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Elevated Mind

Elevated Mind

Kill 25 Airborne Rangers

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0.94%

How to unlock the Elevated Mind achievement in Control - Definitive Guide

You should be able to get this one organically. However, if you for some reason can't score it in the campaign itself, you got two choices:

1. After you beat Hartman, returning to that room usually has some Airborne Rangers spawn. Every time I return, there's usually two or three.

2. You can try Shüm, Crowd Control to be specific, and wait till they appear.
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29 Aug 2020 23:49

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The fuck happened there man? o_0
I'd uninstall/reinstall if I were you.
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By katana409 on 01 Mar 2021 01:03
Also to speed the kills up you can use assist mode and the Surge weapon will clear enemies out quickly with the one hit assist on. I used Crowd Control (Challenge) to clean this up before resetting my save for the AVM achievement.
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By Raw Sauce Ross on 30 Aug 2020 00:23
I guess that's a good way to clean two achievements at once.
But REAL GAMERS DON'T USE ASSIST MODE
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By katana409 on 30 Aug 2020 11:35
I have been 6 kills shy on this for hours now. I cannot get these guys to spawn no matter what I do. I have now played (to completion) 4 games of Shum and gone back to the Cauldron Lake mock up about 12 times. This is more frustrating then the vending machine achievement.
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By WoW Geek on 30 Aug 2020 21:14
The turntable areas also spawn a few here and there.
If all else fails, you can always Endgame > Start the DLC again, and pop them from the operations center.
It's real bothersome that this might be the norm for two separate achievements. -_-
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By katana409 on 30 Aug 2020 23:28
I didn't get any from my first run of Crowd Control, but afterwards I unlocked the harder difficulty which had Airborne Rangers about halfway through. Had to run this twice to get the remaining kills I needed.
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By Delta748 on 01 Sep 2020 11:22
I've found that if you load into a checkpoint then quit to the menu, then load into the checkpoint from the main menu yelds a better chance of enimies spawning for you. I did this with the Bright Falls AWE checkpoint and got the achievement with a few run throughs.
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By WildKat037 on 02 Sep 2020 19:58
Shum, Crowd control, challenge mode has loads of them.
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By Jdobem on 02 Sep 2020 23:34
Just in case anyone wonders: Your kills WILL count if assist mode is on.

It almost looked like they wouldn't, because this game takes a year and a half to update the achievement tracking, but after 5 minutes, two one-hit kills on flying rangers counted for me.
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By Amethystine on 05 Sep 2020 21:29
I’m convinced once you’ve killed them in a room, they will never respawn. This also includes the arcade machine
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By Mr MahHa on 09 Sep 2020 02:22
These guys constantly respawn going back and forth between the AWEs in the large circular rooms. Promise.
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By Stephmo on 25 Sep 2020 21:05
I also finished this on Shum Challenge mode
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By Taro Korya San on 29 Sep 2020 03:50
I just did 2 runs of Shum and not a single one appeared. I've teleported between all 3 "boss zones" and the round track rooms, and none have appeared for the past hour.
I need 6 more... Im getting so frustrated.
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By NameOfTheMaster on 30 Sep 2020 09:27
And 2 minutes after writing that, 7 appear in the Bright Falls AWE, and now the game is maxed. Hah!
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By NameOfTheMaster on 30 Sep 2020 09:31
3 spawn in the room you killed Hartman. Fast travel out and come back and 3 more will spawn again.
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By caddieguy02 on 04 Dec 2020 03:34
Ive tried returning to the room where you fight Hartman and it very difficult to get them to spawn, usually either hiss warped or sharpened spawn (if you have both DLCs)
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By Guneagle01 on 15 Dec 2020 04:41
There's a hidden room off the ground floor of the Eagle Limited AWE turntable. Entering that room and returning to the main turntable room will spawn a group of enemies, usually with 2-3 per group.
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By MightySleigher on 28 Dec 2020 02:39
So I may have found a great place to farm this. Go to "Turntable" CP. There will be double doors in front of you. In that room you can get 3-4 to spawn, or a group of two with a guy on the ground. You may need to dash backwards once upon spawn and then go into the room to activate their spawn. When I was farming it, it took a long while in between enemy spawns to get the ones I needed, so I left one enemy alive, save and quit, and then continued game, and it will keep spawning in that group until you kill them all. Hope this helps guys!
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By NukaTerrapin7 on 05 Feb 2021 08:04
DVDUBB: Thank you! Could not get any of the other methods to spawn a single one. Used your method and worked first time.
Playing Ultimate Edition btw.
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By vI Demon Iv on 08 Feb 2021 01:50
I found a guaranteed spot to get two rangers to spawn in. Travel to 'Bright Falls AWE Entrance' and proceed to the area that you killed Hartman. Before dropping down, go right and call in a support ranger. Now drop down into the area and enemies will spawn with two guaranteed airborne rangers. When they're dead simply quit to the main menu, reload the game and repeat.
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By Falsefurr on 09 Feb 2021 19:55
Thanks! I needed 4 but couldn't get any to spawn I went played Crowd Control (Challenge), and now I have the achievement.
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By Apostle92627 on 28 Feb 2021 01:32
Something happened with my game where these enemies will not spawn at all...so I'm at 64%, and no vending machines spawn either. Even when I play shum, when they are supposed to spawn, no enemies show up, it just sits there forever. I've quit out of my game, etc, and nothing. Also, I don't appear to have an 'endgame' mission to select...awe...some.
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By imaidiot19 on 01 Mar 2021 01:00
Still working on vending machines, but what do you know...a hard reset allowed them to respawn again...tried it out of desperation. Now to see about fixing the vending machines.
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By imaidiot19 on 01 Mar 2021 01:10
I agree with the comment above - playing Crowd Control challenge mode on the Shum arcade was a real help and definitely quicker than having to keep quitting and resetting to try and get them to spawn.
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By Stevo6483 on 17 Jun 2021 09:32
I killed Hartman, quit the game, load and got into the boss room and spawned like 10 of theses.
I needed 9 and got i one run.
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By ViníciusLCH on 09 Sep 2021 04:16
As someone who cant get to spawn, where is Shum again?
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By MugenKairo on 10 Jul 2022 08:53
Took me like 12 reloads of bright falls awe arena quitting out and loading back in but I finally got back to back rounds where like 10 of them spawned 3-4 at a time in waves of 3.

I think it's just really bad rng for those that haven't got that room to work yet.
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By Elite Mouse on 21 Nov 2022 11:50
MugenKairo it's in Active Investigations, as soon as you enter the area it's the building on your very left
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By iShaddow GV on 27 Mar 2023 08:01
Well this was annoying. If you have issues, try the Challenge Mode in Crowd Control. In that mode a lot more enemies spawn and it can be really tough without invincibility, but I had always 8-10 rangers during later waves compared to 1-2 in normal mode.
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By MichalKV on 29 Mar 2023 06:35
I also used challenge mode in crowd control (complete it once to unlock challenge mode). I had 14/25 after doing the DLC. Then got to 21/25 after doing one round of crowd control. Achievement popped around half way through the next round
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By VOODOO85 on 08 Nov 2023 16:40
Couldn't find any of these Rangers after I completed the game/dlcs ... only spot for me where they spawned was in Shum: Crowd Control Advanced. At around Hiss wave 5, about 4-5 spawned. Once killed I quit the arcade and started it again, and they appeared again around that 5th wave. Did it three times and achievement unlocked when it supposed to as i already had a number of kills by going through the game itself. I believe that in order to get the Crowd Control Advanced option, you will have to successfully complete one of the two default arcade games.
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By xCROSSWINDSx on 11 Jan 2021 15:44
Same here, as soon as i did a hard reset they started appearing again! Thank god for that and cheers for pointing out this awesome farm spot.
Definitely a little tedious to close and open the game everytime but what can you do? ;)
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By staR eXistenZ on 25 Mar 2021 21:45
Killed more than half of the required through the story mode but couldn't spawn them afterwards. Not even in the final boss room (enemies didn't spawn there even after console reset). Crowd Control (challenge) saved me in the end. You have to finish the normal CC before. I did use one hit kills and invulnerability. Halfway on the bar the Air Rangers start spawning, 2-2 then 4 or 5 I think. Only needed two rounds to finish the achievement.
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By HUN playmore on 23 May 2021 17:51
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I guarantee what katana409 says about the appearances of these enemies in the final boss room works I went to this final boss room which is Bright Falls AWE and when I returned I had an appearance between 4 and 8 enemies flying according to chance then after having killed them I closed the game and when I turned it on again and I reappeared at the teleportation point which is at the entrance of the room and that I am back in the room again they reappeared, i guarantee for me it worked every time, it might not be comfortable to have to close the game and turn it back on every time but i think it's better than browsing the map in search of those flying enemies
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What worked for me with this was Fast Traveling to the Abandoned Offices and then back to the Bright Falls entrance after logging back in and then they spawned every time.
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By erod550 on 24 Aug 2021 03:23
This doesn't seem to work anymore. I've gone back several times after dying, closing the game, doing different things to make enemies spawn and none appear at Bright Falls AWE. No down vote from me; but, this has a zero success rate for me unfortunately.
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By DcupsOfJustice on 12 Apr 2024 18:38
I believe to have a better and simpler solution. During the mission "The Third Thing", you will end up in the AWE Loading Bay. There are 3 Airborne Rangers over a pit. Kill them and then fall in the hole to die and respawn just outside the room. Using this method it should take less than 5 minutes depending on loading times and is 100% guaranteed to work.
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10 Mar 2022 17:48

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The only issue is that you will be losing Source each time you die.
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By Mrxknown JG on 19 Dec 2022 04:23
Fair point but this achievement was always one of, if not my last achievements in the game. So by that point, I already had the upgrades long done.
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By DubstepEdgelord on 19 Dec 2022 04:56
The easiest location I found to get airborne ranger kills is the A/C systems location.

If you can get them to spawn there it spawns about 3 rangers so it will make this go a lot faster than trying to grind it out at bright fall AWE entrance or crowd control on the arcade machine.

I usually ran past the mold hiss (not kill them) and hung out at the end of the bridge until the rangers spawned. (Not sure if this is needed to get them to spawn but it's what worked for me)
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04 Sep 2020 04:21

Airborne Rangers are the new Hiss enemies introduced for this DLC. They're very recognizable as they hover, firing at you. They'll start to spawn as you reach Operations Center. Enabling One-Hit Kills will make this one go super fast. You can grind this one in the Shum arcade mode - Crowd Control (Challenge) if running through the DLC area doesn't spawn them.
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Airborne Rangers are the new Hiss enemies introduced for this DLC. They're very recognizable as they hover, firing at you. They'll start to spawn as you reach Operations Center. Enabling One-Hit Kills will make this one go super fast. You can grind this one in the Shüm arcade mode - Crowd Control (Challenge) if running through the DLC area doesn't spawn them.
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Airborne Rangers are the new Hiss enemies introduced for this DLC. They're very recognizable as they hover, firing at you. They'll start to spawn as you reach Operations Center. Enabling One-Hit Kills will make this one go super fast. You can grind this one in the Shüm arcade mode - Crowd Control (Challenge) if running through the DLC area doesn't spawn them.

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There are only less than 25 rangers during one playthrough and they do not respawn during repeated visits to locations.
Therefore, you can finish off the remainder either in a slot machine. Or when replaying if the achievement for vending machines is buggy. Progress is cumulative.
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29 Aug 2020 16:06

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In the SHUM machine, rangers will spawn in at least the "Crowd Control (Challenge)" mode. If you don’t want to bother, you can turn on the help mode in the settings (added with a recent patch), the achievement will still be counted.
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By Alukard2012 on 31 Aug 2020 21:33
These enemies will spawn in the very last location of the expansion, where the boss battle took place.
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By Umbra on 30 Aug 2020 14:30
Enemies will respawn in the area to the left of Active Investigations. Once you kill everyone, return to the control point and back to the hall. Knocked it out immediately during the task.
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By Kwiz on 20 Feb 2021 08:56
The easiest way to find it is in the SHUM machine (as Alukard2012 added), after completing “Crowd Control” (where there were 2 or 3 rangers), access to “Crowd Control (Trial)” opens. Here there were 7 rangers, on whom I received the trophy.

Running around locations after completing it turned out to be very ineffective. For more than an hour of running between the locations (which were described above): “to the left of Active Investigations” and “the place with the final battle,” only 3 rangers were caught.
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By PhoenixBY on 24 Feb 2022 12:41
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Most likely you will receive this trophy last. After completing the DLS, I had 13 out of 25.
Someone suggests returning to the location with the final boss, but no enemies spawned there.
There is a way to take a trophy in 10-15 minutes. In the DLS there are slot machines and there are several types of games, we are interested in the third line: something like “Crowd Control (Challenge)” or something like that. These rangers are there, but they are not on the first wave, it takes a long time to mess around. Therefore, go to the settings, turn on all the help: one-shot kill, auto-aim, etc., and let's go.
During one skating rink there will be about 6-7 rangers, and the skating rink will be completed in 5-6 minutes.
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27 Feb 2022 17:36