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Explosive Surprise

Explosive Surprise

Kill 5 enemies with sabotaged vehicles (Campaign only).

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How to unlock the Explosive Surprise achievement in Far Cry 5 - Definitive Guide

I found a reliable endgame spot for this for anyone who has trouble finding enemy vehicles after having liberated everything.

All you have to do is go to Rye & Sons Aviation, it's in the far south of the map. There you should encounter a quad bike with one or two enemys heading for you from the road on the south side right next to the hangers. When you die they instantly come back for you so you can try this over and over again to get the five kills. If for any reason they don't show up for you try fast traveling there a couple of times. It was night time for me when I encountered this so maybe it will affect their spawns.

What you have to do is first of all have the perk "Saboteur" unlocked. It costs 7 points. After that go up to the front of the quad and hold cn_X. Then quickly run away from the bike in the opposite direction. That way the enemys usually take cover behind it. It may take you a couple of tries and the achievement sometimes wont make any progress eventhough it worked but keep trying and the achievement will be yours.
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30 Mar 2018 09:45

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Excellent guide. Worked like a charm.
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By flipmodeXXIII on 31 Mar 2018 04:29
Can you make a video of this, because I can't find enemies on a quad bike there. Perhaps it's because my game is stuck on night time.
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By KillerZ x Ace on 31 Mar 2018 17:01
There's nothing anywhere around there for me, unfortunately.
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By TheBigBB on 04 Apr 2018 20:24
Worked perfectly for endgame.

Thanks very much 😃
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By FAULTIER on 08 Apr 2018 13:49
Worked great! This is also a good place to grind the achievement to take down 10 aircraft with another aircraft.
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By VoodooEagleX on 10 Apr 2018 16:03
Amazing thanks
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By Nazule80 on 22 Apr 2018 01:12
I couldn't get the guys to spawn in my game either so I jumped into my friends game to see if they would spawn and they did.
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By bendude86 on 02 May 2018 18:08
So turns out it also unlocked for me when I had already died but the car blew up when I was in the grey screen off death. All I did was raid an outpost and waited till reinforcements came in their utes and sabotaged it as the were all hopping out. Defiantly a suicide mission but for a cool 20g it's worth it.
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By RampagingGoat07 on 16 Jun 2018 03:42
This is such a good solution, don't know why people downvoted.
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By Owens Dad 2018 on 29 Oct 2019 01:36
If this solution isn't working for some people, another method is to go to John's region and set up a car to sabotage in front of an armed convoy. Just got to get the timing right but should only take 2-3 attempts
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By PhoenixOne#6057 on 20 Feb 2020 21:35
Not reliable at all.
I already went through the whole region to find someone to run over with the tractor and there are zero enemies left. Only hostile wildlife.
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By Gerbasgamer on 14 Mar 2020 10:12
I’ve gone to this spot and blown about 30 cultists up at this point but I’m stuck at 4 kills according to the tracker! Any advice?
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By Han D Maiden on 20 Apr 2020 16:10
I finally got the achievement by fast travelling to Rye & Sons Aviation over and over to keep respawning the enemies. Also, if you die, the kills don't count. It tracks the saboteur kills in the challenges menu.
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By XxG3LLoxX on 04 Aug 2020 07:05
Worked great for my endgame save, thank you!
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By Ztr7 on 04 Sep 2020 19:26
Horrible achievement. Unlocked after the 20th kill.
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By The Djens on 07 Feb 2021 12:26
I can confirm that any kills after you die still count towards the achievement, as I just got mine that way.
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By Whats a Chundy on 29 Jul 2021 11:23
I think i figured it out. You have to be very close with the vehicle as it will toss an enemy and leave them alive or kill them via falling. Mine didnt count until i had a guy literally take cover on the vehicle as it blew up
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By Juhmbugaw on 07 Jul 2022 22:47
Playing from GamePass on the XBox Series X, this is a very simple achievement, no unlocking issues.

The enemy love to de-buss and take cover behind the vehicle making this very easy.
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By Captain Heroic on 26 Jul 2022 07:41
At the endgame, fast travelled there many times, day and night, and no quad spawned
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By FireWheels58 on 04 Sep 2022 15:43
I'm at 80% for it so I need 1 more but everything I do it doesn't count
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By SeaGem144841287 on 20 Dec 2022 18:56
Great solution, worked perfect for me.
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By LUDO VLD NL on 08 Jan 2023 12:47
If your doing this on INFAMOUS Difficulty on new game + for some reason like me but your too far in you CAN still use this solution! , as soon as you fast travel to Rye And Sons run straight forward and to the right there is a hangar behind the house or towards nick if you play a lot and to the right of him should be a muscle car drive back over near the quad behind a shed get out Sabo that car drive into them and give em an explosive surprise
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By honeysoychkn on 05 Dec 2023 11:24
worked no problem, thanks for the solution. +1
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By Wwau on 08 Jan 2024 20:49
Literally never anyone there. Every fast travel. Did it 20 times, always a random civilian.
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By on 25 Mar 2024 13:50
I just stood on the road near to Lansdowne Airstrip, above Fangs Center in Jacobs Region. If you cause enough chaos, loads of trucks come along with gunners on the back. Took about 5 minutes to complete
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By FoolsAndKings on 07 May 2018 18:02
I hadn’t completed the game
Just Faiths area (Henbane River)
I earned this in Johns region 3/4 resistance points
(Holland Valley, left area)

If you zoom out, and look at the middle of the map, there’s a giant green farming area, “Armstrong Residence” is on the bottom left side of this area
If you go to the top right of said green farmland, there’s a fast travel point at “Hillary Electric Power Station” that also has a helicopter spawn (highly recommend you find this)

I was able to spawn there/fast travel & machine-gun trucks would spawn every time driving on the road
I’d run up to them, sabotage, and get at least 1 kill for the gunner
Had 3 roll up at once, got it in <10min
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By ajgoesUNLUCKY on 15 Jul 2022 08:18
Killing enemies this way does not add to the progress bar for me. In game challenge progress OR Xbox's achievement tracker. I have had no problem with any other achievements.
Do you have to actually do it undetected as the name suggest? "Explosive Surprise".
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By antonhbp on 12 Sep 2022 10:34
Rye & Sons Aviation is a good location. If you fast travel there, 2 guy will come with a quad. Use sabotage and after blown up, and hopefully the 2 guys dead, quit and reload the game. If you reload 2 other guy should arrive a few seconds later at the same spot...
Repeat this until your achievement unlocks!
Every achievement hunter should know this trick as it work in many games!
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By JimmieWorld on 06 Jun 2023 02:57
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There's an achievement/trophy for getting five kills by sabotaging a vehicle, and having it blow up and kill an enemy. The game is a bit finicky when it comes to counting these kills — it didn't work with an ATV in another spot, for instance — but I found a foolproof place to grind these out.

First, make sure you have the sabotage perk and make sure you have the difficulty set to easy. I'd also recommend crafting the homeopathic for incurring less damage, but that's up to you.

In Faith's region, go to the trailer park to get Sharky, the flamethrower-wielding Gun for Hire. Talking to him starts a mission called "Burn, Baby, Burn", where he lures cultist Angels in by playing the song "Disco Inferno". You're then tasked with clearing out the Angels.

You can try the trick during the first wave, when it's just a few angels here and there, but I found it worked best when Sharky gets overwhelmed and you're required to shut off the speakers in four different parts of the trailer park. At this point, swarms of the Angels come out and keep spawning until you switch off the last speaker.

Directly across from Sharky's perch is a vehicle spawning station. Once the Angels start to swarm, make a beeline for the vehicle spawn and request a vehicle. I just happened to choose a tractor, which worked out great because it's larger and will help shield you from the Angels. Go to the front/hood of the vehicle, hit cn_X to sabotage, and then run in a circle around the vehicle while the Angels are swarming. You might be able to get multiple with one explosion, but the Angels have weird hitboxes — the amount of damage to kill one may not be the same amount to kill another. Luckily, you can just repeat this method to get your five kills, shut off the speakers, and complete the mission.

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Great recommendation. I'll definitely have to try that. Good thing I haven't helped Sharky yet.
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By GavinTheGrenade on 01 Apr 2018 18:51
I came here to write a solution about this mission myself. It's easily one of the best places to do it so long as you haven't done the mission. The area where you can spawn a car is right next to where a group of angels spawn. Got the achievement in one try using this method.

Great solution man.
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By TheOdd101 on 02 Apr 2018 15:43
Got it in literally one attempt, all 5 kills with one sabotaged car. Great spot to do it, I even died like 1 second before the car exploded and it still popped.
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By Heraizen on 09 Apr 2018 11:50
You must get the saboteur counter to hit 5 in your challenges for the achievement to unlock. My tracker was at 80% because i got 4 once before I died but my in game was still at 1 kill because I died before it could save.
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By Sniff this unit on 10 Apr 2018 00:05
Great solution! Took me one attempt and 2 sabotaged cars.
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By Pretzel Power on 10 Apr 2018 19:54
What worked for me is driving around until you find an enemy. Then you sabotage your own car and you suicide drive into them :)
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By EaSkateVideo on 13 Apr 2018 08:02
That one time you read the first part and assume you have to finish the mission to unlock him and so you do, then go back to read that you have to do it DURING the mission laugh time to have a drink to my health and future lol
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By KACG SoMM on 25 Apr 2018 22:30
Is this glitched for anyone else?
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By Tagst on 14 May 2018 21:13
I was having alot of trouble unlocking this so id just like to add something, this achievement is counted in the Challenges, so you can't just sabotage someone and then reload checkpoint to sabotage the same guy over and over again because the challenge will reset.
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By Tagst on 14 May 2018 22:26
@Tagst, YES! I dunno how many vehicle's I have sabotaged that killed enemies, but just can not get the achievement to unlock. Seems like the game is very picky on what it counts as in days of trying, only got 2 recognized.
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By Signal24Code20 on 24 May 2018 01:33
You can do this anywhere on the map anytime.

- Unlock Sabotage perk
- Set difficulty to easy.

Just stop any enemy car on the road. Sabotage their car and you will blow up 2-3 enemies each time. Do not run far away from the car after sabotaging, because the enemies might then run too far away from the car.
I got this 10's of times, because i do this for fun now and then. ;)

I unlocked this on PS4 version.
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By V3ntilator on 10 Jun 2018 10:32
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I tried for this after the end game and I found that if I traveled to Joseph's Island A boat would spawn always by the Docks, So i threw an explosive to lure enemies towards me and then sabotage the boat. It was also pretty useful as you can push the boat towards enemies,
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Thanks for the tip. I found that a truck always spawned near where Joseph's church is, with tons of guys. I would eat the damage reduction homeopathic, run for the truck, drive it to a good spot, sabotage it, and just run away. Got the achievement after doing this twice.
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By TheBigBB on 05 Apr 2018 01:02
Worked perfectly!
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By l Archvile l on 06 Apr 2018 17:29
Got this on one try using the above solution.. lure the enemies, sabotage the boat, then push it towards them..boom..5 dead.
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By LSCNeo42 on 06 Apr 2018 21:09
Best place to use after completing the main story line. There are always enemies, easy to rinse and repeat if necessary, and there is also a truck in the compound.
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By We Be Paulin on 07 Apr 2018 21:35
Couldn't get the boat working but used cars instead and drove to the second gate, using the fire range as hide out.
Thnx for the guide.
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By Tabbe on 01 May 2018 09:10
thanks for this. I was looking for an area after end of game. forgot all about Josephs area
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By DandyTimeDave on 08 Jul 2018 21:05
Thanks for this. By far the easiest way to knock this achievement out. Was super glitchy for me. Had to do it a couple of times but finally registered for me.
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By SnipedByAGir1 on 27 Jul 2018 20:15
Couldn't get boat there to work so I ended up using the truck parked by the gate with the guy standing next to it. I'd basically tag the five or six guys in the area then run up to the hood of the truck, getting all their attention, then arming the truck and hiding just around the corner. Usually the guy standing by the truck would try to use it for cover, killing him.
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By NamelessxDread on 31 Jul 2022 08:14
Used the truck as well, was easier to lure though it still took several tries to get all 5
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By FireWheels58 on 04 Sep 2022 16:31
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i just unlocked this during the campaign in faith's region while helping guy marvel with his movie set side mission. eden's gate will drive in speaker trucks that will awake the angels and guy asks you to destroy them. i ran up to one and sabotaged it (after unlocking the perk), then ran around the truck waiting for it to explode while the angels chased me. i was knocked down but simply used a medpack then waited for the next truck to arrive. rinse and repeat. you get 3 trucks to attempt this; i got 5 total in with 2 trucks. i also used an ultimate survivor syringe to be able to withstand the angels attacks while i ran around waiting for the truck to explode.
if you die i think it still counts your kills.
hope this helps someone else!
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23 Apr 2018 21:50

Another endgame area I found that works really well for this achievement is the US Auto Outpost, located just northwest of Fall's End. There is a truck with a bunch of speakers in the bed that will always be in the outpost. The way I did it was to run in, Sabotage this truck, take cover and let it explode, usually killing 1-2 enemies, then fast travel to Hilgard Electric Power Station just southeast of the outpost which resets the outpost and then rinse and repeat. This method worked really well for me, I hope it does for you too!
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06 Apr 2018 22:45

I tried most of the solutions above, but to no avail. If your like me, you did almost everything before you finished the game. After running around the board for hours looking for cultists, I finally had to click on the Outpost Master in the options menu. It reset all the outposts to hostile, and I finally got it throught that. Good luck.
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07 May 2018 14:30

- The best way I found was to approach a cultist vehicle on the road and run up to the hood and Hold cn_X to sabotage the vehicle (you can heal with cn_Y at the same time to stay alive).

- Once they jump out keep one close to the truck, I let him punch me they I just kept him between me and the truck until it blew up

*Buy the "Saboteur" perk from the skill tree early in the Campaign, then just sabotage vehicles throughout game-play in order to unlock this naturally*

All of my Far Cry 5 Achievement Guides can be found here! :) (Mobile Friendly)
https://www.bradleafsfan9.com/far-cry-5
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26 Apr 2019 08:15

The easiest vehicles to guarantee a kill seem to be those with mounted machine gun turrets. The driver/passenger will jump out of the vehicle buy the guy stood on top with the MG never seems to run off when you have sabotaged the vehicle, just make sure none of your guns for hire take him out
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02 Apr 2018 12:34

Go to Johns Region-Holland Valley. Along the right border there is a blue pin called Hope Valley Clinic. Go there, look down the hill. Right when you spawn two guys will drive up the hill in an atv. Sabotage it, as long as you stand next to the atv the enemies will stand there as well. Fast travel somewhere else then back to hope valley clinic and they respawn. 3 times of this should finish it off.
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03 May 2018 03:18

I traveled to The Grill Streak in Jacob's region. straight across the river are 2 trucks where some Peggies are shooting at a bear. walking straight for them crouched, I was able to sabotage both trucks, fast travel back to the Grill Streak, and did it again. 5-10mins
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26 May 2021 02:35

Something I never saw any of the other solutions mention is that the enemies need to be engaged in combat with you/aware of your presence for it to count. I got about 8 or 9 kills total but a few of them weren't attacking me/aware of my presence when they died.

Nonetheless, if this is, say, the last achievement you're doing and you're struggling to find any enemies, fast travel to the Dock at Joseph's compound. Circle around to the front of the base without being detected and enter through a hole in the northeast corner. There should be a truck by the front gates with an enemy pacing nearby. Sabotage the truck, and a few seconds before the bomb goes off, shoot a couple rounds at him. Back up as he engages you and he should get blown away. Rinse and repeat 4 more times.
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22 Dec 2019 05:55

I found a repeatable location with enemies to get these three achievements:

Squash and Run
Opportunity Knocks
Explosive Surprise

In John’s region / Holland Valley, towards the top left of his region (middle left of the overall map), there is person that will give a story mission named Merle Briggs. He is located at the fast travel location called Silver Lake Trailer Park
He is being held captive with 4 guards, close to a vehicle, all within a close vicinity of each other.
Because he needs to be freed, you can attempt anything you need and then fast travel back to the location with the enemies reset.
I find this MUCH easier than attacking an outpost

Explosive Suprise:
You can sabotage the truck (you might have to have the enemy come closer to it) without being seen.
If you fail, you can just fast travel back to the same location and try again

Opportunity knocks:
I recommend highlighting the enemies with your binoculars first - it never seemed to work for me when I didn't.
You can only get 1-4 per try, but distract one enemy at the starting point (from fast traveling) and then the enemy on the far left. After those two, you can try to distract the other 2 "middle" enemies.
I does not seem to count the same enemy twice, so after a max of 4 enemies distracted, if you fail, or if nothing registers, you can just fast travel back to the same location and try again.


Squash and run:
Grab a vehicle and drive up to the location, or grab the truck and run over the 4 enemies.
Once they are all dead, or if you fail, you can just fast travel back to the same location and try again
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06 Apr 2018 18:14

You can do this anywhere on the map anytime.

- Unlock Sabotage perk
- Upgrade 1 health perk just in case
- Set difficulty to easy.

Just stop any enemy car on the road. Sabotage their car and you will blow up 2-3 enemies each time. Do not run far away from the car after sabotaging, because the enemies might then run too far away from the car.
I got this 10's of times, because i do this for fun now and then. ;)
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10 Jun 2018 10:33

For this trophy you need the Saboteur perk, which costs 7 points. With this perk, you can sabotage enemy vehicles by holding over the hood to set it on fire; after 10 seconds it will explode, killing any enemies nearby. You can do this pretty much anywhere; I just waited in the middle of a road for cars to approach, then quickly sabotaged the vehicle whilst the enemies were near it so they got caught by the explosion.
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I left this achievement until after I beat the game and found this the best spot to get the achievement as you can do it without alarming the . For this you need the Airdrop perk (10pts), Wingsuit perk (4pts) & Saboteur perk (7pts). Once done, just quit the mission and repeat another four times. Good luck.

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13 Apr 2018 06:40

You’ll first need to unlock the "Saboteur" perk before you can sabotage any vehicle. Feel free to follow this up with buying the "Booby Trap" perk to help.

To prepare for this achievement, travel to any hostile territory and wait around on the road for an enemy vehicle. When the vehicle approaches you, shoot the driver and then wait for the vehicle to come to a full stop. Now quickly make your way to the hood and press to tinker with the engine. The enemy riding passenger should, during this time, jump out of the vehicle and take cover on his side of the truck (and stay there if you crouch and hide). After about ten seconds, the vehicle will blow up and likely kill the enemy so long as they were close.

After this happens, proceed to any other fast travel location in an enemy-controlled territory and repeat the process over. The achievement will unlock once you have killed five enemies in this manner.

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Buy the “Booby Trap” skill for seven points, in short, mining the car near the hood it explodes in a collision, mine your car, accelerate into the enemy’s car (I haven’t tried it on foot) and jump out of the car before the collision. And so on until you gain 5 kilos.
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Joseph's house. We ran around to the car. Sabotaged with a square. They blew up an enemy nearby. We teleported back to Joseph's house. Repeat 5 times. The main thing is not to die between approaches. The number of kills can be tracked through the challenge menu - Saboteur
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By vinssurfer on 19 Jan 2023 01:01
For this trophy you need to kill exactly 5 enemies at the same time by sabotaging the enemy’s car, that is, the trophy is not cumulative. Video guide .
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By darkbridge on 02 Apr 2018 00:21
Don't be misled! The trophy is cumulative (I checked it myself) And the car must not be mined , namely to sabotage when there are enemies nearby, at least one at a time, the main thing is to hit 5.
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By Mr_NoobLV on 03 Apr 2018 11:37
You fire at the sectarians’ car (it is advisable not to kill the sectarians themselves with firearms), run up to the hood and hold down the “Sabotage” button, then run away to a safe distance. After 10 seconds, the car will explode, simultaneously scattering the cultists running near the car into molecules. Repeat until the trophy appears.
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By Karateast on 31 Mar 2018 05:05
Sabotaging a car with nothing worked for me (I tried only the cumulative option because it didn’t work out to blow up 5 enemies at once), but it worked out with the help of a mine trap cumulatively, mined the car and crashed into enemies, jumping out of the car and everything worked out. So don't listen to anyone, the first clue is the best one
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By KRbILl on 14 Apr 2018 22:10
If at the end of the game you cannot find enemies, then go to Joseph's House, there will be many enemies and a car in the middle of the camp. We just run to it and hide behind the hood until someone takes cover behind the trunk, and at that moment we sabotage the car. This way you can at least kill 1 at a time, the whole trophy will take 10-15 minutes.
I found this method in the comments on YouTube from the user Umut.
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By sych_vossa on 24 Sep 2020 00:33
If you die, it also counts. I tried to jump out in advance but always died, the trophy fell out.
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By capirurso on 23 Jul 2019 19:52
Exactly. just got a trophy on the first clue using
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By LexaXXL on 30 Sep 2018 13:12
We teleport to Joseph's house (by travel), there is only one car there and the enemy is always near it. We run without paying attention to anyone, they will open fire on us, we sabotage the car , look at the map, a cross should appear, that means it worked. WE DO NOT DIE, but teleport there again. We don’t die, I personally checked it 10 times, they didn’t give me a trophy
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By FallenAngel on 29 Aug 2022 19:29
There are too many contradictions above, although in reality everything is very simple and I checked it personally.

1. The trophy is cumulative.
2. Sabotaging the enemy’s vehicle through the appropriate skill and counts.
3. Mining your car through the appropriate skill and and the subsequent collision and explosion of the enemy’s vehicle counts.

As a result, we kill 5 enemies in any convenient way.
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By mrDimon on 03 Jun 2018 11:16
I found an easy way for myself.
Near the garage where the “Death From Above” trophy was made, there are almost always a couple of sectarians, I took a jeep with a machine gun and attracted the attention of these cultists, in 95% of cases he got into the car behind the machine gun, after which I mediated car. After that, throw a grenade at your feet and start all over again.
Took about 10 minutes at most
Video where you can see the location of the garage.
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By student539 on 12 Feb 2020 05:03
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Tested personally, after accumulative achievement , you don’t have to lose five at a time! I got two the first time and three the second time! You need to acquire the skill to sabotage a car (I don’t remember the exact name). We invite the enemy, hold down the “X” button at the hood of the enemy car and run around until it explodes, taking the lives of the sectarians and possibly our own too) Here is a good Video tip!!!
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