Destiny

As stated on other achievements guides: switch characters or create a new one and any achievements you should have gotten before will pop while loading opening cutscene. Hope it works for you as it did for me.

Confirm signing out and back in popped the achievement.

Yep got back on and earned this one and the decryption one.

Indeed, I got disconnected much later and it was the "centerpied" disconnect, when I logged back in two achievements popped, and this was one of them.

Same issue with it not popping like some of the other ones, but boy it fun to pop cabal heads

Oh, and I didn't die any time I was going for the achievement.

No idea personally, I got this first time. However the Exotic Gear achievement isn't popping or the Crucible kills atm so....your guess is as good as mine =[

@FLEEBS : try this one : instead of choosing "change of character", use "change of profile". Then choose the same profil. And choose one of your character. It has worked for me for all the achievement I've had so far.

This one was buggy as hell for me too, but it just unlocked (along with Use of Weapons, Lucky 7s and Decryptologist!) after I fully powered off the xbox for 24 hours. The switching character thing wasn't working for me after many attempts, and after yet another run through of the first mars mission, this time scoring 81 precision shots and still no cheevo, I turned it off at the plug, in a mood! Well, it worked

I'll add this info to my guides to hopefully kill confusion. Cheers lads!

Not sure how good this info is given the glitchy nature of these ones, but I got this doing a patrol and it popped as soon as the 25th head went pop. No need to finish anything but the barber work.

Thanks, a few achievements were buggy for me so I used your switch profile tip. It worked for me and I got two other achievements in the progress ??

I did "Bane of the Emperor" today 50+ prec.kill, no unlock,
so I did follow the Log-out/change profile as FLEEBS said,
I not only got the Bane the Emperor but 2 other cheevos that were not unlocked for weeks , lol.
They should fix this.

I've just done the log out and back in that Andreka0 describes and BOOM it's popped.

Cheers for the guide :)

You're welcome buddy

Profile switch worked for me also. Oddly whenever I complete a mission the mission stats always show 0 precision shots even if get single headshot kills with sniper and score shows in yellow (which I understand to be a sign of a headshot). Does this happen for anyone else? It's not affected me being able to get the precision kill headshots but it's a bit weird and irritating.

Thumbs up from me. And whoever or yourself found the glitch to gain buggy achievements. You are a fucking legend I should have got this months ago. Thank you

great! i have find the fucking glitch but i use your solution and achievement will pop!!! thanks!!!

Thank you so much!! i got 58 Precision kills on one board and it didn't unlock until this.. it was driving me crazy. when i did this 3 Achievements unlocked for me... thanks

Two years later, changing profil method works ;)

Yep this workaround still works. Just got a tonne of achievements after thinking this game was being cheap with unlocks. Thanks buddy!

Profile logout still works in 2022

Still works in 2024 !

I'm not too excited about this glitched achievement. I have done Mars missions multiple times (at least 4 times now), got well over 25 precision kills on the Cabal, and no achievement unlock. I read about switching to a different character and waiting until the opening cutscene unlocked, so I thought I'd give that method a try. Thing is, I had three different characters on all three character slots. First was my Warlock (lvl 23), 2nd was my Hunter (lvl 9), and third was my Titan (lvl 9). I understood the fix to mean starting a new character, so I wasn't looking forward to deleting any of my characters, but I went ahead and deleted my Titan. I started a new game, created the character, watched all cutscenes, and no achievement unlock. I even deleted the Titan again, played a Mars mission where I completed 33 precision kills on the Cabal, then created a new Titan and watched cutscenes again. No unlock. I really hope I am not glitched out of this achievement. It surprises me, too, because I wouldn't expect a game as high profile as Destiny to have glithchy achievements. Anybody know any other possible fixes?

@ludo101109: Thanks, ludo. I actually realized that was my problem the other day. Clarification for anyone confused: if your achievement is not unlocking, press the Menu button (the one with the three lines on it; I'll never get why they didn't stick with Start and Back *shakes head*), RB over to settings, highlight Log Out, and choose Switch Profile (not Change Character). This will take you back to the game start screen, and once you press A, it will ask you to choose your Xbox Live profile (this may only happen if you have multiple profiles on your console; I'm not really sure). Choose your profile, and then choose your character from the character select screen. Any achievements that should have been unlocked will then unlock. This approach is said to work 100% of the time, and it has for me. Unfortunately, Smidj is incorrect with the approach he presented above.

So I haven't fought any Cabal yet so my question is do they appear in a Patrol area? The reason i ask is i just got the achievement for 25 headshots on the fallen in one mission without dying just running around in patrol. I think if you activate a mission on patrol and then dont complete the mission and run around snipping it would work.