Crackdown 3: Campaign

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Secondhand Shrapnel

Secondhand Shrapnel

Use a Deadeye head shot on a Logistics robot to kill another enemy with the resulting explosion.

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How to unlock the Secondhand Shrapnel achievement in Crackdown 3: Campaign - Definitive Guide

You can do this within minutes of starting a new game, no need to go through the Roxy missions.

At your first supply point equip the plasma rifle. When you get to the gate, run in far enough that robots start spawning in. You don't need to go far enough to activate the boss himself. Once the robots start spawning, get high, like on top of the walls. Wait for 2 robots to wander close enough to each other then take the headshot, using cn_LT to aim. Achievement popped for me on my first attempt.
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04 Mar 2019 12:54

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Had to start a new world, did it over 100 times and nothing. Then started another and 1st try it popped, definitely bugged for some people in the 1st world warning
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By HoHe69 on 11 May 2020 10:59
2 mins in, 1st try. Nice 1 O.G. claptoast
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By Doc Buddha on 06 Mar 2019 10:48
Exactly as described! OP is a genius.
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By The Last Rascal on 18 Mar 2019 09:03
Best and easiest solution. Huge thumbs up!
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By RuneSlayer4421 on 18 Mar 2019 19:03
Easy fast. Best solution. smile
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By Sambaweb on 23 Mar 2019 17:58
Worked great! But I had to pick up the plasma rifle from a corpse it was not in my supply point.
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By HEATH 10 on 02 Jun 2019 15:22
I think I was using your explanation but somehow missed the part about the plasma rifle. was using one of the pistols and that simply doesn't work. wasted over an hour trying to do it that way.
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By Khan Garth on 20 Jan 2020 05:38
not sure if you all bought this but i tryed on gamepass more than once never worked:(
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By Bkgbad on 16 Feb 2020 06:10
As you approach Gateway Checkpoint the robots will appear.
Kill a couple to get the plasma rifle.
As long as you don't take the checkpoint they keep spawning in.
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By KATAKL1ZM on 15 Apr 2020 10:50
Bkgbad. Yooooo man I had same problem but I found it on Xbox cloud on PC and for some reason I also have to use the non full screen version but I can still play it and get cheevs
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By Chi3f of D347h on 13 Mar 2022 23:16
This was the only thing that worked for me. Immediately after disabling the second power station, two robots spawn right in front of where the shield was. Boom, headshot. Boom, achievement.
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By JohnnieMonkey on 09 Mar 2019 12:33
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For this achievement you have to kill a Robot by shooting it's head, which should result in an explosion, killing at least 1 enemy which is close to the Robot.

Deadeye is the aiming mode in the game (cn_LT Button), and you must make sure you aim to the robots head in Deadeye mode.
I recommend starting a new world with your Agent (it will keep your orbs and unlocks), and try to go for the Roxy boss mission first by attacking at least 5 Monorail Stations. Also use the PDW as that's what worked for me.
After traversing a bit through the tower, you'll come across some batches of robots spawning in, try your luck against these enemies, and if nothing happens, then leave the tower and return after about 2-5 minutes. Repeat this until hopefully luck hits and achievement pops up.

This achievement can take either minutes or hours depending on your luck, as the robots heads don't explode all the time. It took me so long I was sure it was glitched, but no I just had the worst luck.

EDIT: According to some people, you will have better luck doing this achievement on a new world if you haven't got it yet on your first world. So if you aren't having any luck and you're far through, or even done with one world, then i'd recommend starting a new one.
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17 Feb 2019 00:44

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I just could not get this to pop on first playthrough despite seeing the robots explode and kill other enemies.

So I took the suggestion here and started a new world. Got to the first area that spawns the robots and went to town. Got at least 3 to explode and kill a nearby enemy - still no achievement.

So I figured I'd switch out my Conqueror for the regular ol' Pistol and see what happens. I thought I'd try to weaken an enemy so they barely had any health and see if the explosion next to this reduced-health enemy would do the trick.

To test how much damage the gun would do, I shot a single round into the leg of one of the bots that happened to be standing by itself, but it still died in one hit.

Then the achievement popped.

So after working all game to get this to pop watching headshot robots blow up and kill other enemies, I fulfilled NONE of the requirements - I shot it in the leg, it did not explode and it did not kill another enemy - and the achievement pops.

This game...
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By AllOvaMyself on 02 Jul 2019 19:34
agree on the plasma rifle usage. you must use that.
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By Khan Garth on 20 Jan 2020 05:36
I've spent a few hours farming robots. Shooting them in the head with everything. This method above is the only thing that worked. Seems no other robot does this.. Bullshit.
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By O4OUR on 17 Feb 2019 08:32
The method worked fine with me.
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By MaximalSal on 17 Feb 2019 19:44
Followed your advice and was able to get this on the first monorail mission. The fact that the explosion is random is ridiculous.
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By I Am Not Legend on 17 Feb 2019 21:57
I actually got to the top with Roxy and only had 1 explode the whole way up. Pause/Quit to Menu/reload on 2nd floor and the first robot I shot exploded and pop the achievement. I am on my 1st run through.
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By DangerCensored on 18 Feb 2019 05:22
I think we need to make it obvious that you need to press up on the right stick to aim at the head.
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By SSmasterONE on 18 Feb 2019 21:59
I just finished the Roxy boss before checking this guide but got the achievement a few minutes later with logistics threat level 3.
I don't know it it has to be level 3 but the robots keep coming until I left the area.
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By UNITED 2020 on 19 Feb 2019 12:40
The PDW is not effective against robots (it's for humans and drones). You are more likely to get an explosion by using the Plasma Rifle. At least in my experience.
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By Blissed Away on 19 Feb 2019 17:35
Nice, I got real lucky and got it from the robots before the Berg fight.
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By JayD186 on 22 Feb 2019 05:45
Thanks ! I got it with new world. Using the plasma rifle in the first monorail station
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By the alecas on 23 Feb 2019 18:17
I probably got lucky the head exploded but I got this very early. I started a new game, took care of the two power stations which allows you to fight Berg. I dropped to the ground and walked towards the entrance and there were two robots standing next to each other, popped one and killed the other. Didn’t take 5 five minutes.
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By HawkeyeBarry20 on 02 Mar 2019 02:57
Thanks for the tip @DangerSlave it only popped when i did this trick lol kinda broken cheevo if you ask me.
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By Ultamisia on 03 Mar 2019 17:10
I can't get this achievement to pop. Last night on the main mission to kill the final boss I shot multiple robots in the head and groups of 4 or 5 were dying after one shot to head of one robot. May have to try this on a new game or something.
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By Rista B on 06 Mar 2019 13:48
Only unlocked in New World with MAXed out agent, even though I did it many times in my first playthrough. I was playing on Lagendary and used PDW.
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By HamsterLV on 07 Mar 2019 12:38
I'm convinced it's just busted in certain worlds. I've killed hundreds of robots and humans, through robot head explosions, across the duration of the game, but have no achievement yet. I might just start a new world and see if that works better somehow
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By Revid Cargian on 15 Mar 2019 16:51
I had to make a new world for this to pop.
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By Lythiris on 16 Mar 2019 06:01
Hmm, it's possible that it's buggy for some worlds as I too did get it on my 2nd world, so i've added it in, but I can't 100% confirm if that's the case for all people.
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By EDx GREEN JESUS on 16 Mar 2019 11:52
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I was trying EDx GREEN JESUS method and it did not work, though it did for others.

After trying a few times I have decided to quit to menu and then restarted at the latest spawn inside the tower (Before exploding the second core) and it worked on the first try.

Actually every robot is exploding now.. Go figure..

Hope it helps.

[EDIT]:
As SSmasterONE pointed out, don't forget you have to press up on the right stick to aim at the head. I used the Conqueror as my go to for this cheevo.
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18 Feb 2019 04:53

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Worked perfectly. I actually got to the top with Roxy and only had 1 explode. Pause/Quit to Menu/reload on 2nd floor and the first robot I shot exploded and pop the achievement.
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By DangerCensored on 18 Feb 2019 05:19
Nice, tks for the thumbs up!
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By SparrowSP on 18 Feb 2019 05:40
Same here bro they must have patched it a few hours ago because around 11pm eastern none was exploding now they all are thumbs up from me 👍🏻😁
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By XxpsychedyuxX on 18 Feb 2019 07:46
Mine unlocke around that time as well. however I don't think they have patched anything.. it was just 'luck' rebooting the save, I guess lol
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By SparrowSP on 18 Feb 2019 07:57
Finally! It worked for me too. I just quit my game and completely reloaded it, inside Roxy's Tower 2nd floor, and yes the headshots are now producing blue AOE explosions. The achievement popped first time. Thank-you!
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By Git on 18 Feb 2019 10:48
I think we need to make it obvious that you need to press up on the right stick to aim at the head.
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By SSmasterONE on 18 Feb 2019 21:58
Worked like a champ.
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By StagRay on 19 Feb 2019 03:53
Yeah SSmasterONE, I did not say anything because the game teaches to do it.. I'll add to the solution.
Tks
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By SparrowSP on 19 Feb 2019 04:53
Thanks for this. None of the heads seemed to be exploding for me so quit out the game as you mentioned and reloaded and suddenly first shot and boom. Did it on the Quist mission.
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By Moody41 on 21 Feb 2019 18:30
Can confirm I spent half an hour on bots in Quist's tower. Quit to menu and reloaded it and got the achievement within 15 seconds. For some reason the game needs you to enter a logistics zone and quit to main menu in order to activate their explosion animation
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By Rayhoven on 21 Feb 2019 18:31
Excellent find.
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By jarvis inc on 22 Feb 2019 03:14
Yeah this is definitely slightly glitchy. If you think you should be getting the achievement, restart crackdown and try again. Popped for me real quick after that.
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By ShadowEchelon91 on 24 Feb 2019 16:53
Wasn`t able to get it until I tried this solution on my legendary-playthrough, worked like a charm - Thank you smile
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By appare13 on 25 Feb 2019 10:45
Wouldn't work for me. Exited out, quit the game and restarted and popped first time.
Thanks for the headsup!
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By flipmodeXXIII on 02 Mar 2019 10:47
I can also confirm that the achievement popped on the first try after restarting the game during the Quist mission.
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By Lightning260 on 02 Mar 2019 23:30
use the plasma rifle.
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By Khan Garth on 20 Jan 2020 05:35
worked like charm, thanks man
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By on 01 Oct 2020 08:38
Same here bro they must have patched it a few hours ago because around 11pm eastern none was exploding now they all are thumbs up from me 👍🏻😁
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By XxpsychedyuxX on 18 Feb 2019 07:38
It clearly has something to do with being in a robot area combined with dropping to the main menu. Must reset some sort of memory leak or cross link in the AI behavior files or something.

No matter what, I can confirm this also works in Quist's tower, not just ROXY's.
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By Ashen Seraph on 18 Feb 2019 08:28
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The most important parts for getting this achievement are to aim for the head and use the plasma rifle. The plasma rifle seems to make robots blow up most of the time as long as you hit them in the head. Having a weakened robot near the robot you blow up obviously helps as well. As everyone else has said, the Roxy boss fight is a reliable place to get robots to group together as they spawn in 4 or 5 at a time in a group.
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22 Feb 2019 23:21

*Please see Roadmap as this achievement is glitchy*

The Deadeye Ability is unlocked once you reach Level 1 of the Firearms Skill.

Logistic robots are the standard infantry type with the Plasma Rifle and are found all over, but mainly in and around the Monorail strongholds or Alois Quist's Tower. You can later on spawn them when triggering a Lockdown Retaliation. When they die via a Deadeye head shot, they let out a small area of effect of explosion.

When aiming with Deadeye, shoot one of the robots legs until it has the smallest bit of health. You need to make sure they have one more shot in them because the Arc damage released from them does very little damage. Now lure or wait for another to come along close by. When one is close enough, aim and lock onto their head and keep shooting until they die and explode, hopefully hitting the other one causing the final blow.

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