Far Cry 5

Okay guys, the following solution explains my way of obtaining this achievement, though I have no idea how fast this method is compared to others.

After I had beaten all seven pitches, I went for the entirety of the remaining kills (about 85%, if I remember correctly) on the fourth pitch, "Escape From The Rooftop" (solo, standard mode, NOT Score Attack - which is a waste of time if you just want to grind for kills).

As soon as the round starts, hit to switch to your shotgun, drop down, and stay in this area throughout the entire first part. Use quick-aim to aim at Zombies, killing them with headshots or point-blank shots, if possible, and keep picking up the ammo they drop. Just keep walking in circles in this area, and don't forget you can reload while sprinting. Should you ever run out of ammo, which is very unlikely, there's a stash about 30 meters ahead from where you dropped down, to your right, below an American flag with a skull on it.

When you're finished obliterating zombies with the shotgun and listening to a short chatter, you'll be "beamed" behind a stationary MG, which starts the second and last part of this method. Immediately grab the MG by holding down , and - you guessed it - keep blasting away at the zombies, which all spawn in front of you. Use very short bursts, though, otherwise the MG will overheat quickly, and don't even bother using the MG's iron sights, as doing so just screws up your overview. Shoot the red barrels when they spawn, and don't let any zombies climb the ledge in front/below your MG. If they climb the ledge and then run up the stairs to your right, you'll lose a lot of time, and you run the risk of getting swarmed by other zombies.

The second part ends as soon as the chick starts saying "So, after the machine gun, the chopper lands.". When you hear that, hit and restart the pitch.

If done swiftly and without complications, one run should take less than four minutes (including load times), and will net you slightly over two percent towards the 5,000 kills. Provided you are at around 15 % before attempting this method and calculating with a full four minutes per run, you'll need to do about 40 runs, meaning unlocking this achievement should take you less than three hours.

I took the Idea from ravyn4077 to the next level. here is a way easier variation of this method.

why bother blocking the entry of the barn anyways? just drive around the barn and park the vehicle right at the small open door. just aim for the door.

game mechanic: the zombies run to you as soon there is a LINE OF SIGHT and a CLEAR PATH. both things are there. they just run into the shredder. doesnt matter if the vehicle is right at the door.
keep one thing in mind: DO NOT BLOCK THE DOOR or the zombies will run around the barn (clear path game mechanic will let them do that). just park in a way that there is a small path between door frame and the blades. the momentum of the zombies will throw them into the blades.

User MiZ Dove created a video so here it is and leave her thumbs up to in the solutions section


anyways... i did some math :D

how long doest it take

each spawn makes 8 zombies
spawn time is at least 42 seconds... sometimes more
5000 kills is 625 spawns
so it takes around 8hours to farm that achievement with that method

start the game... go to sleep/work/school and deactivate the energy saving options of the console

Instead of running the levels over and over again I wanted to find a way to idle this achievement. It's not too hard to set up, but it is fiddly until you get the right balance.

In Fields of Terror there are two tractors, one off to the left of the start of the level and one in the shed/fuel storage at the leftmost marker.

At load screen choose single player NOT score attack. You'll not want to have to worry about timing out as this method does take hours. At the start of the level you can pick up the additional gun provided or head directly to tractor down the dirt highway. I suggest picking up the gun as well as the ammo there as you'll have to need them to fend off the zombies while you're perfecting your trap.

Once you have the gun, ammo, and tractor drive down to the shed. Wait until the red barrels spawn and blow them up. Take it from me if you don't do this the zombies can push them into the tractor and kill you. Then you'll want to position the first tractor along the wall so the deadly bits are blocking the door a little bit.




Fend off the zombies as needed but DO NOT break the vials in the Mutation Station. If they all get destroyed the station will close and the light will disappear and you'll have to start the level again. I've blown up the barrels all around the station as well as slammed the tractor into the station and at least some of the vials survived.

Inside the building is another tractor, this is the one that you'll be sitting in and getting all the kills from. Now once you're inside the second tractor you'll want to maneuver it so that the tractor is at an angle and there is a small walkway between the two blades of the tractors. Think about making a 'v' with the blades.



The walkway is the key to having this work, if the zombies are spawning but aren't running towards you then there isn't enough room for them to get to you and their AI shuts down. If the zombies are getting through then the gap is to wide. You can either get out of the tractor to kill the zombies or stay in and maneuver around to do the killing. Keep in mind that the zombies will knock the tractor around if you let them so you can't just ignore them; but they can't kill you while you're in the tractor.

It'll take a bit of time to find the best angle and gap for this to work, so before you completely idle check back every 5-10 minutes. Don't be surprised if you come back and you're in the tractor and staring at the back of the building to just straight ahead and the zombies aren't moving. Like I said this is the fiddly part, and the extra ammo is nice to have.

Once it's all set-up it's loud and you'll have a very boring view. The wait is long so if you can switch screens to watch or do something else.



If the game crashes you'll lose the kills and it'll look like your tracker has stopped. Don't fear, Xbox just can't handle the loss of stats, it's just reverted to a previous number. Keep at it and the tracker will start up again. Or if suddenly the zombies are getting to you and not dying when you hit them with the blades of the tractor don't worry and just restart the pitch. That happened to me and I don't know what happened but it was fixed after the restart.

I didn't keep track of the time I spent doing this but it was several episodes of Criminal Minds.

EDIT:
From Lord Valoel
From Petrolium Bear
*Thanks to Spliner for the help with the screenshots!

To add to Hellgate Aeon's solution, i made a video for reference, tractor placement, etc. I hope it helps. This solution worked best for me out of all of them simply because i couldn't seem to position the tractors properly using the other solution.

just another guide to help them
I quickly spread the 5,000 zombies
In the score mode in the Lab
Each run takes about 2 minutes, with each end your tracker advances 2% at once and 1% at another, just do it repeatedly, as it is very fast, the achievement does not become very exhausting
if you can have at least 2 stars in the score attack, as you reload the weapon automatically up to 3 times, and it will kill the horde in the corridors easier
use the setup I used in my video below, you will do it quietly and you will get the easy way, to go faster and faster

Start "Fields Of Terror"

- Get to the last Mutation Station (after destroying the others)

- Find the tractor next to the barn

- Park the tractor on the back side of the barn in-front of the small doorway

- Leave a slight gap between the tractor and the barn wall to avoid zombies from running around the barn
(look at the video for tractor placement @ 1:05)

Extra Tips:

- Plug controller in and change a few "Power Saving" settings on your Xbox as well as the "Preference" section with the "Idle" setting. This allows you to walk away and do something else while getting these kills

- Make sure to Finish the Level in order to get you current zombie kills to save in-game!
ex. I got about 30% progress over a couple hours but turned the game off before finishing the level...so now my progress is stuck at 96%, assuming I need to re-acquire all of those kills again before my progress bar will start to go up again -.-
Learn from my mistakes!

- You can turn the "Achievement Tracker" on and make this achievement a "Favourite" in order to see your progress going up while your doing this

- After getting all of the other DLC achievements you will have roughly 50% of this cheev done already

All of my Far Cry 5 | Dead Living Zombies DLC Achievement Guides can be found here! :) (Mobile Friendly)
https://www.bradleafsfan9.com/far-cry-5-dead-living-zombies-...

The fastest way I have found to grind this out is on "Laboratory of the Dead" on Score Attack. I was getting 10-13% towards the achievement on each run, after I got the hang of it.

Do the mission normally until you get to the Armory. Make sure you get an LMG and a Shotgun and continue until you reach the big open room with the big Mutation Pods. If you walk down the initial set of stairs, you can look right and see a Large Vertical Mutation Pod up a few stairs.

If you jump onto the desk, then the machine next to it, you can make it up onto the Large Vertical Pod, and the Zombies will infinitely spawn and and not be able to hurt you up there. The Zombies will keep spawning and bunching up right underneath you, so you can just spray the LMG, quick aim with the Shotgun, or throw a grenade at them.

Make sure you take out the Behemoth near the Exit Door beforehand though. If you dodge his ground pound, you can melt him with the LMG right away.

Select the -Escape From The Rooftop- level with the -Play Solo- option. Press Y to switch to the shotgun, when you spawn in on the roof to the left there is a metal fence, drop down here and on the left wall there are two ramps, go up the first wooden ramp to your left (the one with all the rubble under it) and aim down the ramp so that when the zombies spawn in they will run straight into your shotgun aim. Simply stay here and pick off each zombie wave. I found this spot a lot easier to stay in than running around as the zombies only have a small area to run up to you. You get free ammo with each zombie kill so there should be just enough to get through this section. (There's some ammo on tables scattered around this level if you need some)

After about 40ish zombies you'll be teleported in front of a machine gun, press X to mount the gun and aim at the top of the the stairs across the way. The zombies spawn above and around the stairs and will try to climb up the ledge directly in front of you. ALWAYS shoot these climbers first as they can very quickly overwhelm your position. Tap the trigger lightly in this section to avoid overheating the gun. 2 waves of red explosives barrels will drop during this section, shortly after the second drop (once all the zombies are defeated) there will be some dialogue about "chopper lands". At this point simply pause the game, restart the pitch and do it all again! It'll probably take a few hours to unlock (I'm only half way through and still grinding but getting there!)

Credit to CoreScan for the initial guide in another awesome solution, I added the part with the wooden ramp since it feels a lot easier than running around and you're standing still all the way through. Thanks and good luck! 👍

The best way to grind these out is to play the last pitch selection "Laboratory of the Dead" on SCORE ATTACK.

Run straight to the door to the bunker, once you enter pick up all the ammo to your left. At the bottom of the stairs there is an AK and an LMG, so just go to town for the rest of the mission.

NOTE: If you can, ignore the Behemoths as they aren't worth your time and ammo - just throw a grenade at their feet and move on. If you kill them, you kill them.

Each run will take roughly 6-7 minutes, earning you anywhere between 150-200 kills. You should have a couple hundred anyway after playing all the missions once and going for the gold medals, which is why I'd personally save this achievement until last.

Hope you have some good music or a podcast to listen to as you'll be playing this level a LOT. God speed

Credit to Captn Insano72: The second level "Burning Bridges" seems to also be a good grinding spot and will earn you more progression towards the achievement.

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