge opportunities to take a side path around the enemy and shoot them from the sides.
2) Stealth: You channel whatever Ninja Kung Fu master you need to but as it traditionally is for most shooters on harder difficulties, don't bother starting a firefight if there's a tonne of enemies, take your time! There's no monster closets that I know of so once they're dead, they ded.
3) Supply Stations: Probably the most important one depending on the mission, keep an eye out for the supply stations or weapon drops throughout the map. In the Nordlys mission there's a Bren chilling out near one of the objectives you go to, much better than holding the fort in close quarters with a bolt action rifle eh? If not you may find sticky charges or panzerfausts and let me tell you, they. are. invaluable.
NOTE: You only have to do the final act of each story on hardcore for the achievement, you don't necessarily necessarily need to complete the full game altogether. Thanks to various commenters for pointing this out.
Where to begin.. The battlefield V campaign / selection of war stories is not long, at all. I don't have an overall walkthrough so much as I do have just general tips and tidbits that I've learnt while doing it. Overall the campaign isn't too hard, the most challenging part is just annoying objectives and enemies that are accurate enough they should be in the SAS. The achievements are thankfully stackable so completing the campaign on Hardcore will give you the achievements for Medium and Hard as well.
General tips will be tucked behind a spoiler tag for now until more people get their hands on the game. The guide will hopefully serve as a general overview now and may be changed upon request for more or less information. I did the guide for Battlefield 1 on hard and looking back at it it felt severely lacking so I wanted to help a little bit more this time around. Please do comment if there's something I missed, something you found that worked better, it's all useful information.
I will most definitely be coming back over the next couple days to try and tidy up or consolidate. Please excuse the crappy humour, tired as hell writing this but I was excited to finish the campaign and write a guide that I hoped would help.
Edit #1: Thanks to Triple Triad777 and P00R GRENDEL for noting that it is possible you may need to resume/restart the very last bit of Under No Flag for the achievement to pop. They have both reported that hitting resume on that particular war story and finishing it off will pop the achievement. Apologies for not bringing this up sooner, I didn't have this issue so I was hoping the achievement was working fine. :(
General Tips:
1) Flank: If you see an opportunity to avoid enemies by going around them and moving onto your objective, absolutely do it. There's no brownie points or participation awards going out to Nazi killers today. Many maps you will find opportunities to flank. The first mission of Under No Flag is a big open map, The second mission for Nordlys is an even bigger open map. Most missions in the Tirailleur are very linear but offer huge opportunities to take a side path around the enemy and shoot them from the sides.
2) Stealth: You channel whatever Ninja Kung Fu master you need to but as it traditionally is for most shooters on harder difficulties, don't bother starting a firefight if there's a tonne of enemies, take your time! There's no monster closets that I know of so once they're dead, they ded.
3) Supply Stations: Probably the most important one depending on the mission, keep an eye out for the supply stations or weapon drops throughout the map. In the Nordlys mission there's a Bren chilling out near one of the objectives you go to, much better than holding the fort in close quarters with a bolt action rifle eh? If not you may find sticky charges or panzerfausts and let me tell you, they. are. invaluable.
68 Comments
It glitched for me. Isn't reading one of the campaign completions. I'm at 66% and it pisses me off.
By P00R GRENDEL on 16 Nov 2018 23:41
Which war story are you having issues with it reading mate?
By Notorious Kiwi on 17 Nov 2018 00:00
Had a buggy time whit this since the progression was stuck on 66%(nordlys didn't count toward percentage). I replayed the whole nordlys campaign on hardcore very times. Hopefully I selected resume on every story and watch the ending again(was sure the last chapter was settled on hardcore). Popped after the ending of "Under no flag" in my case.
2 Comments
Thank you so much! Just had the same issue (already had noticed Nordly did not change the % before doing the last story). Your solution worked 1st time!
By Mr Blobby on 23 Apr 2022 00:08
Man you saved me! I needed to watch the finale of Under no flag.
By FlyPhoenix77 on 04 Feb 2024 11:43
So, I actually found an exploit for this trophy. Something I want to mention though. This trophy is glitched. Something I've learned with Dice for BF1 & BF5 is after a patch, trophies are likely to glitch. So as long as you're going for this and get it before the next patch you should be fine. I say "should be" because I honestly don't trust Dice with their patches. And the trophy still can glitch.
All you need to do, is beat the final mission of each war story on Hardcore. Yep, it's that easy. It works Online or Offline. And before all patches, meaning if Dice ever patches the exploit, just don't update your game. A disc copy is the easiest way playing unupdated, but digital can work.
The way to pop your trophy if it glitches. Is to just resume your War Story on Hardcore. And that can work pretty successfully. However in the low chance it doesn't work, you will have to do a hard reset. Delete your profile/saved data of the game. Delete the game so it doesn't have the "Patch Problem" as I stated above. And go ahead and beat the final mission of each war story on Hardcore. I wish you the best, here is my video guide incase you need this spoken to you instead. -KC
All you need to do, is beat the final mission of each war story on Hardcore. Yep, it's that easy. It works Online or Offline. And before all patches, meaning if Dice ever patches the exploit, just don't update your game. A disc copy is the easiest way playing unupdated, but digital can work.
The way to pop your trophy if it glitches. Is to just resume your War Story on Hardcore. And that can work pretty successfully. However in the low chance it doesn't work, you will have to do a hard reset. Delete your profile/saved data of the game. Delete the game so it doesn't have the "Patch Problem" as I stated above. And go ahead and beat the final mission of each war story on Hardcore. I wish you the best, here is my video guide incase you need this spoken to you instead. -KC
This difficulty mode is no joke and can really punish you if you're reckless. Most enemies will spot you very quickly if you're trying to sneak and they have a tendency to flank or push up to you, which when you can die in 2-3 shots makes it very difficult indeed. However, it's still A.I. and it's still largely quite dumb and can be somewhat exploited in various situations.
General tips for Hardcore;
- Stealth. Use stealth whenever and wherever possible. It's not always an option; sometimes the mission will be an attack with allies so of course stealth won't be possible but when you're on your own you want to stay out of combat as much as possible.
- If you are spotted or are in a fight and feel you're surrounded/outnumbered, run. The maps are huge and you can run away from a lot of the fights in this game for about 10-20 seconds and all the enemies that were attacking you will lose interest. You must break line of sight with the enemies and they will eventually either return to where they were, or in some cases just stand still in the last place they were when they stopped chasing you. These make for easy stealth kills so exploit this as much as possible by separating enemies then picking the stragglers off.
- Push the objective/force checkpoint. There were times were after numerous failed attempts I eventually just sprinted towards the objective to force the checkpoint. Doing this is a good way to break through a plateau when you get stuck. It's fine to know you're likely to die doing this but if you manage to reach/complete an objective then die, your checkpoint will be after that objective so you can move on. It doesn't always work because some objectives come in 2's and need to be done together, but by and large it will help you get passed some of the harder parts.
Other than these general tips, I will detail in each War Stories' achievement description the respective tips that are pertinent to each one.
Complete all 3 war stories on Hardcore. This will unlock Storyteller, Veteran and Sins of the fathers. Plus each stories specific trophies. If these trophies do not unlock, select resume on all 3 stories and rewatch the last cutscenes and the trophy will pop. Hardcore isn't difficult but I will provide a few tips on how to beat it, though you shouldn't struggle with it at all. Each story contains 3 missions. making a total of 9 to complete.
Hardcore tips:
- Take your time, rushing in will only lead to a quick death. Always stock up ammo, which may seem short at first but there is plenty out there and look around for new weapons that will appear in enemy camps.
- A stealthy approach is needed for some stages of the story and you will only make it more difficult on yourself by rushing in.
- Having said that, there are a few opportunities in which you can run to a checkpoint or simply run forward enough to spawn the next set of enemies so if you die, you will be spawned at that checkpoint and not before.
- Enemies with the ammo logo above their head will have a rocket launcher so if you see these make sure you take them down first and fast.
- Health will recover so if you get hit just try your best to hide and recover. Keep in mind that enemies will come to find you and call in reinforcements.
- Good thing to note is that when there are multiple objectives it will not have a checkpoint until they are all destroyed.
Hardcore tips:
- Take your time, rushing in will only lead to a quick death. Always stock up ammo, which may seem short at first but there is plenty out there and look around for new weapons that will appear in enemy camps.
- A stealthy approach is needed for some stages of the story and you will only make it more difficult on yourself by rushing in.
- Having said that, there are a few opportunities in which you can run to a checkpoint or simply run forward enough to spawn the next set of enemies so if you die, you will be spawned at that checkpoint and not before.
- Enemies with the ammo logo above their head will have a rocket launcher so if you see these make sure you take them down first and fast.
- Health will recover so if you get hit just try your best to hide and recover. Keep in mind that enemies will come to find you and call in reinforcements.
- Good thing to note is that when there are multiple objectives it will not have a checkpoint until they are all destroyed.
This guide was translated automatically.
When playing immediately on a realistic difficulty level, trophies drop out for completing on “difficult” and “normal”.
3 Comments
I completed the campaign on realism, I didn’t even get a trophy for normal, it looks like a bug, because it says to continue the 3rd campaign, but the trophy for completing it itself dropped out, in the waiting mode for a fix
upd: I had to re-watch the final video in each story, keep in mind
upd: I had to re-watch the final video in each story, keep in mind
By bodya23 on 16 Nov 2018 03:00
Stealth will help you, because without it you will not be able to complete the game on a realistic difficulty level. The main thing is to study the behavior of the enemy and then everything will be fine. Shootouts can get a little sweaty, so use cover often.
By Dmitriyfunny1 on 21 Sep 2019 13:18
This guide was translated automatically.
It is not necessary to complete all missions on a realistic one, it is enough to complete the last act in each company.
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A small addition to 88Alex666's tip. In order to select the level of difficulty in the act, each military company. You need to complete it completely (you can at the lowest level) to unlock the choice of acts in each story.
By Rumble on 15 Sep 2021 10:33
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