Brink
43 Achievements
1,250
20-25h
Remote Control
Kill an enemy with a UAV
20
How to unlock the Remote Control achievement in Brink - Definitive Guide
This achievement requires you to score a kill with the Operatives UAV.
First of all, you'll need to purchase the UAV skill and equip it to one of your D-Pad buttons. With that done, it's a simple case of finding the most effective spots to employ your new explosive.
Your UAV can't be deployed in-spawn... But it can be deployed anywhere else. Find a corner no-one will find you in, equip the UAV and deploy it. Take control of it and get used to the controls - UAVs are helicopters in Brink, and thus 'slide' quite a lot after you've returned the stick to neutral. The explosive range is quite small, but powerful like a Cortex Bomb.
Reliable tactics include rushing enemy squads from behind - the deafening sound of their own weapons will drown out the telltale sound of your UAV's incoming rotors. Also, Primary Objectives provide an obvious point of ambush, with enemy Engineers and Soldiers being completely helpless while doing their jobs.
A useful tip - UAVs are quieter when stationary. Normally, a flying UAV will be VERY easy to hear coming. A basic knowledge of the maps will allow you to prepare an ambush UAV for an easy achievement!
One of them is bound to be a little damaged so the explosion should finish them off.
If you have reached lvl 20 and spent all the credits before starting the DLC the four extra levels are just enough to buy the four abilities needed for this and the other ability based achievements. So be careful not to spend credits on anything else. If you do you will have to reset your abilities which costs a level or do it on a new character which can be quite time consuming to get up to the recquired level.
Once you have bought it start a game in a map that can be quite close quarters. I find the Labs to be a perfect map. Find a safe spot, right near your spawn is a good place. Fly the UAV into an area that's likely to see some traffic from the enemy and wait round a corner or behind a wall. Be sure to stay still so the sound of the UAV is minimised, when a enemy passes by ambush him, be sure to get in close before holding RB to detonate the bomb because of it's limited blast radius.
Required Class: Operative
Required Ability: UAV
Ability Unlocked: Rank 5
UAV remote controlled drone. Select using and hold to place, then hold to take control in first person view. You need to hold for a few seconds before to make it detonate. Most effective when flown into a group of enemies where heavy fighting is taking place. This will unlock when you detonate the UAV and kill an enemy.
You will need to be Rank 5 level 20 and use one credit to be able to use the UAV. From the Main Menu > go to Characters & Weapons > then Abilities. Under Operative Abilities there will be the 'UAV' Ability to the far right in the middle. You will need to use one credit to get this one. You get one credit every time you level up.
Choose any mission to play on and choose the Operative as your character classes to play as. After the mission starts, press (Depending if you have abilities already). After you reach a good amount of enemies in your area hold the button to launch the UAV and then again to fly it. After you have reach the enemy you want to kill hold to detonate.
Make sure you fly into the enemy you want to kill while holding . At least you will be close enough and you might get the kill.