Dead Rising 4
104 Achievements
2,150
104-130h
Xbox One
Xbox Series
#1 Ball Buster
Mini Golf - Use every Ball Buster on other players
10
0.05%
How to unlock the #1 Ball Buster achievement in Dead Rising 4 - Definitive Guide
The power ups are the big balls with a ? on them while playing online and hitting your golf ball through these, while keeping your ball in play will earn you a random ball buster. These 9 are random as far as i know at the minute so the only way to get them is to keep playing.
They do stack across games so they don't have to all be done in one course and having your own ball land on yourself does count according to a lot of members unlocking it as they had their last one land on themselves and still get the achievement.
The 9 you need to use are;
Personal Object - You spawn an object in front of the opposing player
Ball Swap - Both players or if more than 2, the player using the ball buster and the chosen player swap each others ball positions
Small Sweet Spot - Your opponents Sweet spot to strike the ball perfect is smaller
Hide the meter - Your opponents swing meter is hidden
Bouncy Ball - Your opponents ball gains more height after hitting off a surface
Randomizer - Makes your opponents power bar go crazy when taking a shot
Fast Meter - Your opponents Swing meter is much quicker
No Arc - Your opponent can no longer see the arc of the shot
Reduced Shot Power - Your opponents shot power is reduced
Edit: This is my first ever solution so feedback would be nice from the negative voters
They do stack across games so they don't have to all be done in one course and having your own ball land on yourself does count according to a lot of members unlocking it as they had their last one land on themselves and still get the achievement.
The 9 you need to use are;
Personal Object - You spawn an object in front of the opposing player
Ball Swap - Both players or if more than 2, the player using the ball buster and the chosen player swap each others ball positions
Small Sweet Spot - Your opponents Sweet spot to strike the ball perfect is smaller
Hide the meter - Your opponents swing meter is hidden
Bouncy Ball - Your opponents ball gains more height after hitting off a surface
Randomizer - Makes your opponents power bar go crazy when taking a shot
Fast Meter - Your opponents Swing meter is much quicker
No Arc - Your opponent can no longer see the arc of the shot
Reduced Shot Power - Your opponents shot power is reduced
Edit: This is my first ever solution so feedback would be nice from the negative voters
64 Comments
So this achievement is definitely a bit buggy. By the time that I in fact had gotten all 9, two of them I had only got activated on myself and I didn't get the achievement. So I thought, "Ok, I need to get those two to activate on the other person now." I kept a list on Notepad whether I got them on another player, myself, or both. So two ball busters later, I got the achievement but it was weird. The first one was Hide The Meter, which I've gotten both on myself and a player. Then it was No Arc, again both on myself and another player. On those goes I got them to land on the other player and it unlocked. So if it for some reason still counted those other two even though I only got them on myself, I dunno why it didn't just unlock right then and there and only unlocked after I got two of the previous ones done already. But whatever, at least it unlocked. Seems like really you just gotta keep going at it and you'll get it even if maybe you shouldn't, I don't know.
By ThaDevilzHand on 22 Sep 2019 10:12
Have you done in in one course or over more? Is it accumulative?
By funkyTii on 20 Jun 2017 19:30
There are 9 different ball busters that you must use. Some tips to make the process smoother and more efficient when working with a partner are listed. This can be accomplished through multiple games.
This must be done in online multiplayer with at least two people.
The nine balls that you need are as follows:
1. Randomizer
2. Small Sweet Spot
3. Ball swap
4. Personal Object
5. Reduced Shot Power
6. Bouncy Ball
7. Fast Meter
8. Hide the meter
9. No Arc
Tips
1. Whenever one of you have a ball buster on you (meaning that you are affected by it) you must get rid of it (you can triple press A for a short swing). If you don't get ride of the buster and you or someone else gets a ball buster it will not count (the game will skip the animation wheel for a buster).
2. Do not finish the hole or complete your 7th and last swing until everyone is finished getting their ball busters. If there is only one person left on the course and they get a ball buster it will not count (the game will skip the ball buster animation wheel).
3. Make sure that whenever you are going for a ball buster that your ball does not end up out of bounds. If you get a ball buster and you get out of bounds the ball buster will not count (the game will skip the ball buster animation wheel). The only exception to this is if you are on your 7th and last swing. If you get the ball buster on your last swing it will count. So if it's your turn and it's your 7th swing make it count.
4. As a recommendation, if you and your partner are stuck and keep getting the same balls try switching who the host is. My partner and I did this and got 2 new balls on our next hole that we hadn't encountered before.
5. My partner and I found that golden apple vineyards was the best course to farm ball busters since many of the holes have ball busters that are guaranteed to be hit. As well, many of the holes have multiple ball busters that can be reached. In the end, though, it's all down to preference.
6. Try to get as many ball busters to land on your opponent (people say that it counts if it lands on you, but try to get your opponent just in case, you don't want to have to do them all over again). In order to do so on the spin wheel for the ball busters aim for your opponent (right on the first tick mark or two) and it'll land on them. Make sure to keep track of which ball busters you hit on yourself and which ones you hit to your partner.
7. Make sure to have a patient and loyal partner who will go through the ball busters with you. It's completely random so you could get the same ball buster a million times or you could get all 9 back to back. For me, my partner had to stick around an additional 2 courses after he finished.
8. If only one of you needs the achievement have the person who is done shoot for the hole land as close as possible (5-10 yards is a good idea). The reason that this is necessary is because in golf the person who is furthest from the hole must shoot (thanks Hiro for the reminder). Then have the person who needs the achievement keep swinging at the ball busters until they succeed and get the achievement.
Please feel free to comment and add any suggestions.
This must be done in online multiplayer with at least two people.
The nine balls that you need are as follows:
1. Randomizer
2. Small Sweet Spot
3. Ball swap
4. Personal Object
5. Reduced Shot Power
6. Bouncy Ball
7. Fast Meter
8. Hide the meter
9. No Arc
Tips
1. Whenever one of you have a ball buster on you (meaning that you are affected by it) you must get rid of it (you can triple press A for a short swing). If you don't get ride of the buster and you or someone else gets a ball buster it will not count (the game will skip the animation wheel for a buster).
2. Do not finish the hole or complete your 7th and last swing until everyone is finished getting their ball busters. If there is only one person left on the course and they get a ball buster it will not count (the game will skip the ball buster animation wheel).
3. Make sure that whenever you are going for a ball buster that your ball does not end up out of bounds. If you get a ball buster and you get out of bounds the ball buster will not count (the game will skip the ball buster animation wheel). The only exception to this is if you are on your 7th and last swing. If you get the ball buster on your last swing it will count. So if it's your turn and it's your 7th swing make it count.
4. As a recommendation, if you and your partner are stuck and keep getting the same balls try switching who the host is. My partner and I did this and got 2 new balls on our next hole that we hadn't encountered before.
5. My partner and I found that golden apple vineyards was the best course to farm ball busters since many of the holes have ball busters that are guaranteed to be hit. As well, many of the holes have multiple ball busters that can be reached. In the end, though, it's all down to preference.
6. Try to get as many ball busters to land on your opponent (people say that it counts if it lands on you, but try to get your opponent just in case, you don't want to have to do them all over again). In order to do so on the spin wheel for the ball busters aim for your opponent (right on the first tick mark or two) and it'll land on them. Make sure to keep track of which ball busters you hit on yourself and which ones you hit to your partner.
7. Make sure to have a patient and loyal partner who will go through the ball busters with you. It's completely random so you could get the same ball buster a million times or you could get all 9 back to back. For me, my partner had to stick around an additional 2 courses after he finished.
8. If only one of you needs the achievement have the person who is done shoot for the hole land as close as possible (5-10 yards is a good idea). The reason that this is necessary is because in golf the person who is furthest from the hole must shoot (thanks Hiro for the reminder). Then have the person who needs the achievement keep swinging at the ball busters until they succeed and get the achievement.
Please feel free to comment and add any suggestions.
9 Comments
To elaborate on item 8: The game switches turns to the person who's farthest from the hole land. This means that if a player is as close as possible to the hole, the game will never swtich to him unless his opponent go out of strokes (quantity of swings he can make) or get closer to the hole than him/hits the hole. Useful if there's only one player going for the achievement.
This might be a well known golf rule, but i wasn't aware of it until Bastian here pointed it out when we were boosting, so i figure many others wont realize it for a while
Takes a while due to randomness, but not that bad if you're boosting. Took us about 10~15 games.
This might be a well known golf rule, but i wasn't aware of it until Bastian here pointed it out when we were boosting, so i figure many others wont realize it for a while
Takes a while due to randomness, but not that bad if you're boosting. Took us about 10~15 games.
By Maverick Hiro on 28 Aug 2017 02:59
Thanks for the reminder Hiro. I have added that part to the solution.
By Bastian Reader on 09 Sep 2017 17:30
There are 9 ball busters in total.
1. Ball swap
2. Personal Object
3. Hide the meter
4. Fast meter
5. Randomizer
6. Bouncy ball
7. Small sweet spot
8. No arc
9. Reduced shot power
This must be done online and is easiest to do with one other friend, on the course, Golden Apple Vineyard.
For sure method to hit a moving ball buster:
1. Make sure you’re on the island closest to the ball buster you’re going for.
2. For a ball buster moving up and down, aim at its lowest point.
3. Make sure your shot will land in bounds with the LB button.
4. Start to shoot the ball when the ball buster is at its highest point, just as it starts moving downard again.
5. Hit the ball at full power.
Same can be done with ball busters that move left to right. Just aim at the ball busters’ furthest right location and beginning shooting when the ball buster is as far left as it goes.
It took me 24 ball busters and between 3-4 hours to get all 9 of the ball busters.
Hope this helped!
1. Ball swap
2. Personal Object
3. Hide the meter
4. Fast meter
5. Randomizer
6. Bouncy ball
7. Small sweet spot
8. No arc
9. Reduced shot power
This must be done online and is easiest to do with one other friend, on the course, Golden Apple Vineyard.
For sure method to hit a moving ball buster:
1. Make sure you’re on the island closest to the ball buster you’re going for.
2. For a ball buster moving up and down, aim at its lowest point.
3. Make sure your shot will land in bounds with the LB button.
4. Start to shoot the ball when the ball buster is at its highest point, just as it starts moving downard again.
5. Hit the ball at full power.
Same can be done with ball busters that move left to right. Just aim at the ball busters’ furthest right location and beginning shooting when the ball buster is as far left as it goes.
It took me 24 ball busters and between 3-4 hours to get all 9 of the ball busters.
Hope this helped!
Online required. There are 9 different Ball Buster types. When you hit a ball buster, the one you get is entirely random:
- Ball swap: Balls swap places
- Bouncy ball: The ball bounces crazily when it hits the ground
- Fast swing meter: Your swing meter moves quickly
- Hidden swing meter: Your swing meter is hidden
- No arc: You can't see the arc of your shot
- Personal obstacle: An obstacle spawns in front of the ball (I saw a swinging anchor and a door that opens and closes)
- Randomizer: Makes the swing meter go crazy
- Reduced shot power: Shot power is cut in half (in practice this means the swing meter only goes halfway up)
- Small sweet spot: The sweet spot to hit the ball is smaller
This can take awhile – it took my boosting partner and I about 5-6 hours to do it (ironically, we got it on the same hole). Some notes that are helpful:
- It doesn’t matter who the roulette wheel settles on – even if you end up hitting yourself, it still counts.
- If you hit a ball buster but your ball goes out of bounds, the roulette wheel won’t pop up, and it won’t count. An exception to this seems to be if it’s your final shot of the round (i.e. shot number 7). I had the wheel pop up a couple of times when this happened.
- If the other person has already sunk their ball in the hall, the roulette wheel won’t show up. Ergo, the strategy for this achievement is to not get the ball in the hole until all ball busters are off the course.
- If the other player is already affected by a ball buster, and you hit another one, the roulette wheel won’t pop up.
- Related to this, the person who shoots next is always whoever’s farthest away from the hole. Thus, if the other person is already under the influence of a ball buster, and it’s your turn to shoot, you have no choice but to get your ball closer to the hole than them.
- I found Golden Apple Vineyards had the easiest Ball Busters to hit.